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Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart break down current affairs in the UK and abroad.
The Rest Is Politics analyses the latest international news, provides debate on global issues, and reveals secrets from Westminster, whilst bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably.
Topics: Politics , News , Government
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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1611374685/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
sleep 0.34
done
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Example Transcripts
The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know July 16, 2026
Burnham’s Worldview, Trump's Ceasefire Collapse, and Advising Count Binface July 15, 2026
Farage in Meltdown and The Killing of Ann Widdecombe July 14, 2026
Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine July 8, 2026
Will Farage’s Trumpian Resignation Stunt Backfire? July 7, 2026
Will Farage's Extreme Wealth Be His Downfall? July 2, 2026
Mamdani’s Wrecking Ball and the Rise of Anti-Migrant Vigilantes July 1, 2026
Burnham vs. Westminster and Trump’s Next Target June 30, 2026
The Truth About Russian Oil, Net Zero, and North Sea Drilling June 24, 2026
Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens Next? June 22, 2026
Burnham Beats Reform: Britain’s Next Prime Minister? June 19, 2026
How Trump Is Weaponising AI and Martial Arts at the White House June 17, 2026
The Disaster Britain Still Can't Escape and Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’ June 16, 2026
Starmer Loses His Defence Secretary: What Next? June 11, 2026
Trump’s World Cup Mess and Kushner’s Albania Deal June 10, 2026
The Untold Iran Crisis, Henry Nowak, and Farage’s Politics of Rage June 9, 2026
Embezzlement, the Mandelson Texts, and Hasan Piker's UK Ban June 3, 2026
The Pope’s AI Warning and Alastair Reacts to Blair’s Attack June 2, 2026
Trump's Orwellian Maths and the King's Special Relationship Mission April 28, 2026
JD Vance vs. the Pope and the Far-Right Funding Machine (Question Time) April 22, 2026
Starmer’s Mandelson Mess and the Iranian Nuclear Threat April 21, 2026
The Starmer-Mandelson Scandal: Lying or Incompetence? April 17, 2026
Beating Populism: How To Fight Back April 16, 2026
Has Hungary Shown Britain How to Beat Farage? (Question Time) April 15, 2026
Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State? April 14, 2026
Orbán Ousted: Is The Tide Turning Against Far-Right Populism? April 13, 2026
Trump's NATO Threat & a Critical Election in Hungary (Question Time) April 8, 2026
Is Trump a Fascist and is his War with Iran Unwinnable? April 7, 2026
The Real Reasons Populism Is Taking Over April 2, 2026
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