
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Why did it take a TV drama to wake politicians up to what’s been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history? More than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of theft, due to accounting discrepancies caused by the Post Office’s faulty computer system. ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office caused public outrage and has forced the Government into taking unprecedented action. James Harding, former BBC director of News and Current Affairs, joins Nish and Coco to discuss what lessons journalism can learn from the saga.
With the UK, like much of Western Europe, recording historically low birthrates, Nish and Coco wonder why it only seems to be politicians on the right who ever engage with it as an issue. Is it a simple matter of economics, or maybe it’s just 14 years of Conservative Government that’s killed the mood!
Plus Keir Starmer’s glitter-bomber makes a surprise appearance, we find out Coco’s unusual choice of pool nickname, and why the PM is ‘dancing on the ceiling’.
Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media.
Contact us via email: [email protected]
WhatsApp: 07514 644 572 (UK) or + 44 7514 644 572
Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk
Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/podsavetheworld
Guest:
James Harding, co-founder and editor at Tortoise Media
Audio credits:
parliamentlive.tv
ITV Studio / Little Gem
ITV/Good Morning Britain
Sky News
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By Crooked Media4.8
634634 ratings
Why did it take a TV drama to wake politicians up to what’s been described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history? More than 700 sub-postmasters were convicted of theft, due to accounting discrepancies caused by the Post Office’s faulty computer system. ITV’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office caused public outrage and has forced the Government into taking unprecedented action. James Harding, former BBC director of News and Current Affairs, joins Nish and Coco to discuss what lessons journalism can learn from the saga.
With the UK, like much of Western Europe, recording historically low birthrates, Nish and Coco wonder why it only seems to be politicians on the right who ever engage with it as an issue. Is it a simple matter of economics, or maybe it’s just 14 years of Conservative Government that’s killed the mood!
Plus Keir Starmer’s glitter-bomber makes a surprise appearance, we find out Coco’s unusual choice of pool nickname, and why the PM is ‘dancing on the ceiling’.
Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media.
Contact us via email: [email protected]
WhatsApp: 07514 644 572 (UK) or + 44 7514 644 572
Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk
Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/podsavetheworld
Guest:
James Harding, co-founder and editor at Tortoise Media
Audio credits:
parliamentlive.tv
ITV Studio / Little Gem
ITV/Good Morning Britain
Sky News
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3,731 Listeners

339 Listeners

1,243 Listeners

87,587 Listeners

24,680 Listeners

8,766 Listeners

201 Listeners

4,149 Listeners

9,775 Listeners

12,738 Listeners

2,680 Listeners

7,239 Listeners

7,870 Listeners

5,813 Listeners

2,722 Listeners

95 Listeners

2,303 Listeners

3,095 Listeners

615 Listeners

1,028 Listeners

71 Listeners

380 Listeners

449 Listeners

181 Listeners

263 Listeners

395 Listeners

890 Listeners

130 Listeners

12 Listeners

1,728 Listeners

57 Listeners

28 Listeners