Oh God, What Now?

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Banana Republicans – plus special guest Emily Bazelon Nov 13, 2020

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What does the rise of President Joe mean for Britain and our shapeshifting creep of a PM? If Donald Trump can’t win in America’s democracy, would he really destroy it? And why are politicians so bad at Twitter? We’re thrilled to welcome special guest Emily Bazelon from the podcast that inspired us, the Slate Political Gabfest, to dissect the monsters produced by Trump’s electoral death throes.

“I just can’t believe that people are prepared to mess around with the most important thing about a country – that democracy continues” – Emily Bazelon
“If we’ve got a Republican Party that thinks delegitimising an entire election is worth doing, that’s incredibly dangerous” – Emily Bazelon
“What is Dominic Saab scared of? He’s scared of a nutcase with a smartphone” – Alex Andreou
““We lost the election and now we’re going to blame the person who RAN the election?” – Emily Bazelon
“It’s always progressives who are urged to reach out, never the other way around” – Alex Andreou

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Nina Schick and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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I Am Furious Orange – with special guest Gavin Esler Nov 05, 2020

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After the despair of Wednesday morning, could Biden actually win the US election? Were the polls really so wrong? And why are the Left so bereft at the prospect of President Diamond Joe? Plus Nigel Farage’s new promotional vehicle, Labour’s ongoing problems with “Long Corbyn”, the BBC’s bizarre social media balancing act, and Lockdown: Part Deux. All in the latest edition of the podcast formerly known as Remainiacs.

“Trump’s supporters don’t seem as authoritarian. They see him as a champion of personal freedom.” – Ros Taylor
“When you’ve got a two-party system, you’re left with a terrible choice and a bad choice.” – Minnie Rahman
“Farage is Britain’s most successful backseat driver” - Dorian Lynskey

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Minnie Rahman. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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EmergencyCast! Corbyn suspended Oct 30, 2020

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We sure picked the right day to relaunch the podcast. As Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn after the damning EHRC report shone a light on the party’s antisemitism issues, IAN DUNT and ALEX ANDREOU join Andrew Harrison to explain what it all means.

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant Producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music: Cornershop. Art direction: Mark Taylor. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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Remainiacs is now OH GOD, WHAT NOW? Oct 30, 2020

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The secret is out. Remainiacs has a new name – but the same team and the same commitment to dispelling the misery of politics with humour and sharp analysis. On OH GOD, WHAT NOW? this week: There’s no such thing as a free lunch (if you’re a poor kid). The Taming of the Feral Tory Intake. Why the Far Right is actually on the fade across Europe. And as a new podcast era dawns, our panel look to how the future really, really could be better.

“We are now the insurgents. Let’s embrace it” – Alex Andreou
“The spirit of Remainiacs isn’t going anywhere” – Naomi Smith
“There’s nothing paternalistic about Boris Johnson. And that’s not just because we don’t know how many children he’s got.” – Ros Taylor
“COVID has created a paradoxical situation where Liberals are in favour of control and closing borders” – Naomi Smith
“The Conservatives keep going back to this muscle memory for what they did in the 1980s.” – Ian Dunt
“We now have this weird mix of and anti-masking. Let us breathe only the germs of our own people!” – Naomi Smith

Last chance to can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout. Offer ends Oct 30.

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor, Naomi Smith, Ian Dunt and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production.

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Madchester Rage On Oct 23, 2020

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This week: Will that punishment beating for King In The North Andy Burnham make ex-Red Wallers think again about their unwise pre-Christmas fling with raffish Londoner Boris Johnson? Brexit and Coronavirus merge into COVEXIT, the uncontrollable MegaZoid of misery. Are Schrödinger’s Brexit Talks dead, alive, or both at the same time? And for the first time ever, a thrilling cliffhanger – no scrolling to the end…

“Seeing Andy Burnham now is like running into an ex who’s been working out. Like, YOU’VE changed…” – Dorian Lynskey
“This government treats everything as a foam block they can just crash through. But they crash against concrete walls over and over again.” – Alex Andreou
“This crisis has been shaping up as a populists’ nightmare.” – Yasmeen Serhan
“We’ve been trying to analyse what the Government does through the prism of sanity. But this Government is insane.” – Alex Andreou

Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout. Offer ends Oct 30.

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Yasmeen Serhan, Ian Dunt and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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Cracks in the Union Jack Oct 16, 2020

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Is the Government’s piecemeal lockdown driving as big a wedge between the North and South of England as there is between Westminster and the devolved governments? Plus our special guests, Manchester University politics professors Rob FordandMaria Sobolewska, join us to talk about their new book Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics. Do the roots of Brexit really go back to the 1960s? And where do we go now that we’re all alone in Brexitland, our only home?

“Once voters see politics as a big fight of us against them, it’s really hard to get them to think about anything else.” – Rob Ford
“In Johnson’s conference speech, the only mention of the North was a jibe at North London.” – Ros Taylor
“People may want lockdown, but not necessarily for themselves” – Ros Taylor
“If Remain had won, the leavers in the Conservative party wouldn’t have given up as easily as Cameron assumed” – Maria Sobolewska

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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How to win a Culture War Oct 09, 2020

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Having lost control of the virus, the economy and now the Conservative Party, can mojo-free COVID casualty Boris Johnson relaunch himself with a war on Lefty Luvvies? Behind the scenes, are we looking at an autumn Sunak vs Gove smackdown? Is the big winner of Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis really… Donald Trump? And how to fight – and win – a culture war.

“History goes in the direction you fight for.” – Ian Dunt
“You’re more likely to have a criminal record than attend a party conference so yes, technically they’re all deviants.” – Naomi Smith
“From cinemas to music to comedy, you can see a future where the government has turned the country into a cultural wasteland.” – Ian Dunt

Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout.

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith, Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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Hellbent on Compromise – plus guest MATT FORDE Oct 02, 2020

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As the final round of trade talks EU grind into low gear, should we brace ourselves for another heroic climbdown from the Prime Minister? Comedian, podcaster and voice of Trump, Starmer and Johnson on the new Spitting Image MATT FORDE joins us to talk about his new book Politically Homeless and life on the Labour rollercoaster. Plus, could YOU survive… Exile on Priti Island?

“The UK will have to make embarrassing concessions, while spinning them as victories” - Alex Andreou
“Labour needs to apply the mindset of 1997 to the problems they face now” - Matt Forde

Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout.

Presented by Ros Taylor with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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The Wrong Good Friday Sep 25, 2020

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This edition recorded before Kent was made an independent statelet… As the Internal Market Bill takes a wrecking ball to the Good Friday Agreement, Alliance Party Deputy Leader and North Down MP Stephen Farry explains why this will shift every aspect of politics in Northern Ireland. Plus, Can Britain face going back to square one on COVID for a further six months? Keir Starmer’s new progressive patriotism, the travesty of COVID outsourcing, and untold tales of Stephen’s constituent, foghorn mask denier Van Morrison…

Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout.

“It’s not just that the Internal Market Bill won’t make the EU back down. It actually makes reaching a deal at all even harder.” – Ian Dunt
“The Protocol isn’t an imposition from the EU. It’s the natural consequence of the UK’s own decisions.” – Stephen Farry

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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The Great British Lawbreak-Off Sep 18, 2020

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Just how precarious is Tory support for the Government’s disavowal of international law via the Internal Market Bill? Up-and-coming young author Ian Dunt joins us to discuss his new book How To Be A Liberal, the airport thriller of reason-based political thought. And are we allowed to throw a party as long as all guests bring guns?

Listeners can get 10% off How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout.

“Liberalism is a kicking, fighting school of thought. It doesn’t tell you what to think, it tells you how to think.” – Ian Dunt
“Once you’ve broken this law, you’ve set a precedent. Why would you not do it again?” – Ian Dunt
“That exact phrase ‘Will of the People’ is right there in Cromwell’s tyranny and Stalin’s rule. Every time it’s as a challenge to liberalism.” – Ian Dunt

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith, Ian Dunt and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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