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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: Unbecoming a President
Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell discuss Trump's vile comments on the Washington air disaster and his economically illiterate view of tariffs. Also, the…
Quiet RiotBrexit Wounds; Anniversary Special
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith with special guest migration, policy one-woman army, Zoe Gardner ask what happened to the sunlit uplands, the magical cake, the oven…
Quiet RiotSunday School: To Be Or NATO Be
Alex welcomes special guest, former diplomat Arthur Snell to discuss the future of NATO, Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - and whether The West, capitalised as one…
Quiet RiotExecutive Disorder: Worst. Reboot. Ever.
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith with special guest USA Politics Guru, Dr. Brian Klaas, look at the flurry of executive orders and try to sort the wheat from the…
Quiet RiotMidnight Mass: Oligarchs Assemble
Join us for some group therapy! Naomi and Alex welcome back 38Degrees CEO and former Obama campaign staffer Matthew McGregor with some first impressions of…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Breturn of The Tusk
Naomi and Alex look at the week's news, focussing on Starmer's visit to Poland and Donald Tusk's dream of a "Breturn". Also, the markets have made a remarkable…
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Quiet Riot Special: Employment rights and employment wrongs in the world of academia
Alice Jolly taught at Oxford for 16 years ... until she had the temerity to complain about her pay. Sacked from a job she loved, she took the university to…
Quiet Riot200 Days of Hard Labour
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith with special guest Guardian columnist Zoe Williams assess Labour's first 200 days in power, in pretty frank, no-holds-barred…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Revolting Reform
Naomi and Alex look at the week's news, focussing on the market turmoil and pressure on Reeves, Trump's felony conviction, and Farage under increasing pressure…
Quiet RiotEMERGENCY RIOT: Why are markets jittery?
Alex Andreou talks to top economist Vicky Pryce, to get to the bottom of what is behind market volatility and high gov't borrowing rates, how much of it is…
Quiet RiotMusk is grooming Europe for Trump 2.0
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith with special guest Dame Emily Thornberry try to decipher the incoherent tweets of Musk, the incoherent strategy of Badenoch, and the…
Quiet RiotMidnight Mass: A Line Has Been Crossed
Naomi and Alex give their instant reaction to the rapidly spiralling Musk breakdown, Starmer's strong response, the Tory Party's weak response - and Justin…
Quiet RiotSunday School - Musk hearts Tommy; Nigel, not so much.
In the words of Jon Snow, "winter is coming". Naomi and Alex look at the cold winds blowing in from the East, as Ukraine cuts Europe off its Putin habit, from…
Quiet RiotThe Future is "AND" - not "OR"
Alex chats to eminent scenario planner, futurologist, and best-selling author Richard Watson about whether there is any point predicting anything in such a…
Quiet RiotA Quiet Riot Happy New Year
Alex, Naomi, and Kenny discuss the most important trends of 2024 and what they might augur for 2025. PLUS their most out-there predictions! ***SPONSOR US AT…
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Poll The Other One: A polling pilgrimage from the Red Wall to Waterloo, and from 2024 to 2025
Attention polling geeks, politics geeks and students of the world ... what can Taylor Swift tell us about the world of politics? How about Beyoncé? And…
Quiet RiotPolitical Quiz of 2024
LOBBY JOURNALISTS DO BATTLE FOR THE QUIZ CHAMPION CROWN. Quizmaster Naomi grills The Guardian's Zoe Williams, The Times' Caroline Wheeler, Politics Home's Adam…
Quiet RiotA Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part II
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome two very special guests - their best friends Nigel Smith and Nigella Lawson. Recorded with a special live audience of many…
Quiet RiotSunday School: The One with Everyone in It
Alex and Naomi talk to a pantheon of special guests to dissect the week's news. Arthur Snell on the attack on the Magdeburg Christmas Market and a new breed of…
Quiet RiotThe Politics of Hallmark Xmas Movies
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Hallmark has pumped out over 800 of these original movies - and I use the term original very loosely. Its countdown…
Quiet RiotA Very Nigel(la) Quiet Riot: Xmas Special Part I
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome two very special guests - their best friends Nigel Smith and Nigella Lawson - to look back at a momentous year, the…
Quiet RiotPoll Hard with A Vengeance: Politics trends in 2024... and 2025
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Naomi is joined by a Quiet Riot regular, More in Common's Luke Tryl, to discuss polling trends of 2024, what…
Quiet RiotSunday School: The Brexit damage continues
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Naomi and Alex look at yet another two horrible consequences of Brexit - the grift that keeps on taking - in the…
Quiet RiotThe Fall of Assad: Syria Special with Arthur Snell
Alex Andreou talks to former diplomat and host of the Behind The Lines podcast, Arthur Snell, to try and construct some order out of the recent chaos in Syria…
Quiet RiotEpisode 30: Mo Money Mo Problems
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith and special guest investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan discuss the huge amounts of money that is currently flowing into our…
Quiet RiotSunday School: All I Want for Christmas Is EU
Naomi and Alex disseminate Starmer's big "this is not a reset" speech. Naomi talks about the importance of a better EU deal and a new initiative for getting…
Quiet RiotFrance Special: Macron, and on, and on.
Alex talks to our resident France expert, Olivier Morel, about the political deadlock in France, how and why we got here and whether Macron can survive it. An…
Quiet RiotEpisode 29: Chaos, by design
Naomi and Alex welcome comedian and author Henry Morris, to discuss the common threads behind the chaos that seems to be bursting through, pretty much…
Quiet RiotUS Special: It's Hunter or be hunted
Alex talks to TIME Magazine's correspondent and QR regular Yasmeen Serhan, about Biden pardoning his son, Trump's latest picks, their impact on geopolitics -…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Great Expectations
Naomi and Alex talk through a very busy week (as much of it as they can). They reflect on the assisted dying debate and vote, discuss Louise Haigh's…
Quiet RiotEpisode 28 - Petition Impossible
Naomi and Alex welcome author, columnist, and the ARD's London correspondent, Annette Dittert, to discuss the petition demanding another election, Kemi…
Quiet RiotPoll The Other One: Labour's red wall blues, with Peter Kellner
In the July election, a victorious Labour saw its red wall support slump to the lowest level in at least 40 years. Polling guru Peter Kellner joins Naomi Smith…
Quiet RiotSunday School: Russian Roulette
Naomi and Alex talk through developments in Ukraine and Gaza, and what they might mean for our security. And they also discuss the continuing fallout from the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Episode 27 - Farmed Outrage
Naomi and Alex welcome former UK Ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, whose dismissal Trump demanded in 2020, to the studio to talk through what's in store…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special - STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF TRUMP'S TARIFF WAR
Alex talks to special guest trade epxert David Henig about Trump's threatened tariff war - how likely is it, what would it mean for the world economy, and in…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - A CABINET OF HORRORS
Naomi and Alex, wth special guest Arthur Snell, assess what Trump's picks reveal about his intentions for the next four years and how they might affect global…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special: NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS
Accident stats are terrifying: UK accidental deaths exceed 20,000 a year and accidents (mostly at home) are the most common cause of preventable death among…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Episode 26 - PEER PRESSURE
Naomi and Alex, with regular guest More in Common's Luke Tryl, discuss Lords reform, Kemi Badenoch's start, COP26, and the rise of the (very) long form…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - ENOUGH ELECTIONS ALREADY
Naomi and Alex, dig into the data underlying the US result, what a Trump term means for Ukraine, the discuss Kemi Badenoch's front bench choices, and the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot US Election Special - WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Naomi and Alex, go over the US result, with a special focus on what it means for the UK and Europe, and what leassons we can learn from it. With two…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot - BLUESKY SPECIAL II with Rose Wang
Alex Andreou talks to Rose Wang, BlueSky Chief Operations Officer in SanFrancisco - one of two women at the top of this social media startup. about the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - SQUEAKY BUM TIME
Alex and Naomi discuss Kemi Badenoch's prospects and Rachel Reeves' budget, before an extended therapy session about the coming US Election. With star cameos…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot UK/EU Special - DRAGGING OUR FEET TO PROSPERITY
How is the new Labour government perceived in the EU? How much of a 'reset' is realistically achievable? What does the club we just left make of our slow…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Budget Special: GO BIG OR GO HOME
Naomi and Alex, go over every aspect of the Budget, including the undercurrent of misogyny in much of the commentary, with very special guest prominent…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special: SCANDALS BESET SINN FEIN AHEAD OF IRISH ELECTION
Naomi Smith chats to journalist Amanda Ferguson about a series of scandals which have rocked politics both north and south of the border. Sinn Féin were widely…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - WELCOME TO GILEAD with Zoe Williams
Alex goes through the week's political events, and looks forward to next week, both here and across the Atlantic, with special guest Zoe Williams. ***SPONSOR…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special: US ELECTION POLLING REPORT
American polls are pointing to a perilously close result in the looming presidential election but can they be trusted? Naomi Smith talks with Luke Bailey, Head…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 23 - TRUMP vs THE FAR LEFT LABOUR PARTY
Naomi and Alex, with guest Salma Shah - a former No.10 advisor under Cameron - explore how mich of the Trump Campaign's complaint against Labour is real and…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special - EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE with Luke McGee
Alex quizzes special guest, Emmy-award-winning Luke McGee, on how a referendum in a country like Moldova, interconnects with everything from EU immigration…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - IS THE US ELECTION AS CLOSE AS IT SEEMS?
Naomi and Alex have their weekly debrief, talking through the Budget rumours, the Tory leadership election, and then a bit of a deep dive into US Election…
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Quiet Riot Special: TRACKS OF OUR TEARS – Why are our railways so bad?
It's easy to bash our railways – oh, how easy it is. But why does the system struggle and what could be done to make things better? Naomi Smith is joined on…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 22 - CAN LABOUR FIND MONEY FOR JUSTICE?
Naomi and Alex, with guest award-winning journalist Tristan Kirk from the Evening Standard, discuss the latest economic figures, budget rumours, and the…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Midnight Mass - SWIFTGATE? JUST SHAKE IT OFF
Alex, up all night once more, looking for sanity inside the most ridiculous non-story so far. Has the British media lost its collective mind. It would seem…
Quiet RiotQUIET RIOT SPECIAL: The assisted dying debate, with Andrew Copson
When illness makes life unbearable, should we be permitted – and helped – to end our time in this place on our own terms? The topic of assisted dying is back…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - 100 DAYS OF HARD LABOUR
Naomi and Alex try to reach for some sort of balanced view of the first 100 days of Labour - away from the constant media MELTDOWN IN DOWNING STREET ridiculous…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Special - GAZA; A YEAR ON with Layla Moran
Alex talks to Layla Moran, the first British MP of Palestinian descent, to mark a year since not just the 7th of October - that day of horror for Israel - but…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 21 - AND THEN THERE WERE TWO...
Naomi and Alex, with guest Laura Hood from The Conversation, discuss the latest shock elimination in the Tory Reality Soap Opera, Laura's new documentary Know…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Sunday School - CHAGOSMANIA
Naomi, Alex, And Kenny try to understand why everyone is losing their mind over the Chagos Archipelago deal, talk local election results and why they may be a…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot Bonus - LEADERSHIP HOPELESS
Here is the full - AND VERY FRANK - conversation between Alex Andreou and More In Common's chief Luke Tryl on all four Conservative leadership hopefuls. And if…
Quiet RiotQuiet Riot: Episode 20: BRITAIN'S GOT TORIES
An absolutely jam-packed episode on the Tory leadership contest and the US Election VP debate. Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell are joined by Guardian…