Over The Top Under The Radar

Joining Carys this week is the brilliant Phineas Harper. Phin is a writer, founder and cultural leader whose work spans criticism, curation, education, journalism and sculpture. Phin was Chief Executive of Open City, Deputy Director of the Architecture Foundation, Deputy Editor of the Architectural Review, Chair of the Design Council Homes Taskforce.
Together, Carys and Phin discuss the arrest of Peter Mandelson, attacks on Green Party byelection candidate Hannah Spencer, the BBC's controversial coverage of the BAFTAs, and the collapse of a construction company that will lead to 105 half-built homes to be demolished in Ealing.
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Read more about Phin's work here: https://phineasharper.com/
Ealing homes: https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2026/02/23/ealing-to-rip-down-105-half-built-homes-after-henry-collapse/
BBC bias on Gaza: https://cfmm.org.uk/resource/bbc-on-gaza-israel-one-story-double-standards/
Green attacks: https://bsky.app/profile/adambienkov.bsky.social/post/3mfoe7wm26s2s

Joining Carys this week is writer, policy expert and author of Black Girl no Magic, Kimberly McIntosh.
Together, Carys and Kimberly explore right-wing discourse around women’s fertility, Sir Jim Ratcliffe comments on immigration, the UK's potential changes to settled status requirements, and families looking to take over a care home after owners amassed massive debts to HMRC.
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William Blake House:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/16/william-blake-house-care-home-debts
Connect with Kim here: https://linktr.ee/Kimmi91

Joining Carys this week is writer, media executive and satirist Nels Abbey. Nels wrote the brilliant Think Like A White Man and The Hip-Hop MBA: Lessons in Cut-Throat Capitalism From The Moguls of Rap. He is co-founder of the Black Writers Guild and founder of Uppity: An Intellectual Playground for the Refined and the Boujee.
Together, Carys and Nels discuss: Trump’s racist monkey post, the latest Labour psychodrama, the Nigerian petroleum minister facing trial, and the racism revealed in the Epstein files.
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Joining Carys this week is Janey Starling, an award-winning activist, co-director of gender justice group Level Up, and musician.
Together, Carys and Janey discuss: the Epstein files and Peter Mandelson, Lucy Letby, and Janey's campaign on pregnant women in prison.
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Joining Carys this week is journalist and former editor of the Guardian and Prospect magazine, Alan Rusbridger. Alan also hosts the brilliant Media Confidential podcast.
Together, Carys and Alan discuss the media storm around Brooklyn Beckham, Trump & ICE, a Washington Post reporter who was raided for speaking to government employees and the takeover of Tiktok's ownership in the US.
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