The End of the Keir Show?

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

First thing on Monday it looked like Keir Starmer was organic sourdough toast. By teatime he’d riled up Labour MPs and looked – somehow – safe for now. Can the PM weather the brutal months ahead? Is it still a case of “when not if” he goes? Plus, we look at how far the toxic misogyny of the Epstein horrorshow spreads. Special guest Morgan Jones takes us back to the anti-Brexit campaign for a second referendum in 2016-19 and we look for lessons for a possible Rejoin campaign. And in the Extra Bit for Patreon people: Does Lord Of The Flies still resonate in its new psychedelic BBC incarnation? • Buy Morgan’s book No Second Chances: The Inside Story of the Campaign for a Second EU Referendum through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. ESCAPE ROUTES • Hannah has been enjoying eyeliner pop-rock reprobate Yungblud. • Rachel loved the musical Ballad Lines at the Southwark Theatre. • Morgan has gone old WWII movies mad with Went The Day Well? and In Which We Serve. • Comic book guy Andrew recommends mind-bending time-crash series Assorted Crisis Events www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Rachel Cunliffe and Hannah Fearn. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yeah, I'm one of their biggest fans. I've got all the vinyl. First saw them at a tiny little place in Camden. Then as festival headliners a few years back, now that was special. So there's no chance I'd miss their world tour in London, Lisbon and LA. Good thing I've been saving.
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0:47.9	Hello and welcome back to Oh God What Now, the podcast that has the full confidence and support of its listenership and will never walk away from the podcasting business that it loves.
0:57.2	I'm Andrew Harrison on today's edition. Is it really the end of the Kea show? After the cabinet came out with fulsome support for the Prime Minister, they would say that, wouldn't they?
1:01.4	It looks like the Epstein-Mandelson whirlpool has subsided a little.
1:05.0	We talk about whether the stomach and weather what is sure to be a punishing few months,
1:09.9	and why we need to refocus on the misogyny and sexism at the core of this whole horror show.
1:15.2	Plus, it's 10 years next week that David Cameron announced a date for the EU referendum.
1:16.8	We hope you've got your bunting out.
1:20.3	Our special guest is the Morgan that everybody's trying to talk to.
1:24.4	Morgan Jones, who's here to take us back to those happy days and her book,
1:29.5	No Second Chances, the inside story of the campaign for a second EU referendum.
1:36.1	And in the extra bit for Patreon people, quiet piggy, we watch the BBC's new adaptation of Lord of the Flies by Jack Thorne of adolescence and his Dark Materials fame.
1:40.5	Is it an eternal story or does it land somewhat differently in 2026?
1:45.6	Let's hello to the panel.
2:02.9	Rachel Cunleth is Associate Political Editor at the New Statesman, an ardent classicist who knows her Isocrates from her Hippocrates and she's a militant cat advocateist. Hello, Rachel. How are you? Hello, we're talking about cats later. We're going to talk about cats? Excellent. This week, you've been wrapped up in the urgent question of whether Parliament is going to burn to the ground.
2:02.9	What is going to burn to the ground.
2:04.4	What is going on?
2:08.7	And who would be the Captain Sully Sundbergh who rescues everybody in that particular disaster movie?
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