Oh God, What Now?

Crocus Pocus

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Is Boris Johnson’s slow-burn unlocking actually – shock – the right thing to do? Will he be led by data, dates, deaths or whatever the CRG shou...

Free Speech For You… But Not You

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What if they gave a War on Woke and nobody came? The Government decides to both defend free speech (if you’re a right winger on campus) and restrict...

Had Enough of Exports

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Piles of fish, cheese, bees, toys, guitar cases and banking deals are LITERALLY rotting at Britain’s ports. How long can the government keep claimin...

All Tomorrow’s Tories – with guest Matt d’Ancona

05 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last week’s EU:UK vaccine stand-off put Ursula von der Leyen squarely in the spotlight, but what makes the President of the European Commission tick...

🚨 Emergency VACCINECAST 🚨 The EU’s disastrous mistake 🚨

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Has Brussels just handed Brexiters the killer argument they so desperately needed? The EU’s bizarre decision to impose and then cancel restrictions ...

Vaccine Wars

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the EU considers restricting exports of the COVID vaccines, are we in the midst of the first authentic post-Brexit row between the EU and the UK –...

Fumigating the White House

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a little bit later than usual but still early for Patreon backers… Our long international nightmare is over – for now. As Trump exits the...

E Pluribus Moron: The Bitter End of Donald Trump

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast recorded before the impeachment vote. As Republicans distance themselves in horror from Donald Trump’s violent sedition, can we finally...

Lockdown III: Why Threequels Always Suck

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast recorded before the invasion of the Capitol building in Washington DC. “Happy” New Year! With Britain’s kids getting one whole day ...

DealCast: The Fake Escape

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Intra-Christmas Emergency Edition. Having cancelled Christmas, Johnson then ruined what was left of it by crowing about his Deal. But what’s in it? ...

EmergencyCast: I Saw No Ships Come Sailing In

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The new mutant strain of COVID has shattered the Government’s Christmas strategy and plunged Britain into isolation and chaos. Is government ditheri...

’Twas The Fright Before Brexit: End Of Year Special

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Out early to beat potential Deal obsolescence! All we want for Christmas is… a deal. Any deal. Has an agreement already been concluded and is it ju...

The Last Supper – plus guest JAMES O’BRIEN

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Boris Johnson joins Ursula von der Leyen for the worst dinner since Mr Creosote in The Meaning Of Life, we’re joined by LBC frontline key worker ...

Absolutely Jabulous

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What does the arrival of a COVID vaccine really mean for No.10’s virus strategy? Who’s the real opposition? Cool, calm and perhaps-too-collected K...

Stop Calling It “Chumocracy”

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Why are we calling the Government’s COVID backhanders and gilded inner circle a “chumocracy” when it’s just straightforward corruption? Brace ...

The Prime Minister’s Brain Is Missing

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the real state of play between Keir Starmer and newly independent MP Jeremy Corbyn? Where does Boris Johnson go now that his external brain D...

EmergencyCast: Ground Control to MAJOR DOM

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

IGNOMINY DOMINIC: As the Prime Minister’s attack weasel Dominic Cummings finally “resigns” to spend more time with his WordPress, Ian Dunt refle...

Banana Republicans – plus special guest Emily Bazelon

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What does the rise of President Joe mean for Britain and our shapeshifting creep of a PM? If Donald Trump can’t win in America’s democracy, would ...

I Am Furious Orange – with special guest Gavin Esler

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After the despair of Wednesday morning, could Biden actually win the US election? Were the polls really so wrong? And why are the Left so bereft at th...

EmergencyCast! Corbyn suspended

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We sure picked the right day to relaunch the podcast. As Labour suspends Jeremy Corbyn after the damning EHRC report shone a light on the party’s an...

Remainiacs is now OH GOD, WHAT NOW?

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The secret is out. Remainiacs has a new name – but the same team and the same commitment to dispelling the misery of politics with humour and sharp ...

Madchester Rage On

23 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Will that punishment beating for King In The North Andy Burnham make ex-Red Wallers think again about their unwise pre-Christmas fling with...

Cracks in the Union Jack

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is the Government’s piecemeal lockdown driving as big a wedge between the North and South of England as there is between Westminster and the devolve...

How to win a Culture War

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Having lost control of the virus, the economy and now the Conservative Party, can mojo-free COVID casualty Boris Johnson relaunch himself with a war o...

Hellbent on Compromise – plus guest MATT FORDE

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the final round of trade talks EU grind into low gear, should we brace ourselves for another heroic climbdown from the Prime Minister? Comedian, po...

The Wrong Good Friday

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This edition recorded before Kent was made an independent statelet… As the Internal Market Bill takes a wrecking ball to the Good Friday Agreement,...

The Great British Lawbreak-Off

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Just how precarious is Tory support for the Government’s disavowal of international law via the Internal Market Bill? Up-and-coming young author Ian...

Rogue Nation: Britain scuttles its credibility

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Johnson scrapes his Oven-Ready Deal into the bin, we ask why would any other country ever trust Britain’s word ever again? We explore the new Int...

The Lady’s not for U-Turning: Leadership Lessons with STEVE RICHARDS

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As MPs prepare to return to work, what should we look out for in the new parliamentary session? And after a summer of u-turns galore, what policy reve...

Land of Hopeless Tories

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded before Germany pulled Brexit from next week’s summit AND before “mutant algorithm”. This week, after his feeble response to the Summer ...

Belarus Rising – plus Lights! Kamala! Action!

21 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Belarus fights its way towards true democracy, we speak to a protestor who’s on the ground in Minsk about what’s really happening and what we c...

200th Edition! Daze of Future Past

14 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Who’s got the Ben & Jerry’s? In our gala 200th edition, our original core team of Dorian Lynskey, Ros Taylor, Ian Dunt, Naomi Smith and Alex Andre...

Infocalypse Now: Deepfakes and the War on Democracy

07 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Attention, bots, trolls and rogue A.I.s! This week our own Nina Schick publishes her new book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need T...

Labour’s Infinity War reignites – plus guest JOHN CRACE

31 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Continuity Corbynism picks a fight with the Starmer Leadership in the aftermath of the antisemitism court settlement. Will anything ever end the party...

Russia Report: Gremlins from the Kremlin

24 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“Приветствую! Welcome to podcast where panel talk about how great nation of Russia did not interfere with British elections, no way. Is R...

Bunker Russia Report taster: It’s A Vladi Disgrace

22 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a Russian Report special on today’s edition of our little sibling podcast The Bunker, with Ian Dunt, Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Helen Lewi...

RED TAPE TIME MACHINE plus Return of the Dunt

17 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Government launches yet another, definitely final campaign to sell the “benefits” of No Deal. What do we think of Britain’s bold New Start i...

Who ordered Rish’n’Chips?

10 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Oh Rishi you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow our minds… Or will he? Will Sunak’s £10 off Groupon Meal Deal save the British economy? Do t...

Spiked: Lost in the Moral Maze – plus guest Nick Cohen

03 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“The matter is closed!” Special guest Nick Cohen of The Observer joins us to look at the fall-out from Cummings taking down the country’s most s...

My Bojo’s Not Working

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Boris Johnson continues to fumble everything he touches, are the Tory Right losing patience with their flop-haired figurehead? Gove is preparing a ...

Unboxing Churchill

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With the world gripped by the most significant anti-racist demonstrations in half a century, why are we still obsessing over Churchill? Do we overstat...

“Oven-Ready Deal” Gives Britain Food Poisoning

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Boris Johnson fights to undo the unfair deal imposed on us by treacherous pro-EU operative *checks notes* Boris Johnson. Alex Andreou expla...

“Is your culture war still working, Mr Cummings?”

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How hard will a No Deal/COVID double whammy hit the British economy? New research from Best For Britain shows it will devastate the places you don’t...

Domnishambles

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dom’s last stand (again): how did the supergenius who instinctively understands Britain’s heartbeat become the most hated man in the UK? SDLP MP C...

BUNKER BONUS: Emergency DomCast excerpt

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the Government went up in flames over Dominic Cummings’ flagrant breaches of his own lockdown rules, Dorian, Alex, Ros and Andrew got together fo...

Donkey Business, No Deal Drama

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week… Keir Starmer, a man out standing in his field, and why you don’t want to get on the wrong side of Big Donkey. Where do the hands of th...

Stayin’ Alert, Stayin’ Alert

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s all right, it’s OK/The press will look the other way/And we will fail to understand/Can’t Britain find a better man?” This week: Boris...

“Authoritarian in the streets, Libertarian in the sheets”

08 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Britain registers the worst COVID toll in Europe, why is blame for the failure sliding off Boris Johnson? Lovelorn Prof Neil Ferguson feels the sap...

“Outwitted by goo.”

01 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week in Euro-Plague news: How is Sweden’s risky approach to the COVID crisis really working? James Savage of news network The Local joins us fr...

“But their emails!”

24 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“They want power, but they don’t know why.” How this government’s obsession with rebutting bad COVID news is masking a total absence of ideas....

D’oh! You Priti Thing

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Priti Patel’s nonpologies. Former Green MEP and Brighton & Hove Mayor Alex Phillips joins us to look at how the Corona crisis could at least provide...

Failing the global stress test?

10 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is Brussels’ hamfisted approach to resurrecting the European economy really a danger the EU’s own existence? Will Boris Johnson’s hospitalisatio...

A moment of clarity?

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Will the seismic trauma of COVID-19 provide the moment of clarity we need to change the way we live? Authoritarian governments seize on Corona to enac...

Panicky in the UK?

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

REMOTELY RECORDED FOR YOUR HYGIENE… Has the deepening Corona crisis rendered the Brexiteers’ plans for economic nirvana obsolete? Why the EU’s ...

At War With The Invisible Enemy

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

RECORDED FROM SECRET BUNKERS ACROSS EUROPE… As the Corona Crisis deepens, is the Government blowing its response? Will Fortress Britain have to req...

The Coronacession – plus Dark Money brought to light

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Crisis? What, MORE crisis? How well is plucky Brexit Britain set up to cope up with the Coronacession? (Spoiler: badly). Investigative academic Seth A...

Britain self-isolates

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the Coronavirus bites, the government decides it’s a good time to cut us off from the EU Pandemic Warning system. PLUS: who makes the Nazis? HOPE...

Big Trouble in Little Britain – plus guests Cornershop

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On Radio Free European Britain this week… The Independent’s sketch writer Tom Peck on our politics’ descent into self-lacerating madness. Heroe...

Points-Based Immolation

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Government’s immigration plans are out and yes, they’re every bit as narrow, vindictive, boneheaded, vicious and philistine as we expected. Wh...

Keeping The Lights On for EU citizens

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

(This episode recorded just before Sajid Javid got Cummingsed…) The long campaign for our EU friends and neighbours is on. As Johnson’s government...

Order! The one with JOHN BERCOW

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Clear the lobby for special guest JOHN BERCOW, the most controversial Speaker in recent history. He visits Remainiacs to talk about his time in charge...

BONUS: Our new politics podcast THE BUNKER

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If there was ever a good day to try our new, no-Brexit politics podcast THE BUNKER then it’s today, Friday 31 Jan. Every Wednesday we’ll be talkin...

Brexit Day: Not with a bong but a whimper

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our bloody but unbowed Brexit Day edition. As Britain slopes out of the EU like an embarrassed pub drunk, Leaver triumphalism is strangely muted. Is t...

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish – plus special guest Ian Murray MP

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week: fish, food, agriculture, immigration, Scotland and our special guest, Labour’s deputy leadership candidate and only Scottish MP, IAN MURR...

The Bong Remains Insane

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As Britain spirals down to a Bonkers Big Ben Brexit Day Breakdown, we avert our eyes and look to the future, specifically the policies Labour might ne...

Into 2020: Fake Unity and Labour’s Future

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The battle to keep Britain in the EU is over but with Parliament neutered, Brexit needs more scrutiny than ever. This week: Does Boris Johnson’s “...

The Remainiacs Annual Christmas Messages

24 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brexit roasting on an open fire! Rees-Mogg nipping at your toes! Yes, it’s a miserable old Christmas for Remainers, but whatever. We need to gird ou...

Apodcalypse Now: Remainiacs Live in London 17 Dec 2019

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We got knocked down but we’ll get up again. Join the panel of REMAINIACS for our last live show of 2019 and our last full podcast of the decade – ...

Election aftermath – The long road ahead

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, we got a kicking. Remain parties might have edged the popular vote but it didn’t stop Boris Johnson winning the majority he always craved. So w...

155: “YES, THERE IS HOPE.” The Election Endgame edition

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“GET IN THE FRIDGE!” As the polls tighten on the eve of the vote, we tell you exactly where to vote tactically, how to persuade waverers, and why ...

BONUS PODCAST: All We Want For Brexmas is EU - Live from Leicester Square Theatre

09 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Deck the balls with Multi-level Regression and Post-stratification polling! Our penultimate live show of the year saw a full-panel turnout for a festi...

154: HIGH STAKES, LOW TACTICS: Election endgame

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With less than two weeks to go, how is this simultaneously the most terrifying and consequential – yet somehow boring – General Election in hist...

153: LET'S GET TACTICAL, the legacy of Empire and more Ask Remainiacs

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s halfway through the election campaign… Producer Andrew is away for Thanksgiving this week, so our regulars are off the leash and the metaphor...

152: CORBYN & JOHNSON'S TRUDGE MATCH, plus polls, manifestos and ASK REMAINIACS

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The first episode of Remainiacs to be verified by "Fact Check UK” as “proper good, five stars on iTunes from us…” Who won the first debate of...

151: BORIS, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE with guest Peter Foster of the Telegraph

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A first for Remainiacs as we welcome a guest from the Telegraph! But don’t worry, it’s their eminently sensible Europe Editor PETER FOSTER with a ...

BONUS AUDIO COLUMN: It’s time to tell them “NO” says ALEX ANDREOU

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a special mini-episode, Alex Andreou puts his mellifluous voice to a Twitter thread he did with Best for Britain earlier this week, about the need ...

BONUS PODCAST: Remainiacs Live in Manchester with guest Rob Ford

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our first live show in Manchester YES OK SALFORD on Sat 2 November was a smash hit. Dorian, Ros and Ian joined special guest Rob Ford of the Universit...

FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE: Election Week One

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Election Week One: everyone sabotages themselves! Farage vs Rees-Mogg! Trump vs Johnson! Plus tactical voting: our panelist Naomi Smith on the controv...

149: CAMPAIGN STUPOR-NOVA with guest John Crace

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As Christmelection 2019 finally, finally, finally gets under way, could Boris Johnson’s good-time blustering turn out to be a campaigning bug, not a...

BONUS BIT: Ian Dunt guests on On The House

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Need a bit more Dunt for your Friday? Britain’s sweariest pundit is the special guest on this week’s edition of our companion podcast On The House...

148: INTERMISSION IMPOSSIBLE with guest John Curtice

23 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As Boris Johnson experiences embarrassing Brexitus Interruptus, the Remainiacs team discuss this week’s knife-edge Commons votes… what the Pause m...

147: EMERGENCY PODCAST: Remain for the LetWIN

19 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We were expecting a funeral march. Instead we got a victory procession – of sorts. After the big march and the even bigger vote, heroic Best For Bri...

146: EMERGENCY PODCAST: The Long Night before the Big Day

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Vote. The March. The Deal and the Amendments. The balance of power. And the decision? As we steel ourselves for the biggest day in this whole stru...

145: INTO THE ENDZONE: Is this finally it for Brexit?

16 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

So we’re finally here. Boris Johnson thinks he’s got a deal. Arlene Foster isn’t so sure. Nobody knows what’s in the deal – but some of the ...

144: EXTENSION REBELLION: Will Boris blink?

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Remainiacs on a Friday, like it's 2017 or something? As the clock ticks down to Zero Hour, will the Government’s performative anti-Brussels bolshine...

143: O, BUFFER WHERE ART THOU? Johnson’s border plans – plus WTO trade fun

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not a deal if only one person wants it. This week, the Government breaks its promise on no customs checks in the island of Ireland with an offe...

142: REMAINIACS LIVE: Democalypse 2019 Part 2 with MARK GATISS

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Here's audio from our second live show from Mon 23 Sept, with special guest MARK GATISS of The League of Gentlemen and Doctor Who fame joining regular...

141: REMAINIACS LIVE: Democalypse 2019 Part 1 with JAMES O’BRIEN

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A Sunday bonus: the first of our two DEMOCALYPSE 2019 shows at the Leicester Square Theatre from Monday 23 Sept, in case you couldn’t make it or you...

140: PARLIAMENT UNPROROGUED – plus guest Robert Webb

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK! As Parliament returns in righteous anger and the Brexit Press bleat about how the Supreme Court has DESTROYED DEMOCRACY, t...

139: JUDGMENT DAY Supreme Court EmergencyCast with David Allen Green and Schona Jolly QC

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Incredible scenes on a monumental day, as guests Schona Jolly QC and David Allen Green hotfoot it across London to join Naomi Smith in Remainiacs HQ. ...

138: JUSTICE LEAGUE HITS SUPREME COURT with guest Jolyon Maugham

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With the legality of prorogation being tested in the crucible of the Supreme Court, we welcome Good Law Project director and Remain legal vanguard JOL...

137: SUPREME CAUGHT? David Allen Green on the Scottish court case capers

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“And finally monsieur, a wafer-thin Brexity mint…” The “distinguished”* legal expert DAVID ALLEN GREEN joins us to explain the consequences ...

136: GAGGIN’ FOR BREXIT plus guest Bridget Phillipson MP

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As the Prorogue Leader’s plans fall apart at the first hurdle, we look at the fallout of The Week It All Went Wrong. Will a silenced Parliament spea...

135: THE LYIN’ KING LOSES CONTROL plus guest Jonathan Lis

04 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Was that the shortest honeymoon since Cher married Greg Allman? The Johnson- Cummings plan is in bits on the floor of Parliament and Bojo’s jolly ma...

134: PROROGUE STATE Emergencycast with David Allen Green

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Things are moving far too fast to wait ’til next Friday. Ros Taylor, Alex Andreou and guest David Allen Green gather in the studio to look at the le...

133: MAD COUP DISEASE plus guest Hugo Rifkind

28 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The moment of truth is finally here. Johnson-Cummings have decided it’s necessary to destroy parliamentary sovereignty in order to “save” it. Bu...

132: BOJO GOES INTER-RAILING plus special guest Guy Garvey of Elbow

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“What you’ve got to remember is, even the good guys are sociopaths.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ingrid Oliver. Audio produc...

131: EMERGENCYCAST: Have We Got GNUs For You with special guest David Allen Green

19 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If Remainer Conservatives and Lib Dems can’t swallow their notion of Jeremy Corbyn, Interim Prime Minister, who CAN they agree on? Exactly how would...

130: The Brexiters’ War on Objective Reality

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Why Dominic Cummings is putting out information chaff to create the impression of activity. Which good Remainy cause are YOU going to donat...

129: CUMMINGS GOES KAMIKAZE plus special guest Rory Palmer MEP

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the agenda: The headlong rush to an end nobody voted for, and why No Deal is a man-made asteroid strike. When is the right time for a No Confidence...