402. The Rick Thompson Report: What’s Going On? Nov. 2016 (Post-Truth Politics, Cricket and Tetris)

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🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Talking to my Dad about recent news, and we talked about Brexit, post-truth politics, the US election, the right-wing press in the UK, the political landscape in the EU, the rules of international cricket and the music from Tetris. http://wp.me/p4IuUx-75O

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0:35.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to Luke's English podcast how are you doing out there in
0:46.1	podcast land I hope you're all fine as usual now then here's a new episode and this one is number 402 and it's called the Rick Thompson
0:58.6	report. It's another Rick Thompson report. That means basically that my dad is back on the podcast in this episode.
1:06.4	And in a few moments you're going to hear our conversation which I recorded with my dad last week on the Thursday the 17th of
1:15.8	November 2016 just a week ago and in the conversation we talk about lots of things including these
1:26.4	subjects so we start by talking about the weather naturally then there's a bit
1:31.5	about the rules of international cricket. Then a Brexit update,
1:37.0	including details of the recent UK High Court decision regarding the government's power to trigger Article 50.
1:47.0	Article 50 is a piece of legislation, actually part of the Lisbon Treaty, that when triggered begins the
1:58.6	legal process of the UK's exit from the EU because we're not actually out of the EU yet despite the results
2:06.7	of the referendum.
2:08.6	We have to wait for the government to trigger Article 50 and then the whole process begins properly.
2:15.0	Trigger Article 50. It sounds, that sounds to me like something from Star Wars Episode
2:21.2	3, Revenge of the Sith.
2:24.1	Trigger Article 50.
2:26.7	In fact, it feels like the political narrative these days
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