110: BoJo No Show, Brexit So-So

Rob and Tom discuss how bad a Brexit No Deal would be and whether Vince Cable truly wants to emulate James Bond over summer.

Topics

• The Headlines

• Brexit No Deal

• Regular Feature: Parliamentary Holidays

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Shownotes

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• Metro Front Page

• Unfinished London: Should Heathrow Expand?

• BBC: Saddleworth Moor fire: Timelapse shows flames spreading

• Wikipedia: Operation Stack

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

Discuss

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• Facebook

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• Podcast Republic

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: London Brexit pro-EU protest March 25 2017 27 by Ilovetheeu used under CC by SA 4.0

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109: Parliamentary Wiff-Waff

Rob and Tom discuss the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill and how a bill goes through parliament (in brief).

Topics

• The Headlines

• European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

• New Regular Feature: Political Deathmatch (the G7)

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Shownotes

• YouTube: How to Make a Hit Football Anthem

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• Daily Express front page

• The Sun front page

• How a bill passes through parliament

• European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

Discuss

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• Twitter

• Facebook

Sponsor

• Podcast Republic

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: Palace of Westminster by Diliff. Used under CC by SA 2.5 licence.

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107: You Come to Me on the Day of The Royal Wedding?

Rob and Tom discuss what might happen with the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during Brexit.

Topics

• The Headlines

• Irish Border and Customs Union

• House of Lords Reform

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Shownotes

• Tom's other podcast

• Tomorrow's Papers Today

• BBC: East Coast Main Line takeover: Your questions answered

• Guardian: British rail is nationalised all over again – by foreign states

• Things Meghan Markle can't do after she marries Prince Harry

• BBC: Brexit: The government's customs options

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

• House of Lords

Discuss

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• 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: 1968 Strabane Northern Ireland, Ulster, border, customs by henrikjon. Used under Creative Commons by SA 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?

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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