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Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot
Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith, Kenny Campbell

Quiet Riot, the politics podcast with more passion, less shouting and lots of laughter

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Episodes

All I Want for Christmas Is EU

Naomi and Alex disseminate Starmer's big "this is not a reset" speech. Naomi talks about the importance of a better... more

08 Dec 2024 · 52 minutes
France Special: Macron, and on, and on.

Alex talks to our resident France expert, Olivier Morel, about the political deadlock in France, how and why we got... more

06 Dec 2024 · 26 minutes
Chaos, by design

Naomi and Alex welcome comedian and author Henry Morris, to discuss the common threads behind the chaos that seems to... more

05 Dec 2024 · 59 minutes
US Special: It's Hunter or be hunted

Alex talks to TIME Magazine's correspondent and QR regular Yasmeen Serhan, about Biden pardoning his son, Trump's latest picks, their... more

03 Dec 2024 · 33 minutes
Sunday School: Great Expectations

Naomi and Alex talk through a very busy week (as much of it as they can). They reflect on the... more

01 Dec 2024 · 48 minutes
Petition Impossible

Naomi and Alex welcome author, columnist, and the ARD's London correspondent, Annette Dittert, to discuss the petition demanding another election,... more

29 Nov 2024 · 58 minutes
Labour's red wall blues, with Peter Kellner

In the July election, a victorious Labour saw its red wall support slump to the lowest level in at least... more

26 Nov 2024 · 33 minutes
Sunday School: Russian Roulette

Naomi and Alex talk through developments in Ukraine and Gaza, and what they might mean for our security. And they... more

24 Nov 2024 · 42 minutes
Farmed Outrage

Naomi and Alex welcome former UK Ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, whose dismissal Trump demanded in 2020, to... more

21 Nov 2024 · 59 minutes
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF TRUMP'S TARIFF WAR

Alex talks to special guest trade epxert David Henig about Trump's threatened tariff war - how likely is it, what... more

19 Nov 2024 · 30 minutes
Sunday School - A CABINET OF HORRORS

Naomi and Alex, wth special guest Arthur Snell, assess what Trump's picks reveal about his intentions for the next four... more

17 Nov 2024 · 53 minutes
NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS

Accident stats are terrifying: UK accidental deaths exceed 20,000 a year and accidents (mostly at home) are the most common... more

15 Nov 2024 · 39 minutes
PEER PRESSURE

Naomi and Alex, with regular guest More in Common's Luke Tryl, discuss Lords reform, Kemi Badenoch's start, COP26, and the... more

14 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 1 minute
ENOUGH ELECTIONS ALREADY

Naomi and Alex, dig into the data underlying the US result, what a Trump term means for Ukraine, the discuss... more

11 Nov 2024 · 54 minutes
US Election Special - WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

Naomi and Alex, go over the US result, with a special focus on what it means for the UK and... more

07 Nov 2024 · 59 minutes
BLUESKY SPECIAL II with Rose Wang

Alex Andreou talks to Rose Wang, BlueSky Chief Operations Officer in SanFrancisco - one of two women at the top... more

05 Nov 2024 · 32 minutes
SQUEAKY BUM TIME

Alex and Naomi discuss Kemi Badenoch's prospects and Rachel Reeves' budget, before an extended therapy session about the coming US... more

03 Nov 2024 · 51 minutes
UK/EU Special - DRAGGING OUR FEET TO PROSPERITY

How is the new Labour government perceived in the EU? How much of a 'reset' is realistically achievable? What does... more

02 Nov 2024 · 34 minutes
Budget Special: GO BIG OR GO HOME

Naomi and Alex, go over every aspect of the Budget, including the undercurrent of misogyny in much of the commentary,... more

31 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
SCANDALS BESET SINN FEIN AHEAD OF IRISH ELECTION

Naomi Smith chats to journalist Amanda Ferguson about a series of scandals which have rocked politics both north and south... more

29 Oct 2024 · 30 minutes
WELCOME TO GILEAD with Zoe Williams

Alex goes through the week's political events, and looks forward to next week, both here and across the Atlantic, with... more

28 Oct 2024 · 45 minutes
US ELECTION POLLING REPORT

American polls are pointing to a perilously close result in the looming presidential election but can they be trusted? Naomi Smith... more

25 Oct 2024 · 22 minutes
TRUMP vs THE FAR LEFT LABOUR PARTY

Naomi and Alex, with guest Salma Shah - a former No.10 advisor under Cameron - explore how mich of the... more

24 Oct 2024 · 58 minutes
EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE with Luke McGee

Alex quizzes special guest, Emmy-award-winning Luke McGee, on how a referendum in a country like Moldova, interconnects with everything from... more

22 Oct 2024 · 36 minutes
IS THE US ELECTION AS CLOSE AS IT SEEMS?

Naomi and Alex have their weekly debrief, talking through the Budget rumours, the Tory leadership election, and then a bit... more

21 Oct 2024 · 38 minutes
TRACKS OF OUR TEARS – Why are our railways so bad?

It's easy to bash our railways – oh, how easy it is. But why does the system struggle and what... more

18 Oct 2024 · 42 minutes
CAN LABOUR FIND MONEY FOR JUSTICE?

Naomi and Alex, with guest award-winning journalist Tristan Kirk from the Evening Standard, discuss the latest economic figures, budget rumours,... more

17 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
SWIFTGATE? JUST SHAKE IT OFF

Alex, up all night once more, looking for sanity inside the most ridiculous non-story so far. Has the British media... more

16 Oct 2024 · 10 minutes
The assisted dying debate, with Andrew Copson

When illness makes life unbearable, should we be permitted – and helped – to end our time in this place... more

15 Oct 2024 · 30 minutes
100 DAYS OF HARD LABOUR

Naomi and Alex try to reach for some sort of balanced view of the first 100 days of Labour -... more

14 Oct 2024 · 40 minutes
GAZA; A YEAR ON with Layla Moran

Alex talks to Layla Moran, the first British MP of Palestinian descent, to mark a year since not just the... more

14 Oct 2024 · 24 minutes
AND THEN THERE WERE TWO...

Naomi and Alex, with guest Laura Hood from The Conversation, discuss the latest shock elimination in the Tory Reality Soap... more

10 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
CHAGOSMANIA

Naomi, Alex, And Kenny try to understand why everyone is losing their mind over the Chagos Archipelago deal, talk local... more

06 Oct 2024 · 35 minutes
Quiet Riot Bonus - LEADERSHIP HOPELESS

Here is the full - AND VERY FRANK - conversation between Alex Andreou and More In Common's chief Luke Tryl... more

05 Oct 2024 · 43 minutes
BRITAIN'S GOT TORIES

An absolutely jam-packed episode on the Tory leadership contest and the US Election VP debate. Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell... more

03 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
TIM WALZ vs JD VANCE SPECIAL

Alex stays up all night to bring you the quickest, freshest, and most sleepless, reaction to the VP debate between... more

02 Oct 2024 · 28 minutes
POLL THE OTHER ONE – An EU travel special ahead of Keir Starmer's meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

How can Britain begin to undo the damage to our freedom of movement that Brexit inflicted? Well, we could start... more

01 Oct 2024 · 26 minutes
ISLAMOPHOBIA AND CLIMATE SCEPTICISM ON THE RIGHT WING

Naomi and Alex discuss Baroness Warsi's resignation as a Tory peer and whether that Party is now lost to islamophobia.... more

29 Sep 2024 · 39 minutes
LABOUR CONFERENCE DEBRIEF + FOCUS ON LEBANON w Arthur Snell

Naomi downloads ALL THE GOSSIP from Labour Party Conference - and juicy it is too - before Alex chats to... more

27 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 9 minutes
THE LORD, THE FROCK, THE GLASSES, AND THE LOSS OF ALL PROPORTION

Alex goes on a (very calm and reasoned) MEGA RANT about the mass hysteria over a Labour peer giving a... more

25 Sep 2024 · 20 minutes
The Lib Dem deep dive with Monica Harding

Monica Harding is the hard-working Lib Dem who scared Dominic Raab (remember him?) clean out of the Esher and Walton... more

24 Sep 2024 · 27 minutes
Sunday School - CAN REFORM UK BE REFORMED?

Naomi and Alex zoom in on the Reform UK Party Conference and consider whether it is possible for Nigel Farage... more

22 Sep 2024 · 46 minutes
Poll The Other One - THE MAIN TAKEAWAY

A FUN mini edition of Poll The Other One, in which Naomi digs into the cross tabs and break points... more

20 Sep 2024 · 9 minutes
EVERYBODY HATES STARMER Live w Rory Bremner

Recorded live at the Radio Academy Festival 2024, Alex and Naomi, along with special guest, comedian and impressionist, Rory Bremner... more

19 Sep 2024 · 50 minutes
Sunday School - WINTER IS COMING

Naomi and Alex talk through the weeks news, including the NHS report, winter fuel payments, the OBR report into national... more

15 Sep 2024 · 38 minutes
SCOTLAND SPECIAL with Professor John Curtice

Scottish politics klaxon! This bonus episode is a real treat for Quiet Rioters, featuring the insight and wisdom of Strathclyde... more

13 Sep 2024 · 39 minutes
DOG-WHISTLE POLITICS

Alex and Naomi, along with wonderful guests Alexis Conran and Simon Radford, discuss the fallout from Trump's "They're Eating The... more

12 Sep 2024 · 1 hour,
HARRIS vs TRUMP DEBATE SPECIAL

Alex gives his sleepless review of the Harris-Trump debate - complete with the best (and worst) clips and renders his... more

11 Sep 2024 · 25 minutes
Sunday School - THE RETURN OF BARNIER

Naomi and Alex review the week's news, including the Grenfell report, Green Party conference, Tory leadership contest, Russia's election interference,... more

08 Sep 2024 · 40 minutes
WALES SPECIAL with Will Hayward

Electoral changes are a-coming in Wales, but that's not the only challenge facing politicians in Cymru. It's a country of contrasts,... more

06 Sep 2024 · 25 minutes
Episode 16 - LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Naomi and Alex, with the LSE's Professor Paul Dolan, and More in Common's Luke Tryl, make their way through the... more

05 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Poll The Other One - WHAT THE POLLSTERS GOT WRONG

Pollsters got the result and party shares broadly right - the one significant error across the board was an overestimation... more

04 Sep 2024 · 11 minutes
GERMAN ELECTION SPECIAL with Annette Dittert

Alex and special guest, journalist Annette Dittert in Berlin, go behind the dramatic headlines to discuss what yesterday's victory of... more

02 Sep 2024 · 31 minutes
KEIR'S BIG EURO-RESET

Naomi (SHE'S BACK! YAY!) and Alex try to look behind a wall of very mixed signals from Labour on the... more

02 Sep 2024 · 33 minutes
ALIEN ROMULUS SPECIAL

Naomi and Alex review the latest Alien interquel from the London IMAX - and talk about the politics of the... more

30 Aug 2024 · 24 minutes
Episode 15 - HE NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN

Alex, Kenny and guest TIME Magazine's Yasmeen Serhan, discuss Keir Starmer's moRose Garden speech, whether the difficulties were predicted or... more

30 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
OVERCOMING TRIBALISM w Prof Harvey Whitehouse

An enriching and uplifting conversation with Professor Harvey Whitehouse, chair of social anthropology and professorial fellow of Magdalen College at... more

28 Aug 2024 · 43 minutes
BLUESKY SPECIAL with Rose Wang

Alex talks through every aspect of BlueSky, from its genesis to how it may look familiar but is a completely... more

26 Aug 2024 · 34 minutes
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN w Brian Klaas

Alex and special guest Brian Klaas, with their 30-minute review of the entire Democratic National Convention - complete with the... more

25 Aug 2024 · 38 minutes
EU travel and breaking down borders for Gen Z

Is there a glimmer of light at the end of the (Channel) tunnel for young Britons wanting to travel more... more

23 Aug 2024 · 13 minutes
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Alex talks through every aspect of BlueSky, from its genesis to how it may look familiar but is a completely different model... more