What We Learned: Friday 21 March

我们所学到的:3月21日星期五

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2025-03-21

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A look back at this week’s news stories with Andrew Mueller. Justice is served in the golden-toilet heist, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, responds to a call for the return of the Statue of Liberty to France and a B-29 bomber becomes the latest DEI casualty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • We learned this week

  • that the hammer of justice had descended in the matter of the Crown versus those blokes who stole

  • that solid gold toilet.

  • I can't wait to see it.

  • Interesting.

  • Tell me more.

  • See where this goes.

  • Come on.

  • You remember five years back, give or take,

  • a solid gold toilet was stolen from Blenheim palace where it had been part of some doubtless non terrible and non risible art exhibition.

  • Police initially, initially had nothing to go on,

  • but eventually flushed the suspects out and the fact of their conviction tees up nicely.

  • We learned a segue about sticking with the subject of people who may have acquired gilt finished bathroom fixtures by dubiously ethical means.

  • Because we learned

  • that US President Donald Trump and or certain members of his administration lack both a basic understanding of the history of their own nation and an elementary appreciation,

  • appreciation of the sensitivities of other nations.

  • We were, yes, every bit as shocked as you are.

  • We learned this from President Trump's incumbent spokesknit wit, Caroline Lavatt,

  • whose lines in response to a question about some French politician wanting the Statue of Liberty returned,

  • all things considered,