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Guardian columnist John Harris, political editor Pippa Crerar, and policy editor Kiran Stacey analyse the week's politics news

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Yesterday · 17 min
Did the Zionism row lose it for Zack Polanski?
Peter Walker and Lexy Topping discuss Zack Polanski’s leadership after he lost the Holborn and St Pancras byelection
Wednesday · 40 min
M&S Kemi: can the Tory leader win over core vote?
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Kemi Badenoch’s big tax pitch to the public
Monday · 24 min
Why Kemi Badenoch embraces being the leader of the ‘nasty party’
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party before her conference speech on Wednesday
October 3 · 52 min
'There’s no such thing as democracy': Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
Who is really in charge? The people or the markets? Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis
September 29 · 14 min
Burnham’s triple lock gamble
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey assess Andy Burnham’s big, emotional pitch to the country
September 28 · 28 min
‘They will bow’: energy secretary challenges Reform and Tories
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey interview energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh live at Labour conference in Liverpool
September 28 · 26 min
Andy Burnham shows his emotional side
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Pippa’s exclusive interview with Andy Burnham
September 24 · 26 min
What really happened in the room with Burnham and Trump
Pippa Crerar tells Kiran Stacey what it was like behind the scenes of that meeting between the British and US leaders
September 21 · 26 min
Can Andy Burnham pull off the ‘Mamdani effect’ on Donald Trump?
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey preview Andy Burnham’s first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday
September 17 · 31 min
Tax the middle earners! Will the PM do it?
Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker discuss whether taxing the middle classes is the answer to John Healey’s economic tangle
September 14 · 23 min
‘Party for sale’? Reform’s £72m donation causes backlash
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Reform UK’s £72m of political donations, and the backlash against them
September 10 · 28 min
Labour shifts on Israel, but what difference will it make?
Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker discuss Ed Miliband’s big announcement on sanctions against Israeli settlements in West Bank
September 7 · 28 min
Is the UK about to see the rise of the far right?
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the rise of the far-right in Germany and how it might affect the UK
September 5 · 39 min
Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots
In the latest season of Black Box, Guardian journalist Michael Safi begins investigating a phenomenon labelled ‘AI psychosis’, travelling to the US to meet two people who have been on weird journeys with their chatbots
September 3 · 22 min
Can Zack Polanski win Keir Starmer’s old seat?
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Zack Polanski’s chances as he announces he will stand in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection
August 31 · 20 min
Rejoining the EU, Burnham’s donors and the bedroom tax: Politics Weekly answers your questions
Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker answer some of your questions
August 27 · 27 min
Andy Burnham’s autumn of pain– podcast
Kiran Stacey and Peter Walker look at the unpopular choices facing Andy Burnham
August 24 · 47 min
Revisited – Brexit: an oral history
Revisited: This year marked 10 years since the UK chose to leave the EU. In a series of interviews with key players from both sides, Kiran Stacey looks back on the Brexit vote that changed the country for ever
August 20 · 33 min
‘I worry about our daughters’: Bridget Phillipson on online misogyny
Labour’s Bridget Phillipson talks to Kiran Stacey about the ‘cesspit’ of social media, the climate crisis, how Burnham is different to Starmer, and whether her party can beat Reform
August 17 · 37 min
Revisited: The Andy Burnham I know – Today in Focus podcast
Today in Focus host and former north of England editor Helen Pidd talks to the PM’s friends, colleagues and mentors to find out more about his rise to power. This episode was originally broadcast on 16 July

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