Pod Save the UK
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Trump blasts Europe and Sadiq Khan - but will his strong man act backfire?
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has taken another swipe at Europe’s “weak” leaders over Ukraine and immigration including a special mention for - surprise surprise...
Will cutting juries fix our maggot-ridden courts?
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Dead and rotting seagulls within the roof insulation” and “maggots literally raining down on to the lobby” - this quote from a court in South...
Reeves’s make-or-break budget: should the rich have paid more?
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coco and Nish listened to Rachel Reeves' budget so you don't have to. But hang on, we could all have skipped the speech and read it online. Someone sc...
Mahmood’s Moral Mission: Copy Reform’s homework
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse. Just when we thought the disasters of the government couldn’t get an...
Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are knives being sharpened by disgruntled MPs planning a coup against the PM? As Keir Starmer’s team dig in against a supposed threat to the Prime M...
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 - and ponder what British lefties can learn from ...
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 from prison and a damning report on the spiralling co...
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 GPT. Or as Coco puts it: her mate “Chatty 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 issues of humanitarian aid, human rights, and acc...
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 Times and Chair of the Commission on Racial Inclus...
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 merchants and leadership jockeying - is it Keir Starmer’...
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 evolution of the new political party experiment undert...
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 thousands in his ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march. Before we ...
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. But in the words of Homer Simpson, could Keir Starme...
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 awareness and support to end the genocide in Gaza. Nis...
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 Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club! In this first episo...
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 punters every year - and local councils have almo...
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-right organisers, with 14 protests scheduled natio...
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 of Pedro Pascal and Nish’s struggles to find any ...
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 Statehood - with caveats. Nish and Coco discuss the massi...
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 sit in Parliament and have proven they can win sea...
Live! One year of Keir - how can we fix the mess? - with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode of Pod Save the UK comes live from Sheffield’s Crossed Wires Festival. Nish and Coco sit down with two special guests: former ...
[Moral] Panic on the streets of Glastonbury
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nish’s inappropriate occurrences report at Glastonbury is in: there were people kissing, some people had their butts out and nobody seemed to be sla...
Does Trump know what the F#@! he’s doing?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a rollercoaster week of news - the threat of World War 3 suddenly felt a little overstated. But a few short hours after a ceasefire between Isra...
U-turn after U-turn: who is the real Keir Starmer?
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer is not afraid of a U-turn. From abandoned policy pledges to reinstating the winter-fuel allowance, the list is growing. To add to this - ...
Is Labour finally being Labour?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Reeves has delivered her very first spending review, promising to ‘renew Britain’ with big cash boosts for the NHS, housing and defence. It...
How to protect abortion rights from the far-right
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
England and Wales is still - unbelievably - operating under an 1861 law that criminalises abortion access. An unprecedented rise in prosecutions and t...
Babies, Benefits and Black Lives Matter
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stay out of wombs Nigel! Reform UK leader Nigel Farage wants us to have more babies - which for new mum Coco feels like being bamboozled into being ri...
Gaza and Benefits: is Starmer changing course?
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reunited, Coco and Nish are finally back together in the studio to talk U turns, disability benefits, Brexit and… gimp masks? There’s a lot of pol...
Pod Save an Island of Strangers
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coco’s back! She’s both sleep and politics deprived, but Nish is ready to fill her in. The government's shake-up of legal migration laws landed t...
How Labour should (but probably won’t) reset after Reform’s big win
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no ifs or buts - Reform had a won big in last week’s local elections - but it’s not all bad news. Near-total Tory wipeout, positive sign...
The UK Supreme Court ruling and the fight for trans rights
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of woman should be based on biological sex, Nish and Zoë speak to LGBTQ+ activis...
Nish and Coco spill the tea: your questions answered
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Parliament sits for Easter Recess, Nish and Coco dive into the PSUK mailbag to answer your burning questions. There’s the serious political qu...
Trump’s Tariffs: are you feeling liberated?
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UPDATE: 10/04/25: President Trump has planned to pause extended tariffs on most countries for 90 days, while pushing ahead on plans to implement a 104...
Waiting For The Apocalypse: tariffs, food security and the right to protest
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: this episode contains descriptions of sexually explicit and sexist song lyrics. While we wait to see if Trump’s tariff juggernaut is going...
Austerity 2.0: can Reeves cut her way to growth?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First the good news: we might just manage to build a lot of new houses. And the bad news? Millions of people will be worse off and about fifty thousan...
Welfare cuts: are Labour copying Tory homework?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After weeks of speculation, Liz Kendall has confirmed what benefits are to be axed in order to save £5 billion from the welfare bill - but at what co...
A true story of money, Mafia & the Vatican (Shadow Kingdom Episode 1)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're excited to bring you the first episode of Shadow Kingdom: God's Banker. In the summer of 1982, the Vatican’s top money man was found dea...
Welfare, Warehouses and Playlist Diplomacy
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ll start with the good news - Reform UK appears to be imploding. Nigel Farage has had a wildly public fallout with (now former) Reform MP Rupert ...
Keir Starmer - the unlikely leader of the free world?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A shouting match in the Oval Office probably should have been on everyone’s Trump 25 bingo card - but the extraordinary breakdown in relations betwe...
Dear Donald: Can Starmer Tame Trump? w/ Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. But this week we found out that defending the UK from it is going to cost us a lot of money. And the lo...
Trump’s plan for “Peace” in Ukraine only pleases Putin + The Politics of Modern Love
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Europe looks on in disbelief, Donald Trump has been throwing his geopolitical weight around. A monumental meeting with Russia to discuss ending the...
Adventures in the Culture War w/ Ash Sarkar
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has spent the week trying to out-Reform Reform by stirring up yet another moral panic about immigration. The Home Office has been boast...
Trump’s Gaza madness ft Lewis Goodall
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has left the world reeling with a plan to turn Gaza into *checks notes* “the Riviera of the Middle East”. He vowed that the US will “...
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse. Nish and Coco dig into some scary data about Gen Z. A poll of 13-27 year ol...
Trump 2.0: Fear and Loathing in DC
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A trigger warning for progressives: this episode contains explicit Trump content. Nish and Coco’s nightmare begins with inauguration Trump meme coin...
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared, with a multibillion-pound inve...
Billionaire BS: How can Britain Stop Musk’s Disinformation?
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year - is 2025 going to be the year of disinformation? Elon Musk started in attack mode with a flood of vitriolic and false tweets about UK ...
Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What a year! While Rishi Sunak held true to his January commitment to hold the election in the second half of the year - the spectacle that followed c...
FIFA World Cup: Trade Deals 1, Human Rights Nil
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the same week FIFA decided an appalling human rights record is no obstacle to Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup, Keir Starmer was schmoozing ...
Toxic men and toxic politics: the problem with Gregg Wallace and Nigel Farage
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace faces a stream of allegations about inappropriate behaviour at work, Nish and Coco take on the entertainment industry’...
Who gets to decide how we die? w/ Rosena Allin-Khan MP
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This Friday, MPs are challenged with an enormous question of conscience - should we allow people with six months left to live the right to die at a ti...
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
Russia’s war with Ukraine is escalating dramatically - as we record reports have begun to emerge about Ukraine firing British long-range “Storm Sh...
How is Trump already infecting UK politics? w/ Beth Rigby + the university crisis
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
President-elect Donald Trump has a strong stance on many issues, from isolationism to border control, not to mention he’s an open climate change den...
Trump wins: where the hell do we go from here? w/ Katy Balls + Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a dark, dark day for the world. Donald Trump - a convicted criminal no less - has been elected 47th US president in a shocking political resurr...
Halloween budget: trick or treat? w/ Torsten Bell MP, Grace Blakeley & Katie Schmuecker
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Double, Double, toil and trouble…the Government’s first budget has been unveiled on the eve of Halloween, and Nish and Coco are peering into chanc...
How f***ed are we if Trump wins? + Is Jeremy Corbyn MP forming a new party?
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Government’s rallying cry to the nation to help fix the NHS via a public consultation has not disappointed. In what is fast becoming the Nationa...
How ruthless is Keir Starmer willing to be? w/ Anushka Asthana and Josh Babarinde MP
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With just two weeks to go until the Autumn budget, the Labour government is preparing to make some huge reforms. But just how ruthless is Keir Starmer...
The Tories lose their minds (again) - can Starmer hold against the far right?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Tory party have once again chosen violence against themselves, as Keir Starmer’s Labour party are languishing in the polls after 90-something da...
Is Britain’s benefits system broken? w/ Caroline Selman and John Pring
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The new Labour government has promised bold action to fix Britain’s benefit system. Last week, Keir Starmer announced a crackdown on benefit fraud a...
Can Starmer’s upbeat note drown out the donation scandal? w/ Zoë Grünewald and Simon Kuper
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exclusive INCOGNI Deal ➼ go to https://incogni.com/podsavetheuk to get 60% off your annual plan! Keir Starmer gave his first Labour Conference speec...
Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exclusive INCOGNI Deal ➼ go to https://incogni.com/podsavetheuk to get 60% off your annual plan! Keir Starmer promised a Labour government would “...
Inside out: How to fix the UK’s prison system + Labour embraces unpopularity
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Exclusive INCOGNI Deal ➼ go to https://incogni.com/podsavetheuk to get 60% off your annual plan! The government has won a vote in the commons over i...
Time to nationalise Ticketmaster? “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, the Grenfell Inquiry concludes
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parliament is back in session and so is Pod Save the UK! Coco is joined by Zoë Grünewald, filling in for Nish, to discuss Keir Starmer’s gloomy ne...
Live! How comedy can bring hope in dark times - with Adam Hills and Kemah Bob
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live episode from the Edinburgh Fringe, recorded on 07/08/24, Nish and Coco are joined by comedians Adam Hills and Kemah Bob to talk a...
Live! Finding hope in the wake of Britain's racist riots - with Ahir Shah & Tom Ballard
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live episode from the Edinburgh Fringe, Nish and Coco bring two special guests to talk about the racist riots tearing Britain apart. ...
How Can We Fix The British Economy? With Paul Johnson From The IFS
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a tough few weeks for new Chancellor Rachel Reeves. In a speech to the House of Commons on Monday, Reeves declared that despite going in t...
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
Three weeks haven’t yet passed since the election, but Keir Starmer’s Government has faced its first rebellion. The response to seven Labour MPs b...
The Kings Speech, Knives Out for Vaughan Gething and An Education on Schools Policy with Liz Bates
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As parliamentarians were ironing their robes in preparation for the King’s Speech, Trump’s new running mate JD Vance shocked the UK with flippant ...
Are Labour the party to finally fix housing? w/ Kwajo Tweneboa, Toby Lloyd and Sam Freedman
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s week one in government and Labour have hit the ground running. We’ve got a new cabinet and big moves on planning reform and international rel...
Labour Landslide - will things get better? With Torsten Bell MP and Femi Oluwole
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s official. The election results are in and we are in the era of a Labour government. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stepped up the 10 Downing S...
Would a Labour supermajority really be bad for democracy? Rory Stewart on why opposition is vital
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Counting down the last five days until the election results come flooding in, the Conservative Party is still blowing themselves apart from the inside...
Will “gamblegate” scandal obliterate the Tories Forever? Plus last few days of the election with Liz Bates
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With just one week to go until the election, Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat might have just got slimmer - all thanks to “gam...
Chris Packham Vs Taylor Swift: Will People or Politics Save Our Planet?
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The major parties have failed to pledge to make the radical changes needed to save our planet from climate catastrophe - but people power may well sav...
Who gets the power? Devolution and the General Election.
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a horrendous campaign for the Conservatives so far, careening from disaster to catastrophe, but the Tories don't have the exclusive on pol...
Manifesto deep-dive: Is Labour’s at all progressive?
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following a week of political manifestoes dropping from UK parties - Nish & Coco take a deep-dive investigation to see how they hold up against one an...
How to make your vote count: is Tactical Voting a necessary evil? With Femi Oluwole
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The polls are indicating a landslide victory for Labour come the election on July 4th. But that hasn’t stopped the calls - from both the left and th...
Why is it so hard to tax the rich? Would it fix our economy? With Gary Stevenson
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s sorry state of affairs when it comes to water and railways is both a massive problem and an opportunity for the incoming government. Water ...
Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In week two of the campaigns for the upcoming General Election - the fight for the centre vote has become a focal point. But the crucial question rema...
Generational Warfare: Has Rishi Sunak’s electoral gambit misfired?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s week one of the campaign and after a comical series of false starts, Rishi Sunak and the Tories have fired the first shots in a campaign of gen...
What do the Trans & Non-binary community need most right now?
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nish and Coco are joined by Abigail Thorn (actress, writer and host of PhilosophyTube) and Freddy McConnell (writer and journalist) to examine the iss...
Are these the last six weeks of Rishi Sunak and the Tories?
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nish and Coco bring you a hot off-the-press special look at the announcement of a UK general election. On Wednesday 22nd May - Prime Minister Rishi Su...
The economy is growing, so why are we feeling poorer?
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK is officially out of recession - Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have been banging the drum of the 0.6% GDP growth in the Jan-March quar...
Abortion rights & ending hunger with Aisling Bea
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“A hung Parliament” - it’s not quite admitting defeat, but the new media lines from Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party suggest that even the...
Are the Local Election results the beginning of total Tory annihilation?
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the results from elections across England & Wales are still rolling in - the signs so far are pointing to a disastrous outcome for the Conservat...
Humza Yousaf's Shock Resignation: Are the Greens Seizing Power in Scotland?
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Westminster rumour mill went into overdrive last weekend peddling an ultimately incorrect rumour that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was due to call a...
Nish dismantles Sunak's attack on disabled people and Coco meets Caroline Lucas
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rishi Sunak finally ‘got Rwanda done’ after a long and dramatic night as his Safety of Rwanda Bill ping-ponged between the Common and the Lords. O...
Jess Phillips on Angela Rayner tax story: scandal or smear?
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On a busy week of news as MPs return to Parliament, Nish and Coco are joined by the Labour MP Jess Phillips. She gives her take on the investigation i...
Scandal and cyber security in Westminster
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coco is back from holiday and the first order of business is for Nish to explain the Westminster “honeypot” scandal, which has seen the vice-chair...
Fighting the Rwanda Bill + Mr Kumar goes to Westminster
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the Government’s controversial Rwanda Bill currently stuck between the Commons and the Lords, this timely special episode focuses on the UK’s...
A China crisis, a dodgy attack ad, and Titchmarsh’s trousers
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Westminster goes on its Easter holidays, Nish and Coco reflect on a busy end of term that saw a couple of ministerial resignations and a diplomatic...
Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Nish and Coco ask if our politics is on sale to those with the deepest pockets? The Conservative Party would love us all to move on from the...
Tory donor racism row, plus the Princess and the pic
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another shocker of a week for the Conservatives which saw their biggest donor caught up in a race row, and their former Deputy Chairman defect to Refo...
Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did the Chancellor’s much anticipated pre-election budget fall flat? Nish and Coco pick over the details and wonder why our public services are bein...
The man who would be PM: who is the real Keir Starmer?
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With a huge lead in the polls, all the signs point to Keir Starmer moving into Downing Street by the end of the year, so how well do we know the man w...
Will Young: popstar to politician? Plus Westminster ceasefire row
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nish and guest co-presenter Liz Bates set the scene on what went on to become a chaotic night in the Commons, that put speaker Lindsay Hoyle’s job...
Rochdale row tests Starmer’s leadership, plus the woman who helped take down Weinstein
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A week that was supposed to bring more woe for Rishi Sunak has turned into arguably the biggest test of Keir Starmer’s leadership. Labour has had to...
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf: Sunak, Starmer and samosas
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf joins Nish and Coco to reflect on the highs and lows of his first year as leader. He takes us back to the fat...
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
After nearly two years without a functioning Government, are the people of Northern Ireland finally about to see the power-sharing executive return to...
Why are our councils going bust?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
1 in 5 local councils in England is in danger of going bankrupt within the next two years - it’s a growing crisis that Westminster has done its best...