Abolish the rotten monarchy
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Another bad week for Prince Andrew. You could say the man hasn’t had a good week since 2011. Although, actually, he does live in a 30-bedroom mansion in Windsor and enjoyed a million quid a year from his mum.
In this week's cover story Will Lloyd makes the case for abolishing the monarchy, and that the Windsors have always been more involved with British politics than we know. He speaks to Oli Dugmore in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:06.9 | Another bad week for Prince Andrew. |
| 0:08.8 | That being said, he does live in a 30-bed mansion, has been getting about a million |
| 0:13.1 | quid a year from his mum. |
| 0:15.3 | My name's Olly Doug Moore. |
| 0:16.2 | This is the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm joined today for the New Statesman's Deputy Editor, Will Lloyd. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello, Ollie. Very nice to join you. It's a pleasure. |
| 0:23.3 | When has this happened before? Never. Never. We've never spoken. |
| 0:26.8 | Never, never spoken. Never podcasted together. Never had the pleasure, the privilege. But I'm sure |
| 0:31.1 | we will do many more in the near future. Excellent. Will. |
| 0:36.6 | Good morning. Yeah, good morning. |
| 0:38.1 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:39.0 | It's been nice knowing you. |
| 0:40.2 | Why should we get rid of the royals? |
| 0:42.0 | There is a moment in Andrew Loney's recent book entitled, which is a biography of the Duke and Duchess, or the former Duke and Duchess of your... Prince Andrew and Sarah Fergie Ferguson. |
| 0:57.0 | And there's one moment in it. |
| 0:58.0 | I would have considered myself a monarchist up until quite recently. |
| 1:03.0 | There's one moment in it where I just turned actually and I just sort of snapped. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the moment. Andrew's at a dinner party. Okay, so he's at some |
| 1:13.7 | country house. Everyone's in black tie. They're all sitting around in the candlelight. At one dinner |
| 1:18.6 | party, Andrew sniffed the patte served as first course and turned to his right. This patte smells. |
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