The Lowdown from Nick Cohen
By Nick Cohen
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Get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen as he investigates a world that seems to get ever more crazy, with leading commentators, columnists and politicians.
Each week, leading commentator Nick Cohen talks to the country's leading movers and shakers - to cut the through much of the noise and commentary that passes for so much political discourse these days. Nick - a long-term columnist for The Observer and The Spectator - teams up with other commentators, journalists, authors and politicians to make sense of our ever stranger and troubling world. Nick aims to help keep you sane! So please get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen and subscribe to his Substack column - Writing from London.
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Brexit Britons - away with the fairies!
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May 11, 2026 |
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The "Special Relationship" is dead
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May 04, 2026 |
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The UK is the no-can-do nation
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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The death of the book means trouble
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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America - The decline & fall
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Centrists of the world unite!
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Can the U.S. be saved from itself?
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Humiliating America & threatening the world
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Antisemitism on the march!
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Will Dictator Orban fall?
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Trump won't give up power
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Will France fall to the far right?
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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A united Ireland is on the way
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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The love Labour's lost!
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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A lonely UK's defence dilemma
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Trump's madness threatens us all
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Comparing Trump & Putin
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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America's Dark Revolution
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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The Tories ain't dead yet!
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Christmas Special - Was Jane Austen too woke?!
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Christmas special with Rev Richard Coles
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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We're now in Trump's cross-hairs
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Guilty as charged! Labour's threat to juries
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Exploding the myths of immigration
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Starmer's failure may drag us into the abyss
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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"None dare call it treason!"
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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The Centre can and must hold
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Gay rights are under threat
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Can France be saved from the Far Right?
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Is it already too late to save US democracy?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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The UK won't survive Tory far right lunge
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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A warning from Trump's kingdom of fear
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Will Farage's Trump worship backfire?
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Can Keir stop the rot - or not?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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America in free fall
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Fighting Farage extremism
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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RIP Normality
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Is Trump a Russian spy?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The online Rabid Right plague
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Brexit cover-up is killing UK politics
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Britain's Worst Past the Post fiasco!
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The overpowering stench of Trumpstein
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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"We are witnessing genocide in Gaza "
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The war over identity & sex
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The Tory surrender to extremists
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Populist poison will break up Britain
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Talking to the small Trump hand
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Trump's tyranny get outta jail free card
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Droning out Trump & Putin
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The misogyny industry
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The Stagnation nation
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May 26, 2025 |
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Fascist Russia & its religion of war
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May 19, 2025 |
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The Tories are a lost tribe
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May 12, 2025 |
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Reform's remorseless rise
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May 05, 2025 |
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The road to Trumpdom
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Rights in retreat?
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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In denial over Trump's treachery
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Cancel Culture Club
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Is Starmer the right stuff to handle Trump crisis?
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Farage's treason choice - King Don or the UK?
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Tough love but is Labour lost?
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Online authoritarians are poisoning our world
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Is War coming our way?
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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What does Putin have on Trump?
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The Big Trump Double-cross
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Defeating Farage & the populist right
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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International law & disorder
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Flogging the dead horse of Brexit
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Trump wrecking ball in full swing
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The Coming Trump Terror
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Facing a hostile U.S
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Dark money for dark times
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Buckle up for a bumpy ride -2025 is here!
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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That was the year that was!
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Tell Trump, Musk & Farage to get lost!
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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The war on digital hate must be won
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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The times - they are a-worsening
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Get set for the Farage-Tory Trump Love-in
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Facing down the Trump threat
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Did Woke win it for Trump?
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Mr Tangerine Man & the challenge for Labour - Tom Baldwin
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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How were we so wrong about Trump?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Ep 48: The Tory press is trying to drive us all nuts
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Ep 47: Don't panic! Trump's gonna lose bigly
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Ep 46: A dog at Number 10!
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Ep 45: How Putin corrupted Europe's banks
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Ep 44: How the West is helping Putin defeat Ukraine
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Ep 43: The Tories in Lala Land with Nick Tyrone
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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Ep 42: The Brexit Blight with Simon Nixon
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Ep 41: Tories in the bin with Nick Tyrone
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Ep 40: Labour's fight to govern with Steve Richards
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Ep 39: Russia's war of lies & sneers on the West with Peter Pomerantsev
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Ep 38: Labour's chance to salvage the UK with Rafael Behr
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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Ep 37: The rise of the Far Right in Germany with Annette Dittert
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Ep 36: A new age of authoritarianism with Anne Applebaum
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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Ep: 35 Torygeddon - can the polls be right? With Tory expert Professor Tim Bale
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Ep: 34: The Twighlight of the Tories with Rafael Behr
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Episode 33: Will Hutton on Labour's path ahead
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Ep 31: Pulling Brexit Britain out of its economic death spiral - with economist Danny Blanchflower
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Ep 30: The Tories' by-election blues and the stench of electoral death with Professor Tim Bale
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Ep 29 How Labour wins big & stays in power with former Blair adviser John McTernan
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Ep 28: The Left's failure to confront the Trumpism menace with writer Matt Johnson
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Ep 27: Breaking the Brexit Taboo with Professor Chris Grey
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Ep 26: The Post Office scandal & the curse of British managerialism with economist Chris Dillow
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Ep 25: Crimes against humanity, lies & misinformation in the Gaza conflict with Daniella Peled
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Ep 21: The Tories' perfect storm - how hard will it blow? with Professor Rob Ford
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Ep 20: A Hitch in time? What would Christopher Hitchens have made of today's insanity? With author Matt Johnson
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Ep: The strange death of the Left in the West & in Israel with Professor Shlomo Sand
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Ep 16: War and peace in the Middle East with journalist Daniella Peled of Institute for War & Peace Reporting
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Ep17: SLAPP BACK! How the rich abuse British courts with lawyer & author David Hooper
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Ep 15: Israel, Hamas and the threat to Britain's Jews with antisemitism expert Dave Rich
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Ep 14: The Ascent of Woke with Yascha Mounk
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Ep 12: The Tory South & its revolt against the UK with James Hawes
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Ep 11: The Stagnation nation - is the UK's decline unstoppable? with Profesor Jonathan Portes
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 9: Wither and whither the Tories? With author & Conservative Party expert - Professor Tim Bale
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Ep 8: From Russia with hate - the hang-up of history with Jade McGlynn
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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EP 7: Race in the UK and the US - with Tomiwa Owolade
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Ep 3: Britain's growing food crisis with Liz Webster
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May 28, 2023 |