Pod Save the UK’s intro music is a bit like Proust’s madeleines, if Proust hated madeleines. It’s a vaguely disco-y, pop-rock number that summons unwanted memories of the coalition-era comedy panel shows that giggled away as Britain sunk further into the sea.
Hosted by the comedian Nish Kumar and the journalist Coco Khan, the podcast is a spinoff of Pod Save America, which began in 2017 as part of the flowering of anti-Donald Trump “resistance” media. Pod Save the UK, which started this month, takes a similar approach to the Tories. “So, Nish, what does the UK need saving from this week?” Khan asks in the opening spiel. Minutes later, she says: “What do I want from politics? I just want a system I can forget about.”
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