The Two Matts
Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Are we nearing an elected dictatorship, or have we already reached one?
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The troubling plight of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, second jobs for MPs and a sec...
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Tory sleaze, government U-turns and trouble at sea.
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When should the government implement their Covid Plan B.... and was there a Plan...
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A climate change special: will COP26 be any cop?
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From Brexit to Polexit: an idiot, and an existential crisis, abroad
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Boris' Build Back ... Blather, and Keir Starmer's quest for competency
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How Brexit ran out of gas, and how Keir Starmer can step it up a gear
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Germany after Merkel: The New European election special
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Social care and Brexit: troubles in the NHS and trouble in store
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Getting Brexiteers to apologise and choosing hope over politics and policies
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A shortage of goods in the UK, and an excess of fascism in Europe
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Aerospace, red tape and is there any mileage in moaning?
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Levelling Britain up for 2070 and looking back on Russia in 1991
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Unrequited (political) love for India, the pot paradox and what European tales t...
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What Dominic Cummings did next... and what Keir Starmer should do next
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Football, politics and the rise of sado-populism
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Cannes Film Festival Special
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The problem with vaccine nationalism and finding a solution to protest politics
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Waiting for Boris Johnson's inevitable fall, and what to watch from the Cannes F...
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How David Bowie predicted Brexit, and phoney proclamations of patriotism
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The realities of the Australia trade deal, talking politics with Brexiteers and...
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How John Major unintentionally sparked Brexit, and the fall of the Murdoch empir...
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Radical Joe, Germansplaining and Brexiteer remorse
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Dominic Cummings, Putin's Arctic gamble, and Labour's love-hate relationship wit...
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The rise of the Green Party and Boris Johnson's latest culture war
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Local elections fallout, Labour's path to victory, and the problem with Buy Brit...
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The Jersey stand-off, Labour woes, Line of Duty v Boris and the DUP's election
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Elections Preview Part II with Alastair Campbell, Tim Walker and Chris Deerin
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May 6 Elections Countdown - Part One
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Tory sleaze, Lib Dem revival, and local elections
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Bent Boris and violence in Northern Ireland
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The old Etonian obsession and the Tories' election strategy
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Tackling Leveson ten years on with Alastair Campbell
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Rishi Sunak's unofficial election campaign and Piers Morgan's future
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The Budget, Meghan and Harry's press feud, and David Frost and the Bloodlands
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A farewell to Richard, the Brexit 'Green Dividend', and Dilyn the Dog's Hall of...
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A touch of Frost and still not open all hours
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Europopulism, state-funded snappers and the UK's Fox News
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Brave New World
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A dose of anti-sceptic solution
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Mini Merkel and The Starmer Report
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A Brexit sandwich, two packets of Soreen and Shaun Bailey's hard cheese
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Where did it all go wrong?
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Christmas songs and festive snogging
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A very Covid Christmas and the words of 2020
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Never mind the scallops
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Vaccines, tiers and great escapes
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Tiers, Turkey and a ticked-off Tory
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Dom departs, Corbyn curbed and the greatest ever politics films
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