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After a month in hiding, the infamous Reel Politik team (or part thereof) emerge from their exile with a new episode, touching on the scandal that almost brought the show down, the theatrical oeuvre of Paul Mason, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and the Mooch-Mnuch dichotomy. New co-host Laura also calls in on the telephone, because Skype is square as shit. It's good to be back.

Jack, Tom and Yair get insanely Gramscian in this episode, talking music, film, and the spectacle of American politics in 2017. Yair fills us all in on his 4th July pub crawl. Tom reviews Wonder Woman. Jack reads from the Bible. A special guest contacts us from the island of Diego Garcia, having evaded CIA censure with a little help from our Russian paymasters. We also have a go at Chuka Umunna fo...

In this week's memorial episode, Jack and Tom are joined by Twitter users Laura Jolyon Tidd @thisgeordielass, from Durham, and - from across the Atlantic - Drew Nutter @DrewNutter to pay tribute to our fallen comrade Kieran, who was exiled and died. Memories are shared and libels are made as we look to this new and confusing world of shadowbans and oppression from the forces of Meltdom, in the for...

There’s much to celebrate in the new Reel Politik: there’s Jeremy Corbyn’s triumphant Glastonbury appearance, and Paul Mason bringing hell to the nerds at the Progress Annual Conference, defibrillator paddles strapped to both ass cheeks – as well as that utterly malign Blairite organisation’s precarious financial situation. Tune in to hear Tom, Jack and Kieran answer questions including; who is th...

In this two-man episode, Jack and Kieran gather their thoughts a week after That Election. We celebrate wildly after claiming our first scalp - frog botherer Tim Farron - before welcoming our boy Clive Lewis back into the fold for merking the hated Chris Leslie. A few moments are spared to touch on the appalling tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire, and how Theresa May's colossal ineptitude and tone...

In this wild, shrieking post-election victory parade, Jack and Kieran toast the irrepressible march of Corbynism through the heart of British politics. We take aim at the DUP, the commentariat, the PLP, and every individual who needs their face rubbing in it. Somewhere amongst the screaming there's an earnest chat about what happens next, but we can't remember where it is so tell us when you can....

this parliament hung like owen smith!!!

In our glitzy pre-election special, Jack and Kieran are joined by the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, Aaron Bastani, in an episode that covers anything and everything. We revive our hardline Powellism, attack the (lower than) vermin in the Tory party, and turn our fire once again towards Jason Cowley and the increasingly sad and tragic New Statesman for the fifth consecutive episode...

Yair, Jack and Kieran had to listen to the Remainiacs podcast for this one. The things we do for you. As you can guess, things get angry, desperate, frustrated and vitriolic as we launch into the Duntosphere and hate what's inside. We also talk about the slugs who cry their eyes out at being called slugs, and keep up the hype for Thursday's election victory. We're wilding out and ready for the rev...

Guess who just got back today!! In an historic reunion of the original Reel Politik lineup, Tom and Jack are joined by Reel Politik's American correspondent Yair Rice, returning to the show after an absence of a number of episodes to chit the chat about movies and politics, just like we did in the good old days. We catch Yair's thoughts on the British election, plus the political situation across...

In the first of our Election Specials, Jack, Tom and Kieran shoot the shit with Corbyn's man in the media, Matt Zarb-Cousin, talking about the press, propaganda and Labour's popularity as this campaign has gone forward. Jason Cowley is denounced for the fourth consecutive episode, Bob Dylan is celebrated for his conversion to UKIP, and another special guest is brought in with the last of our Russi...

In Part Two of our bumper episode with Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon on Twitter), the Labour Manifesto is pored through and critiqued with a balance and poise that New Statesman editor Jason Cowley would be proud of. The virtues of universalism are extolled, the Tory plate of shite is treated with the rank contempt it deserves, and the worst strata of the commentariat class - knobhead comedians - are...

In the new Reel Politik, Jack and Tom are joined by freelance campaigner, writer, and purveyor of fiery takes Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon on Twitter) for the first of a two-part discussion of the manifestos the Labour and Conservative Parties are offering the British electorate in our current general election. The meat of the manifestos will be dealt with in part two, but in this first instalment we...

In our return episode, Jack and Kieran take aim at just about everyone and everything, riding on a wave of election euphoria to denounce, abuse and chastise anyone to the right of John McDonnell. Selections are discussed soberly, taxi drivers mocked viciously, and the Lib Dems celebrated for their 'Piff & Brexit' policy platform. We're back on our bullshit and loaded up for the next three weeks of...

In the new Reel Politik, strap on your seatbelts as Tom and Jack take you on a long, rambling (politically rambling) dissection of Ken Loach’s 1983 documentary The Red and the Blue, which documents and contrasts the Labour and Conservative Party conferences of October 1982 (not 1983, as Tom originally says, although that was when the film aired.) It was recorded in two sessions, due to issues of c...

In Part Two of our bumper Scottish episode, conversation descends into a wild game of Cop or Comrade?, as Jack, Alistair and Liam burn the midnight oil taking on slugs of all stripes - but, rather than individuals, these are the UK's various left-wing groupings, sluggy or otherwise. After this: a bonus clip on account of the General Election, with Jack, Tom and Kieran convening to pay solemn tribu...

In Part One of our dark, drunken odyssey, Jack and an unconscious Tom shoot the shit with our comrades north of the border: Alistair Craig of Scottish Labour Young Socialists (SLYS), and Liam Gleeson, chair of Scottish Young Labour. With Scotland undergoing its greatest transformation since the Act of Union, the boys discuss Labour's role in this brave new world, and how they've adapted - or strug...

In the new Reel Politik, Tom and Jack are joined by Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes), a New York-based film critic who is digital producer and host of the excellent Film Comment podcast (@filmcomment). The discussion centres around the McCarthyist era of American history - the post-war anti-communist hysteria that saw anyone even vaguely left-of-centre become the target of ravenous right-wing ghouls...

In this week's Reel Politik, Jack and Kieran take the latest issue of the New Statesman to task, going line by line through the bipartisan shite to answer the question of where the real opposition is, which as ever is the Labour frontbench. Slugs are salted and denounced in this bumper Easter special, which starts calm and ends in screaming, ranting and die-hard sectarianism.

Jack and Tom are joined by nobody - not even their fellow members of the Reel Politik team - as they motor through a lengthy list of crowdsourced talking points, none of which have anything to do with cinema! Topics touched upon include all your favourite personalities from the Labour Party - Tom "Shadow Minister for Dad Rock" Watson, Seumas "Sex Icon" Milne, Neil "Westminster-centric Bellend" Coy...

In the second part of our extensive conversation with our friend Tim MacGabhann (@TimMacGabhann), we go deeper into the three years he spent as a reporter in Mexico. He tells us about the moments that moved him the most, including the long period of time he spent with Donovan Tavera - Mexico's only licensed forensic cleaner - and his family, the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, a rehabilitati...

Our friend Tim MacGabhann (@TimMacGabhann) spent three years in Mexico reporting on the myriad social implications of the brutal War on Drugs that has raged in the country since 2006. Today he joins us - in the first instalment of a special Reel Politik two-parter - to tell us all about his experiences in Mexico, his position of privilege as a foreign reporter, the precarious existences of his Mex...

In a special Reel Politik, Yair, Jack and Tom are joined by comrade @Pete_Begins off of Twitter - although Yair actually left five minutes in to go swimming - for a rip-roaring round of our acclaimed, ubiquitous game Cop or Comrade, in which we answer such questions as - who is the de facto leader of the opposition? Which centrist politician is our lord and saviour on earth? Which state is the "di...

In our new episode, Jack (@ubercoca) and Tom (@t_foster94) are joined by Westminster Correspondent Kieran Morris (@hipsterscumbag) - with artwork designed by respected Labour moderate journalist Simon Hedges (@orwell_fan) - as they detail the surreptitious leadership bid that Labour MP Clive Lewis and his allies have allegedly been working on since at least last summer, with support from elements...