Farage and the far-right have been quick to seize on Henry Nowak’s horrific murder, ignoring pleas from the victim’s family for the killing not to be politicised. Instead the Reform leader decried “two-tier” policing and called for “pure, cold rage”. What does it all mean? Are we in for another summer of racially-triggered rioting? Plus: what would an Andy Burnham government actually look like? Can Manchesterism succeed where Starmerism stumbled? And in the Extra Bit… mantropreneurship irritant Steven Bartlett claims that two glasses of wine “ruined” his life for three days. Our panel examine the toxic cult of peak performance. 

• Buy tickets for Ahir’s Golden tour

• Because of developments in the news we’ve postponed the promised BUT YOUR EMAILS special by one week. But you can still send your questions to [email protected]. 

ESCAPE ROUTES

• Ros has been watching the BBC’s hit drama Two Weeks in August

• Seth rewatched Lawrence of Arabia at Soho’s iconic Prince Charles Cinema

• Ahir has been binging darkly-comical superhero series The Boys, which led him to the comic

• Zoe has been reading Caro Claire Burke’s new novel Yesteryear about a time-travelling tradwife.  

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Presented by Zoë Grünewald with Seth Thévoz, Ros Taylor and Ahir Shah. Produced by James Liddell. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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