Alex Andreou talks to journalist, best-selling author - and former Wallaby - Peter FitzSimons about the results, the campaign, the Trump backlash, the extraordinary phenomenon of The Teals, and the inexportability of American culture wars.

What lessons can Labour in the UK learn?

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”The key transformation was when Donald Trump got elected. The vast majority of Australians looked at Trump aghast. Day after day after day, we have seen chaos on roller-skates. And most said: look, we may not know what we’re doing, but we’re not doing THAT.” 

“The Liberals have been wiped out. The problem is that I don’t see any potential leader among them who can say what needs to be said. And what needs to be said is: All you old white blokes who oppose marriage equality, out! All the people who deny the science of climate change, out! You are stinking up the place.”

“Trumpian politics is about activating your base. So you get every nutter you can to vote for you. In Australia , everyone has to vote, so it’s not about activating any base. It’s about appealing to the largest number of people.” 

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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith analyse the week's political news, including the results of the local and mayoral elections in England, the by-election in Runcorn, and the general election in Australia.

Is Starmer missing on the anti-Trump dividend?

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“Labour need to start governing. They need to stop triangulating and start running the country. They are wasting the term they have been given, worrying about a second one. They can do a lot of good, if they stop being terrified of losing power in 2029 and start using the power they have in 2025.”

“Every single time I speak to officials in Brussels, they ask: ‘What does your government want, Naomi? We’re very open about what we would like to see from the reset. We still don’t know what you guys want.’ And if they don’t know, then British voters sure-as-hell don’t know.”

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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith opolling guru Peter Kellner, dissect opinions polls on Trump's second, first, 100 Days in the White House, the result of the Canadian election, and preview the local and mayoral elections in England.

Plus 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.

“What Mark Carney did was to come close to monopolising the centre/centre-left vote. Which, of course, might have echoes for what Starmer needs to do here. Labour is losing many more votes to the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and the SNP. Labour is suffering, in large measure, because the progressive vote is fragmenting.”

“Businesses live in an uncertain world, but it’s what I would call ‘ordered uncertainty’. We don’t know whether interest rates will be half a point up or down in a year, but we know how the decision will be taken, the forces at work. There is a rational basis for the array of possibilities. With Trump, there is irrational uncertainty.”

“We may, in some local and mayoral contests, which are four- or five-way splits, see very strange results; people elected on a quarter of the vote. In 48 hours, when we know all the figures, they may be the greatest argument that electoral reformers have ever had.”

“Brexit trade barriers were going to defy the laws of economics. And didn't. And in a surprise to precisely no one, except maybe Navarro, the same is happening in the US.”

“If I were to try and find a silver lining to Trump’s first 100 days, it is this: Our time on this Earth is limited, so we should all be thankful to someone that makes it feel SO. MUCH. LONGER.” 

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CALLS TO ACTION

VOTE!

Also, subscribe to Peter Kellner's substack here.

Also, sign up for the Europe Day lunchtime zoom here - 9 May at 12:30.

GRIN AND SHARE IT

An new home for an old olive tree - read about it here.

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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. A Cooler Heads production, in cahoots with Sandstone Global.

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, including the mood music (AARGH) around the upcoming UK/EU summit and Reeves' visit to Washington, the latest IMF economic report, and the Pope's funeral as well as the politics that unfolded around it.

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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126⁠

SPOTIFY: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f⁠

AMAZON MUSIC: ⁠https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey⁠

OVERCAST: ⁠https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q⁠

POCKET CASTS: ⁠https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd⁠

YouTube Music: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo⁠

PODBEAN: ⁠https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast⁠

Or you can add it to any app, using the RSS feed:⁠ https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey⁠

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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith on a special episode, à trois, with Kenny Campbell discuss the skip fire that is the Trump administration right now - including Pete Hegseth's imminent departure to spend more time with a bottle of Grey Goose, Elon Musk's reversing away from the White House, so fast he should make a beeping noise, and RFK Jr's obsession with jizz.

We also discuss the anti-far-right conference in Scotland and why Reform UK seem to be doing quite well north of the border.

Plus 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.

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CALLS TO ACTION

Free resources from US public radio NPR and how to support them.

https://www.npr.org/

GRIN AND SHARE IT

Read about fermented banana drinks and The Tanzanian Diet here.

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Naomi Smith gets the behind the scenes skinny on Podyssey from Alex Andreou. Where did the idea come from? What's coming up in Season 2? What is the most surprising fact so far?

Lots of exclusive access, previews, and exclusive announcements.

ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f

AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey

OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q

POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd

YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, including the Supreme Court's decision on the protections under the Equality Act, the Trump administration's ultimatum in Ukraine, and rumours of a UK/France returns deal.

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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f

AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey

OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q

POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd

YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest Rafael Behr to talk about the choices facing the Starmer government. Or as Raf put it "the fork on the road that everyone seems to see, but Starmer refuses to acknowledge.

And - why has our right wing media landscape become so Americanised?

Plus 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.

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”I think we should be very glad that we are blessed with quite bad fascists.” 

“The public expect Starmer to be more ambitious in recalibrating the UK’s relationship with the EU. If he is not prepared to do that now, when the atmospherics are what they are and the entire world order has been turned upside-down, maybe we have to accept he is just not going to do it.”

“There is no way to explain why one would think TikTok is dangerous because the firm is close to the Chinese regime, but X is fine because it is fully owned by a rich guy that does Nazi salutes, to think one agenda dangerous but not the other, that doesn’t involve some basic ‘state-bad, private-good’ belief.” 

“There is a profound crisis in the British Right, because the refutation of their big-picture political model has been so thorough - not just Brexit, austerity, the Truss budget, the most popular thing Sunak ever did was to pay everyone’s wages - they have nowhere to go.” 

CALLS TO ACTION

Go here to add your voice on what our new UK/EU relationship should look like.

https://www.commonsensedeal.com/

Foxglove - the UK organisation fighting for tech equality can be found here.

The international network People vs Big Tech is here.

GRIN AND SHARE IT

Read about antiviral lablab chewing gum.

READING

Read the FT piece about why the anti-woke platform seems to have backfired for Australian Conservatives.

ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f

AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey

OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q

POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd

YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast

Or you can add it to any app, using the RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, including the dramatic recall of Parliament on Saturday to rescue the Scunthorpe Steel Works, the over racism David Lammy gets, and Sunak's resignation dishonours.

Packed and gorgeous and VERY funny.

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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f

AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey

OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q

POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd

YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast

Or you can add it to any app, using the RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest Henry Morris to talk - what else? - TRUMP TARIFF MADNESS, as well as the destruction of biodoversity, why it matters, and why we find it difficult to balance it with the need to build.

Plus 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.

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”Trump wanted the Nobel peace prize, for resolving the situation in Ukraine within 24hours. Having failed… he’s now trying for the economics one. Maybe he’ll do the double.” 

“The story of Julius Caesar seems to map very well onto the story of Donald Trump , the end of the Republic and a man declaring himself King, in a place that is not designed for Kings.” 

CALLS TO ACTION

Tell your MP here to attend the debate on our future relationship with the EU.

Become and advocate for the flora and fauna that does not have a voice at Wild Justice.

Support the petition to ban driven grouse shooting here.

David Allen Green's piece on Trump abusng emergency legislation.

GRIN AND SHARE IT

Read about Amber Rudd heading a group of pro-European Tories.

ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:

APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f

AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey

OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q

POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd

YouTube Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=l9GIOOP7pUU&list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo

PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast

Or you can add it to any app, using the RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.

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