What went wrong with “Your Party”? As absolutely nobody could have predicted, the new Left vehicle’s first conference collapses amid factional squabbles. Zarah Sultana gets to rule over the ruins but will all that new energy on the left now head over to Zack Polanski’s Greens? Plus: After a budget that pleased nobody, is Labour really taking young people seriously? And in the Extra Bit for Patreon people, will the War on London ever end?
🎄Get 20% off a year’s support for Oh God, What Now? until Christmas – whether you’re a new backer, renewing or upgrading.
ESCAPE ROUTES
• Ros recommends Trespasses on Channel 4 catch-up.
• Raf just caught up with 2001: A Space Odyssey .
• Marie recommends the movies Pillion and Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, both in cinemas now.
• Andrew finally, finally watched Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson.
• Head to nakedwines.co.uk/ohgodwhatnow to get a £30 voucher and 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included.
• Get our exclusive NordVPN deal at nordvpn.com/ohgodwhatnow. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee!
www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Presented by Andrew Harrison with Marie le Conte, Rafael Behr and Ros Taylor. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
www.podmasters.co.uk
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
--------
1:08:31
--------
1:08:31
Can we get Britain out of its hole?
Britain is in trouble. Stagnating wages, collapsing public services and a feeble economy are turning politics angry and rancorous. Keir Starmer says Labour’s economic plan will take “years” to deliver – but does the party really have a long-term plan? And what would one look like? Our guest John Springford, associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform, has put one together at getting-out-of-the-hole.uk – and he’s here to talk about it.
Why is our productivity so bad? Why are we getting work, energy, manufacturing and cities wrong? Why do we keep basing our strategy on things we’re not good at? And can we fix any of it without reversing Brexit? Listen in to find out.
🎄Get 20% off a year’s support for Oh God, What Now? until Christmas – whether you’re a new backer, renewing or upgrading.
ESCAPE ROUTES
• Rachel recommends the new Wicked movie, Wicked: For Good.
• John recommends human-extinction themed episodes of the podcasts If Books Could Kill and Past Present Future.
• Seth recommends a visit to the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library to buy their themed Christmas ornaments.
• Head to nakedwines.co.uk/ohgodwhatnow to get a £30 voucher and 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included.
• Get our exclusive NordVPN deal at nordvpn.com/ohgodwhatnow. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee!
www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Presented by Seth Thévoz with Rachel Cunliffe. Audio and Video production: Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
www.podmasters.co.uk
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
--------
1:06:30
--------
1:06:30
Big Budget Breakdown – Wage Against the Machine
Behind all the predictable shrieking about “tax raids”, what really happened in Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed misery Budget? And what’s behind Labour’s fear of making bolder moves? Plus, Private Eye’s Daily Mailograph gag comes true – it looks like the Mail is going to buy the Telegraph. Our special guest, Radio 4 Now Show veteran and musical satirist Mitch Benn, helps us explore what it will do to diversity of the press (rhetorical question) and will Lord Rothermere get a free bottle of water with his purchase? And in the Extra Bit – Who should we ban from pubs: solo drinkers or kids?
• Get 20% off a year’s Patreon backing for OGWN until Christmas – new members, renewals, upgrades, all are welcome.
• Get your tickets for Mitch’s one-man performance of A Christmas Carol.
ESCAPE ROUTES
• Hannah went to see EEVAH on tour.
• Mitch went to see the RSC production of My Neighbour Totoro at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London. And it’s not sold out, there are loads of tickets available.
• Ros recommends the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe drama Prisoner 951 on BBC iPlayer.
• Jonn is rewatching the Scandi-noir classic The Bridge.
• Head to nakedwines.co.uk/ohgodwhatnow to get a £30 voucher and 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included.
• Get our exclusive NordVPN deal at nordvpn.com/ohgodwhatnow. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee!
www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Presented by Ros Taylor with Hannah Fearn and Jonn Elledge. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction by James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
www.podmasters.co.uk
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
--------
1:03:17
--------
1:03:17
Why Tech Sucks – Cory Doctorow on Enshittification and how to fix it
It’s the word of the moment. “Enshittification” is the reason Google is all ads and no useful results, Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products, your phone spies on you and you can’t find your friends on social media – but you WILL be persecuted by bots, brands and Nazis all day long. So how are we going to fix it? Leading tech critic Cory Doctorow joins Andrew Harrison and Rafael Behr to talk about whether digital platform rot is inevitable, his book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It … and the many, many ways to conjugate the verb “to enshittify”.
NB Trust us, this is NOT an edition you want to listen to at 1.5x speed.
• Buy Enshittification through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund Oh God, What Now? by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too.
ESCAPE ROUTES
• Cory recommends the podcast No Gods No Mayors.
• Raf went to see the touring production of Fiddler on the Roof which you can still just about catch in Sunderland and Birmingham.
• Andrew recommends child abduction drama All Her Fault on Now TV plus colossal CD box sets from Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda.
• Head to nakedwines.co.uk/ohgodwhatnow to get a £30 voucher and 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included.
• Get our exclusive NordVPN deal at nordvpn.com/ohgodwhatnow. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money back guarantee!
www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rafael Behr. Audio and Video Production by: Chris Jones. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
www.podmasters.co.uk
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
--------
1:04:10
--------
1:04:10
Cruel Britannia – Labour loses it on migration
Labour’s controversial asylum plans have sparked a backlash and it’s not clear they’ll even work. So, why have they gone down this route? What options might be better? Plus, AI – the bubble is going to burst, but has it already broken our brains? Then in the extra bit for supporters – what would we want to bring back from 100 years ago?
Escape Routes
• Matt is watching Death by Lightning
• Zoe is watching Stranger Things
• Jason is reading Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene by Ian Greaves
• Head to nakedwines.co.uk/ohgodwhatnow to get a £30 voucher and 6 top-rated wines from our sponsor Naked Wines for £39.99, delivery included.
www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow
Presented by Ros Taylor with Matt Green, Zoë Grünewald and Jason Hazeley. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
www.podmasters.co.uk
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes.
Regulars include: Guardian writer Rafael Behr • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Social affairs journalist Hannah Fearn • Comedian Matt Green • The Lead's Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Former Mirror editor Alison Phillips • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor
Sign up and get ad-free shows earlier than anyone else: patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow.
Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production
UK