31: Labour’s Green Belt Grab, Medical Misogyny and Tractors Take To the Streets
As farmers descend on London for the second time to protest against Rachel Reeves’s changes to inheritance tax, we speak to a dairy farmer about what the changes might mean for the future of her family and farm.
Plus, as Angela Rayner presses ahead with plans to prioritise housebuilding on an area of the green belt bigger than Surrey, we ask what this means for those who already call the countryside home and the future of housebuilding in the UK.
And, as sales of Christmas pudding are on the rise for the first time in more than ten years, we ask what takes pride of place next to the turkey on your table on Christmas Day. And does it include condensed milk?
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Andrew Pierce
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Chelsey Moore
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
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Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas…
Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news.
Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters.
Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual?
All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding.
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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens
Producer: Phillip Wilding
Editor: Chelsey Moore
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East
A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular