The Madness of A C Grayling

Where Politics Meets History

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Jacqui discuss Donald Trump’s latest antics on steel tariffs and speculate about whether the on-off-on summit with Kim Jong Un will take place. They talk about the art of political interviewing and question Richard Madeley’s tactics in cutting off Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson. They ask why Brexit continues to drive some people mad, and Iain has some strong words about Professor A C Grayling. They discuss why the trend seems to be for some countries to appoint very good looking prime ministers – yes, they really are that shallow.

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0:00.0	Well, Jackie, I know you're beyond excited. Why would that be?
0:05.7	Because I'm off on my holidays, Ian. I'm off this evening on the ferry to Spain to check
0:12.6	whether or not they've managed to get a government yet.
0:15.6	We might be talking about that in a bit because there's been a lot of changing governments in
0:21.5	Europe this week.
0:22.5	In Italy, too, we're going to be talking about the steel tariffs that Donald Trump has imposed.
0:27.9	He's on-off summit with Kim Jong-un.
0:30.5	We might be talking about the art of political interviewing after our experience with Richard
0:35.0	Madele on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday.
0:39.0	And George Osborne has been in a bit of trouble this week over allegedly selling good news to Uber and Google in his newspaper.
0:48.4	And of course, the Grenfell inquiry has continued as well.
0:51.4	All that coming up.
0:53.2	Well, let's start with Donald Trump, as we so often seem to do nowadays.
0:57.1	Two big stories surrounding Donald Trump, probably lots more as well, but let's just concentrate on these two.
1:03.9	The on-off summit with Kim Jong-un to start with. As we record this on Sunday morning, the summit seems to be back on.
1:11.6	Do you think it's actually going to happen?
1:13.2	Well, I've always said I'm a bit skeptical about whether or not it will.
1:17.2	And I said that way back when you first announced it.
1:21.7	There certainly seems to have been a rapprochement with the arrival of the very senior North Korean leaders.
1:30.8	General.
1:32.8	General, that's it, that's the word.
1:35.6	Formerly responsible for the Korean security agencies,
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