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🆕 SUNDAY SCHOOL: Algorithm & Blues

🙉 How social media feeds us right-wing propaganda
🪖 National service in France, Germany... and UK?
🧺 Good news on the laundry front

With @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

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Sunday School: Algorithm & Blues

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/12/2025 · 54m

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December 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM

brecongirl.bsky.social

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My Top Podcast of 2025

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December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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My Top Podcast of 2025

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December 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Quiet Riot

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💒 NEW Sunday School: Backing The USSR 🕵️‍♂️

🇺🇦 Ukraine "peace" plan
🫠 MAGA's Epstein meltdown
🙋🏼‍♂️ Farage's nazi past
⚖️ Reform's Russian bribes

AND

🦠 The Covid Inquiry Report

With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social.

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Sunday School: Backing the USSR + Covid Inquiry Report

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 23/11/2025 · 1h 6m

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November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM

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🔪 NEW: Dial S for Starmer ☎️

💥 How NOT to supress a rebellion
📺 Defending the BBC from Trump
🥀 Woke Poppies
🧱 Lego Therapy
💨 Bloopers

With @pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social.

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Dial S for Starmer: how NOT to supress a leadership challenge

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 13/11/2025 · 1h 3m

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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM

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🚸 Sunday School: Trillion Dollan Manbaby 🏫

🍞 The moral panic about prisons.
💰 Elon Musk's obscene rewards.
📺 Is legacy telly making a comeback?

@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social talk through the week's news.

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Sunday School: Trillion Dollar Manbaby

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 09/11/2025 · 1h 2m

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November 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM

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🏛️ PODYSSEY SEASON 2 - All the details! 📜

What. Where. When.

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Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 04/11/2025 · Bonus · 9m

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November 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM

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Quiet Riot

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SUNDAY SCHOOL DROP

☮️🏆 Who is María Corina Machado & how bruised is Trump?

💸 Reform struggles to find DOLGE cuts

📚RIP Jilly Cooper & all hail the trashy novel

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Sunday School: The Big Blag Theory

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October 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM

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Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht

(from Feb 23)

October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Quiet Riot

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🆕 Sunday School: Identity Politics 🪪

🌹 Digital ID & Labour Conference

🇺🇸 White House pivots on Ukraine & Gaza

🎒Why Youth Mobility matters

@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social are your Sunday treat.

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Sunday School: Identity Politics

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 28/09/2025 · 58m

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September 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM

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Naomi Smith

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The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening.

@sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇

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My place or yours? - Flags and the far right from someone who looks different to you

By Alex Andreou

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September 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Quiet Riot

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💥 NEW EPISODE DROP 💥

Join us to talk about Trump’s second state visit PLUS we are joined by special guest @nicklowles.bsky.social to focus on how we defeat the far right and his new book, which is the manual we all need 💪

🎧👇
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The Windsor Knot: How to tie up a strongman without him noticing

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 18/09/2025 · 1h 10m

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September 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM

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Alex Andreou's Podyssey

@alexpodyssey.bsky.social

🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦

Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled.

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MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 01/09/2025 · 1h 35m

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September 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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Caroline Lucas

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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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🪩Sunday School: Vance, Like Nobody's Watching🕺🏽

@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social tidy up the week.

🧸 Just smile until he VPees off
🌊 Poops! We did it again
🍝 A big fuss about a little pasta
🚣🏽‍♂️ How Lowe can you go

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Sunday School: Vance, Like Nobody's Watching

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August 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM

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🆕 The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats 📉

@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social welcome back sage @brianklaas.bsky.social.

🗡️ Is MAGA beginning to turn on Trump?
😫 Why is the British far right SO WHINEY?

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The fault, dear POTUS, is not in our stats

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 07/08/2025 · 1h 10m

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August 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM

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🏰 Palaces or Parliaments? 🗳️ with @chrischirp.bsky.social

Afghan data leak and superinjunction ⚖️
An index of the USA's slide to autocracy 🍊
@pimlicat.bsky.social's Grin And Share It 💉
@sturdyalex.bsky.social's Wokey-Dokey 🦖

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/135K...

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Palaces or Parliaments? Keeping score of Democracy's losses.

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 17/07/2025 · 1h 15m

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July 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM

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📜 New AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? 🏛️

Part One of Three: Stories have had a moral for as long as we've had stories. So why is Aesop, enduringly, one of the few moralists we accept can dish it out?

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7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 13/07/2025 · 44m

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July 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM

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🎓 Sunday School: Not Another One! 💥

A new party on the Left; more choice or more division?
ReformUK u̶p̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶5̶ ̶ down to 4MPs
Hopes of a Gaza ceasefire
Big poll of young voters

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0cit...

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Sunday School: Not Another One!

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 06/07/2025 · 56m

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July 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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🏫 Sunday School: PIP of the iceberg ⛪

@pimlicat.bsky.social & @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss
- The govt's climbdown on welfare reform;
- The new trade & industrial policies; plus
- Whatever happened to the California riots?

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Sunday School: PIP of the iceberg

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 29/06/2025 · 54m

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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM

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🦽 NEW: More Arms Than Good

@pimlicat.bsky.social, @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @elliechowns.bsky.social & @snellarthur.bsky.social discuss Labour MPs' welfare revolt, Iran and the NATO summit, and the future of the Green Party.

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More Arms Than Good

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 26/06/2025 · 1h 21m

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June 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM

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*Sunday School: Three’s a crowd*
🔥 Israel, Iran & US are locked in conflict. @snellarthur.bsky.social‬ reads the geopolitical runes
🇪🇺 What Brits REALLY think about cosying up to EU
👩‍🎓 Struggling universities
With @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social‬ & @pimlicat.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/346K...