The New Year's Honours

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby collects his 50 quid and then he and James debate whether 2022 will be the year we return to normal or “The Great Reset” will continue apace. What lies ahead in politics? What’s the line of succession in Scotland, what does the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell hold for the powerful around the world and what are the chances of Boris surviving until the... Source

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0:00.0	This is going to London Calling.
0:05.0	London Calling.
0:07.0	There are also slightly more controversial decisions in the honours.
0:11.0	I strongly suspect that Labour Twitter is going to spend the day tearing
0:15.1	itself to pieces over whether Tony Blair should have got a knighthood but then
0:19.6	that's just another day on Labour Twitter. However, unfortunately for Tony Blair, his epitoph will always for me be Iraq.
0:27.0	Welcome to London Calling with me, Gunning poor and my very good friend Mr.
0:36.6	Tobey young. Tops happy new year.
0:38.7	Happy new year James and did he have a fun time on December 31st?
0:45.0	Well it was um yeah I did because because all my horrible children went off to parties and I was able to just sit and sit with the wife watching
0:57.8	TV and get an early night which is what you want.
1:01.6	Did you watch the Sad he can't fireworks?
1:05.0	No I didn't.
1:07.0	Will you tell me about them?
1:08.4	Were they were they collectively bad?
1:10.0	They were pretty bad yeah pretty
1:13.8	Were they in the shape of a coronavirus? Well there were sort of various similar sorts of things to that but the weird thing was my my 16 year old son kind of slept to central
1:25.0	London and kind of forced his way onto a bridge took about two hours to get onto a
1:29.3	bridge and so he could watch the fireworks and he was bitterly disappointed he said that all the fireworks and he was bitterly disappointed he said that all the drones
1:35.0	that they had various drones to accompany the fireworks spelling out kind of you know
1:40.8	politically correct messages and he said that they were all added by
1:45.1	CGI and he couldn't actually see them from where he was I'm not sure that that's true
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