A Federation of Ungovernable Cults
![A Federation of Ungovernable Cults](https://www.podcastworld.io/podcast-images/oh-god-what-now-59twonms.webp)
Explore "british politics" with insightful episodes like "A Federation of Ungovernable Cults", "Tory moneyman’s race row – Lily Allen: “My kids ruined my career” – Vets have gone to the dogs", "The Week... Ministers try to avert war", "Is Britain fundamentally conservative?" and "The Week⦠The Tories talk about tax cuts" from podcasts like ""Oh God, What Now?", "Paper Cuts", "Politics At Jack And Sam's", "Oh God, What Now?" and "Politics At Jack And Sam's"" and more!
In 2015 Labour is back in opposition after another election defeat. The party needs a new leader. It chooses Jeremy Corbyn, a long serving left-wing MP who’s never run anything. He is the party’s most radical and unlikely leader in its history. The newly elected former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Keir Starmer, takes a job under Corbyn as a shadow minister.
You can find out more about Tortoise:
Download the Tortoise app - for a listening experience curated by our journalists
Subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts for early access and ad-free content
Become a member and get access to all of Tortoise's premium audio offerings and more
If you want to get in touch with us directly about a story, or tell us more about the stories you want to hear about contact hello@tortoisemedia.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The former Ukip and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is being paid £1.5 million to take part in ITV’s I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and is on the trail of Gen Z fans. Could a reality TV career-boost propel him back into politics? And if it does, how might that change the British political landscape?
This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.
Guest: Caroline Wheeler, Political Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Jenny Kleeman.
Clips: ITV, The Guardian, Fox News, GB News, Fortune & Freedom, Nigel Farage on TikTok, Channel 5, Nigel Farage on Cameo, Sky News, Times Radio.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
By 9am this morning, Suella began her own lifestyle choice of homelessness - sacked as Home Secretary.
But the big news was still to come.
David Cameron emerged from Number 10 Downing Street as both a) the new Foreign Secretary and b) a Lord.
This reshuffle has definitely given the Rishi's cabinet a Pulp Fiction-style adrenalin shot to the heart.
But will it put him back in control of the political agenda? From what we've seen so far, the patrician centrists are back in control and the populists are being shown the door. But how long can the calm last?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Producers: Jack McKay & Arvind Badewal
You can listen to this episode on Alexa - just say "Alexa, ask Global Player to play The News Agents".
The Conservative Private Members Committee, informally known as the 1922 Committee (or the ’22), is the Tory confessional, its trade union and backbenchers’ common room. If that makes it sound chaotic (and it sometimes is) it is also the assassination bureau that felled Margaret Thatcher, and, more recently, three prime ministers in four years: Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Will it come for Rishi Sunak before the next election?
In this week’s richly detailed and highly entertaining long read, magazine writer Tanya Gold reports on the secretive committee’s inner workings, hearing from decision-makers past and present about what happens when a leader loses the party’s confidence. “The ’22 can be turgid for months, even years,” she writes. “But people talk about Committee Room 14 during a leadership crisis as they might about seeing Bruce Springsteen, or a riot.” And over the next 18 months, they could be busy.
Written by Tanya Gold and read by Rachel Cunliffe.
This article originally appeared in the 21-27 July 2023 edition of the New Statesman, and you can read the text version here.
If you enjoyed this episode, you might also enjoy The making of Prince William by Tanya Gold.
Download the New Statesman app:
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/new-statesman-magazine/id610498525
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progressivemediagroup.newstatesman&hl=en_GB&gl=US
Subscribe to the New Statesman from £1 per week:
https://newstatesman.com/podcastoffer
Sign up to our weekly Saturday Read email
https://saturdayread.substack.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From today’s national budget to hardline immigration legislation to international defence pacts, Britain’s prime minister is working hard to extract his Tory party from a deep electoral hole. The Kremlin is trying to extend its reach into Russia’s cultural spaces—but its incomplete success is telling. And a listen to the work of Brad Mehldau, perhaps today’s most eminent jazz pianist.
For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns in record time, new research is published about the physical effects of long COVID and Tyler James Williams discusses his show "Abbott Elementary."
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The manifestos are out, but which political party would you trust with the UK economy? We look at Labour's plan to hike taxes, the Tories' plan to ditch the triple lock and the Lib Dem's plan to make a bit of cash on the side from selling weed. This week we finally got the triple whammy of what our three main political parties will do, so would any of these plans work and what do people think about them? Simon Lambert, Adrian Lowery and Georgie Frost delve into the details in the latest This is Money podcast. And it's not just the election, also up on this week's show is Lloyds vanishing Avios points, as it moves out of state ownership, the question of whether people should ditch their diesel and whether we should worry about a car finance bubble.
Stay up to date
For any inquiries, please email us at hello@podcastworld.io