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Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
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A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com

  1. Extra Bad Gays May 2026: More Like Peter Scandalson, Am I Right, Ladies? (with James Butler and Juliet Jacques)

    5日前 • サブスクリプション登録者限定

    Extra Bad Gays May 2026: More Like Peter Scandalson, Am I Right, Ladies? (with James Butler and Juliet Jacques)

    In what we pinky-promise will be the last bout of Mandelson graph-and-audiomania for the foreseeable, we convened this subscriber-only panel discussion to talk about the lived experience of being an elder millennial who grew up under New Labour and  the implications that all of that history has for contemporary British politics.  We couldn't possibly have that conversation alone, so we decided to bring on two extremely esteemed guests and friends of the show: James Butler, a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, where he is the host of their On Politics podcast, and Juliet Jacques, a writer, filmmaker, academic, and podcaster (check out Suite 212) based in London.

    1時間37分

  2. 6日前

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Five

    Today we are reaching the next to last chapter––for now!––of the Mandelson story. Listen to the sixth and final episode now by subscribing to Extra Bad Gays on Patreon. As we are recording this, on 18th May 2026, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is facing a potential leadership challenge and a collapse in legitimacy following two major crises, both of these the responsibility of Peter Mandelson; one, directly, the other a consequence of the changes of which Mandelson has been the driving force of for almost 40 years. The first crisis is Starmer’s appointment of Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States, despite his having failed a Foreign Office vetting procedure, and the fallout of that once Mandelson was outed as a close long-term friend of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, to whom it’s alleged he passed sensitive government and financial information while in power. The other is the complete decimation of Labour in the recent local elections, and in elections for the Welsh and Scottish devolved assemblies, which saw the party lose close to 1500 local council seats and, in Wales, lose a century-long winning streak as the country’s largest party. In today’s episode we’ll talk about Mandelson’s journey from MP to peer to Ambassador, and we’ll also discuss how his enormous influence over that time, usually behind the scenes, has led to a Labour Party and indeed the two party system itself on the edge of total collapse.

    57分
  3. Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Six

    5月26日 • サブスクリプション登録者限定

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Six

    The final episode of our saga: Mandelson's fall from grace in the aftermath of Keir Starmer's election first as leader of the Labour Party and then as one of Britain's most rapidly unpopular Prime Ministers. Mandelson knows too much, understands too much, to be left out of the equation. It’s because he’s sly and underhanded and deceitful that people need him, because it’s a political system that works on those qualities. This is court politics; it’s what Mandelson is a master of, it’s what Epstein was a master of, it’s what Trump is a master of: the informal power of relationships.

    1時間2分

  4. 5月20日

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Four

    Peter Mandelson has been the definitive comeback kid of British politics, and it’s impossible to ever rule out his return. Listen to Episode Five right now and get Extra Bad Gays every month by subscribing on Patreon! Today, we will learn why he got that reputation as we look at Mandelson in power. The Millennium Dome, a Y2K fever dream! His public outing! A wider cultural shift in attitudes towards gay men, one which contributed to the idea that poofs were everywhere at the top of society! Resignations, and returns!

    1時間10分
  5. Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Five

    5月19日 • サブスクリプション登録者限定

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Five

    Today we are reaching the next to last chapter––for now!––of the Mandelson story. As we are recording this, on 18th May 2026, the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, is facing a potential leadership challenge and a collapse in legitimacy following two major crises, both of these the responsibility of Peter Mandelson; one, directly, the other a consequence of the changes of which Mandelson has been the driving force of for almost 40 years. The first crisis is Starmer’s appointment of Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States, despite his having failed a Foreign Office vetting procedure, and the fallout of that once Mandelson was outed as a close long-term friend of the child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, to whom it’s alleged he passed sensitive government and financial information while in power. The other is the complete decimation of Labour in the recent local elections, and in elections for the Welsh and Scottish devolved assemblies, which saw the party lose close to 1500 local council seats and, in Wales, lose a century-long winning streak as the country’s largest party. In today’s episode we’ll talk about Mandelson’s journey from MP to peer to Ambassador, and we’ll also discuss how his enormous influence over that time, usually behind the scenes, has led to a Labour Party and indeed the two party system itself on the edge of total collapse.

    57分
  6. Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Four

    5月13日 • サブスクリプション登録者限定

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Four

    Peter Mandelson has been the definitive comeback kid of British politics, and it’s impossible to ever rule out his return. Today, we will learn why he got that reputation as we look at Mandelson in power. The Millennium Dome, a Y2K fever dream! His public outing! A wider cultural shift in attitudes towards gay men, one which contributed to the idea that poofs were everywhere at the top of society! Resignations, and returns!

    1時間10分

  7. 5月13日

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Three

    This week, on Mandelson: A Homosexual History, we cover the 1992 UK election and the birth of New Labour. Subscribe on Patreon to support our work and stay a week ahead on this miniseries! If Huw's Margaret Thatcher wasn't enough to turn your stomach, try his John Major on for size. Neil Kinnock loses the 1992 election. John Smith becomes leader of the Labour Party, flanked by two feuding up-and-coming reformers named Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Peter Mandelson buys a lovely home in Notting Hill with questionable financing, and sets himself to defeating Clause IV once and for all. The exciting but fundamentally reactionary Cool Britannia cultural moment helps us understand how tentative New Labour were about rocking the cultural boat. Their victory in 1997 was more about stasis than change.

    1時間9分

  8. 5月6日

    Mandelson: A Homosexual History - Episode Two

    Subscribe on Patreon to hear Episode Three now, get our monthly Extra Bad Gays episodes, and stay a week ahead on the miniseries. Last week we looked at Mandelson’s early years, and his move from a flirtation with Marxism to being firmly on the right of the Labour Party. We also discussed the left-right split in the Labour Party, and how, in the 1980s, that became a full blown civil war. This week, it's time for the 1987 General Election, and for the paranoid homophobia of late-Eighties Britain: section 28, sleaze, AIDS panic, and tabloid hell.

    1時間3分
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A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history. Why do we remember our heroes better than our villains? Hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Learn more: www.badgayspod.com

情報

  • クリエイター
    Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller
  • 配信期間
    19年 - 26年
  • エピソード
    168
  • 制限指定
    不適切な内容を含む
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2019-. All rights reserved.
  • 番組のWebサイト
    Bad Gays
  • プロバイダ
    Benjamin Miller

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