For Whom The Booth Tolls – or, Strait to Hell
About this episode
The episode discusses Trump's geopolitical actions, Labour's election strategies, and features a guest appearance by James Ball.
Trump threatens the literal obliteration of an entire civilisation, then announces a ceasefire. So war crimes work, right? Er, not when you create the “Tehran Tollbooth” in the Strait and transform your enemy into potentially the Middle East’s richest, best-armed hostile power with a $90bn war and reconstruction chest. We examine possibly the biggest self-own in geopolitical history. Plus: Labour squares up to the Greens in the local, Scottish and Welsh elections. How do they fight Polanski without coming across like bullying establishment incumbents? We look at the Kanye West fiasco. And in the Extra Bit for Patreon backers, what was that strange feeling we got from the Artemis moonshot? Was it… hope? This week’s special guest is James Ball, political editor of The New World. • Save our classic theme tune Demon Is A Monster by Cornershop for posterity. • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Jonn recommends HBO Max medical drama The Pitt starring Noah Wylie. • Ros recommends Danish life-juggling comedy drama Rita on Netflix. • James recommends video game Greedfall: The Dying World plus old series of Taskmaster on C4…
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