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  • England belongs to who? – The endless debate about “Englishness”

    October 23, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    Who ordered the heated debate about Englishness? Open any newspaper or social media feed and you’ll stumble on some histrionic handwringing about “what it means it be English”. Who decided we needed to talk about this, all the time? And…

  • The Politics of Violence

    October 20, 2026 · 57 min

    Rupert Lowe of Restore UK claims that street violence is not just inevitable but necessary “if we are to save our home”. Elsewhere, the far-right pals up with street thugs – and its leaders walk right up to the line of endorsing…

  • The Age of Trollitics 

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    • This edition recorded before Trump cancelled livestreaming the execution of the Fort Hood killer.  Televised executions, machine-gunning illegal migrants in the Channel, renaming technology and water features as a loyalty/sycophancy…

  • From Russia with Leave

    October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    Andy Burnham has finally said what we’ve all been thinking: Russia meddled in Brexit. Is this brave honesty – or the first step on the long road back to Brussels? Plus, the Greens are still in turmoil with Zack Polanski’s leadership now in…

  • BONUS: Is Zack Polanski sunk after Holborn & St Pancras?

    October 9, 2026 · 28 min

    Labour wins the Holborn & St Pancras handily – but the Greens had staked a lot on Zack Polanski winning and he failed. Is Polanski’s nightmare week over the Zionism vote a symptom of deeper weaknesses in his leadership? Is far-left…

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  • Remainiacs Assemble? – Can Burnham end the Brexit Era?

    October 8, 2026 · 59 min

    Has Burnham really broken Britain’s bizarre, self-enforced silence around the disaster that is Brexit? What would a real pro-EU membership stance from Labour mean for British politics? And would killing off Brexit inadvertently give a…

  • Badenoch to the bone – Are the Tories becoming a Kemi cult?

    October 6, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Kemi Badenoch has promised to revitalise the Tory party at the Conservatives' conference – but can she drag it out of the doldrums? Plus, the Green Party conference descended into acrimony after members voted to declare that “Zionism is…

  • Give ’em enough hope – Did Labour turn a corner in Liverpool?

    October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Andy Burnham’s powerful and emotional speech at the Labour Conference left the Party full of righteous energy and its enemies scrabbling for attack lines. Has he succeeded in setting out a new direction for the Government? The OGWN…

  • “The best political speech of the 21st century”? – Burnham inspires Liverpool – BONUS

    September 30, 2026 · 30 min

    BONUS EDITION: Well, we weren’t expecting THAT… Andy Burnham stuns and rouses Labour’s Liverpool conference with a bold, emotionally powerful speech that amounted to the promise of a new era. Will Britain respond to his open-hearted scally…

  • Labour in Liverpool – Can Burnham make a second first impression?

    September 29, 2026 · 58 min

    Andy Burnham's first Labour conference as PM is underway. So… will he and his government make a good impression on the party and voters? First the PM proposed an NHS-style social care system; a day later his chancellor John Healey promised…

  • Why won’t Burnham confront Britain’s Blackshirts?

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Actual blackshirts are blockading ports, doxxing lifeboat volunteers and intimidating people across the South Coast, and the most senior political figure to come out against them is… Rishi Sunak? We ask why Andy Burnham won’t make a…

  • Burn in the USA – How did the PM's Trump meet go?

    September 23, 2026 · 28 min

    Bonus episode with James Ball and Jacob Jarvis… Andy Burnham finally meets Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly in New York. The pair hit it off, as Trump hails the PM as a “natural businessman” and claims he “gets it”. So what did we…

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About the show

Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes.  Regulars include: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Social affairs journalist Hannah Fearn • Comedian Matt Green • The Lead's Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Comedy writer Jason Hazeley • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor Sign up and get ad-free shows earlier than anyone else: patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow. Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production