Truss's bailout & Rod Liddle on the BBC - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

[@rar497]

I gave up on Newsnight & BBC after seeing Kirsty Wark climax on the programme after one of the later feeble attacks on Trump, with her flashing eyes and excitedly breathing "we've got him this time".

[@hollyylloh515]

RIP our Queen Elizabeth 🙏💯🇬🇧 May you rest in peace 🙏 💯🕊️💐 God bless and protect you 🙏,🌟💖

[@albertgrant1017]

Well Stated !

[@johnneville403]

Re BBC bias - I worked in journalism at the corporation for just under 15 years. I can count the number of people I worked with who were openly conservative on the fingers of one hand.

[@danielwebb8402]

Do you think that would have been different at a different journalist office?

[@johnneville403]

@@danielwebb8402 It was certainly better when I worked in regional and local journalism because there was much more of a cross section of society working in those newsrooms. I doubt whether that still stands now as regional journalism barely exists.

[@syddog44]

They go on about diversity, what about diversity of opinion doesn't seem much of that

[@johnneville403]

@@syddog44 I agree. The elephant in room at the BBC is also class. There's an incredibly high percentage of people working at the corporation in London who went to Oxbridge or generally come from wealthy backgrounds.

[@gopalramanathan7062]

BBC now stands for all Wokists of the world! A tragic end to one of the most charming of British institutions ❗️

[@janetmorgan9782]

This was a most enjoyable and informative edition --(submitted by an ex BBC newsnight viewer)

[@paulhevan322]

The BBC as a private company would have been long gone. But as long as their tax pours in...why change???

[@paulfeldhahn]

Brilliant Rod Liddle, loved it. Oh how on the money your are.

[@Musical_Man_Guitar]

Rod hits the nail squarely on the head again....

[@Gozzillacia]

Great programme chaps -- never a dull moment. Informative, entertaining, funny, and above all free - no I don't mean that. Above all - relevant.

[@peterloxham502]

My god you must have a very dull life!

[@michaelpeacock6360]

Sir Rod Liddle

[@nickjung7394]

Hardly, I think he is too much of a snob to be in the same club as, say, Blair!

[@philiplindley7384]

I was disappointed when we decided to join the EU and leave the Commonwealth behind. It always struck me that a 'joining together' of disjoint nations across the World was far more progressive than a collection of wealthy Europeans creating a self-serving authoritarian system. The UK was the titular head purely due to historical values. The Royal Family and The Nation attempted to embrace the change with Harry's marriage to Markle but were disappointed by an American narcissist.

[@albertgrant1017]

Well Stated !

[@steved3702]

The last few days I've been thinking along similar lines. The idea of free movement across Commonwealth realms was a benefit too good to give up. In Australia it was framed as 'letting go of the apron strings'. In reality it was surrendering a privilege. We should put it back in place for our mutual benefit.

[@Litheon11]

Might I remind you that the only reason the UK joined the EU was for financial gain, as the UK was known as the poor man of Europe. The rest of the EU appreciate the financial aspect and additional liberties the EU brings, but the main goal is to prevent war in Europe. And through the Brussels Effect, the EU can dictate terms to much of the world. Also the EU acts as a great equaliser, investing in poorer regions, look how much poland has bounced back for example. The UK has only ever seen the commonwealth as subservient states. Ask countries like india if they think they are subservient to the uk.. stop having imperialistic dreams. Those days are over.

[@jjs3287]

Exactly! Well said.

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

@@Litheon11 No, that's just tired BS. The EU was not formed to stop wars, their meddling in Eastern Europe has just caused one. "Europe's nations must be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be achieved by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation". Jean Monett, forefather of the European Union. Democracy is obviously not high on your list, it's a good job brighter people saved you from yourself. some of us find it undemocratic to have unelected heads and an impotent politburo full of clapping seals with zero powers of veto. Three generations of Kinnocks should tell you about this elitist club of failed politicians. Stop having imperialistic dreams- the EU is over.

[@paulhevan322]

Boris rescued the conservatives from Nigel!!! Other way around I'm thinking 🤔

[@philiplindley7384]

Boris just forgot how to be Boris and reaped the reward for that. We all voted for him and he became something else, once in power.

[@quentinnewark2745]

Agreed. He got, what they used to call in the army: c**t struck. His wonderful speech at Greenwich, Britain as inventive, entrepreneurial, free trading with everyone .. gave way to the Utopian dreams of darling Princess Nut Nuts, giant steel windmills on every hill, every slope and every roof glittering with Chinese solar panels, every hotel overflowing with twenty-something Albanian gang members.

[@soviet9366]

Boris was always what whomever he was speaking with at the time wanted him to be

[@quentinnewark2745]

@@soviet9366 sadly, yes, he is like some kind of jelly fish, all pulpy and malleable, utterly without backbone

[@Mark_Dyer1]

CHARLES: I don't think the young Princess Elizabeth was "having a holiday in Kenya"; was she? Was she not standing-in for the late King George VI, who was too ill to undertake this Commonwealth tour, himself? Perhaps I'm wrong: but I doubt Elizabeth would have left her father's side for anything which did not require 'duty' on her part.

[@DS9TREK]

You're correct

[@Mark_Dyer1]

@@DS9TREK Thank you. I was born in the Year of Elizabeth's Accession; so only know what I have read. Hence my lack of certainty.

[@helenakosta]

Love Rod Liddle!

[@igreen4726]

It is not a question of blaming the spouse, but of blaming Johnson. His time in Downing Street would have been much lengthened had he been married to a grown women. Johnsom thought he could be a playboy and Prime Minister; he knows differnt now.

[@Zenhumanist]

Really? I suspect it was the special treatment he from his hot young wife that kept him going for as long as he did.

[@Smelly_Minge]

Kind Charles should funk the WEF off for a start

[@psyskeptic9979]

That free market conservatives have "become more comfortable" with running up debt is a step backwards, not forwards. Now we have three socialist parties to choose from in the UK.

[@julianshepherd2038]

if you equate socialism with state spending then it is a return to 1945 to 75 and Henry the Eighth was a socialist or maybe the world is more complicated than your theory.

[@williamfarr1968]

Absolutely.The "Permanent government" always gets voted in somehow."Freedom was Not Free".

[@tommyrotton9468]

the UK has always had insane dept, and having paid off some of the old depts made of 70 to 200 years ago, the current spivs are making more

[@DS9TREK]

@@julianshepherd2038 at least Henry VIII kept taxes super low. He spent using money from the churches and his 'pension' from the French government. (They bribed him to stop his invasion of France).

[@peterbettell1361]

Rod liddle is brilliant and very funny but most of all he is right

[@errolkim1334]

Don't worry guys, I just read on Guardian that Ukraine has basically already won this war and gas will be turned on very very soon, as Ukraine is basically all up in Russia now, it says so at Bloomberg and BBC so it's True 😂😂😂

[@jjs3287]

I know, its crazy isnt it!

[@alcoholly18]

Andrew Gimson's assessment of Boris was brilliant.

[@raijinenel3116]

time stamp?

[@alcoholly18]

@@raijinenel3116 33:56 onwards

[@Smelly_Minge]

Although..he forgot to say he was a cun t

[@user936]

The new book is available (soon) on Audiable, but unfortunately the first one is not.

[@graememoir3545]

Honestly???? You mentioned Rod’s disdain for production quality then interview him over a link using 1990s technology. Andrew Neil flounced out of GBN over this same issue and is your chairman!!!!

[@titerado]

Another programme destroyed, worth mentioning - doctor who. Completely cringe worthy now. Worth mentioning as it's spanned long enough to see the evolution

[@stablefairy9437]

The Newsnight production staff had a "collective IQ of a small tank of plankton" who needs to be rude and abusive and potentially get themselves banned on social media when you can come out with little gems like this.

[@johnwebley3790]

Watching Rob Liddle, Newsnight viewers at 200k, Don't forget the premier political show This Week, I believe you know the presenter, On at a ridiculous late night slot got almost 1million viewers

[@roberthumphreys7977]

I think what we know about deficits now is, the borrowing will never be repaid except through more borrowing. This is clearly the American model and is certainly now the UK model. The sad thing is, in the USA, those borrowings are generally wasted, as we see with the worst named bill in US history: the Inflation Reduction Act. And, in the UK, reducing the current burden on consumers by capping energy bills is simply passing the pain onto future generations with no long term benefit for the country. Would I do the same thing? Yes, because it helps the average person, which is why we have government (actually, the only reason, if you include security of person and property under "help"). But, this energy mess is, globally, a self-inflected wound by Western governments. So we have government as usual: screw something up, then show us how much we need government by passing out money to save us from the mess they made. In the West, we call it democracy.

[@johnwebster6360]

Boris charming green liar not a Tory

[@stevejhkhfda]

"that Royal jelly of confidence" - thanks James for that one love it lol...@15.50

[@julianshepherd2038]

Have I got this right? The high earners in the warm South East and London will get more help than low earners in the Highlands of Scotland or Newcastle or Leeds !

[@tommyrotton9468]

Having lived North and South, it costs a lot more to live in the South so you do need wages to be higher to get the same value. What you don't have in the North is more paying jobs, but honestly your unemployed are better off materially and treated better by their peers than those in London who suffer the full hate of the Daily Mail and The Sun who influence their peers.

[@paulhevan322]

Or anywhere in the UK I'm thinking. The rich can tighten the belt but working class have no wriggle room. As usual.

[@nickjung7394]

I "earn" millions.....I just don't get paid it!

[@edwardmclaughlin7935]

Why does Rod Liddle, along with all the other big-hitters at The Spectator, remain silent on the subject of the World Economic Forum, its stated aims and the extent to which its acolytes occupy positions of power in our government and institutions?

[@margyeoman3564]

It feels very strange , those pictures of Elizabeth11 we all know, on money, in the news , on her walkabouts . She had such a reality in Britain and the Commonwealth. I think we thought she and her reality would go on forever as it had lasted a lifetime for many.

[@BlookbugIV]

Someone on the News Night staff voted for Brexit? I’m very surprised.

[@richardsinclair9449]

I actually enjoyed that one indeed... Hmmm the BBC hmmm!!

[@alphafox400]

I am an unabashed Cindy Yu fan.

[@rocketpig1914]

Good for Yu

[@evolassunglasses4673]

"Everything Woke turns to shit". ~ Donald J Trump

[@tommyrotton9468]

I think any ideology that just blames is a shit idiology. You need people with positive solutions not blame them idiots.

[@valentinesouthest2806]

Brilliant 🤩 Made my evening listening to You Intelligent 🧠 Lot!

[@nickjung7394]

I remember the times referred to as emotionally volatile. I suggest that this is exaggerated! Brief episodes stirred up by the press (to keep the presses rolling, in the words of an old newspaper man I used to know) in no way could be termed "crises" in the real sense of the word. Most people, whilst sad at Diana's death recognised that her contribution.....not wearing a seat belt......was significant. They also recognised that in life, people fall out with each other and judged Charles and Diana appropriately!

[@julianshepherd2038]

Trust Truss to Thatcher the pound down and inflation up.

[@tommyrotton9468]

eventually the Tories will run out of National assets to sell off to buy votes.

[@kevinshields3010]

Got that wrong haven't you sonny shows your lack of intelligence

[@hectorshouse7348]

Get rid of Andrew Neil

[@crowbar9566]

No, he's the King of journalism

[@hectorshouse7348]

@@crowbar9566 and wanted those who didn’t take the experimental jab to be excluded from society. Is that you too?

[@DS9TREK]

@@crowbar9566 he used to be

[@dlk1dlk1]

No black tie, Freddy?

[@julianshepherd2038]

you better organise a monarchist mob and smash his windows or do the police arrest for that now ?

[@DS9TREK]

Was he supposed to know of her death the day before? Cos that's when they shot this

[@dlk1dlk1]

@@DS9TREK It wasn't the day before because they are talking about the Queen's death and the others have black ties.

[@pauljorgensen6608]

Are those real people?

[@whatacruelchoice]

Government still believes there is growth? Too slow to realise the pie is shrinking! global population is beginning to fall: working population shrinkage is serious and monetary policy cannot combat this. Deficits will not produce growth borrowing will not produce growth only suffering. We need economic policy for a 0 or negative growth world into the medium term.

[@niknikmoore]

Don't forget to LIKE the video

[@joeblack1126]

Rod in brilliant form as usual "collective IQ of a tank of plankton" lmao.

[@poppyland74]

Where the F is Freddy's black tie? What a joke of an outfit. In every sense.

[@DS9TREK]

They filmed before her death and decided to not bin the footage

[@nockianlifter661]

Bailing out the energy companies will only do one thing-increase inflationary price increases. The best alternative is to do nothing. We have to get the inflation out of the economy and you can’t do that by inflating even more. You cannot borrow your way to prosperity.

[@alanhamilton9856]

Cindy Yu said the Chinese gov is looking at graft by the local chip makers but rather than stimulate them, won't that scare any others from a career in that line of work?

[@pascalbercker7487]

For goodness sake ... you talk about the death of the Queen all in proper respectful fashion ... but you punctuate that segment with that ridiculous piano music! It's an awkward artless transition - some would say offensive - and I'm not even British!

[@pedazodetorpedo]

"Kwek!" 😂

[@1669Python]

No black tie Freddy?

[@robertcook2572]

At least he wore one, and his top button was fastened, showing that he has some respect for the viewer - unlike that oik Fraser Nelson

[@empyrial4090]

70 years on the throne, that one long poop...!

[@markfenlon244]

Lolz - 'much loved'

[@anthonybartlett6924]

as iv'e said before the very people who effed everything up are the very people who know best how to fix the problems they caused. somehow i don't think so.

[@thediscokidd]

Every time I listen to Rod Liddled I am always surprised at how rubbish his analysis is always. He always across as desperate and struggling for relevance.

[@BlookbugIV]

“Desperate and struggling for relevance “ I read - but I see a guy so comfortable in his role of a curmudgeon he’s almost recumbent, saying nothing controversial in the least.

[@JohnCorrUK]

Energy cap sees off energy driven inflation peak driving base rates and mortgage rates that would have sunk 🇬🇧 economy

[@straighttalking2090]

Its Nikon.. not Nycon.. If you lived in Japan you should know this Francis Pike. Nikon.. like the Knights of 'Ni' iiiiiiiiiiiii Ni. Not Pi.. as in Pike.

[@kinorspielmann4649]

Who's doing The Spectator's thumbnail graphics???? Rod Liddle looking like Dr Who is pictured as he was very many years ago, way back when. She looks like she's posing in a James Bond movie. He in the schoolboy shorts with the unkempt hair looks like he's in The Man from Uncle.

[@Judgeitso]

Thank god we have Rod Liddle to tell us what's funny and what isn't. He's one of the best comedians around, I find his views hilarious! His best joke: the BBC is left wing hahahahahaahhaha what a card!

[@bustermaw]

Horrible BBC . Higher standards of broadcasting ? Good grief .

[@simoncooper6492]

Much better than last week which was very thin on subject matter.

[@cyberslim7955]

Trusketier, yaiks!!!

[@tomthumb2361]

I don't watch the BBC. It's been awful for decades. Having no TV, my wife and I did not have a licence till this year. We regret the £160. Perusal of the programmes revealed undifferentiated mediocrity and dullness. The coverage of the royals and royal events is abject. It's just the voice of a self-regarding clique - I've no idea if it's left or right wing, but whatever it is, it produces stuff not worth watching. DW is much better, with lots of free videos on YT. Some of the YT history channels knock the BBC's Blue Peter level 'personality'-dominated BBC programmes off the screen. There's more interesting stuff on YT than I have time to watch. And a lot of them make their ideological position crystal clear. It's a big failure of your podcasts to fail to make your personal connections with certain political figures crystal clear. There are some things I watch that i discount when I learn that so sna so wnet to school with sos an so and son on. Clearly lost its way a long time ago, and I doubt it'll ever find it back. Dull, dull, dull.

[@jjs3287]

I was an avid Radio 4 listener for many years until I began to realise I was being slowly brainwashed. By chance I happened to listen to talk radio one day and was stunned to hear honest debate and unrestricted opinion. It was such a shock I actually wondered wether it was legal for people to speak so openly - thats how much the BBC had closed my mind. I never went back to the BBC and never will.

[@mikeoglen6848]

@@jjs3287 I, too, was an avid Radio 4 listener some years ago...

[@mikeoglen6848]

I am now an avid user of You Tube. There is a lot of interesting stuff amongst the dross. I have no longer watch TV.

[@disappointedenglishman98]

I'm afraid Charles Moore is just a liar. If the Queen was so Christian, why has the CofE abandoned Christianity? Why are there female clergymen? Why did the Queen appoint in her dying days a female clergyman as her chaplain? Why didn't the Queen defend the 1662 prayerbook? Her Oath was to defend unaltered the worship and doctrine of the CofE - she certainly did not do that. She perjured herself when she took the Coronation Oath.

[@DS9TREK]

You sound stuck in the past

[@nickbarton3191]

None of the things you mentioned have much to do with faith in Christ. They're church traditions which inevitably must be modernised so that church life can relate to modern society without abandoning the tenants of Christianity and the redeeming work of Jesus.

[@disappointedenglishman98]

@@nickbarton3191 No you are wrong. The Holy Ghost outranks Karl Marx. The Bible is quite clear that man have headship and that women shouldn't even speak in church. It is also clear that the only avenue to salvation is the Christian church, not Islam etc. What you're saying is Christianity is Phariseeism - see the New Testament for more detail.

[@nickbarton3191]

@@disappointedenglishman98 There are examples in the bible where a woman had precedence. Priscilla and Aquilla where she clearly took the lead in that home church.

[@disappointedenglishman98]

@@nickbarton3191 I'm afraid you're desperately trying to align the Bible with Marxism. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 shows St Paul did not agree that women should speak in the congregation. If 1 Corinthians 16:9 says meetings were held in Priscilla and Aquila's house, there is no evidence that they were the priests who led the worship. In any case, the Queen vowed to maintain the existing worship and doctrine of he CofE as it existed in 1953 ("Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England?") and did not do so. It was not her place to replace Christianity by Cultural Marxism. She perjured herself when she took the oath.

[@tomthumb2361]

The monarchy is past its sell-by date. The monarch, whoever she or he be, is the head of a right-wing, plutocratic establishment and those on whom the wholesale pro-royalist propaganda, led by the biased BBC, has had its effect - a dwindling number in this iphone age. When governments themselves show careless contempt for the union and systematically degrade the lives and working conditions of whole sections of the population and whole regions, monarch or not, the current settlement is put under unbearable stress. My children should be natural Tory voters, brought up in the C of E and alumni of public or other independent schools; but they feel the Tories and their neoliberal dogmas have done nothing but shaft them and reduce their present and future prosperity and prospects. All this focus on the personality of the late Mrs Windsor is irrelevant to the way in which the monarchy is clearly partisan and as has been true throughout history entwined with certain landed, financial, commercial and institutional interests centred on London and positively antipathetic to large elements and whole regions in the rest of the country. A lot of Scots want to leave the union for good reason. They look at Norway or the other north European smaller states, and think, 'There but for the London yoke go I: a proper social democracy and a rational use of oil wealth for the benefit of the country as a whole.' The Royal family have been at one with the asset rich who have got wealthier and wealthier under neoliberalism, whilst huge portions of their 'subjects' have fallen behind. This whole podcast reflects just how seriously the UK right's understanding of public sentiment is skewed to minority interests and and how dangerously dogmatic and unthinking, in the strongest sense of the word 'to think', its rationale is. It's based on superannuated dogmas applied tendentiously to present circumstances, dogmas which themselves reflective of narrow interests and a 'Tory' view of current society and history which radically distorts so much of what has passed is now actually the case. For instance, the money not garnered from the big energy companies' windfall profits will not be reinvested in the UK, despite the dogmatic assertion that it will be. The failure to use the vast amounts of capital passing through the UK in the UK has been a key feature of the UK throughout my lifetime. The post 1950 Tory administrations failed to modernise UK industry. To a certain extent, this was because of their ignorance of and rooted disdain for industry. Mrs Thatcher used North Sea oil revenues and receipts from state sell-offs to create an artificial sense of increased prosperity. In reality, she massively boosted the wealth of the asset rich, to a large extent by allowing runaway inflation in the property and housing sectors. After 2008, incomes for large sectors of the population fell in real terms, as they had been already tending to do. Yet the asset rich continued to get richer, on the back of runaway asset-price-inflation, whilst those without assets were increasingly denied access to them in the form of privately-owned houses. The asset rich are now creaming off money from the already-reduced incomes of actual workers as well as continuing to become richer from asset inflation. In the current crises, a lot of people feel that they have no future. When will the squeeze on the working population end (it's now seriously affecting traditionally affluent middle class workers)? When will the asset-rich stop getting richer? When will increasing inequality end? Toryism and neoliberalism have no answer to these questions.

[@dianastevenson131]

I agree with all of this - especially the failure to use the vast amounts of capital flowing through the UK to benefit the British people in any way. And the new government seems determined to sell off large parts of the UK (including the New Forest and Dartmoor National Park) to foreign interests in the form of "freeports." It's the complete opposite of patriotism.

[@mikeoglen6848]

Didn't Karl Marx say all this some years ago?

[@anthonybartlett6924]

i stopped watching q.o.s when barker tuffnel & dawson turned it from a sports quiz into a poor comedy show.

[@errolkim1334]

"the very sad news that the Queen has died ... we're going to start by talking about the late Queen" Late for her own funeral!!!

[@Joe_le-]

Rods @ 59.00

[@BlyatimirPootin]

What a load of bollocks propaganda this is.

[@peterloxham502]

At least the BBC section was of some interest and quite amusing! The rest? Just rubbish!