The What & The Why

Really enjoying the listen thank you. Highly recommended I think a discussion on perspective is missing in this virus psyche. We accept & sympathies with the drama of death especially close to home. We seem to be missing the perspective of numbers of deaths a year eg if 600k die in uk annually 22k from covid is 3.6% if 100% unexpected deaths. But 75% plus of the virus death are estimated to have alas die anyway. So mortality rate up 0.9% eg well within 5 yr variance. Then WTO report communicable disease kill 11,700 as day globally... then other like hart disease or snake bites etc... eg have we lost our perspective & how do we regain it?

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Batman and Robin. Starsky and Hutch. Famous historical duos now joined by the the legendary pairing of Dr Waywell and Tim Marshall, a pair of geopolitical sleuths fighting to make the world a more factual place. Two lovely northern chaps putting the world to rights once a week mixing real insights into geopolitics with infectious comedy and buckets of trivia. The Wallace and Gromit of geopolitics. Great way to get a round up of what is happening in the world once a week with serious analysis in a light hearted way. A refreshing antidote to the Westminster Bubble. Thanks for all that you do Tim and David.

I love this podcast for bringing the FACTS (!) to the news and manages to clearly distinguish them from opinion or interpretation. This is so refreshing in today’s media. I really appreciate how the presenters give historical background to emerging stories in a way that isn’t patronising to a millennial like me.

Love the podcast. Discussing events with delightful context that is so vitally missing from other platforms. Also provides the sceptical view of celebrity attempts to appear compassionate that is missing from virtue-signalling Twitter. Eagerly awaiting the next episode of ‘which animal can swim?’, keep it up! (also go and tell that kid next door to stop banging the floor)