Starmer Drama & A Website From Hell
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte wade through the latest Westminster psychodrama involving Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson, and a row that refuses to die. Is it a genuine scandal or just political noise drowning out far more urgent stories?
Because while the media obsesses over Whitehall intrigue, and there is TRIGGER WARNING for this part of the episode, something far darker is barely being covered: a disturbing online forum where men share advice and footage on drugging and assaulting their partners. Yes, really. The hosts unpack what’s been reported, why it hasn’t led the news cycle, and what it says about whose safety actually matters.
Plus: Reform chaos, Richard Tice’s tax questions, parliamentary theatrics, and the small matter of who—if anyone—is fit to run the country.
Equal parts fury and fatigue, this is the week’s chaos, carefully trawled.
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| 0:00.0 | He is gas-lising the nation, so let's call this out for what it is. |
| 0:03.4 | The Prime Minister is a bare-faced liar. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, and welcome to The Troll, the place where the week's chaos is carefully curated into something vaguely coherent or, at the very least, put into an order that makes sense to someone. |
| 0:29.0 | Hopefully. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte and trawlers. Oh, I've got a confession. |
| 0:36.1 | Um, all right. Are you sure this is the right space for it, |
| 0:39.1 | Jemma? Should we take this on blind, perhaps? No, actually, weirdly, I think it's precisely the right |
| 0:44.9 | spot for this confession. But I'll be interested to know if you feel similarly, Marina, |
| 0:51.0 | because you might feel totally differently. Or what about you trawlers? |
| 0:54.9 | For, as we speak, an extremely serious political row is bubbling away, despite the fact the latest |
| 1:03.1 | lot of Epstein Files hint at babies being eaten. I mean, I wish I was kidding. And despite the fact, |
| 1:08.4 | it's come to lights that a lot of men want to know how they can drug |
| 1:11.7 | their wives so they can assault them in the middle of the night, we're going to get to that trawlers |
| 1:16.1 | in this episode. And yet, no sign of any of that in the papers. Instead, they are dominated by one |
| 1:22.5 | story only. And it's commentators commentating. It's headlines, headlining, and it involves Kirstama and |
| 1:30.5 | Peter Mandelson again. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah, it is going on and on and on this story. |
| 1:36.3 | You probably thought it had been covered, the fact that Kel, bloody surprise, appointing the old |
| 1:40.8 | dodgy weasel Mandy. |
| 1:44.0 | Yep, given his spectacularly terrible reputation and links to Romans was a profoundly stupid thing to do, |
| 1:50.1 | and it was. But here we are again. Just this time, the story's got a new angle. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, it has. And as I say, there's been shed loads of analysis, |
| 1:59.5 | lots of people using the phrase deeply |
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