NS#261: Gone Fishing
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🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Stephen is away this week, so Anoosh is at the helm. First, she is joined by Citymetric editor and known Brexit loather Jonn Elledge to discuss the transition deal and why fish were thrown into the Thames at Westminster. Then, she interviews Francisco Cantú, a former border guard on the US-Mexico border and the author of The Line Becomes a River. Finally, George Eaton answers one of your questions: why is it the convention not to name politicians' spokespeople?
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
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| 0:20.8 | Aruhovich listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour. |
| 0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
| 0:31.6 | from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and |
| 0:35.7 | disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions, |
| 0:39.7 | Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea. |
| 1:03.6 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Anush. And I'm John. |
| 1:04.3 | And this week we're talking about... |
| 1:05.9 | The shortcomings of the Brexit Transition Deal and some fish. |
| 1:09.0 | We hear from Francisco Cantu, a former US Border Patrol agent who's written a book called The Line Becomes a River. |
| 1:15.0 | And you ask us, why take the Convention not to name politician and spokespeople? |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you for joining me, John. Listeners may not know but Stephen Bush is away today because it's his birthday so I expect he's probably watching reruns of old elections but I don't know how he celebrates. It's a big birthday I believe too. It's his |
| 1:34.8 | 35th I think. It's not his 35th. I can't believe you come on and the first thing you do is |
| 1:41.2 | slander our usual host. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm very excited to be here. |
| 1:44.4 | This is like a promotion. |
| 1:45.7 | So, you know. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, well I hope it lives up to your expectations. |
| 1:49.9 | But we thought that we'd talk a little bit about Brexit this week. |
| 1:54.2 | Yeah, because it's John's favorite subject and you know he loves the will of the people. |
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