Monocle’s Contributing Editor Andrew Mueller rounds up this week’s news stories, including a trip down memory lane for Liz Truss, The London Standard’s latest innovation in journalism and the result of Vladimir Putin’s opportunity to ‘ditch the woke west’. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We learned this week that things in the United Kingdom, and who knows, maybe the world entire, would be better if Liz Truss, who listeners may recall spending less time in 10 Downing street than some guided tours, was still in charge.
I can't wait to see.
Tell me more.
We learned this from no less an authority than.
Ah, if the mini budget hadn't been undermined by the economic establishment, things would be different now.
This much is conceivably true in that different can also mean barefoot and wild eyed neighbourhood militias armed with pitchforks grimly defending the allotments in which they grow, the turnips which have become Britain's staple diet and currency.
However, we learned that Truss believes that her country, and clearly much more importantly.
Herself, was undermined by the economic establishment.
Those guys with their shenanigans.
We did not learn from Truss.
Weird little oration delivered from in front of a bookcase of volumes sorted by colour.
Indeed.
Who was responsible for this?
My government was forced out of office.
Possibly because she cared to remind neither her audience nor herself that her government was forced out of office by the governing party, which she was leading at the time.
Anyway, sticking with the subject of people from whom we thought we'd heard the last daily News Daily Blues pick up a copy anytime you choose.
We learned that little bit more about what the incipient AI revolution promises for journalism.
Oh no.
We learned that venerable London daily newspaper, the Evening Standard, now relaunched as less venerable London weekly newspaper the London Standard, a process which involved sacking 66 live journalists, has decided instead to apply jumper cables to a dead one.
Specifically this one.