Reel Politik Podcast

Hear this full episode and much more by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik For 80 mins (ok, some of which is dedicated to Turkish pastries and Metallica) Jack & Sinan (@TheSinanKose on Twitter, @SKTheCrusader on Twitch) go EVEN DEEPER into Len McCluskey's Always Red: his feud with the hated Tom Watson, his feud with the hated Gerard Coyne, and OUR feud with the hated Stephen Bush, on whom we d...

Further thoughts from Jack and friend of the show Sinan Kose (@SKTheCrusader on Twitch and @TheSinanKose on Twitter) on former Unite the union general secretary Len McCluskey's recent memoir Always Red, which we first reviewed on Sinan's stream recently. In these highlights from a longer conversation (more of which will be available tonight on the RP Patreon) we talk about the unique bind of Brexi...

Jack joins Sinan Kose on his stream to talk about 'Always Red', the new memoir by the most formidable trade union leader of our lifetimes, Len McCluskey. Len, come on our podcast. Check out Sinan's Twitch stream @ twitch.com/SKTheCrusader Keep checking this feed and patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear us elaborate further on our thoughts on this book.

Fellow left-wing podcaster Aarjan (@aarjanistan) joins Jack and tom disso (@nailheadparty) to get into a long-awaited discussion of Kanye West's (or Ye's, as I guess we're supposed to call him now) most recent studio album DONDA, a fascinating record in equal parts ambitious and overstuffed, inspired and incoherent. We talk about how early 2010s EDM is already the most dated music in history, Kany...

Jack joined friend of the show Sinan Kose's epic "chaos stream" in the wake of last month's Labour conference to discuss the ways that Starmer used it as an opportunity to railroad the left - this recording covers the stream from the point at which he joined the conversation. It treads similar thematic ground to our recent episode with Tom Blackburn, which you should check out, along with Sinan's...

Jack and Geraint are joined by guru of Reel Politik Thought Tom Blackburn (@malaiseforever on Twitter), a writer and editor for New Socialist and contributor to Tribune and the Guardian. Tom breaks down the labyrinthine political developments that took place over the week or so surrounding Labour's annual conference, in which Kieth Starmer delivered an endless speech written by the *politically* b...

Jack and Geraint are joined by Toronto's preeminent man of letters Will Sloan, co-host of the Michael & Us - @michael-and-us - and Important Cinema Club - @the-important-cinema-club - podcasts*, who tweets @WillSloanEsq. The topic of the day is the late period work of six of comedy's grandest old lions in winter - well, five really, as Graham Chapman died in 1989 at the age of only 48; yes, the ol...

Writer, Red Pepper co-editor, and repeat RP guest Rhian E Jones - author of the new book Paint The Town Red and co-host of the Handbags & Gladrags podcast - joins Jack for a long-promised Dylanological summit, inspired in particular by his recent "livestream" performance Shadow Kingdom and the new, 16th, edition of his Bootleg Series, Springtime In New York (which features rare tracks from 1980-5....

After a short hiatus for most of August, RP is back on the hype. Yair is back from paternity leave, and joins Jack and Geraint to discuss a trifecta of pivotal political matters: firstly, we celebrate the delicious defeat of the dastardly Gerard Coyne in the Unite General Secretary election. Then - taking up the bulk of the episode - we discuss the insidious political persecution and cruel vilific...

Go to patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full movie commentary and bonus half hour or so of chatter at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54719661 Despite being a huge fan of Danny McBride's work with his writing partner and director Jody Hill, I'd never seen the low-budget McBride/Hill debut flick The Foot Fist Way (2006), about a loser martial arts instructor with broadly the sta...

We promised that our epic dive into Ruth and Martin's Album Club - episode 217: the RP RAM Album Club Club - was only a taste of what we'd recorded with tom disso on the subject. True to our word, here's another full episode (not some skimpy 20 min "Bonus RP" type shit) in which we address two of the worst RAM Album Club reviews of all: Chris Addison's spectacularly ignorant lukewarm 6/10 review o...

bonus RP on RAM Album Club, 70s cinema and - in this exclusive clip - FRAUD MP Subscribe @ patreon.com/reelpolitik and hear the full thing here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/54718965

In the mid 2010s, there existed an uneasy peace between Britain's Twitter-using centre-left and elements of the hard left and centre right. One of the era's quintessential venues for comrades of different political affiliations, but perhaps similar social and professional milieus, to find common ground was RUTH AND MARTIN'S (RAM) ALBUM CLUB, a tumblr blog in which a hand-picked selection of indivi...

Jack appeared on the last hour or so of Sinan Kose's mammoth three-hour stream immediately after the Batley & Spen by-election. This features only the Jack segment plus a short intro by Sinan from the start of the stream. Subscribe to Sinan's Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader (the video of this full stream is here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1074540425) and to his YouTube here - https...

Jack and Geraint are joined by musician and hardline poster Elijah @KlezmerRouge to discuss banjoist Winston Marshall's recent departure from pop-folk juggernaut Mumford & Sons after he praised an anti-antifascist book by far-right activist Andy Ngo. We talk about folk signifiers as marketing strategy, the cases for and against "going electric" and singing in a British vs. transatlantic/faux-Ameri...

Batley and Spen by-election pre-vote analysis + Geraint's beef with PolProf Steve + more Noel Gallagher, world's first great right-wing podcaster

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and download this full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53030396 Even more FFF content for ya! He's truly becoming the Noel Gallagher to our Matt Morgan, except even more of an unreconstructed reactionary. This time, however, he's relegated to fourth mic duty, injecting a lethal dose of poison into proceedings after we recorded...

subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full episode at the following link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52743032 before FFF and I recorded episode 211, we recorded what was actually the main object of that night's session: a commentary track for one of our very favourite films, the 2010 comedy MacGruber (which was in part the subject of one of RP's earliest episodes.) listen along w...

Jack and Geraint are joined by friend of the show Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose on Twitter) to talk the politics in the wake of Starmer Labour's terrible results in the Chesham & Amersham by-election, continued polling decline and personnel turnover, and "Stonger Together" leadership relaunch in anticipation of their predicted loss of the longtime Labour seat of Batley & Spen. Also covered: Noel Galla...

subscribe over @ patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full near-hour-long episode after recording another trademark RP Audio Commentary Track (for the 2010 classic MacGruber), Jack and FFF talked politics for a bit, in a conversation centred around the reaction to Jeremy Corbyn's appearance at a Cambridge Union debate. we also addressed the unbearable baldness of being Dorian Lynskey, and checked i...

Tom and I recently got together for a lovely, if relatively brief, reunion where we hung out at mine, watched some films, listened to about 500 versions of the Civil War-era folk ballad Pretty Peggy-O, and got a lil wavy. The first film we watched, ie the one for which we were most lucid, was Clint Eastwood's 1982 techno-thriller FIREFOX, a tale of aeronautical espionage (unrelated to the titular...

Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full commentary and much more besides. Recorded later the same night as our commentary for Clint Eastwood's FIREFOX (which is why Tom briefly falls asleep towards the end) we present the second in what will likely be - for now - a trilogy of RP audio commentaries for "classic" (of whatever esoteric interest to us) films. In this one, Tom introd...

We love Kiers Starmer now. Didn't you hear? He did an interview with arch piece of shit Pier Morgan and now we all think he's great and definitely an actual human being as opposed to a soulless neoliberal automaton hell bent on destroying our dreams of a better world. Thank God we (the RP property development firm) have got our Labour Party back.

listen to the full episode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/51789970 by subscribing at patreon.com/reelpolitik leftovers from our session with Will & Luke from Michael & Us + longer politics chat with RP OG Tom F

For those for whom our Bob Dylan 80th birthday spectacular was not enough - get even more over at patreon.com/reelpolitik. This is an edit of two sections of the third and final part of our 2020-recorded Rough & Rowdy Ways review, which we released on Patreon in tandem with a newly recorded review on our main feed. These selections concern Dylan's friend Jimmy Buffett. In the full episode we focus...