A moment of clarity?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Will the seismic trauma of COVID-19 provide the moment of clarity we need to change the way we live? Authoritarian governments seize on Corona to enact the repressive moves they’ve always craved. Chemicals and ventilators: is the Government’s slipperiness with facts undermining its Corona message? Transition denialism drags us towards the abyss. And our special guest, former Labour MP for Bury James Frith, give his totally disinterested take on the arrival of the Starminator. “There IS a money tree – and it isn’t magic. It is sensible to spend money when you need to.” – Ian Dunt “There will be an upside to this crisis if it makes us confront the changes we need to make in society and in work… It could force a welcome change.” – James Frith “You hear people saying don’t question the police, it’s an emergency, don’t complain… That is precisely the opposite to the approach we should be taking.” – Ian Dunt Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.2	Hello and welcome to the first remaining act of April,
0:55.5	following the longest march since Chairman Mao.
0:57.9	Is anybody else tired of living through two significant periods of history one after the other?
1:02.8	Can we have a period of boring news?
1:05.7	I'm Dorian Litsky, joining me down the line this week are two of our regulars.
1:08.8	Ross Taylor is an editor over at the LSEs Brexit blog. Hi, Ross.
1:12.8	Hello.
1:13.7	So Victor Orban has unsurprisingly won the competition to be the first European leader to hit
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1:26.0	The Washington Post says coronavirus has killed its first democracy.
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