Realpolitik Podcast

In this week’s Realpolitik with Richard and Gavin:

• Gordon Brown confirms those donations were unlawful, as Pickled Politics wonders whether the Brown Premiership is coming to an end and Guido Fawkes reveals an unblocked business park.
• BNP leader Nick Griffin and holocaust denier David Irving speak at the Oxford Union. Jonny Wright offers his first hand perspective, and Libby Purves defends free speech.
• After a brief reading of a previous post from his blog, Gavin reports from the Lib Dem leadership hustings in London.
• The voice of the London Underground gets the sack after posting some very humorous spoof announcements.

The show was recorded on Tuesday 27th November.

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In this week’s Realpolitik with Richard and Gavin:

• The Government’s Black Tuesday as 25m personal records disappear somewhere between Tyne and Wear and London.
• The Northern Rock crisis rumbles on as no-one wants to buy them.
• Ken Livingstone wants to expand the still embryonic London Overground.
• The bid to get Boris Johnson to number 1 in the singles chart - there’s even a group on Facebook.
• SeriousPolicy is a serious failure.
• The Lib Dem leadership race gets nasty, as Huhne’s team label Clegg a “calamity”.

The show was recorded on Tuesday 20th November.

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In this week’s Realpolitik with Richard and Gavin:

• Bird Flu - the end of civilisation?
• Brown’s “hard-headed internationalism” and other such bland rhetoric.
• Is the West going to war with Iran?
• Cameron’s council tax referendums.
• Cameron (again) and rape involves careful tip-toeing… and is rape a political football?
• Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is finally involved in a cover-up, over immigration and security guards.

The show was recorded on Tuesday 13th November 2007.

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In this week’s Realpolitik with Richard and Gavin:

• The surprisingly short Queen’s speech leads to a surprisingly long discussion.
• ID Cards and whether MPs should refuse to carry them.
• Was Enoch right and are all Conservatives racists or do they just have legitimate concerns about immigration?
• Raising the education leaving age to 18.
• It’s treason to use a postage stamp upside down.
• Pakistan’s president throws a wobbly.

The show was recorded on Tuesday 6th November 2007.

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In the first Realpolitik show:

• The Royal Family blackmail scandal and Guido’s hint.
• Conservative proposals for an English Grand Committee.
• Half of a new graduates salary goes to the taxman.
• The Liberal Democrat leadership race.

The show was recorded on Tuesday 30th October 2007.

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