The Trawl

Warning remote workers! According to The Daily Mail, give it a few years and you'll have claws for hands, a hunchback, and be eating out of a dog bowl, because desks at home are very different to desks at work. Or, something like that.

Then, Jemma and Marina take a minute to feel not sorry at all for Liz Truss who is not amused by her premiership being compared to the life span of a lettuce. She simply doesn't think it's funny. Which is interesting, because many of us disagree, though have also had a sense of humour failure when it comes to her short yet disastrous time spent as PM. Only our sense of humour failure is directed toward her tanking of the economy and contribution to the high inflation we're all experiencing.

Which brings us to the subject of mortgages. As 100,000 people come to the end of their fixed rates every month, could this end up being the subject that defines the next election?

Lastly, Marina and Jemma wish everyone a Happy Pride Month and wonder why some people are trying to tarnish it?

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Pudding ends on a high with some lovely words from Elton John.

Enjoy!

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The royals have a new fan...and it’s Marina. Well, specifically one royal: Prince Harry. After all, how could one not be after his magnificent mike drops regarding the press and Government during the ongoing Mirror Group hacking trial.

Jemma and Marina discuss the latest developments from the Covid Inquiry, digressing somewhat to shed light on Government defender and hubris-stuffed bellend, Lord Bethell – AKA The Hustler.

Then it’s onto our repeat offender Lord of the Week, before stopping in Dover (not via an RAF chopper mind – that would be ridiculous). Enter Sunak, and the ladies discuss what Sunak has really achieved while serving in cabinet – spoiler: it ain’t stopping the boats.

The episode is rounded off with some unexpected Brexit side effects and a pudding that pokes fun at the UK’s descent into further authoritarianism as the Govt tries to overturn a vote in the House of Lords – who needs the right to protest anyway?

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Sunak's flown to Dover (cos why catch a train when a chopper will do?) He's standing behind a podium again to tell us how he's going to stop the boats. Only his boots are distracting. Yes, boots. Not boats. And besides, it's a very windy day so there are fewer crossings but apparently, that's got nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with Tory policy. Sure.

Regardless, Richard Tice is still taking to the streets to be mean to refugees from Iraq. Jemma and Marina dissect his attempt to exploit a young man who is surviving on £8 a week while waiting to be processed by our broken Home Office. And then there's Jemma's Brexit debate with the very same Tice to discuss too...

Then there's 'that' statement from Holly Willoughby too and your tweets are wonderful as is the superb pudding which will hopefully leave you happily sated.

Enjoy!

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The episode opens with Marina reminding Jemma how she once hoped that Sunak taking over might have resulted in the adults being back in the room. Update: they're not.

Because this week Sunak put out a tweet that proved he's just as base as 30p Lee...just wears a more expensive suit.

Then, let the Barbie chat commence - and what a weekend it was for cinema with two huge summer releases. Joyful. Though not, it turns out, if you're in possession of a very fragile male ego. Jemma and Marina chat through some of the reactions to the movie - including a very frustrated Piers Morgan. Bless.

And, we need to talk about Dan... Dan Wootton of GB News, because let's face it - not many people are. The ladies discuss the relative media blackout compared with the scandal surrounding Philip Schofield and Huw Edwards. Plus, you'll enjoy a little mass-hypocrisy-exposing montage from GB News, before moving on to Charlotte Owen - or rather - Lady Charlotte Owen, our new Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge. Owen is the 29-year-old recipient of Johnson's peerage for services to God knows what...such is the nature of our wonderful British democracy. And it's all topped off with a Brexitey pudding from comedian Omid Djalii.

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Jemma and Marina open with tributes to the BBC's George Alagiah and singer Sinéad O'Connor who we both sadly lost this week - RIP.

Then it's onto a story that has rightly been dominating the news this week (apart from the frog-faced old man who can’t bank with Coutts) - and that's climate change. They chat through the hot (and not so hot) takes of what's happening in Rhodes and Palermo, with expert insight from Professor Richard Betts and...Julie, who had a wonderful holiday in Crete and doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.

The ladies discuss the insane potential row back on green policies from Labour and The Conservatives and discuss the very real possibility that the general election could see marginal seats being fought as de facto referenda on green policies - joy. Because what should one do when the world is burning? Well, you ditch your green plans and net zero targets because fewer than 500 people in Uxbridge and S.Ruislip resulted in a shock by-election Tory hold...obvs.

Then it's onto Lord Frost (or Dave as Marina refers to him) and the terrifying climate denial nonsense that is now being spouted in the House of Lords. Because that's what happens when you let someone like Boris Johnson put unelected bureaucrat bezzies into our upper chamber. Then it's a wrap - with a topical pudding from The Exploding Heads.

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