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What The F*** Is Going On...? With Mark Steel Episode 69

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel

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Centricut, which owns British gas, has announced record profits of 3.3 billion pounds. If you asked everybody in the country what should we do with that money? Some people might give a boring answer such as build a hospital. Others might show a little bit of imagination and suggest we spend it on a ski slope for pandas or get Manchester City to take over a bus garage so that all the drivers would pay 27 million pounds until it went bankrupt. But a few of us would have the foresight and the wit to understand that the best thing to do is to give it all to Centricut. Because anyone who knows how economics works understands that the most important role for a

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