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Moths, Woodlice, and the May 2026 UK elections

Send us some feedback here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2488352/fan_mail/new] To commemorate Sir David Attenborough's centenary, Garth and Robert have a tongue-in-cheek discussion about clothes moths and woodlice! Then they really stretch the metaphor of how these varmints relate to the May 2026 elections in the Welsh Assembly, Scottish Assembly, and the English Council elections.

Is The Reform Party a British version of MAGA?

Send us some feedback here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2488352/fan_mail/new] Garth and Robert discuss the Hartland Institute, a UK right-wing thinktank which appears to be following the same ideology as the Heritage Foundation and Project 25 in the USA.

Retail, shoplifting and the Squeezed Middle

Send us some feedback here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2488352/fan_mail/new] Garth interviews a senior retail manager about how supermarket shopping habits are changing as price rises take hold on most of us.

Iran War! What is it good for? Absolutely no clue....

Send us some feedback here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2488352/fan_mail/new] Garth and Robert muse on the Iran War.  What is Trump's objective?  Has he got stuck in a quagmire?  What will this do the world's economy?

What the Gorton and Denton bi-election says about UK politics

Send us some feedback here! [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2488352/fan_mail/new] A grassroots win by the Green Party against oligarch politics?  Garth and Robert discuss. We also talk about Council elections in Cornwall.  Who is winning and why?