Oh God, What Now?

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July 07, 2023 Miriam Cates and her Horrible Mates
Meet this week’s Tory game-changer: Miriam Cates and her New Conservatives. Will their wizard scheme to kick out foreign care-home workers and stamp out sex education save the Tories’ bacon? Is she real or a cartoon rightist from a British version of The Handmaid’s Tale?
Plus: Farage Against The Cash Machine. Can Zuckerberg’s new idea Threads kill Twitter? Our special guest Henry Morris AKA mischievous mega-tweeter ‘The Secret Tory’ tells how he hoodwinked everyone from your pub pals to the commanding heights of politics. And in the Extra Bit… Streaming TV is in trouble. Why?
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• “Cates’s ‘Labour will nationalise our children’ thing reminds me of Emma Barnett asking if Labour were going to nationalise sausages.” – Zöe Grünewald
• “As they say, the first casualty of the Culture War is the will to live.” – Henry Morris
• “Maybe we DO need antagonists on social media? Otherwise people are just too nice?” – Marie le Conte
Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Marie le Conte and Zöe Grünewald. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Producer: Chris Jones. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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1 hr 4 min
July 04, 2023 Suell-Air Flight 666 to Rwanda is cancelled
As the Supreme Court grounds Braverman’s Rwanda plan, what will the Tory Right try to pull us out of next? The ECHR, the continent of Europe, or three-dimensional reality itself? Plus, What’s new about the “New” Conservatives? Who’s about to get reshuffled? The NHS’s 75th birthday prompts the Tories to do some of that recruiting stuff, after only 13 years in power. And in a new feature: who are our Heroes and Villains of the Week?

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• “Does anyone really think that the key to a better Britain is to get rid of care workers and foreign students?” – Gavin Esler
• “Rwanda is a really good example of the Conservatives not realising that everyone else can hear what they’re saying as well as their base…” – Rachel Cunliffe
• “They’re so desperate for another Brexit. What’s next? Take back more control? Get Brexit done-r?” – Matt Green

Presented by Alex Andreou, Rachel Cunliffe, Gavin Esler and Matt Green. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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1 hr 3 min
June 30, 2023Don't Look Back in Wagner
Matt Hancock appears before the COVID inquiry – can he ever be forgiven? And Prigozhin has been exiled to Belarus – but how has his Wagner mutiny left Putin’s position in the Moscow. And what does this mean for Ukraine? Then in the extra bit for subscribers, yet another pointless news ‘story’ does the rounds. Why do we put up with churnalism?
“It’s hard to imagine that Prigozhin will get a long retirement on the golf course.” – Arthur Snell
“Prigozhin was acting out of desperation.” – Arthur Snell

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Presented by Group Editor: Andrew Harrison with Arthur Snell, Marie Le Conte, and guest Rachel Wearmouth. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Alex Rees & Chris Jones. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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57 min
June 27, 2023Conflict of Interest
Interest rates have reached the highest level for 15 years but don’t worry because Rishi Sunak says he’s: “totally, 100% on it”. Is he? Or is that totally, 100% rubbish? Is Cronyism getting worse? And if it is, how do we stop ministers from appointing their mates into positions of power? Did you see the all-leave BBC Brexit special last week? We did. The panel gives us their thoughts. And we get the latest mutiny news from Doomsday Watch’s Arthur Snell as tempers flare in Russia.

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“We have some of the worst inflation in Europe, by quite some way.” – Seth Thevoz.
“There is a portion of the population, no matter how tiny, that would quite like a recession.” – Seth Thevoz.
“For those this affects, this will be a painful period.” – Hannah Fearn.
“The honors system was designed to be corrupt. It’s doing what it’s supposed to do.” – Seth Thevoz

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Presented by Alex Andreou with Hannah Fearn, Seth Thevoz, and Yasmeen Serhan. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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58 min
June 23, 2023The Seven Year Itch
It's been seven years since the Brexit vote. Are you surprised we’re still speaking about it? We’re not. Speaking of votes, there are three by-elections coming up because Tories keep quitting. Is our electoral system fair? Is it democratic? Or is it time for a change? And in the extra bit for subscribers the panel discusses how departed MPs should behave post parliament. That’s Oh God, What Now? With special guest and founder of Fair Vote UK, Kyle Taylor.
“Brexit is this massive thing that has turned my life upside down.” – Alex Andreou
“The Tories need to move on from Brexit but Sunak isn’t the man to do that.” – Hannah Fearn
“I think the EU referendum in 2016 was the beginning of the end of democracy in our parts of the world.” – Kyle Taylor
“Without question we’re going to see what the role of AI does to our elections soon.” – Kyle Taylor

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Presented by Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis with Hannah Fearn, Alex Andreou and guest Kyle Taylor. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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55 min
June 20, 2023The Party's Over: Boris Johnson-free edition!
The Covid inquiry is well underway but we won’t get the findings well-after 2026 and THEN some. Too long? Suella Braverman’s wish to increase powers to stop street protests has come true with little to no resistance from Labour. Our panel discuss why? Plus, private school officials hurled the most private school insults at Labour’s shadow education secretary. It called her “chippy” and said she knew “diddly” for planning to add VAT to school fees, A-class snobbery or justified comment?
“You don’t do your mingling when there’s a plague!” – Andrew Harrison
“I was recently disheartened seeing those headlines saying the inquiry had been politicised.” – Rachel Cunliffe
“It’s only just started and already we’ve started to lose sight of what the point of this inquiry is meant to be.” – Rachel Cunliffe.
“If they want this inquiry to be useful, it needs to be done quicker.” – Tom Peck
“I think privately these ‘chippy’ comments will make Labour quite happy.” – Tom Peck

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Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Tom Peck, Rachel Cunliffe and Arthur Snell. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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53 min
June 19, 2023 Taster 📰 PAPER CUTS, our new podcast
If you haven’t tried our new podcast PAPER CUTS yet, here’s a taster. Listen to the full episode here.
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9 min
June 15, 2023EmergencyCast! – Johnson is Finally, Finally, Finally Finished
Boris Johnson was in for trouble. But, bloody hell – the report is worse than even we imagined. So, we’re back to tear through the details in another bonus edition… Dorian, Alex and Naomi gather for a rough and ready EmergencyCast.
“Increasingly this does look like the end to Boris Johnson’s political career because of the hurdles between him and returning.” – Naomi Smith
“I think this is more explosive than anything we’ve heard before.” – Alex Andreou
“He’s basically using a unanimous report to effectively generate positive political capital which is what Trump does.” – Alex Andreou

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Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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28 min
June 15, 2023 Boris Johnson’s Lying Circus
Recorded before the Privileges Committee report landed. We thought the whole point of resigning was to shut up and go away? On his way out, ex-MP Johnson trashes everything from the Privileges Committee to Tory detente to objective truth itself. We reassemble the original Remainiacs team to look at the squalid final days of Britain’s worst Prime Minister. Could he ever come back?
Plus, as Trump ends up in court and Berlusconi goes to the Great Bunga Bunga Party in the Sky, is populism unravelling? And there’s news for long-time listeners.
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• “Johnson is treating the inquiry itself with contempt… Even his fingernails lie. There’s no limit to his depravity.” – Ian Dunt
• “The Trump indictment is like someone fed every John le Carré novel into ChatGPT and then asked it to write an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.” – Alex Andreou
• “The mystique has gone. That sense of the ‘proven winner’ has gone. The Tory Party are not complete chumps. He’s running scared.” – Ian Dunt
• “Johnson’s version of events are undermined because he’s a lying liar that lies.” – Naomi Smith
Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou, Ros Taylor, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Audio producers: Alex Rees and Simon Williams. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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1 hr 13 min
June 13, 2023 The Too Much News Edition
Johnson quits! Trump indicted! Berlusconi dies! Telegraph for sale! Sturgeon nicked! Dorries does… whatever it was she did! This one’s got it all. After a weekend that felt like the ‘Layla’ bit of Goodfellas, the OGWN team convene to look at the aftershocks of Boris Johnson’s flounce, what Trump’s worsening legal woes mean for America’s stability, and who we’d like to take over at the Torygraph. With special guest Eleni Courea, deputy editor of Politico’s London Playbook.

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• “There are so many layers to Johnson’s dishonesty that the idea he was forced out is just fanciful.” – Arthur Snell
• “This idea that Johnson could come back is now completely fading.” – Eleni Courea
• “I feel we’re definitely in Phase IV of the Tory Cinematic Universe…” – Alex Andreou
• “Johnson WAS brought down by a conspiracy… A conspiracy of his own laziness and dishonesty.” – Matt Green

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Presented by Alex Andreou with Matt Green and Arthur Snell. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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1 hr 8 min

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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.