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The Trawl

The Trawl Meets: Dan Hodges

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This month, The Trawl met someone you might not expect us to... Someone who certainly bucks the trend of people we’ve spoken with thus far, because it’s a person, who you could argue, finds themselves on the other side of the debate more often than not. Even if you don't know of Hodges himself, you'll definitely know who he works for - The Mail, or as Jemma and Marina tend to refer to it - "one of those Tory right-wing sh*trags". At time of record, Braverman has just been sacked following the remembrance day riot at the cenotaph, which one could argue was almost sponsored by the papers Hodges is associated with. Needless to say, the ladies quiz him on this and how someone with such a well-known, anti-Tory, Labour MP mother, could end up working where he has.  Disagreements ensue, from the pro-Palestine and pro-ceasefire marches to who it is that really chooses our leaders: the electorate or the press barons? Jemma asks whether Dan cares about the non-dom nature of his big boss and if ever he and his colleagues turn up to work and despair at the bilge they're paid to write.  Prepare to be shocked by Dan's verdict on the Tory VIP PPE lane, and to be not shocked at all by his thoughts on the revolving door between press and politics - after all, what would you expect from the man once referred to in The Spectator as David Cameron's "new favorite columnist? An interesting chat, somewhat baffling and, at times, a lot like nailing jelly to a wall.  Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.

0:04.0

Tax Act is going to name some now.

0:07.0

Sitting in traffic.

0:08.0

Folding a fitted bed sheet.

0:11.0

Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.

0:14.0

Digging a hole.

0:16.0

Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.

0:19.0

Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make taxes fun,

0:24.3

but Tax Act can help you get them done.

0:27.5

Tax Act, let's get them over with.

0:30.1

What I'm telling you is when the inquiry ends,

0:32.9

the inquiry will say there was not any example of ministers deliberately channeling contracts and cash to their friends.

0:50.3

Hello and welcome to the trawl meets. I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And on The Trawl Meets,

1:00.8

Marina and I get to chat with someone we admire and or find interesting. We'll discuss political

1:06.4

topics that they're passionate about and explore their unique experience of and views on social media.

1:13.9

And today the trawl meets someone you might not expect us to, who certainly bucks the trend of

1:19.8

people who we've spoken with on the trawl meets up until this point, because today we've got

1:25.5

a person who, you could argue, finds themselves on the other

1:30.1

side of the debate more often than not. Yeah, but we like a bit of balance, don't we, Marina?

1:36.3

We're always up for a bit of balance. So let's introduce our guest to you. He's a British

1:41.3

newspaper columnist who, since 2016 2016 has written a weekly column for the

1:46.2

mail on Sunday. Our favourite paper. Prior to this, he was a columnist for the Daily Telegraph,

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