Reel Politik Podcast

In the first of a two-part conversation, Laura and Jack are joined by the writers Juliet Jacques (author of Trans: A Memoir, host of Suite (212) on Resonance FM, and contributor to the Guardian, the New Statesman & elsewhere) and Huw Lemmey (author of Chubz: the Demonisation of my Working Arse, and contributor to the London Review of Books, New Humanist, Huck & elsewhere) so Juliet can tell the st...

Happy birthday to friend of the show Matt Zarb-Cousin! This is a clip from part one of our illustrious Reel Politik Fake News Awards, which you can listen to here - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/reel-politik-episode-52-2017-fake-news-awards-part-1-melt-books-podcasts-publications For those who haven't heard our episode we recorded with Matt during the election, check it out here - http...

In the second part of the Reel Politik podcast's definitive guide to the horrors that besmirched our already tainted culture in 2017, your three hosts (minus Yair, who, as you heard in the last episode, had to go) review some melty films, evaluate the worst criminals in the deeply immoral racket that is the "saying mean things about Diane Abbott" game, and embark on a breathless free-for-all to fi...

Lyrics: Jack Frayne-Reid Music: Paul Simon Idea: Tim Heidecker (with the timeless 'I Am A Cuck') I’m a dad Who’s lost the right to see his children But still I have my friends Like the Tony Blair Institute And the Brussells Bureaucrats I’m a two-time guest on the Remainiacs I am a melt I am a Tory I’m a cop And I’ve taken down your details Cause you just said I was too right-wing I am a subscriber...

THE GANG OF FOUR ARE BACK, WITH NARY A DAVID OWEN IN SIGHT! Yes, your four dear hosts are together in the same episode again, with even ex-host Kieran Morris appearing in archival form (despite being dead - amazing what you can do with exciting young crowdsourced tech these days.)In the first instalment of our illustrious - and wholly original - Fake News Awards, the Reel Politik crime syndicate t...

Consider this a special treat for all our listeners who’ve put up with our slug salting and ultra-sectarian ways since day one. Behold! Our first audio commentary track. Jack and Tom take a tokey trip into the warped world of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. Expect mumbling, ass-jokes and many, many terrible impressions of the Wiseau. A basic guidance on how to sync this up with the film is provided on th...

All four Reel Politik hosts are - as a great Irishman once sang - back in town to review Martin Campbell's Netflix original thriller The Foreigner, a film that - at long last - pits hardline Irish nationalist Pierce Brosnan (dressed up all daddylike as an incredibly thinly veiled Gerry Adams)and the collective forces of the whole IRA against decrepit old small business owner Jackie Chan. Needless...

For our 50th episode, and first of 2018, we present a comprehensive director’s commentary to all @tomgotmarxed’s Reel Politik Original Short Films. Yes, we’re reviewing our own content now. But, as well as celebrating this great body of work, we offer commentaries on Mick Jagger’s terrible anti-Brexit solo singles, as well as his supergroup SuperHeavy. HNY RP x You can find Tom Foster's Reel Polit...

another rockin jam from the F-man

LAURA'S BACK! However, she's not the only top-ranking comedian in our midst in the new Reel Politik - she and Jack are joined by the heroic, inspiring Josie Long to talk about her brilliant comic body of work, vintage 2012 comedy beef, whether to melt...or not to melt, and much, much more, including the titular question: are Reel Politik, Josie Long - and, in fact, anybody else with remotely left-...

In the second episode to be drawn from our mammoth two-and-a-half hour recording session with Friend Of The Show Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter), the Reel Politik gang look back on the timeless 2006 document the Euston Manifesto, which boldly declared that, actually, war was good, flying in the face of the powerful vested interests of the consistently anti-imperialist Blair and Bush governm...

A classic gospel jam from Tim Farron's musical archives.

Sadly Laura was unable to make it again, but the gang were flanked by our favourite guest Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2 on Twitter) to review David Modell's laugh-a-minute BBC2 documentary Labour: the Summer that Changed Everything (working title: The End of Labour) and celebrate the colossally eggy faces of the MPs depicted in it. Also discussed: the fall of Robert Mugabe, Andy Till's magnificent Re...

With Laura whisked off by the authorities for the so-called crime of "libelling the FT's Sebastian Payne" and Yair serving his second military campaign with Hezbollah, Tom and Jack recruit friends of the show Sarah Cundy (@Sarah_Cundy on the Twitter) and Aicha Marhfour (@aichamarhfour) to shoot the shit about Boris "ve cut off your" Johnson, Blair and Brown's current rounds of UK media outlets, th...

After a few weeks off the air while Jack completed his Masters, the gang are back in business, the bullshit running rampant once more. Setting out to review the new blockbuster 'Blade Runner 2049', the Original Trio™ are waylaid by discussions of modern fascism, the efforts to launder its reputation, and the term "based", as well as Russia, Russia and more Russia. Additionally, the hated Jared Let...

Campaign song for the Radicals UK by Jack Frayne-Reid. Lyrics: The lunatics have taken over the asylum Abuse from the alt-left and alt-right People reading fake news don’t care who’s lyin’ to them Trans people demanding equal rights I need some sanctuary To preserve the sanctity Of the reality-based community With evidence-based policy Where free speech and debate dare speak their names Oh I just...

Conservative chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his rapturously received keynote speech to the 18th Annual Gathering of the Reel Politicos, put on by Politikic Records. Featuring cameos from Chris Leslie MP and the Artist Taxi Driver, with music from Steely Dan and the Platters.

Both our guests we'd booked for this episode proved sadly unavailable, so Yair, Laura and Jack got together and salted every slug under the sun for a good hour and a half. Among the topics discussed are sleazy toad Harvey Weinstein and the despicable rape cartel that is Hollywood, Tablet Magazine's important intervention in the Weinstein debate, means testing the Queen, and how former Everton goal...

The gang finally put Jack's field recordings from Labour's 2017 conference/Momentum's alternative, adjacent conference The World Transformed to good use (arguably) in a barnstorming special covering both the Labour and Conservative conferences. Guests include Alex Nunns (Red Pepper/author of the Candidate), Sam Kriss (Vice, the Baffler), Ellie Mae O'Hagan (the Guardian, the Independent, Open Democ...

The latest lost recording we've uncovered is not from Tim Farron's musical archives, but from our own archives of unreleased material. Dating back to an unfinished post-election celebration, with Tom reaching Jack over a crackly Skype line from Germany, the RP co-founders turn their attentions to just what the fuck is up with Tory SpAd/former MP Gavin Barwell's head.

Tim Farron & the Westmorland Bumpkins - God Fearin' Man (So Much for the Tolerant Left) by Reel Politik

Ten years on from its release, the gang reappraise Nick Love's 'Outlaw' - a fascist critique of the dying days of Blairism that was absolutely "cunted" by critics when it hit cinemas in 2007. With help from Nick Love and co-star Danny Dyer's audio commentary, we dissect the art of Outlaw, examine it in the context of their respective bodies of work, and give some serious thought to what it says ab...

In a rapid follow-up to Reel Politik's definitive dissection of Owen Smith's miserable 2016 campaign for the Labour leadership, the gang realise that maybe it wasn't so definitive after all, and dispatch Laura and Jack to tie up some loose ends pertaining to that spectacular shitshow of a summer. There are some audio problems as Tom wasn't about to record it and Jack's computer is being weird, but...

After another short break, the Reel Politik team are back with their definitive historical account of the Labour Party's 2016 leadership contest, an ill-fated challenge by a banter-loving sub-mediocre former Viagra salesman from the Blairite hack-SpAd-MP conveyor belt to genuinely significant and inspiring politician Jeremy Corbyn. Laura (@thisgeordielass) joins the gang for her first full episode...

The grand comeback continues as friend of the show Jude Wanga (on Twitter @judeinlondon) joins the gang to review the 2016 film Imperium and the 2017 Jay-Z album 4:44, as well as to discuss Labour frontbencher Sarah Champion's appalling Sun article on child abuse, the fascist forum Stormfront, and the leaked transcripts from Donald Trump's first week in office. Putting the heat on the RP crime syn...