Boris elopes, Bibi on the ropes (with Afua Hirsch)
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Ben and guest co-host journalist Afua Hirsch do a deep dive into the biggest stories in British politics including Dominic Cummings' damning testimony, Boris Johnson's secret wedding, why Viktor Orbán was at Number 10 Downing Street, and where the Labour party goes from its most recent defeat. They also talk about the latest deal that might oust Bibi Netanyahu from office, the coup in Mali, the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, German acknowledgment of a genocide in what is now Namibia, the new three-child policy in China, updates from Hong Kong, and Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open. Then Ben interviews the mayor of Budapest Gergely Karácsony about his run for Hungarian prime minister and how he plans to defeat Viktor Orbán.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to PodSave the World, I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.8 | Tommy is on vacation. |
| 0:15.6 | So today we have a very special guest joining us with apologies to all our other guests. |
| 0:20.9 | Our favorite recent guest, Afro-Hersh. |
| 0:23.3 | She's a journalist, columnist for the Guardian and a professor of journalism at the University |
| 0:27.6 | of Southern California. |
| 0:29.3 | She is also the author of Brit-Eish on race, identity and belonging. |
| 0:35.1 | Thank you so much, Afro-Hersh for joining us. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:38.1 | It's such a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:39.6 | Yeah, we're going to have some fun and people get to listen to someone other than me, |
| 0:43.5 | offer our opinions and that's sort of surely an improvement. |
| 0:46.5 | So on the show today, we're going to cover some truly dramatic terms in British politics, |
| 0:51.0 | even by the standards of Boris Johnson's Britain, the strange endgame for BB Netanyahu's |
| 0:56.0 | 10-year Israel, possibly. |
| 0:58.2 | Some overlooked Africa stories in Mali, Tigray, in an apology for genocide in Namibia, |
| 1:04.0 | a turn to a three-child policy in China and an update from Hong Kong. |
| 1:08.1 | And we'll talk about the Naomi Osaka controversy that has dominated the headlines. |
| 1:12.3 | Then I'm going to talk to the mayor of Budapest about his run for Prime Minister of Hungary |
| 1:16.9 | and how he plans to take on Viktor Orbán. |
| 1:20.1 | But first, let me just note, it was the 500th episode of PodSave America. |
| 1:25.8 | So they celebrated that on the episode that dropped yesterday. |
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