Reel Politik Podcast

In this week's RP politics omnibus, we tackle a grab-bag of recent events and long-term issues: The Great Tory Purge, bold new fronts opening in Milneology, the latest defections to the Lib Dems, whether or not Emily Thornberry is an "Assadist" and, of course, the latest antics of Iron Mike Gapes, all rear their heads. We celebrate the music of Conservative MP Greg Knight, and read from friend of...

With melt pundits like Martin Kettle touting a glorious comeback for the failing joke of a party, Jack and Geraint look back at the Liberal Democrats' recent history, particularly the Tim Farron era. (Taken from RP101 Extra, available in full on patreon.com/reelpolitik)

CRAZY MOOSE - PALL FELL OVER THE EARTH/SIDE TWO 2 new songs I recorded on 2nd September 2019. These were just my rough mixes I made that night and exported as mp3s to send my friend Dom (a very cool guy who Did Brexit). I forgot to save the master files so I can't really go back and edit these recordings - I do want to make changes, but I'll have to record them from scratch. And 'Side Two' is kind...

Capping off a month of (compared to usual) frantic RP activity, we tie up loose ends in the Pogues canon in episode 110. Tackling the downslide of the band's career, we speed through their last two albums with Shane MacGowan as lead vocalist, pretty much ignoring the two made without him, briefly touching on Joe Strummer's brief sojourn as Pogues frontman, and devoting a sizeable amount of time to...

This is an abridged version of our latest episode on patreon.com/reelpolitik. If you want to hear the full episode, which is an hour and seventeen minutes long, please subscribe and support the RP propaganda machine! In this Short Cut we discuss Martin Scorsese's love of Elia Kazan, The Wicker Man's assorted spinoff films, Louis Theroux's third Westboro Baptist Church documentary, and the rock doc...

In RP108, Jack (@gapesology) and Geraint (@wariotifo) are joined by Mark Seddon, current media adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and - in no particular order - former speechwriter for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former editor of Tribune magazine, aide to a pre-chancellor Gordon Brown, UN & Diplomatic Correspondent for Al Jazeera, longtime representative of the l...

In a laid back rock-themed RP for the weekend, Jack and Yair (who co-produced this episode) the lads discuss a myriad bits of trivia under the auspices of a vague musical framing. We remember the late, great documentarian DA Pennebaker, tell a story involving Lou Reed, Guns N' Roses, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Live Aid and Farm Aid, and look back at Bernie Sanders' predecessors as left-wing US pr...

Listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29372061 NEW RP! We've kinda let down our Patreon subscribers lately in terms of the amount of exclusive content, so this week we've got something very special for those supporting the RP Propaganda Factory... AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere ali...

Jack is joined by the Reel Politik Podcast's new Director of Strategy & Communications (Mr Seumas Miwne), Geraint (@wariotifo on Twitter), to go back to the mid-00s heyday of the Sensible/Decent Left, the pro-war ideologues who gave us the Euston Manifesto, the website Harry's Place, and various LM Network-style front organisations. We look at how this tendency of the Crank Centre laid the groundw...

The Pogues are one of Britain's greatest bands (we're not being disrespectful to the occupied people of Ireland here by the way, the Pogues were formed in London by largely English musicians) and their hard-drinking frontman Shane MacGowan is one of the most talented and iconoclastic writers of his generation, bringing more of the approach of great literature to popular music than anyone since Lou...

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We'll return to politics on our next episode (probably, not recorded it yet) but for now we're continuing the promotional roll-out of Patterns, the album recently released independently by RP co-host Jack Frayne-Reid under the name Crazy Moose, which can be heard on this very SoundCloud account here - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/crazy-moose-patterns - and on our Patreon account here...

Recorded on Jack's birthday (20th July), he and Tom provide a running commentary on both 13-min episodes of the BBC's weird front for the UK foreign policy establishment, 'Tonight with Vladimir Putin', a mock talk show hosted by an animatronic caricature of the Russian leader and Reel Politik paymaster. As you'd expect of assets of the Russian state, the verdict is disdainful. The boys also look a...

Patterns is an album of songs written by Jack Frayne-Reid between 2014 and 2019 and recorded in 2019. All vocals & instruments on the album were performed by Jack, and the artwork was designed by Y. S. Rice. A podcast on the album - in which Yair and fellow RP co-host Tom Foster interrogate Jack on the matter of his musical work - will be shortly forthcoming. You can stream (or even download) the...

In episode 101 - CUK'd and Bomb'd - Geraint @wariotifo endures a rite of passage for RP associates, recording his first episode with only Jack for company. Some major Yair news is announced, in addition to some news about the new album by RP house band 'Crazy Moose', but the best part of the episode is dedicated to The Independent Group For Change, The Independent Group, Change UK, For Change Unde...

From the forthcoming Moose Shit Highway EP, on which Crazy Moose are: Jack Frayne-Reid - vocals, guitars & bass Timmy Lambert - percussion & vocals

In our second and final release from Jack's visit to Southampton Transformed, Reel Politik present an unedited recording of the panel he spoke on, New Left Culture, which asked "How can we change the ways we live and think to raise our consciousness and experience true collective joy?" The panel was chaired by Marika Rose (@MarikaRose on Twitter) and Rose Holyoak (@RoseHolyoak) of Southampton's Ra...

Live from Southampton Transformed, Reel Politik presents THE GREAT REALITY COLLAPSE: ABSURDITIES IN BRITISH POLITICS 2015-19, an audience-inclusive pub quiz that looks back on some of the key issues our podcast has dealt with over its 100-episode history, including full rounds on PigGate, Owen Smith, Tim Farron and the Artists Formerly Known as CUK-TIG. Unfortunately, only the questions were recor...

It's taken 99 episodes for Jack to take a day off. In the first listed episode (not counting Tom & Laura's 20min world cup commentary from last year) not to feature the RP head honcho at all (although he did make some very minor edits to the cut Yair produced) host Yair Rice is joined by his partner Em Wheeler to discuss two seminal - and politically potent - films starring Dolly Parton, and direc...

In the latest of our hated Serious Episodes (just kidding, you guys love them, right? right?) Jack is joined by journalist and RP Seriousness Correspondent Joana Ramiro (kidding again, she's actually really funny!) to dig into whatever the fuck is going at centre-left weekly the New Statesman. After several months of what appeared to be a move to the left, spearheaded by sometime political and the...

In episode 97, we're joined by new correspondent @wariotifo (who IS he?!) to discuss Change UK The Independent Group Remain Alliance The Gapes Party's stunning roster of MEP candidate selections, which are exactly what you'd expect - lots of "ex-"conservatives (small & big c), crap councillors, property developers, lobbyists, rapacious capitalists, racists of a thousand stripes, SPAD careerists an...

UNLOCKED SUBSCRIBER EPISODE TO TIDE THE REAL HEADS OVER Subscribe for more exclusive shit like this @ patreon.com/reelpolitik In our 96th episode - and first for Patreon subscribers since Jack remembered the password and was able to log in on his new, less agonisingly slow laptop - we've got it all. We've got the latest Gapes News - on the titular political summit of the century, Gapes/Pelosi - we...

To hear the full hour-plus-long episode, subscribe to us at patreon.com/reelpolitik. The direct link to the episode is https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-96-of-26262438 In our 96th episode - and first for Patreon subscribers since Jack remembered the password and was able to log in on his new, less agonisingly slow laptop - we've got it all. We've got the latest Gapes News - on the titular poli...

In the latest dispatch from our St Petersburg Troll Factory (now shared by scholar of Twitter's meltiest recesses @wariotifo), Jack and Yair are joined by 'lil comrade founder Edie Miller (@multiplebears on Twitter, with the company residing @tinycomrade)to review Ricky Gervais' new six-part series for Netflix, 'After Life', which, as you might expect, we find to be a big old piece of shit by an a...

In recent months, we've found it difficult to provide the comprehensive coverage of politics that our audience have come to expect from us. What we have been able to do is provide comprehensive coverage of one specific politician, zoning in on a true heavyweight until we have a scholarly grasp of his maverick ways. Back in January, we finally went all in, and did our first episode entirely about M...