
Oh God, What Now?
Making sense of our political hell every Tuesday and Friday! Oh God, What Now? is the no-bulls**t politics podcast, making the unbearable bearable with top quality guests and analysis, plus poor quality jokes. Regulars include: Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry Of Truth: A Biography of Orwell’s 1984 and host of Origin Story • Writer and commentator Ros Taylor • Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman • Writer and host of This Is Not A Drill Gavin Esler • Social affairs journalist Hannah Fearn • Comedian Matt Green • The Lead's Westminster Editor Zoë Grünewald • Group Editor Andrew Harrison • Journalist Marie Le Conte • Podmasters Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis • New Statesman columnist Jonn Elledge • Guardian writer Rafael BehrSign up and get ad-free shows earlier than anyone else: patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow.Oh God, What Now? is a Podmasters production
Latest episodes

Dec 1, 2017 • 49min
29: THE €50bn DIVORCE: Bills, spills and idiot principles
This week on Britain’s last-ever European Podcast of Culture… What did David Davis hope to achieve by redacting the Government’s 58 secret Impact Papers? Why did DExEU spin doctors harass journalists for even saying the papers even existed – when now we know they did all along?Plus: The Government caves on the EU divorce bill, as everyone knew they would. What sort of final Brexit settlement would the Remainiacs team like to see? Daniel Hannan’s sci-fi Brexit. Biblical Leavers vs High-Stakes Remainers. And where to plant a Magic Money Tree.“Whatever the Brexiters want, we’re going to be paying pensions until literally everybody dies.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Buy it here: http://po.st/RMcrnsp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 24, 2017 • 1h 1min
28: BRELIEVERS SPECIAL - Any Regrets?
In this week's edition of the saboteurs' best friend Dorian & Peter are joined by Guardian columnist and Centrist Mum Suzanne Moore to discuss the decline of the Daily Express, how not to keep our closest neighbours onside, and the leavers who have gone from Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien to J'M'en Fous Pas Mal. As it were.Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Peter Collins. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 17, 2017 • 59min
27: Crunch time for Tory Brexit Mutineers?
This week on the no-bullshit Brexit podcast… The Withdrawal Bill is in play, so is it time for the Tory Mutineers to finally grow a backbone? Evening Standard columnist ROSAMUND URWIN and stand-up comic GRÁINNE MAGUIRE join us to thrash it all out. Plus: what’s it like to work with George Osborne? Inside the demise of “numpty bellend” Priti Patel. That awful Channel 4 documentary ‘British Workers Wanted’. And your questions answered in the return of Ask Remainiacs.“If you’re faced with the kind of certainty we’ve seen over the past 18 months, chaos starts to look rather attractive.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 10, 2017 • 60min
26: GRAND THEFT DEMOCRACY: Did bots buy Brexit?
This week on the no-bullshit Brexit podcast… We talk to investigative journalist MIKE HIND about how automated social media is warping democracy, and what you can do to keep the bots at bay. Plus: Why Britain should be booming now, and why it isn’t. How Labour Leave keep making progressive arguments for reactionary causes. And a nice big argument about poppy fascism.“There’s so much stupidity out there it’s hard to tell the bots from the real people.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Peter Collins. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comhttps://audioboom.com/channel/remainiacs-podcastTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 3, 2017 • 1h 1min
25: Secret Surveys and Dodgy Donations
This week on the no-bullshit Brexit podcast… Our special guest, Lewisham East MP and Remainer hero HEIDI ALEXANDER, on the Government’s 58 hidden economic impact surveys. Why won’t they release them? Plus: Ukip, Arron Banks and those allegations of campaign finance irregularities. The disconnect between voters and politicians. And are Leave voters really less educated than Remainers?“People voted to take back control. Instead they’re getting a cover-up.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 27, 2017 • 1h
24: Germansplaining Brexit plus Orwell Book Club
This week on the favourite podcast of disloyal academics everywhere… Our special guest political commentator NINA SCHICK of BBC, Sky and Bloomberg TV drops in to Germansplain the Brexit mess to we naïve Anglos. Turns out the German car industry isn’t terrified of losing us at all. And those Brussels negotiations? “Hardball from the EU? You ain’t seen nothing yet.”Plus we spot the scarily prescient ideas in George Orwell’s ‘Notes On Nationalism’ from 1945 in the first Remainiacs Book Club. Also: intimidating our Remain universities. The spectre of “Czechxit”. And we find out how JFK accidentally saved the City of London… for the same reasons that we’re about to destroy it. Well done us!“How does Europe negotiate with a partner that doesn’t know what it wants?”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey and Peter Collins. Producers are Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 20, 2017 • 53min
23: The One With Mitch Benn
This week MITCH BENN – comedian, musician and treacherous mind-controlled slave of Brussels – joins us in the Brexit Bus as it screams towards the brick wall of No Deal. And he’s quite optimistic. “What there is to be won here,” he tells us, “we on the Remain side are winning.”Plus: Why Theresa May is telling the EU one thing about Brexit and the UK another. Alan Partridge vs Malcolm Tucker in The Big Issue. And it turns out Britain really did vote itself poorer. As Mitch so picturesquely puts it…“I no more want a successful Brexit than I want to successfully slam my balls in the car door.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Producers are Matt Hall and Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 13, 2017 • 53min
22: Brexit: The No Deal Means Doom Edition
This week on the Brexit podcast that doesn’t want a bloody blue passport… The grisly spectre of NO DEAL is back from the dead. Are these morons REALLY going to crash us out of the EU with no settlement at all? Special guest ALEX ANDREOU – columnist, actor, cat liberationist – on Lexit, the triumph of irrationalism, and how Britain is breaking every bargain it ever made with EU citizens.Plus some Brexiteers ramp up the search for scapegoats, while others tell us Britain’s future as the Cursed Earth of Europe will be good for us. What a time to be alive!“British politics is entering its Wagnerian phase.”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Ian Dunt. Producers are Matt Hall and Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 6, 2017 • 1h 4min
Tory Co ference Special
MANCHESTER, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR. This week on Britain’s best Brexit podcast: Theresa May literally chokes on her words in “a grand moment of political education for the Conservative Party at large” – but what does it mean? Plus stand-up comic and special guest AHIR SHAH tries to make sense of Brexit. The EU and the Catalonia crisis. And is the economy getting worse or do we just think it is?Plus Sue Wilson of pro-EU group for UK citizens abroad BREMAIN IN SPAIN tells us how most Britons who live in another country are far from the “Brexit Brits” of stereotype.“How could we have MERKED ourselves so completely?”Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Peter Collins. Producers are Matt Hall and Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 29, 2017 • 1h 3min
AL MURRAY versus Brexit
BREXPLICIT LANGUAGE ALERT: This week special guest and Great British comic AL MURRAY wades into the Brexit mess in no uncertain terms (and he hasn’t even got his Pub Landlord hat on).How quickly does Nigel Farage’s bloody-good-laugh persona dissolve when you stand against him in a General Election? Is the Pub Landlord suffering a terrible case of Bregret and confusion? And what the hell is really going on with Labour’s invisible Brexit policy? Best not play this one on the school run unless you want the kids to learn exciting new vocabulary.Also this week: major shout-outs for the first of our PATREON supporters. Will YOUR name be read out in comedy fashion by Al or one of the panel? If you want to support your favourite hour of treachery and subversion, visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscastThis episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Peter Collins. Producers are Matt Hall and Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.http://www.REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices