Pull a Whitey

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's hot in the Mediterranean and James and Toby discuss the recent forest fires in Greece and whether climate change or arsonists are to blame. This triggers an argument (From these two? Really?) about whether there are enough honest journalists left to expose such wrongdoing and that, in turn, leads to a heated discussion about whether the journalist Ross Clark is a genuine climate contrarian because concedes that the world has got a little bit warmer in the past 150 years.

We then segue into a discussion of their holidays this year, both those they've already had and those they are planning, with James saying he may go to Amsterdam which leads to agreement that cannabis should probably not be legalised.

Finally, in Culture Corner, James discusses the new University Challenge, as well as having almost finished Anna Karenina – which he declares the best novel he’s ever read – while Toby gives a lukewarm review to Hijack.

Opening sound this week is CapX editor discussing Michael Gove's backtracking on Net Zero.

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0:00.0	This is London Calling.
0:04.8	I think it's worth going back a bit and remembering too that Net Zero came in without even a vote in Parliament.
0:10.8	It was unbelievably unscrutinized for such an enormous transformative
0:16.9	projects and now people are starting to see what it actually means to do things like, you know, ban petrol cars, new petrol cars from 2030.
0:28.2	And these are the kinds of things that Michael Gove appears to be backtracking on.
0:32.8	Welcome to London Calling with me James Delling Pole and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.
0:43.2	Tobes, I can see that you are back from Majorca.
0:46.7	I'm back from, isn't it pronounced,
0:49.2	Meyoka?
0:50.2	Yeah, of course it is.
0:51.4	Yeah, no, no, of course it's a mediocre.
0:53.0	I remember that ad, the,
0:55.0	I remember the, had the kind of a cockney girl having elocution lessons.
0:59.0	She started out as Eliza Doolittle and ended up sounding like Lady Die and in the first version she said
1:05.3	The woe a in my joker don't taste like what a oat a and then after she's I think
1:11.3	it's drinking Heineken or something she then she then comes back and says
1:16.3	the water in my yorka doesn't taste like what it ought her and I can confirm James that the water in majoroque doesn't taste like what it ought to
1:25.2	it's actually pretty disgusting it's very chlorine.
1:28.4	Did you have did you have sun? Yes there was a lot of sun. It wasn't kind of unbearably hot all the time. It was on a couple of days pretty hot. I thought probably too hot to leave the villa although my
1:44.7	children insisted on going to the beach nevertheless but it was about 40 degrees
1:49.2	centigrade but that's that's hot. Which is hot. I mean in America and in in in old old money that's what that's about 80 degrees?
2:00.1	Maybe I think getting on for 90.
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