Oh God, What Now?

Very excited to welcome legendary food journalist and Observer restaurant critic JAY RAYNER for the eye-opening, jaw-dropping hard truths of Britain’s Brexitised food policy.

Are we really only days away from empty shelves in the event of Hard Brexit? Why is our food culture still shaped by the effects of WWII? Which parts of EU food policy ARE a disaster (that we won’t be able to influence once we leave)? And did you know that it’s now OK to eat cod, and climate change has produced a huge increase in availability of fish in the Baring Sea…?

Plus: Corbyn’s “cheap imported labour” muddle – Peter explains what the European Posted Workers Directive really entails. Did you know that British spy Christopher Steele who wrote the Trump dossier also conducted the inquiry into the Litvenenko murder? What does THAT mean? And we go nuts for BBC Northern Ireland’s spoof Brexumentary ‘Soft Border Force’ (have YOU had the Ebola?).

“There might be so little to eat that you’ll be GLAD of chlorine chicken…”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Peter Collins. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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“Smell my EU protected denomination cheese, you mother!" This week’s special guest is the great DAVID SCHNEIDER, comedy legend of ‘Death Of Stalin’, ‘I’m Alan Partridge’ and ‘The Day Today’ fame. Listen up as he tells us how the Leave mentality works, what Brexit has done to satire, how the Alan Partridge mentality won in the end… and how he’s going to wreck the Johnson family’s Christmas. 

Plus: Tariff Wars! Our future in the tiny hands of an America First lunatic. Life inside the phone box with Henry Bolton’s new party. Forget the Youthquake, it’s all about the RENTquake. And stop talking the Titanic down, Britain…

“Either May’s a goner now or she’s a goner in the future when she has to pick a side. But either way, she’s a goner.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Studio production: Sophie Black. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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Jeremy Corbyn has FINALLY come out in favour of “a” Customs Union. But are Labour’s ideas just Tory cake-and-eat-it promises with red icing on top? And why is he still repeating the Big Bus Lie that we can fund everything with imaginary money returned from Brussels? Special guest HELEN LEWIS, deputy editor of the New Statesman, joins us to dissect Jezza’s new-look Brexit policy.

(Annoyingly, we recorded this one after May had dismissed the EU exit treaty draft out of hand. Grrr. Again.)

Plus: The Irish Border problem that won’t go away and the brazen idiocy of Boris Johnson’s “Oyster Card” solution. Should Britain get a grip and stop worshipping Winston Churchill? Would you eat TRUMP BEEF? And discover how a single punch in a Commons bar led inexorably to the Brexit catastrophe.

“For people like Liam Fox, Brexit is the abiding mission of their political lives. You’d imagine they’d have thought about it a bit more before now…”

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Last sane man on the airwaves and giant of Remain JAMES O’BRIEN of LBC joins us for possibly THE most epic interview we’ve yet had, in a special take-no-prisoners edition of Remainiacs. From BBC balance to Paul Dacre’s reign of terror over Tory ministers to Farage, Minford Madness and the DUP on Viagra, James puts it ALL to rights. Trust us, you don’t want to miss this one. 

Plus: The European Research Group’s latest punishment beating for Theresa May. Peace in Northern Ireland gets thrown on the Brexit bonfire. Can new anti-Brexit party Renew move the needle? Why a Ragged Army can beat an organised mass. And the weaponisation of complaint. 

This week’s moral: “Just because you’ve won the argument, it doesn’t mean you’re right."

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Studio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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This week on the podcast that know clarity from carrots: end-of-career music hall turn Boris Johnson “reaches out” to Remainers by telling us to shut up and agree with him. The Government re-re-re-relaunches its Brexit policy – again. Fish passports and foie gras. John McDonnell’s simple solutions to complicated problems. Plus: Tariffs! Tariffs! Tariffs! Why do they matter and what will Brexit do to them? And are the great villains of fiction LEAVE or REMAIN?

“If goods can’t cross borders, soldiers will.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Naomi Smith, Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Studio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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PODFLASH: Two big Brexit stories broke immediately after we finished recording last week's episode, and we didn't want to wait til next Friday to deal with them. So Ian Dunt met our producer Andrew Harrison in the Red Lion pub off Whitehall to discuss the trashing of philanthropist George Soros – is Britain REALLY buying the worst conspiracy theories of Eastern European autocrats? Plus, those leaked regional impact statements and what they mean. Beware: pubby background noise.

Regular scheduled episodes return on Friday 16 Feb as normal.

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This week on the podcast that NEVER fiddles the figures: What will Brexit do to work in Britain? Employment consultant Rachel Marangozov joins us to explain what leaving the EU might really mean for the future of jobs. That odd-looking death threat to a Leave voter that Zac Goldsmith chose to share on Twitter rather than sending to the police. And more Rees-Mogg than anyone can reasonably handle.

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Peter Collins. Studio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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It’s a deep-thinking edition of Remainiacs as we welcome Prof AC GRAYLING – Philosopher, Master of the New College of the Humanities and intellectual engine-room of Remain – to examine what Brexit really means for British democracy. Can it be stopped? How? What has it done to Britain? And the Referendum dilemma: if the 2016 vote wasn’t truly democratic, can another referendum to fix it be democratic either?

PLUS: Jeremy Corbyn’s baby steps towards the Brexit policy his voters wants. The leaked impact assessment that shows how any flavour of Brexit will tank the economy. Theresa May’s poison chalice. And a surprise mystery guest.

Also it’s the last episode of Remainiacs for our producer Matt Hall, who is heading off to the world of Big Podcast. We’ll miss him and we know certain listeners will miss his “distinctive” laugh. Farewell, Matt…

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Producers are Andrew Harrison and (for one last time) Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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WE LOVE PARRIS IN THE SPRINGTIME… This week, noted Times and Spectator columnist and former Conservative MP MATTHEW PARRIS joins us for your weekly dose of Brexit badinage. Why do so many Tory MPs hate Boris Johnson? Is his ‘Bridge Over Bullshit Waters’ feasible? What’s life like when you’re a Remainiac Conservative? And why should we be glad and not angry that British democracy has become a provincial car boot sale?

PLUS More bawdy fun in long-running Westminster farce ‘Carry On Ukip’. We read Geert Mak’s Euro-travelogue ‘In Europe’ and Ian and Dorian prepare to appear on a special crossover episode with Bigmouth, the pop culture podcast. Why not subscribe at https:po.st/BGMitunes so you don’t miss it?

“The lunatics were always IN the asylum. Now they’ve taken over the asylum.” – Matthew Parris

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On this week’s show… What’s behind Nigel Farage’s will-we-won’t-we routine on a Second Referendum? Does he just want to stay in the news – or does he know something we don’t? Our panel check which way the wind is blowing for another vote to undo the last one. 

Plus PLAY MAGNA CARTA FOR ME: the tangled love life of Ukip leader (at time of writing) Henry Bolton. The little-known clause in a government bill that means we could rejoin the Customs Union on the very day we leave it. And why Carillion is a Brexit issue after all. 

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Peter Collins, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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