Episodes

  • 179: PAUL FOOT 2026: UNSAFE CONVICTIONS

    179: PAUL FOOT 2026: UNSAFE CONVICTIONS
    May 29 2026
    Adam Bychawski reported on how people who've been wrongly imprisoned - sometimes for many years - are still not being compensated even after they've overturned their convictions, thank to a 2014 change in the law.
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    14 mins
  • 178: PAUL FOOT 2026: HARD LABOUR

    178: PAUL FOOT 2026: HARD LABOUR
    May 28 2026
    Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife uncovered how Labour Together - the think-tank which helped make Keir Starmer PM - had hired a PR firm to try and discredit journalists asking them questions about their funding.
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    13 mins
  • 177: PAUL FOOT 2026: RAAC AND RUIN

    177: PAUL FOOT 2026: RAAC AND RUIN
    May 27 2026
    Lindsay Bruce of the Aberdeen Press and Journal fought for justice for homeowners facing ruin after they learned their homes were full of dodgy concrete. Her campaign eventually led to a complete surrender by local authorities and compensation for affected homeowners.
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    16 mins
  • 176: PAUL FOOT 2026: A PROVEN LAWYER

    176: PAUL FOOT 2026: A PROVEN LAWYER
    May 26 2026
    Daniel Timms of the Sheffield Tribune tells the story of the solicitor who used legal loopholes to extract sums of £25,000 from Yorkshire homeowners. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series.
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    11 mins
  • 175: PAUL FOOT 2026: CUTTING CORNERS

    175: PAUL FOOT 2026: CUTTING CORNERS
    May 25 2026
    Joe Duggan of the i paper tells the story of the workers falling ill and dying with silicosis after cutting fashionable kitchen counters without adequate protection. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series.
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    13 mins
  • 174: Burnham Would, Wesley Snipes

    174: Burnham Would, Wesley Snipes
    May 19 2026
    The team discuss the Labour leadership, play Helen’s new quiz ‘Faction or Fiction’, and Saba Salman joins for a post-pre-mortem on the local elections.
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    48 mins
  • 173: The Antisemitism Spectrum

    173: The Antisemitism Spectrum
    May 6 2026
    The team discuss antisemitism across the British political scene, Nigel Farage's £5million bung, and one of the (few) bits of Parliament that genuinely works.
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    44 mins
  • 172: A Kicking For Keir

    172: A Kicking For Keir
    Apr 21 2026
    Who wants to give Keir Starmer a kicking? Basically everyone. Rotten Boroughs editor Saba Salman joins Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop and Adam Macqueen to explain how British politics has fractured and how May's elections will be a total bunfight. Plus: how did Elizabeth II become Brenda, and what nicknames for Harry and Meghan never took off?
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    41 mins