
Quiet Riot
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Sunday School: Coronation Treat
B-SIDE: Too Hot for Politics
The Andy Man's Guide to Cabinet Making
From Brexit to Burnham, with James O'Brien
Sunday School: Nigel's half-empty glass
BY-ELECTION SPECIAL: Maker-or-Breakerfield
X Marks The Rot
Sunday School: They think it's all over... Again
B-SIDE: Peace Off + Healey Resignation
It's A Badenoch Life, For Us
Sunday School: Bruising encounters
B-SIDE: Labour's difficult second album
The Rage in Farage
Sunday School: No jobs for the boys (or girls)
B-SIDE: From Usk Till Dawn
The Tone Commandments
Sunday School: Immigration home truths
B-SIDE: Two State Dilution - why Palestine needs your voice
Terminal decline: Has Britain forgotten how to build big?
Sunday School: A Kingmakerfield by-election
The Cling Speech
Sunday School: Worst Past The Post
Midnight Mass: From Landslide to Mudslide
Farage's millions: Nothin' to see here guv
Sunday School: The heat is on
Premature Elation; The US midterms are NOT a done deal
The Windsor Takes It All
What next for the assisted dying debate?
Sunday School: Hobson's choice (or the illusion of our freedom)
That Man and Robbins
Sunday School: JOIN VENTURE - The path back to EU membership
Block, stock and two million smoking barrels
Scotland special: A Holyrood ghost story

S3 Ep 34Sunday School: For whom the Mel trolls
ELook, we're STILL trying to work out what Melania's plan was with that WTF speech this week. Plan, did we say? Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell give miserable Mel's bizarre intervention their best shot and, for the adults in the audience, try to make sense of that other Trumpian mystery of the week, the cease fire that no one in the White House seems to have read before agreeing to it. Back in Blighty, it's less than a month to the May 7th electoral jamboree and a chance to talk about proper politics: pot holes, hospitals and the rise of nutcase right wing politics over here too. All that plus AI hallucinations, moths and actual congress with a bull. Don't say you weren't warned. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Alex's latest Podyssey ep, featuring a load of bullocks • The pre-show clip is from last night's SNL UK "cold open" • More on that mad Scandi AI experiment • ...and the Canadian chatbot weirdness • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com PS We only used the clip from 'Allo 'Allo because Kenny's accent is weirder than anything comedy could create... Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 33I came, I saw, Iran away: How not to fight a war
EOne minute, it's Armageddon and profanity; the next, it's back to the clown show and Trump's biggest TACO yet. Naomi, Alex and Kenny are joined by QR favourite Arthur Snell to rake through the ashes of Trump's Iranian dumpster fire, and try to make sense of a blisteringly bleak week in the annals of US foreign policy. The yellow streak that runs though Trump hasn't stopped him declaring victory, of course, but who is really coming out on top? And what does it mean for all of us? Plus, there's drama building in Hungary – is Orban, the European lapdog of both Putin and Trump, really facing a landslide defeat? Or should we perhaps manage our expectations ahead of the looming election? And we've got TWO – count 'em – Grin And Share Its because we really need some good news this week, don't we? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • More from our opening Jimmy Kimmel Live clip • Help Smart Medical Aid for Ukraine if you can. • Help Medecins Sans Frontiers in Gaza and the wider Middle East. • GASI #1: The Springburn ruin resurrected • GASI #2: Sun power lights up Greece • Our guest Arthur Snell's book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sunday School: Choc and awe
Brace for betrayal, resurrection and chocolate in our Easter special! Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell examine the Judas Factor in politics, and then dive into that other great seasonal topic: the soaring price of Easter eggs. All that plus the Wokeydokey we had to hold over from our midweek shows with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, because there was too much other stuff to talk about. Happy Easter y'all! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Rage at the price of chocolate treats with the help of the Freddo Index • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 31Eureka Hazarika special – Part 2: Memoirs of a newly-minted peer
EWelcome to the second part of our fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika. What does becoming a peer actually feel like? How should we reform the upper chamber? And will our friendly Baroness give us any juicy insights from behind those woolsacks? If you missed the first part of this two-parter, why not pause this one and go back to hear Ayesha's views on Trump's latest Iranian-adjacent madness, plus Labour's growing gravitation towards Europe – and we ask what the party can do to prepare us all for some expected hard times ahead. Also, we answer the question that our subscriber Sarah was midway through when our latest Ask Us Anything session timed out! Have a lovely Easter weekend xxx ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • To be the first to hear about Best for Britain's exciting new Europe announcement, sign up here. It's free (though donations are always welcome!) • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 30Eureka Hazarika special – Part 1: Labour finally chooses Europe
EOur fabulous bank holiday two-parter with Baroness Ayesha Hazarika kicks off with (of course) Trump's latest Iranian-adjacent madness. And we utter a modest hurrah as Labour starts to move publically towards Europe – and ask what the party can do to prepare us all for some expected hard times ahead. Also, we answer the question that our subscriber Sarah was midway through when our latest Ask Us Anything session timed out! Don't miss Part 2 of this special, uploading imminently, featuring Ayesha's insights from her first couple of years in the House of Lords, ideas for reforming the upper chamber, plus a discussion on disinformation and the state of our media. Happy Easter y'all! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • To be the first to hear about Best for Britain's exciting new Europe announcement, sign up here. It's free (though donations are always welcome!) • Our podcast pal Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • Tim Bales book on how the Tories have changed is available at our bookshop here. • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 29Sunday School: CTRL-ALT-DECEIT Truth in the Age of Disinformation
EAlex Andreou and Naomi Smith discuss a parliamentary report on disinformation, in the light of news that the BBC has chosen a former Google executive as its new boss. And - as promised - they bring you our research into party membership in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, to supplement QR's midweek deep dive. Finally, can you tell Prank from Frank? Alex and Naomi test each other with far fetched headlines, some of which are April Fools and some of which are all too real. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Naomi's choice for most informative video on disinformation is here. • Read the Foreign Affairs Committee's report on Disinformation here. • Carole Cadwalladr's piece on the new BBC boss is here. • Visit Northern Ireland's data resource ARK here. • Watch the full BBC Spaghetti Harvest prank here. • Don't forget our podcast chum Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 28QR Special: The cruelty of Long Covid
bonusHow would you feel about a medical examination that was designed to make you faint? What about having to instal soundproof doors and blinds, because noise and light can bring on seizures? Welcome to the world of the Long Covid patient – and there are millions of them. Six years since the first Covid lockdown, humans have become relatively blasé about the disease. But it has cast a crippling shadow over a great many lives. Long Covid doesn't just leave its victims physically exhausted: the impacts are mental, emotional, economic, social and brutal. Worse still, Long Covid is not well understood and, as a result, treatments are sadly lacking. And it can come with a stigma – like other debilitating illnesses, patients often don't get taken seriously. Kenny Campbell is joined by Claire Higham, who has Long Covid and campaigns for a better understanding of this cruel condition, to find out more about how it wrecks lives, what's being done to combat it and why it isn't making bigger headlines. It's both fascinating and disturbing but, for patients and their loved ones, it can be an appalling brake on their lives – one that many never recover from. Also, a small correction to a figure raised in the show – Germany is dedicating €50m per year for ten years (half a billion over a decade) towards research into MECFS and other infection-associated chronic conditions. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • #LongCovidAwareness ... find out more about Long Covid at... - NHS - MEpedia - Long Covid Advocacy - Long Covid Physio - Open Medicine Foundation - Bateman Horne Centre - Long Covid Justice - ME Scandal Explainer - The Tangled Story - Severe ME - First Do No Harm - Ed Yong - Madeline Miller - The Sick Times • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover composite images by CDC on Unsplash and xadartstudio on Freepik Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 27Hormuz it or Lose it: A global economic crisis, made in Washington
EAs the US keeps 'negotiating with itself' (Iran's words...) we ask tentatively what impact the ongoing conflict will have on our wallets, purses and digital wealth stores. Plus, a look at new research revealing perhaps too much about the sort of people who are actual *members* of a political party. Spoiier alert: they're outnumbered handsomely by the number of criminals out there, not that there's any link between politics and crime of course. No siree. And, of course, Naomi, Alex and Kenny bring you your regular prescription of glee courtesy of Wokey Dokey, and Grin And Share It. What's not to like :-) ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Everything you wanted to know about political geeks (ie party members) but were afraid to ask • Green And Share It (ho-ho): The Hampshire Hedge • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. • Today's opening comedy clip is from The Daily Show. • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 26A righteous kind of anger: WALES SPECIAL with Will Hayward
bonusFor this bonus episode, award winning journalist, writer and podcaster Will Hayward joins Naomi Smith to break down all you need to know about the forthcoming Senedd elections, as well as his brilliant new book, "Who Cares About Wales?" As well as discussing the current fortunes of Plaid, Reform, Labour, Conservatives, Greens and Lib Dems, you’ll also find out Farage’s thoughts on the “foreign” Welsh language and why the new PR voting system might prove an own goal for Labour. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Grab Will’s excellent new book "Who Cares About Wales" from our bookshop. Follow Will Hayward's substack here. Find out more about the Taith Scheme here. We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many interesting politicos besides. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 25Sunday School: Trump's Iranian Taco - with a Farage Cameo
EWar? What war? As missiles continue to whizz around the Middle East and the global economy continues to sweat as a result, Trump looks to be planning his exit from that Iranian adventure. Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell look at the latest, and wonder if US plans to de-escalate the conflict will be as well thought through as its plans to escalate were in the first place. And, away from the madness of Trumpworld, they also look at the (sort of) madness that is featuring in upcoming elections in both Hungary and Denmark. This part may feature extreme pig breeding. Finally, by way of sanity, they have a look at Nigel Farage's video request money-making venture in which he accidentally appears to support Canadian Neo-Nazis, amongst other lovely things. As you do. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Opening clip from SNL cold open here. • Don't forget our podcast chum Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Original oil photo by A. C. on Unsplash Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 24With Europe we stand: Foreign policy special with Anneliese Dodds
EAs the UK and Europe push back on Trump's overseas adventures, Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou are joined by MP for Oxford East, Dame Anneliese Dodds, to look at the Iran latest, the Ukraine defence partnership, and the government's pivot towards the EU. Starmer is, for once, in tune with the public mood. Can foreign policy repair his domestic reputation? Plus, we talk overseas aid (or the lack of it) with Anneliese who resigned her cabinet position in International Development over aid cuts, and is also Chair of the Sudan and South Sudan parliamentary group. And, despite that packed agenda, we've still got time for a bit of Wokey Dokey action ... and some surprising news about yoyo dieting. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Follow Women4Sudan on LinkedIn, Instagram, or the Women for Women account on Bluesky. And here is the Women4Sudan website. • Stephen Colbert's sharp take on Trump's 'fun' bombing. (Thanks to listener Julia for suggesting, at our recent editorial meeting for subscribers, that we include a link to the source of the pre-show comedy clip.) • More of that Rachel Reeves speech here • Anneliese's speech on protecting civilians in Sudan • Yoyo dieting ... maybe it's not all bad news • Don't forget our pod buddy Arthur Snell's new climate book, Elemental, is available at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 23Sunday School: Sinday School
Brace yourselves for an episode with a particularly adult feel... fret not, it's still Quiet Riot. Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell start with the latest on Mandelson, and the never-ending political fallout from his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Then they turn their gaze to the Government's muddle over pornography – specifically, the row over whether content representing incest pornography should be banned while step-incest pornography is left legal. How on earth did we get to this point? And, to complete a trio of grown-up topics, they look at the somewhat disturbing news that ReformUK wants a say in your bedroom habits. Put that away now Nigel dear, I've got a throbbing headache. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • That UK-Trump drug deal mystery ... write to your MP with Best for Britain's help here • Our pod buddy Arthur Snell's new book, Elemental, featured in our Thursday show ... Get it at our bookshop here • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 22Dud's Army; A review of Reform UK in local government
EAs Nigel Farage gets Reform's local election campaign under way, we look at how his existing platoon of local representatives is doing (nb may involve the odd shambles). Plus, Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou are joined by Quiet Riot's favourite geopolitics titan, Arthur Snell, to discuss the new geography of climate change – which just happens to be the subject of his brand new book, Elemental (buy it below). ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Arthur's new book, Elemental, is a must-read. Get it at our bookshop here. • Check out Best for Britain's Reform Defection Tracker • Britain's groundbreaking geothermal powerplant • Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa's proposal for renaming the "Global South" • James O'Brien and Henry Riley's report on Reform council "savings" • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides. • Email us at [email protected]. • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 21Sunday School: Mahmood Music
ENaomi Smith & Alex Andreou take a good look at whether Labour's new immigration and asylum reform proposals make sense - in terms of either policy or politics. And... As Kirsti Noem becomes the first fallen of Trump's Glorious Revolution 2.0, is this a one-off or has a rubicon been crossed? Plus... What are the series you know you MUST binge, but just haven't got round to yet? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Opening clip from The Late Show with Steven Colbert. Closing Markwayne Mullin compilation from Jimmy Kimmel Live! (Enjoy, Julia!) We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK, with all our regular contributors and many more interesting politicos besides. • Read good stuff! Visit our bookshop here. • Email us at [email protected]. • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 20It never rains...
EA spring budget statement in the middle of a global meltdown. Can it make sense even a little bit? Well, possibly. Our guest is someone who really can get under the skin of these issues – uber-economist and author Vicky Pryce. Join Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell to find out (possibly) if Trump's Iranian adventure has rendered Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement redundant. And what of the Middle East meltdown? Can anybody make any sense of what is going on? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Read fabulous stuff, expand your brain! Also ... GET VICKY'S NEW BOOK HERE. Pay attention to the New Economics Foundation Come on in ... our BLUESKY STARTER PACK will help you find your feet in the politer social media sphere... • Email us at [email protected]. • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 19Sunday School: One thing after another
EAlex Andreou and Kenny Campbell peer into the developing situation in Iran and the Middle East and try to glean if there is any longterm strategy or just a throwing of the dice. They also look at the Gorton & Denton by-election result and the reaction to it, to assess what its lessons might be and whether anyone at all is interested in learning them. Also Alex gets quite angry. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** We have put together a brand new BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there. • Read good stuff! Visit our bookshop here. • Email us at [email protected]. • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com. Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 Ep 18By-election curious
EPolitical geeks rejoice – it's a by-election week AND we've got polling god Peter Kellner in da house to talk predictions and implications. Join Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell as they dig through the last-minute 'what ifs' of Gorton & Denton. And they look ahead to the May elections too, ask whether Reform has peaked too soon and try to make sense of a fabulously chaotic political landscape in all corners of the country. What's not to like! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** SHOW NOTES • That YouGov Scottish polling AND the headlines from the More In Common polling too • This week's runners and riders in Gorton & Denton • Grin And Share It – restorative justice works • Check out our BLUESKY STARTER PACK, if you would like to join us there (hint: you very much would). Come on in, the water's lovely and blue. • Word up! Visit our bookshop here • Email us at [email protected] • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on an original photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash • Brought to you by Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell. Quiet Riot is a Cooler Heads production. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices