Rupert Lowe
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1,164 appearances
9 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Rupert Lowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the city of love.
It is, yeah.
Adam, what's your point?
The future looks bright.
My handshake is better than anything I ever signed.
My son's right there.
I don't think I've ever said this before.
I'm honored to be on your show, Patrick.
Well, as I think we discussed briefly when we spoke, which was an enjoyable call on Sunday evening, it's indicative of a sort of historical, what I call heavyweight country that is in decline.
And I think where it's gone wrong is that Parliament, which basically is supposed to be populated by 650 MPs who represent the people, they are supposed to be omnipotent and they are supposed to effectively protect the interests of the British people and the British nation.
But you have to lay the blame, I think, for what is happening at the door, arguably of Tony Blair largely and his changes to our constitution and his introduction of various acts and laws which undermined our constitution, which as you know, had served us extremely well and delivered probably the highest trust society on earth with the best functioning parliament judiciary
civil service where you had a vocational civil service that was basically required to deliver, and it was in its DNA to deliver.
Obviously, a lot of the stuff emanated from empire, from the fact that we as a small nation were administering a very large percentage of the globe.
But I think what's happening in this, and you often see this throughout history, is
great nations wax and wane.
And I think we are slowly waning.
And in answer to your question, I don't think we now have this functioning civil service.
I think the
Tony Blair's changes to our constitution, the introduction of the Human Rights Act, the introduction of a Supreme Court, which basically is now a quango and no longer reports to the Lord Chancellor, who basically was accountable for appointments in the past.
Also the Equality Act, which I think has damaged the relationship between people on the ground by basically turning
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