Summer special! The team discuss the Conservatives’ new policy on convicted Neo-Nazis (pro), the AI data centres hoovering up power and water, and the extraordinary story of Professor Jason Arday.
11 August 2026, 4:55 pm
42 minutes 13 seconds
187: Feel The Burnham
The team discuss how Andy Burnham’s social media is annoying the ‘lobby’; the mad debate over North Sea drilling continues; and how to make the new PM funny.
28 July 2026, 4:46 pm
50 minutes 5 seconds
186: Fa-rage Against The Machine
The team (with guest Jane Mackenzie) discuss Nigel Farage's by-election gamble, the latest military procurement disasters, and the lowdown on Prince Harry’s trial against the Mail.
14 July 2026, 4:30 pm
45 minutes 2 seconds
185: Manc To The Future
Ian, Helen, Andy and Richard Brooks discuss Andy Burnham’s vision for Britain (AKA Even Greater Manchester), the non-existent ban on air-conditioning, and a new book on Emperor Trump.
30 June 2026, 2:43 pm
40 minutes 19 seconds
184: Coup What A Scorcher
The Private Eye team, minus Andy but plus Matt Muir, wave a sad farewell to Keir Starmer and prepare themselves for Andy Burnham and the Burnaissance. Also: is Nigel Farage running out of steam?
24 June 2026, 11:58 am
44 minutes 28 seconds
183: Fight! Fight! Fight!
The team (plus guest Sarah Shannon) catch up on the latest White House cage fight, on the World Cup, on the USA and Iran's actual fight, and on the British fight for the right between Reform and Restore.
16 June 2026, 3:32 pm
41 minutes 33 seconds
182: Make Hay
The team record a special episode from the Hay Festival. Featuring Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, and all your other - favourite? - characters from the news.
2 June 2026, 1:50 pm
6 minutes 22 seconds
181: And The Winner Is...
You've heard the stories. You've admired the piles of paper in the Eye office (video viewers only). And now it's time to learn which brilliant story has won this year's Paul Foot Award!
1 June 2026, 8:37 pm
13 minutes 28 seconds
180: PAUL FOOT 2026: THE PINCH-OF-SALT PATH
Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer looked into a beloved, million-selling bestseller, The Salt Path, and found the book arguably fit the 'fiction' shelves better.
30 May 2026, 12:30 am
13 minutes 37 seconds
179: PAUL FOOT 2026: UNSAFE CONVICTIONS
Adam Bychawski reported on how people who've been wrongly imprisoned - sometimes for many years - are still not being compensated even after they've overturned their convictions, thank to a 2014 change in the law.
29 May 2026, 12:30 am
12 minutes 48 seconds
178: PAUL FOOT 2026: HARD LABOUR
Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife uncovered how Labour Together - the think-tank which helped make Keir Starmer PM - had hired a PR firm to try and discredit journalists asking them questions about their funding.