The Two Matts Q&A: Should we hand US authorities our social media history?
The Two Matts
The New World
4.4 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Matthew d’Ancona and Matt Kelly again respond to your queries. They discuss the Trump administration’s demand for visitors to hand over five years’ worth of social media history, why political manifestos have got so long and whether Piers Morgan was right to give such lengthy exposure to Nick Fuertes.
Plus they talk about whether the UK should be able to exert conditions on a sovereign state like Argentina when it comes to defence procurement, what’s going on with the price of beef and which magazines they subscribe to. Enjoy!
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| 1:15.7 | Political manifestos used to be a lot shorter. According to an article from Exeter's University, |
| 1:21.0 | in 1900, the Conservative manifesto was 880 words long. The Liberal manifesto was 1,790 words long, and the Labour manifesto, a mere 150 words. |
| 1:34.4 | By 1997, the Tory manifesto was 21,000 words, labours was 18,000 words. I would heartily agree that there should be a return to brevity. |
| 1:46.2 | What do you think? |
| 1:47.0 | I think this is just good sense because, funnily enough, because I lead such a busy and glamorous |
| 1:54.3 | life, I was thinking the other day about New Labour's pledge cards, right? |
| 1:57.7 | Yes. |
| 1:58.0 | That's how crazy I am. |
| 1:59.6 | And I was thinking how good they were actually, because instead of, I mean, they did do a manifesto, I think they did a mini manifesto as well, but very early they got across the idea that there were four or five big things that were going to be their priorities. And by the end, it was, by 1997, there were a couple of pledge cards, but the one that went into the big first |
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