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. 18h ago

    The Age of Trollitics 

    • This edition recorded before Trump cancelled livestreaming the execution of the Fort Hood killer.  Televised executions, machine-gunning illegal migrants in the Channel, renaming technology and water features as a loyalty/sycophancy test… why are the populists’ big ideas so dumb, performatively cruel and only made to wind up the liberals? We ask whether the era of Trolliticians will ever end. Plus: The crime! The immigrants! The wokeness! Everyone is desperate to leave Britain if you believe the Telegraph and Mail. But are they really? We dig into Exodus Propaganda (also the most popular baby name of 2027).  • Get your copy of 31 Inventions that Built Our World by Jonn Elledge – perfect Christmas present etc etc.  • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Rachel recommends My Promised Land by Ari Shavit.  • Jason visited the Museum of Brands in London.  • Jonn “devoured” Robert Harris’s new ancient Rome blockbuster Agrippa • Andrew raved over the Rogue Trooper movie, adapting a classic 2000AD comic strip and directed by Duncan Jones.  Buy books through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund OGWN by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Back us on Patreon for the Extra Bit, early ad-free episodes, merch and more.  Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe, Jason Hazeley and Jonn Elledge. Audio Production by Tom Taylor and Chris Jones. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    The Age of Trollitics 

  2. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    The Age of Trollitics

    • This edition recorded before Trump cancelled livestreaming the execution of the Fort Hood killer. Televised executions, machine-gunning illegal migrants in the Channel, renaming technology and water features as a loyalty/sycophancy test… why are the populists’ big ideas so dumb, performatively cruel and only made to wind up the liberals? We ask whether the era of Trolliticians will ever end. Plus: The crime! The immigrants! The wokeness! Everyone is desperate to leave Britain if you believe the Telegraph and Mail. But are they really? We dig into Exodus Propaganda (also the most popular baby name of 2027). • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Rachel recommends My Promised Land by Ari Shavit. • Jason visited the Museum of Brands in London. • Jonn “devoured” Robert Harris’s new ancient Rome blockbuster Agrippa. • Andrew raved over the Rogue Trooper movie, adapting a classic 2000AD comic strip and directed by Duncan Jones. Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe, Jason Hazeley and Jonn Elledge. Audio Production by Tom Taylor and Chris Jones. 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.

    The Age of Trollitics

  3. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    EXTRA BIT – A time-scrambling mental challenge for the panel

    On this week’s bonus for Patreon people… The panel participate in one of those terrifying mind games where the ravages of time are suddenly laid bare. Here’s how it works: 1] Take your date of birth. Say, 1975. 2] Subtract your current age, in this case 51. 3] That takes you back to 1924. So what was happening that year, on your “negative birthday”? Or: If someone had been the age YOU are now on the day you were born, what would be the events of THEIR birth year? Like figuring out that we’re closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than T. rex was to Stegosaurus (look it up) it’s one of those things that – as psychologists put it – really do your head in. Rachel, Jonn, Jason and Andrew give it a go. Presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

    EXTRA BIT – A time-scrambling mental challenge for the panel

  4. 3d 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

  5. Oct 9

    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?

  6. Oct 8

    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?

  7. Oct 7 • 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”?

  8. 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?
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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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