PoliticsJOE Podcast

Ed, Oli, and Seán chat about a wealth tax, but they also just chat. How will Rachel Reeves fill the newest hole in government finances? Is a seal a bird? (0:00:00) PoliticsJOE Premium (0:00:48) Opening chat (0:10:45) Torture methods (0:28:00) Aquatic birds (0:41:30) Wealth tax? (0:56:24) Footy chat (1:05:59) End Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted...

It's Monday morning. Another Reform scandal, another party on the left. Oli and Ed discuss. (0:00:00) PoliticsJOE Premium (0:00:47) Start (0:02:00) Gigs chat (0:06:30) Gardens and civil liberty (0:15:17) Ed is a cyclist (?) (0:22:12) James McMurdock suspends himself from Reform (0:45:04) The Left is back (1:09:48) PoliticsJOE Premium Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howto...

Global investor and author Ruchir Sharma joins us to unpack the core arguments from his latest book, What Went Wrong With Capitalism. Drawing on decades of experience in global markets and political analysis, Sharma offers a sweeping critique of how modern capitalism has strayed from its original purpose — and why it's no longer delivering for the many. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: htt...

Today Ava and Seán react to the Gaza documentary the BBC refused to publish. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed and Ava are joined by comedian and fellow Scot Marc Jennings to discuss today's blockbuster PMQs, which saw Rachel Reeves cry and Starmer struggle to answer for yesterday's rebellion. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In what's being dubbed a modern classic, Oli and Seán discuss Labour's welfare rebellion and Bob Vylan's criminal investigation, as well as partaking in some vacuum-sealed analysis. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today the triple threat are back in the dungeon on this, the Monday after Glastonbury, to chew the cud over the weekend's events. As the BBC comes under fire for broadcasting Bob Vylan's set where the group led anti-IDF chants, we ask whether the backlash is overegged and whether free speech is dying at the hands of right-wing snowflakes. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/...

Chris Snowden of the IEA, a neoliberal think tank, joins Ava in the JOETowers basement to talk smoking, gambling, and threats to the neoliberal way of life. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ava sits down with the US Editor of Channel 4 News Anushka Asthana on the launch of her new book Taken for Red. They get into the mind of Keir Starmer, his plans for the country, and his cutthroat nature at the helm of Labour. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today Ava and Conor talk welfare cuts, the rebellion Starmer faces over them, and the state of Pride in 2025. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian and friend of friends of the podcast Vittorio Angelone joins us for some (deputy) PMQs analysis. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laura returns from yesterday's Palestine Action protest to tell Seán all about it. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In what could be described as a loose record, Ed and Ava touch on recent developments in the Middle East, Labour's threatened proscription of Palestine Action, and are joined by Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at LSE, for some real analysis of Trump's actions in Iran. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

Author of The Big Short Michael Lewis swing by JOETowers to chat to Oli about "who" actually is government. His new book Who is Government? is out now. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Lewis swung by JOETowers to chat if anyone is actually a genius - and what who we label "geniuses" tells us about society. She argues that "genius" is a romanticised idea: the notion that extraordinary talent excuses bad behaviour or moral failings. Think, Elon Musk. She unpacks how celebrated (almost always male) figures like Edison, Einstein, Picasso, Tolstoy (and even Elon Musk) benefit f...

After reporting from the scene of Mo Chara's court hearing and its surrounding protest yesterday, Seán and Laura dive into what they saw and why the British state are really going after KNEECAP. Support PoliticsJOE's journalism: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticsJOE (0:00:00) JOEnlyFans (0:01:20) Love Irish podcasts hate Irish nonces (0:01:47) A note on endangered languages (0:04:30) The trial of Mo...

On today's 'tight' record, Ed and Oli discuss the illustrious Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, Robert Jenrick's dark arts, and school uniforms. Support PoliticsJOE's journalism: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticsJOE (0:00:00) JOEnlyFans (0:01:20) Grand opening (0:03:40) (D)PMQs (0:40:13) The record gets loose Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on...

After Yvette Cooper's statement in the Commons yesterday responding to the findings of the Casey report, Seán, Oli, and Laura delve into what's really going on with grooming gangs. Support PoliticsJOE's journalism: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticsJOE (0:00:00) A bit of chat (0:07:10) But why JOEnlyFans? (0:15:24) Grooming gangs Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuil...

Ed returns to the studio to discuss his Journalism in Northern Ireland, where he was on the ground reporting on the Ballymena riots. Oli joins him to create the platonic ideal of a podcast. Support PoliticsJOE's journalism: https://www.patreon.com/PoliticsJOE (0:00:00) Dross (0:10:01) PoliticsJOE Premium (0:22:40) Witches (0:26:18) Ballymena Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr....

Ava is joined by journalist and historian Anne Applebaum on the release of the paperback of her book Autocracy Inc. They discuss Trump, authoritarianism, and the failure of liberal democracies and world order. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laura's been in Birmingham, finding out about the city's synthetic opioid crisis. She chats to DISPATCH's editor Jacob Furedi about the drug deadlier than fentanyl being cut into Britain's drug supply. You can watch Laura's report tomorrow on the PoliticsJOE YouTube. You can read Jacob's investigation here: https://dispatch-media.com/britains-hidden-opioid-crisis/ Subscribe to How to Rebuild Brita...

In a quiet studio, Oli Dugmore alone takes on Rachel Reeves' spending review with some hard analysis... and a surprise at the end. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before Oli dives into the spending review tomorrow morning, Seán joins him to talk the Ballymena riots and how the far right are mobilising across borders. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ava was at Reform's unveiling of a new party chairman on Tuesday, where Zia Yusuf was also shown off as heading up their UK DOGE wing. We got in the studio for a quick few minutes to break down the crossroads the party is beginning to find itself. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mathew Lawrence of the progressive think tank Common Wealth makes the trip down to JOETowers to talk deindustrialisation, GB Energy, and all things nationalisation. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.