Helen Lewis
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1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I had it sung at my wedding.
And so the class hierarchies of the podcast team are revealed.
Yeah, OK, good.
I had it sung when playing George III in The Madness Of, but there we go.
Oh, brilliant.
It's not a peaceful protest when you're rattling out Ode to Joy at several decibels, I'm sorry.
He never got a sense that he enjoyed the job or really even wanted to be in the job.
It just sort of felt like it had sort of fallen to him, this kind of middle management figure, and he didn't know what he wanted to do with it and didn't get any joy out of it either.
I also do think there's a name that has to come up here, which is he who should not be named, which is Mandelson, which I just think was the most enormous and avoidable screw-up.
I mean, it was really, really sort of... Why appoint someone that so many people dislike so intensely to a job you don't need to appoint anyone to?
You had a perfectly good ambassador who got on really, really well with Trump anyway.
Why put that bomb in there and wait for it to explode?
It's like with Boris Johnson.
Everyone forgets that what he resigned over actually was Chris Pinchot because Partygate became the defining thing of him and the way he had to go.
And I think it was amongst his parliamentary party.
I think with Keir Starmer, Mandelson was exactly the same thing.
I think from that drip, drip, drip of more and more bits of evidence coming out and paperwork and text messages, I think that was what was inevitably going to do for a minute.
I think you would say Ukraine generally and sticking by Ukraine.
But I'd also say particularly that moment after President Zelensky was horribly bullied in the Oval Office by J.D.
Vance and President Trump.
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