Oh God, What Now?

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May 08, 2020“Authoritarian in the streets, Libertarian in the sheets”
As Britain registers the worst COVID toll in Europe, why is blame for the failure sliding off Boris Johnson? Lovelorn Prof Neil Ferguson feels the sap rising. Operation Bookshelf Barbarossa. Why VE Day belongs to us, not the petty nationalists. Is the fish a credible war animal? And who decided that if you’re pro-Brexit you’ve got to be pro-virus too? Dorian Lynskey, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt police one another’s tones.
“People are saying this is not the time to criticise the government. It’s TRIPLY the time to criticise the government.” – Ian Dunt
“VE Day wasn’t about victory OVER Europe. We can’t let the Daily Mail own it.” – Naomi Smith
“If anyone’s going to fight to the death to go to the pub right now, it’s me.” – Ian Dunt

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Naomi Smith. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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May 01, 2020“Outwitted by goo.”
This week in Euro-Plague news: How is Sweden’s risky approach to the COVID crisis really working? James Savage of news network The Local joins us from Stockholm to give us the view on the ground. Plus: That weird feeling when the person demanding a proper merciless lockdown is… evil Dominic Cummings? Alan Sugar’s totalitarian boomer tweets. And why we shouldn’t trust people who say we don’t trust journalists. Also… towns!
“The Brexiters are realising that the economic hit of COVID will be so enormous that Brexit will seem small beer. And they are hoping to take advantage of that.” – Ros Taylor
“They’ve created the idea that they’re fighting a sentient enemy… because the alternative is to admit that our government was outwitted by goo.” – Alex Andreou

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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57 min
April 24, 2020“But their emails!”
“They want power, but they don’t know why.” How this government’s obsession with rebutting bad COVID news is masking a total absence of ideas. As No.10’s story on our failure to join the EU joint purchase of medical equipment falls apart, Naomi gives a true crime fan’s guide to the timeline. Fire and brimstone among the Brexiters as a few heretics float the idea of extending transition. And is exiting under No Deal in midwinter – prime COVID Wave 2 time! – really a good idea, Minister?
“The government prioritised its own image over the country’s health, and that decision has been disastrous.” – Naomi Smith
“These are cosplay politicians. And in a real crisis, pretend politicians cost lives.” – Alex Andreou

Presented by Ros Taylor with Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Ben Stewart. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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56 min
April 17, 2020 D’oh! You Priti Thing
Priti Patel’s nonpologies. Former Green MEP and Brighton & Hove Mayor Alex Phillips joins us to look at how the Corona crisis could at least provide an opportunity for a green reboot of economics. Alex and Dorian read the entire leaked Labour antisemitism report so you don’t have to (they wish THEY didn’t have to). Will the EU Corona bailout actually work for European countries – and is Britain really going to stampede towards No Deal, now of all times?

“The same people who told us Brexit was more important than the economy are now telling us there’s NOTHING more important than the economy.” – Alex Andreou

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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1 hr 2 min
April 10, 2020 Failing the global stress test?
Is Brussels’ hamfisted approach to resurrecting the European economy really a danger the EU’s own existence? Will Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation expose the flaws in his Corona policy? Where in the world is Priti Patel? And we’re joined by Fleur Anderson MP, the only Labour gain in the 2019 General Election, to look at Keir Starmer’s options to regenerate Labour – and the party’s future position on Europe. (This edition recorded before the EU stimulus deal was struck on Thur 9 April).

“The EU was always going to be really terrible at Part One of this crisis. But Part Two, the reconstruction, is where the EU can come into its own.” – Alex Andreou

“We are about to see something properly seismic in the world economy… If we see material deterioration in poorer economies that will be very, very bleak indeed.” – Ian Dunt

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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1 hr 4 min
April 03, 2020A moment of clarity?
Will the seismic trauma of COVID-19 provide the moment of clarity we need to change the way we live? Authoritarian governments seize on Corona to enact the repressive moves they’ve always craved. Chemicals and ventilators: is the Government’s slipperiness with facts undermining its Corona message? Transition denialism drags us towards the abyss. And our special guest, former Labour MP for Bury James Frith, give his totally disinterested take on the arrival of the Starminator.
“There IS a money tree – and it isn’t magic. It is sensible to spend money when you need to.” – Ian Dunt
“There will be an upside to this crisis if it makes us confront the changes we need to make in society and in work… It could force a welcome change.” – James Frith
“You hear people saying don’t question the police, it’s an emergency, don’t complain… That is precisely the opposite to the approach we should be taking.” – Ian Dunt

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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55 min
March 27, 2020 Panicky in the UK?
REMOTELY RECORDED FOR YOUR HYGIENE… Has the deepening Corona crisis rendered the Brexiteers’ plans for economic nirvana obsolete? Why the EU’s big financial guns are coming out. Special guest Charlotte Potts – London political correspondent for Deutsche Welle – tells us what Germany thinks of Britain’s efforts on transition, Johnson’s wayward handling of COVID-19… and Angela Merkel’s unexpected last stand. And have the Brexit years created a hysterical media that’s no longer fit to cover a real emergency?

“The people who’ve spent the last five years calling everyone a snowflake had a meltdown on day one of the pubs being closed. Was it their Safe Space?” – Alex Andreou

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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1 hr
March 20, 2020 At War With The Invisible Enemy
RECORDED FROM SECRET BUNKERS ACROSS EUROPE… As the Corona Crisis deepens, is the Government blowing its response? Will Fortress Britain have to request an extension to our transition out of EU arrangements? Guest Mike Galsworthy of Scientists 4 EU tells us what’s really going on with the science of the COVID battle. Plus, the truth about Dominic Cummings’ secret science army. The heroic return of Our Man in Mykonos Alex Andreou, if only in a virtual context. And top tips for working from home.

Please forgive our wayward sound quality. We’re recording in rooms spread across London (and in the Cycladic Islands…). Remainiacs is on lockdown. What else is new?

“If you keep electing people whose explicit aim is to atrophy the State, you can’t complain when the State can’t spring into action when you need it.” – Alex Andreou

“Dominic Cummings clearly loves science – but he’s hurting the thing he loves.” – Mike Galsworthy

Presented by Ros Taylor with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

If you like Remainiacs, try our new companion podcast THE BUNKER, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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1 hr 5 min
March 13, 2020 The Coronacession – plus Dark Money brought to light
Crisis? What, MORE crisis? How well is plucky Brexit Britain set up to cope up with the Coronacession? (Spoiler: badly). Investigative academic Seth Alexander Thévoz shows the breathtaking power of untraceable dark money in UK elections – and how it helped the Tories knock down the Red Wall. The EU shames itself in the Greece-Turkey refugee crisis. Toilet paper: Britain displays its Bumkirk Spirit. And the clucking awful truth about chlorine chicken.

“The economy was screwed already. Boris bounce? Absolute rubbish. The economy has been flatlining. And now here comes Coronavirus.” – ROS

“The question isn’t ‘Is there Russian money in British politics?’ It’s ‘Why should Britain be the only country where there ISN’T Russian money sloshing around?’” – SETH

Presented by Naomi Smith with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

If you like Remainiacs, try our new companion podcast THE BUNKER, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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55 min
March 06, 2020 Britain self-isolates
As the Coronavirus bites, the government decides it’s a good time to cut us off from the EU Pandemic Warning system. PLUS: who makes the Nazis? HOPE Not Hate’s Nick Lowles on how Brexit rolled out the carpet for the extreme right, up to and including actual Nazi Satanists.

Red tape bad, blue tape good: the 50,000 customs officers nobody asked for. And how mad do you have to be to think that No.10 loves the Priti Patel scandal because it keeps the Russia report quiet?

”The reason the traditional far right is so weak is that you’ve got people in the very centre of politics saying exactly the things they used to say.” – Nick Lowles

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production and script by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop.

If you like Remainiacs, try our new companion podcast THE BUNKER, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too.

Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform.

You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan

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1 hr 1 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.