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Exclusive bonus episodes and more @ https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik a politics, film & music podcast, featuring exhaustive coverage of the life and career of former Member of Parliament for Ilford South Michael John Gapes. "slick" - the Observer, "lefty hate trolls" - the Daily Mail
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Stats for Lefties is a podcast hosted by data journalist Ell Folan, looking at politics and data from a left-wing perspective. The first season was a co-operative podcast with Ell's good friend Paige Selby-Evans; the second season focuses on interviews. For more Ell + Paige content check out her Dungeons and Dragons podcast: https://thejunketpodcast.com/ Our patreon: www.patreon.com/Stats4Lefties Our website: www.statsforlefties.wordpress.com Paige's Twitter: Twitter.com/Pagalini Paige's web ...
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Subscribe at patreon.com/reelpolitik & hear the full 88 MIN EPISODE at https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-294-ft-106304043.Farages Fucked Face @soldierpaypig returns to the show for our worst election coverage yet. TV debates ("Starmer dropped the ball"). Scurrilous gutter press gossip. Highly targeted character assassinations. It's all here and…
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In light of news that Labour plan to put shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at the centre of their general election campaign, we are re-releasing this choice half-hour from an episode last year (RP271: Shoe Factory), in which we conclude a run-through Keir Starmer's then-new ultra-Blairite shadow cabinet with nods to key Reeves allies Pat McFadden and…
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Another major figure from RP history, Sinan Kose (twitch.com/SKTheCrusader) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint to talk all things UK general election. In addition to Starmer's pledge to destroy the world with a nuclear bomb, and Farage's effective endorsement of Starmer, we introduce new RP segment "QUIZ THE YANK", in which America-residing traitor Y.S. …
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What, you ask, differentiates this iteration of this episode (NOTE: listed as canonical episode rather than "RP Extra" as resolves cliffhanger from end of episode 289) from the version on patreon.com/reelpolitik? Well, while this version stops around the half hour mark, that one continues for roughly another 40 minutes!Main topic of discussion: Vil…
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Luke Akehurst, the professional apartheid/genocide lobbyist director of "We Believe In Israel" and influential Labour right functionary, is likely to be handpicked by Keir Starmer's dictatorial leadership to run as MP in a very safe seat in the current UK election. In this extract from a much longer episode from 2018, we go through the mad ideologi…
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In this clip from our new Patreon bonus episode, Will Sloan explains who David Zaslav is, and why Keir Starmer would see him as a kindred spirit.ALSO IN EP: John Cleese (duh). Bill Maher. Owen Jones leaving Labour. Starmer comparing Stormzy to "Velvet Underground" (no "the".)SUBSCRIBE @ PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK TO HEAR THE FULL BONUS EP & MANY MORE …
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Longtime friend of the show Will Sloan (@WillSloanEsq) joins Jack and Geraint for one of our trademark* sprawling deep dives, this time on one of the definitive comic works of the 21st century, Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's On Cinema At The Cinema, and its expansive extended universe.Will Sloan is the host of the Michael & Us and Important C…
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Following his hit appearance on RP co-host Geraint @wariotifo's hit wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive the other week, Jack realises he has the ability on Discord to call into, and sabotage, the other guys' streams at any time.Check out Top Rope Deep Dive on our friend @MarkedAsRed's Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/markedasred…
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Special guest Jack joins Geraint, FFF and friend of the show @MarkedAsRed on their weekly wrestling stream Top Rope Deep Dive to discuss the life and career - and watch some great wrestling moments - of Canadian-American wrestler, podcaster, musician and all-round Renaissance man Chris Jericho.Check out the streams on Twitch here: https://www.twitc…
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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with writer and YouTuber Claudia Boleyn, who heckled in support of Gaza during a recent episode of BBC Question Time. We discuss her experiences during Question Time, her motivations, her thoughts on Gaza and more.The full hour-long episode is available to Patreon subscribers: www.patreon.com/leftiestats…
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More than 200 innocent people lost their lives at Ilford South's infamous "GAPEFEST" music festival, which has been dogged by allegations of widespread financial corruption, endemic drug abuse, animal cruelty, human branding and vampirism. In this feature-length documentary - previously only available in three separate parts - Ilford South investig…
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Returning guest Lilah @palebloodstasi (formerly @leechwaifu) joins Jack, Yair and Geraint once again to talk Scottish issues, the chaotic Rochdale byelection, the beautiful mind of Eddie Marsan, and Chairman Gonzalo of the Shining Path, among many other subjects. We also return to the world of hip-hop and investigate the titular HARBU DARBU, the hi…
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Lots to catch up on: Labour's continued support for collective punishment of Gaza, suspension of Kate Osamor, and efforts at outreach to online influencers. Journalist Paul Waugh's unsuccessful attempt to get selected by the party as a parliamentary candidate, and Laurence Fox's travails in the courts. Jack's turn-up music, and the secret life of b…
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NOTE: This episode was originally released in October 2020 on patreon.com/reelpolitik, but we've decided to release it for free in light of Norman Jewison's death. We'd already made the first in this two-parter available for free on this very feed here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/unlocked-episode-168-jewison-the-mighty-fist-of-libera…
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Reel Politik podcast co-host and British-American-Israeli citizen Yair Rice ceremonially burns his Israeli passport in protest at the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.Can't really add anything more to this that Yair doesn't cover in the vid, but the RP team salute his courageous gesture. FREE PALESTINE.View this clip in video form here: h…
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To kick off RP for 2024, we return by popular demand to the English-language, western-targeted comedy sketches of Eretz Nehederet, the "Israeli Saturday Night Live", as well as the YouTube content of their celebrity guest Michael Rapaport. After an absence from the airwaves of several months to learn and grow, friend of the show Farages Fucked Face…
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Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full RP Extra @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/94462789.We review Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. Yair was whisked away due to unavoidable parental responsibilities, so the last half hour is our 171st episode, edited down from a much longer running time t…
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Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik and get the full 53 extra minutes of Lilah here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/94145707In the rest of our conversation with Lilah @leechwaifu, we talk about our most problematic centrist associates, our most problematic associate in general FFF's Israel fundraiser stream, i have various tech issues, Lilah s…
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This 45 min segment was originally released as part of a longer RP Extra on patreon.com/reelpolitik. The original description is as follows:Geraint and Jack investigate politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service USTREME ("laugh like you used to") and the incredible comments of an elderly Geordie man called Kenny und…
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Longtime friend of the show Lilah (@leechwaifu on Twitter) makes her Reel Politik debut to provide live commentary on a series of English-language comedy sketches from Israel's most renowned satire show, Eretz Nehederet, designed to put a positive spin on the Israeli bombardment of Gaza for western audiences. In addition, we check out a couple of o…
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Subscribe over at patreon.com/reelpolitik to hear the full 70 mins of new material @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/rp278-extra-ft-93410023The order of proceedings in this RP Extra is as follows:- Dundee vs. Glasgow (extended), Welsh Hamas tunnels, Guardian collecting details of Palestine supporters, Benjamin Butterworth/Byron Burgers, centrists say…
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Returning legend Steffan @phased_bemused AKA Shrieking Tinman joins Jack and Geraint to talk Welsh issues, Captain Tom, furries, Sleaford Mods, Rumble, boycotting Radiohead, and all the usual anti-Starmer/Israel shit. In the middle of all this, Jack reviews Martin Scorsese's powerful and pertinent new film Killers Of The Flower Moon.…
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A preview of our last two patreon.com/reelpolitik exclusives, featuring a Jack/Yair discussion of Bill Maher from a full hour of chat by the deadly duo, followed by one from our new Jack/Geraint bonus episode, in which we run through all the dumb Hollywood celebs to have signed the pro-Israel open letter doing the rounds over there.Once again, for …
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In celebration of definitely-real phenomenon of "armistice weekend" and the glories of war, Jack and Geraint review Ian Brown's 2007 anti-Iraq War, anti-Israeli occupation, anti-child poverty protest album The World Is Yours, which contains brilliant Sinéad O'Connor-aided masterpiece 'Illegal Attacks', and some other songs. Jack then presents selec…
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This episode was certified by the official Reel Politik factchecker as containing CONCRETE FACTS.As requested by one listener, Geraint and Jack run down the rogue's gallery of right-wing shitbags and Sebags among the signatories of British pro-Israel petition "the October Declaration".Read and, if you're a supporter of apartheid and/or genocide, si…
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the long-awaited episode 274 now finally gets its equally long-awaited RP Extra, this time pretty much one as lengthy as a standard episode. we talk about Israel and Palestine for another half an hour or so, and then get on our Britrock shit and go deep on Ian Brown (more on him on a future RP Extra), Muse and Beady Eye, among others. this clip con…
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Hear the full hour of material at https://www.patreon.com/posts/90652547 by subscribing to patreon.com/reelpolitik.Pretty substantive and more-focused-than-usual RP Extra here today, though, as Geraint and I spend the vast bulk of it investigating politically incorrect British comedian Jim Davidson's new streaming service USTREME ("laugh like you u…
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Jack and Geraint convene to talk about the Rory Stewart scandal, wherein the centrist ex-Tory and podcaster was the subject of antisemitism allegations after he issued the mildest possible defence of Jeremy Corbyn on constitutional grounds, and what this tells us about how consensus is constructed in British politics.Once that's out of the way, we …
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A preview of our last two Patreon episodes, featuring Jack, Yair and Geraint discussing Oasis and "going Welsh", and Jack and Yair talking about hit motion picture Sound of Freedom. These are just two of the myriad topics touched on across these two bonus episodes.The 44 mins of extra material from RP271 can be found here - https://www.patreon.com/…
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This episode is dedicated to the memory of Remus the dog, a beloved pet of fourteen years, although it was recorded while he was still with us.Jack and Yair convene for a loose chat concerning new Labour MP Keir Mather and other millennial politicians, dangerous dogs and the work of Sticky Fingaz, Kanye's antisemitism era and subsequent going-to-gr…
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In the 25th episode of the Stats for Lefties podcast, I interview George Aylett, a former Labour parliamentary candidate and historian who has now switched to the Greens.We discuss his journey from loyal Labourite to Green member, his famous "That's for Greece" tweet, Euroscepticism and more. For the full hour-long episode, subscribe to my patreon:…
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Jack, Geraint and Yair run down the latest ultra-Blairite changes to Sir Keir Starmer's top team, read Simon Hattenstone's excellent Guardian profile of shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/10/if-you-want-cartwheels-im-not-your-person-rachel-reeves-on-charisma-u-turns-and-rescuing-the-economy), and discuss …
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