Liz Truss: Tip of the Iceberg

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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• Join us for OGWN: It’s Grim Up North London live in Islington on Mon 20 May. Tickets onsale now. Liz Truss’ new book 10 Years To Save the West certainly isn’t a boring read but neither is it a good one. Actor and impressionist Jan Ravens joins the panel to pick through how Truss thought her 45 days of office went compared to reality and all her other ludicrous claims in between. Plus: Sunak’s cigs ban. Is it fair to create two tiers of adult, one blissfully smoke-free and one battering the gaspers? And in the Extra Bit for subscribers, we look into the politics of Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’. • “Liz Truss is a cross between a haunted doll and a little girl whose dad has told her that she’s funny, and is always looking around for applause.” – Jan Ravens • “She says ‘Now is no time for finger-pointing.’ Cue three hundred pages of finger-pointing.” – Dorian Lynskey • “It’ll either be an early election with Sunak at the helm… Or a late one, and Sunak won’t be leader.” – Alex Andreou We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey, with Alex Andreou, Zoe Grunewald and guest Jan Ravens. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Video production by Keiron Leslie. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis.. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0	On today's show, we've read Truss's new book 10 years to save the West so you don't have to.
1:09.0	We'll discuss what light it sheds on her 49 days of chaos and the precarious state of the Conservative mind.
1:14.6	Plus, Ritchie Sunak's smoking ban has now passed its first vote in the Commons despite
1:19.0	significant opposition from Tory MPs.
1:21.2	Labour and health professionals back this radical plan to
1:23.7	eventually abolish smoking altogether, but libertarians claim that it sets a
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