83: Hysterical or historical?

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike Graham and Matt Kelly triumphantly return for more highbrow news debate including such topics as: the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the confusing nature of the latest regulations, Dominic Cummings' curious personality, whether pulling down statues of controversial individuals is a practical form of protest, virtue signallers jumping on the latest bandwagon, sports stars taking a knee and the dwindling circulation of the Guardian. It's news for the nuanced and current affairs for the cultured; it's the Thought Police.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to yet another sparkling edition of the Thought Police, the podcast that makes you think and sometimes makes you angry,
0:56.1	hopefully sometimes inspires you to do good works. Matt Kelly from the New European is here,
1:00.5	I'm Mike Graham. Matt a very good afternoon to you. Hello mate, how are you? Well, I'm Mike Graham. Matt, a very good afternoon to you.
1:03.0	Hello, mate, how are you?
1:04.0	Well, I'm all right.
1:05.0	I mean, I'm not quite sure where we're going.
1:07.0	I'm not quite sure who's in charge of the clattering train.
1:10.0	And I'm really not entirely certain what's going to happen this weekend because it all looks like it might kick off in a massive way
1:17.5	But it's been a bit of a weird time, isn't it? I can't remember a period in my life and I'm 51 now I can't remember a period in my life where everything seems quite as unstable as it is you know and in flux.
1:31.3	Yes well here's my summation of what's going on. A very small minority of people
1:36.4	seem to be of the opinion that they can change the direction of not only our history but our future. The police have seemingly given up policing. the that most of the media isn't paying any attention to all of it.
1:54.0	Do you think, well, I was with you right up until the last part.
1:58.0	I think the media is sort of, is having a field day really.
2:01.0	Well, I mean, we are literally going gangbusters at all ready and we have tripled our audience in a month, right?
2:07.0	And when I say the media isn't paying any attention,
2:11.0	what I mean by that is that they seem to be reporting stories as though they're just every other day stories rather than what you just described which is kind of chaos.
2:20.8	Yeah, I think unprecedented chaos as well, yeah, maybe because everything's been at such a high
2:26.0	pitch for so long, you know, if you think, right, you know, it was June 2016, so we've had now, well,
2:31.6	we've literally had four years of high-pitched national argument and debate and people
2:36.7	throwing things at each other.
2:37.8	Maybe everyone's just normalised that and it's hard to get really wound up about even deeper levels of incompetence which is what I think we're seeing right?
2:46.0	Yeah. Yeah well tell us what you think is is the reason for it.
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