Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 19th January 2026
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Summary
It's a Monday morning in the UK, and it's a classic Monday morning feeling. The EU weighs up a 93 billion euro retaliation, and Raducanu's off to a fine start. Plus, the latest on Trump's plan to annex Greenland and nuclear tests.
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Epochs! Sorry, wrong show. I mean, morning! How are you doing? I hope you're all well
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on this fine morning, chilly morning a bit, in Britain. It has just struck eight in the
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a.m. and it is Monday, Monday, the 19th of January in the year of our Lord, 2026. You
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are watching Breakfast with Beau, the Beau show, Beau's Breakfast Club, the BBC, the
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Lotuses Breakfast Club. You are part of the glorious band, The Chosen Few. Without you,
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this doesn't happen. So thank you for tuning in. I'm joined by my producer, Harry. Little
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Harry, how are you, Harry? Yeah, I'm good. Great, great. Raring to go on this Monday
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morning? Yeah, yeah. It's going to be great. That's a classic Monday morning feeling, isn't
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it? Okay, let's do it again. Okay. Now, wake up. It's going to be glorious. This week is
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the first week of the rest of your life. Let's do it. Let's jump straight in. Okay,
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the news. What's in the news? What's the world talking about this morning? Okay. The EU weighs
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up 93 billion euro retaliation and Raducanu's fine start. Raducanu, a tennis player. All right,
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let's see. The Guardian. The Guardian. Damn them. Damn them. All right. The Guardian still
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exists, unfortunately. It runs with. The EU weighs up 93 billion euro retaliation for Trump's
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Greenland, quote, blackmail, quote. So it's wall to wall Greenland this morning. It's almost
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entirely Greenland on the front pages anyway. You know, on the actual websites, there's
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more stories. But for the front pages, it's wall to wall Greenland. Okay, the powers that
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be. The cabal of newspaper editors have decided that Greenland is the most important thing pretty
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much in the world going on. Targeting NATO allies is wrong, Starmer tells President in
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phone call. That's basically the story. That's basically the story. That Europe is annoyed
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that Trump is threatening to put tariffs on EU countries for essentially not just going
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along with his plan of annexing Greenland. We'll talk about that in a bit of detail later
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on. It is basically every front page. All right. The Times. PM warns of a downward spiral
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in US tariffs row. Okay, let's just get into it. So Trump has said, obviously, he's made
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it very clear for a long time as well, actually, to be fair. He has made it clear for a long
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time that he would like Greenland. He thinks it's in the US's national interest to control
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and own Greenland, particularly the waters off of Greenland. And all the natural resources
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that are there. Ostensibly, it's about the waters, controlling the waters around Greenland.
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But it's only in the lot, isn't it? It's only in the last few weeks, last few months, or
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since his new administration, that he's actually getting really quite tough on it. Everyone's
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sort of taking him at his word that he really means it. Now, over the weekend, or was it
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right at the end of last week, various EU countries, or NATO countries, sent all sorts of troops
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and helicopters and things over to Greenland for exercises. Now, that's a classic thing,
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military exercises are sort of politically charged, aren't they? You know, like when
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South Korea do military and the US do military exercises right up to North Korean waters, right
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up to North Korean airspace. Or the other way around, North Korea does exercises right up
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to the limit. Russia do exercises right up to the limit of their neighbour's space, airspace
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and borders and things. It's a classic, it's all over the world, it happens all the time.
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Right, so it just sends a message, doesn't it? Or when the big countries, the nuclear armed
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countries doing nuclear tests at a particular moment. That's a classic thing as well. Doesn't
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happen much anymore. Doesn't happen much anymore. Because nuclear testing is almost a thing of
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the past. But it used to be there would be like a, you know, back in the 60s, I'm talking
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the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, there'd be some sort of big meeting between powers and they'd
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sort of test a nuclear weapon the day before. Just, you know, it's a message. Remember, we've
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got nukes, sort of thing. The French used to test nukes quite a lot, deep into the 90s.
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Anyway, so yeah, NATO countries sent a bunch of military forces to Greenland to do exercises
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there. You know, against Trump's wishes. Britain, Britain's contingent, because we got involved,
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even Britain was involved in that. It was all countries like France, Germany, Finland,
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a number of them, six or seven or eight of them. Britain sent one guy.
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We sent one soldier. Obviously, a complete token. Bit of a joke, really. But still, just
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to, again, just to send the message. We are on that side of the ledger. We don't like
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Mr. Trump having designs on Greenland. We're lining up with Denmark against the US. It's
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not really an expedient thing to do. But anyway, our government always seems to act not in our
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best interests. Okay, so that happened. Trump sees it, obviously. And he's like, right,
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anyone that does that, 10% tariff. Straight away, 10% tariff for that. That's the punishment
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for that. And if you keep doing it, or if you don't change your tune in the next few weeks,
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in the next couple of months, there's going to be a 25% tariff. So, some people are calling
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that blackmail. I mean, kind of, a little bit. You could describe it like that, I suppose.
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I wouldn't. It's not really blackmail in the truest sort of clean sense of the word blackmail.
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But you could describe it like that. It's not a ridiculous take. But it's just leverage,
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isn't it? I would call it just like leverage. It's just playing politics, isn't it? But there
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you go. So, Keir Starmer apparently had another phone call with the Donald. I bet the Donald
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couldn't wait for that one. He was on tenterhooks for that one. He was shaking in his boots.
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Apparently, in that phone call, Starmer says, had chastised the President that it's wrong.
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It's wrong to sort of make conflict, economically or otherwise, with European partners and NATO
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partners, allies, people that are all supposed to be allies. I think I said it on the main
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Lotus Eaters podcast at one point. Just try and imagine it. And this isn't me playing defense
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necessarily for the US. But I'm just saying, imagine it purely from the point of view of
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someone like Pete Hegseth. He would probably argue, I would think, the thinking sort of in
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the Pentagon and in the State Department, Marco Rubio and stuff, that they would be thinking,
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you know, is Denmark really much of an ally? Hasn't the US been telling them for over 20
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years to sort themselves out in Greenland to start defending Greenland's waters properly?
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Because if they can't do it, someone else will need to. Haven't we been telling them that for 20
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years and have just ignored it, just fobbed it off? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right,
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we'll do it. And they don't do anything. So just for a moment, just for a moment, look
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at it from that point of view. Someone like Keir Starman now ringing Trump up and saying,
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you're wrong. Can you imagine Trump being, you're all right. You're all right, mate. Whatever.
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Like the special relationship is on the line, is it? Was there ever really much of a special
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relationship after 1945? Or ever, really? For anyone who doesn't know what that is,
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just real quickly, just to say. During the war, I've shaved my sideburns off, so I'm a little
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less Uncle Albert today. But during the war, World War II, I mean, there was a so-called
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special relationship between the US and Britain. We'll forget that Roosevelt just watched during the
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Battle of Britain during 1940 and just watched that happen. Roosevelt was all like, let's see
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where he's going with this. Before they decided to truly, properly get involved. There was a special
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relationship because Winston Churchill, Sir Winston Churchill, was actually half American, like my
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good self, actually. Churchill's mum was an American woman, if you didn't know that. So Churchill was like
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half American. And anyway, Churchill knew, he calculated that if he was to, if the Allies, if Britain
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and the Allies were to win the war, really needed the United States to come in on our side. You know,
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well, they didn't, didn't they, until Pearl Harbor. In fact, a bit more detail on that. They actually were
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sending loads and loads of help, sort of, with the merchant navy and sorts of, and all that sort
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of thing before Pearl Harbor. They were actually helping out quite a lot before Pearl Harbor, but
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they hadn't, they weren't formally in the war. They weren't formally at war with Mr. Hitler's Germany
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until, until the Japanese attacked them. And then Hitler declared war on the America, actually. But
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anyway, the point is, there's a special relationship, at least in Churchill's mind, during
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the war. Ever since then, literally ever since then, people talk about the special relationship
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between the US and the UK. You know, all the way up to, sort of, the Blair years, and after, you know,
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during the Iraq war with George Bush Jr. and Tony Blair. It's always like the special relationship.
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We are, Britain is America's first ally. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the US. Whatever the US does
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will be their little mini-me, like, goading them on from behind their shoulder. Yeah,
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go on, get them. And to this day, people still talk about the special relationship, don't
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they? It's a cliche now. That one, that time in the first Trump administration, when he
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went and visited North Korea, Trump said, and it's sort of tongue-in-cheek, but he said,
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we now have a special relationship with North Korea. Anyway, the idea now that there's something,
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like, these days, 2026, that there is any kind of real special relationship.
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Just doesn't ring true anymore. I don't think it has for years and years. I mean, even if you go
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back to the 1950s, you could argue the way the US left us in the lurch in the Suez crisis in the 1950s,
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the way the US tried to screw the British over about when Britain tried to get its own nuclear
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weapons in the 50s. You could say the special relationship died relatively soon after World
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War II. You could make that argument. You could also make the argument that, you know, who is,
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who is a closer ally to the US, if not the UK, though? You could also look at it through that
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lens, if you wanted to. Point is, I think, Trump and Starmer, there's nothing special there,
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is there? I don't think Trump gives a fig what Sir Keir says and thinks about anything, really.
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He just doesn't care. Trump's completely his own man. Trump knows his own power. He knows the power
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of the US military. He doesn't need Keir for anything. He doesn't need his advice for anything.
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He could do without it. And yet Keir will ring him up and say, you're wrong to do XYZ.
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I'm going to send one man to Greenland. That'll show you. All right, let's move on a little bit.
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I will talk about it more. Baroness Cass, a nobody. Backspan on social media for under-16s.
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Is that government overreach? Probably, yeah. And there's Emma Radachoyou. It's not Radachoyou.
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Her relative was a 90s football player. Radachoyou. Emma Radachoyou, who apparently is a British
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woman. I mean, her dad's Romanian, her mum's Chinese, and she was born in Canada. But OK,
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she's the British number one. She's a British tennis player now. OK, if you say so. It's
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pretty mediocre, as I understand it, at tennis, I mean. But she's kind of pretty, so all the
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papers will simp over her. Bit like Anna Kornikova. Harry, do you remember Anna Kornikova? Is she
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before your time? Yeah, I think she's a little bit before my time. OK. There was a tennis
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player, Anna Thornikova, and she was really pretty. Pretty mediocre at tennis, though.
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I don't think she ever won a Grand Slam or anything. She was competitive, obviously, but
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didn't set the world to light in terms of actually winning tennis matches. But she was
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really pretty, so she was always on the front pages in the headlines, and Anna Kornikova,
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Anna Kornikova. It's a bit like this with this Radachane. Like, she's won her opening match
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at the Australian Open. What? Who cares? Who cares? But there you go. She's quite pretty,
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so they'll make her a star. I'll make her a star, baby. All right, the Financial Times,
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the FT. Going with Greenland. Oh, yeah. EU primes for 93 billion euro retaliatory tariffs
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to parry Trump's Greenland threats. Leverage for meeting at Davos. Davos is happening soon,
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by the way. That's a thing. The WEF Davos conference. Hopes for White House climb down,
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NATO relationship at risk. So, yeah, where Donald Trump says, I'm going to slap 10% tariffs on
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you, and if you don't back down, it'll be 25% tariffs. The EU, as a bloc, have said,
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you don't tariff us. We'll tariff you, if anything. We'll slap tariffs on you to the tune
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of 93 billion euros, or something like 80 billion pounds, that is. Again, does that really make
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any sense? Is that in the interests of the average European person? Does Trump care particularly
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about that? Isn't he the more powerful partner in that relationship? I mean, he's obviously the
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more powerful partner in the US-UK relationship. They're the more powerful partner in the US-EU
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relationship. So, I think it's funny, even when the EU puts tariffs or sanctions, economic sanctions,
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against Russia, even just Russia on its own. His economy isn't gigantic. I've heard people say
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that I think, like, the economy of California is bigger than all of Russia, or the economy of,
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like, just Texas is bigger than all of Russia, things like that. The Russian economy isn't
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a powerhouse. And even so, when I see the Europeans say, you know, we're going to sanction Russia,
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Russia's like, are you? Okay, I mean, we've got more resources than you. We've got a big enough
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population and a sophisticated enough sort of society and political system that, I mean, sure,
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it'll hurt you just as much as that hurts us. Don't you need our gas? Aren't you dependent on us for
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energy in various ways? But you're going to sanction us. Okay, good luck with that. I feel like something
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similar, similar sort of dynamic is going on when the EU's going to put tariffs on the US. It's like,
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doesn't that just hurt you? Don't you import loads of American things? All right. Cutting your nose off
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to spite your face a bit, I think. Maybe not, maybe not. Okay, yeah, but NATO, the NATO relationships,
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all the relationships are at risk. Yeah, I don't care. I don't like NATO. This is just me, just my take now,
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for a minute or two, about NATO. I don't like NATO. I don't want it. In Beau's Britain, if I was Prime
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Minister, I would, at first, scale back all NATO responsibilities and monies we give to NATO,
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scale that back, and when they got all pissed off about it, no doubt the US would get all pissed
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off about it. I'd be, all right, we're going to leave it then. How about that? How'd you like that?
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It's a thing of the past, in my opinion, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's a thing
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of the past. It's a Cold War thing. It's a post-World War II thing. It was to prevent Stalin from
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taking West Germany. Ultimately, that's what it was, right? Because at the end of the war,
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the war, at the end of the war, you know, the Red Forces had occupied all of Eastern Europe,
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you know, and East Germany and everything. And so we feared that the next war, World War III,
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would be in West Germany, when the Reds invaded West Germany. Like, that was just going to happen
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at some point. And so we needed to be ready for it. Everyone needed to gang together and just be
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ready for it at all moments. Like, you know, the second Russian tanks spill over into West Germany,
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we've got to be ready for World War III at that instant.
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That's what NATO was originally for. We don't live in that world anymore, do we? We don't live in that
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world. I wouldn't care if NATO ceased to exist. I really wouldn't. There's a lot of Estonians
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out there all pissed off. Oh, you can't say that. I don't care. It's just another tool in America's
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arsenal to sort of dominate things. I don't see... NATO, come on. NATO goes around the world now,
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sort of trying to bully people, bully its way around the world, destabilising the world, if anything.
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Right? People are pro-NATO, people would argue. It's NATO that keeps the peace in Europe, is it?
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Or is it NATO that's endlessly poked the Russian bear in the eyeball with a dirty stick?
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China seizes on wavering US influence to pour record sums into Belt and Road. Yeah, China.
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China's the bigger thing now, I would say. I'd agree with Steve Bannon on that.
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It's not the threat of Russia invading, like, Bonn in West Germany. That's not really the worry
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anymore, is it? It's more like the Chinese trying to dominate vast parts of Asia and Africa,
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anywhere else they possibly can. Stop thinking about NATO and start thinking about some sort
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of global organisation that all ally together against Chinese influence. Doesn't that make
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more sense in 2026? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, the Independent. Raducanu. Raducanu's
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won an opening match. Europe delivers a warning to Trump after tariffs threat. EU plan 93 billion
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euro retaliatory tariffs. Sir Keir Starmer tells the President punitive new levies to force
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the sale of Greenland would be wrong. It's the wrong thing to do. Is Keir Starmer thinking
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about US interests or just the interests of the entire North American continent? No, he's
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not. He's just thinking it's virtue signally to be anti-Trump. That's what he's thinking,
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surely. Is it anything more than that? That it's like modish or cool to be anti-Trump? That
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all his EU partners are anti-Trump. So he's going to just jump on that bandwagon. Because
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it's a reasonable argument, I think. I think it is sort of reasonable that the United States
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want to be able to completely control and dominate the waters around Greenland at the expense of
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Russia and China. I'm not sure if that argument is complete nonsense. It's just some insane
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thing Trump dreamed up out of nowhere. I don't think so. But okay. The Express, it's a good
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paper. Fears Trump's tariffs threat will rip NATO apart. Yeah, rip it apart. Okay. It's basically
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America anyway, isn't it? NATO, really. It's basically all their money and their hardware
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anyway. I mean, if you're someone super hardline, like, say, Hexeth, you might even think, ugh,
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like, NATO's just an annoying thing to us now. We just want to be able to act unilaterally
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wherever we want, whenever we want. How is NATO, like, not just getting in the way of that
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at this point? From his point of view, I mean. Oh, lovely, lovely cup of tea. Okay, what else
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we got? The Mail, the Daily Mail, NATO now, quote, heading for disaster, quote, in Trump
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row. I mean, maybe. I suspect, one little take, one, again, little personal take. I suspect
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NATO won't be ripped apart and torn apart and sort of ceased to be a thing because America
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doesn't, still doesn't want it to be. So it won't be. So, you know, like, that's it,
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like, you know, like, power, when it really boils down to just power. NATO still wants,
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sorry, America still wants NATO to be a thing, so it will be. Right? Even if the individual
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NATO countries are sort of unruly or don't do exactly as they're told. Like, America has
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so many bases all over Europe, so many bases, like, giant, giant bases in Germany, still,
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left over from World War II, giant bases in Germany. All over Britain are US Air Force
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bases, all over the place, scattered all over the place. If NATO, if all the European NATO
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countries suddenly decided, right, we're going to, we hate Donald Trump so much, and we hate
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his designs on Greenland so much that we're going to sort of back out and leave NATO because
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screw him, what would that actually look like? I don't think they've got the political capital,
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the political will to really do that because it would mean completely realigning themselves
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on a load of different levels with the US. It would obviously put them badly in the US
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naughty book, but then there would just be the logistics of it, the reality of it.
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You know, imagine a country like Germany, let's take Germany, for example, or Britain, Germany or
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Britain. If we just said, we're annoyed with you, Mr. Trump, and so you're sort of, we're going to
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have to back out of NATO. Well, and expel all those, all those military personnel that are there
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and close down the giant US bases, air force bases and things, and incur the ire of the US
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on multiple levels. I don't think any of those governments have got the balls to do something
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like that, and we don't think they have. Right, Kistama sent one guy, that's the level of his balls,
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his political guts to make big moves, sending one guy to Greenland. He hasn't got, he hasn't got the
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guts to just tell America you're closing all your bases now. All your bases are ours now. I don't,
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I don't see that. I don't see that. All this is just headline stuff, I think. Greenland is a storm
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in a teacup, at the minute anyway. I think, a bit of a storm in a teacup. UK officials warning the EU
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aims 81 billion pound trade bazooka at America. We're aiming a trade bazooka at America. That's
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what's happening, according to the papers. It's a trade bazooka. Give me a break. In-call,
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Starmer tells President he's wrong over tariff war threat. The eye paper. Trade war looms with
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America as UK and EU unite against Trump's Greenland threat. I mean, what can they really,
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really do? Right, what are the sub-headlines? So Keir Starmer is in an 11th hour scramble to save
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the UK-US's relationship, special relationship, following Donald Trump's threat to hit countries
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who oppose him taking control of Greenland with 10% tariffs. In the biggest crisis to hit the
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special relationship in decades, and the greatest threat to NATO, the PM, is aligning with the EU,
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which is preparing to launch 80 billion pounds worth of retaliatory trade bazooka. Number 10 said,
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Starmer spoke to Trump to stress the importance of the transatlantic partnership, telling him,
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applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO is wrong.
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Like Trump's like, I'll tell you what's right and wrong. I'll tell you what NATO thinks and is going
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to do. I'll tell you that, not the other way around. I imagine. He probably didn't say that, but that is
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the reality of it. But the PM is being urged to cancel the King's US visit in April to mark the 250th
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anniversary of American independence. And he warned that the tariffs risks, risks, a quote,
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dangerous downward spiral, quote. Okay. Again, like that really matters. Storming a teacup stuff,
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right? Oh, King Charles might not visit the US in April. Again, in the scheme of things,
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it doesn't matter. It's not a big deal. Why we send the King over for the 250th anniversary
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anyway is a bit funny. I don't know why I'd be going anyway. If I was, if I was the King,
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like a real King, like an actual monarch, a real sovereign who had power, if I was King of England
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and it was the 250th anniversary of the American independence, because Charles can't do what he
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wants. He does what the government tells him to do. The government says, you're going over a visit
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in America now, or you're not going over to visit America now. King Charles just has to go, okay,
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okay. Like the King or Queen hasn't got very much power. Hardly any, really. They get their little
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red boxes like a government minister. They get told what to do. They literally get given a speech.
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Like here's a speech you're reading out now. That's the level of the power of the King.
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But if I was King, you know, with real power, I'd be like, no, I'm not going to America
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for the 200th or 50th. Really? That was an embarrassment to us. That was a diminishing
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of our power and influence and authority. Why would we be go over there and, okay. So
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Keir may tell the King to cancel his US visit. Big news. Big news, everybody.
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All right. The Daily Mirror. There we go. It's blackmail. Blackmail. Biggest possible
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headline. Blackmail. Trump's Greenland madness. It's madness. It's mad that he would try and
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act in the interests of his own nation. It's madness. It's blackmail that he's trying to
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defend US water, US adjacent waters from a Russian or Chinese influence. That's a madness. Is it?
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Is it? Are the planners in the Pentagon just completely mad to think that and want that
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and covet the waters because Denmark isn't doing anything? A picture of one Denmark ship there.
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Is the Chinese and Russian Navy terrified of the Danish Navy?
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Is even the Russian or Chinese merchant fleet terrified of the Danish Navy?
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Will they do anything the Danish Navy asked them to do? Probably not.
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for the planners at the Pentagon and the State Department to covet those waters?
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Fury over tariff threat as PM tells President he's wrong.
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Oh yeah, they'll try out someone like Lisa Nandy.
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should be able to control the destiny and future of Greenland.
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Can you imagine what the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon think when they see Lisa Nandy?
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But if they did, imagine the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, the most senior generals
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and admirals of the US military, the army, the navy, the air force, the marines.
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They're sitting around a table and Lisa Nandy comes on their screens saying,
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only Denmark, only the Kingdom of Denmark should be able to dictate the future of Greenland.
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I have to revert just to simply water to wet the whistle.
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All right, it's a story they think is the front page.
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The Britons, apparently, are taking less tea breaks whilst at work.
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People used to take more tea breaks and now they take less tea breaks.
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You won't know the Happy Mondays, will you, Harry?
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Your mic's not working, but I can hear him and he's saying he doesn't know.
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There was a band years ago, 30, 35 years ago, the Happy Mondays, and that guy called Bez,
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And Bez was in the Happy Mondays, and he wasn't even, like, he didn't even play an instrument.
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He would, his job was to go there, and while the Happy Mondays played, he would just dance
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So, the news is, is that the Happy Mondays are doing a 35-year anniversary tour.
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And the headline is, it's Blue Monday, you know, Bez cheers you up every day of the week.
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He's sort of relentlessly upbeat and optimistic and dancing around, possibly on an E.
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He brightens up your Monday morning with septuagenarian Bez.
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I mean, the 35-year anniversary tour of the Happy Mondays.
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Is that the most important thing going on in the world?
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Again, The Sun's going with that story of that Jessie, that little mix, Jessie Nelson.
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For some reason, The Sun are obsessed with this story.
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Her engagement is off to focus on the sick twins.
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I would have thought, if the babies are terribly ill, that's the time you should stay by your spouse or partner even more.
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That's the time when they need you the most, isn't it?
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Nope, according to that guy, whose name is Zion.
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Okay, let's have a look at the actual websites.
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Apparently, one train derailed and was hit by another at high speed.
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I won't dwell on it, but terrible train crash in Spain.
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There's been another defection to reform of a sitting MP.
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And one thing I was reading, it said that that puts them on the same number as Sinn Féin.
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Not that Sinn Féin send their MPs to Westminster.
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But so now reform have got the same number as Sinn Féin.
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It's only the big parties and the SNP that have got more.
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If reform get two more, they will have the same number as the SNP.
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If they get one more than that, then they'll be, like, the fourth biggest party in the whole of Parliament.
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You might wonder, why isn't this, the Honourable Andrew Rosendale MP, why isn't his defection on the front page of any of the papers?
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Right, every time an actual MP, sitting MP, defects to reform.
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It's quite important, I think, relatively speaking.
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But this didn't get on the front page of anything.
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It's because Andrew Rosendale MP is a complete nothing man.
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But I was actually born and raised and went to school and everything.
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Where London peters out to the east and becomes Essex.
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I've met him, like, I don't know, five, six times.
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Sometimes outside Rumpford Station or Gideon Park Station.
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I sent him a letter saying, when I was interested in politics.
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When I was doing my master's degree in politics.
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And sit down and talk to you a bit about all various things.
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So, I met him in Portculley's house in Parliament in Westminster.
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And I talked to him for like a couple of hours.
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So, I actually have met and know Andrew Rosendale a little bit.
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Like, his majority used to be, it was always like, 17,000, 21,000, whatever, in that ballpark.
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You know, he's definitely, definitely going to win every time.
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Well, one, because of the Tory treason of the previous 14 years, of course.
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But also, the demographic of Romford has utterly, utterly changed.
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Wherein, like, even in 2010, 2014, it was much the same as it had always been.
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Basically, white, you know, Tory voting, white Essex.
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They're trying to build mosques all over the place.
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Completely changed in the space of five years, six, seven years.
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A story that has played out up and down the length and breadth of this country.
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Well, now, Rosendale has obviously made the calculation that he's more likely to get re-elected if he joins reform.
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He's considered on the right of the Conservative Party.
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He's one of the right-wingers of the Conservative Party.
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Not that he's got any real political, proper moral convictions or anything.
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Not that he's prepared to sort of shout from the rafters.
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Little bit of credit where a little bit of credit is due.
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I think he was like some sort of very, very minor shadow undersecretary or something like that.
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You've never seen Andrew Rosendale in cabinet on the front benches.
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All throughout the Cameron years, May, the May years, Boris years, Rishi, whatever.
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Because even the Tory party are like, Andrew Rosendale.
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They're going to pick from all their MPs who they're going to make senior ministers and be in cabinet.
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I mean, when this happened, there was one quote from the Conservative Party, HQ.
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He's an annoyance to them, an embarrassment to them.
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He's just a, oh yeah, Rumpford, Andrew Rosendale.
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We don't care what he thinks and does about anything, really.
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He's like, he's like, oh, just be quiet and sit on the backbencher, Andrew.
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He doesn't write important, interesting opinion pieces for the Telegraph or anything.
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He doesn't do firebrand speeches where he actually stands on his conviction in Parliament.
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I remember one time, the only time I ever remember him standing up and making a speech, he's probably done more, but the only one I can recall, and this just gives you a measure of it, is that he once, a few years back, decided in a more or less empty chamber to do a little speech about the cruelty of animals in circuses.
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Right, fair point, I don't want animals in circuses to be treated cruelly, but, like, really?
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And even people in the Tory party are just sitting there, like, with their heads in their hands, like, tutting, like, oh, get on with it, Andrew, let's just get, let's get through this.
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But he is considered on the right of the Tory party, again, nothing right about it, he's a massive fan of Thatcher, Lady Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, massive, massive fan, like a classic Tory boy, he's living out his childhood dream of being a Tory boy, but even that is, now his majority is 1400, he's decided that NIAGE is what's needed to save the country.
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Credit score company encouraged me to borrow again when I was, when I was nearly debt free.
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Little word on debt, someone out there is in debt.
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Thinking about getting a credit card, thinking about taking out a loan.
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Don't do it if you can possibly, possibly do it.
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If you're already in debt, make that your life's priority, to get out of debt.
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Like, if you haven't got any debt or big borrowings, or you haven't got a credit card, and you think, oh, I'll just get a credit card so that I can afford a car or a holiday, that's mad.
00:45:01.460
Don't live beyond your means if you can possibly help it.
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I mean, it sounds really obvious to say, but, because credit card companies will try and offer you credit, won't they?
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Particularly if you're not already in credit, or you've only got a small amount of debt.
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It's all a trap, it's all designed to get you, so they can get the interest.
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If you're in debt, make it your life's priority to get out of debt as quickly as possible.
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I don't want to get all preachy, so I'll move on, but...
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If Uncle Bozy can give you any life advice, try not to be, as I say, preachy, tell people what to do and how to live their lives.
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I don't actually like doing that, but I think this is sound advice.
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US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief tells BBC.
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Again, I don't want to be a cheerleader for the State Department and the Pentagon.
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The UN, like the NATO, is like, oh, but we control the world.
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We tell people what they can and can't do and think and say, don't we?
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Let's whip through a bit then, because it's mainly the same stuff.
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See, yeah, that one says there's 39 people have been killed.
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Trump says he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace
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after being refused Nobel Peace Prize in Extraordinary Greenland Letter.
00:48:01.180
Yeah, Trump has always wanted a Nobel Peace Prize.
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I would say it's a bit old school, the old dynamic boomer world view
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that a Nobel Peace Prize means anything, really.
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Who cares what that committee, the Nobel Prize Committee, thinks?
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Worry about what the Court of History will think of you.
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Fergie just made her first smart choice in months.
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What his ex-wife does and thinks about things...
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Europe can weaponise US bases against Trump's Greenland takeover in major NATO split.
00:49:17.080
Yeah, that was something I was saying earlier about all the US bases that are in...
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Like, we're going to sort of unilaterally just take all your hardware that's in our country.
00:49:36.820
Like, all the American fast jets that are in Germany.
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Like, if there's, like, F-22s or F-35s or whatever.
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Dozens of them, maybe, in Germany or in the UK.
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And the UK or German government just said, they're ours now.
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Again, they wouldn't have the balls to do that, I don't think.
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Poor Jesse Nelson's partner has decided to run away.
00:50:19.580
China's birth rate plunges to lowest level since 1949.
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The country's birth rate fell to the lowest level since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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As policy makers failed to slow a demographic crisis.
00:50:32.080
Still the most populous country in the world, isn't it, China?
00:50:35.620
Or did India overtake them in recent years, perhaps?
00:50:38.180
But still, I don't think China needs to worry at this point about not having enough people.
00:50:45.040
Real estate crash weighs on China's economic growth.
00:50:50.740
Okay, the New York Times going with all sorts of Chinese things this morning.
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Can Vietnam's Communist Party supercharge its economy with private enterprise?
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Why the New York Times is interested in all these sorts of things.
00:51:05.500
EU leans towards negotiating, not retaliating over Trump's tariff threat.
00:51:15.120
European nations weigh retaliation after Trump's greenland threats.
00:51:46.380
Yeah, I think they had a look at it and decided,
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or the Crown Prosecution Service, the British equivalent.
00:52:27.540
I might take the Los Angeles Times off of this.
00:52:37.080
State and LA initiatives seek to tax wealthiest.
00:52:50.140
Does the Bose Show care about American football particularly?
00:52:57.180
or they want me to update you on something like
00:53:02.960
tying touchdown pass to beat Bears in overtime?
00:53:08.220
Let me know if that's the sort of story you're interested in.
00:53:29.500
Pauline Henson's eyes government as support rises.
00:53:36.240
His eye in government after a new poll revealed
00:53:38.260
support for her party has snowballed to a huge 22%.
00:54:03.780
as he's urged to apologise to Jewish communities.
00:54:09.200
more laws to sort of curtail hate and hate speech
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All right, we're very near the top of the hour,