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I was a massive fan of TRIP at the start but these days I find it tedious to listen to sometimes.
by secondcoming 1y ago
I was a massive fan of TRIP at the start but these days I find it tedious to listen to sometimes.
- Thaliana 1y agoThe News Agents has almost entirely replaced TRIP for me. I still like some of their Leading interviews but TRIP itself I've gone right off.
- secondcoming 1y agoI've heard about The News Agents before but never really checked it out. I fear Emily Maitlis will annoy me more than Alistair Darling does though. Can't win. There's always The Rest Is History for neutral interesting information!
- adammarples 1y agoTRIP was formed in the turbulence of the crashing conservative governerment and it was a breath of fresh air to have people close to the inside who were commenting on unfolding events nearly daily while also saying all the things that traditional media didn't. I looked forward to TRIP every time Boris blundered so that I could hear the guys disect it with a few personal anecdotes thrown in from their time in power. Now, there's nothing much new about hearing Alasdair talk about Tony Blair again and I don't think the centrist dad approach has anything much to say about Kier Starmer's government.
- physicsguy 1y agoI find Political Currency better these days since Ed Balls and Osborne are at least both people who had very key political roles in their own right (Balls during the Blair government in the Treasury with Gordon Brown, then Shadow Chancellor, Osborne as part of Cameron's rise to power and Chancellor), plus there's the odd tidbit of opinion on the current government which you sometimes wonder whether is coming through from inside knowledge due to Balls being married to Yvette Cooper.
- adammarples 1y agoInteresting, I'll check it out, even though both of them seem to be even more unlikeable that Alastair and Rory!