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Politics Unpacked

Is the UK doing the minimum in Syria?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Opinion podcast with David Aaronovitch, Lucy Fisher and Phil Collins. --Phil Collins:The anonymous man who said, to the attacker at Leytonstone tube station, “you ain’t no Muslim, bruv” has been hailed as speaking for moderate people of all faiths and none. Quite right too. Yet the statement is, alas, not quite true. We cannot attribute murder to faith but we cannot pretend faith is entirely irrelevant either.David Aaronovitch:Oh what a great brouhaha that Syria vote was. 'Momentous' said the BBC. A fabulous debate everyone agreed, with MPs congratulated - on either side - for weighing the issues and their consciences with almost exquisite aesthetic precision. Well, balls frankly. The decision was the minimum possible response a country like ours could have made. Anything else would have been an admission that, short of responding to being invaded, Britain had put its military out to grass. Lucy Fisher:It's received wisdom that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable & Labour will tank at the 2020 polls...

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Welcome to the Times Opinion Podcast. I'm Philip Webster. I'm

0:57.2

editor of the Red Box Daily News Bulletin. This morning my

1:01.5

guests David Aronovich, columnist for The Times,

1:04.0

Phil Collins columnist for The Times and Lucy Fisher,

1:08.0

senior political correspondent of The Times.

1:11.0

The first voice you'll hear is David Aronovich.

1:14.0

Oh, what a great Bruhaha that Syria vote was.

1:18.0

Momentous, said the BBC.

1:20.0

A fabulous debate, everyone agreed, with MPs congratulated on either side for weighing the issues

1:26.3

and their consciences with an almost exquisite aesthetic precision.

1:30.3

Well, balls, frankly. The decision was the minimum possible response a country like ours could have made.

1:37.0

Anything else would have been an admission that, short of responding to being invaded, Britain had put its military out to grass.

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