Ever feel like you missed something important when it comes to the news? A fact, a detail, or an event that it feels like everyone else knows about, and now you'd look like a moron if you asked someone to explain? Well, here's a podcast that will ask those questions so you don't have to.

This week, host Danielle Ward is joined by Emily Ashton, chief political correspondent at BuzzFeed News and Chair of the Parliamentary Lobby, who will explain everything there is to know about the UK's Parliament. Danielle is joined by comedians Sophie Duker (writer on The News Quiz, Famalam, and The Amazing World of Gumball) and John Finnemore (writer and star of John Finnemore's Double Acts, and Cabin Pressure).

Questions asked and answered include:

• Why can stupid people become MPs?
• How do laws get made?
• Why is filibustering good when Leslie Knope does it but bad when Philip Davies does it?
• How drunk can you get for a tenner in a Parliamentary bar?

....so if you've sort of been guessing the answers based on a gut feeling, why not listen and find out for sure? And then subscribe to stay equally informed about other issues, as we get around to them.

All our guests are on Twitter, so go and say hello - @elashton, @sophieduxebox and @johnfinnemore, and Danielle is @captainward. And the show itself now has a Twitter account: @AnyStupidQs. Follow it for information about upcoming episodes, recordings, and extra bits of the show that had to be cut for any reason (usually it's just a bit off-topic).

We forgot to ask everyone what they wanted to plug at the end of this recording, so we re-used John and Sophie's plus from the Cyber Security episode, and Emily would like you to read BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeed.com/news

Produced by Ed Morrish (@edmorrish)

Music from www.akmmusic.co.uk

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