A World Cup and a Budget

11/29/22 • 46 min

A football World Cup and a Budget, what better subjects could Mihir Bose, former sports news editor at the BBC, Sunday Times Economics Editor David Smith and political analyst Nigel Dudley wish for, to talk about?

Let's just say, in a pub quiz if either of those subjects came up, you would want these guys on your team.

Get in contact with the podcast by emailing [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!

Let's just say, in a pub quiz if either of those subjects came up, you would want these guys on your team.

Get in contact with the podcast by emailing [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!

Previous Episode

The revolving door of Number 11

The Sunday Times Economics Editor David Smith was with fellow ‘old hacks’ Mihir Bose, former sports news editor at the BBC, and political analyst Nigel Dudley recording their podcast for The Chiswick Calendar when the news broke on Friday that Kwasi Kwarteng had been jettisoned.

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has already unpicked the growth strategy which David described as “a gamble that had failed spectacularly.

“It was obvious to me it would go wrong” he said.

“The lesson is to listen to your institutions – the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility.”

Mihir asked him how key economic advisers had felt about being sidelined.

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Next Episode

Opinions of superior excellence

“No nation in Europe is more haughty and disdainful, nor more conceited in an opinion of its superior excellence.”

This quote from a French Viscount about Britain some 400 years ago reminds us nothing much has changed, says political analyst Nigel Dudley.

He’s been reading “a wonderful book about the Stuarts”, Devil-Land by Dr Clare Jackson.

In the first podcast of 2023 Nigel and his two old mates, sports journalist Mihir Bose and Economics editor of the Sunday Times David Smith discuss the Christmas books they were given and are now reading, the state of the nation and whether they should have a flutter on the next election.
The English are inclined to “adore all their own opinions and despise those of every other nation” and had “contracted all the instability of the element by which they are surrounded, namely water.”

The podcast seems the perfect medium.

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