Emma interviews James Bloodworth about his new book Hired. James spent six months undercover in low wage Britain and writes movingly about what he found.
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In this episode Mark Thompson and Emma Burnell discuss the lack of any coverage of republicanism in the wake of wall-to-wall royal wedding coverage, the opening of the Grenfell Inquiry and the resignation from the Labour Party of Ken Livingstone.
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No Mark this week - Emma gamely tries an AV anaolgy in his place.
In the meantime Emma Burnell and Nick Denys pay tribute to Tessa Jowell, discuss the ongoing Customs Union mess and Trump's ripping up of the Iran deal.
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On the eve of the local elections, Emma, Nick and Mark discuss the Alfie Evans case and the horrendous circus that surrounded this tragedy.
We also discuss the eventual resignation of Amber Rudd - Nick's forgotten her so quickly he calls her Amanda! Did she lie or just tell an untruth - yes, we get that semantic.
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The UK, USA and France have taken joint action in response to the chemical attacks carried out on Syrians by President Assad. We try to look not just at why this action was taken, but also why doing so is so polarising.
One issue we aren't polarised on is the disgraceful treatment of the Windrush generation by the Home Office. But is it cock up or conspiracy?
Are our elections being hacked? Could they be in future? We try to look at the issues behind the scandals.
And finally, what would we put in a Brexit Museum?
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Mar 2, 4:49 PM
Labour have changed their minds on the customs union. Have our regulars or guest Hugo Sugg? Well, what do you think?
Emma asks Ben Bradley MP- genius or goat? And we discuss the UK's reaction to snow and the effect on those living on the streets.
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Feb 9, 7:30 AM
In this special episode, Emma interviews Ava Etemadzadeh - a young Labour Party activist who has been in the headlines having made a complaint against a Labour MP as part of the ongoing "Pestminster" scandal.
As the Parliamentary report into future measures to tackle abuse of staff is published we discuss if it is sufficient, what needs to be done to protect volunteers and how we can all work to change the culture of politics.
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This week we discuss the collapse of Carillion and what this means for private provision of public services. We also discuss the Momentum's clean sweep in Labour's NEC elections and their subsequent move to replace Ann Black with Christine Shawcroft.
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The gang are back together for 2018 to discuss politics as we understand it and even as we don't. In this episode we discuss the NHS Winter crisis, the appointment of Toby Young, the latest on the Trump White House and - somewhat foolishly - our predictions for 2018. How wrong can we be right?
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