Nish Kumar

I remember people making jokes at the time saying, has he been appointed as US ambassador because him and Trump both spent time on Pedo Island?

Like I literally remember people saying that stuff at the time.

It wasn't like we weren't all aware of this.

Even if Starman knew what we all knew,

That should have been enough to say that he wasn't, you know, and there were also people applauding him for, you know, wow, this is a really canny piece of political maneuvering, you know, for Starmer to have done this.

He's fucking kidding me.

It's absolutely grotesque.

My God.

Not a good week for the Labour Party.

Yeah, I mean, I think it presents a problem for Nigel Farage because of his consistent, close personal relationship with, you know, Donald Trump.

With Donald Trump, yeah.

His personal relationship with Steve Bannon, who's sort of featured pretty repeatedly in the...

Epstein files I mean I think I imagine I speak for a lot of people this week who once again have found themselves going what the fuck Noam Chomsky are you what in the name of God

Anyway, it's just not hugely relevant to what we were talking about.

But I just I feel that I'm going to take it as a guess that I'm articulating a lot of what people are listening to this currently this week.

Just an important reminder, obviously, being in the files, we have to be clear, doesn't imply wrongdoing.

So look, after the break, I'm going to chat to the economist who called the 2008 crash and metaphor about the Mandelson allegations yesterday.

where we place our bets on when the AI bubble will burst and her new book about what she calls the global casino.

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