# Alex Andreou

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Back to the fEUture

Blimey, did the last 10 years not happen? Andy Burnham announces the next UK-EU summit. In Westminster Hall,  a debate takes place about the UK joining the EU. Russian interference is front-and-centre. That B-word that has been taboo for so long ... is suddenly de rigueur. Join Naomi, Alex…

Sunday School: Revolting Door Policy

If these are the sort of recruits you get when you don't apply diversity and equality policies, maybe Nigel Farage and Donald Trump should rethink their notion of a meritocracy. Alex and Naomi discuss whether even a cult like Reform UK can survive the number of scandals it is being investigated fo…

B-Side: The Last of First Past The Post?

The team is joined by Labour MP Alex Sobel to discuss whether Britain's outdated method of electing MPs may finally be getting a shake-up. Alex is  MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and Chair of the huge and influential APPG for Fair Elections – he really knows his electoral onions. Naomi, Ale…

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

Chaos. As Trump and Putin keep grabbing stuff for themselves, and Trump fantasises about meeting with Putin and Xi, are we already in a 'everyone-and-everything' war? Alex and Kenny are joined by Quiet Riot's tame geopolitics expert, Arthur Snell, to ponder all that – and ask if we even know what …

Sunday School: Robot Reboot – good machine v bad machine

It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI investment circus is going to come crashing down. Alex and Kenny ask What and Why, and ta…

B-Side: Exposing the Covid care home scandal

'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry. Alex and Kenny lift the bonnet on the report's disturbing findings with Quiet Riot favourite Christina Pagel, UCL P…

Sunday School: The Next Generation

Today we look to the young voters of Serbia and Brazil, who have helped achieve quite remarkable political results, and also back to the late Patrick Stewart, whose politics were as admirable and authentic as his acting. Alex and Kenny also turn their gaze to the BBC News team and, in particular, …

B-Side: House of Discards - Your Guide to the US Midterms

Welcome to the US midterms. This time, they are game-changers for all of us so here's everything you need to know about what's happening. Alex and Kenny talk you through the basics, from what is Congress to when you can expect results, as well as highlighting the races to watch and the controvers…

Sunday School: There Will Be Blood Pressure

Let joy be unconfined! Naomi is back and she joins Alex as they poke the ashes of an epic MAGA and Manosphere meltdown, following Donald Trump's Midterm humiliation, Russell Brand's criminal conviction, and Elon Musk's market correction. Could it be that the Manospasm we have been witnessing is b…

B-Side: Is The Populist Fever Breaking?

As America and the world begin to absorb the magnitude and consequences of the Midterm humiliation of Trump’s Republicans at the polls, the second-order questions begin to emerge: What does it mean for Israel, for the conflict in Iran, for Ukraine, for Europe, for NATO? What does it mean for the Re…