289. Testing Negative

Where Politics Meets History

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Politics, History, News

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale conducts a lateral flow test live on the podcast – it’s negative, by the way. He and Jacqui Smith discuss the petrol queues, the Labour conference, German elections, the murder of Sabina Nessa, Boris Johnson’s trip to America, Paloma Faith and Andrew Neil. And there’s a very good nun joke too! Smut quota: Middling

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0:00.0	Now, Jackie Smith, I'm going to discipline you this week.
0:12.4	I know how you like a little bit of discipline.
0:15.3	This is not...
0:16.3	You can't have a long one this week.
0:19.0	This is going to be one of our shorter podcast because it is now 1052 on Saturday morning.
0:25.2	And I have to leave my house to go to London to speak at the Chelsea History Festival at about 1215,
0:31.0	which means we have to be finished shortly after 12 so I can upload it.
0:35.9	So I think we better crack on without any...
0:39.5	How's your father?
0:42.6	Sometimes short and focused can be good, I find.
0:46.1	Yes.
0:47.0	Yes, a bit of a frantic one.
0:49.0	It doesn't do anyone any harm, does it?
0:51.5	Today is Ian and Jackie's Quicky.
0:57.3	Yeah. Yeah.
0:59.9	I don't know what to say to that.
1:03.3	No, listen, the good news is we're back on clean feed, so people can hear me
1:06.7	sniggering and laughing and generally being sort of a bit immature as per.
1:11.7	No, well, I'm very pleased that we've got this working again because for the last three weeks it hasn't worked and we've had to do it on Zoom, which is never satisfactory, I don't think.
1:19.5	So we're going to try and talk about, there are quite a lot of subjects to talk about, fuel shortages or not, Boris at the UN, West Streeting's leadership bid, or not.
1:31.8	The Labour Conference, Keir Stama's essay, the Lancet, I think we've got a question on
1:38.6	that, haven't we?
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