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• 182: Make Hay 02.06.2026 41min

  The team record a special episode from the Hay Festival. Featuring Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, and all your other - favourite? - characters from the news. 
• 181: And The Winner Is... 01.06.2026 6min

  You've heard the stories. You've admired the piles of paper in the Eye office (video viewers only). And now it's time to learn which brilliant story has won this year's Paul Foot Award! 
• 180: PAUL FOOT 2026: THE PINCH-OF-SALT PATH 30.05.2026 13min

  Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer looked into a beloved, million-selling bestseller, The Salt Path, and found the book arguably fit the 'fiction' shelves better. 
• 179: PAUL FOOT 2026: UNSAFE CONVICTIONS 29.05.2026 13min

  Adam Bychawski reported on how people who've been wrongly imprisoned - sometimes for many years - are still not being compensated even after they've overturned their convictions, thank to a 2014 change in the law.  
• 178: PAUL FOOT 2026: HARD LABOUR 28.05.2026 12min

  Peter Geoghegan and Khadija Sharife uncovered how Labour Together - the think-tank which helped make Keir Starmer PM - had hired a PR firm to try and discredit journalists asking them questions about their funding. 
• 177: PAUL FOOT 2026: RAAC AND RUIN 27.05.2026 15min

  Lindsay Bruce of the Aberdeen Press and Journal fought for justice for homeowners facing ruin after they learned their homes were full of dodgy concrete. Her campaign eventually led to a complete surrender by local authorities and compensation for affected homeowners. 
• 176: PAUL FOOT 2026: A PROVEN LAWYER 26.05.2026 11min

  Daniel Timms of the Sheffield Tribune tells the story of the solicitor who used legal loopholes to extract sums of £25,000 from Yorkshire homeowners. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series. 
• 175: PAUL FOOT 2026: CUTTING CORNERS 25.05.2026 13min

  Joe Duggan of the i paper tells the story of the workers falling ill and dying with silicosis after cutting fashionable kitchen counters without adequate protection. Part of Private Eye's Paul Foot Award 2026 shortlist series. 
• 174: Burnham Would, Wesley Snipes 19.05.2026 48min

  The team discuss the Labour leadership, play Helen’s new quiz ‘Faction or Fiction’, and Saba Salman joins for a post-pre-mortem on the local elections.
• 173: The Antisemitism Spectrum 06.05.2026 44min

  The team discuss antisemitism across the British political scene, Nigel Farage's £5million bung, and one of the (few) bits of Parliament that genuinely works. 
• 172: A Kicking For Keir 21.04.2026 41min

  Who wants to give Keir Starmer a kicking? Basically everyone. Rotten Boroughs editor Saba Salman joins Helen Lewis, Ian Hislop and Adam Macqueen to explain how British politics has fractured and how May's elections will be a total bunfight. Plus: how did Elizabeth II become Brenda, and what nicknames for Harry and Meghan never took off?
• 171: Meta's Not Better 08.04.2026 53min

  Is social media really as fun, child-friendly and good for mental health as everyone says? Helen, Adam, Andy and Matt Muir investigate. Plus, Reform and the Greens’ mirror-image election offerings, and a new (unauthorised) drama about the Prince Harry-Daily Mail trial.
• 170: Mad King Donald 24.03.2026 42min

  Ian, Helen, Andy and special guest Richard Brooks discuss the USA entering its 'insane absolute monarch' era, the ongoing mayhem in the world's oil and gas markets, and check in on the financial arrangements of 'Little Donald', AKA Nigel Farage, and his Reform UK colleagues. 
• 169: War On Iran: Aya-Tollad You So 10.03.2026 50min

  Why did Trump declare his latest perfect, ‘very complete', already-won war, and how long will it go on? What will it do to American and British politics? Why can’t anyone in the British press remember the lessons of last time? What will this do to energy prices and the energy transition? And is this all a deliberate distraction from the Gorton and Denton by-election? Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy discuss the latest quiet week in world politics.
• 168: A Tale Of Two Andrews 24.02.2026 35min

  Ian, Adam, Andy and Rachael Claye discuss two men named Andrew - one who used to be a prince, and one who's still a solicitor with a very dubious practice. 
• 167: Cash Harry 17.02.2026 4min

  Street Of Shame writer Adam Macqueen updates Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis and Andrew Hunter Murray on the curious background to some of Prince Harry's key witnesses.
• 166: Mandy Lifeboats 10.02.2026 43min

  The latest break in Peter Mandelson’s CV, the other secrets hiding in the Epstein files, and what comes next for the British government. With Ian Hislop, Helen Lewis, Adam MacQueen and Andrew Hunter Murray.
• 165: Crash And Burnham 27.01.2026 45min

  What is an 'Andy Burnham’ and can it be stopped? Why has Donald Trump made a photocopy of the UN and called it the Board of Peace? And was this episode description drafted by AI for an overworked journalist? (No, it wasn’t.) Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy explore these questions and more.
• 164: On Thin ICE 13.01.2026 47min

  Why does the USA now have masked militias roaming its streets with almost no oversight? Why do some of the people who want to win London’s next Mayoral election seem to hate the city so much? And if Prince Harry texts you to recruit you for his next lawsuit, should you answer? Ian, Helen, Adam and Andy explore these questions and more.
• 163: Quizmas Crackers 28.12.2025 35min

  It's the Eye Quiz of the last year! Adam, Helen and Andy get out the sleigh bells and the silly hats, and quiz each other on all the biggest, smallest and stupidest news stories of 2025.