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The Two Matts

The Two Matts Q&A: Starmer timetable, a Telegraph smear and love for David Attenborough

The Two Matts

The New World

Politics, Government, News Commentary, News

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Matts answer listeners' questions, including the optimal timetable for a Starmer handover; whether Andy Burnham is trustworthy enough to be PM; if Banksy modelled his statue on Nigel Farage; how you can criticise Israel and avoid accusations of anti-semitism and why the Telegraph is smearing the chair of the Southbank Centre; whether we should be terrified of hantavirus; and, apart from revolutionising telly, introducing billions of us to the natural world and raising awareness of the climate crisis, what David Attenborough has ever done for us. Enjoy!


Produced by Matt Withers


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0:00.0

What I do think about Andy Burnham is if you're looking for somebody who can genuinely represent the left of politics, he is a guy that can articulate a message that would be problematic for Nigel Farage.

0:18.7

Israel should be subject to criticism extending to, you know, sanctions, prosecutions, whatever,

0:25.9

like any other country.

0:27.9

Yeah.

0:28.1

And that is totally different from attacking Jewish people.

0:35.1

When the great man, you know, shuffles off to that great nature reserve in the sky he'll be able to look down on a life where he's made a monumental contribution to humanity

0:51.2

hello and happy sunday everybody Happy Sunday, one and all.

0:54.7

Hope you all having a great weekend.

0:57.5

This is the two mats podcast from the wonderful subscribers of the New World magazine.

1:03.4

Do join them.

1:04.1

First question comes from Dennis in Watford.

1:06.1

How long has Stormer got?

1:07.6

What is the optimal time for him to go?

1:13.2

It's a good question. We talked a bit on Friday about this map but uh and it's possible that even things are moving so fast that

1:19.2

this could be overtaken but um look what I would say is that I think he the sooner he

1:26.2

announces a pathway to exit, the better,

1:28.6

which is not quite the sooner he gets the Pickford fans around somehow everything will be fine.

1:34.1

But I think we are in that terrain now where he needs to make, you know, to set out the pathway to his successor.

1:41.1

And as you said on Friday, he needs to use that time as fruitfully

1:47.1

and as radically as possible to get some really good ideas going. Would he, I don't know, but that,

1:54.5

you know, this is about what we think he should do. It is now Plainers Day that he cannot beat

2:00.6

reform, I think.

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