Changing Politics

This week, we look back at the no confidence vote in Theresa May which was ONLY LAST WEEK and yet it feels like something from a bygone era. We've also replaced our regular producer for this last show of the series with a producer who is trans, to oversee a look at how the media can do better at covering trans issues and how you can help bolster trans rights  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, the news roundup is entirely focused on the top five candidates to replace Theresa May, as determined by the bookies. We actually recorded this on Tuesday afternoon, before the vote of no confidence was called on Wednesday morning - how could we possibly know it would be relevant? We must be psychic. In the second half of the show, Marie and Gráinne look at sex for rent, a seemingly personal arrangement that can become infinitely more sinister. We hear from Peter Kyle, MP for Hove, who has been campaigning to get landlords who advertise accommodation in exchange for sex prosecuted, and from journalist and housing policy expert Jonn Elledge.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Marie and Gráinne look at one particular case: Hilary Ineomo-Marcus, a man who came to the UK when he was ten, over twenty years ago. Following a conviction for tax fraud, he served fifteen months in prison, making him eligible for deportation under Home Office guidelines, despite having a British wife, two British children, and having visited the country he is being deported to just once since coming to the UK. A product of the British education system, the British workforce, British society and the British rehabilitation system, Hilary's story is an example of a punitive and inhumane migration system. Offering additional insight are Tottenham MP David Lammy and Luke Butterly from Right to Remain, a human rights organisation.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Marie and Gráinne look at the DSS Discrimination, a form of penalising the poor for being poor, with the help of Monica Burns from The National Housing Trust, and Vicky Foxcroft MP. The week's news roundup is, we're afraid, totally dominated by the recently-negotiated Withdrawal Agreement, but we also look at how Brexit has been covered by the media. Gráinne's angrier about this than Marie is, but Marie still calls two different people "morons" as well as telling you which journalists she really trusts.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Marie and Gráinne look at the gay conversion therapy, which is amazingly still happening in the UK. We spoke to ITV's Paul Brand, who's been reporting on this recently, as well as Rachel Taggart-Ryan from Humanists UK who have been campaigning on getting the practice criminalist. And the good news is this week, you can help by simply not laughing at bad jokes.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ever feel like politics could be different? Join comedian Gráinne Maguire and journalist Marie Le Conte as they work out how we can all get more involved. This isn't just a podcast, it's Changing Politics. This week, Marie and Gráinne look at the gig economy, and how not deleting taxi-ride apps can benefit precarious workers. They speak to James Farrer and Yaseen Aslam, who are taking Uber to court to win rights for cab drivers. They also look at Hero Rebel of the Resistance, Jo Johnson, who bravely resigned from the Cabinet (apparently he was OK with all that cutting benefits stuff, but Brexit has been the final straw); the ongoing disaster that is Universal Credit - who knew that something invented by Iain Duncan Smith and overseen by Esther McVey could go wrong?; and the Taxpayer's Alliance, which it turns out aren't actually an alliance for us taxpayers, but a bunch of lobbyists.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the nights draw in and the temperature drops journalist Marie Le Conte and comedian Gráinne Maguire turn their attention to homelessness. The government currently does not keep figures on how many homeless people die each year, and this is something that needs to change. They speak to Melanie Onn MP, who was homeless at 17 and is now campaigning for the government to invest the time and effort to reduce homelessness that was invested in the early 00s, and to Maeve McLenaghan from The Bureau for Investigative Journalism, who has been working out what the numbers may actually be.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the first episode, and is about Seni's Law, an attempt to stop people with mental health challenges dying in police custody. We spoke to the bill's author, Steve Reed MP, and the parents of Seni Lewis, who have had to fight for justice for their son.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the fifth episode, which went out at the start of the school holidays - a time when more children than ever will be relying on food banks. We spoke to Garry Lemon from the Trussell Trust, a food bank charity, and one of our own listeners, Benjamin Moore, who has been a food bank user in the past.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the second episode, in which we spoke to Stella Creasy MP and Mara Clarke from the Abortion Support Network about abortion rights in Northern Ireland - and, surprisingly, the rest of the UK, where the situation isn't as clear-cut as you might have thought...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ever feel like politics could be different? Join comedian Gráinne Maguire and journalist Marie Le Conte as they work out how we can all get more involved. This isn't just a podcast, it's Changing Politics. Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the fourth episode, which was recorded the day after two Nazis were found guilty of being member of a banned organisation; a third man had plead guilty to planning an act of terrorism in the same trial. We spoke to Joe Mulhall from Hope Not Hate, and Shabana Mahmood MP, about how you can stand up to the far right.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the sixth and final episode of the first run, and in it we talk to comedian and member of Labour's NEC Eddie Izzard and TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes about what can be done to fight something that feels like a political inevitability: Brexit.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Over the summer we're re-releasing all our campaign features without the topical jokes at the top, so you don't have to go through old news to get to the stuff that's still really important. This is the feature from the third episode, and tells you what you can do to help refugees. We spoke to Lord Dubs - after whom the Dubs Amendment is named - and Hmada, a Syrian refugee, who had been in the country for just a few weeks at the time of recording. It's quite an upsetting listen in places, but there is hope and there is something you can do.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Marie excuses herself while Gráinne focuses on what we can do to fight Brexit. It seems like a political inevitability - as things stand, we're out in March - but that doesn't mean there aren't people campaigning to change that. We spoke to two of them - the general secretary of the TSSA Manuel Cortes, who is travelling the country campaigning to stop Brexit, and comedian Eddie Izzard, who is campaigning to be on Labour's NEC.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we focus on food banks - which last year distributed over 1,300,000 packages of food for those in need. We spoke to Garry Lemon from the Trussell Trust and recent foodbank user Benjamin Moore, one of our listeners.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.