Origin Story

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Origin Story

Episodes (126)

Tue Sep 8th Origin Story Live at Union Chapel
Aug 26th Section 28 – Anatomy of a Moral Panic
Aug 12th The Duke of Buckingham – How a queer love story predicted modern politics

Origin Story

Sep 8, 2026
2¼ hours
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Hello listeners. This week’s episode is an audio recording of our live show at the Union Chapel in London on 1 September 2026. This time we did something different and made a live show out of a classic Origin Story narrative. It’s the story of how the Daily Telegraph’s deterioration from grey citadel of High Toryism to feral troll farm mirrors the cognitive decline of conservatism in Britain. In part one we tell the story of the Telegraph. Founded in 1855 by a crank army colonel to pursue an obscure vendetta, it was soon bought by the Levy-L...

Origin Story

Origin Story Live at Union Chapel

Podmasters

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