Oli Dugmore

Oli Dugmore is a journalist and broadcaster who has been the executive digital editor of the New Statesman since 2025. He has appeared frequently on UK television as political commentator, and is a radio presenter on LBC with a weekly slot. Prior to October 2025, he was the head of PoliticsJOE,[1][2] through which he interviewed individuals such as Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis, Ian Hislop, Sadiq Kahn and Rory Stewart.[3] He has been a pundit on several BBC political, current affairs and media shows, including on TV Newsnight,[4] Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg and Question Time, as well as Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 and Amol Rajan on Radio 4.[5]

Education

Dugmore was a writer and assistant editor of the student news site The Tab in the early 2010s.[6][7] One feature for The Tab was his and fellow student journalist Bob Palmer's visit to a tanning salon.[8]

Career

Prior to Joe, Dugmore was a content editor at LBC, and a sub-editor at the sports team for The Sunday Times.[9]

PoliticsJOE

Between 2018 and October 2025, Dugmore founded and was head of news and politics at the Joe website and the associated PoliticsJOE YouTube channel.[10][11][5] Here, Dugmore was the interviewer on the Joe podcast Unfiltered, succeeding James O'Brien. In this podcast, Dugmore interviewed individuals including Carol Vorderman, Gary Lineker and Rory Stewart.[12] He also hosted another regular podcast, Pubcast, alongside Ava Santina and Ed Campbell, discussing UK and world issues.[13] Dugmore was responsible, alongside his team, for the most popular and most shared UK political video of 2019, about the National Health Service, which gained 40 million views.[5] He was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's The Media Show by Amol Rajan in 2019,[5] discussing the future of political coverage, alongside Piers Morgan.[14]

Dugmore was nominated for 2020 Journalist of the Year by the UK The Drum in their Online Media Awards.[15] Dugmore was nominated for the 2020 Politics award by the Press Gazette.[16] In May 2022, Dugmore attracted controversy with an egg-throwing stand next to the stature of former PM Margaret Thatcher.[17][18] He interviewed Ian Hislop for the Private Eye Review of the Year in 2022,[19] 2023 and 2024. He appeared several times as a panellist on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, including on 19 March 2023 discussing media influence on youth and other matters,[20] and on 16 July.[21] From July 2023, Dugmore had a regular weekend chat radio slot presenting at LBC. He had previously appeared as a panelist on Iain Dale's LBC show.[22] He was on the finalists list for the 2023 Up-and-Coming Broadcast Journalist of the Year award with Pagefield.[23] In April 2024, he spoke at Cambridge Union, closing out the opposition to "Modern Technology Will Destroy Liberal Democracy".[24] The same month, he spoke at the Oxford Union in favour of the proposition "populism is a threat to democracy", alongside Nancy Pelosi.[25][26] There were protests from supporters of Palestine near the event.[27]

Dugmore appeared on the BBC's Politics Live on 9 January 2025.[28][29] In June, he oversaw a move by PoliticsJOE to place their podcast videos behind a Patreon paywall, which he described as a "freemium" strategy and stated was a decision partly driven by concerns around platform instability.[30] In September, in the wake of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, Dugmore wrote the article "Let them die: the case for assisted dying" for the New Statesman, in which he argued that assisted dying could mitigate mounting costs associated with the UK's ageing population such as pensions, the NHS and social care. This article was criticised by campaigners from Care Not Killing, MP Carla Lockhart, and The Daily Telegraph.[31]

New Statesman executive digital editor

Dugmore became the executive digital editor of the New Statesman in 2025.[10] In February 2026, he appeared on Question Time, where he made a speech critical of the Labour Party's prior appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, when it was known that Mandelson was a friend of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[32]

References

  1. ^ Saxon, Adam; Sandall, Oliver (26 June 2024). "In conversation with Oli Dugmore, the mind behind PoliticsJOE". Cherwell (Student newspaper). Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Oli Dugmore". Joe. Retrieved 3 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Zaman, Afsana (25 May 2022). "'Your copy should read like a WhatsApp message': How to create content for and with Gen Z". Newsrewired.
  4. ^ "Newsnight - Has Starmer Signalled Austerity 2.0?". BBC. 2024-08-27. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, Delete the media?". BBC. 2019-12-18. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
  6. ^ Pritchard, Heledd (30 October 2015). "Student newspaper assistant editor causes Welsh language row". Wales Online. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  7. ^ "UK Team". blog.thetab.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Spray-on abs could put an end to your gym membership". The Daily Telegraph. 20 August 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  9. ^ "Oli Dugmore and James Dawson join JOE.co.uk". ResponseSource.
  10. ^ a b "Oli Dugmore". New Statesman. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
  11. ^ Lyon, Ali (30 June 2024). "What the rise of Politics Joe says about young people's relationship with the news?". CityAM. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
  12. ^ "Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2024-02-03.
  13. ^ "Pubcast -🎧 Listen here". Bestpodcasts.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
  14. ^ "The Media Show - Delete the media?". www.listenersguide.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  15. ^ "Oli Dugmore - Head of news & politics". The Drum Awards. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  16. ^ "The best journalism of 2020 revealed: British Journalism Awards shortlist". Press Gazette. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 2024-11-07.
  17. ^ "Egg-selling stall by Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham is just a stunt". The Lincolnite. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  18. ^ Brophy, Jayke; Yedroudj, Latifa (18 May 2022). "Man sells eggs next to Margaret Thatcher statue". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  19. ^ "Ian Hislop's Review Of The Year: 2022". Private Eye. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  20. ^ "Laura Kuenssberg show: NHS deal is fair to nurses and public finances - Dowden". BBC News. 19 March 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  21. ^ "BBC One - Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, How Would Keir Starmer Govern?". BBC. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  22. ^ "Cross Question 11/04". LBC. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  23. ^ Renwick, Simon (6 November 2023). "Announcing the finalists for the 'Up-and-Coming Broadcast Journalist of the Year' award at Pagefield Press Awards". Pagefield. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  24. ^ "This House Believes Modern Technology Will Destroy Liberal Democracy : CUS". Youtube. 21 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  25. ^ "The Oxford Union believes populism is a threat to democracy". The Oxford Student. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
  26. ^ "Speaker Emerita Pelosi Participates in Debate, Moderated Conversation and Delivers Remarks at University of Oxford". pelosi.house.gov. 26 April 2024.
  27. ^ Sigsworth, Tim; Pau, Valida; Larsen, Martin Alfonsin; Rouffin, Gaspard (25 April 2024). "Police evict Pro-Palestine protesters from Nancy Pelosi speech at Oxford Union". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
  28. ^ "Politics Live - 09/01/2025". BBC iPlayer. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  29. ^ "Claire Fox Politics Live BBC - 9 January 2025". YouTube. 11 January 2025. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  30. ^ Smith, Matt (20 June 2025). "Politics Joe puts video podcast behind paywall". Press Gazette. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  31. ^ Swerling, Gabriella (17 September 2025). "New Statesman criticised for suggesting assisted dying would save money". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  32. ^ Brawn, Steph (6 February 2026). "Journalist hailed for 'chilling' Question Time speech on 'disgusting' Labour". The National. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
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