Oh God, What Now?
Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes.
Regulars include: Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry Of Truth: A Biography of Orwell’s 1984 and host of Origin Story • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Social affairs journalist Hannah Fearn • Comedian Matt Green • The Lead's Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • Guardian writer Rafael Behr
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126: THE CORONATION OF PRINCE BOFFREY plus spec...
So it’s come to this… Boris Johnson finally gets to sit in the Big Chair. Where do we go from here? Can he turn Brexiter fantasy into governmental reality? Is there a real Awkward Squad assembling on the Tory backbenches? And how do we get through this...
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125: Guests LED BY DONKEYS: How they hacked Bre...
They put tweets that Brexiters would rather forget on giant billboards, chased Farage around the country with reminders of his lies, and annoyed loony-right glove puppet Guido Fawkes so much he outed them for spite. Now guerrilla artists and Remainiac ...
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124: THE AMBASSADOR’S RECEPTION plus guest Wes ...
So much for the Special Relationship… In an unprecedented week in which PM-to-be Boris Johnson effectively fired Britain’s ambassador to the USA to placate a bullying Donald Trump, we look into Britain’s humiliating future as a taker of orders from big...
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123: RISE OF THE TROLLITICIANS plus comedian Ki...
As the Brexit Party Ltd’s antics in Strasbourg grow more obnoxious, does the future belong to “trolliticians” who don’t really want to achieve anything – they just want to ruin everything around them? Should Vladimir Putin’s pronouncement that “liberal...
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122: POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES with Brian Klaa...
As the Tory leadership race is buried under an avalanche of dead cats, we’re joined by political analyst Brian Klaas – assistant professor of global politics at UCL, expert on authoritarianism, electoral malpractice and how democracies die, author of H...
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121: A PANTOMIME OF DEMOCRACY plus guest Caroli...
This one’s in danger of being superseded by events so it’s out a day early… We recorded it just a little too soon to catch the heroic demise of Rory Stewart. But we did catch the latest Blue on Blue atrocities from the Tory leadership squabble, plus de...
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120: PROROGUE ONE: A Tory Wars Story with guest...
This week ANAND MENON – commentator, director of UK In A Changing Europe and Moriarty to Ian Dunt’s Sherlock Holmes – joins us in our fancy new studio to perform triage on the Tory leadership battle and all the latest Brexit catastrophes. O...
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119: Into PurgaTORY with special guest DOMINIC ...
On the agenda: the Conservatives’ self-inflicted purgatory. The squabble for the Party leadership, and why Rory Stewart is the Tory Corbyn (Torbyn?). Trump Week and Britain’s future as trade partner or prey. And the sad end (or is it?) of Change UK. It...
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118: ANARCHY IN THE UK? EU elections aftermath ...
After the EU parliamentary elections turned into a straight-up showdown between the Remain bloc and the Brexit Party, who’s in charge now – and what’s left of the Tories and Labour? How can Remainers challenge the Brexiters’ simplistic narrative that “...
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117: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL Our tra...
We didn’t QUITE make Wednesday night as promised at the top of the show… but here’s this week’s podcast, just in time for that EU vote. In this episode: What’s in the WAB and has any May idea ever died quite so quickly? Final learnings from th...
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116: SPECIAL EDITION: Candidate-packed Euro Ele...
Surprise special edition incoming… It’s Euro elections week and lots of us STILL don’t know who to vote for. On Friday 17 May we brought together people from the key national parties who are hunting the Remainer vote to make their pitch in sem...
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115: THE EVE OF THE WAR with special guest Step...
As the EU Election clock ticks remorselessly down to zero we’re joined by the New Statesman’s political editor **STEPHEN BUSH** to survey the campaign so far and predict the upshot. What will Labour’s “all things to everyone” stance to do its vote? How...
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114: DEMOTING THE VOTE with special guest, Labo...
How did a sweeping local elections vote for Remain parties become an instruction to “just get Brexit done”? What do those results mean for the EU Elections later this month? What will it take to stop the momentum of the Brexit Party? And what will happ...
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113: EU elections: HOWLS OF FRUSTRATION with sp...
As Labour’s NEC enrages members by pushing a Confirmatory Referendum into Never-Neverland and recommitting to “Soft” Brexit, we invite Guardian writer and Corbyn supporter **RACHEL SHABI** into the Remainiacs bunker for a candid discussion of Labour’s ...
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112: FAILURE TO LAUNCH: Have Remain parties blo...
On this week’s podcast: Why can’t the Remain parties get their acts together for the European Parliament elections, the most important vote on the EU since the Referendum? Historian ROBERT SAUNDERS joins us to explain what lessons we should have learne...
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111: D’HONDT STOP BELIEVING: Fighting the EU El...
This week [**MATT FORDE**](https://twitter.com/mattforde) – stand-up, ‘Mock The Week’ regular, creator of touring show ‘[Brexit Through The Gift Shop](http://mattforde.com/live/)’ and interviewer of political heavyweights on his podcast ‘[The Political...
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110: STOP THE CLOCKS: The delay is away, plus F...
As Theresa May bows to the inevitable and asks for a short delay to Brexit, we ask what it’ll mean when a merciful EU insists on rather a longer one. Do the hard Brexit headbangers have what it takes to bring her down or are the&n...
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109: SPECIAL EDITION: Remainiacs onstage at Pod...
**BONUS EPISODE:** Here’s the audio from Sunday’s PodcastLive at The Light in London, where Dorian, Nina, Alex and Ros brought the RemainiacsLive experience to the special one-day festival of political podcasting. Have a listen to this special “raw and...
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108: PRIME MINISTER JEREMAY: National Unity spe...
Wonders will never cease. All her avenues exhausted, Theresa May reaches out to the only person who can help in her hour of need. And that would be… Jeremy Corbyn?This week we look at the minefield that is the **Theresa-Jezza Love-in**. Is compromise...
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107: EMERGENCY PODCAST: Groundhog May as the De...
As MV3 turns out to be DOA we hotfoot it into febrile Soho to read the steaming entrails of the May Deal.What happens next? Does May have any blackmail left in her sack of off-brand tricks? What will happen at the EU Parent-Teacher meeting on April...
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106: TAKING BACK CONTROL with special guest Joh...
The March. The Revoke petition. The Government that can’t govern and the amendment that put MPs in charge of Britain’s destiny at last. Was this the week that Brexiters lost control of Brexit? In that quiet moment before the Indicative Votes we welco...
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105: Special edition: TONY BLAIR on this week’s...
It’s a big one. TONY BLAIR, former Labour Prime Minister and now head of his Global Institute, talks to Dorian, Naomi and Ian about escape routes from the current Parliamentary chaos, how his own policies relate to the roots of Brexit, what a good Prim...
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104: EDGE OF DESTRUCTION: Time runs out with gu...
With Brexit literally hours away, we convene Leaver-turned-Article-50-Revoker **ROLAND SMITH** and law and policy expert **DAVID ALLEN GREEN** to stare into the abyss. How did we get here? What could happen next? Has May engineered a Hobson’s Choice be...
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103: AFTERMATHCAST: Ok, so what exactly happene...
After a week like that we just had to reconvene and perform triage on the Deal, the People’s Vote, the state of May’s governmental authority and all the other walking wounded of the Brexit Infinity War. **Dorian Lynskey**, **Ian Dunt** and producer **A...
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102: BREXIT: FINAL FANTASY? with special guests...
The flaming wreckage of The Deal is all around us (yet again) but what happens next? Can Theresa May salvage anything from her plans and career? Is there enough turd polish around to give the Deal another go-round? What even is Malthouse 2.0? And is it...
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