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
Sign up and get ad-free shows earlier than anyone else: patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow.
Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production
476
155: “YES, THERE IS HOPE.” The Election Endgame...
“GET IN THE FRIDGE!” As the polls tighten on the eve of the vote, we tell you exactly where to vote tactically, how to persuade waverers, and why a Johnson majority might prove to be a curse... on Boris Johnson. Plus: Will the PMs’ foul att...
56 min
477
BONUS PODCAST: All We Want For Brexmas is EU - ...
Deck the balls with Multi-level Regression and Post-stratification polling! Our penultimate live show of the year saw a full-panel turnout for a festive evening of the latest Brexit analysis, campaign horror stories, pre-election recrimination and the ...
111 min
478
154: HIGH STAKES, LOW TACTICS: Election endgame
With less than two weeks to go, how is this simultaneously the most terrifying and consequential – yet somehow boring – General Election in history? Even with the Conservatives looking to stack every aspect of the constitution permane...
57 min
479
153: LET'S GET TACTICAL, the legacy of Empire a...
It’s halfway through the election campaign…Producer Andrew is away for Thanksgiving this week, so our regulars are off the leash and the metaphors get a little… colourful.In the wake of updated tactical voting data, we discuss the possibilities t...
64 min
480
152: CORBYN & JOHNSON'S TRUDGE MATCH, plus poll...
The first episode of Remainiacs to be verified by "Fact Check UK” as “proper good, five stars on iTunes from us…”Who won the first debate of the campaign between Johnson, Corbyn and Corbyn’s enormous specs? We discuss manif...
79 min
481
151: BORIS, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE with guest Peter ...
A first for Remainiacs as we welcome a guest from the Telegraph! But don’t worry, it’s their eminently sensible Europe Editor PETER FOSTER with a tour d’horizon of the frosty future that Britain faces if Johnson gets the Brexit he says he want...
65 min
482
BONUS AUDIO COLUMN: It’s time to tell them “NO”...
In a special mini-episode, Alex Andreou puts his mellifluous voice to a Twitter thread he did with Best for Britain earlier this week, about the need to start saying “No” to the so-called strongmen who don’t understand the meaning of the word… ...
4 min
483
BONUS PODCAST: Remainiacs Live in Manchester wi...
Our first live show in Manchester YES OK SALFORD on Sat 2 November was a smash hit. Dorian, Ros and Ian joined special guest Rob Ford of the University of Manchester onstage at The Lowry theatre to deal with the state of play in those far-off days of...
96 min
484
FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE: Election Week One
Election Week One: everyone sabotages themselves! Farage vs Rees-Mogg! Trump vs Johnson! Plus tactical voting: our panelist Naomi Smith on the controversy over her organisation Best For Britain’s advice site. Is B4B’s data really a better guide than th...
51 min
485
149: CAMPAIGN STUPOR-NOVA with guest John Crace
As Christmelection 2019 finally, finally, finally gets under way, could Boris Johnson’s good-time blustering turn out to be a campaigning bug, not a feature? Why we should all have looked harder at the opinion poll which claimed that voters were OK wit...
66 min
486
BONUS BIT: Ian Dunt guests on On The House
Need a bit more Dunt for your Friday? Britain’s sweariest pundit is the special guest on this week’s edition of our companion podcast On The House, where Lib Dem MPs and Tory escapees Sam Gyimah and Phillip Lee convene over a pint to try and work out w...
2 min
487
148: INTERMISSION IMPOSSIBLE with guest John Cu...
As Boris Johnson experiences embarrassing Brexitus Interruptus, the Remainiacs team discuss this week’s knife-edge Commons votes… what the Pause means for the Cause… and whether voters really are coalescing around the Deal when they literally don’t kno...
63 min
488
147: EMERGENCY PODCAST: Remain for the LetWIN
We were expecting a funeral march. Instead we got a victory procession – of sorts. After the big march and the even bigger vote, heroic Best For Britain march organiser Naomi Smith and truly knackered journo Ian Dunt join Andrew Harrison in an echoey ...
17 min
489
146: EMERGENCY PODCAST: The Long Night before t...
The Vote. The March. The Deal and the Amendments. The balance of power. And the decision? As we steel ourselves for the biggest day in this whole struggle, Dorian Lynskey, Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt assemble to examine what’s on the table, how we got here...
33 min
490
145: INTO THE ENDZONE: Is this finally it for B...
So we’re finally here. Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ERG think it’ll pass the Commons anyway. The Remainiacs team gather to work out what we know, what we don’t know...
53 min
491
144: EXTENSION REBELLION: Will Boris blink?
Remainiacs on a Friday, like it's 2017 or something? As the clock ticks down to Zero Hour, will the Government’s performative anti-Brussels bolshiness come back to bite it? What are the real factors that are making the GNU the most endangered anim...
59 min
492
143: O, BUFFER WHERE ART THOU? Johnson’s border...
It’s not a deal if only one person wants it. This week, the Government breaks its promise on no customs checks in the island of Ireland with an offer the EU can’t excuse. Is Johnson throwing Ireland under the Boris Bus (again) and why does the governme...
60 min
493
142: REMAINIACS LIVE: Democalypse 2019 Part 2 w...
Here's audio from our second live show from Mon 23 Sept, with special guest MARK GATISS of The League of Gentlemen and Doctor Who fame joining regulars Ros Taylor, Alex Andreou and Andrew Harrison for a gala evening of pre-Supreme Court conjecture...
91 min
494
141: REMAINIACS LIVE: Democalypse 2019 Part 1 w...
A Sunday bonus: the first of our two DEMOCALYPSE 2019 shows at the Leicester Square Theatre from Monday 23 Sept, in case you couldn’t make it or you want to “experience the magic” again.Listen up as Dorian, Ingrid, Ian and special guest James O’Brie...
87 min
495
140: PARLIAMENT UNPROROGUED – plus guest Robert...
DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK! As Parliament returns in righteous anger and the Brexit Press bleat about how the Supreme Court has DESTROYED DEMOCRACY, the Remainiacs team reconvene to find out if everything really has changed. Special guest ROBERT WEBB – P...
61 min
496
139: JUDGMENT DAY Supreme Court EmergencyCast w...
Incredible scenes on a monumental day, as guests Schona Jolly QC and David Allen Green hotfoot it across London to join Naomi Smith in Remainiacs HQ.Just how damning was the Supreme Court judgment on Johnson’s illegal prorogation? How on earth can t...
23 min
497
138: JUSTICE LEAGUE HITS SUPREME COURT with gue...
With the legality of prorogation being tested in the crucible of the Supreme Court, we welcome Good Law Project director and Remain legal vanguard JOLYON MAUGHAM QC to the studio to discuss exactly what’s at stake. If the Government wins this one, coul...
60 min
498
137: SUPREME CAUGHT? David Allen Green on the S...
“And finally monsieur, a wafer-thin Brexity mint…” The “distinguished”* legal expert DAVID ALLEN GREEN joins us to explain the consequences of the Scottish Court of Sessions’ bombshell ruling in a little extra Remainiacs for one week only.* As endorsed...
16 min
499
136: GAGGIN’ FOR BREXIT plus guest Bridget Phil...
As the Prorogue Leader’s plans fall apart at the first hurdle, we look at the fallout of The Week It All Went Wrong. Will a silenced Parliament speak louder than an active one could? Does Johnson have any real power left? And will there be anything rem...
64 min
500
135: THE LYIN’ KING LOSES CONTROL plus guest Jo...
Was that the shortest honeymoon since Cher married Greg Allman? The Johnson-Cummings plan is in bits on the floor of Parliament and Bojo’s jolly mask has well and truly slipped. As the petulant boy king threatens a General Election he can’t deliver, t...
58 min