What the hell has happened to John Cleese?
The genius comedian backs Rupert Lowe and shares racist memes – he’s turning into Basil Fawlty
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The end of Putin is at last on the table – but we must be sceptical
An oligarch’s way out of war would give Russia and its dictator an easy ride, and may yet prove to be a con
What have they done with all of Clacton’s young people?
A day trip to Farageland turned into a hunt for the voters Reform has forgotten
The rise of the digital pimp
It used to be that online sex work was safer than the in-person kind. But not any more
What the hell has happened to John Cleese?
The genius comedian backs Rupert Lowe and shares racist memes – he’s turning into Basil Fawlty
James Ellroy still wants to fight you
He is back to thrill and torment us with Red Sheet. Just don’t ask him about Trump
The very British cult of M&S food
As traditional markers of middle-class stability crumble, the food hall provides a fantasy of a happier, richer country
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Alastair Campbell
My Muskpuppet moment with ruddy idiot Rupert Lowe
Marie Le Conte
Frida Kahlo and the culture war over women’s pain
Matthew d’Ancona
Nolan’s true message? When reading dies, so does civilisation
Patience Wheatcroft
The Mail and the right will hate it – but this is the way Burnham can end our prisons crisis
Tanit Koch
The latest weapon against drone attack – bus drivers
Paul Mason
The end of Putin is at last on the table – but we must be sceptical
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My Muskpuppet moment with ruddy idiot Rupert Lowe
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The Sex Purge Movie, and catching predators
Touching Grass
Panopticons and the fall of the Magaverse
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The Two Matts Q&A: Is Andy Burnham a hot dad, and eff off Gianni Infantino
The Two Matts
Burnham’s flying start… but is he also fibbing?
Touching Grass
Deal or No Deal, and should men pay for everything?
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Why tell ourselves lies about prison time? And what do we miss about the 70s?
Arts & Culture
James Ellroy still wants to fight you
He is back to thrill and torment us with Red Sheet. Just don’t ask him about Trump
The very British cult of M&S food
The uncomfortable truth about Ariana Grande
The murderer who painted Shakespeare
Linger on: the strange afterlife of the Velvet Underground
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The Sex Purge Movie, and catching predators
James Ball discusses the film that the internet has dubbed The Sex Purge Movie and Lucy Reade dives into the controversial world of To Catch a Predator
Panopticons and the fall of the Magaverse
Lucy Reade discusses the infamous ‘kissing lawyers’ and James Ball dives into why the influencers behind the ‘Magaverse’ are quietly losing their audiences
The Two Matts Q&A: Is Andy Burnham a hot dad, and eff off Gianni Infantino
The Matts answer listeners’ questions including: when will politicians actually face up to the climate crisis?
Burnham’s flying start… but is he also fibbing?
The Matts appreciate the velocity of action in Andy Burnham’s first days as PM
Deal or No Deal, and should men pay for everything?
James Ball takes us through how choosing between £50,000 or a 50% chance of a million is actually very political and Lucy Reade unpacks High Value Womanhood
The Two Matts
The Two Matts Q&A: Why tell ourselves lies about prison time? And what do we miss about the 70s?
The Matts answer listener questions including: Has Andy Burnham made a mistake appointing so many loyalists?
What is it about the prospect of a Reform government they don’t get?
The Matts dig into the reaction to Andy Burnham’s first few days in government
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Politics
Mark Zuckerberg is back, and still talking bollocks about AI
The latest weapon against drone attack – bus drivers
The Mail and the right will hate it – but this is the way Burnham can end our prisons crisis
This is the real reason supermarkets force you to use their loyalty cards
Burnham looks abroad for answers to Britain’s toughest challenges
The woman who’s too dangerous for her own supporters
Why Trump could order Microsoft to kill Office 365
My Muskpuppet moment with ruddy idiot Rupert Lowe
Brexit
Some advice to Shabana Mahmood: follow Suella Braverman’s example
The Home Office is telling potentially thousands of EU citizens they have no right to remain. The home secretary needs to stop before it becomes a fiasco
Want to know Burnham’s EU policy? Watch Ed Miliband
The new foreign secretary appears to have successfully wrestled back ownership of European policy from the Cabinet Office
Should Burnham really have nixed Nick Thomas-Symonds?
The outgoing Europe minister, a Starmer loyalist, has paid the price despite putting in the hard yards on a Brexit reset
Yet more Brexit baggage we’re left with
The EU is banning airlines from charging for hand luggage. Guess who will only, at best, half-benefit?
The EU’s Burnham question – is the new PM worth the risk?
Andy Burnham is pro-EU and politicians across the continent know it. The issue is whether he will last long enough to change British views on Europe
Ann Widdecombe changed politics – and I should know
The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront
Ukraine
The end of Putin is at last on the table – but we must be sceptical
An oligarch’s way out of war would give Russia and its dictator an easy ride, and may yet prove to be a con
The WWI ‘butcher’ who inspired Putin’s meat-grinder warfare
Douglas Haig’s willingness to trade thousands of lives for a few miles of ground has proved sadly durable
Burnham’s biggest problem – UK leftists parroting Putin’s lies
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, so the Kremlin is boosting its disinformation campaign. Unfortunately for the next PM, the British left are falling for it
Inside the empty palaces of the faded Soviet scientific dream
Photographs of iron curtain research labs reveal the depth of communist ambition – and the fatal flaw buried within it
A message to the next PM – to avoid Starmer’s fate, concentrate on defence
This is Labour’s last chance to see off the threat of a 2029 Farage victory. There is one piece of advice that the next PM needs to hear
Ukraine is showing Europe what it needs to become
A country many expected to fall in weeks has turned into a laboratory for the future of defence, digital government and national resilience. Now the EU must follow
The big picture
How outsiders built the American city
A generation of immigrants and their descendants chronicled an urban revolution
The battle of the Notting Hill Carnival
Fifty years ago, a riot made the front pages – but violence, racism and political hysteria couldn’t stop the party
Great Lives
Why did Babe Ruth’s rivals think he was black?
Inside the wild film flop that unlocked Robin Williams
The night Fela Kuti turned music into a weapon
Phyo Zeya Thaw, the MC who faced down Myanmar’s generals
Kevin Keegan was my babysitter
Inside the notebooks that built Bruce Lee
