56 Episodes

  1. Decision time for Christian leaders

    Published: 28/04/2025
  2. Who will win the battle for the hearts and minds of those on the right? Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch?

    Published: 04/04/2025
  3. Should we take Trump seriously?

    Published: 25/02/2025
  4. “Brexit has become the n-word of economics”

    Published: 04/02/2025
  5. Will 2024 go down as the year when the world changed?

    Published: 20/12/2024
  6. Does Labour no longer have skilful politicians?

    Published: 06/12/2024
  7. What will Trump's second term in office look like?

    Published: 08/11/2024
  8. 40 years since the Brighton bomb

    Published: 17/10/2024
  9. Downing St dysfunctional? Surely not!

    Published: 01/10/2024
  10. Things Can Only Get Worse

    Published: 03/09/2024
  11. Far right violence on the streets of Britain

    Published: 20/08/2024
  12. “The ‘We’re here to serve’ mantra sounds a bit trite, but I think he really means it”

    Published: 16/07/2024
  13. Three Old Hacks on the “boring” election campaign

    Published: 02/07/2024
  14. Three Old Hacks on the general election

    Published: 11/06/2024
  15. Thank you Mr Crombie

    Published: 14/05/2024
  16. Prime Ministers in election mode - from the pipe-smoking Harold Wilson to the dishwasher-stacking Rishi Sunak

    Published: 26/03/2024
  17. But is it democracy?

    Published: 27/02/2024
  18. Piers Morgan, hacking and the unseemly side of journalism

    Published: 19/12/2023
  19. Holding the line for a free press

    Published: 05/12/2023
  20. Three Men in a Boat navigating British Journalism

    Published: 06/11/2023

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Mihir Bose – former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s. They have kept in touch regularly, setting the world to rights over various lunches and dinners. With coronavirus making that impossible, what do journalists do, deprived of long convivial lunches over a bottle of red wine or several? Why, podcast of course.Get in contact with the podcast by emailing [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!