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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

Boris Bad Enough?

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

Hoover Institution

News Commentary, Government, News, News:news Commentary, Politics

4.8658 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Britain’s party-throwing prime minister may soon be thrown out of office; Ukraine and Russia are seemingly on the brink of an armed conflict that could throw the entire continent into tumult; and how to deter Russian aggression (other than sanctions)? Andrew Sullivan, proprietor of Substack’s Weekly Dish and Dishcast podcast, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane for a closer look at UK politics and European geopolitics.

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, January the 25th, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

0:17.0

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I'll be your moderator today.

0:21.2

That means I get to introduce the stars of our show.

0:23.3

Three of my colleagues we jokingly refer to

0:25.2

as the Good Fellows.

0:26.4

That would be the historian Neil Ferguson,

0:28.4

the economist John Cochran,

0:30.2

the Geostr Strategist, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster,

0:32.7

they are Hoover Institution Senior Fellows all.

0:35.8

Gentlemen, good to see you. And keeping in our tradition here

0:38.1

at 2022, it seems we have a guest who offers two things, a lot of wisdom and a very cool

0:43.1

accent. Joining us today is Andrew Sullivan. Andrew is a proprietor of the weekly dish on

0:48.0

Substack, which offers a little bit of everything for you information consumers, column writing,

0:52.8

polite disagreement, a reader's form.

0:54.4

You can hear his decidedly British voice on his dishcast podcast.

0:58.0

Andrew Solvin, welcome to Goodfellows.

1:00.0

Thank you very much for having me.

1:01.6

Okay, Andrew, I think we owe it to our audience, especially our loyal Neil Ferguson,

1:05.3

viewers out there to get a little insight into Brother Ferguson.

1:09.0

You happen to go back to Oxford and University Days with Neil. Can you give us a little window to what Neil you happen to go back to oxford and university days with

1:11.8

Neil can you give us a little window to what Neil Ferguson was like back then keeping in mind

1:15.7

Andrew it's a family show it was great it was great were it we had a good time and I think we

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