Flags, Far Right Fury & Terrible Singing
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Marina and Jemma dive into the chaos surrounding Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally, from the anti-Muslim rhetoric and media silence to the genuinely astonishing musical performances that may qualify as crimes against audio.
They unpack why anger and misinformation spread so easily online, question where the press coverage disappeared to, and look at what happens when algorithms replace shared reality. There’s also Led By Donkeys trolling the march to perfection, a powerful response from faith leaders and broadcasters, and - because balance is important - perhaps the bleakest edition of Blind Date ever recorded.
Funny, furious and occasionally despairing, this episode asks: what kind of country are we becoming… and why was that singing so catastrophically bad?
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| 0:00.0 | Insane. It's because they're so proud of their skin. That's the thing I don't understand about |
| 0:03.5 | nationalists. They're like, we're fucking white. It's like, if you love your skin so much, |
| 0:07.8 | do some skin care, guys. You fucking... Hello and welcome to The Trall, where the takes are hot, the logic is optional, and the scrolling is relentless. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:28.6 | And I'm Gemma Forte and Marina. |
| 0:31.0 | Before we get going, can I ask you a very important but slightly existential question? |
| 0:39.7 | Nice soft start, yeah. I mean, get it off your chest if you need to. Okay, where are we? Well, right now I'm in my home office, you weirdo. You're in |
| 0:46.3 | your lounge, in your house. No, no, no, but where are we? Is this a trick question? Have you, |
| 0:52.3 | have you been kicked in the head by a horse? Maybe. Or maybe, |
| 0:56.7 | like Robert Jenrick, I've had a slightly weird day at work where suddenly I'm in the middle of like |
| 1:02.6 | a really vicious cheese dream and everybody's laughing at me. This was posted by the artist taxi driver. |
| 1:10.7 | Where are we? |
| 1:12.1 | Where are we less than two years later? |
| 1:14.8 | You're in a different party. |
| 1:15.8 | We're here. |
| 1:18.3 | We're here. |
| 1:22.7 | Where are we? |
| 1:23.7 | We're here. |
| 1:24.2 | You used to be there. |
| 1:25.1 | We're here. |
| 1:44.8 | They're actually all pointing. You used to be over there. Yeah, bans. In parliament. Love that. A bit of parliamentary bans. Decent bans. You know what's quite funny is that he doesn't even break a little smile. No. He's very serious. He does. You don't, you know, you don't laugh at the generic. |
| 1:46.1 | That's because he doesn't know where we are. |
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