Andy Zaltzman

For those who have been worrying that polar bears can indeed get the wrappers off penguins, but you don't want to watch them do it.

Absolutely gruesome.

And that might be a reference that is specific to people who ate chocolate bars in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

But the niche reference, we've never shied away from it on this show.

Anyway, the Attenborough section in the bin.

Top story this week.

Keir Starmer is, let me just check, still Prime Minister.

As we record, you can never quite tell from day to day, hour to hour, or minute to minute in this country these days.

For our British listeners, if you've been having a strange feeling over the last...

Couple of weeks that our politics has become impatient, infantile, irresponsible and incurable that you're watching the slow decay of democracy.

Well, you might just be onto something.

We are just we are not even two years into this current Labour government who won a big majority.

in the 2024 general election, as exclusively reported on the Bugle.

And Starmer is now clinging onto power as if he's been in for about six terms and has started multiple illegal wars around the world and started kidnapping children and selling them on

for a profit on the sly.

It's a very strange time politically, so I turn to you two for an objective outsider's view on exactly how fucking mad British politics is right now.

Alice.

Well, yes, the health secretary you talk about, Wes Street, in quat, I think is the correct word, isn't it, last Thursday, saying he'd lost confidence in Keir Starmer's leadership.

This followed disastrous election results in the local elections in England and national elections in Scotland.

and Wales, and Starmer has clearly failed to win over a sceptic public and a sceptic Labour Party.