This is PoliticsJOE's podcast - the only explicitly anti-nonce podcast in the UK.
Reporting on British politics with a sense of humour, the podcast is a recorded version of the conversations we have after work.
So pull up a stool, pour yourself a cold one, and laugh through the misery alongside us.
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This is PoliticsJOE's podcast - the only explicitly anti-nonce podcast in the UK.
Reporting on British politics with a sense of humour, the podcast is a recorded version of the conversations we have after work.
So pull up a stool, pour yourself a cold one, and laugh through the misery alongside us.
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Author of The Big Short Michael Lewis swing by JOETowers to chat to Oli about "who" actually is government.
His new book Who is Government? is out now.
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Helen Lewis swung by JOETowers to chat if anyone is actually a genius - and what who we label "geniuses" tells us about society.
She argues that "genius" is a romanticised idea: the notion that extraordinary talent excuses bad behaviour or moral failings. Think, Elon Musk.
She unpacks how celebrated (almost always male) figures like Edison, Einstein, Picasso, Tolstoy (and even Elon Musk) benefit from a halo effect that glosses over serious flaws such as abuse, neglect, misogyny, and selfishness.
She traces the historical roots of the term “genius,” linking it to hierarchy-driven ideologies and the eugenics movement, arguing that intelligence testing and the “innate talent” narrative come with harmful baggage.
Helen Lewis is a journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic. She is a former deputy editor of the New Statesman, and has also written for The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
Her new book "The Genius Myth" is out now.
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After reporting from the scene of Mo Chara's court hearing and its surrounding protest yesterday, Seán and Laura dive into what they saw and why the British state are really going after KNEECAP.
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(0:00:00) JOEnlyFans
(0:01:20) Love Irish podcasts hate Irish nonces
(0:01:47) A note on endangered languages
(0:04:30) The trial of Mo Chara
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On today's 'tight' record, Ed and Oli discuss the illustrious Deputy Prime Minister's Questions, Robert Jenrick's dark arts, and school uniforms.
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(0:00:00) JOEnlyFans
(0:01:20) Grand opening
(0:03:40) (D)PMQs
(0:40:13) The record gets loose
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After Yvette Cooper's statement in the Commons yesterday responding to the findings of the Casey report, Seán, Oli, and Laura delve into what's really going on with grooming gangs.
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(0:00:00) A bit of chat
(0:07:10) But why JOEnlyFans?
(0:15:24) Grooming gangs
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Ed returns to the studio to discuss his Journalism in Northern Ireland, where he was on the ground reporting on the Ballymena riots. Oli joins him to create the platonic ideal of a podcast.
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(0:00:00) Dross
(0:10:01) PoliticsJOE Premium
(0:22:40) Witches
(0:26:18) Ballymena
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Laura's been in Birmingham, finding out about the city's synthetic opioid crisis.
She chats to DISPATCH's editor Jacob Furedi about the drug deadlier than fentanyl being cut into Britain's drug supply.
You can watch Laura's report tomorrow on the PoliticsJOE YouTube.
You can read Jacob's investigation here: https://dispatch-media.com/britains-hidden-opioid-crisis/
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Iain Dale is a broadcaster, political geek and author of many books, most recent among them Margaret Thatcher: The Prime Ministers Series.
He swung by JOETowers on release of his book to sit down with Oli and chew the fat over her legacy, her policies and how her actions as Britain's first female Prime Minister are misunderstood.
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In recent years, Ireland has seen a steady increase in anti-immigration, racist and conspiracy laden politics.
What began as an online fringe has manifested in recent months and years into events such as the Dublin riots in 2023, or the burning down of buildings destined to house asylum seekers across the country.
While the sentiment and emotion behind Ireland's anti-refugee activists tends to be represented in the media by racist and xenophobic protesters, there are underlying cultural and societal issues that have been trigger points the political fringe have latched on to.
Here, we delve into the issues that have given rise to far-right sentiment in Ireland, such as the housing crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and post 2008 austerity.
Roscrea crew: Oisín Deignan, Peter Cooney and Eoin Ronayne.
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Sound the emergency podcast button, it's Trump versus Musk, politics is good again baby, awooga!
Ed and Laura chat about the insane fallout between Trump and Musk, Zia Yusuf leaving Reform, and what really happened in a Scottish by-election.
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Today Ava and Conor are joined by totem of the British music industry Kate Nash.
We get into attacks against Imane Khelif, anti-trans activists, and right-wing grifters hell-bent on making everybody's life worse.
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