
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

Jul 21, 2017 • 50min
REPEAL BILL: A Very Brexit Power-Grab
This week on the podcast that wants to keep its red passport… Is Brexit technically illegal? What horrors are contained in the small print of the “Great Repeal Bill”? Our special guest, Irish stand-up comedian GRAINNE MAGUIRE, gives Brexit Britain a bit of very tough love (“Let them eat gruel!”). And Project Fear turns into Project Bad Things Are Actually Really Happening before our very eyes.“We can’t cheat the result. We have to win the argument.” This episode presented by Dorian Lynksey, Peter Collins and Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk. Producer: Matt Hall. Programme Editor: Andrew Harrison.Stream now or download for later at: http://po.st/RMNCS http://www.remainiacs.com #OwnTheRemoanREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Sooth your Brexit rage with our partner podcast BIGMOUTH – the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters – at http://po.st/BigmouthTheme: ‘Pane In The Glass’ by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 14, 2017 • 53min
BREXPULSION: EU citizens in limbo
This week on every Europhile’s favourite Brexit podcast… How the Home Office told an EU citizen who’d lived legally in the UK for 24 years to “make arrangements to leave” without any legal grounds – and then refused to hear her complaints. Our special guest MONIQUE HAWKINS describes Britain’s out-of-control immigration system.Plus: Is Vote Leave campaign boss Dominic Cummings having a mid-Brexit crisis? What is Chukka Umunna up to? And could Britain one day achieve “Bre-entry” to the European Union?This episode presented by Dorian Lynksey, Peter Collins and Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk. Producer: Matt Hall. Editor: Andrew Harrison.Stream now or download for later at: http://po.st/RMNCS http://www.remainiacs.com #OwnTheRemoanREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our partner podcast BIGMOUTH – the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters – at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: ‘Pane In The Glass’ by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jul 7, 2017 • 60min
BREXIT, SCIENCE AND FISH: Britain sidelines itself, again
This week on the Brexit podcast that refuses to get over it… Special guest DR MIKE GALSWORTHY of http://scientistsforeu.uk rails against the self-destructive waste of Britain’s departure from European science collaboration. And he tells us why Britain leaving the nuclear oversight authority Euratom is a really, really stupid idea.Plus Bregret intensifies as latest polling says Remain would win by 54% to 46% if a referendum were held tomorrow. Michael Gove weaponises the Great British Fish to satisfy “the emotional delinquency of a bunch of Brexit headbangers.” And Peter Collins asks “whatever happened to Fields Of The Nephilim?” Destroyed by the Common Agricultural Policy, no doubt.This Brexit is broken. Can we take it back? This episode presented by Peter Collins and Ian Dunt of politics.co.ukStream now or download for later at: http://po.st/RMNCS http://www.remainiacs.com #OwnTheRemoanREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sibling podcast BIGMOUTH – the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters – at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: ‘Pane In The Glass’ by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 30, 2017 • 48min
May’s migrant offer and the Brexit Brain Drain
This week on the podcast that won’t shut up and get over Brexit… Is Theresa May’s offer of “settled status” to EU migrants worth the paper it’s scribbled on? Are highly skilled EU citizens resident in Britain finally packing up to leave? And stand-up comedian David Davis’ European tour. All with our regular presenters Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian, ex-Economist Business Editor Peter Collins and Ian Dunt of http://politics.co.uk.Stream now or download for later at: http://po.st/RMNCS http://www.remainiacs.com #OwnTheRemoanREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sister podcast BIGMOUTH (the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters) at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: 'Pane In The Glass' by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 23, 2017 • 39min
BREXIT VOTE ONE YEAR ON: Where were you?
Can it only be a year since Britain voted itself poorer, angrier and more irrelevant? Regulars Dorian Lynskey, Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk and Peter Collins plus some of our special guests recall where they were and what they were doing on the magical day we took back control – and promptly lost it again.Relive that special day with guests Sindhu Vee and Naomi Smith plus friends of the show John Niven and Mark Hooper. And don’t forget to #OwnTheRemoan.Listen now or download for later at: http://po.st/remainiacs-podcastREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sister podcast BIGMOUTH (the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters) at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: 'Pane In The Glass' by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 16, 2017 • 51min
ELECTION FALLOUT: Is Hard Brexit really going soft?
This week: Have we passed Peak Hard Brexit? Why are Leave bloggers losing their minds about Remainers returning to government? Is the Tory brand undergoing detoxification or re-retox? Plus, in bed with the DUP… “shut up Guy Verhofstadt, you’re not helping”… and our favourite meddling EU regulations.It’s all in the podcast that OWNS THE REMOAN, co-presented by Dorian Lynskey, Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk and Peter Collins.Listen now or download for later at: http://po.st/RMNCSREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sister podcast BIGMOUTH (the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters) at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: 'Pane In The Glass' by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 9, 2017 • 46min
ELECTION SPECIAL: “Revenge Of The Young ’Uns”
On today's special post-election podcast Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt are joined by Naomi Smith, Remain campaigner and former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate. Fuelled by strong coffee and Red Bull, they discuss the problems with calling an election no one really wants, the end of Paul Nuttall impersonator Paul Nuttall, and those lovely people in the DUP. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jun 6, 2017 • 60min
1/6/17: Theresa May’s plan – “A great enterprise, and no-one to know what it is”
This week on the podcast for people who won’t just shut up and accept Brexit…If Theresa May has such a great plan for leaving the EU, why won’t she tell us more about it? Special guest ROS TAYLOR of the LSE Brexit Blogs explains the unknown costs of ending free movement. What’s the date for National Oh God What Have We Done? Day. And remaking Blake’s 7 with UKIP.It’s all in the podcast that OWNS THE REMOAN, co-presented by Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk and Peter Collins. Listen now or download for later at: http://po.st/remainiacsREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sister podcast BIGMOUTH (the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters) at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: 'Pane In The Glass' by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under Creative Commons attribution license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

May 26, 2017 • 49min
Podcast #1: Brexit and “The empty tyrannical genius of Theresa May”
Podcast #1: “The empty tyrannical genius of Theresa May”The first episode of a new, no-holds-barred podcast for everyone who won’t just shut up and get over Brexit – presented by Ian Dunt of politics.co.uk, Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian, and ex-Economist Business Editor Peter Collins. This week: the Brexit election that wasn’t, talking to your angry Leaver relatives, and Reasons To Be Cheerful.Listen now or download for later at: http://po.st/remainiacsREMAINIACS is a PodMasters production. Why not try our sister podcast BIGMOUTH (the pop culture talk show for thinking timewasters) at http://po.st/Bigmouth?Theme: 'Pane In The Glass' by Lee Rosevere on Happy Puppy Records used under the Creative Commons attribution license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices