How to win a Culture War

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Having lost control of the virus, the economy and now the Conservative Party, can mojo-free COVID casualty Boris Johnson relaunch himself with a war on Lefty Luvvies? Behind the scenes, are we looking at an autumn Sunak vs Gove smackdown? Is the big winner of Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis really… Donald Trump? And how to fight – and win – a culture war. “History goes in the direction you fight for.” – Ian Dunt “You’re more likely to have a criminal record than attend a party conference so yes, technically they’re all deviants.” – Naomi Smith “From cinemas to music to comedy, you can see a future where the government has turned the country into a cultural wasteland.” – Ian Dunt Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout. Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith, Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. It looks like you're trying to listen to Remaniacs. Would you like some help with that?
0:07.0	The project cannot be saved. Please restart your government and try again.
0:22.0	Welcome to Remaniacs. I'm Dorian Linsky, and joining me this week are three power users of Microsoft Office.
0:28.0	Ian Dunt is the editor of Politics.co.uk and also of how to be a liberal. You can get a 10% discount code for your copy when you click the link in the show notes.
0:36.0	Ian, I'm sure we'll be giving us some of the money from that.
0:39.0	Hi, Ian. That's just just to be clear that that is absolutely not true.
0:45.0	No one gets the money. All the money must come to me.
0:49.0	You're bathing in liberal cash. I've had to build a whole basement for it. It's just overflowing.
0:55.0	Nearly 16,000 positive COVID tests were missing for the daily figures last week because the Excel spreadsheet that was being used to track them had become too large.
1:03.0	How can any human being be expected to foresee that problem? Where does this rate on the grayling scale of the whole town?
1:12.0	Oh, not high. No, no. That's not helpful because I mean, look, it's like a catastrophic cock up using technology that's completely ill-suited and I mean, literally decades out of date.
1:24.0	But that's, you know, you can sort of see how they ended up there, you know, patching shit up and getting to this problem.
1:30.0	Whereas, grayling stuff is like, hey, a whole nother level of stupid.
1:35.0	And also a whole nother level of vinyl, you know, like his, and, you know, just with bad motivations.
1:42.0	Like, you look at his shit in prisons or on ships. I mean, it's all profound.
1:45.0	And he is activating the idea from the start, you know, from the basement level of the idea.
1:51.0	He's been part of the incompetence involved in it and the wrong headedness, the moral wrong headedness in it.
1:57.0	So I mean, no one the grayling scale, but very high on an average human scale of an aptitude and stupidity.
2:04.0	Would you use some of the 12 billion pound cost of test and trace to get an up to date version of Microsoft Office?
2:11.0	Yeah, yeah. You see more columns.
2:13.0	Yeah, or maybe just buy them a lot of Chromebooks.
2:16.0	Either way, if they can get past software that was developed in what like 1987, then it will be an improvement on where they are now.
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