We Know A Song About That, Don't We?

We Know A Song About That, Don't We?

A new podcast in which I look at current news stories and then play the song that I wrote the LAST time something like this happened... To support Mitch Benn for as little as $1 a month, and get access to exclusive content, go to www.patreon.com/mitchbenn

Episodes

January 12, 2026 18 mins

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It's not getting any funnier out there is it? Let's recall happier times of Tory politicians going to jail, Libertarians getting called out on their BS and posh yachtsmen getting arrested by the Iranian Navy...

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We're stuck in the Festive Taint, so here are a few songs to help you deal with your perineal bewilderment...

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December 24, 2025 14 mins

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It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaaaaaaas... 'Tis the season for the middle order collapse. smuggling dead relatives onto planes and forcing yourself to eat small green vegetables for some unknown reason...

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December 20, 2025 27 mins

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Bad times in Hollywood, the vaccine WAS bloody safe, so ner, fractious boxing weigh-ins and aging Royals tilting at windmills...

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December 14, 2025 28 mins

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Awkward Christmas traditions, invasive legislation, our would-be fascist overlords and the importance of giving them the finger...

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December 8, 2025 22 mins

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What the Dickens? Politics for sale (again), ABBA doing Elvis and the return of the biggest tongue on television...

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November 30, 2025 29 mins

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The return of David Cameron, K-Pop robots, Spies, Refugees and a proposed Independent Scotland anthem...

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November 22, 2025 19 mins

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Beatly budget day, the snow is falling, the COVID enquiry points yet more fingers and farewell to a bass legend...

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November 16, 2025 22 mins

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(apologies for lateness...)

England v France, England v Australia, Welsh Mammoths and Trump is coming for the Beeb...


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November 7, 2025 16 mins

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Sir Keir damns Lammy with the faintest of praise, the COVID enquiry coughs on and some thoughts on raising revenue...

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October 31, 2025 14 mins

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It's Halloween! And things are kind of freaky! Just like they've always been! Which is kind of the point! WooooooOOOOO!

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October 24, 2025 24 mins

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The return of our least favourite Prime Minister and our most omnipresent ginger megastar, plus: is it finally okay to speak the truth about Brexit?


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October 17, 2025 23 mins

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The return of everyone's favourite flat-packing Vikings, the Germans are coming and the Bard made less Hard...

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October 9, 2025 25 mins

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Flying shoes, vanishing phones, indefatigable spergs and crumbling French governments... 


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October 3, 2025 30 mins

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An old acquaintance goes to the Dark Side, Nigel starts believing his own PR, various big shots make a shot at renewed relevance...

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September 25, 2025 25 mins

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Miserable national anthems, The Unquiet Elvis, rank hypocrisy over immigration and JK meets Morrissey underneath the bus (or stairs)...

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September 17, 2025 21 mins

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Back from Oz, the lost art of holding two ideas in your head at the same time, fascists out of their depth and the best sci-fi horror musical you'll never see...

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September 11, 2025 17 mins

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Yet more Tory zombies shuffling over to Reform, remembering the News Of The World (urgh) and general anger and frustration...

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September 3, 2025 23 mins

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Familiar store names, misbehaving in middle age, hiding in your phone and those charming flag painting scamps...

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August 28, 2025 30 mins

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Locals vs Tourists, England vs Scotland, the CIA vs harmless old folkies and The Thin White Duke vs. The End Of The Universe...

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