Please God, don't act it out (with Nick Clegg)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Please bear with Jane - she's feeling rather 'liverish' after a raucous Tuesday night. There's more discussion of hot tuna, parking scams, and the true meaning of a Brucey Bonus...
Plus, Nick Clegg - former deputy prime minister and former president of global affairs at Meta - discusses his new book 'How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict'.
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| 0:00.0 | I grazed across the end of the one show when all four were together. |
| 0:05.0 | And they look like it actually look like the human version of those packs of sticky buns you get. |
| 0:10.8 | Because they're written them apart. |
| 0:11.9 | Sitting break. |
| 0:12.4 | It's so close. |
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| 1:07.8 | I don't know whether or not anyone can stomach, yet more thoughts about hot tuna. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, I think we're leaving brine and feta behind us, aren't we? |
| 1:17.7 | Okay. |
| 1:18.8 | Because just to say, I'm feeling just what my old ground would have called liverish today, |
| 1:22.8 | because I had a few drinks last night. |
| 1:24.2 | You shouldn't do that in the middle of the week. |
| 1:26.1 | I feel last night I went on two, I did two functions on a Tuesday night. That's way too much. And I've, it ended with a really lovely curry, but you know, quite late eating for me. Well, you may need to turn away while we consider Kirsty from Norwich, not first time emailer, but maybe this will be first time read out. Okay, go on. With the prayer emoji. |
| 1:45.9 | Hello ladies, just packing my lunch bag before work and I realise I can email about a hot topic, hot tuna. |
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