Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith, Kenny Campbell
A snap General Election? No way, says Andy Burnham. Do we believe him? Is it a smart call? Does anyone outside of the Westminster bubble actually want a General Election any time soon? Alex and Kenny ponder all of that, and take some time to dwell upon what happened in that other political bubble, Trump World, when Xi Jinping came to talk ... was there a winner? PLUS tiny acts of rebellion – a celebration, in honour of the angry fellow filling potholes with palm trees, as you do. ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Reform UK have had such a heroic meltdown in Wales, we had to do a special on it ... and we couldn't keep up. Join Alex and Kenny as our Welsh expert Will Hayward looks on in wonder at how Reform have imploded (and continue to implode). PLUS Naomi's been hanging around the Lib Dem conference in Brighton – what has she learned, and what gossip is she able to share with us..? All this and PROBABLY the best ever Wokey Dokey and the best ever Old News! ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Old News: When a Highland village declared independence (and even the Queen and Thatcher agreed) • Follow the new Cooler Heads pod, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** And so Andy Burnham's first face-to-face with Trump passed off without blood being spilled, although Chagos islanders may disagree with that interpretation. Alex and Kenny are joined by geopolitics expert, former diplomat and host of Behind The Lines Arthur Snell, to dig under the surface of this week's shenanigans at the UN General Assembly, and find that Chagos was very much a side issue to everyone except the British media. But there was a lot more to discuss... PLUS you may think Alex and Kenny barely have a brain between them, but what if they actually have FOUR? Listen in to find out more... ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** Listen to Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell and subscribe to his substack Not All Doom. • That amazing brain research • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's been a big week for Europe and Canada, with Mark Carney's historic appearance at the European Parliament, and a political love-in between him and Ursula von der Lyen. Naomi and Kenny look on in wonder as Canada gets closer to the EU than Britain has been in a very long time, and ask: what on earth is an EU 'Associate Member'? What are the implications for Europe and for Britain? And what role has the Ukraine war played in all of this? Plus ... the Quiet Riot guide to gilts and bonds. You challenged us to try to explain government borrowing and we're giving it a go! Email us if we got it wrong ... heck, email us if we got it right too! We're at quietriotpod@gmail.com ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Tell Andy Burnham what you feel about Canada being closer to Europe than Britain is HERE • Get our book choices – London Falling, and The Unremembered Places – at the QR online bookshop • Comedian Andy Parsons explains austerity to a 12-year-old ... the full clip! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts*** Piddington has declared independence! That's Piddington, down the road from Bicester and all its designer outlets. Alex, Naomi and Kenny ask what on earth is gong on, and what does it tell us about the power of community? They are joined by Kaneez Shaid and Will Higham who are, happily, releasing a fab new podcast all about how to activate your community and go on a quest for a better world. It's called How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? and it's the newest addition to the Cooler Heads podcast family (that's our little operation!). ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The radical community organiser's primer: Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky ... in our bookshop! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts*** All of a sudden, Reform UK has loadsamoney. In fact, this week it's received more wonga than all the UK political parties received last year. So should we congratulate Farage & Co? Or is this the perfect time (OK, perhaps a little late) to re-examine what the implications for the funding and operation of our political parties are? Naomi, Kenny and Alex are joined by Kaneez Shaid and Will Higham – both to chat funding and to reveal details of their fab new podcast, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything?, which is the newest addition to our Cooler Heads family of shows! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The Electoral Commission keeps track of political spending • And the Register of Members' Financial Interests is a treasure trove of MP funding info • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SUPPORT US ON KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Trump is so thistry for the midterms, he is offering bribes from money he doesn't have. Stephen Yaxley Lennon is promising to pay it forward but doesn't. And tech bros want it so much, they're okay with species extinction. Naomi and Alex laugh at the Apocalypse. Because, what else is there to do? • The closing clip is from the hilarious Nathan Macintosh special Down with Tech • You can watch the full Channel 4 News exposé here • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***OUR 102nd EPISODE THIS YEAR! REMEMBER TO SIGN UP ON KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD TO SUPPORT US IN TIME FOR THE 13 SEPTEMBER LIVE EDITORIAL ONLINE EVENT*** German far right party Alternative fur Deutschland has scored a historic result in the formerly East German state of Sachsen Anhalt. Should we be worried, given Germany's particularly troublesome relationship with far right politics? Quiet Riot's resident German expert, Annette Dittert, unpicks the election and we ask what lessons the UK can learn from what's happened. Plus, a timely piece of right wing Old News ... • Laurena Rodrigues' Substack on some terrifying lessons from Germany • Opening clip from the original, pre-meme That Mitchell and Webb Sound • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by R. G on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***OUR 101st EPISODE THIS YEAR! REMEMBER TO SIGN UP ON KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD TO SUPPORT US IN TIME FOR THE 13 SEPTEMBER LIVE EDITORIAL ONLINE EVENT*** What do the Dover and Portsmouth riots tell us about how the far right is morphing in Britain? And what of the political, media and police reaction to hordes of masked thugs challenging authorities – and without arrests being made? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at what happened and zoom out to explain what the broader political picture behind these disturbances is, and ask some hard questions of Farage, Lowe and others of the far right. • The C4 Dispatches special on Tommy Robinson's finances • Zoe Williams on the hard right's penchant for domestic abusers • Support HOPE not hate • The full set of Joe Lycett's Right Wing BBC pitches • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by R. G on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***OUR 100th EPISODE THIS YEAR! REMEMBER TO SIGN UP ON KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD TO SUPPORT US IN TIME FOR THE 13 SEPTEMBER LIVE EDITORIAL ONLINE EVENT*** Nigel Farage has become that politician who can't see a hole without jumping into it. Especially if he's helped dig it himself. Alex and Kenny beg your forgiveness for looking at the two big Farage stories this week, but are confident you will join them in a festival of schadenfreude... Gasp as Reform UK sees a big fire marked 'Farage gifts scandal' and sprays it with a large hose of petrol from a can marked 'Reform funding scandal'. Cheer as Nigel's political circus comes to the NEC Birmingham, and then decides it's going to perform a comedy of errors. Slap your forehead as the Reform UK clown car gets dragged out of a ditch only to drive straight into a smelly canal. May contain giggles as well as searing political insight. You know the routine. You can watch the full Channel 4 News exposé here. • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by R. G on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SIGN UP ON KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD TO SUPPORT US IN TIME FOR THE 13 SEPTEMBER LIVE EDITORIAL ONLINE EVENT*** As Canada says "Oui, Please" to Europe, Iceland says "Nei, Takk". But both - along with the rest of the world - look at the US midterm elections with hope. But hope for what? Would a "blue wave" clip Trump's wings, or make him even more dangerous? Alex and Naomi are joined by QR fave and Substack god Sam Freedman to skip lightly (hah!) through just some of the huge upheavals going on around our pale blue planet. Plus a Grin And Share It that ties Scotland and India together via a Canadian in a kilt. • Jings! A wee clip of that amazing pipe band moment from Edinburgh • Check out new 'nice' magazine Paperweight! • And there's a Paperweight subscription offer for Quiet Rioters ... • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by R. G on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD AND BE PART OF OUR SEPTEMBER EDITORIAL MEETING*** Politics proper returns this week, with Andy Burnham's first statement to the Commons, followed by his first PMQ's, Kemi Badenoch's new-look Shadow Cabinet, and a by-election looming already thanks to Starmer's decision to step down as an MP. Naomi and Alex are joined by Quiet Riot favourite, erudite polymath and Substacker extraordinaire Sam Freedman to read the runes as the new Westminster term gets under way. Plus a fusion of Wokey Dokey and God! Less America! to keep your transatlantic radar pinging properly. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Ask your MP what their priorities for the year ahead are here • The brilliant Matt Forde's Insta is the source of the guide to an Andy Burnham impression • Check out new 'nice' magazine Paperweight! • And there's a Paperweight subscription offer for Quiet Rioters ... • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark Carney is about to become the first foreign head to attend the EU's flagship State Of The EU speech. He likes Europe; Europe likes him; Canadians like Europe. So... Naomi and Kenny ask whether Canada is about to grab the top-table EU seat vacated by Britain, and what Canada understands that the UK doesn't. And they look at the new rules around mini solar panels – and the red tape that's already wrapping itself tightly around those very panels. Plus ... Autumn is looming. Can we remember how to do the dark evenings? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Check out new 'nice' magazine Paperweight! • And there's a Paperweight subscription offer for Quiet Rioters ... • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is print media making a comeback? Has Gen Z done what those before couldn't and made print trendy again? Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by Cal Roscow, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Paperweight, a new magazine for people who are 'fed up with the way things are, but who still have the curiosity to imagine them completely differently'. They talk paywalls, enshittification and the earnestness of left-leaning media (you know what we mean...). PLUS more of the heroically petty local issues that wind our listeners up, because we love the sound of wailing :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Check out Cal's media baby, Paperweight! • And there's a Paperweight subscription offer for Quiet Rioters ... • Support the Red Cross in Nepal • Tim Curry just about avoids corpsing in this classic Command and Conquer 3 clip :-) • Comedian Jon Richardson WANTS TO BE UNHAPPY • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Cover artwork based on a photo by David Suarez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The gang plus special guest, Behind The Lines' Arthur Snell, dive into a US-Iran war that seems to be fought in reverse - from military action, backwards to economic sanctions, in order to try and get back to the treaty the US had with Iran before all this started. Also, is Canada about to call Trump's tariff bluff? And how will that impact the midterm elections, polling for which is pointing to a Republican wipe-out? Plus, Alex, Naomi and Kenny dip into the postbag and read some of your better - or battier - suggestions to improve your local area. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Sunscribe to Arthur Snell's podcast Behind The Lines here • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Join Alex and Naomi as they look at Reform UK's back-of-a-beer-mat welfare policies and the implosion of internal civil war they became the fuse to. Are Zia Yusuf's days in the party's leadership numbered? They also discuss the latest small boat crossings numbers and whether they represent real progress. Plus what are the small things that goverment could fix quickly, cheaply, and easily and people will notice? Is Andy Burnham on to something with his fly-tipping cleanup? • Email your suggestions to quietriotpod@gmail.com • We're also now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Housing has been in a state of crisis, it seems, forever. Can Labour actually move the dial on this huge and complicated challenge? Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by Labour and Co-op MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, Rachel Blake. Rachel is the ideal guest to help shine some light on the issue of housing – she is a candidate to chair the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee, whose job is to hold the Government's feet to the fire on this very issue. Plus, a perennial story to make you smile. Tune in to fond out more. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Write to your MP about housing issues! • Write to your councillor about housing issues too! • Hedge rage is still a thing • We're also now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The profound fallout from of Professor Jason Arday's untimely death continues to ripple outwards and shine a spotlight on some deeply unpleasant truths. Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at what lessons we can learn, and try to separate truth from punishment, and legitimate inquiry from weaponised agenda. They are joined by Labour and Co-op MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, the wonderful Rachel Blake. Proceeds from advertising on this show will be donated to the Society of Black Academics, which was created to drive inclusive change in higher education. You can watch the full Channel 4 interview with Jason Arday in September 2023 here. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're also now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Join Alex and Kenny as they paddle through Farage's coastal Clacton claptrap, and try to make sense of what actually happened on a night when an intergalactic waste receptacle went up against the far right. They also look at Government plans to reform zero-hour contracts – these affect over a million workers and countless businesses too, so they are important as well as controversial. Plus a fond farewell to Trump press supremo Karoline Leavitt. We might not like what she said but boy could she fight her corner. • If you're struggling and not sure where to turn for help, here are the numbers of some organisations which can help you turn things around: – Samaritans 116 123 for anyone in emotional distress or struggling to cope – C.A.L.L. Helpline 0800 13 27 37 for mental health support in Wales – Breathing Space 0800 83 85 87 for mental health support in Scotland – Refuge 0808 2000 247 for support with domestic abuse – Alcoholics Anonymous 0800 917 7650 for help with drinking problems ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're also now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's that time of the year when Britain throws its hands in the air over the prisons system. Newsflash: it is still creaking at the seams, just like it has been creaking for many years now. Naomi, Alex and Kenny take a deep dive into prison capacity, probation service pressure and rehabilitation shortcomings – and, of course, the politics behind what's going on. Plus a brief look at the latest Trump games – literally – from the US of A, in our latest instalment of God! Less America! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Find out more about the Howard League for Penal Reform • The biting little review of the Patriot Games is by the fabulous Southern Punk on IG • We're also now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Cover image based on a photo by Tim Hüfner on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
If you're reading this south of Hull, then you're in a drought. Elsewhere, it's probably hot. If you're in the Highlands, take your chances. We're running out of water and that in turn means our food supplies are coming under pressure. So Alex, Naomi and Kenny dip their collective toes tentatively in the pool marked 'Danger: Politics of climate change' to ask how we should (and can) respond. If you are triggered by GM crops, veganism or struggling farmers, the usual warning to listen carefully... Plus some actual good news from nature in a feathery Grin And Share It. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Puffin joy! • Cut your food waste with Too Good To Go • Free food??? Yes, with Olio • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Cover image based on a photo by Oleksandr Sushko on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
East Anglia's right-leaning politics are on show again with this week's immigrant baiting in Thetford. Naomi and Kenny have a look at the latest disturbing developments from Norfolk, including a couple of telling by-elections. Then they nip across the Atlantic to marvel at Trump's latest move in his war on renewable energy (and remind themselves of the pivotal role Scotland played in all of this). Plus, do you prefer your drink vertical? If you a) know what this means and b) drink in Soho, this bit is for you... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're now on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In a matter of days, Ceuta went from being a place few had heard of, and fewer still could find on a map, to the centre of Europe's migrant debate. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by former diplomat Arthur Snell to work out what was going on behind the scenes, as media around the world pumped out endless imagery of crowds of Moroccans apparently heading for Europe (spoiler: it didn't really play out that way). There is a LOT to unpick, from the involvement of Russia to the naivety of politicians and the unwillingness of media to even scratch beneath the surface of this story as it was developing. Plus, we'll have one or two treats from the cupboard where we keep Wokey Dokey, Old News, God! Less America, and Grin And Share It... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner holds a news conference on the migrant crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta • China's CO2 emissions keep falling • China starts to kick its coal addiction • The ozone hole has been healing – but the damage started sooner than we thought • Arthur's latest Behind The Lines episode, on how tech is reshaping modern warfare • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transfer windows are closing, new stars are being brought in and the world of geopolitics is primed for a new season. Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by geopolitics pundit (sorry) extraordinaire Arthur Snell to talk Palestine, Iran and Ukraine. What on earth is going on and why on earth is it going on? Not surprisingly, we're covering a lot of ground today... Plus, will it be Wokey Dokey, Old News or Grin And Share It? You'll have to tune in to find out! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Arthur's latest Behind The Lines episode, on how tech is reshaping modern warfare • You can support Medical Aid to Ukraine here • You can find out more about the work of Doctors without Borders in Gaza here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Yes, Count Binface DOES rock up to this show! Part 2 of Naomi and Alex doing their LIVE thang with Byline Times and the Lincoln Project, at London's Leicester Square Theatre. For one night only, and with many of you fab Quiet Riot supporters in the audience, they discuss how Trumpism, populism, media capture, disinformation and democratic decay are shaping politics on both sides of the Atlantic. And, being us, we also ask what the fight-back looks like. NB Since this has been recorded in live conditions, the sound quality may be a little more variable than usual. Joining Naomi and Alex on stage are best-selling author and social media force-of-nature Rick Wilson; comedian and queen geek Maya May; Byline Times co-founder and author Peter Jukes; and Byline Times Editor-In-Chief and writer Hardeep Matharu. Oh, and there's that very special guest, intergalactic trashman and universal Farage-baiter, Count Binface, giving us the benefit of his substantial wisdom (and a little scoop as well...) This is a 2-parter – If you haven't listened to the first part it was out yesterday! Plus, if you fancy seeing what everyone looks like, The Lincoln Project will be posting a video version of the show on YouTube! Brace yourselves... • Back the Byline Times here – it is awesome • Subscribe to the Lincoln Project's YouTube Channel here – it is also awesome • Back Count Binface to clean up Clacton - he is awesome Thanks to Penny Creed, Martyn Brunt and all the other listeners who sent us pix from the show – the one we are using on the cover art is Penny's – @pencreed.bsky.social ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Naomi and Alex do their LIVE thang with Byline Times and the Lincoln Project, at London's Leicester Square Theatre. For one night only, and with many of you fab Quiet Riot supporters in the audience, they discuss how Trumpism, populism, media capture, disinformation and democratic decay are shaping politics on both sides of the Atlantic. And, being us, we also ask what the fight-back looks like. NB Since this has been recorded in live conditions, the sound quality may be a little more variable than usual. Joining Naomi and Alex on stage are best-selling author and social media force-of-nature Rick Wilson; comedian and queen geek Maya May; Byline Times co-founder and author Peter Jukes; and Byline Times Editor-In-Chief and writer Hardeep Matharu. This is a 2-parter – part one is a bit more stateside, the other a bit more Blighty – so listen out for part 2 tomorrow! Plus, if you fancy seeing what everyone looks like, The Lincoln Project will be posting a video version of the show on YouTube! Brace yourselves... • Back the Byline Times here – it is awesome • Subscribe to the Lincoln Project's YouTube Channel here – it is also awesome ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zack Polanski has got himself in some French Revolution-adjacent bother thanks to an ill-advised Insta interaction. How big a faux-pas was this, should the police be involved and where on earth are we at with free speech these days? Join Alex, Naomi and Kenny as they tread sort of warily through the free-speech minefield towards a guillotine. Plus, Wokey Dokery with a Stateside feel this week! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Contact the Free Speech Union about Farage... dare you • Find out more about the Index On Censorship • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LAST CHANCE TO GET TICKETS TO OUR LIVE SHOW!!! Our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Times, is tonight (Thursday) – the few remaining tickets are waiting for you HERE! Andy Burnham has grand ambitions for reform of the social care sector, and he does look like a man who gives a damn about changing things for the better. Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at what is being proposed and ask what is different about this set of plans for social care reform compared with the 22 other plans that have been developed and dumped over the past 30 years. Plus an inappropriately juicy Grin And Share It (more of a Gran And Share It) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Gran And Share It (sic) • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Times, is on Thursday – get your tickets HERE! Andy Burnham's first week in the big job has been a blur of activity. Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell have a look at the deluge of policy announcements (and the social media flood too). Reasons for optimism? And, in India, it's Cockroaches 1 - 0 Govt Ministers, as a huge youth protest claims it's first political scalp. What's it all about - and what lessons are there for Britain? Plus, the latest instalment in the mad, bad world of AI, where a digital Great Escape has been grabbing headlines. Phew! What a bumper package! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Tickets to our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Times, are selling fast – get yours HERE! Nigel Farage has mired himself in controversy – a lot of controversy. Questions about money, ethics, his links to shady characters and more abound. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by an expert on Reform UK's darkest secrets – Josiah Mortimer is Chief Reporter at Byline Times and, for the best part of a decade, he's been digging into the money, the machinery and the contradictions behind Reform UK. Plus ... 'ello, 'ello' 'ello, we've got a police-themed Wokey Dokey to brighten your day. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** CALL TO ACTION • Subscribe to Byline Times HERE • Josiah's latest probe into Farage and the funding of his free flights • You can see the full original "Hot Dog Guy" sketch from Netflix's "I Think You Sould Leave" HERE • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Times, HERE! The Burnham Cabinet has taken shape so it's time to look at the winners and losers among the lesser big jobs. Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by Byline Times sleuth Josiah Mortimer to talk through Rayner, Streeting, Sarwar and a bunch more – including Quiet Riot favourite Miatta Fahnbulleh. Plus another chapter of God! Less America! for those with a yearning for the funniest stateside shenanigans. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** CALL TO ACTION • Policy papers and consultations – make your views known HERE • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Time, HERE! John Healey's appointment as Chancellor seemed to take all those with "well-placed sources" by surprise. Alex Andreou talks to economist Vicky Pryce, who actually worked with Healey during his Treasury days, to glean what sort of Chancellor he might be - and what sort he must be. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Time, HERE! After all the speculation, Andy Burnham has finally cracked open the doors to his new Cabinet... and it's not without its surprises. Who's in? Who's out? And what does it all tell us about the direction Burnham intends to pursue as PM? Join Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou for this Quiet Riot late night special as Britain's new Government takes shape. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With ex-mayor Andy Burnham now officially Labour's main man, and London mayor Sadiq Khan heading to the Lords and then who knows where, are we seeing the rise of a new mayoral political class that uses devolution to bypass the Westminster greasy pole? Naomi and Kenny look at the pros and cons of a mayoral stop on the political line, and have a gander at Burnham's big speech too. And, with people and animals all struggling in the heat, what of our food crops? New figures show how climate change could hurt crop yield in many parts of the country ... and benefit farmers elsewhere. Plus, what simple gadget that solves an infuriating problem do you wish had been invented? We'll be collecting the patents for the best ideas... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London round table on authoritarianism, with the Lincoln Project and Byline Time, HERE! • That crop yield map with rather a lot of alarming red bits • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our 30th July London appearance HERE! The tech giant Palantir, and its billionaire Trump-loving co-founder Peter Thiel, has a £330million deal with the NHS, which has set alarm bells ringing so loudly that multiple Select Committees have called for the contract to be ended at the first opportunity. MPs have warned that once the deal ends, the NHS could be left with no IP, no software and no lasting capability. Palantir has many other government deals, including with the MoD and police, and is deeply enmeshed within the systems that keep key parts of our society functioning. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by regular Quiet Rioter Peter Geoghegan who, along with Lucas Amin, has just published a brilliant long read on the topic in the London Review of Books. It's an eye-opener, highlighting concerns not just about Palantir's effective lobbying operation but about its underlying software systems that have attracted widespread criticism and, in the case of the NHS, often appear to be woefully under-used. Plus, to lighten the mood, a Grin And Share It about one dog's wayward attempt to become Britain's highest hound. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Read Peter Geoghegan's illuminating Palantir exposé in the LRB • Sign up to Peter's Substack • That dog-based Grin And Share It! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! With both British teams now out of the World Cup, can we find anything to be optimistic about in the shenanigans around Iran, Burnham and Clacton? Naomi, Alex and Kenny do their level best to dig out reasons to be hopeful ... and then there's a harsh dose of reality to contend with. Sort of like the footie really. Plus a bit of Wokey Dokery to brighten your day and ... can you guess which one of the team missed the football to go watch an opera about love and executions? Possibly not the worst choice they've ever made. Don't forget B-SIDE tomorrow, with a deep dive on Peter Theil's Palantir, and how it has enmeshed itself into so many aspects of our lives. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Cover art based on an icon by Magnific-Flaticon Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! Does the quirky British tradition of comedy candidates add to our democracy or detract from it? Is political satire a weapon or a self-soothing mechanism. Alex and Naomi talk through the week's news, including the Clacton by-election, the report on PIP, the outcomes of the NATO summit - and The Bayeux Tapestry visiting England for the first time in a millennium. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! Burnhamism: what is it, what isn't it, and what should or could it be? Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by Labour MP Jeevun Sandher for a closer look at what drives the politics of our PM-in-waiting. What telltale signs of a developing Burnhamism should we be looking out for in the weeks ahead? Which appointments will be most telling? All that plus another Grin And Share It to set you up for the weekend with a smile. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! • That donkey Grin And Share It! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
• LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! The trash needs taking out... Yes, we have to talk Farage and his by-election stunt. But we don't have to pander. Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by Loughborough MP Jeevun Sandher to laugh briefly at Farage and in more depth about what his stunt says about the state of our political system. And there's a new Old News to luxuriate in too! Don't forget to tune in to our B-Side episode tomorrow (Friday) when Jeevun and the team will be talking Burnhamism. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • LIVE SHOW KLAXON!!! Get your tickets to our London appearance HERE! • Learn more about Transparency International here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Morgan McSweeney gives us a rare glimpse behind the scenes and confirms what we already knew: that Labour was not entirely ready for government. Alex and Naomi discuss politics in an age that rejects politics. Also, England is through to the next stage of the World Cup, the pubs will stay open late, so why is everyone miserable? PLUS - a Bumper special Grin And Share It, with: • DCMS is *finally* off X - read more here • Nobel laureate scores a three-pointer - read more here • Beavers go underground - read more here • Liverpool's Woolton Picture House - read more here • Spain takes a stand on Palantir - read more here • Kate Forbes wishes everyon a HAPPY PRIDE - read more here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK - make like Nandy and join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With PM-in-waiting Andy Burnham leaning heavily into devolution, we take a look at what lessons he can learn from the Scottish experience – and what his (still somewhat vague) plans might mean for Scotland too. Kenny Campbell is joined by someone who knows the Scottish political scene extremely well: Stephen Boyd, director of the progressive think tank IPPR Scotland. They also catch up with the implications of a manic few weeks for Scottish politics, ranging from the jailing of former SNP big cheese Peter Murrell to those two very different by-election results. Plus, why growth for growth's sake is a flawed approach to the economy. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there. Please do! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on image from the National Library of Medicine on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Westminster is neck-deep in handover shenanigans, with team Starmer playing its final games while team Burnham is still, officially, to qualify for the big one. Naomi and Alex are joined by MP Ellie Chowns, Commons leader of the Green Party, to talk regime change, asylum, defence, and the looming Manchester mayoral battle. Plus, a blast of our newish feature, God! Less America! ... complete with exclamation marks. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there. Please do! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Coronations bring both brickbats and bouquets, as both King Charles and King Andy have found this week. Alex and Kenny take a detailed look at what Charles's tax disclosures reveal – and keep hidden. And there's the latest leadership challenges facing Andy Burnham as his (not quite guaranteed) coronation as Labour leader progresses. Plus a catch-up with the latest madness of the orange man who would be king, Donald Trump. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there. Please do! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover collage images all courtesy of Wikimedia Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's been a bit of a scorcher this week (unless you're in Scotland with Kenny) and thus a good time to ask what politics can do about climate change. Naomi, Kenny and Alex take it one step further and ask whether politics is even capable of dealing with climate change. It's literally the hottest topic of our times, so why are things in such a pickle? Plus something a bit lighter from the cupboard where we keep Grin And Share It, Wokey Dokey and our other much-loved features. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Grin And Share It – that Income For The Arts scheme joy • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover art based on Wikimedia image by Terry Ott from Washington, DC Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Andy Burnham may well be the PM-in-waiting but he can't do the job by himself. So who should be in his cabinet? Naomi, Alex and Kenny ponder the question on every political geek's lips, and put some fantasy cabinet suggestions of their own forward too. And we also survey the wreckage of Nigel Farage's most hilarious media round, ever. Plus a break from the politics with one of our regular features ... but will it be Wokey Dokey or Grin And Share It? You'll just have to listen in to find out... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Build your own fantasy cabinet. More fun than an England-Ghana footie marathon • The Good Law Project taking on Farage • Grin And Share It – that Income For The Arts scheme joy • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's appropriate that Starmer's teary farewell comes amid the tenth-anniversary obituaries for Brexit, as the two are inexorably linked. Alex and Naomi are joined by broadcaster, author and Quiet Riot favourite James O'Brien to look back at ten years of Brexit, and tease out the links to Starmer's resignation. And they break out the Quiet Riot crystal ball to consider what the future may look like politically... take notes and then wait a decade or two before judging :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Care about our EU relationship? Write to the press! • Support Best for Britian • Buy James's fascinating book How They Broke Britain at our bookshop • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Has anyone seen the confident swagger of Nigel Farage lately? Thought not. A month of funding controversy, candidate shenanigans and sliding support has culminated in Reform UK being soundly beaten in a by-election that was supposed to be too close to call. Alex and Kenny look at why Reform is stalling, and the reasons why Farage is right to be feeling a bit 'glass half-empty' right now. And the wonderful Emma Harrison, CEO of Make Votes Matter, is back (with a bonus appearance from Naomi) for a deep dive into all the different options for electoral reform. Plus - apropos of nothing - what do you do if you get a job and discover you're just no good at it? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Make Votes Matter – they deserve your support • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Half-empty glass cover image by Etan J. Tal on Wikimedia Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's the middle of the night and the Makerfield result has just been declared... what next? Alex and Kenny prop their eyes open with matchsticks to take stock of a result that has huge implications for this country's political future. Well, probably. There are by-elections in Scotland too – Aberdeen South, plus the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry seats, are both up for grabs following the election of local SNP MPs Stephen Flynn and Stephen Gethins to Holyrood last month. All that and it's not even breakfast time yet... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Make Votes Matter – they deserve your support • Want us to rejoin the EU? Enjoy walking in a 'support the cause' sort of way? Well, the National Rejoin March is imminent. Lace up those walking boots. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Having spent their formative years being herded into and around the playpen/minefield/information artery that is social media, Britain's youngsters are about to experience a life outside the social media bubble. Or are they? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look in more depth at what's likely to happen to the under-16 social media junkies, as well as what's happened to their counterparts in Oz, which has already been waging war on social media for a few months. There's also the latest – vaguely positive – news from the Strait of Hormuz and the latest – vaguely positive – news about Britain's economy. To help them find their way, they are joined by the utterly wonderful Emma Harrison, CEO of the leading campaign for Proportional Representation, Make Votes Matter. But why no PR discussion, you cry? That's coming up in the next few days :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Make Votes Matter – they deserve your support • Want us to rejoin the EU? Enjoy walking in a 'support the cause' sort of way? Well, the National Rejoin March is imminent. Lace up those walking boots. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Just how many red cards will Keir Starmer be shown before he actually leaves the pitch? Naomi and Alex ponder the latest Healey brickbats being hurled Sir Keir's way, and look in more detail at the 'defence v welfare' narrative. Plus, if you had a trillon bucks like Elon Musk, what would you do with it? Think Brewster's Millions, but with questionable morals. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Late night comedy clips on Trump's Big 80 from Desi Lydic on the Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Myers, Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live • Here is Arthur Snell's Behind The Lines on the Defence Sec resignation • And here is Arthur's substack • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
EXTRA! EXTRA! INCLUDES EMERGENCY MINI-EPISODE ON HEALEY RESIGNATION. Trump continues to struggle with Iran despite having 'completely defeated' it, and Putin can't even get petrol to Russian tourists in Crimea. Alex, Naomi and Kenny are joined by our favourite geopolitics expert Arthur Snell for a deep-dive into the latest alpha male chaos unfolding in these conflicts. Plus, announcing the arrival of a brand new regular feature, Old News ... because new news is not always new. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Here is Arthur's Behind The Lines on the Defence Sec resignation • And here is Arthur's substack • You can support Doctors Without Borders action in Palestine here • El Niño chaos looms ... from the LA Times almost 30 years ago • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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