Armando Iannucci

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Stewart Lee and @aiannucci.bsky.social discuss U-turns and turncoats. Does political language exist in a quantum state inside Robert Jenrick's head, or are we expected to believe defectors like him have had a damascene conversion?
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We did, but it was cut for being sub-par.

If Armando Iannucci and Stewart Lee making fun of Trump and his Board of Peace for half an hour sounds like just the ticket today, Ianucci's podcast can be found here. I laughed so hard: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

New #StrongMessageHere up on all Pod arenas, including #BBCSounds. Stewart Lee and I discuss Greenland, Trump’s Board of Peace, U-turns, and ‘When is a lie not a lie but a deployment of Wittgenstein’s theory of Rabbit-Duck Aspect Perception?’

Stewart Lee just cited Cathar theology & Wittgenstein’s duck/rabbit paradox. to illustrate the difficulty of framing true political statements.
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I like a comedian who doesn’t dumb down!

Another excellent Stewart Lee (what a great laugh) guester, joining Armando Iannucci on the Board of the #StrongMessageHere Large Mad Don Collider...

Strong Message Here - U-Turns and Turncoats (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Can politicians use language to convince us they have changed their minds?

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Northern Lights over Greenland 🇬🇱

Essential Listening.

New #StrongMessageHere up. Grok, crossing to Reform, ICE agents in America, and Starmer’s guide to Social Media. With Phil Wang and disinformation specialist, the BBC’s @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social #bbcsounds

BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here, Elections Aren't Won on Twitter (with Phil Wang and Marianna Spring) If elections aren't 'won on Twitter', then what is happening on social media?

"...their justification is she was being sarcastic and therefore needed to be shot."
Strong Message Here (BBC Radio 4): With the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis, we examine how the normal playbook of a tragedy no longer applies www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

OPINION TODAY featured podcast—
@mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social, Phil Wang & @aiannucci.bsky.social on the evolving language of social media. How do politicians navigate the new online world when trying to get their message across and in responding to crises?
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Strong Message Here - Elections Aren't Won on Twitter (with Phil Wang and Marianna Spring) - BBC Sounds If elections aren't 'won on Twitter', then what is happening on social media?

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Ah yes, I remember it well. #TimeTrumpet

New belter of an ep now up on all podcentres. This week, we look at ‘regime change’ and zombie apocalypses. With @nataliehaynes.bsky.social #StrongMessageHere

New Ep: Venezuela, Regime Change, Tiny Doomsdays, and Cakes with Spiders in Them, all discussed here with @nataliehaynes.bsky.social #StrongMessageHere

Strong Message Here - Regime Change (with Natalie Haynes) - BBC Sounds With Venezuela under new management, why won't the boss call it regime change?

Latest episode of #StrongMessageHere with @aiannucci.bsky.social has arrived on #BBCSounds…

Extending the ‘bad tooth extraction’ metaphor about Maduro - let’s all hope it doesn’t result in ‘dry socket’ (alveolar osteitis)… 😬

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Another great episode, but, if I may, I feel you miss the temporary upside of the focus on hemispheres which means, at least for now, that it is official US policy that the earth is not fully flat.

Also kudos for Natalie’s clarity on the undignified bind Starmer finds himself in vs the US.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

New Ep: Venezuela, Regime Change, Tiny Doomsdays, and Cakes with Spiders in Them, all discussed here with @nataliehaynes.bsky.social #StrongMessageHere

New belter of an ep now up on all podcentres. This week, we look at ‘regime change’ and zombie apocalypses. With @nataliehaynes.bsky.social #StrongMessageHere

OPINION TODAY featured podcast —
The fallout from the "extraction" of Maduro: Why aren't the US calling it 'regime change'? And is President Trump the first politician to use the word 'literally' correctly?
(@aiannucci.bsky.social @nataliehaynes.bsky.social)
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BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here, Regime Change (with Natalie Haynes) With Venezuela under new management, why won't the boss call it regime change?

Back on Strong Message Here, on BBC Radio 4 today at 9:45! Armando and I look at the language around events last week in Venezuela, from the confident Trump administration to the hemmed-in response from the UK government.

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@aiannucci.bsky.social

Strong Message Here - Regime Change (with Natalie Haynes) - BBC Sounds With Venezuela under new management, why won't the boss call it regime change?

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The US capture of President Nicolás Maduro – and attacks on Venezuela – have no justification in international law This may be the moment when Western Europe realizes that the US has abandoned the core values that united them for the past century, writes the head of Chatham House’s International Law Programme.

The US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro may well be the moment when Western Europe realizes that the US has decisively abandoned the core values that united them for the past century.

BBC Radio 4 on Instagram: "What’s really inside the City of London buildings? Stewart Lee reveals all to Armando and Natalie Haynes. Strong Message Here | Listen on BBC Sounds" 13K likes, 136 comments - bbcradio4 on December 12, 2025: "What’s really inside the City of London buildings? Stewart Lee reveals all to Armando and Natalie Haynes. Strong Message Here | Listen on B...

How are interest rates set? Finally, thanks to Stewart Lee and #StrongMessageHere, we know the truth.

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#economics

Cheers, although, sadly, there wasn’t an ‘Explain how peace prizes work’ task.

We are going to be truly blessed to have such a skilled sportsman on the show.

He’ll go far!