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London Calling

Watchin' the Olympics, Rowin' for Gold (Take Two)

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We cram a good 65-minute show into a half hour this week and not through editing. James explains that conundrum at the top of the program. What’s left is Covid face-licking (no, really), Lord Digby Jones in a Twitter throw down with BBC presenter Alex Scott and Toby’s moment of athletic glory. Opening sound this week of Lord Digby Jones courtesy of GBNews. Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:03.0

In the last few hours of this Twitter storm, they've all been basically eluding the fact that I had loads of privilege and, you know, frankly, this is all about upper class having a go with others

0:14.8

well they couldn't be more wrong you know the Alex in her reply is playing the class card wrong

0:20.7

Loads of the Twitter Storm having a go, I mean, a lot of it insulting.

0:24.0

But there again, you know, that sort of stuff isn't going to stop until we make sure that social

0:28.9

media takes responsibility as publishers and not as platforms.

0:33.2

Welcome to London Calling with me James Delling Pole and my very good friend and very tolerant friend I would say

0:44.9

given what I'm about to explain Mr Toby Young. So Toby Young we've had another

0:49.8

those situations haven't we where one of us has let the side down and in this

0:55.8

case and it isn't me it's me it's me we recorded five minutes of of of preamble and then it was quite a long show wasn't it we went on for

1:06.4

bloody ages.

1:07.4

It was it went on for over an hour.

1:08.4

Oh dear and it's going to be another of those person from Pollock interrupting the whole enterprise and we're never finding out what happens.

1:18.0

And...

1:19.0

No, like, like, uh, yeah, like, it's one of the great lost masterpiece of history that

1:26.4

there was a bit of tension actually and I'm not sure that the tension was

1:30.8

necessarily good thing we argued over like I asked on

1:35.2

behalf of team delling poll when you were finally going to wake up and realize

1:40.8

that this was a terrible conspiracy and you sort of replied that

1:44.5

actually no you didn't think that was going to happen because it wasn't a

1:49.0

conspiracy and probably I was wearing a tin-fall hat and actually I'm quite glad we spared the listeners that

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