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Join The New European's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New European newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people.
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Join The New European's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New European newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people.
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    Caitlin Moran and the trouble with men

    Caitlin Moran and the trouble with men

    The Matts are joined by author and journalist Caitlin Moran to talk about men and the manisphere. What can men learn from the progress women made with feminism? It’s a broad spectrum conversation veering from pornography to football, from the benefits of banter to why so many men are so bad at friendships. Also - is the new play Boys From The Blackstuff a match for the brilliant 80s Alan Bleasdale television series? The Matts have a night out at the theatre and find out.
    Caitlin Moran: What About Men?
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    • 54 min
    Welcome to six weeks of political mayhem and the end of an error

    Welcome to six weeks of political mayhem and the end of an error

    Special bonus podcast on this week's big story ... no, not Paula Vennell's disgrace in the Post Office Scandal ... no, not the Infected Blood scandal ... no, not the huge upswing in migrants crossing the channel ... not the news that mortgage rate cuts will be delayed until August, nor the news that the Rwanda flights will probably never happen... it's the big news that Rishi Sunak has decided that everything's getting better and decided now is the time to hold a General Election. The Matts are joined by New European political editor James Ball and say Bring It On!
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    • 30 min
    Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting

    Q&A: Should we believe Starmer's pledge card and compulsory voting

    In this Sunday Q&A episode the two Matts take on your questions on compulsory voting, online voting, Article 7 and more on the Elphicke defection.
    Get your questions in to 2matts@tnepublishing.com
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    • 41 min
    Lies, damned lies, and Rishi Sunak

    Lies, damned lies, and Rishi Sunak

    Not only was Rishi Sunak’s election campaign salvo this week one of the laziest, divisive and incoherent collections of gaslighting gibberish in recent political history - it was littered throughout with misleading suggestions and basic untruths. The Matts do a bit of fact checking on our dear leader’s latest spell behind baby’s first lectern. Also… a day out at the Sir Harry Evans Summit on investigative journalism inspires the Matts and provokes questions on how can the media do better.
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    • 54 min
    Q&A: Elphicke's Defection & Should We Let 'Let It Be' Be?

    Q&A: Elphicke's Defection & Should We Let 'Let It Be' Be?

    'Potential' coalition governments, defections, the Beatles... it's the Q&A that has it all!
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    • 36 min
    Gaza and Israel: The endless ripples of war

    Gaza and Israel: The endless ripples of war

    Who would have predicted the extent to which the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 would have changed the world to such a degree, in such a short time? The Matts debate their differences in a conversation that lays bare the tragic complexity of a crisis spreading division throughout the world. It’s a difficult listen - and all the better for it. Also - the Matts relish the new Withnail and I stage play and pay tribute to the late great Bernard Hill. Go ‘ed.. gizza listen!
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    • 1 hr 3 min

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