PoliticsJOE Podcast

At a private lunch last Friday, Tony Blair said that Keir Starmer "should have backed America from the very beginning". Andy and Laura discuss the former PM's meddling, as well as anti-trans protestors putting Hannah Spencer at risk, and polling on Gen-Z men's uniquely conservative views.

Today Seán is joined by none other than Ash Sarkar as her book Minority Rule hits paperback. After a turbulent 2025 and an utterly batshit start to 2026, Ash reflects on the permacrisis as it continues to warp and destabilise the fabric of society, and reality as we know it.

Ava is joined by Editor-in-Chief of Middle East Eye David Hearst to break down the foreign policy nightmare Donald Trump could be facing in his continued war against Iran.

Laura caught up with Jeremy Corbyn outside parliament yesterday after Rachel Reeves' Spring Forecast speech.

Sam Bright is an investigative journalist and author. He came by the studio to talk to Ava about Nigel Farage's strategy at the helm of Reform UK, the funders propping up Britain's new right, and how a collapse may be right around the corner.

Lisa McKenzie is an academic who fell into an online storm when her tweets about Hannah Spencer and class went viral.Lisa joins Andy in our first episode of Cancelled to share her views from the time, whether they've changed, and the wider class dynamics at play in British politics.

Andy, Laura, and Seán react to a particularly heated PMQs showdown between Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer, as the Tory leader ramps up the rhetoric over Trump’s escalating conflict with Iran.

We are once again joined by the great Scott Lucas to make sense of another chaotic weekend in Donald Trump's foreign policy escapades. This time, the President decided to join forces with Benjamin Netanyahu to make a martyr of Ayatollah Khamenei, for which the Iranians have attacked multiple gulf states and Israel.

Seán, Ava, and Andy unpack what Hannah Spencer and the Green Party's victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election means for British politics, as well as the attack lines Reform have been putting out since Matt Goodwin's loss.