Oh God, What Now?

The Macron-Starmer love-in during the French President’s UK visit was guaranteed to enrage the Continuity Brexiters. But will their one-in-one-out migration plans actually deliver? Plus, is Britain’s justice system broken beyond repair? Jury-less trials are on the horizon but are they the fix that an impoverished, dysfunctional courts system needs? And Greater Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham is back with a bold Ten Year Plan for the city. Ambitious or just aspirational? We explore what the rest of the UK could learn from his northern blueprint. • Listen to The Bunker episode Watch The Spies [https://linktr.ee/bunker_pod] – Can the CIA survive Trump? • Get a month of The New World in print and digital for just £1 here [https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/ogwn]. ESCAPE ROUTES • Rachel recommends the Mitfords drama Outrageous [https://u.co.uk/shows/outrageous/watch-online] on the U channel.  • Matt recommend the Philosophise This podcast and The Crisis Of Narration [https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13277/9781509560431] by Byung-Chul Han.  • Seth had his mind blown by Bayeux Cathedral [https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/visiting-bayeux/medieval-bayeux-and-the-cathedral/].  • Alison saw Olivia Rodrigo [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1McMsnEElThX1knmY4oliG?si=bvpyiijXRDShm3c-vnocBA] live.  NOT FOR PATREON • Back us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] for ad-free listening, bonus materials and more.  Presented by Alison Phillips with Rachel Cunliffe, Seth Thévoz and special guest Matt Kelly. Audio production by Robin Leeburn and Simon Williams. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk [https://www.podmasters.co.uk/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Donald Trump’s bill, we won’t be calling it beautiful, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich has passed into law. What’s in it and how easily did it get through Congress? Dr Colin Provost is an associate professor of public policy at University College London and joins the panel to get into it. Plus, Palestine Action has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK government. Has this gone too far and what does this say about our right to protest in the UK, if anything? And in the Extra Bit FOR EVERYONE this week, is Angela Rayner’s Employment Rights Bill an attack on banter?  Sign up to our Patreon to get the Extra Bit exclusively for subscribers every week! [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] Escape Routes:  • Colin recently read Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work  • Zoe recently watched America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy’s Cheerleaders on Netflix [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81685878]  • Ros watched Saltburn now it’s on iPlayer [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002f1vy/saltburn]  • Dorian has been watching Such Brave Girls [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0gqd7m8/such-brave-girls] Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social [https://bsky.app/profile/ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social]  Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Zoë Grünewald. Audio Production by: Tom Taylor. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

Fragmentation special! It’s all kicking off on the right and the left. Are our panic-stricken political classes talking Britain into a Farage premiership just by making it sound inevitable? And could Zarah Sultana’s (possibly premature) launch of a new party of the anti-war left turn into a genuine threat to Labour? We’re calling it CorbTana. It’s going to catch on. Really.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Hannah recommends Couples Therapy [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0b8kmch/couples-therapy] on BBC iPlayer.  • Jonn recommends the US version of Ghosts [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0dcfyxf/ghosts-us].  • Raf saw War [https://open.spotify.com/artist/3ICyfoySNDZqtBVmaBT84I?si=ENzdcMWqQqypDwkBargosQ] at the A Love Supreme festival.  • Andrew saw Goat [https://open.spotify.com/artist/6jP9Z7o6WlbYvKUOeO5SbP?si=yunYDyiLSuWSc3zLKl2jAg] and Infinity Song [https://open.spotify.com/artist/2PZThLYBW7XtcYVzQms8oM?si=xbmI-PkOTrqFr0cJF_zEJQ] at Glastonbury.  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow [http://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rafael Behr, Jonn Elledge, and Hannah Fearn. Audio Production by: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

What better way for Labour to celebrate a year in power than with a humiliating climbdown on welfare? Political historian Steven Fielding joins the panel to discuss rebellions, “Austerity PSD”, and how Starmer and Reeves can make Year Two better than Year One. Plus, after the anti-IDF rants by punk band Bob Vylan at Glastonbury, has the festival really become the antisemitic “hatefest” its critics claim? Unlike most of them, our own Andrew Harrison was actually there… And in the Extra Bit for Patreon supporters, is far-right ideologue Matthew Goodwin serious when he says he wants to be Reform UK’s Home Secretary, or just waffling to sell his Substack? • Listen to Why? with Emma Kennedy [https://linktr.ee/whypodcast]: Could we make a real Jurassic Park?  ESCAPE ROUTES • Rachel has been bingeing on Wimbledon.  • Jonn has been reading Trespasses [https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13277/9781526623362] by Louise Kennedy. • Steven has been listening to the title track of Close To The Edge [https://open.spotify.com/track/47dPsSo7cEDNkvIOSB4O2k?si=ea5c28af5ac3442f] by Yes. • Alison is very excited about the Women’s Euros.  • Back us on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] for ad-free listening, bonus materials and more.  Presented by Alison Phillips with Rachel Cunliffe and Jonn Elledge. Audio production by Robin Leeburn and Tom Taylor. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk [https://www.podmasters.co.uk/]   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

With Labour MPs rebelling over Keir Starmer’s planned cuts to welfare benefits – where does he stand now with his party and does even more trouble lie ahead? Plus, the UK’s new industrial strategy is hot off the press. What makes it so ambitious, and has it learned the lessons from Boris Johnson's failed levelling up plan?  ESCAPE ROUTES • Seth recommends Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida [https://gsvloc.org/about-us/gilbert-sullivan-revised/princess-ida/] • Hannah recommends Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth [https://www.waterstones.com/book/slags/emma-jane-unsworth/9780008347215] and the new Adam Curtis series, Shifty [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002d2jv/shifty] • Zoe recommends Olivia Rodrigo [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002f233/glastonbury-olivia-rodrigo] at Glastonbury • Ros recommends The Four Seasons [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81750702] on Netflix www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow [http://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow] Presented by Ros Taylor with Zoë Grünewald, Seth Thévoz and Hannah Fearn. Audio Production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]