• Join our OGWN vs Origin Story Tenth Birthday Podclash on Zoom on Thur 30 April. 

What happens if Reform actually wins? We dive into a darkly plausible near-future where Nigel Farage becomes PM and everything goes… about as well as you’d expect. It’s all gamed out in a new fact-based “non-fiction thriller”, What If Reform Wins? by our special guest, Times reporter Peter Chappell – from how Reform would tackle an ICE-style crackdown to the end of Net Zero and the return of Dominic Cummings. This could be the future, so how do we stop it?

Plus: Is the UK ready for a politics that does God? The IMF warns Britain could take the biggest hit from the Iran War’s economic shock. Should we get behind Samantha Niblett MP’s Summer of Sex? And in the Extra Bit… after the smooth dancefloor moves of victorious Hungarian MP Zsolt Hegedűs “broke the internet” we ask – should politicians be less embarrassed about dancing?

• Pre-order What If Reform Wins: A Scenario  by Peter Chappell – it’s out 30 April. 

• Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at [email protected]

ESCAPE ROUTES

• Marie read and loved The Door by Magda Szabó.

• Jonn recommends No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.

• Peter went ceilidh dancing at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, north London. 

• Matt is watching Steve Carrel’s new series Rooster on HBO Max, Now and Sky. 

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Presented by Matt Green with Marie Le Conte and Jonn Elledge. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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