In episode 97, we're joined by new correspondent @wariotifo (who IS he?!) to discuss Change UK The Independent Group Remain Alliance The Gapes Party's stunning roster of MEP candidate selections, which are exactly what you'd expect - lots of "ex-"conservatives (small & big c), crap councillors, property developers, lobbyists, rapacious capitalists, racists of a thousand stripes, SPAD careerists and assorted melts and shite. An hour of additional material, in which we stray from the main topi...
May 02, 2019•1 hr 38 min
UNLOCKED SUBSCRIBER EPISODE TO TIDE THE REAL HEADS OVER Subscribe for more exclusive shit like this @ patreon.com/reelpolitik In our 96th episode - and first for Patreon subscribers since Jack remembered the password and was able to log in on his new, less agonisingly slow laptop - we've got it all. We've got the latest Gapes News - on the titular political summit of the century, Gapes/Pelosi - we've got tunes (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tupac, Bruce Springsteen, YG & Nipsey Hussle, ...
Apr 28, 2019•1 hr 8 min
To hear the full hour-plus-long episode, subscribe to us at patreon.com/reelpolitik. The direct link to the episode is https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-96-of-26262438 In our 96th episode - and first for Patreon subscribers since Jack remembered the password and was able to log in on his new, less agonisingly slow laptop - we've got it all. We've got the latest Gapes News - on the titular political summit of the century, Gapes/Pelosi - we've got tunes (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tupa...
Apr 21, 2019•7 min
In the latest dispatch from our St Petersburg Troll Factory (now shared by scholar of Twitter's meltiest recesses @wariotifo), Jack and Yair are joined by 'lil comrade founder Edie Miller (@multiplebears on Twitter, with the company residing @tinycomrade)to review Ricky Gervais' new six-part series for Netflix, 'After Life', which, as you might expect, we find to be a big old piece of shit by an artist in irreversible decline. Edie is also on the show to promote RP's first ever move into the wor...
Apr 11, 2019•1 hr 28 min
In recent months, we've found it difficult to provide the comprehensive coverage of politics that our audience have come to expect from us. What we have been able to do is provide comprehensive coverage of one specific politician, zoning in on a true heavyweight until we have a scholarly grasp of his maverick ways. Back in January, we finally went all in, and did our first episode entirely about Mike Gapes, CUK (then Labour) MP for Ilford South. Tragically, the Q&A with Mike Gapes that Profe...
Apr 03, 2019•43 min
Listen to the full hour-long episode by subscribing to patreon.com/reelpolitik In the second and final instalment of our series on Bob Dylan and his ultimate superfan/mortal enemy AJ Weberman - Vol. 3 - Weberman, David Peel and their Dylan Liberation Front comrades put on a demonstration in front of Dylan's house in Woodstock, NY sometime in late 1970. as told in Weberman's 1971 article in underground publication the East Village Other. Master and disciple come to verbal blows: Weberman calls Dy...
Mar 24, 2019•9 min
In what'll probably be our last episode before Jack's appearance at the Media Democracy Festival this Saturday (which we admittedly forgot to mention at all here), we present another amiable Jack-Yair dialogue on the issues of the day, in which Jack tells Yair about the issues of the day and Yair agrees. This week, we address the New Statesman's extensive interview with Mike Gapes, the first five paragraphs of which are rightfully dedicated to us. Jack tries, and fails, to teach Yair how to impe...
Mar 14, 2019•58 min
To hear the full episode - and part two, which will be dropping in the next few days - become a subscriber @ patreon.com/reelpolitik. A new free episode. unrelated to the ongoing Weberman/Dylan saga, will be released here on the RP SoundCloud tomorrow. AJ Weberman is an American hero: a radical leftist in the 1960s, former defence secretary of the Dylan Liberation Front, he is the inventor of the closely related sciences of Dylanology and Garbology, and author of the Dylan-to-English Dictionary,...
Mar 13, 2019•4 min
NEW (SORT OF) RP! We forgot to upload a preview of our latest Patreon episode to SoundCloud. Fortunately, we have another episode popping up on Patreon any day now so - since we accidentally made this publicly available on Patreon anyway - we've decided to unlock our latest RP news bulletin for the masses. Original description: Jack and Yair on the political situation. Unfortunately this was recorded prior to the revelation that Mike Gapes has listened to our show (specifically, to our episode t...
Mar 08, 2019•39 min
Having finally succeeded in driving Chris Leslie and, tragically, Mike Gapes out of the Labour Party, Jack and an inaudible Tom convene with RP regular Jude Wanga (@judeinlondon2) to discuss the formation of the Independent Group, a sad vanity project by Tony Blair's tiny handful of remaining enthusiasts.
Feb 21, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Long before there was The Independent Group, there was the All-Party Parliamentary Group For Bipartisanship. A pertinent extract from the hit radio play Tim Peaks: Farron: Walk With Me: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/tim-peaks-farron-walk-with-me-a-reel-politik-original-radio-play STARRING: Tom Foster as Tim Farron Laura Jolyon Tidd as Anna Soubry and Margaret Thatcher Jack Frayne-Reid as Mike Gapes and Chris Leslie Written by Jack Frayne-Reid Produced by Jack Frayne-Reid & Tom Fo...
Feb 19, 2019•7 min
Sam Foster and Danny Moran, hosts of the esteemed Film Chat podcast, had Jack and Tom on their show a while back, and now we return the favour, although Tom is sadly absent, Sam instead providing our requisite Foster quotient (Tom did, however, design the artwork.) The two film chatters join Jack and Yair to discuss the HBO/Channel 4 co-production (more like COPproduction!) Brexit: The Uncivil War, an embarrassing heap of liberal walky-talky dogshit written by arch-melt playwright James Graham, ...
Feb 14, 2019•1 hr 18 min
To listen to this episode in its entirety, go to https://www.patreon.com/reelpolitik and subscribe! After recording Episode 83 - Cruising With Boxcar Bono, Jack and Yair have an impromptu chat about Nicolas Cage's work in the 2010s, and how he's so prolific that it doesn't really matter that most of the films are bad, when the sheer quantity of work almost inevitably produces enough at least passable results that most people (not us) could easily get their fix of Cage if they only watched his ei...
Feb 08, 2019•5 min
It's time for some healthy male banter, as the original trio of RP hosts complete their odyssey through the life, work and politics of Clint Eastwood. In this second and final Eastwood episode, we go from 1990's The Rookie to 2018's The Mule, out now in UK cinemas (although none of us have ever seen it yet - thinking a Mule special might be necessary.) Along the way we encounter his masterpiece, Unforgiven, the dubious racial politics of Gran Torino, a consistent penchant for a liberal both-side...
Feb 08, 2019•1 hr 41 min
The gang review the cinematic oeuvre of Clint Eastwood, from his early appearances on the western TV serial Rawhide in 1955, to his global success with Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy in the 1960s, to his emergence as a director in the early 1970s, and beyond. We discover an artist with a tremendous work ethic (except for when it comes to doing more than three takes) and politics that are at best complicated, and at worst repugnant - an icon of masculinity and hero of the libertarian right who ha...
Feb 01, 2019•1 hr 31 min
For a longer version of this episode - containing a run-through Gapes' milk-related Early Day Motions and a reading of an Evening Standard piece about him doing karaoke, with Yair appearing on the latter part - go to patreon.com/reelpolitik tonight! In this truncated cut for the masses, Tom and Jack - recording just after new year at Jack's house - read from then-Labour International Officer Mike Gapes' 1990 Fabian Society pamphlet, After The Cold War: Building on the Alliances, which Jack bough...
Jan 18, 2019•38 min
Jonathan Pie is the stage name of hack comedian Tom Walker - whose shtick involves pretending to be angry, generally about feminism, anti-racism, or some other basically benevolent force - and his writing partner, right-wing extremist Andrew Doyle, a columnist for the Charles Koch Foundation-funded hub of reactionary contrarianism, Spiked Online. In this episode, we review Jonathan Pie's American Pie, his one-off special for the BBC, while his latest stand-up show (which also aired on the BBC) p...
Jan 09, 2019•55 min
To ring in the new year, we wanted to take a breather from all the negativity, stop the hating, and talk about some films we actually like. We've excerpted our very positive review of Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha for the mass audience. The episode is a pre-season 5 treat for those who've subscribed to the show: you can listen to it in full at patreon.com/reelpolitik. Discussed therein: Willem Dafoe: Most consistent actor around? The Tom Cruise Auteur Theory The “Iconoclastic Jewish Entertaine...
Jan 07, 2019•8 min
Merry Christmas from the whole RP crew! In what will certainly be our last episode before Christmas (AKA "tomorrow") and possibly before the new year, the entire crew...are not in attendance. Jack and Tom, however, are in the house to set the record straight on what's happened to Tom in the last few months, his persecution by the Norwich City Football Club Fans' Revolutionary Soviet Caucus, his legal battle to remain in the RP team, and where he's been hiding (hint: it was Australia, and we disc...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 16 min
We haven't made the artwork or finished editing it yet, but here's a few minutes from the start of the new episode where we preview what topics we'll be discussing! Episode will be on here rather than Patreon. Ho ho ho etc (It's not a very good trailer. There'll be a much slicker one of sorts in the episode itself.)
Dec 24, 2018•4 min
In what could be described as either an extended excerpt from or a truncated edit of our new 110-minute Patreon episode on the films of Paul Schrader, Jack and Yair discuss Schrader's ill-fated Nicolas Cage-starring 2014 espionage thriller the Dying of the Light, which was taken away from Schrader and reedited by its producers, bastardised to the extent that in 2017 he took matters in his own hands and made his own lo-fi director's cut, which has never been commercially released, but which we ha...
Dec 19, 2018•32 min
Jack interviews PhD student Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm on Twitter) about populism in its myriad, and sometimes nebulous, forms: its American origins, the respective populisms of the left, right, and centre, and the liberal discourse around populism, with its invocation of "the people" and its folk devils like Russia and Seumas Milne. Read Anton's recent Jacobin piece, The Myth of "Populism" here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/populism-douglas-hofstadter-donald-trump-democracy And also for ...
Dec 14, 2018•50 min
Our latest Patreon episode, unlocked for the masses! Featuring our thoughts on the Kate Osamor resignation, the Miwkiversary, the deaths of George H.W. Bush and Harry Leslie Smith, some Patreon housekeeping, and a special terrorist broadcast by Juliet Jacques of @Suite-212. Listen to more great #content like this at patreon.com/reelpolitik
Dec 11, 2018•31 min
Tonight on Reel Politik, we take the initiative into our own hands, and settle the divisive debate around Britain's exit from the European Union, once and for all. All sides are represented, putting their views across respectfully, yet forcefully; from hard Brexit, to soft Brexit, to a Brexit that's somewhat softer than a hard Brexit. This goes beyond mere ideology, having more to do with evidence and truth, so we WILL be fact-checking our panellists, who span the right wing of Britain's neo-Naz...
Dec 10, 2018•32 sec
The full section of our latest Patreon episode on the disgraceful hounding by Britain's racist media of Labour MP Kate Osamor. Listen to the full news bulletin at patreon.com/reelpolitik, featuring our thoughts on the Miwkiversary, the deaths of George H.W. Bush and Harry Leslie Smith, some Patreon housekeeping, and a terrorist broadcast by Juliet Jacques of @Suite-212.
Dec 06, 2018•8 min
In new RP, Jack and Tom present an exhaustive guide to who's who on the left; the movers, the shakers, the rising stars and the thinkfluencers...or rather, who was who on the left back in the dark days of 2013, when its most influential figure (spoiler)was Ed Miliband, who was surrounded by reams of shite so abject that Ed himself looked like fucking Castro in comparison. Featuring: Lords Collins, Sainsbury and Adonis, the heavy hands of Eric Joyce (sadly not actually on the list), Big Mikey Dug...
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr 19 min
To hear this full episode, subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik In part two of our celebration of Tom F's favourite band, the Clash, we delve into Clash-affiliated musicians and filmmakers like Tymon Dogg, Ellen Foley, Don Letts and Alex Cox, go deeper into their final (proper, non-Cut The Crap) album Combat Rock, and assess the political makeup of British punk in the late '70s, as seen through the eyes of Paul Weller's manager/dad: the Clash were socialists, the Pistols were anarchists (apart f...
Nov 21, 2018•3 min
In a special extended episode of Reel Politik (we've generally managed to keep them a bit on the shorter side of late), we're joined by Joana Ramiro, a UK-based Portuguese reporter, to talk about the recent Brazilian presidential election, in which the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, who will assume office in January, triumphed over left-of-centre runner-up Fernando Haddad, the candidate of the once-dominant Workers' Party (PT), who were thrown out of power in a 2016 coup. With Joana, we discuss the pol...
Nov 19, 2018•1 hr 43 min
This full episode is available @ https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-75-22735019. In this extract, Jack and Yair discuss Yair's local Libertarian candidate and attempt to prank-call the absent Tom F. Straight outta the bipartisan marketplace of ideas, Jack is joined by RP's official American correspondent Y.S. Rice to get an informed perspective on the US midterm elections, which saw some impressive gains for a generally very sad and tragic, morally moribund, utterly purposeless crock of shit ...
Nov 15, 2018•3 min
In Part 2 of our Authentocracy extravaganza, Jack, Yair, and special guests Joe Kennedy (author of Authentocrats and Games Without Frontiers for Repeater Books) and Trevor Bastard (prolific shitposter and political impressionist, CEO of Grannymugger Media) turn their attentions to the aesthetics of Authentocracy; the grainy, hard-bollocked trinity of Bond, Bourne and Batman, the zeitgeist-capturing lyricism of Liam Gallagher (and his crack team of professional songwriting partners), the epoch-de...
Nov 08, 2018•47 min
