Tariffs and Tantrums: Gold Plated Pram Wars and Corruption
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Nigel’s on strike because he's not getting enough questions at PMQ'S (widdums), Reform’s spending a lot of money on flags, and Trump’s throwing tariffs about whenever he has a tantrum. This week The Trawl is overflowing with fragile egos, bad maths and moral bankruptcy.
Marina and Jemma pick apart Nigel Farage’s latest pity party, Trump’s gold-plated meltdown over a Canadian ad, and the jaw-dropping Gaza “masterplan” that sounds more like a property pitch than diplomacy.
There are of course moments of actual joy: Finland’s women-led happiness and some cracking Under Rated's.
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| 0:00.0 | This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet Republic or a post-colonial African dictatorship. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where the headlines are mad, the politics are worse, and we're just trying not to lose our shit every time a news notification pops up on our phones. |
| 0:27.3 | You're Marina Perkins. Oh, I am Marina Perkis, that is my name. And I'm Gemma Forte. And trawlers, there's a lot to worry about at the moment, you know. I mean, I've been lying |
| 0:39.2 | awake thinking, where is poor Prince Andrew going to live if he can't just pay one grain of |
| 0:47.4 | pepper for a rent? Pepper corn. Pepper little one. Pepper corn. So that's obviously a huge |
| 0:53.9 | concern. It's a huge concern. |
| 0:54.7 | It's a national concern for him or us. |
| 0:57.8 | And then also because our country is quite strange, |
| 1:00.8 | there's a lot, a lot of concern about Strictly Come Dancing |
| 1:04.6 | because Claudia Wincombeen and Tess Daly are leaving. |
| 1:08.9 | People are really worried. Oh, it's, it's, it's immigration, |
| 1:14.1 | it's the boats, it's strictly come dancing. It's in that order. I know. And then of course, |
| 1:19.1 | there is the new Lily Allen album, which I did concern myself with over the weekend. I have now |
| 1:24.4 | played it about 30 times. And I'm genuinely fascinated by this. |
| 1:29.2 | Have you heard it? Have you heard it, Marina? I've heard about it. And the fact that this is |
| 1:34.3 | reaching me, and I'm very much like, all I consume is news and politics, I'm a bit like, whoa. |
| 1:39.4 | So do you want to give a little precinct? What's going on there? Yeah, so basically, she was with |
| 1:43.8 | somebody, I think married, |
| 1:45.0 | had two daughters and then divorced and then met an actor called David Harbour, who's in Stranger |
| 1:50.5 | Things. And they've had a sort of terrible breakup. And she's written an album which |
| 1:56.1 | catalogs the entire relationship. I mean, from beginning, it's like, are you sitting comfortably? Here's what happened. I actually love the music. But it has provoked many discussions, really, about all sorts of things. And I had a really good, one of my favorite discussions was actually with my son who was saying, God, if I ever met Lily Allen and dated her, I'm not sure how I'd feel about |
| 2:19.1 | that, because no matter what prick he was, like, that's, that's a lot, that's a lot. Anyway, |
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