Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
What can the left learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nish and Coco celebrate the win of Progressive New York Democratic Mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani...
Britain’s prison and asylum meltdown. Plus - the Renters’ Rights Act w/ Vicky Spratt
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a painful week for the government, with a migrant sex offender accidentally released fro...
Pod Save the Truth w/ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Enough is enough! Nish stages an intervention with Coco about her troubling relationship with Chat G...
Why can’t the UK get over Thatcher? Plus - “Your Party” infighting is Definitely Maybe over…
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been an emotional week after the arrival of a Hamas-Israel ceasefire. This is good news - but...
Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Shocking... but not surprising” - the words of Stephen Bush, Associate Editor at the Financial ...
Decency or division: Starmer takes aim at Reform
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s conference season, and at the Labour conference in Liverpool - flagshagging, snake-oil mercha...
Your loss, Zack’s gain? Polanski’s vision for the UK
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oh dear lefties… We just can’t stop tearing each other apart, huh? One short month into the evol...
Anger, Rage and Love - Trump’s visit to the UK and Tommy Robinson’s far right rally
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a hellish week for our Disunited Kingdom. First Tommy Robinson mobilised ten of thousand...
Liberated from Labour: Zarah Sultana and Bimini Bon-Boulash - Live!
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chaos, what chaos? Rayner's out. The cabinet's reshuffled. The lurch to the right hasn't stopped. Bu...
Stop The Genocide! w/ Wael Al-Dahdouh, Jen Brister and Alexei Sayle
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pod Save the UK teamed up with Amnesty International UK for a powerful live recording to raise aware...
Friends of PSUK - Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PSUK is taking a week off - so we’re bringing you a podcast from some of our friends - Sara and Ca...
Does the UK have a gambling problem? Out and about w/ Dawn Butler
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
High streets across the UK are being overwhelmed by betting shops. They gobble up £4.6 billion from...
Is the government inflaming protests on the left and right?
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Three thousand riot police were put on standby after Friday was dubbed “anti-asylum day” by far-...
Is criticism of the Online Safety Act actually right wing?
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week - we’re talking about the internet, Coco’s proclivities toward the disembodied voice o...
Is the new left party what the UK needs?
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PSUK is back - and this week Keir Starmer has swung open the door to recognising Palestinian Stateho...
PSUK’s Green Leadership Debate: The Friendliest FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT You’ve Ever Heard
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The co-Leadership bid of Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay represents continuity for the Greens - they ...
Live! One year of Keir - how can we fix the mess? - with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week’s episode of Pod Save the UK comes live from Sheffield’s Crossed Wires Festival. Nish ...
[Moral] Panic on the streets of Glastonbury
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nish’s inappropriate occurrences report at Glastonbury is in: there were people kissing, some peop...
Does Trump know what the F#@! he’s doing?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After a rollercoaster week of news - the threat of World War 3 suddenly felt a little overstated. Bu...
U-turn after U-turn: who is the real Keir Starmer?
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Keir Starmer is not afraid of a U-turn. From abandoned policy pledges to reinstating the winter-fuel...
Is Labour finally being Labour?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rachel Reeves has delivered her very first spending review, promising to ‘renew Britain’ with bi...
How to protect abortion rights from the far-right
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
England and Wales is still - unbelievably - operating under an 1861 law that criminalises abortion a...
Babies, Benefits and Black Lives Matter
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Stay out of wombs Nigel! Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wants us to have more babies - which for new ...
Gaza and Benefits: is Starmer changing course?
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Reunited, Coco and Nish are finally back together in the studio to talk U turns, disability benefits...
Pod Save an Island of Strangers
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Coco’s back! She’s both sleep and politics deprived, but Nish is ready to fill her in. The gove...
How Labour should (but probably won’t) reset after Reform’s big win
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
There’s no ifs or buts - Reform had a won big in last week’s local elections - but it’s not al...
The UK Supreme Court ruling and the fight for trans rights
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of woman should be based on bio...
Nish and Coco spill the tea: your questions answered
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Parliament sits for Easter Recess, Nish and Coco dive into the PSUK mailbag to answer your burnin...
Trump’s Tariffs: are you feeling liberated?
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
UPDATE: 10/04/25: President Trump has planned to pause extended tariffs on most countries for 90 day...
Waiting For The Apocalypse: tariffs, food security and the right to protest
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Warning: this episode contains descriptions of sexually explicit and sexist song lyrics. While we w...
Austerity 2.0: can Reeves cut her way to growth?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
First the good news: we might just manage to build a lot of new houses. And the bad news? Millions o...
Welfare cuts: are Labour copying Tory homework?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After weeks of speculation, Liz Kendall has confirmed what benefits are to be axed in order to save ...
A true story of money, Mafia & the Vatican (Shadow Kingdom Episode 1)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Today we're excited to bring you the first episode of Shadow Kingdom: God's Banker. In the summer of...
Welfare, Warehouses and Playlist Diplomacy
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We’ll start with the good news - Reform UK appears to be imploding. Nigel Farage has had a wildly ...
Keir Starmer - the unlikely leader of the free world?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A shouting match in the Oval Office probably should have been on everyone’s Trump 25 bingo card - ...
Dear Donald: Can Starmer Tame Trump? w/ Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. But this week we found out that defending the UK from...
Trump’s plan for “Peace” in Ukraine only pleases Putin + The Politics of Modern Love
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Europe looks on in disbelief, Donald Trump has been throwing his geopolitical weight around. A mo...
Adventures in the Culture War w/ Ash Sarkar
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The government has spent the week trying to out-Reform Reform by stirring up yet another moral panic...
Trump’s Gaza madness ft Lewis Goodall
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Donald Trump has left the world reeling with a plan to turn Gaza into *checks notes* “the Riviera ...
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse. Nish and Coco dig into so...
Trump 2.0: Fear and Loathing in DC
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A trigger warning for progressives: this episode contains explicit Trump content. Nish and Coco’s ...
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, Prime Minister Keir St...
Billionaire BS: How can Britain Stop Musk’s Disinformation?
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Happy New Year - is 2025 going to be the year of disinformation? Elon Musk started in attack mode wi...
Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
What a year! While Rishi Sunak held true to his January commitment to hold the election in the secon...
FIFA World Cup: Trade Deals 1, Human Rights Nil
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the same week FIFA decided an appalling human rights record is no obstacle to Saudi Arabia hostin...
Toxic men and toxic politics: the problem with Gregg Wallace and Nigel Farage
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace faces a stream of allegations about inappropriate behaviour at work,...
Who gets to decide how we die? w/ Rosena Allin-Khan MP
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This Friday, MPs are challenged with an enormous question of conscience - should we allow people wit...
How to avoid World War 3 + why won’t Elon Musk Leave the UK alone? W/ Jamie Bartlett & Stephen Bush
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Russia’s war with Ukraine is escalating dramatically - as we record reports have begun to emerge a...
How is Trump already infecting UK politics? w/ Beth Rigby + the university crisis
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
President-elect Donald Trump has a strong stance on many issues, from isolationism to border control...
Trump wins: where the hell do we go from here? w/ Katy Balls + Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s a dark, dark day for the world. Donald Trump - a convicted criminal no less - has been electe...
Halloween budget: trick or treat? w/ Torsten Bell MP, Grace Blakeley & Katie Schmuecker
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Double, Double, toil and trouble…the Government’s first budget has been unveiled on the eve of H...
How f***ed are we if Trump wins? + Is Jeremy Corbyn MP forming a new party?
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Government’s rallying cry to the nation to help fix the NHS via a public consultation has not ...
How ruthless is Keir Starmer willing to be? w/ Anushka Asthana and Josh Babarinde MP
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With just two weeks to go until the Autumn budget, the Labour government is preparing to make some h...
The Tories lose their minds (again) - can Starmer hold against the far right?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Tory party have once again chosen violence against themselves, as Keir Starmer’s Labour party ...
Is Britain’s benefits system broken? w/ Caroline Selman and John Pring
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The new Labour government has promised bold action to fix Britain’s benefit system. Last week, Kei...
Can Starmer’s upbeat note drown out the donation scandal? w/ Zoë Grünewald and Simon Kuper
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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Inside out: How to fix the UK’s prison system + Labour embraces unpopularity
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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Time to nationalise Ticketmaster? “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, the Grenfell Inquiry concludes
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Parliament is back in session and so is Pod Save the UK! Coco is joined by Zoë Grünewald, filling ...
Live! How comedy can bring hope in dark times - with Adam Hills and Kemah Bob
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this special live episode from the Edinburgh Fringe, recorded on 07/08/24, Nish and Coco are join...
Live! Finding hope in the wake of Britain's racist riots - with Ahir Shah & Tom Ballard
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this special live episode from the Edinburgh Fringe, Nish and Coco bring two special guests to ta...
How Can We Fix The British Economy? With Paul Johnson From The IFS
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s been a tough few weeks for new Chancellor Rachel Reeves. In a speech to the House of Commons ...
Red Rebellion, Just Stop Locking Up Activists And How To Fix Our Broken NHS With Clare Farrell And Victor Adebowale
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Three weeks haven’t yet passed since the election, but Keir Starmer’s Government has faced its f...
The Kings Speech, Knives Out for Vaughan Gething and An Education on Schools Policy with Liz Bates
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As parliamentarians were ironing their robes in preparation for the King’s Speech, Trump’s new r...
Are Labour the party to finally fix housing? w/ Kwajo Tweneboa, Toby Lloyd and Sam Freedman
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s week one in government and Labour have hit the ground running. We’ve got a new cabinet and ...
Labour Landslide - will things get better? With Torsten Bell MP and Femi Oluwole
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s official. The election results are in and we are in the era of a Labour government. Prime Min...
Would a Labour supermajority really be bad for democracy? Rory Stewart on why opposition is vital
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Counting down the last five days until the election results come flooding in, the Conservative Party...
Will “gamblegate” scandal obliterate the Tories Forever? Plus last few days of the election with Liz Bates
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With just one week to go until the election, Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat ...
Chris Packham Vs Taylor Swift: Will People or Politics Save Our Planet?
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The major parties have failed to pledge to make the radical changes needed to save our planet from c...
Who gets the power? Devolution and the General Election.
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s been a horrendous campaign for the Conservatives so far, careening from disaster to catastrop...
Manifesto deep-dive: Is Labour’s at all progressive?
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Following a week of political manifestoes dropping from UK parties - Nish & Coco take a deep-dive in...
How to make your vote count: is Tactical Voting a necessary evil? With Femi Oluwole
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The polls are indicating a landslide victory for Labour come the election on July 4th. But that hasn...
Why is it so hard to tax the rich? Would it fix our economy? With Gary Stevenson
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The UK’s sorry state of affairs when it comes to water and railways is both a massive problem and ...
Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In week two of the campaigns for the upcoming General Election - the fight for the centre vote has b...
Generational Warfare: Has Rishi Sunak’s electoral gambit misfired?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s week one of the campaign and after a comical series of false starts, Rishi Sunak and the Tori...
What do the Trans & Non-binary community need most right now?
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nish and Coco are joined by Abigail Thorn (actress, writer and host of PhilosophyTube) and Freddy Mc...
Are these the last six weeks of Rishi Sunak and the Tories?
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nish and Coco bring you a hot off-the-press special look at the announcement of a UK general electio...
The economy is growing, so why are we feeling poorer?
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The UK is officially out of recession - Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have been banging the...
Abortion rights & ending hunger with Aisling Bea
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“A hung Parliament” - it’s not quite admitting defeat, but the new media lines from Rishi Suna...
Are the Local Election results the beginning of total Tory annihilation?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
While the results from elections across England & Wales are still rolling in - the signs so far are ...
Humza Yousaf's Shock Resignation: Are the Greens Seizing Power in Scotland?
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The Westminster rumour mill went into overdrive last weekend peddling an ultimately incorrect rumour...
Nish dismantles Sunak's attack on disabled people and Coco meets Caroline Lucas
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rishi Sunak finally ‘got Rwanda done’ after a long and dramatic night as his Safety of Rwanda Bi...
Jess Phillips on Angela Rayner tax story: scandal or smear?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On a busy week of news as MPs return to Parliament, Nish and Coco are joined by the Labour MP Jess P...
Scandal and cyber security in Westminster
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Coco is back from holiday and the first order of business is for Nish to explain the Westminster “...
Fighting the Rwanda Bill + Mr Kumar goes to Westminster
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With the Government’s controversial Rwanda Bill currently stuck between the Commons and the Lords,...
A China crisis, a dodgy attack ad, and Titchmarsh’s trousers
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
As Westminster goes on its Easter holidays, Nish and Coco reflect on a busy end of term that saw a c...
Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week Nish and Coco ask if our politics is on sale to those with the deepest pockets? The Conser...
Tory donor racism row, plus the Princess and the pic
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Another shocker of a week for the Conservatives which saw their biggest donor caught up in a race ro...
Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Did the Chancellor’s much anticipated pre-election budget fall flat? Nish and Coco pick over the d...
The man who would be PM: who is the real Keir Starmer?
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
With a huge lead in the polls, all the signs point to Keir Starmer moving into Downing Street by the...
Will Young: popstar to politician? Plus Westminster ceasefire row
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nish and guest co-presenter Liz Bates set the scene on what went on to become a chaotic night in t...
Rochdale row tests Starmer’s leadership, plus the woman who helped take down Weinstein
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A week that was supposed to bring more woe for Rishi Sunak has turned into arguably the biggest test...
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf: Sunak, Starmer and samosas
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf joins Nish and Coco to reflect on the highs and lows of his...
The MP who gives away part of her salary, hope for Northern Ireland and Nish Kumar takes on the evil plotters
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After nearly two years without a functioning Government, are the people of Northern Ireland finally ...
Why are our councils going bust?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
1 in 5 local councils in England is in danger of going bankrupt within the next two years - it’s a...
Rwanda, Reparations and Romance
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
It’s groundhog day at Westminster as Rishi Sunak’s Safety of Rwanda Bill returns to the Commons ...
The Horizon Post Office scandal and Lionel Rishi
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Why did it take a TV drama to wake politicians up to what’s been described as the most widespread ...
Nish and Coco’s predictions for 2024, plus would you kiss a Tory?
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Comedians Andy Zaltzman and Catherine Bohart return to help Nish and Coco try to predict what politi...
Just Stop Politics! Nish and Coco’s review of 2023
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Comedians Andy Zaltzman and Catherine Bohart take up Nish and Coco’s challenge, to find the laughs...
Sunak survives, plus the long wait for Grenfell justice
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Rishi Sunak endured one his toughest weeks yet as Prime Minister, as he faced the Covid Inquiry and ...