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The Rest Is Politics

148. France on fire, Thames Water troubles, and NHS privatisation

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.5 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What's happening in France? How did Thames Water become saddled with debt? Are we on course for inevitable NHS privatisation?  Join Alastair and Rory as they discuss the main issues of the week from both at home and abroad on today's episode of The Rest Is Politics. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to become a member, or start a free trial today through Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to The Restisted Politics for ad-free listening, early access to episodes, membership to our chat community.

0:07.0

Please sign up at TheRestistPolitics.com.

0:09.0

Or if you're listening on Apple Podcasts, you can subscribe within the app in just a few clicks.

0:22.0

Welcome to another episode of The Restisted Politics with me, Alistar Campbell.

0:26.0

And with me, Rory Stewart, how you Alistar?

0:28.0

I'm very well. Where are you? You've got a tennis racket on the wall behind you.

0:31.0

I do. I'm in Cape Cod in the United States, and I'm in my wife's, a grandparents' house.

0:38.0

Lovely.

0:39.0

And that's an old tennis racket because they've been playing tennis a long time.

0:43.0

But I have a small story for you. So, here's a question on how up-to-date you are on things.

0:48.0

I got on a tiny plane to come here, actually very exciting. It was a sea plane, which took off from 25th Street in Manhattan.

0:55.0

Wow.

0:56.0

Eight people on the plane.

0:57.0

Yeah.

0:58.0

And it was like some sort of lead up to a joke. So, got on the plane.

1:01.0

And there was a very nice guy who worked for a tech company who recognized me and started showing me pictures of my tweets.

1:09.0

Then I noticed the person sitting next to me had recognized the person in front of them.

1:13.0

And then the person in front of me had recognized the person behind.

1:15.0

So, turned out that there was a woman called Dylan Mulvaney. Have you heard of Dylan Mulvaney?

1:20.0

I've heard of a Mulvaney, but not a Dylan Mulvaney.

1:23.0

So, Dylan Mulvaney, we discussed in the podcast a few weeks ago. She was on the plane.

1:27.0

She was the transgender face of the Bud Light campaign.

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