Hello and welcome to Oh God What Now, the politics podcast that can't decide whether to be excited about rockets going up or despondent about boots going in.

On today's edition, nearly two years in, Stama isn't

just historically unpopular, he's actively hated, and so is almost every frontline politician,

from Robert Jenrick to Angela Rainer, Nigel Farage to Zach Polanski. Like a noisy extractor

fan, there's a kind of ambient, low-level fury humming around almost everyone

in public life. So has political hatred just become the default setting? Where's it coming from?

And more importantly, can we switch it off? And angling for clout on the American right,

Mayfly Prime Minister Liz Trust, has announced she's launching her own populist initiative, Mega,

Make England Great Again.

It sounds like a parody, but the search for a populist figurehead that doesn't rhyme with Garage is very real.

So who's actually winning that race?

And could a British version of MAGA ever genuinely take off?

And in the extra bit for Patreon backers, the Telegraph is running a

surprisingly good series on class. And one thing they found is that the new elite just don't read.

Why? What does it mean? And can we get by with leaders who, never mind not reading Cicero,

don't even read Dan Brown? Let's meet the panel.

Seth Tavo is a political historian and the author of London Clubland, a companion for

the curious. Hello, Seth.

Hello, hello.

The Prime Minister has been trying to sound rather calm and competent in the face of a pretty

serious global crisis this week, as oil routes are disrupted and food inflation could hit 9%.

Should we be reassured or start stocking up on low roll?

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