85: COUP OR NO COUP with special guest Ayesha Hazarika

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On this week’s queue-jumping REMAINIACS, comedian and political commentator Ayesha Hazarika joins us to discuss the coup that wasn’t, the Deal that might or might not be, and comedy’s ongoing struggle with the least funny thing ever: Brexit. PLUS Damon Albarn of Blur releases a Brexit concept album with his band The Good, The Bad And The Queen. Are we at least going to get a Brexit dividend of good art to see us through the tinned beans years to come? This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Sophie Black. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform – plus smart Remainiacs merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop 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	Hello and welcome to Remaniacs, the podcast that always jumps the queue.
0:13.0	A Theresa May tries to push through a deal that nobody likes and her critics on all sides insist that they could bash out a perfect alternative no problem, give them a couple of hours, boss, job done.
0:21.0	We'll be looking at the multiverse of possibilities that await us over the next few weeks.
0:25.0	With me are two of our regulars. Welcome back for Ros Taylor, research manager of the Truth Trust and Technology Commission.
0:30.0	Hi Ros, what have you been up to since you last on the show?
0:32.0	Well, the Truth Trust and Technology Commission has launched our report which is very exciting.
0:36.0	We did that this week and it's a lot shorter than the withdrawal agreement, so get online and read it.
0:41.0	No, it's basically how ways to fix fake news and disinformation.
0:45.0	We think we've reached a crunch point and it's time to tax the platforms and start acting on all the problems.
0:54.0	Just tax the platforms for what, just in general, or every time we do something?
0:59.0	No, no, no, on their advertising revenues.
1:03.0	So the idea would be that that would fund a lot of media literacy and a lot of extra work to round misinformation and disinformation.
1:11.0	Cool. They got money?
1:13.0	They have got some, yeah. I understand a bit of it.
1:16.0	They like tax?
1:17.0	Not a lot. No, they don't.
1:20.0	It's worth a go, I think.
1:23.0	Yeah, we should try it.
1:25.0	Do you have to say Truth Trust and Technology Commission?
1:28.0	No, we say T3.
1:30.0	T3?
1:32.0	So you could use Google, T3, LST, T3 to get to the report and read it.
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