Joe Pike
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1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're having this conversation at 11 in the morning.
But just remember also why this matters so much.
So Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, do you remember a few weeks ago, he said, even after peace is agreed, it will be at least eight months before...
before things return to normal.
And what we're talking about there are the oil price.
So therefore the price of fertilizer, the price therefore of food, the price of jet fuel, the price of all these other things on which we rely.
So even if this is signed today and it happens as Trump predicted, the hangover from this conflict is still going to be with us for a long time.
And we saw this week, didn't we, with those economic figures that showed actually the economy going the wrong way.
as the impact of that conflict closing the Straits of Hormuz is starting to be felt.
Including a cage fight.
You've never been in a cage.
Yes, and if he hails a peace deal as a victory for himself, it is a deal to end a conflict that he and Benjamin Netanyahu began.
The reasons, as you say, Paddy, there were people who would argue it was absolutely the right thing to do, but this conflict was instigated by them.
And if it ends up that actually Iran has got a good deal over the Strait of Hormuz, there have been suggestions that they might be able to set up some kind of giant floating toll booth, metaphorically, and actually charge people to use it,
That wasn't the case before.
So both sides, we will see, we'll try and spin it and we'll have to look carefully at the deal if it emerges to be able to make a kind of assessment of actually who has, you know, quote unquote won and who has quote unquote lost.
And indeed, there's a more hard line.
The younger generation of regime who've replaced the ones who've been killed seem to be perhaps even more hard line.
And let's not forget also the terrible repression of people who try to protest against the regime who live in Iran and that that regime killed thousands of their own people.
on the streets a few months ago.
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