Jumping Off Points
Hosts, Timbah and Aidan, use current events as jumping-off points to explore politics and culture.
Podcasting since 2022 • 17 episodes
Jumping Off Points
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Ep.17 - The unbearable likeness of Blair
For better or worse, Keir Starmer wants to take Labour forward by rekindling the politics of the party’s not so distant past. The opposition leader has been the first of Tony Blair's predecessors to talk openly about his admiration for the achi...
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Episode 17
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Ep.16 - A very tenuous political analysis of Love Actually
Dubious representations of the working class, incomprehensible foreign policy, freedom of movement in pre-Brexit Britain; Love Actually is not only the finest Christmas-themed rom-com ever made, it is also a time capsule preserving Britain’s bi...
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Episode 16
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Ep.15 - No room in British prisons
In the months of September and October, the UK was gripped by headlines about British prisons being on the brink of total collapse. It was widely reported that there were only 557 places left for newly sentenced prisoners, amidst other reports ...
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Episode 15
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Ep.14 - Birth rate decline and racial pro natalism
On the 17th August 2023, the Office for National Statistics published a report which showed that the number of babies born in England and Wales in 2022 was the lowest since 2002.Why is no-one having babies any more? What does t...
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Episode 14
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Ep.13 - Piers Corbyn & Delusional Activism
Conspiracy theorist, meteorologist, activist, and brother of the former leader of the Labour party: Piers Corbyn is many things, but he isn’t a talented politician. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop him from trying.Episode 13 of Jumping O...
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Episode 13
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