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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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Could Britain's hopes of a free trade deal founder because of US concerns over free speech?
Plus: Why Britain is stuck in a 'normie doom spiral', and what's the problem with instagram poetry?
Hugo Rifkind unpacks the politics of the day with Libby Purves and James Marriott.
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0:41.4 | talking about everything from our relationship with Trump's America to Instagram poetry. |
0:45.7 | And joining me are two Times columnists whose own special relationship has so far survived the Trump presidency, |
0:50.9 | and they are Libby Purvis. Hello, Libby. Hello. And James Marriott. Hello, James. |
0:56.5 | Good morning. I don't mean to embarrass you to you by suggesting there's a special relationship, |
1:00.6 | but I feel there is. Which of you is America, would you say? I think Libby's America. I'm so |
1:06.3 | not America. That would suggest that while you feel you have a very strong relationship with Libby. |
1:11.4 | He's one of these, he's one of these kind of East Coast Harvard-y intellectual types who reads books |
1:17.2 | and thinks a lot. That's James. I think Libya is the super, now we're just going to flatter |
1:21.4 | each other, but Libya is surely the superpower. And I'm just the, we have a kind of transatlantic |
1:26.1 | alliance or something. What does that make you? |
1:27.7 | I'm not sure who that makes me. Maybe you're our Greenland. I was going for Canada. I think Greenland's |
1:33.3 | a little bit, a little bit more down the list. Libby? I am the old empire. The old empire. I like it. |
1:39.8 | That's good. Yeah, I think I'm a citizen of nowhere. It just travels around between these various places. |
1:45.1 | Ah, you're a Scott. There we go. That'll do. Let's start with America, as one so often must. |
1:51.7 | Well, I want to talk about how America is treating countries around the world, not just Britain. |
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