Have we reached peak political podcast?

Had you told us, two years ago, that two men old enough to be anyone’s dads would be filling the O2 Arena with a live version of their podcast about politics, we would have thought you were crazier than Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget (lol, remember Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget?). But later this year that is exactly what is happening: in fact, Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell’s The Rest is Politics is going on a nationwide tour of not dissimilarly sized venues.

Now, no doubt partially because of the above, you cannot move for political podcasts. They’re everywhere: launching at a rate of about 2,000 a week, feeding off a never-ending psychodrama more can’t-look-away compelling than anything Netflix could ever commission. Will they all… and then figure out which ones to keep following no matter what.