90: Epic fail

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Ring the bell, it's time to have your work marked by the Thought Police. On the agenda with Mike Graham and Kevin O'Sullivan today is: The A-level results fiasco, boring students, university education, the migrant matter, Priti Patel, why it's better to work from the office, Public Health England, Dido, institutional incompetence, becoming a nation of curtain-twitchers, the real coronavirus crisis, Boris Johnson's camping holiday, the death of the economy, Sadiq Khan, the suburbanisation of LA and New York, why crime is on the rise in London, Jolyon Maugham and loads more. As usual, anything can happen in the next half hour.

You can follow the boys on Twitter. Mike is: @IROMG, Kevin is @TVKev and you'll find the podcast too: @ThoughtPoliceTP.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to another exciting edition of The Thought Police with me Mike Graham and
0:52.1	him Kevin O'Sullivan.
0:53.3	Kevin very good afternoon to you.
0:54.7	Hello Mike.
0:55.3	It's thankfully not quite as hot as it was last week.
0:58.0	It's not but I'm very bored.
0:59.8	Are you bored?
1:00.8	Why are you bored?
1:01.8	I tell you why I'm bored. I'm bored.
1:03.0	I'm bored with fucking exam results.
1:05.0	I've had enough of them.
1:07.0	You know, kids, by all means be interested in your own exam results.
1:11.0	Don't expect me to be interested in them. Okay the government
1:14.3	has screwed this up in spades that's a decent enough story but this annual
1:18.4	obsession we have with kids exam results when you and I were kids no one gave a toss why not me I
1:26.3	couldn't care less I took nine o levels right I was told by my career's
1:29.9	advisor such as he was that if I didn't get five of them I'd be a
1:33.4	dustman so which I said well I quite like being a dustman actually it sounds like quite a
1:36.5	good job because in fact if you remember there was a time in London back in
1:40.1	the sort of set late 70s where if you could get a job on the on the nighttime
1:44.0	West End dustbin run right it was a great job you got paid something like a
1:47.8	hundred quid a time at night you worked from about midnight till four in the
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