A roundup of this week’s news stories including an update on the Tory leadership race, Tucker Carlson’s views on Churchill 59 years after his death and Putin’s gift of 24 purebred horses to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We learned this week that the Conservative Party is still going.
Oh, no.
We learned, yes, that nine weeks after the voters of the UK had directed the Tories towards the door and down the stairs, they were dusting themselves off and thinking about the future, as a part of which they were conducting a leadership contest.
And stick with us, this choice of backing music for this bit is going to make an amount of sense very shortly.
I can't wait to see.
Tell me more.
See where this goes.
We learned, incredibly, that several surviving Tories were bidding for command, despite the spectacle seeming somewhat akin to the officers of RMS Titanic wrestling for the helm shortly after the thing with the iceberg.
And we learned that first out of the gate was Kemi Badenok, who did wonders to forestall any suspicions at large that she is animated even slightly, by inane, trivial culture war horseshit by leading her campaign video with a clip of an actor, David Tennant, who played Doctor who.
Do you see now?
Oh, I see.
Sure, I get it now.
Yeah, being somewhat ungallant about her.
Until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn't exist anymore, I don't wish ill of her.
I just wish her to shut up.
And we learned from her retort that Badenoch, were she to be elevated to the role of leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, would absolutely not be copping this sort of impertinence from practitioners of the capering and pretending trades.
No, I will not shut up.
When you have that type of cultural establishment trying to keep conservatives down, you need someone like me who's not afraid of Doctor who or whoever.
Which we can all agree is what really matters.
At a time when Europe is menaced by a revanchist tyranny, who can forget Winston Churchill's stirring speeches of the early 1940s, solemnly inveighing against the subversive menace of Tommy Trinder?