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The Rest Is Politics

164. The Trial of Lucy Letby, the domination of the dollar, and politicians vs. lawyers

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Why are lawyers being targeted for taking on immigration cases? How significant is the BRICS 'New Development Bank'? Are left-of-centre western governments more anti-American?  Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more on today’s episode of The Rest Is Politics. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, 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 sign up, or start a free trial today on 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

Welcome to the rest of the politics with me, Alistair Campbell.

0:11.0

And with me, Rory Stewart.

0:12.8

And we're recording on Monday and we've just had the sentencing of Lucy Letby.

0:20.2

So we'll talk about that and then also I want to stay on something related to the law.

0:26.2

And that's this whole business of the government taking a legal professional with his attack on so-called Letty lawyers.

0:31.4

I think there's something very, very dark and a bit dangerous about it.

0:35.4

And then after the break, Rory, I think we should talk about bricks.

0:38.0

Not the things that you build houses with, but Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.

0:44.2

Because they're meeting in Johannesburg as we speak and fancy themselves as something of a new big player on the block.

0:52.8

And then another five letter acronym, Orcas.

0:57.0

We've just had the Australian Labour Party conference in this Australia UK, US deal on a gremel on nuclear powered submarines.

1:05.4

And as part of a big defense strategy was a bit of a problem for prime minister Albanese.

1:10.0

She was taught by that as well.

1:11.8

As Sano gave you, very good.

1:13.6

Sounds very good to me.

1:14.6

Where are you?

1:15.2

It's in France.

1:16.4

I'm in my last day in my last day in general.

1:18.8

We've taken to not recording the temperature.

1:21.6

But when we look at the temperature now, we've gone back to Fahrenheit because it's 101 today.

1:28.2

And I can remember, am I wrong to think that when I was growing up,

1:32.0

100 degrees was seen as one of those things that would never ever happen.

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