Ep 108: Flag Waving Idiots and Plagiarism

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Apparently, Sunak is thinking of making Clare Coutinho Chancellor, so he can thwart Rachel Reeves' ambitions of becoming the first female Chancellor. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has written a book about economics which claims that women aren't credited enough for their ideas. So it's a terrible shame she's been caught out with not crediting people's ideas. The FT have discovered twenty examples of pretty blatant plagiarism in her book. Ouch. She's getting some flak but perhaps not as much flak as Steve Coogan is getting for a remark he made on a podcast. He accused Royal fans of being 'flag waving Idiots'. Over at GB News they're very angry. Someone who was a big fan of Coogan's work as Alan Partridge was Matthew Perry who sadly died this week. Jemma and Marina pay tribute and recall what Friends meant to them. There's an Under Rated Clip of The Week and, as ever, The Trawl would not be The Trawl without pudding. This time it's from Larry and Paul. Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.
0:04.0	Tax Act is going to name some now.
0:07.0	Sitting in traffic.
0:08.0	Folding a fitted bed sheet.
0:11.0	Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.
0:14.0	Digging a hole.
0:16.0	Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.
0:19.0	Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make taxes fun,
0:24.3	but Tax Act can help you get them done.
0:27.5	Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.1	I spent my teenage years worshipping him,
0:32.4	but he's a terrible human being.
0:34.6	He's a nasty piece of work.
0:35.7	Everybody knows it.
0:37.2	I don't know if that's... I don't know if that's fair. Fair.
0:43.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:48.4	I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Percis and we were thrilled to see Russ Jones, also known as Russ in Cheshire,
0:56.4	back on X this week. So he used to do those epic week in Tory threads, which I think he's got a book out as well.
1:02.8	And he's, I'm guessing he does them over on threads as well. And we've missed them over on X. So here's a sample from the latest. And as as ever it's a belter. So we've picked out our
1:13.4	favourite bits and I will start. Britain faces a crisis in health, education, farming, energy,
1:21.4	housing, childcare, social care, imports, exports, manufacturing services, debt, growth and
1:27.2	infrastructure.
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