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Alison Phillips

@alisonjourno

Journalist, Broadcaster & Commentator | Columnist New Statesman | Senior adviser MHP Group

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It’s BUT YOUR EMAILS time… so what do you want to know? | Oh God, What Now? Get more from Oh God, What Now? on Patreon

🙋🏼‍♀️ We want your questions for #ButYourEmails on today’s podcast! Check out this open post on Patreon for how to ask yours.
🙋🏽‍♂️ Deadline is 2pm today Weds 3 so hop to it…
🙋🏻 www.patreon.com/posts/138016...

03.09.2025 09:03 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 NEW EPISODE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 In one of the most purely enjoyable interviews we’ve done, CHRIS BRYANT MP explains his astonishing, moving, sometimes dark but ultimately uplifting journey to be an MP
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 With @seththevoz.bsky.social l & @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com conte.com
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

26.08.2025 08:12 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 6 📌 5
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🕵🏼‍♂️ Got a bit of a mystery guest on tomorrow’s show. Who can it possibly be…?
🕵🏼‍♀️ Find out tomorrow – or sign up to Patreon and find out and listen now! www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow

14.08.2025 13:56 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2

Why, thank you Councillor!

It’s time for YOU to join the OGWN Army: www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow

07.08.2025 16:37 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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⏰ Out a little early this week because why the hell not?
🧨 Why are populists so desperate for chaos on the streets?
🎙️ @alisonjourno.bsky.social @rmcunliffe.bsky.social @jacobjarvis.bsky.social + guest @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social on how the ’90s shaped our world
📳 Listen linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

31.07.2025 17:10 👍 21 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 3

For anyone who’s stood and watched as shoplifters help themselves to the booze shelf in front of harassed and terrified staff.. we ask on this week’s @crimescenepodcast.bsky.social if there are some crimes on which police have simply given up… listen & let us know your thoughts..

19.06.2025 18:08 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

In just weeks the German police’s prime suspect in the abduction of Madeleine McCann could be released from jail and disappear for ever.. This week’s @crimescenepodcast.bsky.social looks at what chances there are of a conclusion to the 18 year investigation..

12.06.2025 08:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Labour’s muddled message The government has been left arguing that things have got better, but also worse.

The government has been left arguing that things have got better, but also worse.

📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s muddled message

05.06.2025 12:05 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Are Police only bothering with cannabis to make their clear-up rates look good and to avoid investigating proper crime? Or does that permanent stench on London’s streets require a proper, well thought out response at last… Take a listen and let us know your thoughts ⬇️

05.06.2025 12:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Acting swiftly to reveal information about the Liverpool crash suspect showed lessons from last year’s riots have been learned by Police… but has it created worse problems for them in future?

29.05.2025 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is mounting evidence that two men jailed for life for the Essex Boys murders may have been innocent. In this week’s @crimescenepodcast.bsky.social Bernard Hogan-Howe and I discuss with former cop David McKelvey what might actually have happened that night..

22.05.2025 13:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 NEW: Who killed the Essex Boys? Three men found shot dead in a Range Rover. A case that shocked the UK and refuses to die. Did the wrong men go to prison?
🚨 Ex-Met cop David McKelvey joins Bernard and @alisonjourno.bsky.social with disturbing new evidence.
🚨 Listen now linktr.ee/crimescenepo...

22.05.2025 11:53 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3

In this week’s @crimescenepodcast.bsky.social Bernard Hogan-Howe and I talk to Shadow Home Sec Chris Philp. We discussed a new law for armed cops who open fire, facial recognition on every corner and supermax prisons… plenty of topics to, let’s say, consider from differing perspectives..

16.05.2025 12:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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American democracy may not recover from the Joe Biden cover up The American public knew exactly what they saw

Who was really to blame for allowing Biden to hang on like Father Jack on a Craggy Island White House - only to hand the US to Trump? inews.co.uk/opinion/amer...

15.05.2025 21:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The officer who pulled the trigger in the Chris Kaba shooting now faces a misconduct investigation - despite being cleared of murder. In this week's #CrimeScene we discuss what happens in the moments after a shot is fired by Police.. & what Bernard Hogan-Howe really thinks about the new probe..

09.05.2025 06:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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U.S. press freedom falls to historical low Reporters Without Borders cites economic strains on the media as the biggest driver of press freedom declines globally.

Press freedom in the United States has hit a record low, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index published annually by Reporters Without Borders.

02.05.2025 04:03 👍 576 🔁 234 💬 28 📌 17
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In the first episode of Crime Scene, Bernard Hogan-Howe and I discuss how cops turn career criminals into informants - and I try to discover the going rate for gangland information..

Listen to our full conversation here ➡️ linktr.ee/crimescenepo...

02.05.2025 13:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are Police forces doing enough to get guns off our streets - or is there now an unstoppable surge of armed violence? Former Met boss Bernard Hogan-Howe and I discuss the reality of gang & gun crime behind the headlines, in the first episode of @crimescenepodcast.bsky.social

01.05.2025 17:24 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Keir Starmer must attack now to see off Farage Donald Trump’s chaos gives the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity to move decisively.

Andrew Marr: Keir Starmer must attack now to see off Farage

Donald Trump’s chaos gives the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity to move decisively.

01.05.2025 09:11 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
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The BBC finds itself not guilty Also this week: Gordon Brown takes on Murdoch, and The Sun’s grasp of voting patterns.

The BBC finds itself not guilty

📟 Alison Phillips on the media latest

Also this week: Gordon Brown takes on Murdoch, and The Sun’s grasp of voting patterns.

01.05.2025 09:21 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Here it is… first edition of #CrimeScene - in which me and ex Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe discuss the issues behind the true crimes leading the news. First up we are talking about gangs and guns on London’s streets. Give it a listen & let us know what you think..

01.05.2025 06:59 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as a working-class champion.

Judge him by what he does, not what he says.

He and his mates in Reform have voted against commonsense laws that would boost rights at work for millions.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

27.04.2025 07:40 👍 235 🔁 90 💬 9 📌 2
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This White House psychodrama cannot last Surely this is no way for a functional government to work?

Now they’re squaring up to each other outside the Oval Office. Welcome to the new WWE - WhiteHouse Wrestling Entertainment. My thoughts for the i newspaper…
inews.co.uk/opinion/this...

25.04.2025 13:47 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0