Westminster's half-term score card
Podcast Episode · Westminster Insider · 27/06/2025 · 44m
If after all of that you still want more politics podcasting, check out the latest “half-term score card” episode of Westminster Insider, in which @saschaosullivan.bsky.social lets me give out grades to the Tories and Reform like I’m a Victorian school mistress
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30.06.2025 19:44 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
What’s the point of political satire?
Presented by Equinor.
NEW ep: what’s the point of political satire?
W/ co-creator of Yes Minister Jonathan Lynn
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social & Madeline Grant
Cartoonist Matt
Fake MP @rosieisaholt.bsky.social
Former MP Michael Fabricant
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
13.06.2025 11:23 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
That’s v odd - I just had a listen through and no problems but let me flag with cleverer IT wizzes than me to see if we can get sorted out for you! Try Apple Podcasts and fingers crossed that works
13.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I listened on Spotify this morning and had no probs but listening on this link to check
13.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Ooh how strange. Would you mind sending me the time code for when it stopped?
13.06.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Huge fun doing this podcast and talking about being an IMPORTANT POLITICAL SATIRIST (twirls my moustache Jonathan Swift style)
13.06.2025 11:36 — 👍 32 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
What’s the point of political satire?
Presented by Equinor.
NEW ep: what’s the point of political satire?
W/ co-creator of Yes Minister Jonathan Lynn
@mrjohncrace.bsky.social & Madeline Grant
Cartoonist Matt
Fake MP @rosieisaholt.bsky.social
Former MP Michael Fabricant
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
@andrewhunterm.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
13.06.2025 11:23 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
I'm convinced there is an under-appreciated overlap between those who believe in the paranormal and populist conspiracists/Brexiters.
11.06.2025 20:46 — 👍 301 🔁 54 💬 63 📌 25
My child got mad at her book and threw it on the ground. Four years old and already an emotional reader.
10.06.2025 23:40 — 👍 1653 🔁 47 💬 8 📌 7
Winter fuel climbdown exposes big problem plaguing UK politics
Neither Labour nor the opposition seem ready to adapt welfare system to our changing demographics
Just hard to really believe that any of the departmental cuts announced today will end up happening, frankly. Another set of salami-slicing and self-delusion on the road to taxes going up again:
11.06.2025 08:13 — 👍 103 🔁 27 💬 10 📌 1
Made a beef wellington tonight.
The meat was delicious, but I didn't enjoy chewing through the thick rubber boot to get to it.
14.05.2025 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Westminster Insider
POLITICO’s weekly political series lifts the curtain on how Westminster really works, offering in-depth insight into the political issues which typically only get broad-brush treatment in the wider me...
Reform UK is sending its Elon Musk-style DOGE team into its new councils to assess “wasteful spending.” Meanwhile, in Westminster, a whole host of copycat DOGEs have started popping up too.
🎧 This week on Westminster Insider, Patrick Baker investigates these Muskian plans: ow.ly/qel150W5iJo
06.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 1
Zia Yusuf says he only called Sarah Pochin MP for Runcorn dumb because “he was exhausted”
And if he was an MP he would be in favour of banning face coverings “writ large” on #BBCR4today
09.06.2025 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inside Westminster’s Musk-inspired DOGE wars
Presented by Equinor.
Zia Yusuf says he will now be ‘running UK DOGE’ for Reform instead of being their chair… which he resigned only 48 hrs ago.
Want to find out about SW1s new obsession with Elon Musks waste cutting measure? Have a listen to Pat Baker’s latest ep of Westminster Insider
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
07.06.2025 16:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thames Water
Staying water wise during warm, dry spells
Hello Hetan,
To help make sure we all have enough water over the hotter months, we're asking customers to please be mindful of their water use.
If you can, avoid wasting water and fix leaky loos or dripping taps as soon as you can. This will help us keep reservoirs topped up and make sure there's enough water to go around during dry spells.
Thanks Thames Water for telling me to fix any leaks. Same back at you
06.06.2025 17:07 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Have we considered the possibility that men are too emotional for politics.
07.06.2025 16:14 — 👍 43 🔁 3 💬 7 📌 0
omg
07.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 32 🔁 10 💬 9 📌 4
Inside Westminster’s Musk-inspired DOGE wars
Presented by Equinor.
We’ve had a cracker few Westminster Insider episodes lately which I haven’t shared on here.
Most recently my co-host Patrick Baker on how the right of Westminster became obsessed with “woke waste”
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
07.06.2025 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can Labour still own the North?
Westminster Insider · Episode
Great to speak to @saschaosullivan.bsky.social for @politico.com on who ‘owns’ the North. Agree with @joshsimonsmp.bsky.social & Mayor Ben Houchen on need to shake up government investment rules so the North gets its fair share (& catch up). Time to make it happen…
open.spotify.com/episode/2VDt...
16.05.2025 09:45 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The king has spoken
10.04.2025 08:35 — 👍 380 🔁 56 💬 25 📌 13
War and Peace in Europe
With Ukraine and Russia in the throes of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire, Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan talks to some of the leading figures on the frontline of the war in Russia. …
Westminster Insider is on a break but have a listen to my latest ep: War & Peace in Europe
Lithuania Defence minister Dovilė Šakalienė
Finnish Minister
@adleande.bsky.social
Ex-NATO director Fabrice Pothier
@arminkahelic.bsky.social
@svitlanamorenets.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/podcast/west...
31.03.2025 09:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teaser for this week's episode on 'War and Peace in Europe' in today's Playbook PM @ecasalicchio.bsky.social
For full interview with Lithuania Defense minister
Dovilė Šakalienė keep an ear (or two) out on Friday morning
25.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🦀 IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT: All the below plus ...
🚗 Fears in govt MPs have not clocked the threat of fresh Trump tariffs
🪖 Stark Russia warning from @saschaosullivan.bsky.social i/v with Lithuanian defense minister
🥐 R Hermer and H Falconer put the world to rights over pastries
25.03.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
March weather is simply not to be trusted
22.03.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Southern Europe must spend more on defense, Lithuania warns
Time to get serious, says Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys.
It's time for the entire continent to cough up more cash for defense, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys said, in an apparent message to spendthrift Southern European countries.
17.03.2025 09:25 — 👍 203 🔁 35 💬 16 📌 2
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