Left politics, film brain, gallows timing.
Podcasting is Praxis turns political exhaustion into a rapid argument with punchlines. Its recurring voices move from UK politics, courts, energy, AI, and media criticism into movie references and absurd side roads without slowing down.
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Podcasting is Praxis is a political comedy-discussion show with a film-and-culture brain and a permanently raised eyebrow. It does not ease into topics. A normal opening might begin with pronouns, a bit about illness or apocalypse, and then suddenly become a discussion of Labour, Gulf wealth, energy policy, courts, AI, or media failure. The recurring voices in its episodes are David, Jamie, Rob, and Alistair. Their rhythm is argumentative and crowded, with one person laying out pages of research while the others heckle, clarify, or launch the conversation sideways. That chaos is not a lack of structure so much as the house style. The show treats politics as something best understood through jokes, bad metaphors, ugly incentives, and the refusal to pretend powerful people are serious just because they have serious jobs. Recent episodes linger on UK institutional decay: criminal justice backlogs, temporary courts, government messaging, tax avoidance, North Sea extraction, and Labour's relationship with business and media. It also keeps one eye on the tech world, especially the gap between AI investment hype and actual usefulness. The Tesla diner and Meta's virtual-world embarrassment sit in the same comic universe as court closures and energy lobbying. Film discussion appears as both subject and reference pool. One preview turns a bunker-school detail into a chain of jokes about stars, zodiac lessons, collapsed ceilings, and misplaced hope. Juliet Jacques appears in a discussion that moves from nuclear dread into media criticism and US politics. Josh Boerman joins for an episode touching Amazon, AI, and tech-industry self-mythology. The show is blunt, irreverent, and frequently bleak. It is also attentive to how policy language hides cruelty, vanity, and cowardice. Listeners looking for polished moderation may find it abrasive. Listeners who enjoy left politics delivered as a rapid group argument, with film riffs and gallows humor baked in, will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: For listeners who like combative left commentary, UK politics, media criticism, and comedy that assumes they can keep up. Best for people comfortable with fast cross-talk, bleak jokes, and abrupt pop-culture detours.
What sets it apart: Its edge comes from the collision of researched political complaint and unruly group riffing. Politics, courts, AI hype, disaster talk, and movie logic all get pulled into the same argument instead of being kept in tidy lanes.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It treats screen culture as political vocabulary, using film, games and internet imagery to sharpen lively arguments about power and public life.
Podcasting is Praxis turns political analysis into a fast, argumentative group conversation. David, Jamie, Rob and Alistair work from prepared material, then test its assumptions through interruptions, jokes and sharp follow-up questions.
One minute you're hearing court backlog figures; the next, "Nightingale hangings" is the joke.
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A sharp, rude argument about Gulf-state tax escapes, North Sea drilling and Britain's energy security.
The episode uses departures from non-tax Gulf states to open up a sharper argument about British tax rules, money owed to HMRC and Rachel Reeves's reported willingness to welcome at least some of those people to the United Kingdom.
Nuclear dread, media criticism and a falling-rocks film tangent collide in a sharp, loose political episode.
The episode treats looming catastrophe as a way to measure political focus. What begins as a loose sweep through nuclear apocalypse, COVID, radar gangs, leaflets and cave-wall hieroglyphics gradually sharpens into a discussion of Labour, Starmer's position on the war in Iran,…
A sharp, unruly argument about AI's expensive promises, Amazon's workforce, and tech hype.
Amazon's AI spending becomes the episode's central absurdity: a company keeps pouring money into systems sold as transformative, while the discussion keeps circling back to what that investment actually produces.
A funny, angry review of court backlogs, temporary courtrooms, and the risk to trial by jury.
Labour's criminal-justice reforms are judged through the places where justice is supposed to happen. Blackfriars Crown Court closes, cases move to Snaresbrook, and the numbers do the heavy lifting: 1,500 cases at the end of September 2019, more than 4,200 by September 2025.
A loose, funny argument about AI abundance, capitalist power, and the value of getting sidetracked.
Podcasting is Praxis turns a book discussion about abundance into a clash between utopian AI economics and the political machinery the hosts think the book leaves mostly intact.
A furious, funny catch-up on Green politics, Labour's flag display, and the stories experts make harder than they are.
This single-episode review turns a loose news catch-up into sharp political comedy, moving from Zach Polanski's rise to the Green leadership to Labour figures stressing the flags and bunting they keep at home.
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The hosts discuss Zach Polanski's landslide victory in the Green Party leadership election, analyzing its implications for left-wing politics.
The hosts discuss wealthy individuals fleeing to Dubai to avoid taxes and the UK's potential tax policy changes under Rachel Reeves.
A preview of a podcast episode discussing a bunker school that teaches constellations and zodiac, with humorous commentary on the absurdity and poignancy of the situation.
The hosts and guest Juliet Jacques discuss the impending nuclear apocalypse and the absurdity of continuing their podcast.
The hosts of Podcasting is Praxis engage in chaotic banter, referencing Tom Clancy and family voting, before transitioning to news nuggets.
The hosts banter about Dutch translations and a Tesla diner before starting their episode.
Liz Truss is tied to the Leckenfield, a Mayfair members club that wants 700 founding members at "half a million" pounds each and even claims an AI component.
Labour's court reforms come after 2010 austerity, 160 magistrates' courts closed, and the Ministry of Justice is still £4.5 billion short.
The hosts banter about a missing co-host, Swiss chocolate, and introduce their podcast.
The hosts of Podcasting is Praxis discuss the 2022 Kenneth Branagh adaptation of Death on the Nile, comparing it unfavorably to the 1978 version.
The hosts of a comedy podcast announce nominees for a satirical award honoring British journalists.
The hosts humorously introduce a book episode with guest Sinan, joking about wet sleeves and derailing the conversation.
The hosts of Podcasting as Praxis blame Rob for a film discussion about Paul Dano's character and compare it to The Batman and a Superman movie.