Miriam Cates and her Horrible Mates

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Meet this week’s Tory game-changer: Miriam Cates and her New Conservatives. Will their wizard scheme to kick out foreign care-home workers and stamp out sex education save the Tories’ bacon? Is she real or a cartoon rightist from a British version of The Handmaid’s Tale? Plus: Farage Against The Cash Machine. Can Zuckerberg’s new idea Threads kill Twitter? Our special guest Henry Morris AKA mischievous mega-tweeter ‘The Secret Tory’ tells how he hoodwinked everyone from your pub pals to the commanding heights of politics. And in the Extra Bit… Streaming TV is in trouble. Why? Tickets for Origin Story Live are here: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/ZwCihZbENZ Listen to our new newspaper review podcast PAPER CUTS here. https://listen.podmasters.uk/PCogwn • “Cates’s ‘Labour will nationalise our children’ thing reminds me of Emma Barnett asking if Labour were going to nationalise sausages.” – Zöe Grünewald • “As they say, the first casualty of the Culture War is the will to live.” – Henry Morris • “Maybe we DO need antagonists on social media? Otherwise people are just too nice?” – Marie le Conte Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Marie le Conte and Zöe Grünewald. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Producer: Chris Jones. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ogod What Now, I'm Dorian Linsky.
0:08.4	On Friday's show Miriam Kate and the new Conservatives are here to make Britain great again.
0:12.3	We'll investigate the new darling of the right.
0:14.7	Plus Zuckerberg vs Musk, we're Twitter circling the drain and Instagram about to launch
0:18.5	its rival, Reds.
0:20.5	Is this the end for Elon Musk's $44 billion Albatross?
0:24.4	And in the extra bit for Patreon backers streaming platforms are deleting films and TV
0:27.7	series as tax write-offs.
0:29.6	What does the bursting of the streaming bubble mean for culture?
0:32.5	Let's meet the panel.
0:34.0	Marie Laconte is a columnist and author of Escape, How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed
0:37.8	and Survived the Internet.
0:39.2	Hi, Marie.
0:40.2	Hello.
0:41.2	So we'll talk about destroying the Internet later.
0:44.1	The nation has been gripped by the tragic story of Mr Nigel Farage and his disappearing
0:48.4	bank accounts.
0:49.4	It turns out that he might not have told the whole truth.
0:52.0	No, I know it's incredible.
0:53.0	I'm shocked and astounded.
0:55.0	What?
0:56.0	An oversight.
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