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Oh God, What Now?

“Authoritarian in the streets, Libertarian in the sheets”

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As Britain registers the worst COVID toll in Europe, why is blame for the failure sliding off Boris Johnson? Lovelorn Prof Neil Ferguson feels the sap rising. Operation Bookshelf Barbarossa. Why VE Day belongs to us, not the petty nationalists. Is the fish a credible war animal? And who decided that if you’re pro-Brexit you’ve got to be pro-virus too? Dorian Lynskey, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt police one another’s tones. “People are saying this is not the time to criticise the government. It’s TRIPLY the time to criticise the government.” – Ian Dunt “VE Day wasn’t about victory OVER Europe. We can’t let the Daily Mail own it.” – Naomi Smith “If anyone’s going to fight to the death to go to the pub right now, it’s me.” – Ian Dunt Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ian Dunt and Naomi Smith. 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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0:00.0

Who's in the lioness squad?

0:02.0

Will inflation go down?

0:04.0

Why are their roadworks on my commute?

0:07.0

From sport to business to culture, Google helps millions of people in the UK access a variety

0:14.0

of quality news. Whether you're looking for analysis of the big match at Wembley or today's

0:19.0

top story from Westminster, Google connects you to a range of publishers so you can read all about it.

0:25.0

Learn more at g.co.stashleportingnews.uk

0:29.0

Hello and welcome to Remaniacs. It's week 7 in the big pandemic house. An unlike corny professor

0:42.0

Neil Ferguson and immigrant-lashing datrapin Nigel Farage, we're all still safely locked down.

0:47.0

Joining me from his law-rebiding shelter this week is Ian Dunt,

0:51.0

adds to a politics.co.uk. Hello Ian.

0:53.0

Hello, hello. It's the Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, one of the key scientific advisors in this crisis.

0:58.0

I mean, this was the closest we have to our celebrity advisor. Had to resign from sage after being busted for flouting his own

1:04.0

lockdown policy in order to see his lover. Do you have any sympathy with his predicament?

1:10.0

Well, no, not really, but I kind of... I do have this sympathy with her and her husband.

1:17.0

It's basically it's always the person that sort of... There's no public interest in that I end up having the sympathy with.

1:23.0

So in his case, of course, I get it right. If you give out advice and you do the opposite of the advice, then that's a news story, especially in this context.

1:31.0

And it's the hypocrisy that's the story. That's the excuse we will give ourselves.

1:35.0

But when it actually comes down to it and then she gets dragged in, like, why is her face taking up half of the front page of all the news papers

1:42.0

that she's using the story? The reason for that is because she's pretty young woman.

1:46.0

And people, a news editor, will put that on the front of a paper as soon as they can, rather than the picture usually of the guy that she's going with.

1:53.0

And so whenever these stories come out, sort of, a, you feel this like kind of indignation at the sort of moral curtain twitching,

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