Joe Pike
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1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, James, just before we get into this then as well, I think it's also interesting and important for people to know that before you did that, you were a political journalist.
We were in the lobby together a long time ago.
You were a political journalist for years and years and years.
Years and years and years.
Yeah, I know.
We are both quite old now.
Well, what I was going to say is then you were working.
Well, I was going to say, though, and this is, I think, interesting to this conversation in a sense, because then you were working at one of the big social media platforms.
So you've got a kind of 360 degree view on comms, as people would call it, and comms in the 2020s, right?
Oh, quills at dawn.
So why did you think that they have all done this?
Because it is unusual, as Joe and I were saying.
And, you know, would you ever have said, ah, I know what we need now to really get things back on track, Prime Minister.
Sit down at a keyboard and type out 5000 words or whatever it is.
So what's he trying to say then?
And why didn't they listen?
But was that because the political will wasn't there and it was too difficult to suggest something new and complicated?
Or was it because officials were saying, oh, no, we can't do that?
Because we've heard it a lot.
It's really interesting, isn't it, to cast back because there are so many things that went wrong for a government in its early months when they had come in with this enormous majority, an enormous opportunity.
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