Oh God, What Now?

The first ceasefire deal in the Israel/Hamas conflict has been signed and hostages have been released. How will the war continue after this pause ends? Yair Wallach is a cultural historian of modern Palestine/Israel at SOAS University of London and joins the panel to discuss. Plus, With the Tories suffering so much in the polls how scared of the Reform UK party should they be? And in the extra bit for subscribers we ask: has Rishi Sunak lost his marbles? We unpack his row with Greece over ancient treasures.• “Netanyahu has almost been in shock – he’s not been able to form any kind of empathetic response to the Israeli public.” – Yair Wallach• “Reform is going forward with very clear messaging in a way that the Tory party is having an internal fight over.” – Rachel CunliffeWhy? - the brand new podcast taking you to the edge of knowledge. Available on all good podcast players - visit whypodcast.co.uk to find itWe’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnowwww.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowPresented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou, Rachel Cunliffe, and guest Yair Wallach. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Net migration is at a record high in the UK, and as you might expect the Tories are tearing their hair out over it. After the failure of the Rwanda plan, Home Secretary James Cleverly sayid that plan is not the “be all and end all”, angering those on the very right of his party. Can Sunak provide a credible answer to the backlash the Tory party has received over its migration policies? Or has it lost all public trust? And the general election is somewhere on the horizon, but does it really matter when the election takes place with the polls so in favour of Labour?“Everyone is pissed off but in different ways.” – Geri Scott.“I’m not sure Cleverly needs to be dragged to the right to sure-up his position.” – Geri Scott.“When people are afraid and during a crisis they tend to vote for what they know.” – Ros Taylor“I think the Tories could benefit from something truly disastrous happening.” – Ros Taylor.We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A Shop for festive favourite at http://podmarket.co.ukhttp://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowWritten and Presented by Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis with Ros Taylor and Geri Scott. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hold tight for the white-hot excitement of the Autumn Statement! Why is Jeremy Hunt cutting taxes when public services are in the toilet? And what’s gone under the radar? Special guest Miatta Fahnbulleh of the New Economics Foundation has the receipts and the cheats. Plus, the great inheritance tax panic. Why is a tax that only 4% of estates pay such a hot potato? Boost the economy! Don’t miss the Podmasters Christmas Market at podmarket.co.uk• “Hunt said very little about how he’s going to resuscitate our public services… To bake in cuts at this stage stores up real problems for the next government.” – Miatta Fahnbulleh • “The Tory attack line now is, If you don’t watch out, Labour might do something that WE actually DID…” – Matt GreenWe’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowWritten and presented by Ros Taylor with Matt Green and Alex Andreou. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Rwanda plan is in tatters but when did that ever stop the Government from ploughing on mindlessly? Plus, is it hard to wage war on the House of Lords when that’s where your new Foreign Secretary sits? And why Suella Braverman’s fulminating letter to Sunak was exactly the same as ‘Stan’ by Eminem. Don’t miss the Podmasters Christmas Market at podmarket.co.uk...with discounts available for backers! https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow• “The Tories are not trying to distract US with Rwanda. They’re trying to distract THEMSELVES.” – Marie le Conte• “The idea that the Lords will approve legislation that applies the law in these specific circumstances is just fanciful.” – Hannah Fearn• “If you can’t sell this stuff on the Kent Coast you can’t sell it anywhere. And they can’t.” – Gavin EslerWritten and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Hannah Fearn, Marie le Conte and Gavin Esler. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Complete our listener survey for a chance to win an OGWN t-shirt or mug: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92531764The Supreme Court throws out the Government’s Rwanda plan quicker than a Cruella tantrum. Is the infamous scheme dead or will the Government have the brass neck to appeal to the ECHR? Plus the Thug Life madness of the Braverman Letter, why David Cameron is the Harold Bishop of Conservatism, Greg Hands finds there is no job left, and Esther McVey, Minister for GB News. This week’s special guest is Twitter’s now-outed Secret Tory Henry Morris. His new book is The Diary of a Secret Royal – buy it here and help the podcast through our affiliate links!Hear This Is Not A Drill, the podcast formerly known as Doomsday Watch, on all platforms at ThisIsNotADrill.co.uk • “What a week… I’m just waiting for Iain Duncan Smith to turn up on Strictly.” – Matt Green• “This was a crushing verdict from the court… Justice Reid’s message was ‘If you think leaving the ECHR will fix this, it won’t.” – Alex Andreou• “We had the Government saying the judges have ‘misjudged the public mood’, as if that’s their job instead of interpreting the law.” – Henry Morrishttps://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowWritten and presented by Ros Taylor with Matt Green and Alex Andreou. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Complete our listener survey for a chance to win an OGWN t-shirt or mug: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92531764Suella Braverman’s out (finally) and former PM David Cameron’s in – what on Earth is going on?! The panel reflects on Braverman’s sacking and the latest reshuffle. Plus, free firework displays and other events of the sort are becoming more rare up and down the country. Are cash-strapped councils pricing young people out of culture? Is it even their fault? “Braverman was a liability.” – Rachel Cunliffe. “She seemed to have been angling to get fired for weeks…” – Andrew Harrison. “Suella Braverman is the worst home secretary since Suella Braverman.” – Seth Thevoz. Why? - the brand new podcast taking you to the edge of knowledge. Available on all good podcast players - visit whypodcast.co.uk to find itWe’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowPresented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe, Yasmeen Serhan and Seth Thevoz. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Complete our listener survey for a chance to win an OGWN t-shirt: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92531764Imagine waiting 73 years to become King and then you get dog-end policies from the bottom of a dying government’s drawer for your first speech to Parliament. We look at what’s in Rishi’s Big Plans – cigs! pedicabs! – and what’s conspicuous by its absence. Plus, does it matter whether Starmer is “statesmanlike” on Gaza or not? And Dorian sets up the Institution for Neutral Thinking. Dr Robert Saunders AKA @redhistorian, author of Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, is this week’s special guest. Listen to our brand new science podcast WHY? – taking you on adventures to the edge of knowledge – at whypodcast.co.uk • “This government giving you its longterm plans is like a mayfly telling you its plans for next week.” – Matt Green• “What the COVID inquiry has shown is that Sunak absolutely wasn’t led by the science. He was led by the economics.” – Hannah Fearn• “A lot of Trump quotes from the trial make a lot more sense if you imagine they’re coming from a five year-old.” – Matt Greenhttps://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowWritten and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Matt Green and Hannah Fearn. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Watch this space” said Rishi Sunak ahead of the King’s speech – well we have been watching it and it’s been catastrophic so far. Apart from vowing to halt climate saving policies, what is their long term plan and is there even a point of having one? PLUS, it’s almost exactly a year until the polls open in the US election, how are things looking? Could Trump turn it around, or is it in the bag for Biden and the Democrats? This week’s guest is Julie Norman, co-director of the Centre on US Politics at UCL. “No matter what side Americans are on, most are disappointed.” – Julie Norman  “I feel like Jeremy Hunt is the invisible chancellor.” – Marie Le Conte Listen to Why?, the brand new podcast taking you to the edge of knowledge, on all good podcast players. Visit whypodcast.co.uk to find itWe’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowPresented by Alex Andreou with Marie Le Conte, Seth Thévoz and guest Julie Norman. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dominic Cummings gave a colourful account of life in Downing Street at the Covid inquiry this week. Other than him describing people as “morons” and “useless f**k-pigs” – what else did we learn? Plus, our guest this week is the public policy editor of the Financial Times, Peter Foster. He joins the panel to discuss his new book – What Went Wrong With Brexit And What We Can Do About It. Peter Foster’s book: https://canongate.co.uk/books/5012-what-went-wrong-with-brexit-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/  "Cummings knew perfectly well that Johnson was unfit to run the country, and still he elevated him to that position.” – Alex Andreou “I feel profoundly angry at the casual nature with which they decided to play with people’s fate.” – Alex Andreou “I think Brexit was always going to be messy.” – Peter Foster. “It was almost as if they went to businesses and said you can go wild in the aisle, you can have whatever you want in the Brexit sweet shop!” – Peter Foster. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowPresented by Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis with Zoe Grunewald, Alex Andreou and guest Peter Foster. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

War in Gaza is getting worse by the day. How is Labour and the rest of Europe dealing with the conflict between Israel and Hamas? TIME writer Yasmeen Serhan has been speaking to people inside the war zone – she shares what she’s learned from those conversations. Plus, who on Earth would want to be an MP in today's day and age? Well, hundreds apparently. Will the next generation emerge to be great political leaders? Or will we be short of Parliamentary talent once again?  "I can understand why people would look at this issue and not want to touch it with a 10 foot pole” – Yasmeen Serhan. “Keir Starmer’s problem with this is going ‘what would Jeremy Corbyn do in this situation?’ and doing the opposite of that” – Marie Le Conte. “I think to run as an MP you’ve got to be quite weird” – Marie Le Conte. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnowPresented by Ros Taylor with Yasmeen Serhan and Marie Le Conte. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices