224. One Night in Bangkok

Where Politics Meets History

Global

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

In a bumper two hour edition, Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith chew over the week’s political news and spend a lot of time dissecting the Priti Patel bullying scandal, as well as discussing what happens when lockdown ends in England, what the government might announce about Christmas arrangements, Defence spending, Public sector pay, International Men’s Day, bad book reviews, Amazon delivery times, Iain’s interview with Chris Bryant, The Crown and episode two of Naked attraction. And there are some brilliant questions including one about how Iain and Jacqui caused a car crash in Thailand. Smut quota: Middling

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0:00.0	Hello, Ian, it's the Smithster here.
0:12.0	The Smithster.
0:13.9	It's the Dalester here.
0:15.8	That doesn't really work, does it?
0:18.1	I'm going to be forming a square around you at this very moment.
0:21.9	I'm going to be circling the wagons around myself.
0:28.6	The joys of WhatsApp, hey?
0:31.4	Indeed.
0:32.9	Can nobody keep up?
0:34.3	The whole point about WhatsApp, right, is that it's encrypted. The flipping
0:38.6	home secretary and the security agencies can't get into WhatsApp messages, but they get leached right,
0:45.4	left and centre by people. So what's the flipping point of the encryption? Well, Tory MPs,
0:50.0	in fact, MPs of any party, I think are probably the leakiest people in the whole country.
0:54.8	So whatever, you've surely got to just go on the premise that whatever you put on WhatsApp
0:59.1	won't stay on WhatsApp.
1:01.1	Of course.
1:02.2	And God, if I live by that premise, I think my career would be over like years ago,
1:07.7	as members of the Eindale Circle of Filth would testify to.
1:13.6	I have occasionally peered into the circle of filth, haven't I?
1:18.3	Because I'm not in it, but you occasionally send me things from it.
1:22.0	It's like looking into a sewer.
1:24.3	Even you, the reason you're not in it, because even you would be shocked by most of it.
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