The Two Matts
Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episodes (1225)
General Election Special Week 3: Farage, contracts and Trump
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Q&A: Reform's unique setup, super majorities and what we went without
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The Freewheelin’ Dylan Jones
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Sunak’s disaster, Europe’s far-right... and a glimmer of Lib-Dem light
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Q&A: Tackling Honours Lists, Farage's Future, and Brexit Silence
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“Can you trust Rishi” and other stupid questions
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General Election Special: Week 1 - Farage is back
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Q&A: Brexit, Voting Tory, and AI in Medicine
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How did Diane Abbott derail Keir Starmer?
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Q&A: Blood Scandal, Paula Vennells and Rishi's new job
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Caitlin Moran and the trouble with men
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Welcome to six weeks of political mayhem and the end of an error
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Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting
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Lies, damned lies, and Rishi Sunak
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Q&A: Elphicke's Defection & Should We Let 'Let It Be' Be?
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Gaza and Israel: The endless ripples of war
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Q&A: Starmer EU optimism, Trump's Time and Prom hate backlash
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Catastrophe for Sunak from the jaws of defeat
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Q&A: Rishi's Rwanda Bill, separation of powers and Sam Smith
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Is it really okay to be proud about being English?
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Q&A: Honeytraps, comms and commissioners
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You can take our fags.. but you’ll never take our FREEDOM!
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Q&A: Poverty vs culture wars, Trump on abortion, and adultery
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How trans activists ended up on the wrong side of history
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The year so far (Spoiler alert: It’s worse than we could imagine)
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Stick or twist? Is it time the Tories gambled on dumping Sunak?
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Q&A: Does Owen Jones Deserve Better?
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Is Rachel Reeves right that Blair was wrong?
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Q&A: Extremist Definitions and Global Interventions
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"Extreme theories about Princess Kate"
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Q&A: GB News, Rough Sleeping & UPFs
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"Live... From New York!"
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Q&A: Mob Rule, Ofcom and Tucker or George for a beer?
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"The Man Who Knows Keir Starmer Best"
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Q&A: Liz Truss, wealth taxes & garbage food
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"The Poison Of Putin"
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Q&A: Scornful Headlines, Beveridge Report and IDK
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"Labour's Forever War"
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Q&A: Diagnosing Fox, The US and Israel & more impressions
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"Can We Count On Keir?
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Q&A: Excess Deaths, Instagram Harm and Computer Brains
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"Laurence Fox Off"
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Q&A: Northern Ireland, National Trust and Lefties
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"Germany Fighting Fascism"
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The Matts Recommend: Disorder
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Q&A: SNP, Subpostmasters, and Centre-Right Podcasts
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"Trump Derangement Syndrome"
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Q&A: Autumn election, royal obsessed and book recommendations
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"Prosecute The Post Office"
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Q&A: Honours, Traitors and Dave Chappelle
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