Oh God, What Now?

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Oh God, What Now?
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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

  1. Starmer to farmers: “Don’t have a cow, man!”

    1 DAY AGO

    Starmer to farmers: “Don’t have a cow, man!”

    • Get 20% off a year’s Patreon support in our Black Friday sale. Why not ask for it for Christmas? • Get your tickets for our Christmas Live Show on Tue 10 Dec at the Comedy Store London. Barbour-ism begins at home… Could the farm protests become the centre of a new right-wing opposition to Labour? Can Starmer’s team fix their messaging on the inheritance tax issue? And maybe there is two-tier policing, but it benefits you if you’ve got a tractor. Former Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe is our special guest.  Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe and Hannah Fearn. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 6m
  2. Trains, planes and autocracies – The Starmer World Tour

    5 DAYS AGO

    Trains, planes and autocracies – The Starmer World Tour

    • Get 20% off a year’s Patreon support in our Black Friday sale. Why not ask for it for Christmas? • Get your tickets to our live show at the Comedy Store on Tue 10 Dec here! Keir Starmer’s global adventures have grabbed headlines – and while some think he should spend more time at home, others say he's doing what he needs to do to revive the UK’s international image. Our panel wades into the debate.  Plus, is local media dead and buried or can upstarts revive it? Jim Waterson was the Media Editor for The Guardian before setting up London Centric, a “modern outlet for London”. Can you have a healthy national media without strong local roots?  And in the Extra Bit for Subscribers, Trump 2.0 is the sequel nobody wanted. We discuss sequels that were actually good to distract our minds from the story unfolding in the US. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow   www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma Kennedy –listen here. Presented by Ros Taylor with Seth Thévoz and Rafael Behr. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Video Production: Chris Jones and Jamie Heffernan. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 1m
  3. What comes after the Age of Twitter?

    19 NOV

    What comes after the Age of Twitter?

    • Get 20% off a year’s Patreon support for OGWN in our Black Friday sale. Why not drop a heavy hint to the family…? • Get your tickets for our Christmas Live Show on Tue 10 Dec at the Comedy Store London. The X-odus continues – but if we all quit the platform everyone still calls Twitter, are we handing a powerful social media engine to the worst of the far-right? Donald Trump continues to make cabinet appointments “so appalling they seem like performance art”. We get updates on the nightmarish backgrounds of Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK. And do elections now simply mean punishment beatings for incumbents? Former Daily Mirror editor Alison Phillips is our special guest.  Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  This episode is sponsored by Proton Pass, to find out more visit http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe and Matt Green. Audio production by Simon Williams. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 12m
  4. Injustice League: Trump and Badenoch recruit their minions

    14 NOV

    Injustice League: Trump and Badenoch recruit their minions

    Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store here! Trump has started to appoint his evil minions to his cabinet – and we take a breath to look at Badenoch’s new gang back home too. Andy Kroll, investigative reporter for ProPublica and author of A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy, joins the panel to talk through the US side of things, and Dorian, Jonn and Zoe get into the UK news. And, in the Extra Bit for Subscribers, how do you deal with the emotional impact of losing an election? (PS. We recorded this on Wednesday afternoon at 4.30pm, so we were just before the Matt Gaetz news...)  We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow  And, we’re on BlueSky now too. Follow here: https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social  This episode is sponsored by Proton Pass, to find out more visit http://proton.me/pass/ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma Kennedy - listen here. Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Zoë Grünewald and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 7m
  5. How to live in Trump’s world

    12 NOV

    How to live in Trump’s world

    • Get your tickets for our Christmas Live Show on Tue 10 Dec at the Comedy Store London. The Trump aftermath rumbles on. Farage, Tommy Robinson and the populist right think the GOP’s triumph is theirs too. Are they right? Will an isolationist America really want to export populism around the world? And will Keir Starmer have to choose between the EU and the USA? Plus, as the Democrats tear at one another, what should progressives really confront in the years to come? Could they at least start by agreeing why they lost?  Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  Presented by Ros Taylor with Seth Thévoz, Hannah Fearn and Matt Green. Audio production by Simon Williams and Jade Bailey. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 14m
  6. Oh God, Not Again – The revolting return of Donald Trump

    7 NOV

    Oh God, Not Again – The revolting return of Donald Trump

    • Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store London here! It’s happened, Trump has retaken the White House. How did the orange felon who’s also racist win the election and what might he do now? Andrew Rudalevige is a professor of government at Bowdoin College and joins the panel to confront it all. Plus, in the run-up to Remembrance Day, we dig up the strange evolution of poppy mania. And in the Extra Bit for subscribers, the panel ventures out of their comfort zones to get stuck into a bit of culture that they otherwise wouldn’t touch with a barge pole. • We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow • Back us on Patreon. • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma  Kennedy – listen here. Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    59 min
  7. Harris-Trump finale: Fear of an orange planet

    5 NOV

    Harris-Trump finale: Fear of an orange planet

    Get your tickets to our 10th December live show at the Comedy Store here! On the eve of the US election, nobody is quite sure how Donald Trump still has a chance of becoming president. But should the orange man lose, how does the Republican Party recover from his reign? Home Front podcast host and Republican campaign veteran. Reed Galen, has been a vehement anti-Trumper for years and joins the panel to get into it all. And back home, Kemi Badenoch is at the helm of the Tory party - what does that mean for the future of the centre-right? And what can we learn from what Trump has done to the GOP? Listen to Reed's podcast, The Home Front. Want more American politics from Podmasters? Listen to Jarv's show, American Friction. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow   www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • Don’t miss Series 2 of our science and psychology podcast, Why? with Emma  Kennedy - listen here. Presented by Jacob Jarvis with Zoe Grunewald and Rafael Behr. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    1h 12m
  8. Emergency ToryCast – If it’s Badenoch for you, it’s bad enough for me

    2 NOV

    Emergency ToryCast – If it’s Badenoch for you, it’s bad enough for me

    • Get your tickets to Oh God, What Now? live at the Comedy Store on Tue 10 Dec – now with special guest John Crace of The Guardian. Kemi “start a fight in an empty room” Badenoch wins the Tory leadership, beating Robert Jenrick in a surprisingly low turnout. Will an electorate that’s just turfed out the Conservative Party be in the mood for more of the same only more combative and obnoxious? Will Badenoch’s promise to “tell the truth” just mean more woke-bashing? And would Labour HQ be wise to keep the champagne on ice? The New Statesman’s Rachel Cunliffe and Andrew Harrison interrupt their Saturdays for some Torygazing.  Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.  Presenter and Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Produced by Simon Williams. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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

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