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- 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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1 hr 2 min - B-Side: Élysée-come, Élysée-go
French students have decided to lightly flambé the republic and things have rapidly got incontrôlable.
We're joined by Quiet Riot's favourite Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to disect what is going on and consider how it might impact on France's looming elections.
PLUS a Grin And Share It dug up from the mud.
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• More about Emmylou the mudlark
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54 min - Kemi-detached
Conference season finally gets around to the Tories which means it's Kemi Badenoch's turn to preach to the choir.
Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at policy, presentation and polling, to discern whether the upbeat mood in the conference hall is likely to translate into an uptick in the Conservatives' moribund polling figures.
PLUS a particularly timely instalment of God! Less America!
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• Bug your MP about our relationship with Europe
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1 hr 5 min - Sunday School: 24-Hour Party Conference People
Andy Burnham's arrival has seemingly rejuvenated not only Labour, but all British politics. Maybe competition does work in some sectors!
Naomi and Alex look at Zack Polanski's speech to the Greens' shindig - he seems increasingly under pressure - and contrast it with a very buoyant Rhun ap Iorwerth addressing Plaid Cymru, whose biggest risk is allowing ebullience to morph into overreach.
PLUS we look at Senator Eric Schmitt's incredible viral own goal and ask each other for the worst faceplants we have witnessed.
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1 hr 2 min - B-Side: Handle with Care
Andy Burnham's biggest announcement – in a conference speech littered with the things – was his ambition to create a National Care Service, which he said would be as significant as the NHS.
We can't fault his ambitions especially as, at Quiet Riot, we have all had dealings with care services and know only too well how threadbare and inadequate present provisions are.
That big ambition, of course, comes with a lot of very big questions – not least about funding his plans. Join Alex, Naomi and Kenny as they did a little deeper into the realities and politics of what is going on.
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• Take part in Louise Casey's Big Conversation on Care
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• Cover art by Rod Long on Unsplash
Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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56 min - Burnham: Straight fom the heart
Andy Burnham's big speech to Labour was big on ambition, big on ideas and big on emotion.
If you liked what you heard, then there's a good chance you think it was the best such speech in a decade if not more; if you didn't, then you probably realise that battling Burnham isn't going to be like battling our other recent PMs.
Naomi, Alex and Kenny break Burnham's big number down into bitesize chunks, because there is a LOT to digest. And they'll be back with B-Side to look at the social care proposals in more detail.
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• What could a new electoral system look like?
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• Get your opinion published – write to an actual newspaper!
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1 hr 3 min - Sunday School: Never Mind The Ballots
A snap General Election? No way, says Andy Burnham.
Do we believe him? Is it a smart call? Does anyone outside of the Westminster bubble actually want a General Election any time soon?
Alex and Kenny ponder all of that, and take some time to dwell upon what happened in that other political bubble, Trump World, when Xi Jinping came to talk ... was there a winner?
PLUS tiny acts of rebellion – a celebration, in honour of the angry fellow filling potholes with palm trees, as you do.
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• 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
Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production.
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1 hr 3 min - B-Side: Carry On Cymru
Reform UK have had such a heroic meltdown in Wales, we had to do a special on it ... and we couldn't keep up.
Join Alex and Kenny as our Welsh expert Will Hayward looks on in wonder at how Reform have imploded (and continue to implode).
PLUS Naomi's been hanging around the Lib Dem conference in Brighton – what has she learned, and what gossip is she able to share with us..?
All this and PROBABLY the best ever Wokey Dokey and the best ever Old News!
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• Old News: When a Highland village declared independence (and even the Queen and Thatcher agreed)
• Follow the new Cooler Heads pod, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything?
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1 hr 11 min - When Andy Met Donny
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And so Andy Burnham's first face-to-face with Trump passed off without blood being spilled, although Chagos islanders may disagree with that interpretation.
Alex and Kenny are joined by geopolitics expert, former diplomat and host of Behind The Lines Arthur Snell, to dig under the surface of this week's shenanigans at the UN General Assembly, and find that Chagos was very much a side issue to everyone except the British media. But there was a lot more to discuss...
PLUS you may think Alex and Kenny barely have a brain between them, but what if they actually have FOUR? Listen in to find out more...
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• That amazing brain research
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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 3 min - Sunday School: Canadian Club anyone?
It's been a big week for Europe and Canada, with Mark Carney's historic appearance at the European Parliament, and a political love-in between him and Ursula von der Lyen.
Naomi and Kenny look on in wonder as Canada gets closer to the EU than Britain has been in a very long time, and ask: what on earth is an EU 'Associate Member'?
What are the implications for Europe and for Britain? And what role has the Ukraine war played in all of this?
Plus ... the Quiet Riot guide to gilts and bonds. You challenged us to try to explain government borrowing and we're giving it a go! Email us if we got it wrong ... heck, email us if we got it right too! We're at [email protected]
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• Tell Andy Burnham what you feel about Canada being closer to Europe than Britain is HERE
• Get our book choices – London Falling, and The Unremembered Places – at the QR online bookshop
• Comedian Andy Parsons explains austerity to a 12-year-old ... the full clip!
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About Quiet Riot
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Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
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- Number 3: When Andy Met Donny1 hr 3 min
- Number 4: B-Side: Carry On Cymru1 hr 11 min
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