The Two Matts Q&A: Nigel Farage, Jim Ratcliffe and assorted other nasties
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The Matts answer listeners' questions, including whether Nigel Farage really is a man of the people, if Manchester United deserve an owner as odious as Jim Ratcliffe, how to deal with friends who turn bad, whether we just wait out Donald Trump… and what is our favourite Robert Duvall role? Enjoy!
Produced by Matt Withers
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| 0:54.5 | The mega-rich at the moment are too rich, in this sense that the inequalities that |
| 0:59.6 | now exist in the world of power and of wealth have become obscene. |
| 1:06.0 | It's such a shame that somebody like Jim Ratcliffe can stand there, |
| 1:14.5 | representing a great, great football club like Manchester United and say stuff like that and think he can shrug his shoulders. |
| 1:20.1 | Zach Galansky's a newcomer. |
| 1:22.2 | Ed Davies been talking about these things for 30 years. |
| 1:25.3 | You know, so it is really, really puzzling that they're not |
| 1:29.5 | out and about more. |
| 1:36.1 | Hello and happy Sunday listeners. |
| 1:38.6 | Happy Sunday, one and all. |
| 1:40.4 | Thank you for joining us. Hope you having a great weekend. It's lovely to be with you on this fine Sunday. This is the two Matt's Q&A brought to you by the subscribers of the New World magazine. Do join them. It helps pay for all of this. First question comes from Joe in Dorset. Is there any hope that the messaging around the elite class that Matt D talked about in the New World this week can cut through? |
| 2:04.6 | Can would-be reform voters be persuaded that by voting for that man any current restraints would be removed from those who really are exploiting the system and not paying their fair share? This is a group of people who really should be othered. |
| 2:21.5 | What do you think, man? |
| 2:22.1 | Yeah, well, it's a very good question. |
| 2:25.5 | I mean, yes, is the simple answer. |
| 2:29.4 | But the first hurdle is persuading them that that man, |
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