This week we consider whether we should be made to vote in elections. As usual, we’ll look at both sides of the argument, so you can make a (relatively) well informed decision.

In Front Page Face Off, we go back to the ‘B’ word, in an article from the Daily Telegraph that insists Brexit was a success. Plus we talk Mehdi Hasan on YouTube’s Jubilee.

And Maya steps through to the Rant Room, does a fantastic impression of Sydney Sweeney and gets angry about jeans….. or genes.

We also welcome our special guest for this week - Rachel Reeves (not the real)!

LINKS TO ARTICLES

Economics Observartory https://www.economicsobservatory.com/what-do-we-know-about-voter-turnout-in-parliamentary-elections

Daily Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/07/brexit-has-been-a-success-labour-are-slowly-killing-it/  

Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/08/surrounded-show-jubilee-media-mainstream-has-it-succumbed-hateful-vitriol  

Daily Telegraph - Sydney Sweeney - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/08/01/left-wants-everything-to-be-ugly-why-hate-sydney-sweeney/?recomm_id=467973c0-00a7-4a9e-8793-8798b0924900  

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See you next week!

Nige & Maya

TimeStamps:

START 00:00

Intro: 00:39 We welcome Rachel Reeves (not the real) to the podcast 

Debate Start:  02:55 Should we make voting in elections compulsory?

FPFO: 32:30 Brexit and Mehdi Hasan on Jubilee Surrounded

Rant Room: 42:13 Maya lets rip on Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle jeans

Leave Comments Outro: 48:44