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Simon Alvey, Will Cooling, and Dr Luke Middup return for their 200th episode spectacular. After manipulating the episode schedule all summer to celebrate 200 episodes with breaking down the election of a new Prime Minister...we don't talk about that. Instead we look back on five years of podcasts, complete a quiz, and look back on the week of national mourning for The Queen. Thank you to ever...

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to look back at the death of Queen Elizabeth II. They look back at her life and impact, the initial rollout of King Charles III, and the implications of a historic week

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk the ongoing energy crisis and even more volatile tory leadership election. In between those discussions, Will half-argues with everyone about Ukraine and Covid. 

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return with an unusually chilled out podcast as they talk about the first two weeks of the football season and Donald Trump's latest bout of legal troubles 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to discuss the latest infighting within both major political parties, the scary winter that may be coming for the UK, the chaos in Barcelona FC and the warning signs from China

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to welcome our soon to be Trussian overlord. We review the rather funny slow motion car crash that is Rishi Sunak's campaign, as he becomes ever more desperate to turn the tide. Then we talk the Labour Party latest cries for attention before discussing Joe Manchin and Shakira. 

Simon Alvey and Will Cooling return to talk the latest in the Tory Leadership Election plus tangents on climate change, the Forde Inquiry, Sir Alex Douglas Home, Bangladesh, and much more.

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup are joined by Cllr Lewis James Brown to discuss the Tory Leadership Election. They look at the first two rounds of voting, the remaining runners and riders, and what the future holds.

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to look at the latest developments in the Tory Leadership race. They discuss the rules of the leadership election, the candidates who failed to make it to even the first round, and what is annoying both of us about the leadership election. We also briefly talk about Sir Beer Karma not only evading Durham Police but also his one mistaken call for a VONC. 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk the implosion of Boris Johnson's Government in the craziest week in British political history. We look ahead to the Tory Leadership election before ending on Elon Musk and Shinzo Abe.

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk what seems to be the latest piece of Boris Johnson escapology as he is still standing after his Chancellor and Health Secretary resigning due to his mishandling of the economy and the Chris Pincher allegations. We look in detail at a weird day in British politics, and what may happen next. 

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to discuss Will's article on the Northern Ireland Protocol in City A.M, the Supreme Court overturning its prior decisions on Roe vs Wade and Case to end the federal right to abortion in America, and two by-election defeats that would be chastening for anyone other than Boris Johnson 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup to run the rule over the second half of the Platinum Jubliee weekend including Will's thoughts on Paddington, Luke's love of the Coronation Ceremony and Simon's contemporary music knowledge. Then they look at Boris Johnson suriviving a snap Vote of No Confidence and what the future holds for him and his government. 

Simon Alvey,  Dr Luke Middup and Will Cooling return to talk the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and the worth and future of the monarchy. Before that they take a detour into discussing the media landscape in Britain and afterwards the look at what the future holds for Boris Johnson. 

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup have the house to themselves this podcast, with Simon Alvey not there to keep them in check. So begins a rather agreeable yet frenzied look at Sue Gray's report and Rishi Sunak's mini-budget, with more references to the 70s than BBC4. 

Simon Alvey returns from holiday to discuss with Statler and Waldorf the results of Thursday's elections, the looming changes to Senedd elections, the surprise/disappointing escalation of The Durham Dinner Affair, and why Waldorf hates Lisa Nandy. 

Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to break down the election results! Will and Luke swap updates about Northern Ireland and Scotland where nationalists won convincing victories as parties aligned with the English Tories went backwards from a 2017 high watermark. They then go into the weeds of the English and Welsh results, slowly realising how badly the Tories had done. They even talk about S...

A plague stricken Will Cooling returns to discuss with Dr Luke Middup the latest developments in the War in Ukraine, the French Elections, the forthcoming Local Elections in Great Britain and Northern Ireland  Assembly Elections, and briefly about the resignation of Neil Parish MP

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk the rematch of the century as Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen enter the second round of the French Election. Brave Luke's disinterest and Will's shaky French to hear our discussion about how the French far-right secured its highest ever vote share in the first round and whether it has a real shot of taking the Presidency. We t...

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling, and Dr Luke Middup return to talk about so many things including Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, Joe Root and the Royal Family refusing to quit after loses in the West Indies, the poor reception to Rishi Sunak's Spring Statement and what it means for the fight against inflation, and the latest developments in the War in Ukraine. 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling, and Dr Luke Middup return to look at the second week of the war in Ukraine, which has not gone as well as expected for the Russian invaders. We look at the latest military developments, the impact of sanctions on Russia and the wider world, what the war means for London and the EU, and why a No Fly Zone would be insanity. 

Dr Luke Middup, Simon Alvey, and Will Cooling return to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Our thoughts are with the people of Ukraine and Russia resisting Putin's aggressive war of choice. 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk about lots and lots of things, including the latest developments in Partygate, Cressida Dick's shock resignation as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, the SNP getting itself into a mess on pensions, and the looming crisis in Ukraine. 

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling, and Luke Cooling return to talk Sue Gray, the *pending police investigations*  whole Sue Gray and nothing but the Sue Gray. 

Simon Alvey, Dr Luke Middup and Will Cooling return to talk the chaos that has ingulfed the Conservative Party. We talk the wine fridges, Dominic Cummings, bad interviews, bad PMQs, defections to the Labour Party, and much more!