Simon Alvey, Will Cooling & Democratic Republic of Luke Middup return to discuss the impending replacement of Sir Keir Starmer with Andy Burnham, the growing problems facing Nigel Farage and the conviction of Jeffrey Donaldson. We then talk the World Cup and make our cultural recommendations.

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to talk the World Cup. They talk the many issues with the Americans attitude to the tournament and FIFA's handling of the tournament. They then discuss what's ahead for England and Scotland before picking who they think will win or shockingly lose.

Not only do Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup failure to adequately explain the susicipious absence of Simon Alvey MA (as if a politics podcaster has a girlfriend or active social life) they also fail to talk about their favourite leadership elections or the World Cup. Instead they witter on about what's going on in Wales or Scotland, as if anyone cares about those countries. Thankfully Will liven things up by giving detailed descriptions of both how the D'Hondt electoral system works and how he screwed over his rivals for SU Exec 2007/8. Luke tries us back on track by talking about pleasant conversations he had with a workplace colleague.

Maybe in the same way the Labour Party is like a bird in that it needs both wings to flap so it can fly, this podcast is a tricycle in that we need all three wheels spinning to stay in a straight line. Plus the vehicle is being driven by children.

Enjoy the podcast everyone! It is actually the best, late UK m1d-TerMz 2o2six podcast you can find.

(Apologies if there's audio issues towards the end my earphones were giving way)

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup return to not talk about Sir Keir Starmer or Peter Mandelson because nothing could be worse. Instead we talk about people we admire as we discuss our love of Charles De Gaulle, George Orwell, Ernie Bevin, Ron D Moore, Jimmy Wales and Satoru Iwata. Yes I've just noticed that they're all men...apologies for that, we will do another episode about women we admire in the future.

Simon Alvey and Will Cooling discuss the latest developments in the American-Israeli attack on Iran before getting Simon's thoughts on the Gorton and Denton By-Election and discussing the role of religion in public life, animals on money, and historical figures as place names.

Dr Luke Middup and Will Cooling return to talk the latest resignation of Peter Mandelson, the latest scandal involving the former Duke of York, the latest shock defeat of an unpopular Labour Government by a left-wing rival, and the latest idiotic American-led war in the Middle East. Stranger Things is finished so I guess we're doing noughties nostalgia, now.

Simon Alvey, Will Cooling and Dr Luke Middup enter 2026 with a round up of the latest craziness from The White House including events in Venezuela, Minneosota and Greenland. They then give their cultural recommendations.

Simon Alvey and Will Cooling are joined by The Wool Shift Dust's Dr Luke Middup to discuss the year that was 2025. We talk biggest British and Overseas stories of the year plus our recommendations and disappointments of the year.