About this episode

The Matts engage in a Q&A session addressing various political and cultural questions from listeners.

The Matts answer listeners’ questions in their regular Sunday Q&A session, including: Is Will Self right about the impact of football on our national mentality? What is the long term future of the Falklands? What should Andy Burnham’s first message to the nation be? How could Rupert Lowe skew hard right politics? How do we protect MPs? And what audiobooks do the Matts recommend for a population which finds reading books increasingly testing? Enjoy! Produced by Matt Withers OFFER: Get The New World for just £1 for the first month. Head to https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/2matts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Withers

Guest: Will Self

Topics covered

• football
• national mentality
• Falklands
• politics
• audiobooks
• Q&A

Keywords

• football
• Will Self
• Falklands
• Andy Burnham
• Rupert Lowe
• audiobooks
• Q&A

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