How will 2022 be remembered? – Politics Weekly UK podcast

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In a year that saw three prime ministers, two monarchs and a whole lot of political and social unrest, how will 2022 be remembered? The Guardian’s John Harris looks back on the last 12 months, and asks what might happen in the next, with columnist Gaby Hinsliff and political editor Pippa Crerar. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:13.0	2022 has been a quiet boring kind of year.
0:21.0	Hasta la vista, baby. Thank you.
0:26.0	I know that we will deliver.
0:28.0	We will deliver. We will deliver.
0:31.0	Some mistakes were made.
0:35.0	Amazing. That's the year in three quick acts and no more than about 16 words.
0:39.0	It's all there. Anyway, we are going to look back at the best and of course the worst of 2022.
0:45.0	I'm John Harris and you are listening as ever to Politics Weekly UK for The Guardian and our end of year special.
0:52.0	Joining me to look back on the year and to look ahead to the next in the spirit of excitement, I'm sure.
0:59.0	Are the Guardians Gaby Hinsliff and the Guardians political editor Pippert Krerar? Hello to you both.
1:05.0	Hello.
1:06.0	Hi.
1:07.0	Hello, happy Christmas in fact.
1:09.0	Right, I'm now going to try and sum up the year as best I can.
1:13.0	Most of the time I can say it's a matter of experience.
1:16.0	It's a full game trying to summarise years.
1:19.0	But I suppose if I was pushed, I'd say that this has been yet another chapter in politics,
1:25.0	fragmenting a wildly flailing around in the long wake of the crash of 2008.
1:30.0	There is no stability. Everything seems to be in flux.
1:33.0	That's the case all over the world, but Brexit has meant that the UK has had a particularly bad dose.
1:39.0	No sooner as the pandemic upturned everything and the cost of living crisis comes along.
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