Northern Spin

We’re back after a short break of moonlighting on other podcasts and obsessive election analysis. Also, Andy Burnham’s next six years, the NHS in crisis and who’s funding Labour’s pro-business charm offensive?

In the season 3 finale of Northern Spin Michael and Chris take you to the places across the North where the local elections will be most fiercely fought, with insights into voter ID, LibDem bar charts, low turnouts and insurgent independents. PLUS: just for the regulars. a ding dong over doctors.

It's a tense stand off in the Northern Spin studio this week as Chris loses his mind over the Labour hit job on Rishi Sunak, Michael introduces a rap battle into the script and both have a thing or two to say about Scott Benton, the CBI, Fergal Sharkey and Carol Vorderman.

This week the ‘Carlos Tevez of business journalism’ and Chris discuss the world’s worst photo shoot for a PM and politicians getting crabby with the press. PLUS: Cricket’s big racism row

This week Michael and Chris have taken the gloves off and properly slug it out over Starmer, Sunak and GB News. Also, a look ahead to the Northern battlegrounds in the upcoming local elections. PLUS: why new adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice is a warning from history.

All eyes looked North last week as the deeper devo deal put Greater Manchester into a new era. Plus: Michael and Chris pick apart Boris Johnson's defence and explain why Suella Braverman only invited client journalists on to her Rwanda trip.

It’s been described as Jeremy Hunt’s ‘Back to work Budget’ but will it get the British economy going at long last? Economist Nicola Headlam from Red Flag Alerts joins Michael and Chris for a special analysis of the Budget and what it might mean for the North.

As the BBC sways one way and the other over Gary Lineker, Northern Spin looks on as the Tories get nasty again. Also, Chris Maguire accuses Michael Taylor of letting Andy Burnham off the hook, there's a lament for Oi Polloi, and insight on what the rescue of Silicon Valley Bank means for the Northern tech scene.

Season 3 - Episode 4: Heroes or villains? Michael and Chris discuss the case for and against Isabel Oakeshott and Sue Gray

Northern Spin Extra: Naomi Timperley talks Ukraine, Dragons’ Den and Steven Bartlett

Season 3, episode 3 of Northern Spin looks at Starmer’s missionary position, Sunak’s big gamble the loathsome Boris Johnson and why Man United’s cup win matters

Northern Spin looks at what Nicola Sturgeon's departure means for northern politics, and what the decline in local newspapers teaches us about accountability and trust

Michael and Chris discuss the best and worst of modern politics and journalism

Michael and Chris finally find something to agree about as former PM Liz Truss and ex Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn make comebacks.

During Rishi Sunak's worst week Michael and Chris take you on a view behind the scenes at the Convention of the North and point out which northerners used it to go "on manoeuvres".

Fresh from the studios of the BBC Michael and Chris return to pick apart the levelling up bids and discuss a few politicians 'on manoeuvres'. Who could block this? Someone has!

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Better Business Summit, Michael and Chris talk to Hannah Cox from the summit about her mission to make business a force for good.

A new logo, a new sponsor, but just the same razor sharp analysis of politics and Northern life from Michael and Chris.

Michael’s unhealthy knowledge of all things Labour reaches new levels while Chris names the Tory MPs ‘on manoeuvres’

Chris and Michael reflect on an unprecedented year of 4 Chancellors, 3 PMs, and 2 monarchs

Refreshingly smart, naturally funny, very down to earth and French. As Labour council leader Elise Wilson made Stockport comfortable around the Greater Manchester table. But what's next?

Michael and Chris discuss the growing industrial action; Labour cosies up to business; and a date with Stockport's Blossoms.

Facing up to racism, affordable childcare and becoming the UK’s first female Asian PM

Gordon Brown’s devolution plans; Northern anger grows at rail chaos; Tories get Chester ‘pelting’

Michael and Chris held their first live event at The People’s Powerhouse, which is committed to creating a better and more equal North.