Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith with special guest Dame Emily Thornberry try to decipher the incoherent tweets of Musk, the incoherent strategy of Badenoch, and the incoherent ramblings of Trump. Plus 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin and Share It'.
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"The idea that they can just play political games on the bodies of these girls, whose lives would have been turned upside down by what happened, to have it all raked over again and again for petty point scoring. The stakes for the victims are very high.”
“The next few years is going to be all about realignment on the right. Who's going to eat whom? In our current system there's only really space for two big political parties.”
“I don't really know what's happened to the leadership of the Tory Party. They have so profoundly lost their way.”
"The one thing we should take very seriously about Donald Trump is that he is completely unpredictable. It's like the whole table has been thrown over and we're picking up the pieces trying to see how to put it back together."
"The way forward is essentially to work out what are his interests and how to align what's in our interest with it. On Ukraine, Trump doesn't want to be seen as a loser. He wants to win the Nobel Peace prize. We can be there saying, here is a way to do that, just sign your name and have your photo taken."
GRIN AND SHARE IT
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.
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