The Brexit Sanity Test
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🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen attempt to bring some calm rationality to the discussion of Brexit and "the backstop" — whatever that turns out to be. Then Helen talks to the American author Rebecca Solnit about reporting on Trump and her new book Call Them by Their True Names. Finally, a listener question: what's going on with universal credit?
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| 1:49.2 | podcast we talk about what should happen to Universal Credit, the fate of Brexit, |
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