Fludemic, Zack Polanski, and a (rare) big-up to Keir
The Two Matts
The New World
4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Matts wonder what we’ve learned since Covid … and if the reaction to the current flu outbreak is anything to go by, the answer is not much. The conversation segways into Zack Polanski and political energy. Then in part two, both Matts are united - for once - in praise for Keir Starmer’s attempt to reinterpret the European Convention on Human Rights to deliver swift action on asylum seekers who break our laws. Enjoy!
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| 0:47.7 | Happy Thursday, everyone. |
| 0:48.8 | Hope you're in good health. |
| 0:50.1 | Yes, in... |
| 0:50.8 | Oh, good link there, mate, |
| 0:52.4 | to what we're going to talk about at the top of the show. |
| 0:54.1 | We are. Which is the fludemic. The fludemic, which suddenly in... Oh, good link there, mate, to what we're going to talk about at the top of the show, |
| 1:14.6 | which is the fludemic. The fludemic, which suddenly in... I don't know if it's just me, but in the last 48 hours, it seems to have surged to the front of everyone's minds and we're recording this on Thursday, sort of lunchtime. And there's nothing amusing about it, is there? Well, no,, unfortunately we can't sort of offer any seasonal merriment about it because it is very unpleasant. And the figures that have just come out suggest there's a really |
| 1:19.8 | steep rise, 43% year on year. And in the last week, cases rose by 50% week on week. So, you know, it's, and there's a lot of A&Es are now struggling. Yes. Because of this. So it's obviously a very, you know, it is, you know, it's on a pandemic, but it's serious. I saw the graph lines compared to the last three, four years and there's no doubt about it. It's, it's, you know, significantly up on where we've been before. |
| 1:45.1 | And, |
| 1:45.4 | of course, |
| 1:46.3 | the NHS is bursting at the seams |
| 1:47.9 | and we are potentially walking into a junior doctor's stroke |
| 1:51.7 | or rest of the doctors, |
| 1:52.6 | whatever we call them. |
| 1:53.3 | I think that officially resident doctors, |
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