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Pod Save the UK

Pod Save the UK is your weekly fix of political news, big ideas and a shot of inspiration. Each week hosts, comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan are joined by politicians, experts, and famous friends to unpick the latest news, look…

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Baked beans and bank tax: Healey’s ‘boring’ budget? Plus, Brazil boots Bolsonaro 2.0 2026-10-29 · 55m
Pod Save…the world? Global justice w/ Thomas Piketty and ‘Changing Gender’ w/ Susan Stryker 2026-10-22 · 85m
The Brexit Cinematic Universe w/ Anand Menon, and Premier League pitfalls ft. Man City 2026-10-15 · 76m
It’s Conference season: ideology, Iron Domes and independence. Plus, why is Burnham “hypocritical and insulting”? w/ Lara Bird MP 2026-10-08 · 88m
Burnham’s barnstormer - ‘Hope Again’ for Labour? Plus, ‘the most dangerous story ever told’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on ‘End Times Fascism’ 2026-10-01 · 79m
“The world is a casino”: polling, politics & Palantir w/ Galen Druke 2026-09-24 · 91m
Good Men, Bad Algorithms w/ Jordan Stephens. Plus, The Future of the Union: Is Westminster’s Time Coming to an End? 2026-09-17 · 81m
‘Radicalised, organised, and thick as s**t’: Nish has had it with far-right protests. Plus - why Cory Doctorow is waiting for the AI bubble to burst. 2026-09-09 · 88m
Nish is Back - and Keir’s Off! Plus ‘The Shafted Majority’: Racism and Resistance w/ Taj Ali 2026-09-03 · 93m
Britain’s Rotting Barrel: it’s time to use the ‘C’ word w/ Robert Barrington 2026-08-27 · 84m
The Nuance Drought: False Binaries and Critical Friends w/ Natasha Devon 2026-08-20 · 68m
What happens if no one votes in the Clacton s**tshow? And what's Nish's favourite pizza? Question Time - PSUK-style 2026-08-06 · 56m
The Exxon Heatwave: Climate Crisis & Denial w/ Simon Clark. Plus, Save Our Humanities! 2026-07-30 · 91m
Burnham’s Britain & Cabinet Pic ‘n’ Mix w/ Anoosh Chakelian 2026-07-23 · 63m
Wildfires, World Cup Football and Women’s Aid w/ Farah Nazeer 2026-07-16 · 79m
‘The Sleaze By-Election’: Farage Resigns…and Runs Again?! Plus, World War Three is here w/ Hannah Lucinda Smith 2026-07-09 · 76m
No10 in the North: Andy Burnham’s Manchester mission... Plus, is ‘free speech’ just a free pass for tech bros? 2026-07-02 · 80m
Starmer Resigns! Listen up, Labour: Lessons learned from the Trump trap w/ Ben Rhodes 2026-06-25 · 65m
Makerfield decides, Labour holds its breath…Plus, Palestine Action & Social Media bans w/ Akiko Hart 2026-06-18 · 66m
Hasan Piker: “Not Conducive to the Public Good”? 2026-06-11 · 64m
The Mandelson Files: Chaos Inside Labour? Plus: Sabah Choudrey on the Culture War over Public Spaces 2026-06-04 · 70m
We Read Tony Blair So You Don’t Have To. Plus: Who Really Owns Britain? w/Hettie O’Brien 2026-05-28 · 67m
Starmer clings on, Burnham steps up w/ MP Nadia Whittome 2026-05-21 · 66m
Starmer’s Survival Week w/NoJusticeMTG, plus Mo Gawdat 2026-05-14 · 77m
Last orders for Labour? Starmer’s election nightmare and Westminster’s booze problem w/Will Hayward and Zoë Grünewald 2026-05-07 · 64m
Mandelson, May Elections & Rosie Jones Mayhem 2026-04-23 · 65m
Trump's Jesus Meme Chaos w/ Tommy Vietor 2026-04-16 · 49m
Can AI really be your friend? w/Jamie Bartlett 2026-04-02 · 55m
Truth, Lies and Donald Trump w/ Stewart Lee 2026-03-26 · 49m
Can Britain’s myth and magic challenge the far right? w/ Zakia Sewell 2026-03-21 · 32m
Farage’s Wild Week: Energy bill stunts and questionable Cameo videos 2026-03-19 · 55m
The Mandelson Files Are Out 2026-03-12 · 52m
“No Winston Churchill”: is the special relationship over? 2026-03-05 · 48m
Are we stuck in never-ending political scandal? w/Ash Sarkar 2026-02-26 · 51m
Can she fix it? Hannah the plumber and politician on tackling Reform 2026-02-19 · 50m
McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson 2026-02-12 · 52m
Will Mandelson be Starmer’s downfall? 2026-02-05 · 50m
Will Starmer’s control freakery deliver victory to Reform? 2026-01-29 · 52m
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation 2026-01-22 · 55m
Grok AI Scandal: should we treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco? w/ Rutger Bregman 2026-01-15 · 51m
Trump’s explosive start to 2026 - will Starmer find a backbone? 2026-01-08 · 56m
Why does the Left make it so f***** hard? Question Time - PSUK-style 2026-01-01 · 50m
2025 in British politics: from Starmer’s flop-flops to AI slop 2025-12-18 · 55m
Trump blasts Europe and Sadiq Khan - but will his strong man act backfire? 2025-12-11 · 54m
Will cutting juries fix our maggot-ridden courts? 2025-12-04 · 45m
Reeves’s make-or-break budget: should the rich have paid more? 2025-11-27 · 53m
Mahmood’s Moral Mission: Copy Reform’s homework 2025-11-20 · 48m
Much a-coup about nothing? Labour take all the wrong notes from the Tories 2025-11-13 · 55m
What can the left learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win? 2025-11-06 · 54m
Britain’s prison and asylum meltdown. Plus - the Renters’ Rights Act w/ Vicky Spratt 2025-10-30 · 54m
Pod Save the Truth w/ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales 2025-10-23 · 57m
Why can’t the UK get over Thatcher? Plus - “Your Party” infighting is Definitely Maybe over… 2025-10-16 · 50m
Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack 2025-10-09 · 45m
Decency or division: Starmer takes aim at Reform 2025-10-02 · 52m
Your loss, Zack’s gain? Polanski’s vision for the UK 2025-09-25 · 54m
Anger, Rage and Love - Trump’s visit to the UK and Tommy Robinson’s far right rally 2025-09-18 · 49m
Liberated from Labour: Zarah Sultana and Bimini Bon-Boulash - Live! 2025-09-09 · 58m
Stop The Genocide! w/ Wael Al-Dahdouh, Jen Brister and Alexei Sayle 2025-09-04 · 75m
Friends of PSUK - Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club 2025-08-28 · 48m
Does the UK have a gambling problem? Out and about w/ Dawn Butler 2025-08-21 · 52m
Is the government inflaming protests on the left and right? 2025-08-14 · 55m
Is criticism of the Online Safety Act actually right wing? 2025-08-07 · 56m
Is the new left party what the UK needs? 2025-07-31 · 42m
PSUK’s Green Leadership Debate: The Friendliest FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT You’ve Ever Heard 2025-07-17 · 56m
Live! One year of Keir - how can we fix the mess? - with Gary Stevenson and Oliver Coppard 2025-07-08 · 62m
[Moral] Panic on the streets of Glastonbury 2025-07-03 · 56m
Does Trump know what the F#@! he’s doing? 2025-06-26 · 52m
U-turn after U-turn: who is the real Keir Starmer? 2025-06-21 · 55m
Is Labour finally being Labour? 2025-06-12 · 53m
How to protect abortion rights from the far-right 2025-06-05 · 55m
Babies, Benefits and Black Lives Matter 2025-05-29 · 53m
Gaza and Benefits: is Starmer changing course? 2025-05-22 · 46m
Pod Save an Island of Strangers 2025-05-15 · 51m
How Labour should (but probably won’t) reset after Reform’s big win 2025-05-08 · 51m
The UK Supreme Court ruling and the fight for trans rights 2025-05-01 · 55m
Nish and Coco spill the tea: your questions answered 2025-04-17 · 41m
Trump’s Tariffs: are you feeling liberated? 2025-04-10 · 48m
Waiting For The Apocalypse: tariffs, food security and the right to protest 2025-04-03 · 57m
Austerity 2.0: can Reeves cut her way to growth? 2025-03-27 · 53m
Welfare cuts: are Labour copying Tory homework? 2025-03-20 · 45m
A true story of money, Mafia & the Vatican (Shadow Kingdom Episode 1) 2025-03-17 · 28m
Welfare, Warehouses and Playlist Diplomacy 2025-03-13 · 50m
Keir Starmer - the unlikely leader of the free world? 2025-03-06 · 58m
Dear Donald: Can Starmer Tame Trump? w/ Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey 2025-02-27 · 49m
Trump’s plan for “Peace” in Ukraine only pleases Putin + The Politics of Modern Love 2025-02-20 · 50m
Adventures in the Culture War w/ Ash Sarkar 2025-02-13 · 47m
Trump’s Gaza madness ft Lewis Goodall 2025-02-06 · 46m
Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline 2025-01-30 · 45m
Trump 2.0: Fear and Loathing in DC 2025-01-23 · 48m
Facts versus F-wits: how to fight the Alt Reich 2025-01-16 · 51m
Billionaire BS: How can Britain Stop Musk’s Disinformation? 2025-01-09 · 47m
Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates 2024-12-19 · 51m
FIFA World Cup: Trade Deals 1, Human Rights Nil 2024-12-12 · 50m
Toxic men and toxic politics: the problem with Gregg Wallace and Nigel Farage 2024-12-05 · 52m
Who gets to decide how we die? w/ Rosena Allin-Khan MP 2024-11-28 · 49m
How to avoid World War 3 + why won’t Elon Musk Leave the UK alone? W/ Jamie Bartlett & Stephen Bush 2024-11-21 · 55m
How is Trump already infecting UK politics? w/ Beth Rigby + the university crisis 2024-11-14 · 50m
Trump wins: where the hell do we go from here? w/ Katy Balls + Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP 2024-11-07 · 52m
Halloween budget: trick or treat? w/ Torsten Bell MP, Grace Blakeley & Katie Schmuecker 2024-10-31 · 47m
How f***ed are we if Trump wins? + Is Jeremy Corbyn MP forming a new party? 2024-10-24 · 46m
How ruthless is Keir Starmer willing to be? w/ Anushka Asthana and Josh Babarinde MP 2024-10-17 · 53m
The Tories lose their minds (again) - can Starmer hold against the far right? 2024-10-10 · 58m
Is Britain’s benefits system broken? w/ Caroline Selman and John Pring 2024-10-03 · 49m
Can Starmer’s upbeat note drown out the donation scandal? w/ Zoë Grünewald and Simon Kuper 2024-09-26 · 54m
Starmer’s Garm Drama + the Government looks right on immigration w/ Zoe Gardner 2024-09-19 · 52m
Inside out: How to fix the UK’s prison system + Labour embraces unpopularity 2024-09-12 · 50m
Time to nationalise Ticketmaster? “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, the Grenfell Inquiry concludes 2024-09-05 · 49m
Live! How comedy can bring hope in dark times - with Adam Hills and Kemah Bob 2024-08-15 · 47m
Live! Finding hope in the wake of Britain's racist riots - with Ahir Shah & Tom Ballard 2024-08-08 · 57m
How Can We Fix The British Economy? With Paul Johnson From The IFS 2024-08-01 · 51m
Red Rebellion, Just Stop Locking Up Activists And How To Fix Our Broken NHS With Clare Farrell And Victor Adebowale 2024-07-25 · 65m
The Kings Speech, Knives Out for Vaughan Gething and An Education on Schools Policy with Liz Bates 2024-07-18 · 53m
Are Labour the party to finally fix housing? w/ Kwajo Tweneboa, Toby Lloyd and Sam Freedman 2024-07-11 · 49m
Labour Landslide - will things get better? With Torsten Bell MP and Femi Oluwole 2024-07-05 · 55m
Would a Labour supermajority really be bad for democracy? Rory Stewart on why opposition is vital 2024-06-30 · 27m
Will “gamblegate” scandal obliterate the Tories Forever? Plus last few days of the election with Liz Bates 2024-06-27 · 42m
Chris Packham Vs Taylor Swift: Will People or Politics Save Our Planet? 2024-06-23 · 43m
Who gets the power? Devolution and the General Election. 2024-06-20 · 53m
Manifesto deep-dive: Is Labour’s at all progressive? 2024-06-16 · 44m
How to make your vote count: is Tactical Voting a necessary evil? With Femi Oluwole 2024-06-13 · 43m
Why is it so hard to tax the rich? Would it fix our economy? With Gary Stevenson 2024-06-09 · 47m
Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed? 2024-06-06 · 54m
Generational Warfare: Has Rishi Sunak’s electoral gambit misfired? 2024-05-30 · 42m
What do the Trans & Non-binary community need most right now? 2024-05-26 · 49m
Are these the last six weeks of Rishi Sunak and the Tories? 2024-05-23 · 45m
The economy is growing, so why are we feeling poorer? 2024-05-16 · 45m
Abortion rights & ending hunger with Aisling Bea 2024-05-09 · 50m
Are the Local Election results the beginning of total Tory annihilation? 2024-05-03 · 41m
Humza Yousaf's Shock Resignation: Are the Greens Seizing Power in Scotland? 2024-05-02 · 47m
Nish dismantles Sunak's attack on disabled people and Coco meets Caroline Lucas 2024-04-25 · 55m
Jess Phillips on Angela Rayner tax story: scandal or smear? 2024-04-18 · 53m
Scandal and cyber security in Westminster 2024-04-11 · 48m
Fighting the Rwanda Bill + Mr Kumar goes to Westminster 2024-04-04 · 39m
A China crisis, a dodgy attack ad, and Titchmarsh’s trousers 2024-03-28 · 48m
Democracy for sale, Europe’s first black leader + tea with Obama 2024-03-21 · 50m
Tory donor racism row, plus the Princess and the pic 2024-03-14 · 51m
Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners 2024-03-07 · 48m
The man who would be PM: who is the real Keir Starmer? 2024-02-29 · 52m
Will Young: popstar to politician? Plus Westminster ceasefire row 2024-02-22 · 51m
Rochdale row tests Starmer’s leadership, plus the woman who helped take down Weinstein 2024-02-15 · 51m
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf: Sunak, Starmer and samosas 2024-02-08 · 52m
The MP who gives away part of her salary, hope for Northern Ireland and Nish Kumar takes on the evil plotters 2024-02-01 · 48m
Why are our councils going bust? 2024-01-25 · 47m
Rwanda, Reparations and Romance 2024-01-18 · 52m
The Horizon Post Office scandal and Lionel Rishi 2024-01-11 · 52m
Nish and Coco’s predictions for 2024, plus would you kiss a Tory? 2024-01-04 · 32m
Just Stop Politics! Nish and Coco’s review of 2023 2023-12-28 · 59m
Sunak survives, plus the long wait for Grenfell justice 2023-12-14 · 50m
Bereaved families’ verdict on Boris Johnson at the Covid Inquiry 2023-12-08 · 25m
Tory Immigration crackdown, plus Ben Rhodes on following the Queen into the toilet 2023-12-07 · 52m
Sunak’s big fat Greek blunder, plus will COP28 be a COP out? 2023-11-30 · 54m
The Tories’ back-handed budgeting 2023-11-23 · 50m
Judges block Rwanda plan, plus who broke Britain with James O’Brien 2023-11-16 · 52m
Bye bye Braverman, hello Cameron 2023-11-13 · 29m
The King’s Speech: Milli Vanilli in a gold hat 2023-11-09 · 51m
No.10’s shameful Covid WhatsApps, plus is AI a threat to humanity? 2023-11-02 · 49m
A year of Sunak, and why housing is eating our economy 2023-10-26 · 52m
Sunak in Israel, by-elections and back to Bibby 2023-10-19 · 59m
Sparkles with Starmer plus Rob Delaney, NHS champion 2023-10-12 · 61m
Tory conference sh*tshow + Stormont stalemate 2023-10-05 · 50m
Cancelling HS2 and GB News + Lib Dem Layla Moran 2023-09-28 · 56m
The Russell Brand scandal and fixing the police 2023-09-21 · 65m
China spy scandal rocks Parliament + David Lammy 2023-09-14 · 49m
Fixing Britain’s crumbling schools and broken politics 2023-09-07 · 66m
Exposing Andrew Tate and saying goodbye to Nadine Dorries 2023-08-31 · 57m
Men in suits spoiling women’s football 2023-08-24 · 51m
Tories war on 'lefty lawyers', and Sunak's Disney dinner 2023-08-17 · 62m
How to have difficult conversations - with Gina Martin 2023-08-10 · 40m
Tactical voting, Tory traps and Labour purges 2023-07-27 · 50m
By-election special: Tories trounced in two, scrape home in one 2023-07-21 · 14m
Is Keir Starmer a Kid Starver? 2023-07-20 · 64m
Tea with Biden, scandal at the BBC and drugs with the Greens 2023-07-13 · 54m
Does Rishi Sunak give a sh*t about the climate? 2023-07-06 · 58m
Matt Hancock vs The Grim Reaper 2023-06-29 · 54m
The King of the North, Windrush and ChickenNugNugz 2023-06-22 · 62m
The end of Boris Johnson and the start of the Covid Inquiry 2023-06-15 · 66m
Labour’s Emily Thornberry promises a “no bullshit” manifesto 2023-06-08 · 52m
Don’t mess with a Baroness 2023-06-01 · 50m
Speedy Sue and other myth-takes 2023-05-25 · 58m
Facts, Rats and Rents 2023-05-18 · 56m
Protest, Eurovision and Showgirls 2023-05-11 · 50m
Raving for a Republic 2023-05-04 · 62m
Chat Sh*t, Get Banged: the USA meets the UK 2023-04-27 · 34m
Introducing Pod Save the UK (4th of May) 2023-04-19 · 2m
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