Ep 81: Rhodes Burns and Frosty Climate Denial

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jemma and Marina open with tributes to the BBC's George Alagiah and singer Sinéad O'Connor who we both sadly lost this week - RIP. Then it's onto a story that has rightly been dominating the news this week (apart from the frog-faced old man who can’t bank with Coutts) - and that's climate change. They chat through the hot (and not so hot) takes of what's happening in Rhodes and Palermo, with expert insight from Professor Richard Betts and...Julie, who had a wonderful holiday in Crete and doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. The ladies discuss the insane potential row back on green policies from Labour and The Conservatives and discuss the very real possibility that the general election could see marginal seats being fought as de facto referenda on green policies - joy. Because what should one do when the world is burning? Well, you ditch your green plans and net zero targets because fewer than 500 people in Uxbridge and S.Ruislip resulted in a shock by-election Tory hold…obvs. Then it's onto Lord Frost (or Dave as Marina refers to him) and the terrifying climate denial nonsense that is now being spouted in the House of Lords. Because that's what happens when you let someone like Boris Johnson put unelected bureaucrat bezzies into our upper chamber. Then it's a wrap - with a topical pudding from The Exploding Heads. Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @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.
0:30.0	There's no such thing as stable temperatures.
0:32.7	We live in a dynamic planet,
0:34.6	and I'm sure next week or the week after we'll probably, well, it's hope we'll be in basking sunshine.
0:43.7	Hello. And welcome to The Trull, where we swirled through social media so you don't have to. I'm Marina Perkis.
0:49.8	And I'm Gemma Forte. And on the 24th of July, BBC journalist and news reporter George Alagaya sadly died at the age of 67.
1:00.3	This was nine years after he had been diagnosed with cancer and tributes to the man came pouring in.
1:06.6	And according to those who knew him, by all accounts, he was a lovely, gentle soul whose
1:12.3	off-air demeanour more than lived up to how he came across on air.
1:17.3	Yeah, LBC presenter Sangita Meiska tweeted,
1:20.6	Growing up, when the BBC's George Ola Gai was on TV, my dad would shout,
1:25.0	George is on, and we'd run to watch the man who inspired a generation of British Asian journalists.
1:30.2	That scene was replicated across the UK. We thank you, George, RIP.
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