No Holds Barred Pod

EP 97 – WELCOME TO CLACTON | By-Election Circus. Ann Widdecombe Murdered. Burnham Bluster. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. As we recorded, news broke of Ann Widdecombe's murder and as we ended the culprit had been arrested. Tragic and very, very odd. We talked about Farage&#39...

EP 96 – POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT | Trump Ruins the World Cup. Farage's Annu s Horibbilis. More Government Overreach. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. Don was at Pride on Saturday and met MeatZine! We talked about media manipulation of our politics again. Murdoch has finally had e...

EP 95 – CONSPIRACY or THEORY | MKUltra, Burnham issue. Reform continues to tank. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. Sal talks us through the latest unrestricted release of files about MKUltra and its ramifications on modern times. We spoke a lot about Burnham, and just where is he ge...

EP 08 — DISCUSSIONS with Dan Hatton — News Agency No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. We're back with a new episode of Discussions with Dan Hatton, creator and founder of News Agency, a daily news briefing that strips away the emotive partisan shroud that hangs over our media news...

EP 94 – WINTER IS COMING | Burnham from THE NORTH, Farage is out in the cold. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. Well. Starmer is gone and Burnham is taking us all up to Madchester. Will it work? Sal and Don are not so sure. Lots of discussion about Andy Burnham of course, but Reform...

EP 93 – REFORM RUPTURE | Brexit is ten. Decline of Reform. Trump's failing health. Burnham No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. Sal was flying solo in this episode, as Don's house is too hot for his laptop! He will be back next week though. Sal talked through the week's new...

EP 92 – BY-ELECTION BLUES | is Reform UK finished? Can Farage dig himself out of this hole? No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. Results are in, and Reform UK have failed in a big way. Three by-election losses in one night, not that you'd know it from our ludicrous media. They only...

EP 91 – MOSCOW MULE | Russia, Andy Burnham, Starmer Assassination Attempt & Palestine Action Russia fires on a British yacht in the English Channel. Andy Burnham pivots right. The Starmer assassination plot divides Sal and Don. Palestine Action loses its appeal. And don't forget Farage's five million pounds. This week on your favourite UK politics podcast, No Holds Barred, Sal Dodgson...

EP 90 – DEFENCE DIFFICULTIES — Healy resigns. Far-right humiliated. UFC shenanigans. Trillionaires. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. More Labour Party losses this week, with Healy and the very squared-jawed Al Carns [who?] resigning over the defence budget. Don argued that he can see the point of Rachel Reeves — they wast...

EP 07 — DISCUSSIONS with Peter Corr — National Rejoin March No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. We're back with a new episode of Discussions with Peter Corr, founder and organiser of the National Rejoin March. On June 20th, the march will be bigger than ever and run from Temple to...

EP 88 – A QUESTION OF TIME — Kenyon up the creek. Palantir are back. Albanian Island News. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. We're catching up on delayed episodes after a series of recording hiccups, so this episode was recorded the day after Reform's disastrous Question Time appearance. Palantir may have been kept...

EP 06 — DISCUSSIONS with India Willoughby — Anything & Everything No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. We're back with a new episode of Discussions with the amazing, India Willoughby. We couldn't be more thrilled to chat to India about all thing trans, politics, football an...

EP 87 – SOUTH X SOUTH HOW MUCH? — More Mandelson files. Government bans. GB News fanboy. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. More cancelled travel visas from the government — Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker this time, removed from the insanely expensive SXSW festival and the Oxford Union. Lots of Labour chat in this episode. Star...

EP 86 – #FARAGERIOTS2 — Farage kicked off more rioting. Mental health awareness. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Some of this episode is a tough listen. We covered the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday and Farage's complicity. Reform Roundup™️ — Kenyon crumbled under no scrutiny whatsoever. Farage lies and lies and l...

EP 85 – POLITICAL SMÖRGÅSBORD — Farage is cooked. Trump is cooked. Raise the Colours are in BIG trouble. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. REFORM ROUNDUP™ — Farage is still in hiding and is being investigated on three fronts now, including a potential contempt of court referral. We...

EP 84 – FIVE MILLION WAYS TO HIDE — Where's Farage? Robert Kenyon is rank. More welfare intensity. No Holds Barred Pod, is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. Serious and hilarious in equal measure. REFORM ROUNDUP™ — Farage is still in hiding. Kenyon's views on abortion are horrific. Criminal councillors. Sal discusses a new attack on welf...

EP 83 – UNINVITED — Trump forgets his own son's name. Sadiq Khan for the win. Cheap opera tickets. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. We chatted about Labour's cost of living offerings this week, it's safe to say that neither were particularly enamoured. They have been very up and down this week, with some quest...

EP 82 – UNVETTED — Reform's plumber problems. Farage in hiding. Local government under the spotlight. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. REFORM ROUNDUP™ — Reform UK have put up a plumber for the Makerfield by-election, but he has a highly questionable past. Farage is STILL ducking scrutiny over his five million pounds &...

EP 81 – BAT$H*T AND BROKEN — Farage flounders. HS2 is bat$h*t. Reform vetting disaster. Far-right failures everywhere. No Holds Barred Pod is Sal Dodgson and Don McGowan. Politics unpacked every week. News, politics and opinion. We discussed this week's Unite the Kingdom rally — how much of a disaster was it? Ryan Bridge was arrested, Reform's new by election candidate has strong links to...

EP 80 – TOMMY ROBINSON'S FLAG RACE — Five million pound gift. Divide the Kingdom. Starmer vs. Burnham. We chatted A LOT about Andy Burnham in this episode. It's fair to say that Don and Sal got into it. STARMER THE DRAMA-LLAMA CALMER just kept on keeping on as though nothing was happening! Tommy Robinson's Flag Race happens as this goes out on Saturday, Sal will be on the opposing marc...

EP 79 — MEDIA MADNESS — Reform Roundup ™ — FIVE MILLION POUNDS. Media in meltdown. The war rages on. The insane coverage of a thing that hasn't yet happened is dominating our air waves and preventing us from knowing any other news. So you would be forgiven for thinking that the war in Iran is over ... it isn't. Farage's bung dominates the headlines, but there are other failures within...

EP 78 – LOCAL ELECTION FALLOUT — Porn amateur wins a seat for Reform UK. Sal questions Farage. Starmer Drama. Sal is back, thank goodness. 😍 We chatted about her own personal local election results and the fallout, including an exclusive we dropped a few weeks ago about a very NSFW Reform UK candidate putting his own porn onto open social media platforms. There's a brilliant clip of our very...

EP 77 — LOCAL ELECTION BREAKDOWN — Reform Roundup ™ — FIVE MILLION POUNDS. Global Perception Index. Don is flying solo on this episode. It started as a minisode, but he rambled on for so long, we have to put it out as a full Ep! And yeah, it's Ep 77, despite Don's intro! Sal is taking a very well-earned rest and will be back very soon. Wish her well in the comments. 😍 A very dry local ele...

EP 05 — DISCUSSIONS with Mike Dicks — Renter's Rights Act We're back with a new episode of Discussions with the very excellent, Mike Dicks. We asked Mike to come on and discuss the ramifications of the new Renter's Rights Act, as he had recently been at the wrong end of the difficult landlord stick. As is our wont, we chatted a lot about the topic, but it meandered in and out of severa...

EP 76 — KAMIKAZE DOLPHINS — The war is BACK — with dolphins. Reform Roundup ™ — FIVE MILLION POUNDS. The war is back, baby! Pete Hegseth fails to rule out that the US has kamikaze dolphins. Sharks with fricken laser beams got a mention. They told the world that their blockade was rock solid, whilst pleading for Iran to open the Strait. Reform Roundup™ contains Zia Yusuf being weird. Farage being a...