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Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The Sue Gray report is imminent, Tory backbenchers are sending in their letters to the 1922 committee, and Bury North MP Christian Wakeford has defected to Labour. Is Boris Johnson a dead man walking, or can he really ride this out? Plus, we discuss the Government’s latest attack on the BBC, and how to fund the national broadcaster in the age of streaming. The Financial Times’ Chief Features Writer Henry Mance is our special guest this week. “Johnson must have thought he was home free, then on the last question David Davis called for his resignation in the strongest terms.” - Alex Andreou “Christian Wakeford having a majority of only 402 in a red wall seat is probably a motivating factor in him having switched.” - Minnie Rahman “Older MPs rebelled against Cameron and May, yet they now think they’re in a position to tell newer MPs ‘you shouldn’t rebel’.” - Henry Mance “Attacks on the BBC are incoherent, the Government want it to be a patriotic national broadcaster, yet they also want it to be like Netflix.” - Henry Mance www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Minnie Rahman and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.8	Hello and welcome to another bumper episode of O Godwot Now. I'm Dorian Litsky. Let's meet
1:16.5	the people who will be raking through the ashes of Boris Johnson's reputation. First
1:20.5	up, commentator Alex Andrey. Hi Alex. Hello Dorian.
1:24.5	We will go very far from our shores to begin with. Russian troops are massing at the Ukrainian
1:28.1	border. You are Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has flown to Europe for meetings with Ukraine
1:32.6	and the EU before sitting down with the Russian Foreign Minister. And UK Defense Secretary
1:36.6	Ben Wallace has sent anti-tank weapons to Ukraine and written a punchy critique of Putin's
1:40.8	ethno-nationalism and NATO blaming. What do you think is the most likely outcome of all
1:48.3	this kind of frantic diplomacy but also flexing? That depends on Putin. This situation is
1:53.9	quite worrying because in classic game theory it's not just about resources, it's about
2:00.6	the level of commitment. And the problem at the moment is that Putin is throwing everything
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