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: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • 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 • Comedy writer Jason Hazeley • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor 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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  1. 12h ago

    From Russia with Leave

    Andy Burnham has finally said what we’ve all been thinking: Russia meddled in Brexit. Is this brave honesty – or the first step on the long road back to Brussels? Plus, the Greens are still in turmoil with Zack Polanski’s leadership now in doubt. What does it mean for everyone else on the left? Is a progressive alliance just a pipe dream now? Are the Tories back from the dead – and has anyone checked on Reform? • Use the code OGWN at https://www.eightsleep.com/whatnow to get up to £200 off the Pod 6. • Listen to Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, on the latest episode of American Friction • And head on over to The Bunker for your daily news deep dive • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Ros has been watching De Gaulle: Part 2 – Liberté, the second instalment of  Antonin Baudry's two-part biographical epic  • Raf has been reading Joan Didion’s memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking.  • Zoë has finished the audiobook of Touching the Void, the harrowing true mountaineering story. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Written and presented by Zoë Grünewald, with Rafael Behr and Ros Taylor. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production: Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune: Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    From Russia with Leave

  2. 4d ago

    BONUS: Is Zack Polanski sunk after Holborn & St Pancras?

    Labour wins the Holborn & St Pancras handily – but the Greens had staked a lot on Zack Polanski winning and he failed. Is Polanski’s nightmare week over the Zionism vote a symptom of deeper weaknesses in his leadership? Is far-left entryism destroying the Greens? And why Labour’s victorious candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali symbolises the best of Britain. Steve Richards of Rock & Roll Politics joins Andrew Harrison for the Holborn postmortem.  • Hear Steve’s Rock & Roll Politics special on Polanski’s troubles and why Kemi Badenoch’s speech to the Tories was misreported.  • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Audio Production by: Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    BONUS: Is Zack Polanski sunk after Holborn & St Pancras?

  3. 4d ago

    Remainiacs Assemble? – Can Burnham end the Brexit Era?

    Has Burnham really broken Britain’s bizarre, self-enforced silence around the disaster that is Brexit? What would a real pro-EU membership stance from Labour mean for British politics? And would killing off Brexit inadvertently give a flagging Farage his mojo back? Plus, in the week that Jeffrey Archer died we discuss why establishment Britain will give a pass to any charlatan, bullshitter and perjurer provided he’s amusing at parties. And our special guest Sebastian Salek – good news columnist at LabourList – explains why he fights the good fight on GBNews.  • Get the Bunker Deep Dives every day here   • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Jonn has been enjoying the HBO legal drama War with Dominic West and Sienna Miller.   • Jason has been watching a 20-minute documentary about the invention of Hula-Hoops from 1972, and other things on BBC Archive.  • Sebastian Salek is off to see As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe.   • Seth recommends going to Italy. Just because.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Seth Thévoz with Jason Hazeley and Jonn Elledge. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    Remainiacs Assemble? – Can Burnham end the Brexit Era?

  4. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    EXTRA BIT – Exactly how manly is our “manel”?

    On this week’s bonus for Patreon people… We try not to have an all-male panel or “manel” on the pod but occasionally the female regulars are all tied up and we have no alternative. So to mark this week’s Y-chromosomed edition, Seth, Jason and Jonn plus special guest Sebastian Salek discuss the vexed issue of how masculine they are. Can they change a tyre with one hand while doing 10kg curls with the other? Or are they more at home with a herbal tea and a Keats anthology? What do you think? Listen and learn! www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Seth Thévoz. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk

    EXTRA BIT – Exactly how manly is our “manel”?

  5. Oct 6

    Badenoch to the bone – Are the Tories becoming a Kemi cult?

    Kemi Badenoch has promised to revitalise the Tory party at the Conservatives' conference – but can she drag it out of the doldrums? Plus, the Green Party conference descended into acrimony after members voted to declare that “Zionism is racism” – can leader Zack Polanski withstand the fallout? And… Andy Burnham faces heavy scrutiny over historic ties to Manchester City’s owners, after the club was found guilty of serious financial rule breaches. Could Manchesterism come back to bite him? Dr Jan Zglinski, associate professor at LSE Law School who specialises in sports law, weighs in.  • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk • Listen to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss “End Times Fascism” on The Bunker: https://linktr.ee/bunker_pod  ESCAPE ROUTES • Raf went to watch Kian Soltani perform Dvořák's Cello Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brighton Dome • Matt saw an early screening of the new film Ghosts: The Possession of Button House • Jan has been reading Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency • Zoë has started watching HBO’s legal drama, War (streaming on Now TV) www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Zoë Grünewald, Rafael Behr and Matt Green. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production: Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    Badenoch to the bone – Are the Tories becoming a Kemi cult?

  6. Oct 2

    Give ’em enough hope – Did Labour turn a corner in Liverpool?

    Andy Burnham’s powerful and emotional speech at the Labour Conference left the Party full of righteous energy and its enemies scrabbling for attack lines. Has he succeeded in setting out a new direction for the Government? The OGWN Conference Away Team of Jonn Elledge and Hannah Fearn talk it over with Andrew Harrison and special guest Paul Richards – veteran Labour commentator, candidate and once chair, now treasurer of the Fabians. (Yes, the Fabians, and yes we do ask him if they secretly control the world like all the nutters think. Spoiler: they don’t).  • Because of developments in the RAF Fairford story we had to re-record a small part of this show remotely. See if you can spot the join.  • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Hannah has gone all-in on Strictly Come Dancing even though she doesn’t like the new format.  • Jonn has been watching the top-notch romcom Colin From Accounts on BBC iPlayer.  • Paul Richards has been watching the wartime simulation docu-drama The Wargame featuring our own Zoë Grünewald.   • Andrew went to see Saint Etienne for the very last time in Brighton and it was brilliant.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Hannah Fearn and Jonn Elledge Audio Production by Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    Give ’em enough hope – Did Labour turn a corner in Liverpool?

  7. Sep 30 • Subscribers Only

    EXTRA BIT – Are we ready for A.I. to end eight MILLION jobs?

    The Extra Bit, now in exclusive capsule form! This time… A.I. Minister Kanishka Narayan warned the Labour Conference that the tech will have “unprecedented impact on the job market” (and he’s supposed to be promoting it). And on the same panel Carsten Jung of the IPPR said 8 million jobs could be “negatively affected.” Are we psychologically ready for that. Andrew, John, Hannah and special guest Paul Richards of secret world government the Fabians talk it over. Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Jonn Elledge and Hannah Fearn. Audio Production by Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk

    EXTRA BIT – Are we ready for A.I. to end eight MILLION jobs?

  8. Sep 30

    “The best political speech of the 21st century”? – Burnham inspires Liverpool – BONUS

    BONUS EDITION: Well, we weren’t expecting THAT… Andy Burnham stuns and rouses Labour’s Liverpool conference with a bold, emotionally powerful speech that amounted to the promise of a new era. Will Britain respond to his open-hearted scally dad message of unity? Was there detail among the vibes? Have we just heard the ‘Wonderwall’ of political speeches? James Ball of The New World was there and he tells Andrew Harrison how Burnham’s speech gave even hardened, cynical journos actual goosebumps.  • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. 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

    “The best political speech of the 21st century”? – Burnham inspires Liverpool – BONUS
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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: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • 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 • Comedy writer Jason Hazeley • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor 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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