41 Episodes

  1. Be Quiet, Small Man

    Published: 3/13/2025

  2. In the Public Interest?

    Published: 3/6/2025

  3. Everybody's Miserable

    Published: 2/27/2025

  4. The Threat from Within

    Published: 2/20/2025

  5. Build, Baby, Build!

    Published: 2/13/2025

  6. Flying a Kite and Rolling the Pitch (with Rob Hutton)

    Published: 2/6/2025

  7. Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Published: 1/30/2025

  8. Free Speech Is Back!

    Published: 1/23/2025

  9. A Lawyer, Not a Leader

    Published: 1/16/2025

  10. Listeners' Strong Messages

    Published: 1/2/2025

  11. Words of the Year

    Published: 12/20/2024

  12. The Tepid Bath of Managed Decline

    Published: 12/19/2024

  13. Reset, NOT Relaunch

    Published: 12/12/2024

  14. Becoming a Distraction

    Published: 12/5/2024

  15. I Make No Apology For...

    Published: 11/28/2024

  16. The Deep State

    Published: 11/21/2024

  17. In Listening Mode

    Published: 11/14/2024

  18. MAGA - Trump trumps Harris

    Published: 11/7/2024

  19. Tough Decisions

    Published: 10/31/2024

  20. Kemi-Kaze and political nicknames

    Published: 10/24/2024

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In this new series, Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci investigate which political buzzwords are strong and stable and which are a crock of covfefe.Each week Helen and Armando will crack open the political phrasebook and attempt to decode the doublespeak. Why does everything now have to be 'turbo-charged'? What's the difference between a 'pledge' and a 'mission'? Why has my local MP been 'weaponised' and should I be worried?You'll be treated to a crash course in the dark arts of political language from two people both baffled and beguiled by it. They'll walk you through the various verbal fiascos of the modern political lexicon so that by the end you'll be oven-ready for an appearance on Newsnight.Warning: this podcast features strong political language that some listeners may find nonsensical.Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4.