A cheerless week for the pod as Aphra and Hannah discuss men behaving badly: Rishi Sunak continues his attack on the welfare state, Maggie T style, the government voted through an evil - and illegal - immigration plan and Tory MP Mark Menzies h

Bonus: Trump's little secret

27 days ago 48m 29s

In this bonus round - and possibly the most dystopian episode yet - Hannah paints a picture of what a post-election America could look like by taking Aphra through Donald Trump’s Agenda 47, Project 2025 and WTF 69. Don’t know what those are? Yo

Unlocking the doors of patriarchy

Apr 10th, 2024 38m 49s

This week is a heavier one. Hannah and Aphra cover the Garrick club’s exclusion of women from their hallowed (read - prehistoric) halls, a truly horrendous week of ableism, and the latest developments in AI and weaponry being used in Gaza that

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Bonus: Tradwife Mania

Apr 3rd, 2024 35m 49s

It’s a bonus episode! Hannah and Aphra dive into a listener-requested topic: the rise of tradwifism and why, at its core, it’s a fantasy born from the horrors of late stage capitalism. The team also explores the boom in family content and wheth

Kate’s just growing out her fringe, folks

Mar 21st, 2024 45m 46s

Oh my god we ventured down the Royal Family rabbit hole, and guess what we found? Racism! This week, Hannah and Aphra cover the weird expectations the tabloids are placing on Meghan, the disgusting treatment of Diane Abbott - one of our longest

A plunging sheer lace dress at the age of 52

Mar 6th, 2024 41m 52s

It’s a TABLOID SPECIAL! Aphra and Hannah dive into the mystifying hellscape of the Sun, the Daily Mail and more, analysing how tabloids prime us to hate or dehumanise the people they write about, and why they’re so obsessed with how old women a

Alabama vs basic biology

Feb 28th, 2024 49m 33s

In this episode, Hannah and Aphra try not to explode in anger as they discuss Alabama's alarming new rulings around embryos, an anti-abortion society that's been formed at the University of Manchester and the latest on Shamima Begum’s case - as

The Boris Johnson School of Entertainment

Feb 17th, 2024 27m 13s

In this episode, Hannah and Aphra talk about the rise in no-fault evictions and the ways this impacts women, Labour backpedaling so hard that they’re going round in circles, and Liz can’t-outlast-a-lettuce Truss insisting that everyone is a sec

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Feb 7th, 2024 39m 29s

In this episode, Hannah and Aphra talk about the fact that the gen z boys seem to hate the gen z girls, the weird obsession this government has with private schools and the glass cliff phenomenon. Digressions include a shared love of The Last D

Bored of Barbie

Jan 30th, 2024 42m

In this first episode, Hannah and Aphra grudgingly talk about Barbie - and the boring headlines around it. They also inadvertently call for state-sponsored Doc Martens and discuss the American presidential race to the bottom.The transcript of t

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