{"podcast":{"title":"The Insurgency with Steve Baker","slug":"the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429","podcast_index_feed_id":7492429,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1090ea0c4/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.fightingforafreefuture.com/listen-to-the-insurgency/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44369209/44369209-1757101850035-21ca2abe436fe.jpg","author":"Fighting for a Free Future","episode_count":45,"summary":"Welcome to The Insurgency with Steve Baker, a podcast from Fighting for a Free Future. Every two weeks, join Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA and Harry Richer, the Director of FFF, as they sit down with leading figures from the worlds of politics, journalism, and academia and together interrogate the public debate and the issues which matter most. Please subscribe today to support FFF. If you wish to see bonus episodes & extended interviews, please consider becoming a paid supporter at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T04:18:51.666622+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429"},"episode":{"title":"Farage vs Count Binface: Britain’s Pointless By‑Election | The Counter‑Insurgency","slug":"farage-vs-count-binface-britain-s-pointless-by-election-the-counter-insurgency","published_at":"2026-07-09T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429/farage-vs-count-binface-britain-s-pointless-by-election-the-counter-insurgency","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-insurgency/episodes/Farage-vs-Count-Binface-Britains-Pointless-ByElection--The-CounterInsurgency-e3ls3up","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1090ea0c4/podcast/play/122604953/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-9%2F427650810-44100-2-d27509a506843.mp3","summary":"👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com. Subscribe and follow Mani on Substack: https://substack.com/@manibasharzad?r=5pey14&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur and X: https://x.com/ManiBasharzad Steve Baker is joined by Laura Emily Dunn and Mani Basharzad to unpack Nigel Farage’s “back‑me‑or‑sack‑me” Clacton by‑election and ask whether a Farage vs Count Binface contest is anything more than a pointless stunt. Thumbnail image: “Count Binface” by Count Binface, used and adapted under the Creative Commons Attribution‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY‑SA 4.0) licence. This thumbnail is an adaptation of that work and is itself distributed under CC BY‑SA 4.0. Changes may have been made. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ for full licence terms, including attribution, non‑endorsement and share‑alike requirements.","meta_description":"👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Maste…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":761,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429/episodes/farage-vs-count-binface-britain-s-pointless-by-election-the-counter-insurgency/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-insurgency-with-steve-baker-7492429/farage-vs-count-binface-britain-s-pointless-by-election-the-counter-insurgency.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}