Episode 55: In Medias Res

CakeWatch

Chris Kendall/Steve Bullock

Referendum, News, Uk Politics, European Union, Eu Politics, Politics, Brexit, Eu

4.8 • 165 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ancient historian Katie Low joins Chris to talk about why ancient history has so much to teach us about modern Brexit. Will Brexit be the UK's Sicilian Expedition? (Yes.) Is Boris Johnson the modern Alcibiades? (Sort of.) Is Jacob Rees Mogg a modern Cicero? (No.) Is Jeremy Corbyn the modern Julius Caesar? (No but Seumas Milne might be.) With a side order of griping at British educational elitism.

Katie's guest post on Chris' blog

Timothy Snyder's speech for Europe Day 2019 - "we are more than our myths"

#ThucydidesKlaxon

Special Guest: Katie Low.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new roadblock
0:02.5	It's fake democracy
0:04.3	We're going up the wrong way
0:08.3	We're going to have to stop
0:10.2	Creaming soft
0:12.4	A secret voice
0:13.8	They can expose them all
0:16.2	We're going up the wrong way
0:19.5	We're going to have to stop Searlings up Welcome to episode of the wrong way. We're going to have to stop.
0:22.6	Searly soft.
0:23.8	Welcome to episode 55 of Cakewatch, the podcast that is definitively not leaving the EU on 31st of October.
0:33.1	So, listen, Cakewatch, as you may have noticed, is in semi-dormant mode.
0:40.0	Steve and I haven't recorded for about a month now.
0:43.1	We do want to keep it going.
0:45.9	We don't have any plans to discontinue the podcast just yet.
0:49.3	So we're just working out what we're going to do with the podcast going forward
0:52.9	that involves the minimum
0:55.0	what shall I call it the minimum having to look and pay attention to the awful shit show
1:02.3	that is going on in the UK so there's that so watch watch the space but anyway I'm back
1:09.8	I'll tell you why I'm back in a minute.
1:12.0	But first, the follow-up,
1:14.0	firstly, the last episode that we did a couple of weeks ago
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