In The News This Week (the Have I Got News For You podcast)

In The News This Week (the Have I Got News For You podcast)

While the TV show is on break, this pod brings you a tasty edit of the news items that would have made it onto the programme – as a quartet of some of the creatives behind the scenes at the show discuss what makes each item Have I Got News For You worthy. Hosted by Jack Harris, Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston and Mike Rayment. A Hat Trick Podcast

Episodes

July 16, 2025 33 mins
The team talk about Donald Trump’s realisation that Vladamir Putin might actually not be a good guy after all, his decision to arm Ukraine and strange trophy lift at The Club World Cup. 

Later, they discuss Angela Rayner’s spat with Unite, question what could turn a pigeon green and ponder how they would spoil their plushies should they take them to a 'Plushie Hotel'…
 
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The team go through Keir Starmer’s to-do list – starting with the immediate issue of Emmanuel Macron’s state visit, sorting out the economy, and handling threats from other political parties – both old and new… 

Later, they bring you all the latest fashion news from the Oasis reunion, the £500,000 full stop and Jeremy Hunt’s toaster.

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The team gather at a pork pie buffet to cover Rod Stewart’s Glastonbury set, another humiliating U-turn for Starmer and Nigel Farage’s aspirational aftershave...

Plus: JD Vance’s baby photos, China’s first AI football tournament and succulent Chinese meals…

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The team discuss Donald Trump’s outburst at Israel and Iran after both sides accused each other of breaking a freshly agreed ceasefire - before diving into Keir Starmer’s growing Labour rebellion and trying to decode Nigel Farage’s so-called ‘Robin Hood Tax’ (which even he admits he’s not clever enough to explain).

They also unveil a Battenberg-based policy that could sway any electorate, predict the tragic lunar demi...
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The team chat about how pizzas at the pentagon led to correct predictions of rising tensions between Israel and Iran, schoolground antics at the G7 (otherwise known as the G6+1), Starmer’s papers pickup and Trump’s pathetic military parade…

They also report on Van Gogh’s broken chair, Uri Geller’s insistence on his psychic powers and play Middle Earth’s greatest game: ‘Mordor or More Door?’… 

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The team return to discuss Labour’s Winter Fuel Allowance U-turn, the lack of police funding in the latest spending review, Greta Thunberg’s intercepted flotilla and Ed Miliband's rap name.

They also report on the closing of the gates to Hell, a 200-year-old condom and the dramatic capture of Tennessee’s most wanted fugitive – Ed the Zebra.

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The team discuss Keir Starmer's recent polling after his response to developments in the war in Ukraine and how his numbers could be affected by Rachel Reeves' planned welfare benefit cuts, the prospective overhaul of the civil service and changes to planning permissions.

They also talk about infighting in the Reform Party, fishy webcams and the result of the 'UK Pie of Pies' competition...

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The team discusses the recent White House fallout between President Zelenskyy, President Trump, and Vice President Vance, how the media's response has differed between the US and the UK, and the unlikely group that has benefitted the most from the saga...

Later, they hypothesise over which prime minister would be best suited to win an Oscar, a faulty lighthouse and complaints from the House of Lords… 

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The team answers the question 'Who is Friedrich Merz?', discuss the rise of the far right following the results of the German election, before reporting on Trump and Macron’s press conference on Ukraine.

In addition, they provide an update on Liz Truss and Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference, chat about a Bigfoot bill proposed by a Californian politician and reveal which bird has been scientif...
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The team discuss the two sets of peace talks taking place over the war in Ukraine, Keir Starmer’s aspiration to be a bridge between the EU & US and Kemi Badenoch’s recent blunder in PMQs along with her performance as leader of the opposition.

They also chat about the ‘trained human sniffers’ employed to smell ancient Egyptian mummies, big hockey game brawls, a not-so-earth-bound asteroid and Ringo Starr’s eating h...
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The team discuss how Labour and the Tories are responding to Reform’s recent rise in the polls, sacked Labour ministers leaked WhatsApps chats and Angela Rayner’s alleged comments about Keir Starmer and Prince Andrew. They also chat about the closure of the UK’s National Poo Museum, the research into the best way you can boil an egg and a feathery alternative to the Super Bowl…

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The team discuss the fallout from Trump’s tariff tantrums, the new behind-the-scenes book on Keir Starmer's rise to power and North Korea reopening its doors to foreign tourists (because who wouldn’t want to visit a 'food stuff' processing factory?) 

Later, they chat about Britain’s obsession with potholes, Elon Musk's space junk and how Nottingham Forest single-handedly cost a local pub thousands of pounds after scor...
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The team chat about Trump and Starmer's call to 'get to know each other', Rachel Reeve's plans to build a third runway at Heathrow, the emergence of DeepSeek, prehistoric fish puke, clever footballers and much more!

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The team unpack everything about Trump's inauguration from Melania's hat to Mark Zuckerberg's wandering eye before discussing Darth Vader bugs, yellow cards on trains and lots of gravy...

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The team discuss Rachel Reeves' promise to take the UK economy "further and faster" (off a cliff?), Tulip Siddiq's resignation from her post as Treasury Minister and Keir Starmer's plan to make Britain an AI superpower... Whatever that means. 
Next, they talk about the newborn baby named Lucifer, pineapple on pizza and the greatest threat to podcast hosts everywhere...

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January 8, 2025 30 mins
Join your hosts Jack Harris, Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston and Mike Rayment as they discuss Ed Davey's time on Have I Got News for You, Elon Musk's recent outbursts on Twitter (or 'X' - whatever...), the curious case of mystery bananas in Nottingham and introduce the first edition of our new 'Missing Word' round...

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November 12, 2024 28 mins

In this post US election special, your hosts Jack Harris, Queenie Miller and Emerald Paston (with the help of a voice note from the absent usual co-host Mike Rayment) discuss Donald Trump's triumph over Kamala Harris, how Labour politicians are already cozying up to the next US administration and the bin-related activity that ranks amongst the greatest thrills in British life...


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Join some of the team behind Have I Got News For You as they take you through the serious (but more often not-so-serious) stories In The News This Week.


This week, your hosts Jack Harris, Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston and Mike Rayment discuss Keir's sausage slip-up in his speech at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, an island-wide rat hunt taking place in Antarctica and the sheer amount Rod Stewart related stories in the new...

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Join some of the team behind Have I Got News For You as they take you through the serious (but more often not-so-serious) stories In The News This Week.


This week, your hosts Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston and Mike Rayment go behind-the-scenes with Jack Harris to discuss the debut of Have I Got News for You US, unpack the fallout from another assassination attempt on Donald Trump and answer the question 'Who's got beef with th...

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This week, your hosts Jack Harris, Queenie Miller, Emerald Paston, and Mike Rayment unpack the controversial vote by MPs to support the government's motion to slash the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners, the latest casualty in the Tory Leadership Contest, Diane Abbott's rev...

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