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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It's going to be very embarrassing for some of the people involved.
It's going to be fascinating.
Joe Pike.
How nice to be with you on this very hot day.
Or just the kind of day to stay inside and read tens of thousands of words written by politicians.
I suppose that's right.
Studying in the park.
Well, we have all and everybody in the political world has been doing quite a lot of studying this week.
Because not one, not two, but three politicians decided that the best way to communicate with the world at large was to write some very long pieces of texts.
I haven't seen that for a while.
Certainly what he's done.
Lots of discussion of Tony Blair's essay this week with Adam.
Lots of discussion, too, of Andy Burnham's riposte to Tony Blair in the newspapers as well.
But we're going to talk today about, weirdly, one of the maybe under-discussed of all of these essays, the essay from the current prime minister who joined in with his sub-stack.
And to do that, we'll be talking to one of his former directors of communications as Keir Starmer tries to fight back.
Hello, it's Laura in the studio.
Now, before we introduce our guest, can you actually remember something like this happening before?
And if you're not the initiated, Substack is essentially, it's an internet platform where anybody can write something, long, short, whatever they want, and essentially have it published online in quite a sort of snazzy way.
And you're right, it is kind of all the rage for, I suppose, thinkers.
Some journalists have them, some celebs do them, some politicians do them.
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