The Rest Is Politics: Leading
by Goalhanger
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210. Andy Burnham: My Relationship With Starmer, Brexit Lies and Emotion in Politics
Oct 11, 2026
1h 14m 36s
209. Shabana Mahmood: Palestine Action, Faith, and What I Told Starmer
Oct 4, 2026
1h 17m 39s
208. Mustafa Suleyman: Is AI Actually Conscious?
Sep 27, 2026
1h 06m 20s
207. Gordon Brown: How to Fix a Fracturing World
Sep 20, 2026
56m 59s
206. How Putin's War Changed Finland Forever (Sanna Marin)
Sep 13, 2026
58m 45s
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- politics and government discussions
- leadership and success philosophies
Podcast Focus
- interviews with influential figures
- in-depth political conversations
Publishing Consistency
- 208 episodes produced
- active for 3 years
Platform Reach
- available on major podcast platforms
- potential for broad audience
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- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · PoliticsHOME#329K to 182K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Politics#112.6K to 16K
- 🇮🇩ID · Politics#71.6K to 10.0K
- 🇫🇷France · Politics#36793 to 5.0K
- 🇯🇵Japan · Politics#26792 to 4.9K
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45K to 279K🎙 ~2x weekly·207 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
89K to 559K🇬🇧65%🇦🇺6%🇮🇩4%+20 more - Active Followers
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36K to 223K51K real followers tracked across platforms
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/11/26 |  210. Andy Burnham: My Relationship With Starmer, Brexit Lies and Emotion in Politics | How will he change Britain’s relationship with the EU? Why has he agreed to publish details of meetings following the Manchester City scandal? With the Trump administration planning to livestream a firing squad execution, should the UK take a stand? Alastair and Rory are joined by Andy Burnham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to answer all these questions and more. __________ To listen to our series Becoming Burnham, with Alastair Campbell and Burnham’s closest confidant, friend and former colleague Steve Rotheram – the Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region — go to therestispolitics.com Search IG.com to find out more and/or Look for IG in your app store. __________ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected] __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Video Editor: Kieron Leslie, Charlie Rodwell Videographer: Harry Swan, Charlie Rodwell, Tom McCagherty Assistant Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Producer: Evan Green Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen Executive Producer: Isabella Soames General Manager: Tom Whiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 14m 36s | ||||||
| 10/4/26 |  209. Shabana Mahmood: Palestine Action, Faith, and What I Told Starmer | Should Palestine Action stay banned? Why can't Britain just send small boats straight back to France? Can faith and public duty coexist in modern British politics? Rory and Alastair are joined by the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to answer all this and more. Search IG.com to find out more and/or Look for IG in your app store. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to goalhanger.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected] __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Video Editor: Kieron Leslie Assistant Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen Head of Politics: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 17m 39s | ||||||
| 9/27/26 |  208. Mustafa Suleyman: Is AI Actually Conscious? | Can Artificial Intelligence stay subordinate? Is Anthropic’s 100-Page constitution creating dangerous AI autonomy? Should AI models be granted legal personhood, rights, or financial compensation? CEO of Microsoft AI, and co-founder and former head of AI at DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman, joins Rory Stewart to discuss all this and more. If you'd like to listen to more of Mustafa Suleyman and his backstory, click here to find our previous interview with him from 2023. Search IG.com to find out more and/or Look for IG in your app store. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to goalhanger.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected] __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Assistant Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen Head of Politics: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 06m 20s | ||||||
| 9/20/26 |  207. Gordon Brown: How to Fix a Fracturing World | What did Gordon Brown learn from leading the UK through the global financial crisis? Why do so many citizens today not belong to any civic or religious group, and how does that impact our politics? How can middle powers come together to rival the strength of China and the USA? Former Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, joins Rory and Alastair to discuss all this and more. Search IG.com to find out more and/or Look for IG in your app store. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to goalhanger.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected] __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Video Editor: Vasco Andrade Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen Head of Politics: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 56m 59s | ||||||
| 9/13/26 |  206. How Putin's War Changed Finland Forever (Sanna Marin) | Following Putin's war in Ukraine, how politically challenging was it committing Finland to join NATO? What was it like becoming the world's youngest sitting prime minister at 34? Why did a scandal over dancing at a private party become a national and international story? Rory and Alastair are joined by former Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, to discuss all this and more. __________ Search IG.com to find out more and/or Look for IG in your app store. __________ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: [email protected] __________ Social Producer: Celine Charles Lead Video Editor: Josh Smith Assistant Producer: Daisy Alston-Horne Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen General Manager: Tom Whiter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 58m 45s | ||||||
| 9/6/26 | War on TerrorDonald Trump+4 | Anthony Scaramucci | WTOTrump+2 | — | Anthony ScaramucciWar on Terror+5 | — | 1h 00m 53s | ||
| 8/30/26 | wealth taxinequality+4 | Dan Neidle | IGGoalhanger | — | wealth taxinequality+5 | — | 1h 06m 35s | ||
| 8/23/26 | football politicsUEFA+4 | Aleksander Čeferin | FIFAUEFA | — | Aleksander ČeferinGianni Infantino+5 | — | 50m 46s | ||
| 8/16/26 | Middle East peaceIsraeli-Palestinian conflict+3 | Maoz InonAziz Abu Sarah | — | IsraelPalestine | peaceMiddle East+5 | — | 1h 15m 01s | ||
| 8/9/26 | British militarymodern warfare+4 | Johnny Mercer | WestminsterBoris Johnson+2 | — | militarydrones+5 | — | 1h 16m 26s | ||
| 8/2/26 | political satireelections+4 | Count Binface | Goalhanger | — | Count BinfaceNigel Farage+4 | — | 42m 06s | ||
| 7/26/26 | Iceland EU accessionBrexit lessons+3 | Kristrún Frostadóttir | Social DemocratsEU | IcelandUK | IcelandEU+5 | — | 1h 05m 32s | ||
| 7/19/26 | Trump's presidencyWhite House decision-making+3 | Maggie HabermanJonathan Swan | New York TimesRegime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump | Iran | TrumpWhite House+7 | — | 52m 51s | ||
| 7/12/26 | billionaire taxwealth disparity+3 | Gabriel Zucman | The Rest Is PoliticsGoalhanger | — | billionaire taxGabriel Zucman+3 | — | 1h 11m 40s | ||
| 7/5/26 | American foreign policymilitary interventions+5 | Ben Rhodes | Barack ObamaNew Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan | — | foreign policymilitary interventions+7 | — | 1h 12m 37s | ||
| 6/28/26 | Western nationsUS dependence+5 | Malcolm Turnbull | Goalhanger | AustraliaUK+1 | AIsatellite infrastructure+7 | — | 1h 10m 32s | ||
| 6/21/26 | PutinRussia+3 | Steve Rosenberg | BBC News | Russia | PutinRussia+5 | — | 1h 03m 44s | ||
| 6/14/26 | politicsleadership+3 | James Cleverly | ReformIG+1 | — | James CleverlyNigel Farage+3 | — | 1h 18m 24s | ||
| 6/7/26 | World War IIIgeopolitics+4 | Odd Arne Westad | IGGoalhanger | — | World War IIIgeopolitics+4 | — | 1h 02m 35s | ||
| 5/31/26 | AI regulationtechnology+3 | Jack Clark | AnthropicIG.com+1 | — | AIregulation+3 | — | 1h 07m 25s | ||
| 5/24/26 | media understandingTrump+4 | Tina Brown | SubstackTatler+2 | — | Trumpmedia+7 | — | 1h 12m 57s | ||
| 5/17/26 | politicsU.S. presidential election+4 | Rahm Emanuel | — | United StatesWest Bank+2 | Rahm Emanuelpresidential election+6 | — | 1h 13m 16s | ||
| 5/10/26 | artificial intelligenceglobal power+3 | William MacAskill | GoalhangerSilicon Valley+1 | — | AIChina+5 | — | 1h 08m 14s | ||
| 5/3/26 | 2008 financial crisisfar-right populism+4 | Yanis Varoufakis | IG.comIG+1 | — | 2008 crisisfar-right+5 | — | 1h 17m 59s | ||
| 4/26/26 | geopolitical balancingSerbia and EU+4 | Aleksandar Vučić | European UnionUnited States | SerbiaKosovo+1 | SerbiaEU enlargement+6 | IG | 1h 06m 22s | ||
| 4/19/26 | Scottish Labourpolitics+4 | Anas Sarwar | Scottish LabourReform Party+1 | — | LabourScotland+4 | — | 1h 02m 26s | ||
| 4/9/26 | UkraineNATO+4 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | White HouseNATO | — | UkraineZelenskyy+5 | IG | 52m 04s | ||
| 4/5/26 | politicsidentity+4 | Naz Shah | — | BradfordBritain | Naz ShahBradford+5 | — | 1h 10m 53s | ||
| 3/29/26 | trans rightsCongress+5 | Sarah McBride | Republican administrationDemocrats+3 | — | trans rightsCongress+5 | — | 1h 05m 09s | ||
| 3/23/26 | censorshipart+4 | Ai Weiwei | Chinese government | China | Ai Weiweicensorship+5 | — | 1h 07m 57s | ||
| 3/16/26 | European politicsTrump+5 | Pedro Sánchez | IGThe Rest Is Politics+2 | — | Pedro SánchezTrump+6 | — | 1h 15m 26s | ||
| 3/9/26 | US politicsglobal relations+4 | Alexander Stubb | IG.comtherestispolitics.com | — | Alexander StubbTrump+5 | — | 41m 42s | ||
| 3/2/26 | Gavin NewsomDonald Trump+3 | Gavin Newsom | The Rest Is PoliticsIG+1 | — | Gavin NewsomDonald Trump+3 | — | 54m 04s | ||
| 2/23/26 | German politicsRussian gas dependency+3 | Olaf Scholz | Alternative for Germany | GermanyRussia+1 | Olaf ScholzGermany+6 | — | 59m 04s | ||
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Goalhanger is an independent podcast creator known for producing engaging and thought-provoking content across various genres. Their work often intersects with prominent figures in politics and culture, providing a platform for in-depth discussions. "The Rest Is Politics: Leading" features hosts Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, who engage with politicians, intellectuals, and leaders to explore themes of life, leadership, and success. The podcast stands out for its focus on personal narratives and philosophies that shape influential figures, as well as its timely coverage of significant political events and global issues. With an estimated audience of 1.2 million to 3.9 million listeners, the podcast appeals to those interested in politics and leadership, offering valuable insights and perspectives from key players in the field. Listeners gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of governance and the personal stories behind public figures.
By the numbers
- Total followers: 248K
- Total plays: 31M
- Total reviews: 218
Platforms
TuneIn
- Followers: 3.1K
Castbox
- Followers: 44K
- Plays: 1.5M
- Reviews: 20
YouTube
- Subscribers: 197K
- Views: 30M
- Videos: 279
Podcast App
- Followers: 783
- Reviews: 197
Podcast Republic
- Followers: 2.7K
- Reviews: 1
Audience
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Key insights
What the show covers
- interviews with influential figures
- in-depth political conversations
- exploration of big ideas
- perspectives on change and leadership
Audience interests
- politics and government discussions
- leadership and success philosophies
- global affairs insights
- key political events analysis
Platform reach
- available on major podcast platforms
- potential for broad audience
- growing listener base
- exclusive content for members
Publishing consistency
- 208 episodes produced
- active for 3 years
- weekly or more episodes
- consistent release schedule
Chart history for The Rest Is Politics: Leading
Peaked at #3 in United Kingdom, top 10 in 7 of 50 tracked markets, currently #3 in United Kingdom.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| HK | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| AE | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| ID | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| South Africa | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| Ireland | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| Australia | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| TH | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| BE | — | #14 | #14 | — |
| Norway | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| Finland | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| MY | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| IS | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| HK | — | #19 | #19 | — |
| Italy | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| SG | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| KE | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| Ireland | — | #26 | #26 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 37 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 37 markets.