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The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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The Matts get philosophical about smoking and what a ban means for Britain. Whisper it… but has Rishi Sunak done something not completely crap for once? Or is his proposed age-related ban on smoking the start of slippery slope towards big government invading the rights of its citizens? Also … the magnificence of Salman Rushdie’s response to 27 seconds of madness which saw him lose and eye and almost die less than two years ago. This week he is back with a Knife of his own - the title of his book centred on that awful attack. It’s not just a triumph of the will to live, says Matt D’Ancona; it’s a remarkable love story. Plus a terrific offer to subscribe to the UK’s fastest growing newspaper title The New European.
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the |
| 1:00.7 | weekending Friday the 19th of April. The podcast that says 10 years will save the West in five. |
| 1:07.7 | That's actually quite good. That for a change. what did we talk about where we talked about |
| 1:13.0 | the smoking bat and but we got very quickly into sort of the broader philosophical nature of it |
| 1:18.4 | we were quite yeah socratic and and and highfalutin this week weren't we we were we |
| 1:23.5 | were and then we moved on to talk about wonderful new book by Salman Oshty. Yeah, it did. |
| 1:28.2 | It was a terrifically |
| 1:29.4 | philosophical conversation. |
| 1:31.5 | It was, you know, I mean, I think we |
| 1:32.9 | count ourselves as mature philosophers. |
| 1:36.0 | So we do, indeed. |
| 1:36.7 | It's completely natural. |
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