A China crisis, a dodgy attack ad, and Titchmarsh’s trousers

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As Westminster goes on its Easter holidays, Nish and Coco reflect on a busy end of term that saw a couple of ministerial resignations and a diplomatic row with China. Nish asks if Lord Cameron’s post No.10 activities leave him compromised in dealing with China as Foreign Minister. Coco also raises the plight of the WASPI women, who lost out due to the change in pension age - will they ever see any compensation?

Special guest George the Poet joins Nish and Coco for a fascinating conversation that takes in disillusionment with Westminster politics and the pitfalls of getting into political arguments over social media. Plus he reveals which famous comedian gave him his stage name.

Nish takes aim at a villainous Tory campaign ad, while Coco celebrates the life of Richard Taylor, father of Damilola. Also, find out why Alan Titchmarsh’s trousers have been censored in North Korea!

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George the Poet, spoken word artist and author of Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nishkamar. And I'm Coco Card.
0:08.0	This week Parliament gets a Chinese burn.
0:10.0	Why are politicians turning their backs on the waspie women?
0:13.3	And what has Kim Jong-un got against Alan Titchmarsh's trousers?
0:16.5	Plus, our special guest is the spoken word artist and activist George the poet.
0:24.0	Hi, Coco. Hi Nish, how are you?
0:25.0	Good, how was your week?
0:26.0	It's been good.
0:27.0	You know, so I'm going on holiday next week.
0:29.0	Oh, fantastic.
0:30.0	Oh yes.
0:31.0	Where are you going?
0:32.0	I'm sort of...
0:33.0	Or would you prefer to not say?
0:34.0	I don't want to tell you.
0:35.0	Is it North Korea?
0:36.0	No.
0:38.0	I'm just going on a very nice beach holiday too.
0:41.0	I'm going to Iron Appa.
0:42.0	You're going to Iron Appa? beach holiday to I am I ama you go to I and a a aper I didn't want to tell you
0:45.5	what the sight of 90s waves 90s UK garage all right it never dies it never does but I'm actually this
0:52.2	why I don't want to tell you because I knew you were going to be going and listening to like, DJ, like an MC knee. But I'm not, I'm actually, it's just genuinely a beach trip. So it's very beautiful. Yeah, yeah, I mean people always say that I betha, the bit that isn't sort of sweaty clubs and rooms where the walls have
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