Labour’s Infinity War reignites – plus guest JOHN CRACE

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Continuity Corbynism picks a fight with the Starmer Leadership in the aftermath of the antisemitism court settlement. Will anything ever end the party’s Left-Right Infinity War? Plus: Brace yourself for a “low quality, low profile” face-saving Deal with the EU. And special guest John Crace, the Guardian’s demob-happy parliamentary sketch writer, takes us through the highs (subs pls check) and lows of the Johnson Parliament so far. “Starmer has proved a lot more ruthless than anyone expected as leader.” – Ros Taylor “If Starmer’s made a mistake it’s treating Johnson like a ten-year old, when in fact Johnson’s more like a toddler.” – John Crace “Keir Starmer, a former DPP, will have a fairly good idea of when a case ought to be stopped…” – Alex Andreou “If people are on their knees, Boris Johnson’s buffoonish persona will not play well with them.” – John Crace Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Romania. I'm Dorian Linsky, joining me this week are two of our 27 nation
0:12.4	party people. From a disaster to a catastrophe former editor of the LSE Brexit blog, now editor
0:17.9	of the much sunnier LSE COVID-19 blog, it's Ross Taylor. Hello Ross. Hello. This week you kept
0:26.8	it light on the bunker daily and spoke to the futurist economist Danny Dauling about the concept
0:31.1	of deceleration. He thinks the world is slowing down and apparently that is a good thing. Why?
0:37.2	Yeah, it's quite surprising and counterintuitive. He actually came out with a book called Slowdown,
0:42.5	which was published in I think April this year and you might say that was pretty prescient, but
0:48.0	actually he is by his analysis the rate at which we are inventing new things and getting better
0:55.4	has actually really slowed down in the last 20 years and you that's quite hard to believe when
1:00.4	you consider what's happened with the internet, but it is apparently the case, but it's a good thing
1:07.1	he thinks because we were basically we are basically trashing the earth environmentally in particular
1:12.8	and by slowing down we can actually focus on consuming less on getting our head education and
1:20.4	healthcare sectors up just improving those and it's a chance to step back and try and get things
1:28.0	better. Did he not consider this pandemic too much of a good thing in the slowdown stakes?
1:33.8	Yeah, yeah, I did challenge him on that. It all sounds a little bit negative, but actually it was
1:38.4	a really it was quite a cheery interview which I enjoyed doing because he's really optimistic about
1:45.6	the chances of profound change in Britain. Mostly it has to be said because of older people who
1:52.4	tend to vote for more reactionary courses let's say, dying off, but that that he does believe
1:58.5	that there is a chance for real change and that it's beginning to happen. Also, this is Alex Andreo.
2:04.7	Hi Alex. Hello. Many high profile tweeters went silent for 48 hours on Monday, protest against
2:11.5	Twitter's reaction to Wiley's anti-Semitic rant over the weekend which had everyone a gog.
2:18.3	Obviously you were a pressure cooker of unexpressed hot takes and lively bands. Do you think boycotts
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