Episode 93 - Dirty Mike and the Boys

In what'll probably be our last episode before Jack's appearance at the Media Democracy Festival this Saturday (which we admittedly forgot to mention at all here), we present another amiable Jack-Yair dialogue on the issues of the day, in which Jack tells Yair about the issues of the day and Yair agrees. This week, we address the New Statesman's extensive interview with Mike Gapes, the first five paragraphs of which are rightfully dedicated to us. Jack tries, and fails, to teach Yair how to impersonate the Big Gapes himself, and we ponder the unique frisson of the name Mike. And, finally, there's an extensive discussion of Tom Watson's new "social democratic grouping" in the Parliamentary Labour Party, the Future Britain Group, why Labour's "social democrats" aren't social democrats, and the way even those who praise him can take Jeremy Corbyn for granted. Read Patrick Maguire's New Statesman interview with Iron Mike Gapes here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/03/i-ve-been-through-divorce-i-know-what-divorces-are-mike-gapes-pain-leaving