Quiet Riot
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- 12 Nov 2026
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Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
Épisodes 376
Burnham's Brussels shouts
Could we be on the verge of genuine progress on the EU-UK front? In a few days, Andy Burnham will be in Brussels for the delayed 2026 summit with Ursula Von der Leyen. Naomi and Kenny are joined by Lib Dem MP …
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Could we be on the verge of genuine progress on the EU-UK front? In a few days, Andy Burnham will be in Brussels for the delayed 2026 summit with Ursula Von der Leyen.
Naomi and Kenny are joined by Lib Dem MP and Business Select Committee member Charlie Maynard for a look at what's in store in the EU shop.
Hotly anticipated deals are expected on agrifoods, emissions trading and youth mobility, and Burnham has been warming up the great British electorate for what might follow the summit.
The usual suspects are lining up to bellow 'betrayal' but the polls are staying firmly in Labour’s favour. Dare we hope?
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• Arthur Snell's latest Behind The Lines, on Ukraine
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B-Side: Is The Populist Fever Breaking?
As the US - and the world - begin to absorb the magnitude and consequences of the midterms humiliation of Trump at the polls, second-order questions begin to emerge: What does it mean for the Middle East, for …
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As the US - and the world - begin to absorb the magnitude and consequences of the midterms humiliation of Trump at the polls, second-order questions begin to emerge: What does it mean for the Middle East, for Ukraine, for Europe, for NATO? What does it mean for the GOP trying to select its next nominee? What does it mean for the Democrats trying to balance caution and ambition - not not mention having to manage a gaggle of excited newly elected freshers, at every level?
Naomi caught up with former UK Ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch to get his thoughts on all this. And we also talk to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and Queen of Quiet Riot, Dame Emily Thornberry. Plus, we asked friend of the show, US attorney and Washington insider Mark Bergman, for his reaction to the result and thoughts on the party’s direction.
And, because Alex is a total sucker for balance - not because he enjoys seeing the MAGA cult shattering into a thousand pieces, you understand - he has plumbed the depths of right wing influencers and youtubers, as well as outlets like Fox News and OAN, to find out how they are coping.
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Sunday School: There Will Be Blood Pressure
Let joy be unconfined! Naomi is back and she joins Alex as they poke the ashes of an epic MAGA and Manosphere meltdown, following Donald Trump's Midterm humiliation, Russell Brand's criminal conviction, and …
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Let joy be unconfined! Naomi is back and she joins Alex as they poke the ashes of an epic MAGA and Manosphere meltdown, following Donald Trump's Midterm humiliation, Russell Brand's criminal conviction, and Elon Musk's market correction.
Could it be that the Manospasm we have been witnessing is beginning to dissipate?
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We're not in Kansas any more
Flipping Nora. We are still surfing the wave of incredulity (and, let's face it, unbridled joy) after those US midterm results. We are also running on fumes, because we all stayed up so we could bring you not …
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Flipping Nora. We are still surfing the wave of incredulity (and, let's face it, unbridled joy) after those US midterm results.
We are also running on fumes, because we all stayed up so we could bring you not just the drama, but some actual insight into what has been happening as the USA gave Republicans and Trump an absolute pasting.
Alex and Kenny are joined by fellow night-owl Sam Freedman – he of the fabulous Comment Is Freed Substack – to look at the highlights, lowlights and moments of both high drama and high humour.
There is a LOT to get through. There may be a few choice words as well, so cover the cocker spaniel's ears if it's a sensitive soul.
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B-Side: House of Discards - Your Guide to the US Midterms
Welcome to the US midterms. This time, they are game-changers for all of us so here's everything you need to know about what's happening. Alex and Kenny talk you through the basics, from what is Congress to …
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Welcome to the US midterms. This time, they are game-changers for all of us so here's everything you need to know about what's happening.
Alex and Kenny talk you through the basics, from what is Congress to when you can expect results, as well as highlighting the races to watch and the controversies that are burning brightly.
Plus they make some predictions. And use several excellent words!
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Sunday School: The Next Generation
Today we look to the young voters of Serbia and Brazil, who have helped achieve quite remarkable political results, and also back to the late Patrick Stewart, whose politics were as admirable and authentic as …
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Today we look to the young voters of Serbia and Brazil, who have helped achieve quite remarkable political results, and also back to the late Patrick Stewart, whose politics were as admirable and authentic as his acting.
Alex and Kenny also turn their gaze to the BBC News team and, in particular, claims that the Beeb is platforming Reform UK in a way that allows Farage to set the agenda rather than responding to it.
Plus there some Celebrity Traitors to get stuck into ... join us in the Tower for a particularly packed Sunday School!
• Arthur Snell's excellent Behind The Lines primer on India's Cockroach Revolution
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No rabbits were harmed in the making of this Budget
And so to John Healey's Budget which went... pretty well as predicted. Horses were not scared, rabbits were not pulled from hats and Healey was, well, pretty dogged. Alex and Kenny are joined by economist …
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And so to John Healey's Budget which went... pretty well as predicted.
Horses were not scared, rabbits were not pulled from hats and Healey was, well, pretty dogged.
Alex and Kenny are joined by economist extraordinaire Vicky Pryce to look at the headlines but also to dive beneath the surface of a Budget that was big on the volume of announcements if not surprise.
PLUS ... that Liz Truss book. HOW much of a stinker is it? As we're doing rabbits, we may as well do lettuces too.
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B-Side: Exposing the Covid care home scandal
'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry. Alex and Kenny lift the …
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'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry.
Alex and Kenny lift the bonnet on the report's disturbing findings with Quiet Riot favourite Christina Pagel, UCL Professor of Operational Research and co-founding member of Independent Sage.
From Government incompetence to the ordeal faced by care home workers, via the countless individual tragedies as Covid turned care homes into death traps, the report makes for distressing but essential reading. But what has changed, and what should change?
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Sunday School: Robot Reboot – good machine v bad machine
It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI …
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It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI investment circus is going to come crashing down.
Alex and Kenny ask What and Why, and take a look at the disturbing flood of AI political attack ads that risk skewing public debate with, well, machine-generated lies.
Talking of things that threaten civilization, why was there such a media fuss about Andy Burnham's 'be prepared' message this week? How can 'Don't go hungry if the power fails' be construed as a messaging failure?
PLUS With Burnham on Gogglebox, we look at which other shows politicians could be parachuted into. Warning: topic may not be taken seriously.
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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Chaos. As Trump and Putin keep grabbing stuff for themselves, and Trump fantasises about meeting with Putin and Xi, are we already in a 'everyone-and-everything' war? Alex and Kenny are joined by Quiet Riot's …
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Chaos. As Trump and Putin keep grabbing stuff for themselves, and Trump fantasises about meeting with Putin and Xi, are we already in a 'everyone-and-everything' war?
Alex and Kenny are joined by Quiet Riot's tame geopolitics expert, Arthur Snell, to ponder all that – and ask if we even know what victory would look like in the current global political climate.
Plus, a particularly mad God! Less America! which struck a sweet spot with Alex and fellow Greeks.
• Arthur's latest Behind The Lines on the Middle East
• Arthur's piece in The Nerve: Trump, Putin and now Xi – Europeans are at the mercy of an authoritarian axis
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• America's remarkable list of non-ambassadors
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B-Side: The Last of First Past The Post?
The team is joined by Labour MP Alex Sobel to discuss whether Britain's outdated method of electing MPs may finally be getting a shake-up. Alex is MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and Chair of the huge and …
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The team is joined by Labour MP Alex Sobel to discuss whether Britain's outdated method of electing MPs may finally be getting a shake-up.
Alex is MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and Chair of the huge and influential APPG for Fair Elections – he really knows his electoral onions.
Naomi, Alex and Kenny ask what the practical implications are – as well as the risks from changing the way we put our politicians in power.
PLUS ... a lovely story about a paper bird to warm the cockles of your heart.
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Sunday School: Revolting Door Policy
If these are the sort of recruits you get when you don't apply diversity and equality policies, maybe Nigel Farage and Donald Trump should rethink their notion of a meritocracy. Alex and Naomi discuss whether …
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If these are the sort of recruits you get when you don't apply diversity and equality policies, maybe Nigel Farage and Donald Trump should rethink their notion of a meritocracy.
Alex and Naomi discuss whether even a cult like Reform UK can survive the number of scandals it is being investigated for, laugh heartily at Katie Zacharia not even managing half a 'mooch, and rage about the BBC's decision to make a gossip podcast out of a rape trial.
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The politics of science
In this special episode, celebrating the recent Nobel prize winners, we look at the state of science in Britain with Financial Times Science Editor Michael Peel. Kenny is asking the questions, including what …
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In this special episode, celebrating the recent Nobel prize winners, we look at the state of science in Britain with Financial Times Science Editor Michael Peel.
Kenny is asking the questions, including what tech is doing to journalism, Britain's place in the scientific world, what on earth is happening to our universities and (inevitably) AI... or, more specifically, should we treat it more like defence than science?
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Back to the fEUture
Blimey, did the last 10 years not happen? Andy Burnham announces the next UK-EU summit. In Westminster Hall, a debate takes place about the UK joining the EU. Russian interference is front-and-centre. That …
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Blimey, did the last 10 years not happen? Andy Burnham announces the next UK-EU summit.
In Westminster Hall, a debate takes place about the UK joining the EU.
Russian interference is front-and-centre.
That B-word that has been taboo for so long ... is suddenly de rigueur.
Join Naomi, Alex and Kenny as they discuss the turning tide on all (well, lots of) things Brexity.
Plus, a colourful dose of Wokey Dokey!
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Sunday School: Zack's the way the cookie crumbles
Middle East politics is an unusual topic to dominate a UK by-election but here we are. So, what can Zack Polanski and his Greens take from the debacle that overshadowed their efforts in Holborn and St Pancras? …
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Middle East politics is an unusual topic to dominate a UK by-election but here we are. So, what can Zack Polanski and his Greens take from the debacle that overshadowed their efforts in Holborn and St Pancras?
Talking of debacles, how did Kemi Badenoch, a self-proclaimed stickler for detail, manage to misplace almost half a TRILLION pounds in her Tory conference speech? And were the fawning elements of the media watching a different speech to the rest of us?
Alex and Kenny ponder all of the above, plus the stuff of nightmares. Actual nightmares, not just Westminster scare-fests.
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B-Side: Élysée-come, Élysée-go
French students have decided to lightly flambé the republic and things have rapidly got incontrôlable. We're joined by Quiet Riot's favourite Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to disect what is going on and consider …
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French students have decided to lightly flambé the republic and things have rapidly got incontrôlable.
We're joined by Quiet Riot's favourite Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to disect what is going on and consider how it might impact on France's looming elections.
PLUS a Grin And Share It dug up from the mud.
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Kemi-detached
Conference season finally gets around to the Tories which means it's Kemi Badenoch's turn to preach to the choir. Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at policy, presentation and polling, to discern whether the upbeat …
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Conference season finally gets around to the Tories which means it's Kemi Badenoch's turn to preach to the choir.
Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at policy, presentation and polling, to discern whether the upbeat mood in the conference hall is likely to translate into an uptick in the Conservatives' moribund polling figures.
PLUS a particularly timely instalment of God! Less America!
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Sunday School: 24-Hour Party Conference People
Andy Burnham's arrival has seemingly rejuvenated not only Labour, but all British politics. Maybe competition does work in some sectors! Naomi and Alex look at Zack Polanski's speech to the Greens' shindig - he …
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Andy Burnham's arrival has seemingly rejuvenated not only Labour, but all British politics. Maybe competition does work in some sectors!
Naomi and Alex look at Zack Polanski's speech to the Greens' shindig - he seems increasingly under pressure - and contrast it with a very buoyant Rhun ap Iorwerth addressing Plaid Cymru, whose biggest risk is allowing ebullience to morph into overreach.
PLUS we look at Senator Eric Schmitt's incredible viral own goal and ask each other for the worst faceplants we have witnessed.
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B-Side: Handle with Care
Andy Burnham's biggest announcement – in a conference speech littered with the things – was his ambition to create a National Care Service, which he said would be as significant as the NHS. We can't fault his …
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Andy Burnham's biggest announcement – in a conference speech littered with the things – was his ambition to create a National Care Service, which he said would be as significant as the NHS.
We can't fault his ambitions especially as, at Quiet Riot, we have all had dealings with care services and know only too well how threadbare and inadequate present provisions are.
That big ambition, of course, comes with a lot of very big questions – not least about funding his plans. Join Alex, Naomi and Kenny as they did a little deeper into the realities and politics of what is going on.
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Burnham: Straight fom the heart
Andy Burnham's big speech to Labour was big on ambition, big on ideas and big on emotion. If you liked what you heard, then there's a good chance you think it was the best such speech in a decade if not more …
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Andy Burnham's big speech to Labour was big on ambition, big on ideas and big on emotion.
If you liked what you heard, then there's a good chance you think it was the best such speech in a decade if not more; if you didn't, then you probably realise that battling Burnham isn't going to be like battling our other recent PMs.
Naomi, Alex and Kenny break Burnham's big number down into bitesize chunks, because there is a LOT to digest. And they'll be back with B-Side to look at the social care proposals in more detail.
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Sunday School: Never Mind The Ballots
A snap General Election? No way, says Andy Burnham. Do we believe him? Is it a smart call? Does anyone outside of the Westminster bubble actually want a General Election any time soon? Alex and Kenny ponder all …
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A snap General Election? No way, says Andy Burnham.
Do we believe him? Is it a smart call? Does anyone outside of the Westminster bubble actually want a General Election any time soon?
Alex and Kenny ponder all of that, and take some time to dwell upon what happened in that other political bubble, Trump World, when Xi Jinping came to talk ... was there a winner?
PLUS tiny acts of rebellion – a celebration, in honour of the angry fellow filling potholes with palm trees, as you do.
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B-Side: Carry On Cymru
Reform UK have had such a heroic meltdown in Wales, we had to do a special on it ... and we couldn't keep up. Join Alex and Kenny as our Welsh expert Will Hayward looks on in wonder at how Reform have imploded …
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Reform UK have had such a heroic meltdown in Wales, we had to do a special on it ... and we couldn't keep up.
Join Alex and Kenny as our Welsh expert Will Hayward looks on in wonder at how Reform have imploded (and continue to implode).
PLUS Naomi's been hanging around the Lib Dem conference in Brighton – what has she learned, and what gossip is she able to share with us..?
All this and PROBABLY the best ever Wokey Dokey and the best ever Old News!
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When Andy Met Donny
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And so Andy Burnham's first face-to-face with Trump passed off without blood being spilled, although Chagos islanders may disagree with that interpretation.
Alex and Kenny are joined by geopolitics expert, former diplomat and host of Behind The Lines Arthur Snell, to dig under the surface of this week's shenanigans at the UN General Assembly, and find that Chagos was very much a side issue to everyone except the British media. But there was a lot more to discuss...
PLUS you may think Alex and Kenny barely have a brain between them, but what if they actually have FOUR? Listen in to find out more...
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Sunday School: Canadian Club anyone?
It's been a big week for Europe and Canada, with Mark Carney's historic appearance at the European Parliament, and a political love-in between him and Ursula von der Lyen. Naomi and Kenny look on in wonder as …
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It's been a big week for Europe and Canada, with Mark Carney's historic appearance at the European Parliament, and a political love-in between him and Ursula von der Lyen.
Naomi and Kenny look on in wonder as Canada gets closer to the EU than Britain has been in a very long time, and ask: what on earth is an EU 'Associate Member'?
What are the implications for Europe and for Britain? And what role has the Ukraine war played in all of this?
Plus ... the Quiet Riot guide to gilts and bonds. You challenged us to try to explain government borrowing and we're giving it a go! Email us if we got it wrong ... heck, email us if we got it right too! We're at [email protected]
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B-Side: Passport to Piddington
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Piddington has declared independence! That's Piddington, down the road from Bicester and all its designer outlets.
Alex, Naomi and Kenny ask what on earth is gong on, and what does it tell us about the power of community?
They are joined by Kaneez Shaid and Will Higham who are, happily, releasing a fab new podcast all about how to activate your community and go on a quest for a better world.
It's called How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? and it's the newest addition to the Cooler Heads podcast family (that's our little operation!).
• The radical community organiser's primer: Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky ... in our bookshop!
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The Big Bung Theory
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All of a sudden, Reform UK has loadsamoney. In fact, this week it's received more wonga than all the UK political parties received last year.
So should we congratulate Farage & Co? Or is this the perfect time (OK, perhaps a little late) to re-examine what the implications for the funding and operation of our political parties are?
Naomi, Kenny and Alex are joined by Kaneez Shaid and Will Higham – both to chat funding and to reveal details of their fab new podcast, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything?, which is the newest addition to our Cooler Heads family of shows!
• The Electoral Commission keeps track of political spending
• And the Register of Members' Financial Interests is a treasure trove of MP funding info
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Sunday School: CTRL-GRIFT-DELETE
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Trump is so thistry for the midterms, he is offering bribes from money he doesn't have. Stephen Yaxley Lennon is promising to pay it forward but doesn't. And tech bros want it so much, they're okay with species extinction.
Naomi and Alex laugh at the Apocalypse. Because, what else is there to do?
• The closing clip is from the hilarious Nathan Macintosh special Down with Tech
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B-Side: German lessons
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German far right party Alternative fur Deutschland has scored a historic result in the formerly East German state of Sachsen Anhalt. Should we be worried, given Germany's particularly troublesome relationship with far right politics?
Quiet Riot's resident German expert, Annette Dittert, unpicks the election and we ask what lessons the UK can learn from what's happened.
Plus, a timely piece of right wing Old News ...
• Laurena Rodrigues' Substack on some terrifying lessons from Germany
• Opening clip from the original, pre-meme That Mitchell and Webb Sound
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Fashdance
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What do the Dover and Portsmouth riots tell us about how the far right is morphing in Britain?
And what of the political, media and police reaction to hordes of masked thugs challenging authorities – and without arrests being made?
Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at what happened and zoom out to explain what the broader political picture behind these disturbances is, and ask some hard questions of Farage, Lowe and others of the far right.
• The C4 Dispatches special on Tommy Robinson's finances
• Zoe Williams on the hard right's penchant for domestic abusers
• Support HOPE not hate
• The full set of Joe Lycett's Right Wing BBC pitches
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Sunday School: Das Schadenfreudefest
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Nigel Farage has become that politician who can't see a hole without jumping into it. Especially if he's helped dig it himself.
Alex and Kenny beg your forgiveness for looking at the two big Farage stories this week, but are confident you will join them in a festival of schadenfreude...
Gasp as Reform UK sees a big fire marked 'Farage gifts scandal' and sprays it with a large hose of petrol from a can marked 'Reform funding scandal'.
Cheer as Nigel's political circus comes to the NEC Birmingham, and then decides it's going to perform a comedy of errors.
Slap your forehead as the Reform UK clown car gets dragged out of a ditch only to drive straight into a smelly canal.
May contain giggles as well as searing political insight. You know the routine.
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