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Oh God, What Now?

39: MINI-PUBCAST: The monstering of George Soros, regional impact leaks

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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PODFLASH: Two big Brexit stories broke immediately after we finished recording last week's episode, and we didn't want to wait til next Friday to deal with them. So Ian Dunt met our producer Andrew Harrison in the Red Lion pub off Whitehall to discuss the trashing of philanthropist George Soros – is Britain REALLY buying the worst conspiracy theories of Eastern European autocrats? Plus, those leaked regional impact statements and what they mean. Beware: pubby background noise. Regular scheduled episodes return on Friday 16 Feb as normal. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Photo by Matan Segev from Pexels. www.pexels.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are the papers driving you up the wall? Same here.

0:03.6

I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm here to let you know about our new podcast Papercuts.

0:07.7

It's the modern newspaper review where we look at the biggest stories from party gates

0:12.2

to psychosegels, from Boris to Trump to Megan and Harry and find out what's really going

0:18.1

on behind the headlines.

0:20.0

That's Papercuts, out lunchtime every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with me Miranda Sawyer.

0:25.2

Subscribe on your favourite podcast app.

0:27.9

Papercuts, we read the papers so you don't have to.

0:58.9

Hello, we are in the basements of the famous online poverty and the famous political

1:04.9

white pool. This is Andrew Housen and I'm the producer of RemainX and I'm with Ian Dunst

1:08.9

and we're doing an emergency podcast for you because as happens every week, no sooner

1:13.3

to be finished recording last week's episode, they step up the door and enormous things

1:16.6

happen. In the case of this week, it was firstly, it was the regional impact assessments

1:22.0

which leaked pretty much the moment we finished recording it.

1:24.9

And it was the sudden astonishing attack on George Soros which appeared in the telegraph

1:30.9

with the help of the male and seems to have reported something into British politics that

1:36.9

have been part of your people's history for a long time or fringe of the politics.

1:41.9

And it looks like we're stuck with it.

1:43.9

Ian, let's start with Soros. What is going on here?

1:46.9

How has this happened and why has it happened?

1:49.9

It's hard to tell really whether it's sort of cynicism or ignorance but the best thing

1:54.5

to do is to presume that it's ignorance. The news itself, that Soros is donating this

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