Behind the News: Ruling-Class 'Chums' w/ Simon Kuper

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Doug speaks with Simon Kuper, Financial Times columnist and author of Chums, on the upper-class caste that’s been ruling Britain for a decade. Then, an interview with James Meadway, director of the Progressive Economy Forum, on the dispiriting economics of the leader of the Labour Party, the drab Kier Starmer.

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0:00.0	.
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0:33.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News, my name is Doug Henwood.
0:36.0	In unusual thematic unity today, two looks at British politics.
0:40.0	Simon Cooper, author of a new book in the wing of the British upper class
0:43.0	have produced outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson
0:46.0	will give us the rundown in his cast.
0:48.0	In James Meadway, a former advisor to the Corbin Wing of the Labor Party
0:52.0	will analyze the economic thinking of that party's current leader,
0:55.0	the drab Cure Starmer.
0:57.0	Alexander Boris de Fethel Johnson, known publicly as Boris,
1:00.0	an owl to his family, is on his way out as Prime Minister of Britain.
1:04.0	His regime has been marked by one scandal after another,
1:07.0	including some massive violations of covert isolation rules
1:10.0	that his government had imposed in everyone else in the country,
1:13.0	except him and his pals.
1:14.0	It all finally caught up with him as his cabinet and party decided
1:17.0	it was time for him to go.
1:19.0	Under the British parliamentary system,
1:21.0	his successor will be decided by the membership of the conservative,
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