Oxford Blues

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week’s London Calling, James and Toby discuss James’ college reunion where he had an awkward encounter with Kate Bingham, ex-head of the Vaccine Taskforce; Toby’s last college gaudy, where the headmaster of Harrow made a good joke about recognising lots of former left-wing radicals in the audience because he’d seen them at Harrow open days; Greta Thunberg’s appearance at Glastonbury... Source

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is London Calling.
0:03.0	I thought the Supreme Court nailed it.
0:07.0	And you can believe that whether you're pro-abortion rights or anti-abortion rights.
0:11.0	Roe versus Wade and Casey versus Planned Parenthood decided respectively in 1973 and 1992 were embarrassments.
0:18.7	They were embarrassments as a legal matter.
0:20.6	The support for the decisions wasn't there and even prominent legal scholars over here
0:25.4	agreed on that. Now for the first 185 years of our country's existence this was a
0:31.5	matter that was left to the states.
0:34.0	Welcome to London Calling with me James Delling Pole and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.
0:45.0	Toby's I wanted to tell you about my dispiriting gaudy.
0:50.0	Oh yeah.
0:52.0	When was your life?
0:53.0	I want to explain to our particularly how American viewers what a Gordy is.
0:57.6	A Gordy is like your college reunion.
1:01.2	It's what it's what we call reunions at Oxford and I think a few other universities usually use it.
1:07.0	And they do them roughly every 10 years, is that right?
1:10.0	It's about maybe 15 years. I think I've been to two since I've left.
1:15.0	Yeah, I think I would make sense.
1:16.0	I've been to two as well I think yeah.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:19.0	And apparently it comes from something like Garadetetet or
1:22.0	or it's designed to be you know from sort of
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ricochet, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ricochet and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.