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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, with a focus on Labour's welfare cuts, Trump's tariffs, JD Vance's visit to Greenland.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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CALLS TO ACTION:
You can find the Myanmar Unicef Appeal here.
Here is the app that helps email your MP.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest Vicky Pryce - former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service and Chief Economic Adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research - to discuss Rachel Reeves Spring Statement.
Plus, of course, 'Wokey Dokey'.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.
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With pollution out of control, infrastructure at breaking point and water companies prioritising the pumping of pounds – many pounds – to shareholders, our water industry has dissolved into a murky mess.
Our seas and rivers are a disgrace, the National Audit Office has warned some areas could run out of water by 2034, and Britain's biggest water company is begging for a Government bailout, after years of loading up with debt to help it pay out juicy dividends.
In this Quiet Riot special, our producer Kenny Campbell takes a deep dive into the issues and possible solutions to the water crisis with Norwich South MP Clive Lewis, whose Private Member's Bill on the subject will be debated this week.
It's a topic that vexes our listeners – we know, because it's listeners who suggested we look into the scandalous state of affairs the water industry finds itself in.
How did we get into this dreadful situation? What can we do about it? How did Labour MP Clive Lewis find himself buttonholed by Richard Tice only to find the Reform MP was in agreement about the state of water companies? And how are Trumpian politics linked to what is going on in the industry?
If you swim, paddle or drink water, then this is a must-listen episode.
SHOW LINKS
Visit the Clive Lewis Action Network for more details on the work he is doing on Britain's broken water industry – and please drop your MP a letter this week, urging them to attend the imminent debate on Clive's bill.
The Rivers Trust has an interactive map of sewage spills in England here – it's pretty up-to-date and utterly shocking. The trust also has links for those seeking Scottish and Welsh data.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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Our bookshop selling many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, with a focus on the Labour govt's excellent plans for solar, "unpacking the coalition of the willing", and Lib Dem conference.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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LINKS:
Old Lib Dem manifesto, as Naomi mentioned.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest David Gauke - former Conservative Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice, and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, who had the whip withdrawn over his rebellion against no-deal Brexit, and was recently appointed by Starmer to lead an independent review into prison sentences.
They discuss Liz Kendall's welfare reform proposals, Kemi Badenoch's net zero u-turn, and the future of prisons and justice.
Plus, of course, 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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FURTHER READING:
Resolution Foundation's publications on the proposed welfare reforms can be found here.
Institute for Fiscal Studies reaction to the proposed welfare reforms can be found here.
CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
Respond to the government's Pathways to Work consultation.
Find out more about the Prison Reform Trust's work.
GRIN AND SHARE IT
Sign language terms for climate change: the story; and the videos.
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With a looming election, a troublesome neighbour and a former Bank of England Governor as unelected PM, Canada is living through excruciatingly interesting times.
We thought it was time to cuddle up to our Canuck cousins, and so Naomi Smith is joined for this special episode by Canadian journalist Graham Lanktree.
Graham is Politico's UK trade specialist, and an ideal guide to the ins and outs of Canadian politics.
How do Canadians feel about Mark Carney, a leader who has not been elected as an MP? Talking of unelected figures, what about their views on the Royal Family?
As Trump bulldozes his way across the political landscape, will Canada try to disentangle its trade relations with the US, and cozy up to the EU?
And How might Trump's second state visit to the UK affect UK-Canada diplomatic relations ?
Get all this and more in our brilliant bite-sized guide to Canada!
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451fAMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podysseyOVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9QPOCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbdYouTube Music: Coming Soon Or you can add it to any app, using the RSS feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podysseySUBSCRIBE OR FOLLOW NOW!Our bookshop including many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot ***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD*** With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.Email us at [email protected]. Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, with a focus on the Labour govt's incoherent welfare reforms, and Musk's destruction of his own companies.
PLUS Germany goes shopping!
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“A lack of an ideological basis is leading Labour to some very poor choices. When you’re cutting international aid, you are cutting it for the most vulnerable people in the world. When you are cutting PIP, you are cutting it for the most disadvantaged people in the UK.”
“I would say to Starmer, simply, this: If you’ve ended up pissing off someone like me, you are in trouble with this. It is time to change course. This is crossing a line.”
ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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LINKS:
Sing the 38Degrees petition against welfare cuts.
Find out about the Tesla Takedown campaign.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest, veteran journalist, straight-talker, and German sage, Annette Dittert, to discuss the latest in UK and European politics and the effect of instability from across the Atlantic.
Plus, of course, 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
Support the work of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust here.
Fund an armoured ambulance for Ukraine medics - more information here.
GRIN AND SHARE IT
Breaking in her new high heels ON HIS SHIN.
And the delicious video is here.
Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
Kick your X habit, finally, by using one of three Quiet Riot Bluesky Starter Packs. With one click, it will hook you up with, among many good accounts, Alex, Naomi, and Kenny.
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'Tis the season of St Patrick and so Naomi Smith is joined by Irish politics specialist Professor Mary C Murphy, to see whether Ireland's political glass is half empty or half full. Questions are there many...
Ireland is one of three neutral EU countries but is that sustainable in the age of Trump and Putin? How do young people on the island differ politically from their parents? Could there be a border poll and why would it be fraught with risk?
And should the Taoiseach be raising a glass to his St Patrick's Day visit to the White House, or drowning his sorrows?
Mary is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College in Massachusetts.
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Our Quiet Riot bookshop supports independent book sellers and features lots of the books we feature on the show. Find Professor Murphy's thorough study on post-Brexit Northern Ireland here.
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and producer Kenny Campbell, in cahoots with SandStone Global.
ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY launches on the 15th of March and can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
PODBEAN: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/gt7a4-3460bc/Alex-Andreou%27s-Podyssey-Podcast
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, with a focus on the astounding implosion within Reform UK and signs of reversal of policies and freezing out of Musk by Trump.
PLUS will changes on how GDP is calculated help or hinder Reeves?
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“Parliaments with a higher number of female leaders are more likely to be more equal, achieve higher economic growth and experience lower levels of corruption.”
“Have Reform peaked too soon? Timing is everything. By doing well in some polls, people have started to treat them more seriously, to question them about policy, to look at people beyond Farage. And there is nothing there.”
“Trump fails to understand much beyond ‘you've got this and I want it, why won’t you take a deal?’ In his head they are all not being rational, because he fails to realise that a peace treaty is not a business deal. This isn't a challenge on The Apprentice.”
“DOGE’s entire power depends on its being able to impose itself on other departments. So, when Trump tells Musk: well, you can advise, but the State Secretaries will decide, is not just a demotion. It's a humiliation.”
ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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LINKS:
For International Women's Day, visit 50-50 Parliament.
Nine-minute fact check on Farage about Putin is here.
Wales special is here.
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Alex Andreou talks to investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan about the mysterious - and increasingly influential figure - the owner of GB News, Unherd, and The Spectator, Paul Marshall.
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Peter's substack Democracy for Sale. It's free and you should subscribe.
Peter's LRB profile of Paul Marshall.
Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured - including Peter Goghegan's - can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
Kick your X habit, finally, by using one of three Quiet Riot Bluesky Starter Packs. With one click, it will hook you up with, among many good accounts, Alex, Naomi, and Kenny.
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.
ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY launches on the 15th of March and can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest More in Common's Luke Tryl to discuss the latest from Washington and how it is making life very difficult for right wing politicians in the UK, including Nigel Farage, suffering rejection-by-association.
PLUS We take a deep dive into 'Blue Labour'. Is it genuine? Is it attractive? Is it coherent? Why is Steve Bannon and the Trump regime so interested in it?
And of course 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
POCKET CASTS: https://pca.st/podcast/9e98d690-d812-013d-ea22-0affdfd67dbd
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“Trump is such a gifted communicator that he constructs his own reality. The one bit he can’t control, the one part of reality he cannot alter, is how much people’s weekly supermarket bill is, or what they pay at the gas pump. And it might be his undoing.”
“The notion of a European army used to be the Brexiteers’ bogeyman. And now more people believe there should be such a combined European defence force than not. In fact, support for it has doubled since 2020. So, Trump has definitely had a cohesive effect.”
“There is a danger at the moment of confusing the very online Reform supporters on X with wider Reform. Actually, if you look at the shift that’s allowed them to grow eight-nine points since the election, they’re more moderate, more female, and don’t approve of Trump or Musk.”
“The working class is not some homogenous block of post-liberal anti-woke Trumpists, just like not every progressive lives in leafy North London, supports Arsenal, and studied law at a Russell Group University. I reject this kind of identity politics.”
“[Blue Labour] seems to me a sort of pretend salt-of-the-earth authenticity and radicalism, while actually just appropriating small-c conservative politics of division. Women and ethnic or sexual minorities are pretty absent from their cynically drawn picture of class.”
“On immigration, the median voter balances three things: compassion, control, and competence. And politicians confuse that with ‘people don’t want any immigration’. It’s just not true.”
CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
Find out more about 1 Team 1 Fight and donate to them.
Find out more about joining The Fabian Society.
Help the charity Marie Curie with their Great Daffodil Appeal.
GRIN AND SHARE IT
A new test for pancreatic cancer: https://bigthink.com/health/pancreatic-cancer-screen/
DNA discoveries about pancreatic cancer: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/15/scientists-make-dna-discovery-that-could-help-find-pancreatic-cancer-cure
Latest study results: https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreatic-cancer-msk-clinical-researchers-are-trying-find-out
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Naomi Smith is joined by award-winning journalist - and QR regular - Will Hayward for a timely stock-take of political life in a part of the country that we Quiet Rioters love, and a look at the Welsh budget (you will never believe how it got through), how farming complaints are different to the rest of the UK, a very inventive youth mobility scheme, and how Reform UK are using Wales - with Lee Anderson saying the quiet bit out loud.
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ALEX ANDREOU'S PODYSSEY can be found here:
APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alex-andreous-podyssey/id1798575126
SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/2x7cD3HjkOyOKTF4YT5Goy?si=e7a86b762431451f
AMAZON MUSIC: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/8c996062-ef8d-42e4-9d80-5b407cb6e2e2/alex-andreou's-podyssey
OVERCAST: https://overcast.fm/+ABN4Gd7AP9Q
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith with a short debrief at the end of a historic day, on which Starmer has brought Europe (and friends) together, to make a stand for Ukraine.
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“This sort of strength avoids conflict. And I think that Europe, through its peace-dividend and end-of-history years, maybe this is a lesson that it had began to un-learn.”
“We mustn't burn bridges with the USA. Because we have so many eggs in the American basket. But what the UK and Europe has to start to do, is to start moving our eggs out of that f***ing basket - and quickly.”
CALL TO ACTION:
Here is how to find out more about 1 Team 1 Fight and donate to them.
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith talk through the week's news, with a focus on the gangsters who have taken over the White House.
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NAOMI: "It's not so much that the world has changed as that the world has finally realized how much the world had already changed. For those for whom the penny hadn't already dropped, it's dropped now. And my overriding feeling is just this renewed anger about the decision to leave the EU."
ALEX: "Deliberation is not evidence of equivocation. Speed does not always result in constancy. Declamation does not equal leadership. Calmness is not a form of appeasement."
NAOMI: "I’m very encouraged by the UK demonstrating more leadership on this issue, putting its money where its mouth is, and I hope it will inspire other European leaders to do likewise, especially those not yet even meeting the NATO threshold of spending 2% of GDP on defence. Looking at you Meloni…"
ALEX: "The only thing that matters now, is for the political will to exist, to disentangle our continent from a now unreliable and dangerous partner, and for the time to be gained to do that safely. We will bite the inside of our cheek and smile and say 'yes dear', while preparing our escape."
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Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith welcome special guest LBC host James O'Brien to discuss Starmer's trip to Washington. What is the best he could come back with? And was raising defence at the expense of aid worth it?
And of course 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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“The idea that history was over, because the Cold War was over, the Berlin Wall had come down, and liberal democracy had prevailed over the extremes of fascism or communism, was irresistible in 1989. So, this isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about recognising we’re returning to an unsafe world.”
“This defence spending announcement is a signal, an in-principle decision, that we are entering an era where hard power matters more than soft power. It is difficult to disagree with that assessment of the world right now.”
“The bottom line is: the world changed last week in ways that nobody could have foreseen. And Starmer has done the thing that Starmer is quite good at - when the facts have changed he’s changed his mind.”
“Badenoch channels the worst of Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss. It’s 50% Mordaunt shouting ‘stand and fight and stand and stand and fight and stand’ and 50% Truss going ‘we’ve got 10 and 1/2 minutes to save Western civilisation.”
“The problem is many of the benefits of soft power are intangible - you can’t easily put a dollar value on a population not being displaced or someone not becoming radicalised. But it feels instinctively like it must be cheaper than hard power.”
“Yes, using a logical train, in light of everything Trump has said and done, NATO is over. But using logical trains, when it comes to Trump is pointless. So until someone makes a compelling case of why it is in Trump’s personal interest, even NATO is subject to his caprice.”
“It’s so hard to look at everything not through a lens of normality bias. I’ve caught myself so often, lately, thinking: this can’t be as bad as it looks, because I am biased towards believing that the danger cannot be as great as it appears.”
CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
Click to find out more about Help for Heroes.
An old - but still extremely useful - Charity Commission guide on choosing the right charity to support.
Grin and Share It on the CBI report about Britain's Green Economy.
James's encounter with Charlie, the farmer.
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Alex Andreou and special guest, London bureau chief for the ARD, the multi-award winning journalist, Annette Dittert with an analysis of Sunday's German federal election results.
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“NATO may have died - in the sense that, if the Article 5 commitment is not longer believable, if it is not something you can bank on, we may already be at a point when we need to start looking at something else, which looks a bit like NATO but doesn’t involve the US.”
“Of all the weapons Ukraine uses, 55% are produced in Ukraine, 25% come from Europe and 20% from the US. The difficulty arises because a lot of that 20% from the US is made up of high-end air defence that is hard to replace. But it’s not impossible.”
"The German election is proof of concept for what Musk's interference can achieve. European leaders need to get their s**t together and decide what they're going to do about his influence, because otherwise he's just going to pick them off one by one."
"Any other records held by any other company would be accessible given the right court order. Even for confidential or privileged stuff, there are exceptions in cases of national security. So why should electronic data get a free pass where no other held records would?"
LINKS:
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Alex Andreou and special guest, former diplomat and security analyst, Arthur Snell talk about the end of NATO as we know it, today's German federal election, and Apple's tussle with UK gov't over encryption.
A packed episode!
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“NATO may have died - in the sense that, if the Article 5 commitment is not longer believable, if it is not something you can bank on, we may already be at a point when we need to start looking at something else, which looks a bit like NATO but doesn’t involve the US.”
“Of all the weapons Ukraine uses, 55% are produced in Ukraine, 25% come from Europe and 20% from the US. The difficulty arises because a lot of that 20% from the US is made up of high-end air defence that is hard to replace. But it’s not impossible.”
"The German election is proof of concept for what Musk's interference can achieve. European leaders need to get their s**t together and decide what they're going to do about his influence, because otherwise he's just going to pick them off one by one."
"Any other records held by any other company would be accessible given the right court order. Even for confidential or privileged stuff, there are exceptions in cases of national security. So why should electronic data get a free pass where no other held records would?"
LINKS:
Arthur Snell's Behind The Lines episode with Mike Martin.
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Extended 40min version of Alex Andreou and Salma Shah (filling in for Naomi) talking to Emmy-award-winning journalist specialising on NATO, Luke McGee, discussion on whether the USA is still our ally and what the future of NATO is.
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“There is a logical inconsistency to America demanding that Europe commit more to the NATO project, at the moment it also says: we’re not particularly committed to it.”
“I don’t think it’s one man, behind a desk in the White House that will control the fate of NATO. We have to have some confidence in our institutions and the many thousands of people that contribute to them.”
“Along with support for Ukraine, ‘the special relationship’ seems to be breaking apart with it. Because Russia is a much more pertinent threat to us than it is to America. And it feels like they just want it off their desks.”
“The late Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to the US, used to say ‘the special relationship’ never existed. I think that’s probably true. American interest in Europe has always been somewhat overstated.”
“For the last 20 years, whenever the idea of a European army was floated, the main objector was NATO and countries who saw it as foundational, like the UK or the US, because they saw it as a threat to NATO centrality as a defence force. Now they turn around and say ‘why don’t you have your own European army?’ after blocking it for decades.”
“Are we now in a situation where America is Russia’s bitch? I don’t think that is the case. But it’s clear there are people around Trump who have absolutely swallowed Kremlin talking points and get their information from weird accounts on X. That’s very dangerous.”
CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
You can find out more about the PAME Arctic Cleanup Project here.
You can find out more about Ukraine Medical Aid here.
You can find out more about the Ukraine Freedom Fund here.
Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
Kick your X habit, finally, by using one of three Quiet Riot Bluesky Starter Packs. With one click, it will hook you up with, among many good accounts, Alex, Naomi, and Kenny.
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Alex Andreou and Salma Shah (filling in for Naomi) welcome guest Emmy-award-winning journalist specialising in NATO, Luke McGee, to discuss whether - and I cannot believe I am about to type this - the USA is still our ally or "Putin's Bitch".
Plus - Who is out to get Rachel Reeves? We sort truth from gossip and explore why there is already dysfunction in such a young administration with such a secure majority.
And of course 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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“Along with support for Ukraine, ‘the special relationship’ seems to be breaking apart with it. Because Russia is a much more pertinent threat to us than it is to America. And it feels like they just want it off their desks.”
“The late Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to the US, used to say ‘the special relationship’ never existed. I think that’s probably true. American interest in Europe has always been somewhat overstated.”
“For the last 20 years, whenever the idea of a European army was floated, the main objector was NATO and countries who saw it as foundational, like the UK or the US, because they saw it as a threat to NATO centrality as a defence force. Now they turn around and say ‘why don’t you have your own European army?’ after blocking it for decades.”
“Are we now in a situation where America is Russia’s bitch? I don’t think that is the case. But it’s clear there are people around Trump who have absolutely swallowed Kremlin talking points and get their information from weird accounts on X. That’s very dangerous.”
“I think the talk of the reshuffle is just talk at the moment… But perhaps one of the questions Rachel Reeves should be asking herself is whether she needs a reshuffle in her own team. Does she have the right skills in her advisors?“
CALLS TO ACTION LINKS:
You can find out more about the PAME Arctic Cleanup Project here.
You can find out more about Ukraine Medical Aid here.
You can find out more about the Ukraine Freedom Fund here.
Our bookshop featuring many of the books we have featured can be found at uk.bookshop.org/shop/quietriot.
Kick your X habit, finally, by using one of three Quiet Riot Bluesky Starter Packs. With one click, it will hook you up with, among many good accounts, Alex, Naomi, and Kenny.
***SPONSOR US AT KO-FI.COM/QUIETRIOTPOD***
With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.
Email us at [email protected]. Or visit our website www.quietriotpod.com.
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