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PoliticsJOE Podcast
This is PoliticsJOE's podcast - the only explicitly anti-nonce podcast in the UK.
Reporting on British politics with a sense of humour, the podcast is a recorded version of the conversations we have after work.
So pull up a stool, pour yourself a cold one, and laugh through the misery alongside us.
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Episodes
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Another round: How the British press hacked my phone and ruined my life (with Chris Huhne)
Chris Huhne, the former Lib Dem energy secretary, made headlines when he settled a phone hacking allegation against News UK for a six-figure sum. Huhne alleges…
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Asking the least white place in Britain about immigration
What's Ed been up to? Do Reform UK present a legitimate threat to the Conservative's vote share? Is it fair that the HMRC is coming for the Depop girlies? Oli…
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Rishi Sunak's lying about immigration
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE podcast. The gang are reunited for the first time since the 100th episode "incident" to discuss Rishi Sunak's immigration obsession…
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Another Round: How to fix Britain's broken political system (with Ben Ansell)
Ben Ansell is a political scientist, Professor at Oxford University, and the BBC's Reith Lecturer for 2023. He came by JOETowers to speak about his book, Why…
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Rishi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
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Michelle Mone: Bad day for girl bosses
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast! Ed and Ava are at the helm this week as Oli is busy advising the Conservative party on their digital strategy. We're…
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Another Round: Ian Hislop reviews 2023
Oli popped down to the Private Eye offices to catch up with Ian Hislop and mark the release of the the magazine's 2023 annual. Ian and Oli roll back the months…
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100th episode lock in
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. In this three hour special, Oli, Ava, and Ed answer your questions - featuring copious amounts of alcohol, live fish, and…
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PMQs: Rwanda Plan revival and a Minister for Men
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE podcast. Analysing this week's PMQs, Ed and Ava discuss the James Cleverly's Rwanda scheme revival and Sunak's plan to cut net…
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Why Keir Starmer's praising Thatcher
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE podcast. Ed takes a break from his XL Bully farm to join Oli and Ava as they reflect on Starmer's praising of Margaret Thatcher this…
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Another round: How Britain benefits from slavery today with Clive Lewis MP
Labour MP Clive Lewis speaks to Ava about his friendship with former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, whose family owned more than 1,000 slaves in Grenada -…
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PMQs analysis: Starmer spanks Sunak
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE...podcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed reveal why the podcast's intro may be changing. Then, after 25 minutes of pints, chit chat, and good…
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Why we should return the Elgin Marbles (to the Ottomans)
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. In the Pubcast this week, Ed subjects Oli and Ava to the age-old Scottish tradition of complaining about the price of…
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Another round: Economist Torsten Bell explains why the Autumn Statement screws you over
On Wednesday this week, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the biggest tax cuts since 1988. But are we actually going to be better off? Economist Torsten Bell…
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Analysing Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement, and PMQs
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. In the Pubcast this week, Oli, Ava, and Ed analyse the Autumn Statement and react to Prime Minister's Questions…
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Nigel Farage in the Jungle
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. After Nigel Farage's debut on I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here last night, Ed and Ava set out to answer why do…
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Another round: James O'Brien on the Tories who broke Britain
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. It’s been a turbulent week in British politics. Thankfully, in his new book, James O’Brien provides a genealogy of this…
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Cenotaph defending deep dive
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. In the fifth instalment of the Pubcast this week, Oli, Ava, and Ed reflect on Ed's experience attending Saturday's defence…
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Labour MPs resign over Gaza vote
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss the dramatic scenes in parliament yesterday evening as eight Labour frontbenchers resigned - and…
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PMQs: Rwanda plan unlawful
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed react to Sunak defending both his appointment of David Cameron to Foreign Secretary and the Government's…
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Why David Cameron shouldn't be foreign secretary
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. In this additional episode to the Pubcast's roster, Oli and Ava discuss just what makes David Cameron fit - or unfit - to…
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Suella Braverman sacked, David Cameron rides again
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli and Ava chat about the sacking of Suella Braverman, the far right turning out on the streets of London, and the…
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Another round: Jeremy Corbyn on the King's Speech and Israel-Palestine
Ava is joined by Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour leader and Independent MP for Islington North. They discuss the need for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas…
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Suella Braverman is inciting the far-right
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed chat Braverman stirring up football hooligans into defending the Cenotaph, as well as the commencement of…
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A new low for Suella Braverman
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ed and Ava are joined by Matthew Torbitt, a Labour MP's staffer, who was once himself homeless, to discuss Braverman's…
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Another round: Slavoj Žižek on Israel Palestine
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. "The most dangerous philosopher in the West", Salvoj Žižek, says "context” has become a dirty word in the discussion of…
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Israel and Palestine: Ceasefires and protests
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. In the second part of the gang's conversation with Josh Kaplan of the Jewish Chronicle, they discuss Starmer's speech in…
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Dominic Cummings testifies
Welcome to PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed are joined by Digital Editor of the Jewish Chronicle Josh Kaplan to analyse the revelations of the Covid…
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Boris joins GB News
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. With Ava away, the platonic ideal of a podcast returns. Oli and Ed discuss why the former PM has joined GB News, where the…
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Another round: Life in Gaza and the West Bank
We’ve all seen the horrifying images of death and destruction that have emerged out of Israel and Palestine. Hamas’ launching of 5,000 rockets into Southern…
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PMQs analysis: Ceasefires and housing
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ed, and Ava react to PMQs, including the SNP's Mhairi Black's call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. Presenters…
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Pro-Palestine and Israel protests in London
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli and Ava are joined by producer Laura for a segment on the pro-Palestine and Israel rallies that took place in London…
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Another round: How liberalism is failing us with John Gray
The optimistic assumptions of liberalism are failing us, causing crises abroad and at home. And, our political parties are unfit to address them, argues…
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By-elections special
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE pubcast. Ava and Ed discuss Labour's stonking wins in the Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire by-elections, constituencies that they both…
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Taking the piss out of Amazon with Oobah Butler
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed are joined by filmmaker Oobah Butler to discuss his latest project in which he takes on Amazon, going…
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PMQs analysis
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ed, Oli, and Ava analyse the most recent Prime Minister's Questions, which focused on events in Israel and Palestine…
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Israel Palestine.
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ed, Oli, and Ava are reunited to analyse Sunak and Starmer's responses to the unfolding events in Israel and Palestine, as…
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Another round: How Big Tech made us serfs with Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former politician, and author of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Capitalism's latest mutation has turned us into…
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Analysing Keir Starmer's speech, and other conference goss
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Upon her return from Labour conference, Ava discusses Keir Starmer's speech and reveals which MPs could be found in the DJ…
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Pubcast live with Mick Lynch
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Enjoy the first Pubcast in front of a live studio audience at The World Transformed in Liverpool, recorded on the first day…
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Another round: Tory MP Caroline Nokes Dismantles Suella Braverman's Culture War
After Suella Braverman's statements regarding immigration and transgender people at Conservative conference, her colleague Caroline Nokes swung by JOE Towers…
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Rishi's Hail Marys
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ed's returned from Tory Conference to dissect Rishi Sunak's speech with Ava. Buy tickets to our live Pubcast in Liverpool…
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Tory war at conference
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. While Ed's in Manchester at his favourite annual event - Tory Conference -, Oli and Ava discuss the infighting within the…
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Another round: Naomi Klein dives into conspiracy culture
In 2019, when Russell Brand was still a contestant on Celebrity Bake Off, "conspiracy theorist" conjured images of eccentric flat-earthers or your uncle, who…
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Responding to Laurence Fox's vile sexism about Ava
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ava and Ed respond to the comments made last night by Laurence Fox on Dan Wootton's GB News show. Buy tickets to our live…
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On the ground for the XL Bully march
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ed reveals what he learned attending a Bully XL protest, Oli gives his thoughts on whether the Met Police should be armed…
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Another round: How the British Empire made you poorer (with Kojo Koram)
The systems of colonialism didn't end with the British Empire. And, now the same systems which uphold inequality between nations are driving inequality at…
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What the hell is Rishi Sunak doing?
Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ava and Ed give their thoughts on the Prime Minister's decision to U-turn on Net Zero policies - including scrapping the…
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Russell Brand allegations
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed return to discuss the allegations made against Russell Brand over the weekend and the reaction to…
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Another round: Why politicians get economic policy wrong with Mariana Mazzucato
British politicians are obsessed with growth. But what if putting growth at the centre of economic policymaking is a mistake? Economist and founding director…
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PMQs: Spies gone wild
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Ava and Ed react to PMQs Dugmore-less as Oli celebrates his thirtieth birthday at SoHo House's all-you-can-eat buffet…
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EXCLUSIVE: Ed's saucy DMs with the alleged Chinese spy ('the snatch hoover')
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Today's episode contains two piping hot espionage-related PoliticsJOE exclusives. Ed and Oli are joined by Horatio…
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Another round: Sadiq Khan and Chris Packham on free school meals and Tory climate deniers
With MPs returning from recess, it's been a busy week in Westminster - and, unsurprisingly, a busy week for PoliticsJOE's political correspondent, Ava Santina…
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PMQs is back (with Harry Lambert)
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed are joined by the New Statesman's Harry Lambert to react to the first Prime Minister's Questions…
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Labour Reshuffle
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed give their thoughts on Keir Starmer's cabinet reshuffle, Gillian Keegan's hot mic moment, and the pros…
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Another round: Why space militarisation is inevitable with Tim Marshall
As space travel becomes cheaper, more players are entering the space race, and it really matters who wins. Ed chats to author Tim Marshall about his latest…
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Does this man deserve to be kicked out of the Labour Party with Neal Lawson
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli and Ed are joined by the director of Compass, Neal Lawson, to discuss what a "good society" looks like and why he…
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Wrong'un Rubiales
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli and Ed discuss Rachel Reeves ruling out a wealth tax, Nadine Dorries finally resigning, ULEZ, and Luis Rubiales'…
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Another round: Why Churchill was a racist with Tariq Ali
Winston Churchill. You learned about him at school. The wartime prime minister who gave rousing speeches and led the allied forces to victory in Europe. But…
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Unpopular ways to save the environment with Tom Bailey
Welcome to the the PoliticsJOE Pubcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed are joined by co-founder of the environmental movement Take The Jump, Tom Bailey. Ed reveals how he…