Amol Rajan
speaker
3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because you're saying golden... When you said at the moment the government could golden brick it, what can you do to protect that heritage?
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I think that should happen a lot easier.
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And when you're running a pub, you don't necessarily have a huge amount of time on your hands.
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You certainly don't.
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You've already got so much paperwork.
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It's the last thing you want to be doing.
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Well, you work seven days a week, antisocial hours and all the rest of it.
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It's so interesting what you said a moment ago about whether or not some pubs which, and you say this, I should be clear, as a great champion of pubs, some pubs which aren't viable will inevitably fall by the wayside.
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I just want to read you something that James May, former guest editor of the Today programme, former presenter of Top Gear and so on and so forth, said to LBC a few weeks ago.
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So,
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He's a pub owner.
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He's a fan of the Today program.
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And he said, and I quote, I, as in James May, get very conflicted about all the save the pub stuff that goes on.
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The honest truth is, if things need protecting, they're not doing themselves any favors.
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Pubs are not actually institutions.
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They're not historical monuments or any of that stuff.
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They are essentially businesses first and foremost.
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But beyond that, they're places that have to work.
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The pub will be saved by the pub.
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Nothing else.
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