Welcome to our first ever Christmas special! We've searched from pole to pole and each chosen a special guest to invite to our festive dinner.

Join us as we delve into their ideas, debate where they sit on the political spectrum and question just how Christmassy they really are. Featuring crackers, trivia and a fist fight with Santa, tis the season to be podcasty.

In this episode, we examine parties and movements looking to shake up the way we address crime and punishment in the UK. From thought crimes to suspicious bovines, we'll be asking if times up for prisons or revenge is a dish best served in a cell.

We meet the parties on the left and the right taking the fight on climate change to the polls, all while we discover an inconvenient truth…. the UK's 2050 Net-Zero target might be too little too late!

In this episode, we find out if bigger really is better, or whether it's just a question of how you use it.

We serve up a sandwich of Communist ideas, calculate how much Libertarianism is too much Libertarianism, and pit the Marxist Leninists (*brackets*) against the new Socialist kids on the block, all while the pesky Lib Dems continue their campaign to waylay the pod...

We take a journey from north to south exploring regional parties on the hunt for power, with some who are willing to take it by any means necessary...

As we break down the policies and candidates of the recent Hamilton and Rutherglen West by-election, we learn that one of our hosts is surprisingly well connected and even has dirt on one of the candidates...

After stealing and repurposing a book idea, our hosts embark on a journey across the mad fringes of British politics in search of ideas so silly they just might work...