Polanski, Heckling, and Internet Relics
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Alice Thomson and Robert Crampton.
A Times investigation reveals Zack Polanski made false claims when seeking the deputy leadership of the Green party, Kemi Badenoch's handling of hecklers, and what happened to relics of the early internet age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkind, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day, |
| 0:09.2 | from Zach Polanski's CV to Kemi Badenok taking on the hecklers, and as the search engine asks Jeeves finally closes, |
| 0:16.1 | we'll ask what happened to other relics of the early internet age. And with me today, the perfectly |
| 0:20.2 | qualified Alice Thompson. Hi, Hugo. How are you? I'm very well, thank you. Good to have internet age. And with me today, the perfectly qualified Alice Thompson. |
| 0:21.8 | Hi, Hugo. |
| 0:22.4 | How are you? |
| 0:22.9 | I'm very well, thank you. Good to have you here. And the equally perfectly qualified Robert Crampton. Hello. I'm not sure. I'm qualified for. What are you talking about? Neither of them relics of any age. Oh, shoot you mean. Except for perhaps this one. Can you be a relic |
| 0:35.8 | Can you be the relics of an age that you're already in? |
| 0:39.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.6 | It's Wednesdays if you're venerated or not, doesn't it? |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah. except for perhaps this one. Can you be a relic? Can you be the relics of an age that you're already in? |
| 0:39.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:39.6 | It's been to venerated or not, doesn't it? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah. I don't mind that. It's perfectly qualified because we're going to be talking about CVs. We'll come to that in a minute. Never mind. And let's start with the impact with the situation in the Middle East, where the American military operation to reopen the straight-up for Muz for commercial shipping has been put on hold not long after it began. |
| 0:58.1 | This won't be good for the global economy. Today, |
| 1:02.7 | the National Farmers Union was at the cost of crops could rise within weeks because of disrupted supply chains and shortages of fuel and fertiliser and so on. Alice, you've been writing |
| 1:07.9 | about this in your column in The Times are basically our lack of food security and how it's going to get worse. |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, so we keep talking about holidays and how flight's going to be cancelled and actually they are a luxury in the end and the big problem is going to be food and we don't have food security. |
| 1:20.7 | We grow 62% maximum of our food. That's taking everything and very few other countries grow as little. |
| 1:28.3 | So Finland's over 80% and they don't have much land to grow on. |
| 1:31.3 | Spain, Sweden, all of them have these big grain banks so that if anything happens, you can still eat bread, effectively. |
| 1:40.3 | Whereas in Britain we have three days worth and that's us. |
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