2025: The most consequential year of our lifetimes?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
What can we expect in 2025? The Matts take a view on the key issues facing the world in the next twelve months … plus: how to deal with a bully like Elon Musk. What can Keir Starmer do in the face of lies and slander spread across the sewer of X? And how low will Kemi Badenoch sink in her efforts to trump the populism of Nigel Farage’s Reform?
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dankona. And this is the first two Matt's podcast of |
| 1:01.5 | 2025. Happy New Year, everyone. Happy New Year. And there's so much going on already. It's not even |
| 1:08.0 | funny. It's insane, isn't it? It's insane. I mean, you come back from Christmas and talk about the ground running. |
| 1:14.6 | It's incredible. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, I mean, normally the news agenda can be sluggish at this time of year. |
| 1:19.0 | It really is. |
| 1:20.1 | But it's been weirdly bizarrely berserk this year. |
| 1:23.8 | The ticket price is called Dynamic. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:26.5 | So we should start, I guess, with Elon Musk, here, Starma and so on. |
| 1:31.9 | We were going to do a sort of projections of 2025. |
| 1:35.8 | Yeah, and we'll talk about some of that. |
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