Make Tories Sane Again – Can the British Right survive Trump?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Trump’s election win delighted Farage, the Telegraph, GB News and the Tory Right – but since then the President’s behaviour has horrified British voters. Has the British Right bet on the wrong horse? And will it pay a price for backing a man who seems intent in punishing Europe? Plus, if you like TV but haven’t seen Adolescence yet – do. The harrowing knife crime drama starring Stephen Graham takes in the ‘Manosphere’, social media and what that toxic mix can do to our young people. What does it tell us about Britain today? The Economist’s British politics correspondent Matthew Holehouse joins Andrew Harrison, Ros Taylor and Jonn Elledge n the studio. • Buy Jonn Elledge’s A History of the World in 47 Borders through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund us by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. • Hear Ros Taylor’s More Jam Tomorrow. • Listen to Constellations For The Lonely by Doves. • We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor and Jonn Elledge. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio. Production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Advertising on podcasts. We need it in order to keep the lights on, but it's not for everyone.
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0:14.2	Follow the link in the show notes to find out more. No, it's true. There actually is a politics podcast called, oh God, what now. Satire is even
0:31.0	deader than it already was. Big shout out to Phil Edwards on Blue Sky. Where have you been
0:35.7	for the past three years? Welcome to the world's most appropriately named podcast, getting more on the money by the hour.
0:41.4	I'm Andrew Harrison.
0:42.8	Among today's howlings into the void, it was only a few short months ago that reform,
0:47.1	the Conservative Rights and your favourite Whisper It Type Pundit were all hailing the return of Donald Trump to the White House.
0:53.7	The coming vibe shift was
0:55.0	going to vindicate them and render stomerism irrelevant, and Britain was going to be Donald's
0:59.6	BFF. But after Trump's humiliation of Ukraine, Vance's demolition job on NATO and Musk's war on
1:05.5	the very idea of a functioning state, things look very different now. We'll be asking,
1:10.1	can the British rights survive its
1:11.5	ill-starred hook-up with Trump? Plus, everybody's watching adolescence, the harrowing Netflix drama
1:16.9	about knife crime, British schools and the Manosphere, starring and co-written by Stephen Graham.
1:22.2	What do we think of it, and what does it say about Britain? Let's meet the panel. Ros Taylor is an
1:27.1	Ogwin O.G. The author of The Future of Trust and presenter of Jam Tomorrow,
1:30.8	which is back soon and its new indie guys, more jam tomorrow, isn't it, Ros?
1:34.0	It is, yeah, I've got some very exciting topics coming up.
1:36.8	Good stuff.
1:37.7	It's Judgment Week for Keir Stahmer's plans to drive through welfare cuts.
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