The trouble with The Rest is Politics podcast

You have probably already heard of The Rest is Politics, which consistently tops the podcast charts. You have certainly already heard of its two hosts, and have a flavour of their temperaments as well as their political views. Alastair Campbell may once have been lost in the shadow of Malcolm Tucker, but every week on the podcast his real self fights its way through. He finds his perfect foil (so we are told) in his co-host, the awkward nerd Rory Stewart. 

The Rest is Politics is a strange name. What does it mean? It isn’t a phrase. The pieces begin to fall together once you realise that the company behind it, Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger Podcasts, had already struck gold with the wonderful The Rest is History. The Rest is Politics, whose third ever episode was subtitled ‘The Rest is History’, has largely succeeded in leaching off The Rest is History’s success.