S1 Ep52: Lords Almighty! Unpicking that rebellion with our special guest, Greens co-leader CAROLINE LUCAS MP
After those pesky, meddlin’ peers in the House of Lords took a wrecking ball to Theresa May’s Brexit policy, we sort through the rubble with our special guest, Greens co-leader and Brighton Pavilion MP CAROLINE LUCAS. Are the Greens picking up votes because unlike everyone but the Lib Dems, they’re proudly and unabashedly anti-Brexit? How do they square some of their Lexity supporters with the...
58m May 11, 2018
58m
S1 Ep51: Double-guest special with FEMI from OFOC and BILLY BRAGG
It’s inefficient Euro-socialist overmanning time as we present a special, super-extended episode of Remainiacs with not one but TWO special guests. First the fantastic FEMI OLUWOLE of youth campaign Our Future Our Choice (https://www.ofoc.co.uk/) tells us why he gave up a promising career to fight Brexit, how young people are the ones who can turn this mess around… and why everyone turns into ...
1hr 9m May 04, 2018
1hr 9m
S1 Ep50: DAVID LAMMY MP on the Windrush fallout and the dirty roots of Brexit
Few MPs have grown in status since the Brexit mess unfolded – but DAVID LAMMY, the member for Tottenham, is one of them. We’re delighted to have him down in the Remainiacs Bunker to discuss the unsavoury roots of Brexit, what the Windrush scandal means… and whether Labour will ever get off the fence regarding our membership of the EU? “We have to be crazy if we think the country is happy with ...
43m Apr 27, 2018
43m
S1 Ep49: People’s Vote, Windrush shame and Scotland vs Brexit with Kirsty Blackman MP of the SNP
Remainiacs welcomes SNP Westminster deputy leader and economics spokesperson KIRSTY BLACKMAN MP for a long-overdue Scottish perspective on Brexit. What does our departure from the EU mean for Scottish independence? Which would she prefer: no Brexit and Scotland stays in the EU, or independence but Scotland outside the EU? Will the SNP leave the “rUK” in the Brexity lurch? Listen in as our cast ...
1hr 2m Apr 20, 2018
1hr 2m
BONUS: A taster of Anger Management with NICK CLEGG
When Nick Clegg appeared on Remainiacs last year, the ex-Deputy PM enjoyed it so much that he asked our backroom team to help him create his own podcast… so here's a special taster for Remainiacs listeners. ANGER MANAGEMENT WITH NICK CLEGG is a new fortnightly series all about anger, and you can see more here (https://audioboom.com/channel/nickclegg) . What is anger doing to our society? Are w...
4m Apr 19, 2018
4m
S1 Ep48: Philomena Cunk’s writers help us fix Brexit
This week the co-creators of BBC2’s investigative dimwit Philomena Cunk – top comedy writers JASON HAZELEY and JOEL MORRIS – descend into the Remainiacs bunker to get all that Brexit misery off their chests. What should go inside the Museum of Brexit? How will Britain manage to negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the 1950s? What’s at the core of Cunkism? And what was in the original final ...
1hr 2m Apr 13, 2018
1hr 2m
S1 Ep47: Fixing the BBC, Leavers for a Final Say vote and Ask Remainiacs
This week on the premier reason-based podcast for Brexit-watchers… The BBC’s coverage of Brexit is causing increasing alarm. Is the Corporation failing in its duty to explain? Is it just frightened of government and demagogues? How do we fix it? Is John Humphrys really past his sell-by date? And if Remainers join the Bash The BBC mob, will we all live to regret it? Plus: Theresa May’s world to...
1hr 3m Apr 06, 2018
1hr 3m
S1 Ep46: We set the Brexit Doomsday Clock
Europe: it’s the Final Countdown. On this week’s show we look at what to expect – and what can go wrong – in the twelve-month road to our inglorious exit from the EU. Plus! After Christopher Wylie’s testimony to the Culture Committee, is the Referendum result irrevocably tainted? Does Keir Starmer care more about keeping Labour together than keeping Britain in the Single Market? Why is Ros obs...
1hr 1m Mar 30, 2018
1hr 1m
S1 Ep45: ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on the Battle against Brexit
The most fearsome spin doctor in politics is now a doughty fighter for Remain. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL enters the Remainiacs basement bunker to tell us what Remainers should really be doing… why Prime Minister David Cameron (remember him? posh chap?) kept avoiding the weirdly asocial Theresa May… and why we’re in a nightmare era of very serious issues decided by very un-serious people. But do the roo...
1hr 4m Mar 23, 2018
1hr 4m
S1 Ep44: JAY RAYNER on the Brexit food fiasco
Very excited to welcome legendary food journalist and Observer restaurant critic JAY RAYNER for the eye-opening, jaw-dropping hard truths of Britain’s Brexitised food policy. Are we really only days away from empty shelves in the event of Hard Brexit? Why is our food culture still shaped by the effects of WWII? Which parts of EU food policy ARE a disaster (that we won’t be able to influence on...
1hr 3m Mar 16, 2018
1hr 3m
S1 Ep43: Knowing me, knowing EU with DAVID SCHNEIDER
“Smell my EU protected denomination cheese, you mother!" This week’s special guest is the great DAVID SCHNEIDER, comedy legend of ‘Death Of Stalin’, ‘I’m Alan Partridge’ and ‘The Day Today’ fame. Listen up as he tells us how the Leave mentality works, what Brexit has done to satire, how the Alan Partridge mentality won in the end… and how he’s going to wreck the Johnson family’s Christmas. Plu...
59m Mar 09, 2018
59m
S1 Ep42: Labour’s new Brexit dawn… or just Red Cake-ism?
Jeremy Corbyn has FINALLY come out in favour of “a” Customs Union. But are Labour’s ideas just Tory cake-and-eat-it promises with red icing on top? And why is he still repeating the Big Bus Lie that we can fund everything with imaginary money returned from Brussels? Special guest HELEN LEWIS, deputy editor of the New Statesman, joins us to dissect Jezza’s new-look Brexit policy. (Annoyingly, w...
1hr 4m Mar 02, 2018
1hr 4m
S1 Ep41: James O’Brien vs. the Brex-o-sphere
Last sane man on the airwaves and giant of Remain JAMES O’BRIEN of LBC joins us for possibly THE most epic interview we’ve yet had, in a special take-no-prisoners edition of Remainiacs. From BBC balance to Paul Dacre’s reign of terror over Tory ministers to Farage, Minford Madness and the DUP on Viagra, James puts it ALL to rights. Trust us, you don’t want to miss this one. Plus: The European ...
1hr 6m Feb 23, 2018
1hr 6m
S1 Ep40: Johnson’s tatty olive branch, McDonnell in wonderland, fun with tariffs!
This week on the podcast that know clarity from carrots: end-of-career music hall turn Boris Johnson “reaches out” to Remainers by telling us to shut up and agree with him. The Government re-re-re-relaunches its Brexit policy – again. Fish passports and foie gras. John McDonnell’s simple solutions to complicated problems. Plus: Tariffs! Tariffs! Tariffs! Why do they matter and what will Brexit ...
58m Feb 16, 2018
58m
S1 Ep39: MINI-PUBCAST: The monstering of George Soros, regional impact leaks
PODFLASH: Two big Brexit stories broke immediately after we finished recording last week's episode, and we didn't want to wait til next Friday to deal with them. So Ian Dunt met our producer Andrew Harrison in the Red Lion pub off Whitehall to discuss the trashing of philanthropist George Soros – is Britain REALLY buying the worst conspiracy theories of Eastern European autocrats? Plus, those l...
18m Feb 13, 2018
18m
S1 Ep38: What Brexit REALLY means for working Britain
This week on the podcast that NEVER fiddles the figures: What will Brexit do to work in Britain? Employment consultant Rachel Marangozov joins us to explain what leaving the EU might really mean for the future of jobs. That odd-looking death threat to a Leave voter that Zac Goldsmith chose to share on Twitter rather than sending to the police. And more Rees-Mogg than anyone can reasonably handl...
41m Feb 09, 2018
41m
S1 Ep37: AC Grayling on Brexit vs. Democracy
It’s a deep-thinking edition of Remainiacs as we welcome Prof AC GRAYLING – Philosopher, Master of the New College of the Humanities and intellectual engine-room of Remain – to examine what Brexit really means for British democracy. Can it be stopped? How? What has it done to Britain? And the Referendum dilemma: if the 2016 vote wasn’t truly democratic, can another referendum to fix it be democ...
1hr 1m Feb 02, 2018
1hr 1m
S1 Ep36: The One With Matthew Parris
WE LOVE PARRIS IN THE SPRINGTIME… This week, noted Times and Spectator columnist and former Conservative MP MATTHEW PARRIS joins us for your weekly dose of Brexit badinage. Why do so many Tory MPs hate Boris Johnson? Is his ‘Bridge Over Bullshit Waters’ feasible? What’s life like when you’re a Remainiac Conservative? And why should we be glad and not angry that British democracy has become a pr...
56m Jan 26, 2018
56m
S1 Ep35: Nigel’s Second Referendum and the Amorous Henry Bolton
On this week’s show… What’s behind Nigel Farage’s will-we-won’t-we routine on a Second Referendum? Does he just want to stay in the news – or does he know something we don’t? Our panel check which way the wind is blowing for another vote to undo the last one. Plus PLAY MAGNA CARTA FOR ME: the tangled love life of Ukip leader (at time of writing) Henry Bolton. The little-known clause in a gover...
51m Jan 19, 2018
51m
S1 Ep34: Good Lord! ANDREW ADONIS on rebellion, ‘national fascism’ and PM Nigel Farage
PEER PRESSURE: Newly-unbound superhero of remain Lord Andrew Adonis joins us in the Remainiacs Bunker to discuss how Brexit is infecting every aspect of government, the dirty tricks culture at No.10, and why Nigel Farage is the real Prime Minister. What’s it like to be targeted as a “weasel” for speaking as your conscience dictates? And is he the right man to lead the Remain bloc? Plus: the re...
58m Jan 12, 2018
58m
S1 Ep33: The One With Vince Cable
You wait ages for a top Lib Dem and then two come along at once… Lib Dem leader SIR VINCE CABLE follows our Nick Clegg special with his own take on the brave, Brexitty new year. Where should we Remainiacs focus our energies? Have we actually HAD a real referendum yet? And what colour would passports be under a Lib Dem government? All will be revealed. And don’t worry, we’ve got a healthy spread...
54m Jan 05, 2018
54m
S1 Ep32: And so this is Brexmas, and what have we done…?
It’s the most blunderful time of the year… Gather round the fire for the REMAINIACS End Of Year special. Regulars Ian Dunt, Ros Taylor, Dorian Lynskey, Naomi Smith and Peter Collins share their heroes, high points, low points and hidden significant moments from the year that Brexit went from gung-ho confidence to the May’s Mess. And it ain’t over yet. 
Plus we’ve got exclusive Brexmas Carols fr...
35m Dec 22, 2017
35m
S1 Ep31: NICK CLEGG tells us how to stop Brexit… really!
This week on the podcast for rebels and mutineers… NICK CLEGG joins Dorian, Peter and special guest MIRANDA SAWYER in the Remainiacs bunker for a full-on remoan-a-thon that’s full of optimism and ideas for the future. Can we actually STOP Brexit, and if so how? May’s Big Deal: how much devil is in the detail? (Clue: loads) Does Nick blame himself for the austerity that led to the Brexit revolt?...
54m Dec 15, 2017
54m
S1 Ep30: The Dog Ate My Brexit Papers Edition
This week on the podcast that literally cannot believe what it’s seeing… How in the hell is David Davis still in post after admitting that the secret Brexit assessments, which he said were “exhaustive”, DO NOT EVEN EXIST? Meanwhile it emerges that the Government has NO IDEA of the shape of the final Brexit that it wants. They simply have not discussed it. How is this happening? Why is this OK? ...
49m Dec 08, 2017
49m
S1 Ep29: 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 ...
47m Dec 01, 2017
47m
S1 Ep28: 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....
59m Nov 24, 2017
59m
S1 Ep27: 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 Worke...
56m Nov 17, 2017
56m
S1 Ep26: 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...
57m Nov 10, 2017
57m
S1 Ep25: 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 v...
59m Nov 03, 2017
59m
S1 Ep24: 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 pres...
58m Oct 27, 2017
58m
S1 Ep23: 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 i...
51m Oct 20, 2017
51m
S1 Ep22: 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 s...
50m Oct 13, 2017
50m
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? ...
1hr 1m Oct 06, 2017
1hr 1m
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 re...
1hr Sep 29, 2017
1hr
The one with Gina Miller
It’s an exciting week as we welcome Superhero of Remain GINA MILLER to tell us about her battles over Article 50 and now the Government’s “deal” with the DUP, the future of the battle against Brexit, and how she made Nigel Farage VERY uncomfortable on a TV studio sofa. Plus, BORIS JOHNSON, BUSTED FLUSH: Did the Foreign Secretary actually read that pro-Brexit screed before he sent it to the Tel...
51m Sep 22, 2017
51m
The One With Nick Cohen
Sparks fly in the Remainiacs bunker this week as we’re visited by Observer columnist and author of ‘What’s Left?’ NICK COHEN. Enjoy a bout of spirited Brexit conversation with Britain’s most fearless political commentator and lovestruck Corbyn worshipper. Plus: the sheer, unadulterated shame of the EU Withdrawal Bill and all your usual favourites. “These lies will be on Boris Johnson’s gravest...
53m Sep 15, 2017
53m
March For Europe Minicast
Join Dorian Lynskey, Peter Collins and Ros Taylor as they report from the People's March For Europe, soak up the atmosphere and talk to some of the people on the march. Includes interview with Seb Dance, MEP
15m Sep 10, 2017
15m
"WHY WOULD ANYONE COME HERE?" The Home Office EU Immigration Paper Explained
As the Home Office paper on EU residents' status is leaked, Peter Collins, Ian Dunt and Ros Taylor dissect the grim details. Plus, special guest The Memo's Oliver Smith explains what Brexit will mean for the UK's tech industry, and Ros takes us through the LSE Brexit Blog's view on how Brexit will affect the NHS. Don't forget People's March For Europe on September 9th. March details: https://...
53m Sep 08, 2017
53m
STARMZY TO THE RESCUE? Has Keir Starmer sorted Labour's Brexit stance?
This week join Dorian Lynskey, Ian Dunt and Peter Collins as they unpick Labour's latest stance on Brexit. Plus; the best Brexit gags from the Edinburgh Fringe, why the Home Office can't be trusted, and what Peter will be wearing to the People's March For Europe on September 9th. March details: https://peoplesmarch4eu.org/the-event/ This episode presented by Dorian Lynskey with Peter Collins ...
45m Sep 01, 2017
45m
BREXIT BEDLAM: The faith-based economics edition
This week on the Brexit podcast for the reality-based community… The “staggering economic illiteracy” of Brexit cheerleader Prof Patrick Minford. Will civil servants come to Britain’s rescue? Why the European Free Trade Association Court is “less boring than it sounds”. More of your questions answered in #AskRemainiacs. And David Bowie: Leave or Remain? “This is a war to define Britain for the...
39m Aug 25, 2017
39m
OFFSIDE! Post-Brexit soccer, customs chaos and the War on Centrism
This week on the Brexit podcast that bends its own bananas… Special guest PHILIPPE AUCLAIR, football writer and England correspondent for France Football, tells us how Brexit will make the national game a lot less beautiful. The sheer fantasy of the government’s customs plans. And who decided that CENTRISTS were the new class enemy? “Who cares who’s on the Iron Throne when the White Walkers of...
1hr Aug 18, 2017
1hr
BREXIT LATEST: The Baldrick Ultimatum
This week on the only Brexit podcast with an EU Blue Flag for cleanliness… Is David Davis’s negotiation team really lulling Brussels into a false sense of security or are they genuinely inept? How dare EU tyrants bring in the tough border controls we demanded! And the return of Alan Partridge, Brexiteer. PLUS special guest Mike Stuchbery – the history hero who schooled the alt.right on diversit...
56m Aug 11, 2017
56m
BREXIT BUST-UP: Don Felipe vs Dirty Davis
This week on the podcast that gets through European customs faster than Trump gets through Comms Directors… After that shocking Brextremism poll, do Leave voters REALLY want their kids to be poorer? Ian gets trolled by David Davis’s new Chief of Staff. Is the Duke of DExEU really positioning himself as an even worse PM than we’ve already got? And if you thought that Leave voters would suffer mo...
56m Aug 04, 2017
56m
BREXIT VS. DINNER: The Chicken à la Chlorine edition
This week on the podcast that remembers when the Euro wasn’t Europe’s strongest currency… Special guest AFUA HIRSCH of Sky TV and The Guardian on the post-Brexit crisis in British identity. Is the Lib Dems’ new leader Strong And Cable enough to hold back Brexit? Are farmers the new miners? And is Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour the new Ukip? “We didn't know we were a nation of chlorine-free Sunday roas...
59m Jul 28, 2017
59m
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. ...
47m Jul 21, 2017
47m
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-Bre...
51m Jul 14, 2017
51m
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 wi...
57m Jul 07, 2017
57m
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 an...
46m Jun 30, 2017
46m
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 Jo...
37m Jun 23, 2017
37m
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 polit...
49m Jun 16, 2017
49m