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The British Dream
British politics is a of a nightmare to keep up with at the moment. Reading every think-piece or news story about how life is getting objectively worse would be enough to make your eyes fall out. That's why we created The British Dream, a podcast that pumps analysis of how everything is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ d...
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The Tories Are Hot For Labour
She'll deny it if you give her the chance... Let's rip up Theresa May's conference speech.
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Labour is Preparing For Government
It was good, but is it good enough? Let’s rip up Jeremy Corbyn’s Conference Speech!
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How the British Government Splits Children Up From Their Parents
Earlier in the summer the world looked on in horror as Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance border policy led to the separation of thousands of migrant chil...
How Far-Right Rhetoric Became the New Normal
Are we seeing the normalisation of fascism? There's a disturbing pattern of politicians making extreme statements, columnists writing apologia for rac...
Can Northern Ireland End Its Stasis On Abortion?
Remember in the spring when Ireland voted to legalise abortion? People in Northern Ireland do. They remember how everyone looked to Northern Ireland –...
How Politics Shaped Grime and Grime Shaped Politics
Grime has gone from a music genre that the police tried to snuff out, to one of Britain’s most in demand cultural exports, all the while maintaining i...
Does Brexit Have to Be Like This?
When the British people voted to “take back control” and leave the EU, you have to wonder if they were doing so looking forward to passing references...
What's The Deal With The Left-Wing Anti-Semitism?
In April an obscure, sub-cultural, iconoclastic, left-wing Jewish group called Jewdas made tabloid news by inviting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to a S...
The Police's Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Going To Get Better At Spying On You
"It was disturbing for us to see young people targeted in this kind of way"
Silkie Carlo is a Director at Big Brother Watch, an independ...
Why the Windrush Scandal Was No Accident
“What gets talked about is immigration and borders—what doesn't get talked about is people and people's lives"
Gracie Bradley is an Advocacy Off...
Did The Government Create UK Gang Culture?
"Our kids are bearing the brunt of institutional racism and ultimately paying with their lives"
Stafford Scott is a Race Advocacy Officer at The...
Uni Students Feel Like Consumers And They Don't Like It
“We are paying to learn how to work in jobs that no longer pay”
Students from all over the UK have joined the University strike in solidarity wi...
Is The Far Right On The Rise?
So much has changed in far right politics. The British National Party have come and gone, the English Defence League have disappeared, and lord knows...
Did The Iraq War Lead To The 2010 Student Protests, And Did The Student Protests Lead To Jeremy Corbyn?
Matt Myers has written an oral history of the 2010 student movement that cast off the cliche of an apathetic youth, embarrassed Nick Clegg, sacked the...
Can We Trust Labour's Foreign Policy?
Most people didn’t hear Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy speech to the UN Assembly in December 2017. But basically it set out what you could call the Co...
Is Tony Blair To Blame For Everything That Happened Last Year?
Is Brexit a hangover from Blairism? Are we living through the political comedown after Tony's Britpop party? Richard Power Sayeed, author of the book...
A Hell of a Year
It’s been a quiet year, with only one of the most surprising elections in living memory to distract us form Brexit, the Grenfell Tower Fire and the We...
Cough Cough
Join the British Dream to round off conference season with the podcast that the Prime Minister named her vision for the country after. We dive into th...
Bunker Mentality
With summer coming to an end and politics whirring back into gear, we’ll finally get some more Westminster podcast fodder soon, but for now we’re stil...
#12 What Do the Tories Do Now?
As the summer recess sits uneasily with the potential of nuclear winter, Tories are writing confused think-pieces, while Corbyn is sticking to what he...
Who Is Actually In Charge?
Welcome back to the British Dream. A lot has changed since the election. Jeremy Corbyn is the Prime Minster, except he's not. Theresa May can't be lea...
It Was the Young Wot Won It
Well, that was weird. After an election result that Theresa May couldn’t have anticipated and Labour could hardly have hoped for, The British Dream is...
Very Accurate Election Predictions
Could anyone really win at this election? While the election seems less of a foregone conclusion than it was, somehow it still feels like ultimately,...
How the Election Stopped Being a Foregone Conclusion
As the big day gets closer, it feels like a very different election to the one we started talking about a few weeks ago. Theresa May, sweating like sh...
Voices Of Manchester
After the atrocity at the Manchester Arena, we headed to the city to hear how people are coping and how people are banding together in grief. We spoke...
Why Do Politicians Never Answer the Question?
With rigorous academic analysis showing Theresa May giving a straight answer just nine percent of the time, how can we expect to hold anything to acco...
Generation Ungovernable
Welcome to Broken Britain: a housing crisis with no end in sight, hospitals that look like war zones, a welfare state in tatters. This week Theresa Ma...
Mayday Mayday
So far this bizarro election campaign has seen Theresa May embarrassing herself, and Jeremy Corbyn surprisingly looking vaguely like he actually wants...
Springtime for Jolyon
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Oh, Snap
After saying she wouldn't seven times, Theresa May has called a snap election. She's decided that yes, actually, she would like a mandate - so if the...
Casual Labour
Following Labour’s less than great byelection results last Thursday, this week kicked off with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell writing that a “soft c...