Discontent Provider

Episode 105: Pedants' Revolt

Being a pair of careful, rather close-mouthed coves, the chaps are not perhaps as sympathetic to Prime Ministers who don't sufficiently distinguish one form of ordnance from another - especially when a hostile Nation is just aching for a self-righteous war-wank.  This episode also features a moment of self-doubt, a touch of shaudenfraude, a Song At The End, and a fascinating glimpse into a rift in the space/time continuum. You know what you are, cats and kittens? Spoilt - that's what.

Episode 104: What Is There Left To Say?

Neither the crackling of fallen leaves nor the invigorating sting of autumnal air in the Happy Place can cheer the chaps today as they ponder the dishonesty, insincerity, indifference, and cruelty of both those who promulgate and those who profit from the ever-growing horror of the Middle East conflict. Still; it's only a short one - and they both know that you, gentle listener, are a good and righteous egg.

Episode 103: The White Man's Tantrum (And a Fond Farewell)

While the Britain beyond the leafy tranquility of their Happy Place rings to the anguished howls of post-colonial cretinism, Foxy and Arkham ponder the idiocy of people who LITERALLY didn't know what they'd got 'til it was gone - and then kicked up the most fearful row about it. Also - and on the subject of great songs, the chaps pay musical (near enough anyway) tribute to an all-time country music great.

Episode 102: Snider With Rosie

Perhaps it's because Christmas is looming ever-closer and it doesn't hurt the more parsimonious to slim down their address books (even if they can claim the cost of cards and stamps back on expenses) but a lot of harsh words are being chucked around of late - or maybe some sort of Seasonally Affected Disorder is just making people say the quiet part out loud. Either way, today sees Arkham and Foxy's thoughts turning to the consequences of not sugar-coating it.

Episode 101: It's All An Allusion

Foxy and Arkham find themselves in the distinctly unfamiliar position of defending a British Prime Minister against the slurs of the uneducated lumpen herd. What many people have mistaken for a slip of the tongue was actually a damnably witty literary reference - or was it? Maybe he's just an idiot who hates the sick and disabled - though how likely is that? He is, after all, a committed Marxist - at least, according to unimpeachable sources...

Episode 100(!): Very First Century Boys

Foxy and Arkham are feeling dreadfully bucked to have arrived at their 100th Episode (give or take a couple of two-parters and "get-aheads" that don't count as canon). Needless to say, events beyond the leafy confines of the Happy Place may receive less than the chaps' usual forensic attention... It's Political Conference Time though - so comment isn't all that necessary.

Episode 99: Paging The Grim Reaper (A Parable - of sorts)

The chaps wind up the week with both a bold (if impractical) Mission Statement and some Statements about a recent Mission. Comparisons 'twixt Small States and Rogue States which are not wholly favourable to the former.

Episode 98: There's Always Somebody Worse Off - And Sometimes Deservedly So

The chaps find themselves in unwontedly chipper mood today because... Well; while they're not doing particularly well, they're doing a damned sight better than people upon whom they're not frightfully keen - and if that isn't cause for celebration, what is in these debased times? There's also a nod to both the Survival Horror genre and a band from yesteryear. It's pretty packed for a Monday is what it is.

Episode 97: Star Trekkin' and Health Checkin'

An indecently proud Foxy and Arkham compare producing two podcasts in the same week favourably to performing a spacewalk - justifiably, considering their budgetary limitations. After that, they consider the prospects of a reformed NHS and a Health Utopia as envisioned by centrists. It's probably not as bad as it seems - but only by a bit.

Episode 96: Chillin' With Starmer

Exciting times for the chaps this week: a (partial) visual renaissance arrives just in time to see the shafting of Senior Citizens and irrefutable proof that the wheels have finally come off Humanity's little red wagon. And, were that not enough (though it obviously is) a tweak to the format is announced - one that will leave Mondays changed forever...