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Not Another One

What is the role of uncertainty in politics?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7566 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Is UK politics obsessed with certainty in an uncertain age? The terms of debate often demand that politicians and even the media adopt a fixed position and argue from strong convictions. This weekend's episode explores the virtues of doubt and pragmatism during a period of tumult.

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0:00.0

Not Another One. Welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Tim Montgomery, Ian Martin, Miranda Green, and usually Steve Richards, but Steve Richards is still in France.

0:23.7

And so we're going to cope without him in a special weekend edition where we're going to look at uncertainty.

0:32.2

Now, guys, where this came from from me was, I think you know in the, sometimes this podcast has felt a little bit like therapy for me, because I've oscillated on Trump.

0:45.6

No, I didn't really know whether to back him before the presidential election.

0:50.3

And then once I sort of took the position of wanting him to win, it sort of, you've become

0:54.4

very committed to the position you've taken, particularly when I was doing a lot of media,

0:59.1

and there only sort of one of the few British commentators defending Trump.

1:03.0

And on a lot of things like trans, the environment, tax immigration, I'm completely with him.

1:10.7

And then, of course, we went through that period

1:12.3

earlier in the year when on Ukraine,

1:15.6

he was in the wrong place.

1:18.2

And what was the other big issue?

1:21.1

Of course, the terrorists,

1:22.3

a ridiculous Liberation Day announcement

1:24.4

where he went too far.

1:26.5

I thought, I was quite embarrassed about my support for Trump.

1:29.6

And then more recently, he's been moving on Ukraine to a more sensible position.

1:36.6

I think he's fundamentally realises now that Putin is not the honest broker that he

1:43.4

sometimes dreamt that he might be.

1:45.9

There'd be interested to see what he does the next few weeks on after his deadline for Putin

1:50.8

has expired.

1:52.8

I could go on.

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