Is Britain begging for boring?

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Labour’s policies aren’t exciting or even that clear. But is boring what Britain needs right now? Or is it ultimately leading to a lack of confidence in Labour leadership. Plus, George Osborne's wedding was disrupted by Just Stop Oil, OR WAS IT? Either way, was the extensive coverage of the orange confetti attack proof the group is making an impact? And in the extra bit for subscribers, are Gen Z just slackers who don’t want to work hard? That’s Oh God, What Now? With Paper Cuts’ Miranda Sawyer. “I am happy to put on the record that I am finding the Labour Party incredibly boring at the moment.” – Marie Le Conte. Instead of "Yes We Can", it's "We'd love to, but..." - Matt Green. “I don’t know what kind of poll lead they need to be braver.” – Dorian Lynskey. “I genuinely think if Labour get in they will do things around, education, around social housing, that will make a difference…I BELIEVE” – Miranda Sawyer. “This idea that there's no difference between non violent protest and an assassination attempt is so disingenuous.” – Matt Green. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Matt Green, Marie Le Conte and Paper Cuts’ Miranda Sawyer. Producer: Alex Rees & Adam Wright. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ogun What Now. I'm Dorian Linsky. On Friday's show, Keir Starmer and Rachel
0:10.1	Reeves seem allergic to excitement and labour supporters at pitching for the vision thing.
0:14.4	But after years of politicians over-promising and under-delivering, is this drab realism
0:18.1	what voters want? Are we in the age of under-promising?
0:21.1	Plus, they've managed to get tickets for every major sporting event of the year, well done,
0:25.7	just off-oiler everywhere. But is there strategy working?
0:28.7	I guess that they've even got Taylor Swift tickets, haven't they?
0:30.6	See anyway.
0:31.9	And in the extra bit for Patreon backers, they're wicked and they're lazy. Young women on TikTok
0:36.6	are apparently trading in ambition for something called lazy girl jobs. Is this an admission
0:40.8	of defeat or a healthy commitment to a more balanced life? Let's meet the panel.
0:45.0	Miranda Sawyer is a journalist broadcaster and host of the brand new podcast Papercuts,
0:48.7	reading the news so we don't have to. Hello, Miranda.
0:50.8	Oh yeah?
0:51.8	So we don't normally start with the guest, but this is a papercuts kind of story.
0:55.5	All week, the big news story really has been speculation about the identity of the BBC
1:01.5	presenter accused of soliciting pictures from young people and they were kind of going
1:06.9	back and forth and the story seemed to be falling apart and the sun seemed to be in trouble.
1:11.5	Just before we start recording, Hugh Edwards' wife made a statement going that it is Hugh
1:17.0	Edwards and that he is under impatient care and he's going to be taking time off, etc,
1:23.9	even as the police said that actually nothing illegal had happened. But I suppose the
1:29.4	illegality matters less because it's still a scandal. So is the sun despite sailing close to
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