190: Green Fingers
Guest Saba Salman discusses the Green Party's latest appearance in Private Eye, Helen Lewis on Donald Trump's completely professional relati...
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189: The Hacks Book Club
As the summer draws to a close, Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy discuss the best books about journalism and writing ever, er, written, covering ev...
188: Entirely Artificial Intelligence
Summer special! The team discuss the Conservatives’ new policy on convicted Neo-Nazis (pro), the AI data centres hoovering up power and wate...
187: Feel The Burnham
The team discuss how Andy Burnham’s social media is annoying the ‘lobby’; the mad debate over North Sea drilling continues; and how to make...
186: Fa-rage Against The Machine
The team (with guest Jane Mackenzie) discuss Nigel Farage's by-election gamble, the latest military procurement disasters, and the lowdown o...
185: Manc To The Future
Ian, Helen, Andy and Richard Brooks discuss Andy Burnham’s vision for Britain (AKA Even Greater Manchester), the non-existent ban on air-con...
184: Coup What A Scorcher
The Private Eye team, minus Andy but plus Matt Muir, wave a sad farewell to Keir Starmer and prepare themselves for Andy Burnham and the Bur...
183: Fight! Fight! Fight!
The team (plus guest Sarah Shannon) catch up on the latest White House cage fight, on the World Cup, on the USA and Iran's actual fight, and...
182: Make Hay
The team record a special episode from the Hay Festival. Featuring Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, an...
181: And The Winner Is...
You've heard the stories. You've admired the piles of paper in the Eye office (video viewers only). And now it's time to learn which brillia...
180: PAUL FOOT 2026: THE PINCH-OF-SALT PATH
Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer looked into a beloved, million-selling bestseller, The Salt Path, and found the book arguably fit the 'fi...
179: PAUL FOOT 2026: UNSAFE CONVICTIONS
Adam Bychawski reported on how people who've been wrongly imprisoned - sometimes for many years - are still not being compensated even after...
178: PAUL FOOT 2026: HARD LABOUR
Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife uncovered how Labour Together - the think-tank which helped make Keir Starmer PM - had hired a PR firm t...
177: PAUL FOOT 2026: RAAC AND RUIN
Lindsay Bruce of the Aberdeen Press and Journal fought for justice for homeowners facing ruin after they learned their homes were full of do...
176: PAUL FOOT 2026: A PROVEN LAWYER
Daniel Timms of the Sheffield Tribune tells the story of the solicitor who used legal loopholes to extract sums of £25,000 from Yorkshire ho...
175: PAUL FOOT 2026: CUTTING CORNERS
Joe Duggan of the i paper tells the story of the workers falling ill and dying with silicosis after cutting fashionable kitchen counters wit...
174: Burnham Would, Wesley Snipes
The team discuss the Labour leadership, play Helen’s new quiz ‘Faction or Fiction’, and Saba Salman joins for a post-pre-mortem on the local...
173: The Antisemitism Spectrum
The team discuss antisemitism across the British political scene, Nigel Farage's £5million bung, and one of the (few) bits of Parliament tha...
172: A Kicking For Keir
Who wants to give Keir Starmer a kicking? Basically everyone. Rotten Boroughs editor Saba Salman joins Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop and Adam Macq...
171: Meta's Not Better
Is social media really as fun, child-friendly and good for mental health as everyone says? Helen, Adam, Andy and Matt Muir investigate. Plus...