Chemical castration and the government’s prison plan … is it nuts?
The Two Matts
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4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Is the government’s new plan for dealing with our burgeoning prison population sensible? And is it a vote winner? Two very different questions - the Matts discuss. And did the red top tabloids fall for the oldest trick in the art of political communications? Also this week - what did Trump’s Oval Office ambush of the South African President this week add up to? More than It appears is the Matts verdict. Enjoy!
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| 1:04.6 | Hello and happy Thursday. |
| 1:05.8 | Happy Thursday, one and all. |
| 1:07.5 | Hope you're all having a wonderful day. |
| 1:09.6 | We've got a very interesting show today. We do. |
| 1:09.8 | We've got two parts. |
| 1:10.7 | We're going to talk about ambush in the White House in the second half, which was another extraordinary moment in the Oval Office. |
| 1:16.5 | He's asked it again. But the first half, we want to talk about the proposed changes to the prison system led by David Gork. |
| 1:24.3 | This is a report that's come out today, Thursday, |
| 1:29.8 | and it was commissioned in October after the, |
| 1:32.8 | I mean, partly in response to the influx of prisoners after the August riots, and rightly so. |
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