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The Two Matts

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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Politics News Commentary Government News
Update frequency
every 2 days
Average duration
47 minutes
Episodes
561
Years Active
2017 - 2025
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General Election Special: Week 1 - Farage is back

General Election Special: Week 1 - Farage is back

Welcome to the first Two Matts General Election special podcast - and you join us with the breaking news that Nigel Farage has thrown himself into the campaign in a surprise announcement - taking ove…
00:43:09  |   Mon 03 Jun 2024
Q&A: Brexit, Voting Tory, and AI in Medicine

Q&A: Brexit, Voting Tory, and AI in Medicine

Topics include the impact of Brexit on the UK and the Conservative Party, the reasoning behind voting Tory in this election, what the new portrait of King Charles III says about politics in the count…
00:21:25  |   Sun 02 Jun 2024
How did Diane Abbott derail Keir Starmer?

How did Diane Abbott derail Keir Starmer?

How did Keir Starmer allow the row over Diane Abbott swamp the early days of his election campaign? What is the upside? And had Abbott been mistreated to the point where the Labour leadership looks p…
01:19:05  |   Fri 31 May 2024
Q&A: Blood Scandal, Paula Vennells and Rishi's new job

Q&A: Blood Scandal, Paula Vennells and Rishi's new job

In this Q and A episode The Two Matts discuss whether the blood scandal will be forgotten in the mayhem of the election, if bosses will take more responsibility for company failings in the wake of Pa…

00:34:27  |   Sun 26 May 2024
Caitlin Moran and the trouble with men

Caitlin Moran and the trouble with men

The Matts are joined by author and journalist Caitlin Moran to talk about men and the manisphere. What can men learn from the progress women made with feminism? It’s a broad spectrum conversation vee…

00:54:31  |   Fri 24 May 2024
Welcome to six weeks of political mayhem and the end of an error

Welcome to six weeks of political mayhem and the end of an error

Special bonus podcast on this week's big story ... no, not Paula Vennell's disgrace in the Post Office Scandal ... no, not the Infected Blood scandal ... no, not the huge upswing in migrants crossing…
00:30:36  |   Thu 23 May 2024
Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting

Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting

In this Sunday Q&A episode the two Matts take on your questions on compulsory voting, online voting, Article 7 and more on the Elphicke defection.


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00:41:49  |   Sun 19 May 2024
Lies, damned lies, and Rishi Sunak

Lies, damned lies, and Rishi Sunak

Not only was Rishi Sunak’s election campaign salvo this week one of the laziest, divisive and incoherent collections of gaslighting gibberish in recent political history - it was littered throughout …

00:54:30  |   Fri 17 May 2024
Q&A: Elphicke's Defection & Should We Let 'Let It Be' Be?

Q&A: Elphicke's Defection & Should We Let 'Let It Be' Be?

'Potential' coalition governments, defections, the Beatles... it's the Q&A that has it all!

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00:36:49  |   Sun 12 May 2024
Gaza and Israel: The endless ripples of war

Gaza and Israel: The endless ripples of war

Who would have predicted the extent to which the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 would have changed the world to such a degree, in such a short time? The Matts debate their differences in a conve…
01:03:46  |   Fri 10 May 2024
Q&A: Starmer EU optimism, Trump's Time and Prom hate backlash

Q&A: Starmer EU optimism, Trump's Time and Prom hate backlash

In this Sunday Q&A episode the two Matts explore whether a potential Starmer government bodes well for GB/EU relations, if we should be worried about a 2nd term of Trump and Matt Kelly responds to hi…

00:41:10  |   Sun 05 May 2024
Catastrophe for Sunak from the jaws of defeat

Catastrophe for Sunak from the jaws of defeat

Sunak is isolated and facing certain defeat in a General Election as this week’s local results make clear. What is left for the embattled PM as he states catastrophe in the face? Should he go to the …

00:49:51  |   Fri 03 May 2024
Q&A: Rishi's Rwanda Bill, separation of powers and Sam Smith

Q&A: Rishi's Rwanda Bill, separation of powers and Sam Smith

In this Sunday Q&A edition of The Two Matts, the pair try to your questions on everything from Rishi's Rwanda Bill to Sam Smith and whether a new legal age needs to be set, to buy the Daily Mail.


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00:33:11  |   Sun 28 Apr 2024
Is it really okay to be proud about being English?

Is it really okay to be proud about being English?

What is England? What is Englishness? The Matts are joined by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears, authors of a fascinating new deep dive into the question of nationalism, called England - Seven Myths That C…

00:49:42  |   Fri 26 Apr 2024
Q&A: Honeytraps, comms and commissioners

Q&A: Honeytraps, comms and commissioners

Have the Matts ever been victim to a honeytrap? What is a 'Police and Crime Commissioner' and should we bin off first names for MP's? This and more discussed in this weeks Q&A.


Exclusive listener offe…

00:42:05  |   Sun 21 Apr 2024
You can take our fags.. but you’ll never take our FREEDOM!

You can take our fags.. but you’ll never take our FREEDOM!

The Matts get philosophical about smoking and what a ban means for Britain. Whisper it… but has Rishi Sunak done something not completely crap for once? Or is his proposed age-related ban on smoking …

00:47:17  |   Fri 19 Apr 2024
Q&A: Poverty vs culture wars, Trump on abortion, and adultery

Q&A: Poverty vs culture wars, Trump on abortion, and adultery

In this Q&A episode, Matt and Matt take on questions from you on poverty in the media, Trumps stance on abortion and Harold Wilson's love life.




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00:33:32  |   Sun 14 Apr 2024
How trans activists ended up on the wrong side of history

How trans activists ended up on the wrong side of history

How did we get to the point where troubled children have been damaged by a health system that should have protected them? How did the dogma of trans activists subsume standard medical practices? And …

00:58:46  |   Fri 12 Apr 2024
The year so far (Spoiler alert: It’s worse than we could imagine)

The year so far (Spoiler alert: It’s worse than we could imagine)

How time flies when the world is on fire… a quarter of 2024 has already passed and the Matts check global progress against their expectations at New Year. It’s a grind reality check as Gaza and Ukrai…

00:48:58  |   Fri 05 Apr 2024
Stick or twist? Is it time the Tories gambled on dumping Sunak?

Stick or twist? Is it time the Tories gambled on dumping Sunak?

Have the Tories hit rock bottom.. or could things get even worse? The Matts gameplay their options with outcomes ranging from disastrous to cataclysmic. In the second half, they examine the role of s…

00:49:21  |   Fri 29 Mar 2024
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