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Hello and welcome back to the Americano Show, a series of discussions in which we talk about American politics, power and prejudices.

Each week, we will do at least two possibly more episodes speaking to an American or an American expert about what is going on in America.

We will cover the Trump presidency, of course, but we will also be doing quite a lot of

non-Trump-related podcasts, because if you're anything like me, the story of Donald Trump

can get a bit overwhelming. Please keep listening and enjoy it.

Today we are going to be talking about America's interest in Britain

and particularly America's interest in Britain's decline

because Tucker Carlson, the great TV star and journalist,

was in Britain this week and he did an interview with Pierce Morgan and began

it with a monologue about what's gone wrong with Britain and he advanced various ideas which we

shall discuss now and I'm joined by two limeys to discuss it not often we have two Brits on

Americano but it's great to have you both I'm joined by Tim Stanley of the Daily Telegraph and Ed West, who writes the wonderful substack, the wrong side of history. Sorry, I nearly forgot the name of your substack there, Redford. I was about to call it the rest is history, but then I realised. The West is history. That's why I thought about changing it, but unfortunately, I think they're lawyers, my object to that. The worst is history but then i realized the west is history that's why i thought about changing it but

unfortunately i think they're lawyers and i object to that the worst is history the west is the west is history

right yeah yeah very good oh because of your name very clever took a while uh anyway let's get

talking uh what's going wrong with Britain? It might be the journalist.

Tim, how did you feel?

Did you watch Tucker's monologue and how did it make you feel if you did?

I watched as much of it as I could.

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