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English
United States
197 episodes
since March 30, 2015
episodic

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Easy Sleazy

It’s Boris vs Dom. The Prime Minister’s former advisor turns on him, having suddenly realised Johnson might not be the most honest politician to ever inhabit Downing Street. Why is this soap opera dominating the headlines? Perhaps because it limits conversation about lobbying, favours for friends a…

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The questions around David Cameron, Greensill Capital and lobbying are all very complex and opaque. So does it matter? It depends on who you think MPs should be working for. In this latest episode, why supply chain finance is a bit like a posh version of Wonga, how can a government find itself so s…

Capital Pity

The UK falls headlong into a month of election campaigning frenzy. Unless you’re not in some way excited by the prospect of elections for the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, English local councils and Police and Crime Commissioners. This time we focus on London, which chooses its Mayor on May 6th. …
A year has passed since Boris Johnson first told us to stay at home, as coronavirus gripped the nation. 12 months on, we’re still in our third lockdown, more than 125-thousand lives have been lost. But the vaccine roll-out’s been a huge success. Does that mean we can forget the failings and mis-ste…
Public fury greets the heavy-handed police response to a vigil for a murder victim, but the Met Police Commissioner insists she won’t resign, and implies people aren’t qualified to even hold an opinion. If the weekend’s events in Clapham aren’t enough to force Cressida Dick to stand down, what on e…
For decades, the Conservatives have believed that cutting taxes brings in more tax revenue. Rishi Sunak, it turns out, does not believe in that. To try to fill the huge hole created by the pandemic, he’s ramping up business taxes and putting up your tax bill too, all without raising income tax rate…

Gaslight

Think back a little under a year to the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. To the videos of doctors, nurses and care workers fashioning protective gowns out of bin bags, the desperate scramble to get PPE to intensive care units buckling under the pressure of a surge of dangerously ill patients…
Boris Johnson’s roadmap could see us back on the beaches this summer, our hair cut, and queuing up for a nightclub.  The Prime Minister set out his plans to ease coronavirus restrictions over 4 months — a list of dates that he insists aren’t set in stone. But by just setting a date, hasn’t he …

Friend Request

On the other side of the world, facebook has gone to war with Australia’s government, and who wins this battle matters for Britain. The social media giant doesn’t want to pay for news that draws in its users, and it’s cutting off news 17-million Australian facebook users to stop demands to fork ove…

The Fakest News

Donald Trump is cleared at his second impeachment trial, even though everyone knows he’s guilty. Years of priming his supporters with lies passed off as fact turned out to be surprisingly powerful. On the other side of the world, China bans the BBC for its annoying habit of reporting the truth abou…
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