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Game, set and match to the malcontents

Game, set and match to the malcontents

FromThe Prospect Podcast


Game, set and match to the malcontents

FromThe Prospect Podcast

ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Jun 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The malconents have, once again, wrought revenge on the know-it-alls, landing Britain with a hung parliament instead of the predicted Conservative landslide. Steve Richards sees election 2017 as one more instance of the worldwide trend for outsiders causing an upset at the expense of an establishment which has lost all legitimacy since the economic crisis of a decade ago. Rachel Sylvester says the campaign performed an X-ray on Theresa May’s political soul, and revealed a brittle character that was never strong nor stable. Meanwhile, David Berry looks back to the 1930s, when radicals took a break from politics to set up tennis clubs—and made with such success that they took gas fitters and machinists to the All England Club, in the Worker’s Wimbledon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jun 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The brightest minds discussing the ideas that matter most in politics, society and culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.