PoliticsJOE Podcast

George Galloway stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election with 39% of the vote, with former Labour candidate Azhar Ali coming fourth - behind an independent and the Conservative candidate. Ava Santina breaks down the winners and losers from Rochdale, and what this means for Labour's General Election Prospects. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Host...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE podcast. Oli, Ava, and Ed talk this week's Prime Minister's Questions, as well as stramashing with St Anthony. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Seán Hickey, Shawnee Linstead, and Finley Talbot-Jones Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. After Lee Anderson's comments about "Islamists" this weekend, Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss Islamophobia within the Labour Party. Then, why the trio agree with Jacob Rees-Mogg on the citizenship status of Shamima Begum and the latest on the Speaker Lindsey Hoyle 'brouhaha'. And, marking the two-year anniversary of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Oli interviews journalis...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. Gary Stevenson (or @garyseconomics ) was Citibank's most profitable trader in 2011 by betting on an increase in economic inequality. Now, he spends his time exposing the inequality embedded into the global economic system and campaigning against it. He came by JOETowers to discuss his book, The Trading Game: A Confession , the failure of the British state to tru...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. In this bonus episode, Oli is joined by Laura and Seán to react to the chaos that erupted in the House of Commons last night during the motion for a ceasefire in Gaza. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Seán Hickey, and Laura Beveridge Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Seán Hickey and Oli Johnson Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. With Ava's return from Rochdale, she reports back to the boys on the upcoming by-elections. Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss the motion for a ceasefire in Gaza, voted on in parliament today, as well as why Kemi Badenoch was the subject of questions not only over the delayed payouts to victims of the Post Office scandal, but also over her approach to trans people. Presen...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. In this whopper of an episode, Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss Keir Starmer's call for a ceasefire - but not an immediate one - in Gaza and the bizarre cadre of candidates standing in the Rochdale by-election. Also featured is journalist Ben Zand, who Ed interviewed about his recent investigation into transmaxxing, the latest incel offshoot. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Av...

If elected, Keir Starmer, a man -  I quote - with nothing between his ears, is going to veer towards the ultra-right, betraying the people he claims to represent, says economist Yanis Varoufakis.  How can he be so sure? Well, he’s seen it before.  In his conversation with Oli, he polemicises Starmer’s Labour, the west’s complicity in genocide in Gaza, and laments how the City of Lon...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. After two-short-TV-shows-worth of chat about the Super Bowl, Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss whether 28 A-levels is too many A-levels. They also reveal why Michael Gove is scared to come on the podcast after a WhatsApp from Oli, and why Labour U-turned on a promise to spend £28bn a year on green investment. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer...

In the week that saw Piers Morgan interview the Prime Minister and former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin, it seems like there is no better time to ask what makes a good political interviewer and what makes a good political interviewee.  Oli sat down with Rob Burley, who worked alongside the likes of Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis as the BBC’s editor of live political p...

Welcome back to another edition of PMQs analysis. Oli is away this week, so Ed and Ava take up the mantle to break down the lows and the very lows of Rishi Sunak's shameless conduct during this week's session. Presenters: Ava Santina and Ed Campbell Edit: Seán Hickey Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Seán Hickey Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/ho...

Corruption. It’s something that happens in tin-pot dictatorships. Amongst oligarchs scrambling for power in post-communist states. Not in the democratic mother of all parliaments. Right?  But, this week, investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan, revealed that Rishi Sunak’s wife part-owns the IT firm Infosys, which is set to land tens of millions of pounds in government contracts.  Oli sa...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE Podcast. Who had the funniest divorce? What's Ed's safe word? What do you buy in Iceland? These are the questions Oli is asking - but the trio are (mainly) reacting to Keir Starmer's questions for the Prime Minister today. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Finley Talb...

Welcome to the PoliticsJOE podcast. Joined by comedian Olga Koch, Ed and Oli disagree over Rishi Sunak's ban on ripping fat (disposable) vapes. They also chat cancel culture and what British Homes for British Workers actually means. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ed Campbell, and Olga Koch Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Finley Talbot-Jones Subscribe...

The interview you’re listening to, with Holocaust survivor Uri Winterstein, is published on Holocaust Memorial Day. It marks 78 years since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviets and remembers the millions of people, including 6 million Jews, who were murdered in the Holocaust - and in the genocides that followed. Uri Winterstein shares his testimony in schools and colleges across the UK...

Welcome back to another episode of the PoliticsJOE podcast. Oli has returned and is joined by capital J journalist Ava Santina to analyse this week's particularly punchy Prime Minister's Questions. Presenters: Oli Dugmore and Ava Santina Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Seán Hickey Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtor...

Oli is away, establishing his trout farm in the USA. So, Ed and Ava are joined by Sean to discuss Ava’s campaign to be London’s Night Tsar, Rishi Sunak’s plan to help first-time buyers, and whether they would pass the British citizenship test.  Presenters: Ava Santina, Ed Campbell, and Seán Hickey Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Fin Talbot-...

Zoe Gardner is a researcher and campaigner and general expert in UK & EU refugees & migration. With this expertise, she has supplied evidence to multiple government bills - including the Nationality and Borders bill. Today, she debunks some of the myths pumped out by the government. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Ed and Oli are away. So Ava helms this week's analysis of Prime Minister's Questions, joined by producer Laura and content editor Sean. Presenters: Ava Santina, Laura Beveridge, and Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead and Finley Talbot-Jones Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

In what could be the most tangent-full episode yet, Oli, Ed, and Ava discuss the culture wars and David Cameron's performance as foreign secretary. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Broadcaster and journalist Jon Ronson came into PoliticsJOE to discuss the culture wars, getting sucked in himself, and why the right are turning away from them. The second series of Jon's podcast Things Fell Apart is available now on BBC Sounds. Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oli, Ava, and Ed discuss PMQs. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linstead Subscribe to How to Rebuild Britain now: https://linktr.ee/howtorebuildbritain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oli, Ava, and Ed are re-united to discuss ex-footballer Joey Barton's comments on female pundits which dominated timelines this weekend. They also chat Jeremy Corbyn's return to party politics, the Post Office scandal, and ask the perennial question: are 9/11 jokes funny? Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee L...

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 that executives at the corporation authorised the hacking of his phone to facilitate Rupert Murdoch's attempted purchase of BSkyB. Ed sat down with Chris to discuss the trial, Rupert Murdoch, and the state of the British media. ** Respondin...

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, Ava, and Ed disagree over the answers to these questions - as well as the French, Saltburn, and Woody Allen. Presenters: Oli Dugmore, Ava Santina, and Ed Campbell Producer: Laura Beveridge Sting design: Chris White Production: Shawnee Linst...