The Two Matts Q&A: How to pay for the NHS and will robots rule?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Matts answer listeners' questions including when Starmer should go; why we don’t vet our politicians; how to fund the NHS; why the news is relentlessly grim; whether banning social media for children is a good thing; and are The Matts looking forward to having robots provide unmentionable services to them in their dotage? Enjoy!
Produced by Matt Withers
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| 0:00.0 | You think about who is allowed to stand as a politician. |
| 0:05.0 | And it does beg the question, should there not be a tighter scrutiny? |
| 0:09.0 | When the day for assisted dying for me comes, I want... |
| 0:14.0 | You want to be put down by Nigel. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to be put down by Nigel. And I stand by that. |
| 0:20.0 | When you get a click business model, which so much of our media has been depending on of late, |
| 0:26.6 | you end up with lots and lots of photos of women on beach in bikinis, |
| 0:31.6 | lots and lots of stories about cats escaping the jaws of dogs or whatever it might be, |
| 0:36.6 | and you end up with |
| 0:38.3 | lots and lots of bad news. Hello and happy Sunday, everybody. Happy Sunday, one and all. |
| 0:46.1 | Hope you all having a great weekend so far. This is the Two Matts podcast brought to you by the |
| 0:50.7 | subscribers of the New World magazine. Do join them at the newworld.com. |
| 0:54.6 | UK forward slash to mats. |
| 0:58.3 | First question comes in from Keith in the Netherlands. |
| 1:01.8 | What would be the best time to install the new leader of the Labour Party? |
| 1:04.7 | Should Stama be ousted immediately? |
| 1:06.4 | Or would it be better for Labour to bring in a new PM |
| 1:09.7 | just before the next election in |
| 1:12.0 | 2029? Well, it's a great question and I think it is the question on a lot of lips in Westminster |
| 1:18.9 | and beyond and we actually had a really, I enjoyed very much chat about it on the Thursday |
| 1:26.7 | pod mat about this. |
| 1:28.1 | Indeed. |
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