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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
KENNY CAMPBELL / JUDGEMENT DAY RECORDS RADIO # 57 ON TOXIC SICKNESS / JUNE / 2026 by TOXIC SICKNESS OFFICIAL
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
Riots, attacks, police snafus – they can't all be solely the fault of one bit of equalities guidance, can they? Well, if you've listened to Kemi Badenoch, you might be beginning to wonder. Her latest foray into the world of identity politics sees her wanting to scrap the Public Sector Equality Duty as the opening move in a mission to 'restore common sense'. Because, apparently the UK is so post-racial- tension it does not need such rules any longer. And yet, to look at what Claire Hanna MP described as "race-based pogroms" in Belfast this week, would suggest that we are not as evolved as the LoTO suggests quite yet. Naomi, Alex and Kenny have ... thoughts, shall we say. Plus, some colourful Wokey Dokey action and bonus legalese which nobody but Alex understands. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • 'A ready-made pool of recreational rioters' ... That Claire Hannah 2024 bonus episode in full • Support Migrant Centre NI • Help Chuffed support social justice movements • Buy The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande , in our bookstore • 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
The spotlight is unforgiving, as both would-be MPs and former royals found this week. Join Naomi and Kenny to pick through the ashes of a somewhat underwhelming BBC Question Time from the Makerfield by-election, where a bunch of candidates with minimal experience performed ... like a bunch of candidates with minimal experience. Elsewhere, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has stumbled, blinking and bruised, back into the media spotlight thanks to some questionable sweetheart property deals. We look at the latest binfire at the House of Windsor. And what does 'Uncensored' even mean these days? As Piers Morgan cashes in with a 'fearless' World Cup podcast, should we stop saying 'uncensored' and start saying 'honking like a stuck goose'? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • That 'Question Time' sketch from Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It's timeless... • 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
Who is Labour for? It is such a fundamental question and one that no one appears to have an answer for. Naomi and Alex welcome the perfect guest in Christabel Cooper, of ThinkLabour, who has written a report on this very topic. From the vagueness of Labour's 2024 offering to its conundrum about chasing votes on the right, there is a lot to discuss. Plus, a Grin And Share It that will hit all the right notes. Hah. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Grin And Share It (well, sing and share it) • 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
The murder of Henry Nowak has raised a great many questions because of the terrible way Henry was treated by police as he lay dying. Henry's family have responded with remarkable dignity to this dreadful affair but the same cannot be said of elements of the political class. Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou look more closely at the politics of rage and, in particular, Nigel Farage's call for public 'rage' and his history of (apparently) trying to whip up anger. They are joined by Christabel Cooper, Director of Research at ThinkLabour and Visiting Fellow at King's College London. Plus, it's the debut of a brand new feature ... God! Less America! Because the US is such a bizarre place these days, some of the maddest stuff goes unreported. Well, not any more! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Support the Jo Cox Foundation • The full Farage video from which the post-credit point is taken can be found here • 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
Youth unemployment is at crisis levels, and we're at the stage where Britain spends more to support jobless young people than it does on education. Naomi and Alex look at the latest NEET figures and Alan Milburn's interim report on youth unemployment, which makes for sobering reading. Plus, as Britain and Poland ink a defence agreement, is Europe building a 'NATO within NATO' defence against Russian aggression and Trumpian vandalism? And, because this is a British show, we discuss the weather and how to survive it. Is it summer? It must be summer. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Opening clip from Jimmy Kimmel Live, here • Heatwave jokes by Peter Kay, here, and the fabulous Sarah Millican, here • 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 image based on photos by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash and Amir Hosseini 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
Welsh politics has been through the electoral tumble dryer of late, but does the rise of Reform and Plaid Cymru's success herald a new beginning, or are circumstances going to clog things up? We are joined by the always-brilliant Will Hayward to look at how things are panning out in Cardiff Bay. Plus, there's a glorious Grin And Share It to help you end the week on a high. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • You can buy Will's books from our bookshop, here • The opening clip is from Rhod Gilbert's tremendous set • 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 image based on a photo by Nick Russill 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
Nothing says Elder Statesman like dumping publically on your party, its leader and its wannabe leaders in the midst of a crisis and weeks before a series of tricky by-elections. And so to Tony Blair, a man so brim-full of his own wisdom that it took him 5,700 words plus a BBC interview to say Labour and its team is a bit, well, lefty for his liking. Alex, Naomi and Kenny try to tease out the reasons for Blair's bombshell intervention, which comes as fellow New Labour traveller Gordon Brown is drafted in to help Starmer and the other fellow traveller, Peter Mandelson... never mind. Plus the latest on the Tories, Greens, Lib Dems, and goings-on in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. All that and we still managed to do it in fewer than 5,700 words. Probably. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • 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 image tablet from pngtree.com • Cover image frame by tohamina on Magnific 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
New immigration figures show two noteworthy things: arrivals are down but a lot of voters think arrivals are up. Meanwhile, Andy Burnham says those figures need to come down further – to the chagrin of some in Labour, and also us because he said that after we'd finished recording this episode. Alex and Kenny dig around the data from several sources and try, tentatively, to work out what's going on and why. And, in the week that Rachel Reeves was subjected to some particularly nasty heckling from a Reform supporter – only to have Nigel '£5million Security Donation' Farage offer to buy the heckelr a pint – they ask where the line should be drawn when it comes to public-politician interactions. Plus, burnout has been thrust into the spotlight by Greens MP Carla Denyer announcing she's taking a break. But what is it, what are the symptoms and what can you do about it? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The stand-up at the start of the episode is Radu Isac • Burnout – info and advice • Burnout – the 42% rule • Latest net migration figures • British Future survey on migration perceptions • Alex Andreou's Podyssey ... look out for Sisyphus • Behind The Lines ... BH Monday 'naughty prince' content • 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 image based on photo by chris robert 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
Welcome to our first ever B-SIDE, a bonus for our fans when the midweek and Sunday episodes simply aren't enough :-) This week, Naomi, Alex and Kenny are talking with Lib Dem MP Layla Moran – the first MP of Palestinian descent, the first pansexual MP and a new-ish mum as well. The Palestinian crisis is personal for Layla, and she's the perfect guest to help us get under the skin of what's actually going on in Gaza and the West Bank right now. Settlements, two-state solution shenanigans and the need for Britain to properly acknowledge its historical role in the crisis ... all are touched upon, as is Layla's personal journey when it comes to campaigning for a just and peaceful end to all of this. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The Philadelphia (green) story – Grin And Share It! • Find out more about Standing Together, working to build a majority within Israeli society that supports peace, equality and justice • What is Israel's E1 settlement? • Urge your MP to ban trade with illegal settlements • Watch Palestine 36 on Apple or Amazon • Get Policy of Deceit from our bookshop • Get A Line In The Sand from our bookshop • We have put together a brand new 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
From HS2 to Heathrow 3, via housing 101: what is going on with big building projects in Britain? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at how Britain has been building trouble for itself – with top-drawer insight from Lib Dem MP and all-Parliamentary history-maker MP Layla Moran. And Layla brings her unique insight into the many issues surrounding Palestine and Palestinians – she really is must-listen. Plus your regular menu of smiles and happiness :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The Philadelphia (green) story – Grin And Share It! • Find out more about Standing Together, working to build a majority within Israeli society that supports peace, equality and justice • What is Israel's E1 settlement? • Urge your MP to ban trade with illegal settlements • Watch Palestine 36 on Apple or Amazon • Get Policy of Deceit from our bookshop • Get A Line In The Sand from our bookshop • We have put together a brand new 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
The next PM may be decided in a by-election near Wigan. That could be problematic for both the voters of Makerfield and the electorate at large. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell look at what the Burnham drama could mean for Britain as a whole, as national and local politics collide in Labour's latest psychodrama. Talking of local politics, they also venture to Worcestershire, where a rainbow coalition has formed to sideline some (allegedly) useless Reform councillors ... much to the chagrin of Conservative Central Office. And, in an attempt to escape the 'localm' for a few minutes, they pick some holidays ... that they wouldn never go on. Very Quiet Riot, that one. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • That excellent Substack on Farage's millions by David Howarth https://drhow.substack.com/p/farages-5-million?triedRedirect=true • The elections report from Make Votes Matter • Alex's fabulous Podyssey series • Arthur Snell's Syrian deep-dive on Behind The Lines • 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
Political psychodrama heaped on top of political drama. Well, sort of. The psychodrama of the Labour leadership battle is real, whether we want another short-term PM or not. Naomi, Alex and Kenny pretend to hate the drama and then get sucked into the socialist-ish soap opera that's captivating Westminster. And then there's the King's Speech, which is legislatively significant but ... well, wouldn't it be more fun to find out what WE would do if we got the keys to No.10? Plus a properly uplifting Grin And Share It, some ranting about uncouth journalists and random sandwich news. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Saving lives with rubble – this week's Grin And Share It • Alex's fabulous Podyssey series • Arthur Snell's Syrian deep-dive on Behind The Lines • 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
***SIGN UP FOR OUR ASK-US-ANYTHING ELECTION SPECIAL LIVE ZOOM ON TUESDAY 12 MAY 2026, 1PM, AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou discuss the results of this week's round of elections and find that, underneath the single narrative of Nigel Farage's inevitability as Britain's next PM, which all media seems to have decided on, there is a lot which points the opposite way. And some stories of historic significance, that will be remembered long after much of the froth is forgotten • 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 the iconic words from A Streetcar Named Desire "we've had this date with each other from the beginning!" For nearly half of Labour's 20 months in power, it has been said that this set of local elections would mark Starmer's last throw of the dice. With results still coming in, it is difficult to analyse precise voter movements, but patterns are certainly beginning to emerge. To discuss the results so far, Alex Andreou has a midnight cuppa and a chat with Quiet Riot favourite and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • You can listen to Alex's new Podyssey Storytime, on Arachne the Spider Woman, here. And don't miss his Bank Holiday Monday episode on Sisyphus. • Listen to Arthur Snell's latest Behind The Lines on Iran here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Have £5million guv. It's a present, tax free, no strings attached. Yet again, questions arise over Farage's finances, this time after yet another huge wad makes its way from a crypto billionaire into Nigel's orbit – actually straight into his wallet, according to Farage himself. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell ask wtf is going on with right wing political funding in particular, and the rules around political funding in general. Plus, they are joined by Substack supremo and QR fave Sam Freedman for a deep dive into the mysterious world of the 'median' voter. What do we actually know about the millions of voters in the political centre ground? Well, a bit more thanks to Sam's spade-work. All that plus woke pub etiquette and a must-visit restaurant... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Sam's Substack is consistently ace • Support Byline Times • 130 Primrose, the new restaurant with a caring twist • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
This week's Golders Green attack resurfaced some deeply disturbing prejudices and raised the political temperature too. Alex and Kenny look at the facts as they stand and analyse the political reaction to a tinderbox issue. And, with temperatures rising literally as well as metaphorically, they turn their attention to the looming El Niño impact, and ask if hotter summers make for violent protests. Plus Angela Rayner has a pint and gets hammered (by the press). Is it because she's (insert own theory here). nb answer is probably Yes. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • If you or someone you know is struggling with alcohol issues, Drinkaware can help • Climate clip from 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' • You can listen to Alex's new Podyssey Storytime, on Arachne the Spider Woman, here. And don't miss his Bank Holiday Monday episode on Sisyphus. • Listen to Arthur Snell's latest Behind The Lines on Iran here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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 stakes are too high to allow even a hint of complacency to creep into our thinking about the upcoming US 2026 midterm elections. This is one of the most powerful and malicious administrations in US history - the same lot who tried to overrun the Capitol in order to overturn the 2020 result. To treat them as an inert substance that will not fight tooth and claw is naive and dangerous. The chaos and confusion sown daily by Trump acts as a screen, behind which the wider project is eating away at any notion of free and fair elections.Alex Andreou invites data scientist Professor Christina Pagel to discuss all the ways in which the Trump administration is trying to rig that existential election - from blatant gerrymandering and voter suppression, to more subtle legal strategies, media and corporate control, and the erosion of democratic norms ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Find out more about the Trump Action Tracker. • Check out Christina's substack. • You can listen to Alex's new Podyssey Storytime, on Arachne the Spider Woman, here. • Listen to Arthur's latest Behind The Lines on Iran here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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 King and Ay, ay, ay... One (the royal One) flew over the cuckoo's nest ... Windsors and losers ... too many ways to describe what happened in Washington this week when genuine royalty met wannabe royalty. Join Naomi, Alex and Kenny for a diplomatic murder mystery carried out in the full glare of media lights to find out who got murdered and who... dunnit. PLUS those pesky local/regional/national (delete as appropriate) elections are almost upon us, so who better than political diviner and More In Common big cheese Luke Tryl to help us make sense of the pre-poll gossip and data. For hardcore listeners, there's the usual fix of Grin And Share It. And ... possibly peak Wokey Dokey. Phew. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Luke's new podcast - The Opinion Brief! • More information about Democrats Abroad • C-SPAN, if you don't know it already... • Canada cracks open its doors a little wider • Opening clip fron the (very topical) Jimmy Kimmel monologue. • Full clip of Beth Rigby talking to Zack Polanski here. • CNN legal and security experts react to Comey indictment. • You can listen to Alex's new Podyssey Storytime, on Arachne the Spider Woman, here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
When illness makes life unbearable, should we be permitted – and helped – to end our time in this place on our own terms? Last year on this podcast, we spoke to Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK, about the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. On Friday the 24th of April, the bill officially ran out of parliamentary time. Undone not by elected MPs, a vote against it, or lack of public support, but by a filibuster organised by a handful of unelected peers. CALLS TO ACTION The parliamentary petition to stop Lords from denying democracy via delay can be found here. Find out more about the Humanist movement here. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** You can listen to Alex's new Podyssey Storytime, on Arachne the Spider Woman, here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Food, fuel, political parties ... it can feel like we've never had so much choice. But how much choice do we REALLY have? Naomi and Kenny ask whether the modern world gives us choice on one level ... only to utterly deny it on other levels. And, talking of choice, they look at Ed Miliband's big policy speech on green energy, ask what it all means and wonder if it's time to stop calling it 'green' energy. Plus ... building a Cabinet from podcasters and YouTubers. Who would you put in and why? nb may contain traces of Alex Andreou. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Don't forget Alex's remarkable Podyssey is HERE – and listen out for his new Podyssey Storytime, launching this weekend with shorter nuggets from Greek mythology. First up... Arachne, the original Spider Woman! • A couple of those YouTubers we put in our Cabinet: Coffee god James Hoffman and music geek/grump (depending which episodes you watch) Andy Edwards • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by Amin Zabardast 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
Keeping up with the Starmer-Mandelson-Robbins scandal is like juggling spaghetti, soggy spaghetti at that, but we're here for the challenge. Naomi, Alex and Kenny pick apart this week's remarkable developments in a saga that has cost two of the main players their jobs ... and may well consign the third player to an early bath too. What happened, what happens next and who's to blame? And what do shop tills and Jim Hacker have to do with it? And we turn our gaze back to the Strait of Hormuz, where a not-quite-ceasefire is heating up economies globally while world leaders wonder how long it will be before the inflation frog in their domestic pot croaks, and not in a good way. Plus some NHS Wokey Dokeyness and a glass of green whisky. Trebles all round... ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The pre-show clip comes from that Yes, Prime Minister that Kenny just about remembered from the last century • Arthur Snell's insightful Behind The Lines pod on Cuba • Help fight corruption worldwide with Transparency International UK • Green whisky? Get some down you here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
KENNY CAMPBELL / JUDGEMENT DAY RECORDS RADIO #55 ON TOXIC SICKNESS / APRIL / 2026 by TOXIC SICKNESS OFFICIAL
Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou discuss the UK's back to full EU membership, after a new Report by Best for Britain found it is the smart option for the government in every way - economic, security, or political. Also, why is the BBC channeling energy and resources to undercover investigation of the asylum system, when it is anything but under-covered? Finally, as sequels, prequels, franchises, remakes, and reboots dominate this year's CinemaCon, we ask: Have all the stories been told? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Alex's latest Podyssey ep, featuring flying penises! • The pre-show clip is from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Who's blockading the Strait of Hormuz today? Iran? Donny From The Block? The Fake News Media? Naomi, Alex and Kenny look at the winners (yes, there appear to be some) and losers (everybody else) from Trump's ongoing Middle-East distraction. And they are joined by Andrew Ryder – a British political scientist who has made Hungary his home and teaches politics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest – to talk through that truly remarkable election result in Hungary. Plus a particularly fine Wokeydokey and some literal p*ss-taking as a Grin And Share It. This show definitely has the best wee treats. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Get Andrew Ryder's book Britain And Europe At A Crossroads in our bookshop • Watch The Librarians HERE and find out more HERE • Support the Hungary LGBT Alliance • Wees for trees • Join Best for Britain to get a heads-up on Naomi's big announcement • The opening clip is from The Late Show with Stephen Cobert • Alex's latest Podyssey ep, featuring a load of bullocks • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Just how thorough are our show notes, huh??? 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 May elections are now mere weeks away and, in Scotland, there's a fascinating battle developing for second place. Not that the SNP can take a majority for granted, but the real action is between Labour, Reform ... and possibly the Greens. Kenny Campbel is Joined by the Telegraph's man in Scotland, Jacob Freedland, to roor around behind the scenes of Scotland's politics. As well as at least one ghost, there's an agitated Reform supporter, a shocker of a revelation about Labour's social media spending... and some honey from the bees of Holyrood. They's almost as busy as us :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The latest Ipsos polling • ...and those YouGov figures too • Alex's latest Podyssey ep, featuring a load of bullocks • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Look, we're STILL trying to work out what Melania's plan was with that WTF speech this week. Plan, did we say? Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell give miserable Mel's bizarre intervention their best shot and, for the adults in the audience, try to make sense of that other Trumpian mystery of the week, the cease fire that no one in the White House seems to have read before agreeing to it. Back in Blighty, it's less than a month to the May 7th electoral jamboree and a chance to talk about proper politics: pot holes, hospitals and the rise of nutcase right wing politics over here too. All that plus AI hallucinations, moths and actual congress with a bull. Don't say you weren't warned. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Alex's latest Podyssey ep, featuring a load of bullocks • The pre-show clip is from last night's SNL UK "cold open" • More on that mad Scandi AI experiment • ...and the Canadian chatbot weirdness • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com PS We only used the clip from 'Allo 'Allo because Kenny's accent is weirder than anything comedy could create... 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
One minute, it's Armageddon and profanity; the next, it's back to the clown show and Trump's biggest TACO yet. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by QR favourite Arthur Snell to rake through the ashes of Trump's Iranian dumpster fire, and try to make sense of a blisteringly bleak week in the annals of US foreign policy. The yellow streak that runs though Trump hasn't stopped him declaring victory, of course, but who is really coming out on top? And what does it mean for all of us? Plus, there's drama building in Hungary – is Orban, the European lapdog of both Putin and Trump, really facing a landslide defeat? Or should we perhaps manage our expectations ahead of the looming election? And we've got TWO – count 'em – Grin And Share Its because we really need some good news this week, don't we? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • More from our opening Jimmy Kimmel Live clip • Help Smart Medical Aid for Ukraine if you can. • Help Medecins Sans Frontiers in Gaza and the wider Middle East. • GASI #1: The Springburn ruin resurrected • GASI #2: Sun power lights up Greece • Our guest Arthur Snell's book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Brace for betrayal, resurrection and chocolate in our Easter special! Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell examine the Judas Factor in politics, and then dive into that other great seasonal topic: the soaring price of Easter eggs. All that plus the Wokeydokey we had to hold over from our midweek shows with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, because there was too much other stuff to talk about. Happy Easter y'all! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Rage at the price of chocolate treats with the help of the Freddo Index • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Welcome to the second part of our fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika. What does becoming a peer actually feel like? How should we reform the upper chamber? And will our friendly Baroness give us any juicy insights from behind those woolsacks? If you missed the first part of this two-parter, why not pause this one and go back to hear Ayesha's views on Trump's latest Iranian-adjacent madness, plus Labour's growing gravitation towards Europe – and we ask what the party can do to prepare us all for some expected hard times ahead. Also, we answer the question that our subscriber Sarah was midway through when our latest Ask Us Anything session timed out! Have a lovely Easter weekend xxx ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • To be the first to hear about Best for Britain's exciting new Europe announcement, sign up here. It's free (though donations are always welcome!) • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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 fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika kicks off with (of course) Trump's latest Iranian-adjacent madness. And we utter a modest hurrah as Labour starts to move publically towards Europe – and ask what the party can do to prepare us all for some expected hard times ahead. Also, we answer the question that our subscriber Sarah was midway through when our latest Ask Us Anything session timed out! Don't miss Part 2 of this special, uploading imminently, featuring Ayesha's insights from her first couple of years in the House of Lords, ideas for reforming the upper chamber, plus a discussion on disinformation and the state of our media. Happy Easter y'all! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • To be the first to hear about Best for Britain's exciting new Europe announcement, sign up here. It's free (though donations are always welcome!) • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • Tim Bales book on how the Tories have changed is available at our bookshop here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith discuss a parliamentary report on disinformation, in the light of news that the BBC has chosen a former Google executive as its new boss. And - as promised - they bring you our research into party membership in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, to supplement QR's midweek deep dive. Finally, can you tell Prank from Frank? Alex and Naomi test each other with far fetched headlines, some of which are April Fools and some of which are all too real. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Naomi's choice for most informative video on disinformation is here. • Read the Foreign Affairs Committee's report on Disinformation here. • Carole Cadwalladr's piece on the new BBC boss is here. • Visit Northern Ireland's data resource ARK here. • Watch the full BBC Spaghetti Harvest prank here. • Don't forget our podcast chum Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
How would you feel about a medical examination that was designed to make you faint? What about having to instal soundproof doors and blinds, because noise and light can bring on seizures? Welcome to the world of the Long Covid patient – and there are millions of them. Six years since the first Covid lockdown, humans have become relatively blasé about the disease. But it has cast a crippling shadow over a great many lives. Long Covid doesn't just leave its victims physically exhausted: the impacts are mental, emotional, economic, social and brutal. Worse still, Long Covid is not well understood and, as a result, treatments are sadly lacking. And it can come with a stigma – like other debilitating illnesses, patients often don't get taken seriously. Kenny Campbell is joined by Claire Higham, who has Long Covid and campaigns for a better understanding of this cruel condition, to find out more about how it wrecks lives, what's being done to combat it and why it isn't making bigger headlines. It's both fascinating and disturbing but, for patients and their loved ones, it can be an appalling brake on their lives – one that many never recover from. Also, a small correction to a figure raised in the show – Germany is dedicating €50m per year for ten years (half a billion over a decade) towards research into MECFS and other infection-associated chronic conditions. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • #LongCovidAwareness ... find out more about Long Covid at... - NHS - MEpedia - Long Covid Advocacy - Long Covid Physio - Open Medicine Foundation - Bateman Horne Centre - Long Covid Justice - ME Scandal Explainer - The Tangled Story - Severe ME - First Do No Harm - Ed Yong - Madeline Miller - The Sick Times • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover composite images by CDC on Unsplash and xadartstudio on Freepik 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
As the US keeps 'negotiating with itself' (Iran's words...) we ask tentatively what impact the ongoing conflict will have on our wallets, purses and digital wealth stores. Plus, a look at new research revealing perhaps too much about the sort of people who are actual *members* of a political party. Spoiier alert: they're outnumbered handsomely by the number of criminals out there, not that there's any link between politics and crime of course. No siree. And, of course, Naomi, Alex and Kenny bring you your regular prescription of glee courtesy of Wokey Dokey, and Grin And Share It. What's not to like :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Everything you wanted to know about political geeks (ie party members) but were afraid to ask • Green And Share It (ho-ho): The Hampshire Hedge • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. • Today's opening comedy clip is from The Daily Show. • 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
For this bonus episode, award winning journalist, writer and podcaster Will Hayward joins Naomi Smith to break down all you need to know about the forthcoming Senedd elections, as well as his brilliant new book, "Who Cares About Wales?" As well as discussing the current fortunes of Plaid, Reform, Labour, Conservatives, Greens and Lib Dems, you'll also find out Farage's thoughts on the “foreign” Welsh language and why the new PR voting system might prove an own goal for Labour. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Grab Will's excellent new book "Who Cares About Wales" from our bookshop. Follow Will Hayward's substack here. Find out more about the Taith Scheme here. We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
War? What war? As missiles continue to whizz around the Middle East and the global economy continues to sweat as a result, Trump looks to be planning his exit from that Iranian adventure. Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell look at the latest, and wonder if US plans to de-escalate the conflict will be as well thought through as its plans to escalate were in the first place. And, away from the madness of Trumpworld, they also look at the (sort of) madness that is featuring in upcoming elections in both Hungary and Denmark. This part may feature extreme pig breeding. Finally, by way of sanity, they have a look at Nigel Farage's video request money-making venture in which he accidentally appears to support Canadian Neo-Nazis, amongst other lovely things. As you do. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Opening clip from SNL cold open here. • Don't forget our podcast chum Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Original oil photo by A. C. 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
As the UK and Europe push back on Trump's overseas adventures, Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou are joined by MP for Oxford East, Dame Anneliese Dodds, to look at the Iran latest, the Ukraine defence partnership, and the government's pivot towards the EU. Starmer is, for once, in tune with the public mood. Can foreign policy repair his domestic reputation? Plus, we talk overseas aid (or the lack of it) with Anneliese who resigned her cabinet position in International Development over aid cuts, and is also Chair of the Sudan and South Sudan parliamentary group. And, despite that packed agenda, we've still got time for a bit of Wokey Dokey action ... and some surprising news about yoyo dieting. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Follow Women4Sudan on LinkedIn, Instagram, or the Women for Women account on Bluesky. And here is the Women4Sudan website. • Stephen Colbert's sharp take on Trump's 'fun' bombing. (Thanks to listener Julia for suggesting, at our recent editorial meeting for subscribers, that we include a link to the source of the pre-show comedy clip.) • More of that Rachel Reeves speech here • Anneliese's speech on protecting civilians in Sudan • Yoyo dieting ... maybe it's not all bad news • Don't forget our pod buddy Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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
KENNY CAMPBELL / JUDGEMENT DAY RECORDS RADIO #54 ON TOXIC SICKNESS / MARCH / 2026 by TOXIC SICKNESS OFFICIAL
Brace yourselves for an episode with a particularly adult feel... fret not, it's still Quiet Riot. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell start with the latest on Mandelson, and the never-ending political fallout from his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Then they turn their gaze to the Government's muddle over pornography – specifically, the row over whether content representing incest pornography should be banned while step-incest pornography is left legal. How on earth did we get to this point? And, to complete a trio of grown-up topics, they look at the somewhat disturbing news that ReformUK wants a say in your bedroom habits. Put that away now Nigel dear, I've got a throbbing headache. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • That UK-Trump drug deal mystery ... write to your MP with Best for Britain's help here • Our pod buddy Arthur Snell's new book, Elemental, featured in our Thursday show ... Get it at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • 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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As Behind the Lines formally announces joining the Cooler Heads podcast family, making us now the little brother to the massive success that is Quiet Riot - the brilliant politics podcast with Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell, I was delighted to have as my guest none other than Emily Thornberry MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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