84: Poles apart

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mike Graham from talkRADIO and Matt Kelly from the New European are back for more current affairs debate and discussion. Topics include: Marcus Rashford's free school meals campaign, seeing the best in people, trying to capture the mood of the nation from within the news room, incendiary headlines, what the public want from their news, the seriousness of our political environment, scrapping statues, the progression of the status of women in the workplace, the polarising impact of immigration and cultural change on local communities, a nation politically divided, football's return without fans, giving up on lockdown, Christmas trees, podcasting at a distance and marijuana. Anything can happen in the next half hour!

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome back to another sparkling edition of The Thought Police, the one podcast that makes you think with me Mike Graham and Matt Kelly. of the
0:55.0	condition of the thought police the one podcast that makes you think with me Mike Graham and Matt Kelly the publisher of the new European very good afternoon to you Matt
0:58.8	Hello mate you okay. Yeah I'm very well very well I know it's been another fascinating little period of a week since we last spoke.
1:05.6	There's been loads more happening. People urinating in places they shouldn't, people getting arrested for doing things that they shouldn't.
1:13.5	Marcus Rashford teaching the government how to make social policy.
1:17.4	I don't know where to begin really.
1:19.4	What a great, I mean what an absolute silver lining in this massive black cloud we're living through to see an intelligent young black 22 year old
1:30.0	footballer with all the money in the world able to move people to that degree and
1:34.8	represent and be for me for you know a great representative of what wasn't Britain
1:40.8	can and should you know what I mean not only was I so impressed with the idea
1:44.8	in the first place, and I don't necessarily agree with it,
1:46.9	but we can talk about that later on.
1:48.4	But the way that he did it, the way that he also was so humble about it,
1:52.4	he didn't crow, he didn't allow himself to be
1:54.6	kind of hijacked by any political party he just said isn't it great to see what we can do
1:59.2	when we all get together and what a great message.
2:05.2	It's obviously just a nice decent fellow. You know, it's very easy to get that, and we mustn't forget that, you know, there are lots of
2:10.7	real arsles out there, but the vast majority people are nice decent people and I think the more we hear about that sometimes in the media the only thing you talk about is all the stuff, you know, and then someone like Marcus Rashford comes along and you get a bit of a reminder that actually there's lots and lots of good positive thoughts and actions out there.
2:32.2	Well, this is it.
2:33.0	And I mean, I spoke to Peter Hitchins this week,
2:34.6	as I always do on my show.
2:36.2	And he was put, the question was put to him
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