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The British Dream
by VICE
British politics is a of a nightmare to keep up with at the moment. Reading every think-piece or news story about how life is getting objectively worse would be enough to make your eyes fall out. That's why we created The British Dream, a podcast that pumps analysis of how everything is ¯/_(ツ)_/¯ directly into your ears. Stay positive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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The Tories Are Hot For Labour
She'll deny it if you give her the chance... Let's rip up Theresa May's conference speech. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Labour is Preparing For Government
It was good, but is it good enough? Let’s rip up Jeremy Corbyn’s Conference Speech! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How the British Government Splits Children Up From Their Parents
Earlier in the summer the world looked on in horror as Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance border policy led to the separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents. Audio recordings of crying infants and pictures of kids surrounded by border guards could hardly fail to move you. But do…
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How Far-Right Rhetoric Became the New Normal
Are we seeing the normalisation of fascism? There's a disturbing pattern of politicians making extreme statements, columnists writing apologia for racism, and far-right figures taking to the airwaves for soft interviews with sycophantic journalists. On the British Dream this week, Simon Childs...
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Can Northern Ireland End Its Stasis On Abortion?
Remember in the spring when Ireland voted to legalise abortion? People in Northern Ireland do. They remember how everyone looked to Northern Ireland – with its exceptionally harsh abortion laws – and wondered if they would take a similar step. Northern Irish women took to the streets demanding...
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How Politics Shaped Grime and Grime Shaped Politics
Grime has gone from a music genre that the police tried to snuff out, to one of Britain’s most in demand cultural exports, all the while maintaining its anti-establishment edge. We spoke to Dan Hancox, author of Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, about why the genre sounds like a riot…
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Does Brexit Have to Be Like This?
When the British people voted to “take back control” and leave the EU, you have to wonder if they were doing so looking forward to passing references to technocratic policy detail filtered through a Westminster melodrama, a sort of Tory Battle Royale played out by Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson…
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What's The Deal With The Left-Wing Anti-Semitism?
In April an obscure, sub-cultural, iconoclastic, left-wing Jewish group called Jewdas made tabloid news by inviting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to a Seder, in which a beetroot was held aloft as attendees shouted "F**k capitalism". In the context of an anti-Semitism scandal that is dogging the...
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The Police's Artificial Intelligence Technology Is Going To Get Better At Spying On You
"It was disturbing for us to see young people targeted in this kind of way" Silkie Carlo is a Director at Big Brother Watch, an independent non-profit organisation leading the protection of privacy and civil liberties in the UK. She chats to Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE.COM, about...
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Why the Windrush Scandal Was No Accident
“What gets talked about is immigration and borders—what doesn't get talked about is people and people's lives" Gracie Bradley is an Advocacy Officer for Liberty, campaigning for human rights in the UK. She chats to Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE.COM, about where the Windrush Scandal…
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Did The Government Create UK Gang Culture?
"Our kids are bearing the brunt of institutional racism and ultimately paying with their lives" Stafford Scott is a Race Advocacy Officer at The Monitoring Group, an anti-racist charity. He chats to Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE.COM, about the knife crime epidemic, the influence of...
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Uni Students Feel Like Consumers And They Don't Like It
“We are paying to learn how to work in jobs that no longer pay” Students from all over the UK have joined the University strike in solidarity with their lecturers this year. Hear an oral history from those who have been protesting, hogging the picket lines and running the occupations at...
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Is The Far Right On The Rise?
So much has changed in far right politics. The British National Party have come and gone, the English Defence League have disappeared, and lord knows what's going on at UKIP. As part of Hate Island, our special investigation into the far-right, Simon Childs, VICE UK's Home Affairs Editor, is in...
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Did The Iraq War Lead To The 2010 Student Protests, And Did The Student Protests Lead To Jeremy Corbyn?
Matt Myers has written an oral history of the 2010 student movement that cast off the cliche of an apathetic youth, embarrassed Nick Clegg, sacked the Tory HQ, but didn’t quite manage to stop tuition fees going up. Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE.com, discusses with Matt why the Iraq…
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Can We Trust Labour's Foreign Policy?
Most people didn’t hear Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy speech to the UN Assembly in December 2017. But basically it set out what you could call the Corbyn Doctrine on UK foreign policy for the Labour Party. Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE.COM, kicks off the first in our "Speeching"...
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Is Tony Blair To Blame For Everything That Happened Last Year?
Is Brexit a hangover from Blairism? Are we living through the political comedown after Tony's Britpop party? Richard Power Sayeed, author of the book "1997: The Future That Never Happened" chats with Simon Childs, Home Affairs Editor at VICE UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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A Hell of a Year
It’s been a quiet year, with only one of the most surprising elections in living memory to distract us form Brexit, the Grenfell Tower Fire and the Westminster sex abuse scandal, to name just a few. Join the British Dream as we travel back 12 months, to a completely different political landscape...
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Cough Cough
Join the British Dream to round off conference season with the podcast that the Prime Minister named her vision for the country after. We dive into the content of Theresa May's ill fated conference speech and find out that even if she delivered it properly, it would have sucked anyway. And a...
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Bunker Mentality
With summer coming to an end and politics whirring back into gear, we’ll finally get some more Westminster podcast fodder soon, but for now we’re still focussing on trivial things like the end of the world. Tune in for an interview with a guy who sells nuclear bunkers, an update on Brexit, and we...
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#12 What Do the Tories Do Now?
As the summer recess sits uneasily with the potential of nuclear winter, Tories are writing confused think-pieces, while Corbyn is sticking to what he knows, heading off on another campaign tour. We ask what the Conservatives should do next, whether Moggmentum will give the Tories any impetus…
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Who Is Actually In Charge?
Welcome back to the British Dream. A lot has changed since the election. Jeremy Corbyn is the Prime Minster, except he's not. Theresa May can't be leader, but somehow, technically, she is. Tory austerity is coming to an end, in the form of a £1 billion sop to Northern Ireland to keep the Tories…
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It Was the Young Wot Won It
Well, that was weird. After an election result that Theresa May couldn’t have anticipated and Labour could hardly have hoped for, The British Dream is back to dissect a momentous night and look to a bumpy future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Very Accurate Election Predictions
Could anyone really win at this election? While the election seems less of a foregone conclusion than it was, somehow it still feels like ultimately, we all lose. In the week of the election, the British Dream sets itself up as a hostage to fortune, and predicts who'll be in the least worst...
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How the Election Stopped Being a Foregone Conclusion
As the big day gets closer, it feels like a very different election to the one we started talking about a few weeks ago. Theresa May, sweating like she’s taken a bad pill, Jeremy Corbyn looking like he’s mainlining Xanax – what’s changed? We try and suss it out, and interview Caroline Lucas…
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Voices Of Manchester
After the atrocity at the Manchester Arena, we headed to the city to hear how people are coping and how people are banding together in grief. We spoke to people in shock, communities refusing to be cowed, and young Muslims determined to show that the atrocity doesn’t represent them. Hosted on...
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Why Do Politicians Never Answer the Question?
With rigorous academic analysis showing Theresa May giving a straight answer just nine percent of the time, how can we expect to hold anything to account, ever? Maybe all we can do is click the “angry” button on Facebook live. Certainly, it’s difficult to know what to make of the Conservative...
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Generation Ungovernable
Welcome to Broken Britain: a housing crisis with no end in sight, hospitals that look like war zones, a welfare state in tatters. This week Theresa May finally spoke about what’s really at stake in this election, saying she’s always been in favour of fox hunting. Less significantly, Labour’s...
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Mayday Mayday
So far this bizarro election campaign has seen Theresa May embarrassing herself, and Jeremy Corbyn surprisingly looking vaguely like he actually wants to be there. Not that anybody seems to care. With the public having the opposite perception, does any of this even matter? Meanwhile in Brighton,...
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Springtime for Jolyon
Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable Strong and stable We discuss the first week or so of the election campaign: Jolyons, bank holiday banter, strong and stable government....
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Oh, Snap
After saying she wouldn't seven times, Theresa May has called a snap election. She's decided that yes, actually, she would like a mandate - so if the people would kindly give it to her she can get on with Brexit and you can't grumble. It's nice of her to ask. Fortunately The British Dream Podcast...
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Casual Labour
Following Labour’s less than great byelection results last Thursday, this week kicked off with Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell writing that a “soft coup” against Corbyn was happening, and UKIP was having an existential crisis all of its own. Meanwhile, a video emerged of Uber's CEO arguing with...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
British politics is a of a nightmare to keep up with at the moment. Reading every think-piece or news story about how life is getting objectively worse would be enough to make your eyes fall out. That's why we created The British Dream, a podcast that pumps analysis of how everything is ¯/_(ツ)_/¯ directly into your ears. Stay positive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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British politics is a of a nightmare to keep up with at the moment. Reading every think-piece or news story about how life is getting objectively worse would be enough to make your eyes fall out. That's why we created The British Dream, a podcast that pumps analysis of how everything is ¯/_(ツ)_/¯...
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