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Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
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Quiet RiotSunday School: Nigel's half-empty glass
Has anyone seen the confident swagger of Nigel Farage lately? Thought not. A month of funding controversy, candidate shenanigans and sliding support has…
Quiet RiotBY-ELECTION SPECIAL: Maker-or-Breakerfield
It's the middle of the night and the Makerfield result has just been declared... what next? Alex and Kenny prop their eyes open with matchsticks to take stock…
Quiet RiotX Marks The Rot
Having spent their formative years being herded into and around the playpen/minefield/information artery that is social media, Britain's youngsters are about…
Quiet RiotSunday School: They think it's all over... Again
Just how many red cards will Keir Starmer be shown before he actually leaves the pitch? Naomi and Alex ponder the latest Healey brickbats being hurled Sir…
Quiet RiotB-SIDE: Peace Off + Healey Resignation
EXTRA! EXTRA! INCLUDES EMERGENCY MINI-EPISODE ON HEALEY RESIGNATION. Trump continues to struggle with Iran despite having 'completely defeated' it, and Putin…
Quiet RiotIt's A Badenoch Life, For Us
Riots, attacks, police snafus – they can't all be solely the fault of one bit of equalities guidance, can they? Well, if you've listened to Kemi Badenoch, you…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Bruising encounters
The spotlight is unforgiving, as both would-be MPs and former royals found this week. Join Naomi and Kenny to pick through the ashes of a somewhat…
Quiet RiotB-SIDE: Labour's difficult second album
Who is Labour for? It is such a fundamental question and one that no one appears to have an answer for. Naomi and Alex welcome the perfect guest in Christabel…
Quiet RiotThe Rage in Farage
The murder of Henry Nowak has raised a great many questions because of the terrible way Henry was treated by police as he lay dying. Henry's family have…
Quiet RiotSunday School: No jobs for the boys (or girls)
Youth unemployment is at crisis levels, and we're at the stage where Britain spends more to support jobless young people than it does on education. Naomi and…
Quiet RiotB-SIDE: From Usk Till Dawn
Welsh politics has been through the electoral tumble dryer of late, but does the rise of Reform and Plaid Cymru's success herald a new beginning, or are…
Quiet RiotThe Tone Commandments
Nothing says Elder Statesman like dumping publically on your party, its leader and its wannabe leaders in the midst of a crisis and weeks before a series of…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Immigration home truths
New immigration figures show two noteworthy things: arrivals are down but a lot of voters think arrivals are up. Meanwhile, Andy Burnham says those figures…
Quiet RiotB-SIDE: Two State Dilution - why Palestine needs your voice
Welcome to our first ever B-SIDE, a bonus for our fans when the midweek and Sunday episodes simply aren't enough :-) This week, Naomi, Alex and Kenny are…
Quiet RiotTerminal decline: Has Britain forgotten how to build big?
From HS2 to Heathrow 3, via housing 101: what is going on with big building projects in Britain? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at how Britain has been building…
Quiet RiotSunday School: A Kingmakerfield by-election
The next PM may be decided in a by-election near Wigan. That could be problematic for both the voters of Makerfield and the electorate at large. Naomi Smith…
Quiet RiotThe Cling Speech
Political psychodrama heaped on top of political drama. Well, sort of. The psychodrama of the Labour leadership battle is real, whether we want another…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Worst Past The Post
***SIGN UP FOR OUR ASK-US-ANYTHING ELECTION SPECIAL LIVE ZOOM ON TUESDAY 12 MAY 2026, 1PM, AT…
Quiet RiotMidnight Mass: From Landslide to Mudslide
In the iconic words from A Streetcar Named Desire "we've had this date with each other from the beginning!" For nearly half of Labour’s 20 months in power, it…
Quiet RiotFarage's millions: Nothin' to see here guv
Have £5million guv. It's a present, tax free, no strings attached. Yet again, questions arise over Farage's finances, this time after yet another huge wad…
Quiet RiotSunday School: The heat is on
This week's Golders Green attack resurfaced some deeply disturbing prejudices and raised the political temperature too. Alex and Kenny look at the facts as…
Quiet RiotPremature Elation; The US midterms are NOT a done deal
The stakes are too high to allow even a hint of complacency to creep into our thinking about the upcoming US 2026 midterm elections. This is one of the most…
Quiet RiotThe Windsor Takes It All
The King and Ay, ay, ay... One (the royal One) flew over the cuckoo's nest ... Windsors and losers ... too many ways to describe what happened in Washington…
Quiet RiotWhat next for the assisted dying debate?
When illness makes life unbearable, should we be permitted – and helped – to end our time in this place on our own terms? Last year on this podcast, we spoke…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Hobson's choice (or the illusion of our freedom)
Food, fuel, political parties ... it can feel like we've never had so much choice. But how much choice do we REALLY have? Naomi and Kenny ask whether the…
Quiet RiotThat Man and Robbins
Keeping up with the Starmer-Mandelson-Robbins scandal is like juggling spaghetti, soggy spaghetti at that, but we're here for the challenge. Naomi, Alex and…
Quiet RiotSunday School: JOIN VENTURE - The path back to EU membership
Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou discuss the UK's back to full EU membership, after a new Report by Best for Britain found it is the smart option for the…
Quiet RiotBlock, stock and two million smoking barrels
Who's blockading the Strait of Hormuz today? Iran? Donny From The Block? The Fake News Media? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at the winners (yes, there appear to…
Quiet RiotScotland special: A Holyrood ghost story
The May elections are now mere weeks away and, in Scotland, there's a fascinating battle developing for second place. Not that the SNP can take a majority for…
Quiet RiotSunday School: For whom the Mel trolls
Look, we're STILL trying to work out what Melania's plan was with that WTF speech this week. Plan, did we say? Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell give miserable…
Quiet RiotI came, I saw, Iran away: How not to fight a war
One minute, it's Armageddon and profanity; the next, it's back to the clown show and Trump's biggest TACO yet. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by QR favourite…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Choc and awe
Brace for betrayal, resurrection and chocolate in our Easter special! Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell examine the Judas Factor in politics, and then dive into…
Quiet RiotEureka Hazarika special – Part 2: Memoirs of a newly-minted peer
Welcome to the second part of our fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika. What does becoming a peer actually feel like? How should we…
Quiet RiotEureka Hazarika special – Part 1: Labour finally chooses Europe
Our fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika kicks off with (of course) Trump's latest Iranian-adjacent madness. And we utter a modest…
Quiet RiotSunday School: CTRL-ALT-DECEIT Truth in the Age of Disinformation
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith discuss a parliamentary report on disinformation, in the light of news that the BBC has chosen a former Google executive as its…
Quiet RiotQR Special: The cruelty of Long Covid
How would you feel about a medical examination that was designed to make you faint? What about having to instal soundproof doors and blinds, because noise and…
Quiet RiotHormuz it or Lose it: A global economic crisis, made in Washington
As the US keeps 'negotiating with itself' (Iran's words...) we ask tentatively what impact the ongoing conflict will have on our wallets, purses and digital…
Quiet RiotA righteous kind of anger: WALES SPECIAL with Will Hayward
For this bonus episode, award winning journalist, writer and podcaster Will Hayward joins Naomi Smith to break down all you need to know about the forthcoming…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Trump's Iranian Taco - with a Farage Cameo
War? What war? As missiles continue to whizz around the Middle East and the global economy continues to sweat as a result, Trump looks to be planning his exit…
Quiet RiotWith Europe we stand: Foreign policy special with Anneliese Dodds
As the UK and Europe push back on Trump's overseas adventures, Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou are joined by MP for Oxford East, Dame Anneliese Dodds, to look at…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Sinday School
Brace yourselves for an episode with a particularly adult feel... fret not, it's still Quiet Riot. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell start with the latest on…
Quiet RiotDud's Army; A review of Reform UK in local government
As Nigel Farage gets Reform's local election campaign under way, we look at how his existing platoon of local representatives is doing (nb may involve the odd…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Mahmood Music
Naomi Smith & Alex Andreou take a good look at whether Labour's new immigration and asylum reform proposals make sense - in terms of either policy or politics…
Quiet RiotIt never rains...
A spring budget statement in the middle of a global meltdown. Can it make sense even a little bit? Well, possibly. Our guest is someone who really can get…
Quiet RiotSunday School: One thing after another
Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell peer into the developing situation in Iran and the Middle East and try to glean if there is any longterm strategy or just a…
Quiet RiotBy-election curious
Political geeks rejoice – it's a by-election week AND we've got polling god Peter Kellner in da house to talk predictions and implications. Join Naomi Smith…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Royal flush
A royal scandal for the ages ... but how much worse could the Mountbatten-Windsor meltdown get for the Royal Family? Spoiler: very. Join Naomi Smith and Kenny…
Quiet RiotThe Shadow Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
As the real world is sweating over unemployment figures, especially among younger people, Farage unveils a 'shadow cabinet' that is nothing of the sort, and…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Colonised by Ignorance
Britain is making its strongest pivot yet towards Europe, with a suggested Defence Union that seems to go well beyond defence. Sir Jim Ratcliffe soils himself…
Quiet RiotKeir today, gone tomorrow?
What was it really like in THAT meeting between Starmer and his MPs? And what next for the embattled PM? Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell are…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Fash cash splash
Roll up, roll up for MAGA money ... if you're a bit far right and based in Europe, at least. The US State Dept is planning to fund MAGA-aligned organisations…
Quiet RiotBinfire of the Vanities
Mandelson has provided a political scandal for the ages but, amid the salacious detail and schadenfreude, what are the implications for Starmer, Labour and…
Quiet RiotClowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
Kemi Badenoch has frozen out Conservatives to both her political right and left. Which doesn't leave her much to work with when it comes to building support…
Quiet RiotDeflections, Defections, and By-election Selection Reflections
It's chaos out there, chaos!! Labour lick their Burnham wounds, Braverman defects from the Tories to the 'other' Tories, and a new centre-right movement packed…
Quiet RiotSunday School: We Didn't Burnham!
Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou look at the rumours swirling around Andy Burnham putting himself forward to contest a parliamentary seat, after eight years as…
Quiet RiotSwiss Troll
He came, he saw, he conked out. Trump blew chaotically into Davos, demanded Greenland then carried out a spectacular U-turn. Well, for now at least. Whatever…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Looney Tunes politics
The Robert Jenrick fiasco capped what was a mad week in the crazy world of Westminster. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell dive in to the cartoonish series of…
Quiet RiotIn With The Old: Is Zahawi a Tory too far for Farage?
Nadhim Zahawi?? Is this the moment Reform jumped the shark? Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell ask whether Farage's little project has, in fact, been…
Quiet RiotBONUS EPISODE: The Affordability Crisis, with Jeevun Sandher MP
The journey from policy geek to politician is one that a higher-than-usual number of the new intake of Labour MPs have made. Throw in a Punjabi Sikh heritage…
Quiet RiotSunday School: ICE Age
To her friends and colleagues, she was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, prize-winning poet and guitarist. To the Trump administration, she was…