Trading Blows: PMQs clashes, right-wing media moves and EU talks explained

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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• New second live date in Liverpool, Tue 24 Sept. Tickets here. • OGWN Live in Hove, Weds 9 Oct. Tickets here. Parliament is back and so is PMQs, the right-wing media is on one and trading with the EU is still confusing. The panel discusses the latest flashpoints, what’s happening at the Telegraph and the Spectator, and guest Dmitry Grozoubinski, author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade... and What You Need to Know About It, delves into what our current situation is with the EU under a new Labour government. Plus, in the Extra Bit for subscribers, we ask: would a 4-day working week work? We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Ros Taylor with Marie Le Conte and Hugo Rifkind. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Video production by: Kieron Leslie and Chris Jones. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Family Day Out with a Difference
0:02.0	Join the race to help build the new Children's Cancer Center at Great Orman Street Hospital.
0:07.0	RBC Race for the Kids, a family festival and fun run, is coming back to London Hyde Park on Saturday 12th of October.
0:14.0	Bring the whole family to walk jog or scoot, 2K or 5K
0:18.0	and enjoy a day full of music, games and entertainment.
0:21.0	All while supporting Great Orman Street Hospital Children's Charity.
0:25.6	Kids Go Free.
0:27.0	Sign up to date at gosh.org slash race. Welcome to Oh God, what now, I'm Ros Taylor.
0:43.2	On today's show, with the Spectator and Telegraph
0:45.7	about to be sold and more and more people shunning Twitter slash X,
0:49.5	how is the media ambition changing
0:51.2	and what do our panel actually pay to read? Plus author and
0:55.0	trade negotiation expert Dimitri Gursubinsky joins the panel to talk about
0:59.2	the state of British trade and whether the government has a chance to do a better deal with the EU.
1:05.4	And in the extra bit for supporters, is a four-day compressed working week really feasible?
1:10.8	Or is an eight-hour day quite enough, thank you. Let's meet today's panel.
1:15.0	First up it's Times radio presenter and columnist Hugo Rifkind.
1:19.0	Hi hego.
1:20.0	Rishi Sunak is back, refreshed from what I believe was a break in California and enjoying one of his very last PMQs.
1:26.4	Was he D. More happy?
1:27.6	He certainly seemed more cheerful than usual. He was sort of reckless, but also under-prepared, but in a good way.
1:33.6	Like you could tell he really not done very much work.
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