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🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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JD Vance's holiday to the cotswolds continues, where he's been meeting with Tories, breakfasting with Nigel Farage, and having a barbecue with a former Apprentice candidate who says 'Bosh' a lot.
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day |
| 0:08.7 | and the stuff that's even more important than politics too, from J.D. Vance's unlikely friendships |
| 0:13.1 | to the outrage over the Labour minister who said that we should all get fat jabs and be beach-ready. |
| 0:18.6 | And with me to unpack all of that the most likely friendship of |
| 0:21.8 | all it is the beach ready robert crampton hello morning hugo good morning and the equally beach |
| 0:26.4 | ready alice thompson morning hugo you also beach ready i think you very much i was wondering if i |
| 0:30.6 | just insulted you by saying you're only equally beach ready you know i think that's about right |
| 0:34.8 | do you yeah i think we're all extremely beach-ready. |
| 0:37.6 | I said, what a shame our holidays are over. |
| 0:39.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:38.7 | How were your holidays? Where were you, Alice? I was in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Oh, no. Which we were actually calling a Zemikistan because the food is quite minimal, actually. It was great. Not very beachy, I'm thinking. No beaches landlocked so weed. So we didn't have any beaches, but there were great lakes. |
| 0:55.3 | We did a lot of walking in the farm mountains. |
| 0:50.7 | We took the whole family, and it's very cheap and incredibly beautiful. Wow. Yeah, I don't know my stance like I should. What about you, Roelho? What about you? No, I'm not as adventurous as Alice. I was in Ireland and Wales. I've heard of them. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | Three days in Dublin, very good fun with my son. |
| 1:11.3 | And then we got the ferry from Ross Lair to Fishgarde, which was exciting. in Ireland and Wales. I've heard of them. Yeah. Any good. Three days in Dublin. Very good fun with my son. |
| 1:14.9 | And then we got the ferry from Ross Lair to Fishgarb, which was exciting. |
| 1:15.3 | Right. Probably really boring for lots of people, but I've never done it before, so it was exciting. And then we had a week in Pembrokeshire. Well, magnificent. Welcome back to pair of you. Let's crack on and talk about something that's got nothing to do with any of that. |
| 1:10.8 | Let's talk about the police. |
| 1:12.0 | From today, police are going to be encouraged to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile and sensitive investigations. The National Police Chief Council says it hopes the new guidance will reduce the risk to public safety, where there are high levels of misinformation about an incident or cases of public |
| 1:44.5 | interest. It's pretty obvious the kind of cases they're talking about it. They're talking about |
| 1:47.6 | the cases where there has been an assault or allegations of an assault. And word spreads |
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