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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Jolyon Maugham

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture, Arts

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

After leading a series of successful challenges to the Brexit process, Jolyon Maugham QC was thrust into the limelight and depicted by right-wing Brexiteers as an out of touch, elitist, Remainer. But for the first 17 years of his life, Jolyon was unaware of the existence of his biological Eton-educated father and was brought up on ‘nuisance payments’ of £5 a week. He is now the Director of the Good Law Project, a not-for-profit campaign organisation that uses the law to protect the interests of the public - regardless of the way they voted in the 2016 referendum.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm currently out of office.

0:04.3

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

0:14.4

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby.

0:24.2

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. Atul protected.

0:31.7

This is a global original podcast.

0:38.0

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed chiefly to let me spend more

0:43.2

time available on the radio with someone that I've always wanted to meet.

0:46.6

And this week's guest, Jolly and Maugh, the founder of the Good Law Project, founder and

0:51.3

director, very much slots into that category.

0:55.0

We've never met before.

0:59.7

And yet, as with quite a few full disclosure to guess, but by no means all of them, I kind of feel I know you already. Well, the funny thing about social media, which is where we've met most often,

1:06.2

is that it allows you to present a picture of yourself to the world, one that cannot be interrogated

1:14.7

by your Twitter followers in my case. And you get very carefully to curate that picture.

1:22.5

And so real life has a habit of sometimes exploding your sort of magnificent act of self-curation.

1:29.7

We'll find out.

1:30.9

We shall.

1:31.8

You do care about the picture presented to the world because you don't like misrepresentation, but we'll get on to that.

1:39.6

It occurred to me that you're, often this is a life and times conversation in your case it's

1:46.4

particularly difficult to separate the two because an awful lot of what you do now is built

1:52.3

upon where you come from and and and and who you are so so we'll begin at the beginning your

1:58.2

your parents weren't married.

2:19.8

Yeah. So in Memories of the Ford administration, John Updike's novel, he talks about the 70s as being a time when any man and woman who found themselves in a room with a door with a lock felt duty bound to fuck.

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