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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

126: MAGA, monarchy and Welby’s woes

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Adam, Ian and Helen discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s election victory, Prince Andrew’s housing crisis and how Prince William became his dad’s landlord. Then, Francis Wheen joins the team to talk about Justin Welby’s involvement in a historic child abuse scandal.

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0:00.0

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94, the Private

0:06.6

Eye podcast. In the absence of Andrew Hunter Murray this week, he's off with another different

0:11.4

podcast that we don't mention here touring Australia and New Zealand. I don't know when our tour's

0:15.6

coming up. But anyway, I'm here in the Private Eye Office. I'm Adam McQueen and I'm joined by

0:20.1

Helen Lewis and

0:20.9

Ian Hislop. Later, we're going to be talking to Francis Ween about the child abuse scandal that led to the

0:25.4

resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. But first, let's talk about something

0:30.6

else pretty big that happened since the last edition of the magazine. Donald Trump won an

0:34.9

emphatic victory in the US election. Is that fair?

0:39.1

Oh, yeah, I think that's fair enough.

0:42.9

I think people have been overdoing the idea that it was a surprise victory, actually.

0:50.2

All of the polling suggested it was kind of 50-50 and within a normal polling error either way to be a landslide in each direction.

0:55.4

But definitely he won the popular vote, which he has so far never managed to do to do and actually Republicans have really struggled to do since the 90s so the popular vote turns out to be

1:00.8

a statistic that is is quite familiar to British listeners can you tell us I think Kamala Harris

1:07.4

will end up with 48% and Donald Trump may nudge over 51, not quite.

1:12.5

52.

1:13.6

Not quite the cursed ratio.

1:15.6

It's a Brexit.

1:16.4

It is a Brexit.

1:17.3

Come on, admit it.

1:18.5

They don't add up, do they?

1:19.8

There's a sort of almost 2% of people missing at the moment.

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