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Where Politics Meets History

293. Masking Up Again

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Iain Dale and Jacqui Smith discuss the Select committee report on Covid, Covid cases and restrictions, Hancock’s new job (or not), Boilers, the death of Colin Powell and much else besides. Smut quota: Middling.

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0:00.0

So, Mr. Dark Glasses. I know I should be full of sympathy, but have you stopped showing off about your bad eye yet?

0:17.9

How can I show off about my bad eye?

0:21.9

To be honest, I thought I'd pulled this morning when I thought I'd pulled this morning when

0:25.6

you came in and started winking at me. Well, yeah, because one eye was virtually shut, wasn't it?

0:34.1

It's, yeah, I think I've got conjunctiveitis. I went to the chemist when I got back and I've got some drops, which I have to take every two hours. It doesn't actually hurt. It's just slightly irritable, if you see what, I mean, a bit like me generally. I was going to say. Listeners, if you didn't see us on Good Morning Britain, poor Ian, and I am now going to be sympathetic to him,

0:54.9

rolls in at 6 o'clock this morning wearing dark classes. I thought he was trying to be cool,

1:00.1

but then he took them off and I realised, no, he had a, he had a hideous, a hideous, swollen,

1:06.3

gammy eye. I was concerned. What did I say? I said, you should go to the hospital and everything, didn't I?

1:12.7

Well, yeah. And then Kate told us that she had the same thing last Friday and did go to hospital.

1:17.7

And she had to put in drops. I think every, but I don't think she had conjunctiveitis. She had

1:22.5

something else, didn't she? Anyway. She had to do it every hour. I know. Even during the night. Yeah, exactly all day and night. I'm certainly not doing that. Did you enjoy your meeting with Sasha Swire? Oh gosh. Yes. What a lovely lady to have written all of that. I know.

1:46.7

She seemed really sweet and really nervous. She was nervous as a kitten before going on there, wasn't she?

1:50.7

I obviously didn't see it.

1:53.3

And it's very annoying.

1:54.8

Explain to people who's such a swire.

1:56.4

She is the wife of Hugo Swire and wrote those diaries about David Cameron.

2:00.0

And she, I think it's the first

2:04.9

TV interview she's ever done. So I felt a bit sorry for really, but I'm sure it went fine. I didn't

2:10.8

hang around to watch. I mean, I liked her, but if you write a book like that, you, and she was sweet.

2:18.2

When I came back out again,

2:19.1

she said,

2:19.7

oh, please read it. She said, have you read it? And I said, well, no, just the sort of extract. And she said, well, please read the whole thing. Please read the whole thing. As if somehow another, we'd all got the wrong end of the stick about it. Well, no, with her, with her book, the extracts were a fair reflection of the book,

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