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Oh God, What Now?

My Bojo’s Not Working

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

As Boris Johnson continues to fumble everything he touches, are the Tory Right losing patience with their flop-haired figurehead? Gove is preparing a “shock and awe” ad campaign to sell No Deal to voters. How did we get from “sunlit uplands” to deliberately inciting fear among the public? Plus, Britain thinks of itself as a magnet for foreign students. But will COVID and the Corona recession, the toxic legacy of the Hostile Environment and Brexit itself combine to wreck Britain’s university sector? We talk to higher education analyst Martin McQuillian. “The question is, which generation, which region, which voters will Johnson betray?” – Naomi Smith “I’m always suspicious when government announces a big number like £1 billion. It reminds me of Dr Evil…” – Martin McQuillian “I can’t believe they’re cancelling the wives of people who fly racist banners. Where will this cancel culture end?” – Dorian Lynskey “The UK only has three successful export industries: the Premier League, the arms trade and higher education.” – Martin McQuillian Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ben Stewart. 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. 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, it's coming to you soon from a patriotic pub table where

0:11.7

we'll be nervously drinking for England very soon.

0:14.9

I'm Dorian Litzky and joining me this week are two of our lockdown legends.

0:18.4

Ben Stewart is one quarter of the performance practice group Lead White Donkeys, he's

0:21.6

probably still available from all remote booksellers and now real bookshops.

0:25.4

Hello Ben, how are you?

0:26.4

Hello!

0:27.4

Good thanks.

0:28.4

So it's already been a banner year for protests, all the good stuff caught in camera, you're an

0:33.9

expert on sort of imagery of protest.

0:36.3

What do you think will be the most enduring image of this time, at least so far?

0:41.4

Oh God, what a question.

0:44.2

Tell you what, I was on my phone Saturday before last and will one of the Lead White Donkeys

0:50.4

guys sent through the picture of Patrick Hutchinson, the BLM protestor who was carrying

0:56.6

the fire right protestor to safety and looked at that and will, who's a professional

1:01.8

photographer, said well that's the world press photo 2020 award sorted then isn't it?

1:05.6

He's an absolutely stunning photo and was made the more perfect when it was revealed

1:10.3

that the guy who Patrick was carrying to safety was actually a next cop.

1:14.9

So it felt like that had held the whole of the Black Lives Matter story in one picture

1:20.0

and it was just an absolutely stunning picture.

1:21.8

I think we're going to be looking at it for years if not decades to come.

1:25.9

The toppling of the Edward Colson statue was really an iconic image.

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