340: Britain’s border farce

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the judicial power-grab behind the Gazan resettlement ruling, why we must kill the assisted-dying bill and the health minister who thinks you can identify as a llama.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers.
0:02.9	Delight to be joined as ever with Spike's editor Tom Slater.
0:05.3	Hello.
0:05.8	And back with us again, Spike columnist Luke Gettos.
0:08.3	Welcome.
0:08.8	Coming up on today's show, we've got loads to discuss.
0:11.3	We'll be talking about Britain's crazy judge-led asylum system,
0:15.7	the shambles of the assisted dying bill, and the Labour WhatsApp affair.
0:21.6	But before we get into that, Tom, we should talk about the 25th anniversary that's coming up, Spikes Big 25th 25th.
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