HeyJaredMarina Purkiss
I’m not always having a go at wrong’uns…sometimes I’m sleeping | Political Commentator & Podcaster | @thetrawlpodcast | @jeremyvineon5 | @lbc |
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Hunger Games At The White House & Very British Insults (opens the original)
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Two episodes in two days, because Marina couldn't sleep. Trawlers, this one's a tasting menu of the week's finest nonsense.The Trawl ladies start with GB News being crowned "most trusted news channel" by its own viewers (custard is the favourite custard among people who eat custard), then pay homage to a homegrown delusional wally who lasted 49 days and still gets the odd LBC slot.Then it's over to the White House. Trump rolls out the red carpet and a black-tie state dinner for the leader of Chi
Is This... Hope? Labour Conference, Ireland's Stand-Off & Reform's Balls-Up (opens the original)
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Jemma and Marina hit Labour conference with Andy Burnham's speech: social care, "Your First Home" and the triple lock. Both have opinions and neither can quite agree on how many pensioners will turn up with pitchforks. Plus Shabana Mahmood reads the room, and Jemma and Marina ask whether this is actual hope or just adrenaline and conference biscuits.Then to Reform, where a council has decided the best way to help women and girls is to close all ten of its nurseries, leaving 402 children and 116
The Trawl Meets Owen Jones (opens the original)
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Columnist, bestselling author, Guardian journalist, broadcaster and one of the most prominent voices on the British left for well over a decade, Owen can always be relied on to say exactly what he thinks, no holds barred. He’s also someone who has never been particularly troubled by the idea of annoying people which, frankly, is one of the reasons Marina and Jemma like him.He’s fiercely critical of the right, deeply unimpressed by Keir Starmer’s Labour, passionate about Gaza and increasingly int
One Bellend, A Knife, And The Machine Behind Him (opens the original)
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How Much Is Integrity Worth? Sheeran's Backlash, Tom Watson's About-Turn & The Budget Headache (opens the original)
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Ed Sheeran is crying on stage after the backlash over Macklemore being dropped from his tour, while Macklemore remains remarkably clear that this isn’t about him, or Ed.Marina and Jemma get into the row, the strange spectacle of a global superstar discovering the politics of Palestine in real time, and why having “FU money” might occasionally mean having the courage to say - no.Then there’s the rather extraordinary case of former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joining Palantir, the controversia
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