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The Two Matts

The New World

Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people.

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705 episodes

  1. BUMPER EDITION: Trump's disaster and Sophia Smith Galer on How To Kill A Language 1:22:05
  2. Laura Kuenssberg: Pay Attention... they're wrong about the BBC 53:24
  3. The Two Matts Q&A: Iz it okay to be excited about Europe? 46:46
  4. Two very different takes on what the Budget adds up to! 51:04
  5. The Two Matts Q&A: Is John Healey's big day going to be a nothingburger? 40:43
  6. What do the riots in France really signal? 53:40
  7. The Two Matts Q&A: Palestine Action lunacy and made up words 37:00
  8. Putin's the big winner in Trump's betrayal 57:26
  9. The Two Matts Q&A: The decline of Zack and best ever speeches 36:09
  10. A disaster for the Green Party 54:49
  11. The Two Matts Q&A: On The New World at 500 and the Burnham bounce 43:19
  12. 48 hours after THAT speech… how many marks out of 10? 57:12
  13. The Two Matts Q&A: Ketamine epidemic and trouble in Narnia 55:27
  14. A lot of Andy Burnham and a bit of Hitler 53:13
  15. The Two Matts Q&A: What is it crypto billionaires love so much about Nigel Farage? 42:56
  16. Is AI really coming to eat us all... and how do we stop it? 54:21
  17. The Two Matts Q&A: Can’t we have welfare AND defence? 55:31
  18. An historic shift in UK foreign policy towards Israel. Now what? 57:52
  19. The Two Matts Q&A: Is Farage finished? And where are all the women? 51:17
  20. REDS - the best political book of the year? With Paul Mason 47:06
  21. The Two Matts Q&A: Harry and Meghan, Dolly Parton… and blockbuster books 38:57
  22. Andy Burnham’s first big test is around the corner 44:14
  23. The Two Matts Q&A: is the Kelly Plan dead? And TURN OFF YOUR BLOODY SPEAKER PHONE! 45:03
  24. 2026: the year the climate crisis came home 47:09
  25. The Two Matts Q&A: On the death of Jason Arday 24:46
  26. Andy Burnham vs Geoffrey Howe... and a side order of Jason Arday 57:05
  27. The Two Matts Q&A: Is Andy Burnham a hot dad, and eff off Gianni Infantino 45:56
  28. Burnham’s flying start... but is he also fibbing? 49:18
  29. The Two Matts Q&A: Why tell ourselves lies about prison time? And what do we miss about the 70s? 38:39
  30. What is it about the prospect of a Reform government they don’t get? 51:20
  31. The Two Matts Q&A: Will Self on football and audiobook recommendations 45:03
  32. It’s not coming home after all 48:41
  33. The Two Matts Q&A: Does Andy Burnham live rent-free in Farage’s head? 37:08
  34. Have you been Touching Grass? You should be 44:45
  35. SPECIAL: Farage fighting for his political life 47:41
  36. The Two Matts Q&A: Hydration Break sponsored by Powerade!* 50:29
  37. Why place matters so much to Andy Burnham 54:10
  38. The Two Matts Q&A: Burnham’s to-do list and the shameless Brexit villains 31:49
  39. Andy Burnham’s first six months 46:55
  40. POD SPECIAL: It’s the end of the Keir show… now what? 42:24
  41. The Two Matts Q&A: Where is Burnham weak? And is America humiliated? 34:19
  42. Game on… Burnham wins; now get on with it Labour 40:29
  43. A history of Brexit in 256 disasters 36:19
  44. The Two Matts Q&A: Do you really want your country back? 30:29
  45. Farewell David Hockney … and farewell Keir Starmer too? 25:03
  46. Britain is in grave danger of disintegrating 58:03
  47. The Two Matts Q&A: Will Starmer survive, and has the Pope got it right on AI? 40:07
  48. Nigel Farage gaslights the nation 38:53
  49. The Two Matts Q&A: What hope for the next generation and how does Farage get away with it? 38:08
  50. The Two Matts Q&A: A media scandal and a dementia hero 41:55