Oh God, What Now?
Episodes
On tour with the Minister of Chaos
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will US journalist Tom McTague’s lengthy profile for The Atlantic help us comprehend the dumbfounding appeal of Prime Minister Posh Benny Hill? Plus...
Welcome to Britain. Now get out.
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Britain’s hostile border environment starts to entrap visitors from the EU, is the Home Office’s Brexit-infected immigration arm out of control...
MegaMind vs the Mayor from Jaws
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our FOURTH BIRTHDAY edition! And what a sumptuous spread Classic Dom has laid on for us. The classic line-up of Dorian, Naomi, Ros, Alex and Ia...
Young Ex-PM seeks fun partner for £££ times!
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So, Brexit five months in – how’s it going? As the Government prepares to pauperise Britain’s farmers with its Australian trade deal, and as Un...
The Morning After The Fight Before
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the Government celebrates its electoral victories with a bout of naked voter suppression and intimidation of protest, we look at Labour’s farcica...
Elections ’21: Nothing Breaks Like A Hartlepool
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of what looks like a not-great election day for everyone who isn’t Boris Johnson, the SNP, a Labour metro mayor or Count Binface, are we ...
Extreme Makeover: Golden Wallpaper Edition
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As Johnson’s odious comments about “bodies piling up” collide with Carrie Antoinette’s golden wallpaper splurge and the Vengeance of the Cummi...
For Tax Tips, Text 07700 B.O.R.I.S.
23 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It turns out that all you need to fix your tax problems is the PM’s mobile number! We look at Britain’s sprawling corruption problem and whether t...
The Good Friday Vehement
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Northern Ireland descends into violence and it seems that Boris Johnson just doesn’t care. We ask Belfast-based political journalist Amanda Ferguson...
Passport To Purgatory
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vaccine passports: thin end of the authoritarian wedge or a grim necessity that we liberals should grit our teeth and support? Plus, who’s writing t...
Confessions of a Prime Minister
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister’s affair with a woman who was receiving large amounts public money is confirmed – and nobody is talking about it? We look at t...
Priti Fly (if you’re a white guy) – plus guest NITIN SAWHNEY
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inside Home Secretary Priti Patel’s insidious new plans for asylum seekers – why moves that claim to reduce the use if people traffickers will act...
“The biggest crisis in the public square since the 1930s” – with guest James Harding
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can anything hold back Priti Patel’s assault on the great British tradition of noisy, disruptive protest? Plus: partisan or penniless: what’s the ...
The North will rise again: ANDY BURNHAM is our guest
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham joins us to talk about Westminster vs the Regions and whether Labour is opposing Johnson hard enough. What actua...
Lost In Sunak, Caught In A Trap
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
So what did Sunak’s Budget actually mean? How did he manage to keep both Brexit and the North out of his wheezes? What sort of Chancellor does he re...
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...