David McWilliams
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17,921 appearances
50 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
David McWilliams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the mid 19th century, edited by the great William Badchot, who was one of the very first men to understand central banking.
B B A J H O T, I think was his name.
Uh maybe some of our British listeners will call him maybe he was Bajot with a silent T, but he was a very, very brilliant journalist.
And he set up the Economist, or he actually made the Economist the paper of record.
So the economists about a a week ago
had an extraordinary hit job.
Now this is again within the Academy, John, within the economics fraternity.
Now what I can tell you about economists, particularly academic economists, is they have very, very long memories.
Right when there's a when there's a pile on and an opportunity to pile on one of them.
particularly if he's the most prominent one, you get all sorts of characters saying, Well, he wasn't very good, et cetera, et cetera.
So
Exactly.
Exactly.
Love Island for people who can do algebra.
Yeah.
That's exactly what it is, okay?
But I can just say economists give journalists a good name when it comes to generosity, and journalists give even comedians a good name when it comes to uh backing each other, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because every comedian I know
secretly wants to see a fella die on stage, right?
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