Discontent Provider

Episode 83: Much Ado About Snuffing

This week, as the never-knowingly United Kingdom goes into premature meltdown over the General Election being called, the chaps in the Happy Place have their minds focussed upon matters that are - to all too many - FAR more pressing than which Centre-Right fuckstump will be giving Larry The Cat his dinner for the foreseeable future. They're talking Life and Death, cats and kittens - and the answer's far less enigmatic than 42...

Episode 82: One Step At A Time. Well; Six Tiny Steps, Anyway - But To WHERE?

Though neither Foxy nor Arkham are what you'd call "shoppers" as such, the idea of browsing some carefully-curated political "retail items" held a dreadful fascination for them this week - so they marched up to Labour's counter, called "Shop!" and let Young Mr Starmer show them his wares... 

Episode 81: Scenes From The Gender Struggle In The Woods

This week finds the grizzled Culture War veterans Sgts Foxy and "Mad Dog" Arkham parachuting into yet another dismal and more than usually grisly (It's a pun - well spotted) campaign. Just when they thought they could sit the damned thing out in relative peace, too. War is hell, cats and kittens - but unlike this rubbish, Hell only lasts for Eternity...

Episode 80b: Don't Let the Door Hit You where the Black and White Dog Should have Bit You

As the chaps wind up their dispassionate and forensic analysis of the 2024 Local Elections, a certain melancholy seems to have set in. Does it matter? What will the outcome be in the long-term? We've all enjoyed a malicious chortle - of that there is no doubt - and all the signs point to more to come; yet Foxy finds himself wondering if that's enough. Of course; he's always like that - and could he but speak, the World's Greatest Lurcher would remind him that that is why nobody ever invites the miserable bastard anywhere. Even so...

Episode 80a: Algorithm & News

Fresh from voting, and as suffused with about as much excitement at having exercised that hard-won freedom as you might expect, Foxy and Arkham present the first instalment of a two-part Election Special. Is it too late to prevent computers from destroying Democracy? Could Captain Snort hold his own during widespread Civil Unrest? Will The Silver Fox get murderously drunk and do something profoundly regrettable at 3am? These - and other questions - are delved into as the Nation holds its collective breath prior to the Big Reveal...

Episode 79: One Little Word

Poacher turns gamekeeper this week - it's a figure of speech, we assure you - as Foxy casts off years of antipathy towards those that presumed to know better than him (they didn't) to stand up for teachers. Arkham - who has wisely avoided pedagogues of all kinds - preserves a dignified silence on the matter. Lucky bastard.

Episode 78: Smoke Gets Up Your Arse

This week, the chaps consider the prospect of a Smokeless Future, Foxy tries a psychological experiment that may not be best suited to an audio medium, and both man and dog are left even more doleful than is customary by the thought that Parliament is little more than a posh kindergarten. CW: Listeners of a sensitive nature should be warned that the death-throes of a blues-harp do not make for comfortable listening.

Episode 77: The Penumbra Of The Beast - and Other Delusions

This week, Arkham and Foxy battle a 200-foot-tall cyborg with all lasers coming out of its eyes and that - it also has chainsaws for hands, and can create a sonic boom just by clearing its throat. That's not entirely true - but as this is the Internet, it appears that one can say pretty much anything one damned well likes because nobody ever checks up and nobody is really paying attention anyway. 

Episode 76: Rowling Trolling

In what - quite unexpectedly and organically - turned out to be the finale of a trilogy of sorts, Foxy and Arkham decide that there are an awful lot of things that are genuinely best left alone - and would earnestly encourage you to do the same. It's sort of like that Simpsons Halloween episode when all the corporate mascots come to life - if you think about it, and if Real Life actually does work on cartoon logic.  Which it absolutely fucking does, sadly.

Episode 75: Oh; Those Torrid Tory Knights...

The usual theological Easter musings threaten for a while to distract the chaps from pursuing their avowed intent to tackle the Issues of the Day for a brief moment or two - but they're soon back on track, and ready to point out that what looks like another Government/donor fuckfest doesn't really matter (and may even contain a silver lining - a THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER lining, perhaps? Get that up you, cats and kittens: that's thematic considtency is what that is).