Why is everyone starting to talk about World War III?
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Telegraph editor began the morning by asking how ‘everyday British life would change in a global conflict’. Trump has already called it for WW3.
On today’s episode we ask why the language has ratcheted up and whether we are already in a war without fully realising.
How will President Biden respond to the deaths in Jordan of US servicemen?
And is this all part of the Israel-Hamas war - or is Iran using that as a pretext to provoke America?
Later, why is Truss at war with Rishi-again - this time, over vaping.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | This is the editor's letter that has gone out to Daily Telegraph readers. |
| 0:17.5 | Today it says, Dear reader, Donald Trump has warned that we're on the brink of World |
| 0:20.8 | War III after a drone attack on a base in Jordan killed three US troops. But how would |
| 0:25.8 | everyday British life change in a global conflict? And then it goes, P.S., for only one pound, |
| 0:31.2 | you can unlock four months of access. If it's going to be World War III, will we need four months? |
| 0:36.2 | Waste of money. Yeah. |
| 0:45.6 | The editor sent Colin Freeman, one of the reporters, out to investigate how everyday British life would change in the event of World War III. |
| 0:51.4 | What I love about this is it sounds as if the telegraph's trying to get ahead of the story. |
| 0:53.6 | We don't want to miss this. It would be terrible if World War |
| 0:55.6 | 3 happened and we'd miss the story. So today we're just going to deconstruct why everyone |
| 1:02.0 | is starting to talk about World War 3 in these vaguely apocalyptic terms and whether we have |
| 1:08.4 | reached a turning point in the geopolitics of what is going on in the world right now. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:18.6 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:20.6 | It's John. |
| 1:21.6 | It's Emily. |
| 1:22.6 | And you are sounding unusually husky, dare I say it. |
| 1:25.6 | And I think you've got something wrong with your kind of voice box at the moment |
| 1:28.8 | and you need to take it gently. Is that correct? |
| 1:31.3 | I've been on voice rest for three days, having been diagnosed with bruised vocal cords, |
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