The Two Matts Q&A: Oscars, Oakeshott, China and centrism
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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The Matts answer listener questions including on Isabel Oakeshott’s hypocrisy, China’s century, the death of centrism, the rule of law, the future of the Telegraph and their tips for tonight’s big Oscar night in Hollywood. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | They live in the Gulf without accepting the risks of living in the Gulf. |
| 0:06.0 | And worse, they presume to tell the rest of us how to live in Britain. |
| 0:11.0 | The reason that China is so far ahead now with electric vehicles and that our streets are flooded with Chinese electric vehicles, is that 20 |
| 0:21.8 | years ago they decided that this was absolutely pivotal for them. |
| 0:28.5 | When you're Prime Minister to be cognizant of and respectful of international law is a necessary |
| 0:34.7 | but not sufficient cause of being a good leader of the country. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello and happy Sunday. |
| 0:42.8 | Happy Sunday, one and all. |
| 0:44.0 | Hope you all having a great weekend. |
| 0:45.6 | This is the two mats Q&A session brought to you by the subscribers of the New World magazine. |
| 0:51.8 | Please join them. |
| 0:52.7 | The first question comes from lee in |
| 0:54.7 | Manchester I can't be the only one seeing the strong proud anti-government |
| 1:00.2 | agitators like isabel Oakshot on her balcony in Dubai being very careful to couch |
| 1:05.9 | commentary in vomit-inducing deference for the less tolerant of criticism Dubai government. |
| 1:12.6 | It sits in glorious relief from her spewing bile about anything and everything the UK government does. |
| 1:19.6 | The mendacity is off the charts. Are these people all just professional contrarians |
| 1:25.6 | simply riding out the latest grift they've found to enrich themselves at the UK's public expense? |
| 1:33.9 | Well, yes. I mean, is the answer may be shorter than the question. But I mean, it's a great, and it's one of those wonderful questions that in a sense, you know, how can you improve upon it? I mean, it's a great, and it's one of those wonderful questions that in a sense, you know, how can you improve upon it? |
| 1:47.7 | I mean, for the first thing to say about people like it's Belochot on all the Dubai classes is that it, you would have, you know, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh, would you? |
| 1:58.1 | Yeah. And by the way, there's a, as, there's a wonderful piece by |
| 2:02.8 | Marie LeCont in the New World about the Dubai, the people of Dubai, the Brits of Dubai and |
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