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'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry.
Alex and Kenny lift the bonnet on the report's disturbing findings with Quiet Riot favourite Christina Pagel, UCL Professor of Operational Research and co-founding member of Independent Sage.
From Government incompetence to the ordeal faced by care home workers, via the countless individual tragedies as Covid turned care homes into death traps, the report makes for distressing but essential reading. But what has changed, and what should change?
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• The first round of consultation for The Big Conversation on Care has ended, but watch out for the next phase, when you will have another opportunity to have your say
• Track Trump's authoritarian actions with Christina's Trump Action Tracker
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Sunday School: Robot Reboot – good machine v bad machine
Season 3 · Episode 122
Sunday, October 25, 2026 • Duration 01:01:37
It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI investment circus is going to come crashing down.
Alex and Kenny ask What and Why, and take a look at the disturbing flood of AI political attack ads that risk skewing public debate with, well, machine-generated lies.
Talking of things that threaten civilization, why was there such a media fuss about Andy Burnham's 'be prepared' message this week? How can 'Don't go hungry if the power fails' be construed as a messaging failure?
PLUS With Burnham on Gogglebox, we look at which other shows politicians could be parachuted into. Warning: topic may not be taken seriously.
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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Season 3 · Episode 121
Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Duration 01:07:06
Chaos. As Trump and Putin keep grabbing stuff for themselves, and Trump fantasises about meeting with Putin and Xi, are we already in a 'everyone-and-everything' war?
Alex and Kenny are joined by Quiet Riot's tame geopolitics expert, Arthur Snell, to ponder all that – and ask if we even know what victory would look like in the current global political climate.
Plus, a particularly mad God! Less America! which struck a sweet spot with Alex and fellow Greeks.
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• Arthur's latest Behind The Lines on the Middle East
• Arthur's piece in The Nerve: Trump, Putin and now Xi – Europeans are at the mercy of an authoritarian axis
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• America's remarkable list of non-ambassadors
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B-Side: The Last of First Past The Post?
Season 3 · Episode 120
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 47:03
The team is joined by Labour MP Alex Sobel to discuss whether Britain's outdated method of electing MPs may finally be getting a shake-up.
Alex is MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and Chair of the huge and influential APPG for Fair Elections – he really knows his electoral onions.
Naomi, Alex and Kenny ask what the practical implications are – as well as the risks from changing the way we put our politicians in power.
PLUS ... a lovely story about a paper bird to warm the cockles of your heart.
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Sunday School: Revolting Door Policy
Season 3 · Episode 118
Sunday, October 18, 2026 • Duration 01:10:11
If these are the sort of recruits you get when you don't apply diversity and equality policies, maybe Nigel Farage and Donald Trump should rethink their notion of a meritocracy.
Alex and Naomi discuss whether even a cult like Reform UK can survive the number of scandals it is being investigated for, laugh heartily at Katie Zacharia not even managing half a 'mooch, and rage about the BBC's decision to make a gossip podcast out of a rape trial.
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The politics of science
Season 3 · Episode 117
Friday, October 16, 2026 • Duration 44:43
In this special episode, celebrating the recent Nobel prize winners, we look at the state of science in Britain with Financial Times Science Editor Michael Peel.
Kenny is asking the questions, including what tech is doing to journalism, Britain's place in the scientific world, what on earth is happening to our universities and (inevitably) AI... or, more specifically, should we treat it more like defence than science?
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Back to the fEUture
Season 3 · Episode 116
Thursday, October 15, 2026 • Duration 01:02:39
Blimey, did the last 10 years not happen? Andy Burnham announces the next UK-EU summit.
In Westminster Hall, a debate takes place about the UK joining the EU.
Russian interference is front-and-centre.
That B-word that has been taboo for so long ... is suddenly de rigueur.
Join Naomi, Alex and Kenny as they discuss the turning tide on all (well, lots of) things Brexity.
Plus, a colourful dose of Wokey Dokey!
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Sunday School: Zack's the way the cookie crumbles
Season 3 · Episode 115
Sunday, October 11, 2026 • Duration 01:01:26
Middle East politics is an unusual topic to dominate a UK by-election but here we are. So, what can Zack Polanski and his Greens take from the debacle that overshadowed their efforts in Holborn and St Pancras?
Talking of debacles, how did Kemi Badenoch, a self-proclaimed stickler for detail, manage to misplace almost half a TRILLION pounds in her Tory conference speech? And were the fawning elements of the media watching a different speech to the rest of us?
Alex and Kenny ponder all of the above, plus the stuff of nightmares. Actual nightmares, not just Westminster scare-fests.
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B-Side: Élysée-come, Élysée-go
Season 3 · Episode 114
Friday, October 9, 2026 • Duration 53:09
French students have decided to lightly flambé the republic and things have rapidly got incontrôlable.
We're joined by Quiet Riot's favourite Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to disect what is going on and consider how it might impact on France's looming elections.
PLUS a Grin And Share It dug up from the mud.
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Kemi-detached
Season 3 · Episode 113
Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 01:04:08
Conference season finally gets around to the Tories which means it's Kemi Badenoch's turn to preach to the choir.
Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at policy, presentation and polling, to discern whether the upbeat mood in the conference hall is likely to translate into an uptick in the Conservatives' moribund polling figures.
PLUS a particularly timely instalment of God! Less America!
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