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- Sunday School: The Next Generation
Today we look to the young voters of Serbia and Brazil, who have helped achieve quite remarkable political results, and also back to the late Patrick Stewart, whose politics were as admirable and authentic as his acting.
Alex and Kenny also turn their gaze to the BBC News team and, in particular, claims that the Beeb is platforming Reform UK in a way that allows Farage to set the agenda rather than responding to it.
Plus there some Celebrity Traitors to get stuck into ... join us in the Tower for a particularly packed Sunday School!
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• Arthur Snell's excellent Behind The Lines primer on India's Cockroach Revolution
• We're on Instagram!
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Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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1 hr 9 min - No rabbits were harmed in the making of this Budget
And so to John Healey's Budget which went... pretty well as predicted.
Horses were not scared, rabbits were not pulled from hats and Healey was, well, pretty dogged.
Alex and Kenny are joined by economist extraordinaire Vicky Pryce to look at the headlines but also to dive beneath the surface of a Budget that was big on the volume of announcements if not surprise.
PLUS ... that Liz Truss book. HOW much of a stinker is it? As we're doing rabbits, we may as well do lettuces too.
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• Write to your MP with some positive reinforcement!
• The latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? is out!
• We're on Instagram!
• We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there!
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• Cover image based on a photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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1 hr 10 min - B-Side: Exposing the Covid care home scandal
'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
• The latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? is out!
• We're on Instagram!
• We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there!
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• Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com
• Cover image based on a photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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1 hr 1 min - Sunday School: Robot Reboot – good machine v bad machine
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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• Want another fascinating listen? Seek out the latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything?
• We're on Instagram!
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• Email us at [email protected]
• Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com
• Cover image based on a photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash
Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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1 hr 2 min - It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
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
• Watch out for the latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Saturday!
• America's remarkable list of non-ambassadors
• We're on Instagram!
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• Email us at [email protected]
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1 hr 8 min - B-Side: The Last of First Past The Post?
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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• Follow the APPG for Fair Elections on Bluesky
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48 min - Sunday School: Revolting Door Policy
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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• Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com
• Image of Farage by Gage Skidmore used under Wikimedia license.
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1 hr 11 min - The politics of science
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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• Get Michael's excellent book, What Everyone Knows About Britain Except The British, at our online bookstore
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• Email us at [email protected]
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• Cover image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine on Unsplash
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45 min - Back to the fEUture
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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1 hr 3 min - Sunday School: Zack's the way the cookie crumbles
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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• Read Caroline Lucas's piece in the New Statesman
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Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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