HeyJaredThree Old Hacks
Mihir Bose – former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s.
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Fings ain't what they used to be - or are they? (opens the original)
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What difference will the huge amount of money Reform has received recently from private donors make to their campaigning? Are our elections becoming more like they are in America? Are the anti-immigration protests from black uniformed men in balaclavas different from those the National Front mounted in the 1970s? Racism has always been present just under the surface in British society but it is now bubbling up in the most vicious and unpleasant way. The Three Old Hacks look out their RNLI bra...
Could we see Count Binface MP taking his seat at Westminster? (opens the original)
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The Three Old Hacks are old enough to remember the serial candidacies (all 39 of them) of Screaming Lord Sutch and his Monster Raving Loony Party. He held the distinction of winning more votes than the leader of the Social Democrat Party David Owen at the Bootle by-election in 1990, and of standing for election the most, losing his deposit every time. In their latest discussion The Three Old Hacks consider whether Count Binface could beat Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election in August. (S...
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