Are We Too Obsessed with the US?
Not Another One
Richards Green Montgomerie Martin
4.7 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It has been another week dominated by news from the US…but do we pay too much attention to every twist and turn while neglecting events in Europe and elsewhere? We then contradict our concerns about this by discussing at length whether the Biden withdrawal is an epic game changer…Plus was Starmer right to withdraw the whip from Labour rebels…and who is going to win the Tory leadership?
Credits:
Producer - David Kurzer
Exec Producer - Jack Suddaby
Video & Audio Edit - Beautiful Strangers Limited
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Not Another One with me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin and Miranda |
| 0:17.2 | Green. Thank you all very much for listening for new listeners. And there are many new |
| 0:22.5 | listeners each week. What we do is we pose one big question. And this week we're posing the |
| 0:30.3 | question, are we in the UK and the UK media too obsessed with what happens in the United States. And we will immediately contradict the |
| 0:41.6 | implication of that question by then exploring the question. Has the events of recent days been a game |
| 0:50.7 | changer of historic significance? But to show here, we're not too obsessed with the United |
| 0:57.5 | States. We'll be looking at two other big domestic themes. Kirstama's style of leadership in a |
| 1:07.0 | week where, you know, they haven't been in power for a month and a few Labour MPs have lost |
| 1:12.0 | the whip and the Tory leadership. We now know how long it will go on for and basically who's |
| 1:19.1 | going to stand. So we've got a lot to cram in in our time together. First of all, thank you so much |
| 1:25.9 | to the sponsors, get living, which make this possible, |
| 1:29.8 | and we'll be hearing more about them later on. And just another note, Miranda Green is up |
| 1:36.0 | a mountain somewhere, but she is going to be joining us as we're going to find out and addressing all the three issues that we're going to be exploring. |
| 1:49.3 | Now, let's begin with these extraordinary twists and turns in America, but by stepping back a bit |
| 1:57.4 | and posing this question. So since Biden announced on Sunday, he was pulling out a |
| 2:03.7 | justifiably news swamping event, but it was still, say, by Thursday of this week, the 10 past 8 |
| 2:13.3 | lead on the Today program, on many front pages of newspapers, Twitter obsessed by in Britain. |
| 2:19.5 | And Tim, you have said a couple of times on Twitter, or pose the question, are we too obsessed |
| 2:26.5 | with the United States? And I think you think we are. Then we say, we'll come on to the |
| 2:31.2 | developments of the week and their implications. I should say immediately though, Steve, I'm a complete hypocrite. |
| 2:36.8 | Because I can't get enough of it myself. |
| 2:39.8 | And I agree with you as well. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Richards Green Montgomerie Martin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Richards Green Montgomerie Martin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.