62 episodes about boris-johnson

Ep 1235: NI Protocol - A Unionist Perspective

Ben Lowry, Editor of the Belfast News Letter, talks to Eamon.

Ep 1228: Amid Chaos Deluded Boris Sees Sunny Uplands Ahead

Chris Johns talks to Eamon. Chris is an economist and political commentator and hosts his own podcast, The Other Hand.

Ep 1221: Boris Johnson - Campaigning In Slogans, Governing in Chaos

Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about the disruption across Great Britain's supply chains and Keir Starmer's Labour Party Conference.

Ep 1210: Britain Faces Winter of Discontent With No Quick End to the Energy Crisis

Chris Johns joins Eamon to talk about the unfolding gas crisis hitting Britain and its impact on industry and families and what the consequences could be for Ireland.

Ep 1202: Unsettled and Insecure Unionists Face Into A Hostile World

Sam McBride talks to Eamon. Sam is Northern Ireland Editor for the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent and author of Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite,

Ep 1198: Boris’s Chaotic Government Finally Suffers in the Polls

Chris Johns talks to Eamon as Boris Johnson faces the impact of his broken pledges and habitual lying.

Ep 1183: No Hope No Glory As Britain Flees Afghanistan

Chris Johns talks to Eamon as angry Tories accuse the Johnson government of betrayal over botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ep 1173: Euro2020 - England's Shame

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about events surrounding England's Euro2020 final.

Ep 1155: Another Episode of the Carry On Movie That is Boris's Britain

Chris Johns, Host of The Other Hand podcast, talks to Eamon about the impact of the political events that unfolded in Britain over the weekend.

Ep 1142: EU Cannot Back Down In Northern Ireland Protocol Row With UK

Naomi O'Leary reports from Brussels on the recent G7 and NATO summits.

Ep 1138: A Curse on Both Your Houses - Unionists Despair of London And Dublin

Sam McBride, Political Editor of The Newsletter and author of "Burned, The Inside Story of the Cash-For-Ash Scandal", talks to Eamon.

Ep 1120: Dominic Cummings – The Westminster Axe Man

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the extraordinary appearance of Dominic Cummings at the select committee yesterday.

Ep 1113: Ireland of Little Interest to Boris and Baron Frost

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the Johnson government's brinksmanship around the Northern Ireland protocol, as well as the reopening of the British economy.

Ep 1106: Ballymurphy to Derry – Eamon McCann on Paras' Massacres

Eamonn McCann talks to Eamon about the campaign to get justice for ten people murdered by the British Army in West Belfast in 1971, and what Boris Johnson's response to this week's findings can tell us about the British attitude to Northern Ireland.

Ep 1052: Boris Johnson Benefits From EU Stupidity

Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the growing tensions between the EU and Britain.

Ep 1036: Can Boris’s Vaccine Victory Redeem His Covid Failures?

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the success of the UK's vaccination programme.

Ep 996: Tough For Boris’s Britain in the Post-Trump World

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the evolving relationship between Britain and the United States, as well as the possible rebirth of Keynesian economics under President Joe Biden.

Ep 987: Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Populism

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the meaning of this week's protests at the US Capitol Building and populist movements across the world.

Ep 973: Brexit - Can We Trust Boris, the True Believers Ask

Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked Online, talks to Eamon.

Ep 965: Boris's Hardline Gang Loses Friends And Influences No One

Naomi O'Leary, Europe Correspondent at The Irish Times and Host of The Irish Passport, talks to Eamon.

Ep 943: Labour's Anti-Semitism Lets Boris Off the Hook

Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon.

Ep 935: Right Wing Hacks, After Dinner Speakers and Journalists - No Way to Govern

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the public arguments tearing through 10 Downing Street this week.

Ep 933: Weak and Disorganised Boris Blunders Towards a Chaotic Brexit

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 920: Corbyn Provides Good News for Embattled Boris (Again)

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about a new report on anti-semitism in the British Labour Party, as well as the role democracy plays in defining the effectiveness of the coronavirus response across the world.

Ep 912: Boris Waits For US Election Result Before Making His Brexit Move

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the increasingly evident failures of nations to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Ep 908: Boris Seeks Redemption Through Brexit

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 903: Brexit - Boris Puts It Up To Europe

Economist Chris Johns talk to Eamon.

Ep 894: Boris – Exposed and Clueless, The Myth Dissolves

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the publication of 'The Gambler', Tom Bower's unauthorised biography of Boris Johnson, as well as Johnson's keynote speech at the Tory party conference.

Ep 888: Boris’s Britain Catches a New Virus: Incompetence

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the confusion surrounding the UK's coronavirus protocols.

Ep 886: Crunch Time For Brexit As Boris Meets Ursula Von Der Leyen

Naomi O'Leary, Europe correspondent with the Irish Times, reports from Brussels.

Ep 877: Boris – Trumpian Exposed as Workshy Laughing Stock

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 868: The Slow and Painful Exposure of Boris

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the escalating struggles of the Johnson government.

Ep 866: Boris's Brexit – Bad for Britain, Bad for Ireland, Bad for Europe

Bertie Ahern joins Eamon to discuss the British government's latest efforts to negotiate a deal with the EU, and the impact of the controversial Internal Markets Bill.

Ep 860: Boris's Britain - Land of Soap and Glory

Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked Online, talks to Eamon about agreements and promises broken.

Ep 849: Hard Brexit Looming For A Weakened Tory Party

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 842: As Trump and Boris Reign, The Centre Cannot Hold

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss the shooting of Jacob Blake, the Republican National Convention, and the collapse of the political centre on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ep 813: Boris Threatens the Union, Bad News for Ireland

Chris Johns joins Eamon to discuss Boris Johnson's first year as Prime Minister.

Ep 776: Johnson’s Britain Blunders On

Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon.

Ep 773: Dithering Boris Being Exposed

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 769: Britain - No Quick Fix for Institutional Racism

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the events in England following the death of George Floyd.

Ep 764: Boris Intent on No Deal Brexit

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about how Brexit continues to influence the actions of the Johnson government.

Ep 757: Boris Shedding Allies and Credibility

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon about the fallout of Dominic Cummings' trip to Durham and what it can tell us about the Johnson government and the British media.

Ep 751: Brazen Boris Stakes Everything on Dominic Cummings

Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon.

Ep 730: Britain's Covid-19 Disaster – Boris Tries To Spin His Way Out

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the bluffing and bullying of the Boris Johnson government.

Ep 722: Covid-19 – As UK Numbers Soar, Tide Beginning to Turn on Boris

Chris Johns talks to Eamon about the deepening crisis in the UK, and the return of Boris Johnson from illness.

Ep 692: Britain Pays The Price For Government By Slogan

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon about the UK's response to the coronavirus crisis.

Ep 673: Britain discovering there is such a thing as society

Brendan O’Neill on how Covid-19 will change politics forever.

Ep 647: Boris' Britain – Johnson's New Order

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked, talks to Eamon.

Ep 589: A Bloody Ugly Picture

Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD, talks to Eamon about the consequences – north and south of the border – of last week's general election in Britain.

Ep 540: Eamonn McCann on Brexit – Boris Betrays the Unionists

The journalist, activist and former MLA talks to Eamon about the latest Brexit developments, and his hopes for the future of Northern Ireland.

Ep 535: Bertie Ahern on Brexit – Win or lose for Boris, the real challenges lie ahead

The former Taoiseach discusses the Withdrawal Agreement with Eamon.

Ep 523: British Brexit Proposal – Very bad news for the North

Eamonn McCann talks to Eamon about the latest British Brexit proposals.

Ep 492: Brexit Crisis. Boris Johnson - vicious and trapped

Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked Online, talks to Eamon.

Ep 447: Brexit - the looming catastrophe. Chris Johns talks to Eamon

Economist Chris Johns talks to Eamon about Brexit’s impact.

Ep 433: Boris – The Tories' unlikely saviour

Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online, talks to Eamon about the Tory leadership battle and how it could all go badly wrong for the British establishment.