Waiting For The Apocalypse: tariffs, food security and the right to protest

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of sexually explicit and sexist song lyrics. While we wait to see if Trump’s tariff juggernaut is going to squash our fragile economy, Nish and Coco count the cost of the “bill-mageddon” we already face. It’s a perfect storm of steep rises in household bills and a bonkers global trade war. While we’re staring economic apocalypse in the face, we seem to be losing our rights to protest. If the Quakers get raided, who’s safe from heavy handed policing and draconian laws? And have you prepared yourself for food shortages? Your stash of beans might not cut it. Professor Tim Lang - author of a major report on food security- has a plan we all need to hear. On the bright side, 2025 is the year the Labour Party has decided to embrace social media and podcasts. What can possibly go wrong? CHECK OUT THESE DEALS FROM OUR SPONSORS VOY https://www.joinvoy.com/psuk Guests Tim Lang Zoë Grünewald Audio Credits C4 Garys Economics Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheuk Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Cocoa Khan. Today, the UK is bracing itself as Trump unveils his trade tariffs. And in the face of economic chaos, we're chatting to food security expert Tim Lang about how we can shore up Britain's precarious supply chains.
0:19.2	Then we're just up oil, putting down the tin soup and saying goodbye to direct action.
0:23.5	We're talking about the future with the right to protest.
0:26.0	First, though, do you want to hear a big news, Nick?
0:29.0	What is the big news, Coco?
0:30.2	This is our 100th episode.
0:32.9	It's our centenary, the PSUK centenary.
0:39.4	That was God Save the Queen. I don't know why that came out.
0:41.6	Yeah, why is that? I don't know. I didn't know any other horn music. Do you know any other horn music?
0:46.2	I'm trying to do what has become my sort of speciality in the last couple of years,
0:50.5	which has become a kind of interpreter for Cocoa Kahn's outpourings, given that
0:55.5	her mouth is completely directly connected to her brain with no filtration system whatsoever.
1:00.8	I think, say for people outside the UK, if you live to 100, the reigning monarch sends you
1:06.6	a letter. Yes. So I think in what Coco's mind has jumped through that. Yes, that's exactly
1:12.9	well. And do you know what was really great is I didn't even know that's what had happened,
1:16.5	but you did.
1:24.1	To celebrate the 100th episode, I am actually coming to you from the mothership from deep inside
1:30.6	the hub of Crooked's actual office in LA. And it's a real relief for everybody, especially if
1:36.3	you're watching this on YouTube, because the last few weeks, it has been like getting a FaceTime
1:42.4	call from your uncle who doesn't fully know how to use his new mobile phone.
1:45.7	It's like, you know, when you see the Attenborough or like a sort of BBC Springwatch and they got the camera traps and then the little badger comes out like snout first, it's a little bit like that, like Nightwatch niche.
1:55.9	Actually, that's not fair. You look great anyway.
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