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Published by Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith, Kenny Campbell
Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter
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Welcome to the US midterms. This time, they are game-changers for all of us so here's everything you need to know about what's happening. Alex and Kenny talk you through the basics, from what is Congress to when you can expect results, as well as highlighting the races to watch and the controversies that are burning brightly. Plus they make some predictions. And use several excellent words! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Watch the US election drama on MSNOW • ... and CNN (open in Chrome) • ... and CBS • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Today we look to the young voters of Serbia and Brazil, who have helped achieve quite remarkable political results, and also back to the late Patrick Stewart, whose politics were as admirable and authentic as his acting. Alex and Kenny also turn their gaze to the BBC News team and, in particular, claims that the Beeb is platforming Reform UK in a way that allows Farage to set the agenda rather than responding to it. Plus there some Celebrity Traitors to get stuck into ... join us in the Tower for a particularly packed Sunday School! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Arthur Snell's excellent Behind The Lines primer on India's Cockroach Revolution • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence 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
And so to John Healey's Budget which went... pretty well as predicted. Horses were not scared, rabbits were not pulled from hats and Healey was, well, pretty dogged. Alex and Kenny are joined by economist extraordinaire Vicky Pryce to look at the headlines but also to dive beneath the surface of a Budget that was big on the volume of announcements if not surprise. PLUS ... that Liz Truss book. HOW much of a stinker is it? As we're doing rabbits, we may as well do lettuces too. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Write to your MP with some positive reinforcement! • The latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? is out! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by Tim Mossholder 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
'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry. Alex and Kenny lift the bonnet on the report's disturbing findings with Quiet Riot favourite Christina Pagel, UCL Professor of Operational Research and co-founding member of Independent Sage. From Government incompetence to the ordeal faced by care home workers, via the countless individual tragedies as Covid turned care homes into death traps, the report makes for distressing but essential reading. But what has changed, and what should change? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • The first round of consultation for The Big Conversation on Care has ended, but watch out for the next phase, when you will have another opportunity to have your say • Track Trump's authoritarian actions with Christina's Trump Action Tracker • The latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? is out! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by Tim Mossholder 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
It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI investment circus is going to come crashing down. Alex and Kenny ask What and Why, and take a look at the disturbing flood of AI political attack ads that risk skewing public debate with, well, machine-generated lies. Talking of things that threaten civilization, why was there such a media fuss about Andy Burnham's 'be prepared' message this week? How can 'Don't go hungry if the power fails' be construed as a messaging failure? PLUS With Burnham on Gogglebox, we look at which other shows politicians could be parachuted into. Warning: topic may not be taken seriously. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Want another fascinating listen? Seek out the latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image based on a photo by Jason Leung 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
Chaos. As Trump and Putin keep grabbing stuff for themselves, and Trump fantasises about meeting with Putin and Xi, are we already in a 'everyone-and-everything' war? Alex and Kenny are joined by Quiet Riot's tame geopolitics expert, Arthur Snell, to ponder all that – and ask if we even know what victory would look like in the current global political climate. Plus, a particularly mad God! Less America! which struck a sweet spot with Alex and fellow Greeks. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Arthur's latest Behind The Lines on the Middle East • Arthur's piece in The Nerve: Trump, Putin and now Xi – Europeans are at the mercy of an authoritarian axis • Watch out for the latest How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Saturday! • America's remarkable list of non-ambassadors • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
The team is joined by Labour MP Alex Sobel to discuss whether Britain's outdated method of electing MPs may finally be getting a shake-up. Alex is MP for Leeds Central and Headingley, and Chair of the huge and influential APPG for Fair Elections – he really knows his electoral onions. Naomi, Alex and Kenny ask what the practical implications are – as well as the risks from changing the way we put our politicians in power. PLUS ... a lovely story about a paper bird to warm the cockles of your heart. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Follow the APPG for Fair Elections on Bluesky • You can find Make Votes Matter here • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine 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
If these are the sort of recruits you get when you don't apply diversity and equality policies, maybe Nigel Farage and Donald Trump should rethink their notion of a meritocracy. Alex and Naomi discuss whether even a cult like Reform UK can survive the number of scandals it is being investigated for, laugh heartily at Katie Zacharia not even managing half a 'mooch, and rage about the BBC's decision to make a gossip podcast out of a rape trial. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Image of Farage by Gage Skidmore used under Wikimedia license. 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
In this special episode, celebrating the recent Nobel prize winners, we look at the state of science in Britain with Financial Times Science Editor Michael Peel. Kenny is asking the questions, including what tech is doing to journalism, Britain's place in the scientific world, what on earth is happening to our universities and (inevitably) AI... or, more specifically, should we treat it more like defence than science? ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Get Michael's excellent book, What Everyone Knows About Britain Except The British, at our online bookstore • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine 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
Blimey, did the last 10 years not happen? Andy Burnham announces the next UK-EU summit. In Westminster Hall, a debate takes place about the UK joining the EU. Russian interference is front-and-centre. That B-word that has been taboo for so long ... is suddenly de rigueur. Join Naomi, Alex and Kenny as they discuss the turning tide on all (well, lots of) things Brexity. Plus, a colourful dose of Wokey Dokey! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Get the Small Boats Watch app REMOVED • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Middle East politics is an unusual topic to dominate a UK by-election but here we are. So, what can Zack Polanski and his Greens take from the debacle that overshadowed their efforts in Holborn and St Pancras? Talking of debacles, how did Kemi Badenoch, a self-proclaimed stickler for detail, manage to misplace almost half a TRILLION pounds in her Tory conference speech? And were the fawning elements of the media watching a different speech to the rest of us? Alex and Kenny ponder all of the above, plus the stuff of nightmares. Actual nightmares, not just Westminster scare-fests. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Read Caroline Lucas's piece in the New Statesman • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
French students have decided to lightly flambé the republic and things have rapidly got incontrôlable. We're joined by Quiet Riot's favourite Chevalier, Olivier Morel, to disect what is going on and consider how it might impact on France's looming elections. PLUS a Grin And Share It dug up from the mud. ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • More about Emmylou the mudlark • Buy her book at our bookshop • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Conference season finally gets around to the Tories which means it's Kemi Badenoch's turn to preach to the choir. Alex, Naomi and Kenny look at policy, presentation and polling, to discern whether the upbeat mood in the conference hall is likely to translate into an uptick in the Conservatives' moribund polling figures. PLUS a particularly timely instalment of God! Less America! ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Bug your MP about our relationship with Europe • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Andy Burnham's arrival has seemingly rejuvenated not only Labour, but all British politics. Maybe competition does work in some sectors! Naomi and Alex look at Zack Polanski's speech to the Greens' shindig - he seems increasingly under pressure - and contrast it with a very buoyant Rhun ap Iorwerth addressing Plaid Cymru, whose biggest risk is allowing ebullience to morph into overreach. PLUS we look at Senator Eric Schmitt's incredible viral own goal and ask each other for the worst faceplants we have witnessed. ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Andy Burnham's biggest announcement – in a conference speech littered with the things – was his ambition to create a National Care Service, which he said would be as significant as the NHS. We can't fault his ambitions especially as, at Quiet Riot, we have all had dealings with care services and know only too well how threadbare and inadequate present provisions are. That big ambition, of course, comes with a lot of very big questions – not least about funding his plans. Join Alex, Naomi and Kenny as they did a little deeper into the realities and politics of what is going on. ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. *** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Take part in Louise Casey's Big Conversation on Care • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com • Cover art by Rod Long 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
Andy Burnham's big speech to Labour was big on ambition, big on ideas and big on emotion. If you liked what you heard, then there's a good chance you think it was the best such speech in a decade if not more; if you didn't, then you probably realise that battling Burnham isn't going to be like battling our other recent PMs. Naomi, Alex and Kenny break Burnham's big number down into bitesize chunks, because there is a LOT to digest. And they'll be back with B-Side to look at the social care proposals in more detail. ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. *** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • What could a new electoral system look like? • Sign up to Best for Britain for a pro-European voice • Get your opinion published – write to an actual newspaper! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
A snap General Election? No way, says Andy Burnham. Do we believe him? Is it a smart call? Does anyone outside of the Westminster bubble actually want a General Election any time soon? Alex and Kenny ponder all of that, and take some time to dwell upon what happened in that other political bubble, Trump World, when Xi Jinping came to talk ... was there a winner? PLUS tiny acts of rebellion – a celebration, in honour of the angry fellow filling potholes with palm trees, as you do. ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
Reform UK have had such a heroic meltdown in Wales, we had to do a special on it ... and we couldn't keep up. Join Alex and Kenny as our Welsh expert Will Hayward looks on in wonder at how Reform have imploded (and continue to implode). PLUS Naomi's been hanging around the Lib Dem conference in Brighton – what has she learned, and what gossip is she able to share with us..? All this and PROBABLY the best ever Wokey Dokey and the best ever Old News! ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Old News: When a Highland village declared independence (and even the Queen and Thatcher agreed) • Follow the new Cooler Heads pod, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** And so Andy Burnham's first face-to-face with Trump passed off without blood being spilled, although Chagos islanders may disagree with that interpretation. Alex and Kenny are joined by geopolitics expert, former diplomat and host of Behind The Lines Arthur Snell, to dig under the surface of this week's shenanigans at the UN General Assembly, and find that Chagos was very much a side issue to everyone except the British media. But there was a lot more to discuss... PLUS you may think Alex and Kenny barely have a brain between them, but what if they actually have FOUR? Listen in to find out more... ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. First episode due out this weekend!*** Listen to Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell and subscribe to his substack Not All Doom. • That amazing brain research • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
It's been a big week for Europe and Canada, with Mark Carney's historic appearance at the European Parliament, and a political love-in between him and Ursula von der Lyen. Naomi and Kenny look on in wonder as Canada gets closer to the EU than Britain has been in a very long time, and ask: what on earth is an EU 'Associate Member'? What are the implications for Europe and for Britain? And what role has the Ukraine war played in all of this? Plus ... the Quiet Riot guide to gilts and bonds. You challenged us to try to explain government borrowing and we're giving it a go! Email us if we got it wrong ... heck, email us if we got it right too! We're at quietriotpod@gmail.com ***SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COOLER HEADS PODCAST FAMILY - How Do You Solve A Problem Like Everything? on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts*** ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** • Tell Andy Burnham what you feel about Canada being closer to Europe than Britain is HERE • Get our book choices – London Falling, and The Unremembered Places – at the QR online bookshop • Comedian Andy Parsons explains austerity to a 12-year-old ... the full clip! • We're on Instagram! • We have put together a BLUESKY STARTER PACK with all our regular contributors and some quality sources - join us there! • Email us at quietriotpod@gmail.com • 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
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