I’ve been loving the Private Eye podcast, but they only seem to do about one episode a month. I sometimes listen to The Rest Is Politics but I find it quite hard not to hate Alastair Campbell and Rory Stuart.
Any other good UK politics podcasts out there?
Political Thinking used to be really good. However now a few politicians go on to soften up their image and it shows (Braverman for example, unsuccessfully I might add).
Reasons To Be Cheerful is genuinely interesting. Not much hurr durr my team good your team bad crap but genuine discussion on long term policy. Hopefully Ed can convert some of that into actual change when he gets back in.
Not directly political but: More or Less Behind the statistics is really good. They cover a lot of politics from the lens of numbers and stats.
Also hate Alastair Campbell. My stomach churns every time he opens his mouth. Maybe because I’ve entered the spin zone? He’s successful revitalised his brand by coming out hard against Brexit and made everyone forget about what he did in government. But he’s still a cunt in my eyes.
I’d forgotten about Reasons To Be Cheerful, I need to catch up on it. They’ve got such a great dynamic and Ed seems like a genuinely curious and thoughtful person.
And yeah Campbell is the worst. The guy clearly believes in nothing. Rory Stuart comes across a bit better, but still never owns up to the fact that he voted in favour of every austerity policy of the Cameron/Osbourne years. I think he means well but is too posh and out-of-touch to understand.
As someone else has already said, ‘More Or Less’ and ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ are both absolutely essential weekly listens for me.
I’ve also just started listening to ‘Pod Save The UK’, and whilst it does line up pretty well with my own politics I’m not sure I adore the hosts as a tandem. Still, we’ll see how it goes.
Politics Weekly UK from the Guardian is OK, obviously quite left-leaning. I also quite like The Four Cast
The Bugle is a good one
I’ve been really enjoying Politics JOE recently. They have a podcast which is great. It’s irreverent and silly at times. Aimed at those in their 20s and 30s and very much left leaning, so if that isn’t you you’re probably not gonna have a good time.
Having said that, I do think they have some really interesting political takes while not taking themselves seriously.
The FT has one called The Political Fix.
Novara Live—Novara Media’s news commentary show—every weeknight from 6PM UK time.
