105: Immigrants, They Get the Job Done

Rob and Tom discuss the latest political news including the Windrush scandal and the aftermath of the bombing in Syria.

Topics

• The Headlines

• Windrush

• Syria

• The Polls

• Returning Regular Feature: Would You Rather?

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Shownotes

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• HMT Empire Windrush

• BBC: Windrush Scandal

• Daily Mail: David Lammy MP Told to 'Go Back Home'

• Independent: Cross-party pressure grows for Amber Rudd to resign over 'appalling mess'

• BBC: Syria chemical 'attack'

• BBC: Syria air strikes

• Britain’s Defiance of the UN: The long history

• Britain Elects - Westminster Voting Intention

Discuss

• Reddit

• Twitter

• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: HMT Empire Windrush by Royal Navy official photographer. Public Domain.

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104: Politics in the Animal Kingdom

Rob and Tom discuss the latest political news including antisemitism in Labour and the ongoing Russian spy poisoning scandal.

Topics

• The Headlines

• Antisemitism in the Labour Party

• Russian Sanctions

• Returning Regular Feature: Would You Rather?

Support

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Shownotes

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• Hilarious Trump Headline

• Reality Check: Has London's murder rate overtaken New York's?

• More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s

• Russian spy: Source of nerve agent 'not identified'

• Russian spy: Moscow bid for joint poisoning inquiry fails at OPCW

• UK Jews wary over Labour candidate’s support for Hamas, Hezbollah

• The anti-Semitism controversy roiling the UK Labour party, explained

• Naz Shah: My words were anti-Semitic

• Labour MP: Israelis should face "transportation" out of Middle East

• Christine Shawcroft quits Labour's NEC as Eddie Izzard steps up

• YouGov: May and Corbyn Favourability

• YouGov: Voting Intention (4-5 Apr 2018)

• CGPGrey: The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained

• CGPGrey: Politics in the Animal Kingdom: Single Transferable Vote

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Who left the gate open by Sebastian Ballard. Used via CC BY-SA 2.0

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103: Springtime for Hammond

Rob and Tom discuss the latest political news featuring the Spring Statement, Russian spies and Rex Tillerson.

Topics

• The Headlines

• Spring Statement 2018

• Rex Tillerson firing

• New Regular Feature: Would You Rather?

Support

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Shownotes

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• OBR on Spring Statement

• HM Treasury Tweet

• Children's scooters added to inflation basket

• Rex Tillerson on Reddit

• Trump vs Tillerson

• Between Two Ferns: Obama

• New show name: Unparliamentary Language

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Parody of Common People by Pulp, lyrics by our friends, sung by Tom

• Main Image: Philip Hammond by Raul Mee. Used via CC BY-ND 2.0

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102: Beast from the East

Reporting from bunkers to protect them from the cold Rob and Tom discuss the latest political news. 

Topics

• The Headlines

• Corbyn and May's Brexit speeches

• New Regular Feature: Who Said It?

Support

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Shownotes

• Tomorrow's Headlines Today Blog

• John Major's speech

• Monkey Dust: Britain in Snowy Weather

• HoMT: #GE2017

• Corbyn's Brexit Speech

• May's Brexit Speech

• Who Said It?: Corbyn or Trump?

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Parody of Common People by Pulp, lyrics by our friends, sung by Tom

• Main Image: Brexit talks on the verge of crucial new stage as Theresa May falters by Tiocfaidh ár lá 1916. Used via CC BY-ND 2.0

101: Pyramid of Piffle

Welcome to a new fortnightly politics podcast where Rob and Tom dissect the political news in the UK. We promise not to talk about Brexit...too much.

Topics

• Boris trying to woo Remainers

• Moggmania

• Newspaper Bingo: The Daily Express

Shownotes

• The Bugle Podcast

• Did Boris succeed with his speech? BBC, The Grauniad

• List of Boris' diplomatic gaffes

• Viviane Reding MEP on Brexit

• Moggfather on Redbubble

• Daily Express Front Page 16/2/18

• Ben Goldacre: Bad Science

• Bad Science website

• Retraction of the MMR vaccine paper

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Parody of Common People by Pulp, lyrics by our friends, sung by Tom

Coming Soon... a New Politics Podcast

Rob from the Brexit episode of HOMT joins Tom to dicsuss politics on a fortnightly basis.

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