Oh God, What Now?

“Brexit? It wasn’t our job to have a plan” – What the BBC’s jaw-dropping doc reveals

The BBC gets in early with its “ten years since the Brexit Referendum” jamboree with a “star”-studded retro-documentary, Brexit: A Very British Civil War from legendary film-maker Norma Percy. Our pan...

2026-06-09

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Farage’s riot act — How the right is exploiting Henry Nowak’s murder

Farage and the far-right have been quick to seize on Henry Nowak’s horrific murder, ignoring pleas from the victim’s family for the killing not to be politicised. Instead the Reform leader decried “tw...

2026-06-05

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Who votes Reform and why? – with Sir John Curtice

• One last chance to get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing – our tenth birthday offer ends Wednesday morning. If you’ve been telling yourself that Reform are only surging because people are u...

2026-06-02

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Blair: “Modern Life is Rubbish”

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. What else does a beleaguered PM like Keir Starmer need but… unsolicited advice from Tony Blair? In a new essay published b...

2026-05-29

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The Count of Dodgy Crypto

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Last chance to get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support. Nigel Farage’s latest defence of his “gift” from a crypto magnate: you wouldn’t know about it if I hadn’t ...

2026-05-27

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The Brexit Bus is coming (and Andy Burnham’s jumping)

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. And OGWN is nine years old! Today: A Labour candidate up against a local plumber in a North-Western by-election? It’s begi...

2026-05-22

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Slash’n’Burnham – Makerfield is already getting nasty

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Makerfield residents, wire up your letterboxes – the leaflets are coming… A month until Andy Burnham’s by-election, Reform...

2026-05-19

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Where the Streets has no shame

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Broadcasting from the middle of the Labour chaos vortex, we look how things stand after the Streeting-Starmer confrontatio...

2026-05-14

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Get Starmer

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. Amid the rubble of last week’s elections, Keir Starmer announces he’s suddenly getting real and rea...

2026-05-12

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Emergency Localscast! – What Labour’s walloping REALLY means – with Steve Richards

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. Fast analysis with don of political commentators Steve Richards of Rock & Roll Politics talking to ...

2026-05-08

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Zack’s Appeal – Are the Greens a one-man band?

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. The Greens are on fire and Zack Polanski’s travails don’t seem to be hurting them much. How did they get here? Is Polanski...

2026-05-08

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Lifestyles of the rich and heinous

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Filler-faced, gilded mansions and utterly unhinged. Today’s mega-rich don't even pretend to be normal anymore. So what hap...

2026-05-06

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Monarchy in the USA – Has Charles outfoxed Trump?

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Applauded by Congress, lauded by Trump and working his way through a spring-herbed ravioli on a golden plate? It was a tou...

2026-05-01

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Trump’s Ballroom Blitz – Reform’s Tragical History Bore

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. Another week, another assassination attempt… Will the latest attack on Trump change anything apart ...

2026-04-28

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Emotional Support Leadership Candidate

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. As the dust settles from the umpteenth Mandelsequel, where does Labour go from here? Is Starmer per...

2026-04-24

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Return of the Mandel-Scandal

• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. Oh Mandy… the scandal that won’t die is back (again). Can Keir Starmer style this one out or is his...

2026-04-21

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The End is Nige – What happens if Reform win?

• Join our OGWN vs Origin Story Tenth Birthday Podclash on Zoom on Thur 30 April. What happens if Reform actually wins? We dive into a darkly plausible near-future where Nigel Farage becomes PM and ...

2026-04-17

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Viktor is a Loser – Hungary’s brilliant revolution

Good news for a change! Revolting far-right tinpot tyrant Viktor Orbán gets his marching orders in Hungary. Our panel talk about how it’s bad news for Putin, Trump and MattGPT and wonder where the JD ...

2026-04-14

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For Whom The Booth Tolls – or, Strait to Hell

Trump threatens the literal obliteration of an entire civilisation, then announces a ceasefire. So war crimes work, right? Er, not when you create the “Tehran Tollbooth” in the Strait and transform yo...

2026-04-10

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Why is Keir Starmer so hated?

After nearly two years in the job, Keir Starmer isn’t just disliked or unpopular – he’s actually hated in much of the country. But why? How did this unprepossessing and fairly boring man become such a...

2026-04-03

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Oh God, What Now?

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