what s moved this needle with the media? absolutely. absolutely. there s no question. you look at the polling and right now donald trump is seven point ahead of joe biden and trending upward. joe biden is trending downward. another republican says the quiet part out loud, brazenly admitting that his party s anti-biden crusade is nothing more than a time wasting political stunt to help trump. jamie raskin joins me to respond. as governor, high school teacher and author. wait until you see some of the things he wrote in a little noticed 2011 book on the founding fathers and president obama. and later, a san francisco journalist goes under cover to give us a rare behind the scenes look inside the republican party s anti-trans agenda. we begin tonight with the return of the twice-impeached, criminally indicted former president in a new york criminal courtroom today. it was donald trump s first appearance in this case, though he did so virtually from florida since he pleaded n
flanders and claire barrett. we have got stephanie flanders from bloomberg economics on the podcast. hello. hello, hello. and another friend of the podcast, claer barrett, from the financial times. thank you for having me. i m glad you re here, so, interest rates at 3%, stephanie. gives a sense of how that feeds into real lives. in gives a sense of how that feeds into real lives. into real lives. in terms of money that into real lives. in terms of money that is into real lives. in terms of money that is about - into real lives. in terms of money that is about 2 - into real lives. in terms of. money that is about 2 million people in the country who are on a variable rate the biggest since the 80s or 90s depending on who you believe. and for somebody with the average size mortgage, that is going to add nearly £80 a month or £1000 a year, just from today s rise, but of course, that is the eighth rise we have had in succession from the bank of england. there is more pain t
2 million people in this country who are on a variable rate mortgage who will immediately see the impact of that 0.75% rise we have had today. the biggest since the 80s or 90s depending on who you believe. and for somebody with the average size mortgage, just from today s rise, but of course, that s the eighth rise we have had in succession from the bank of england. there s more pain to come for around 2 million people you roll off their mortgage fixed rates next year. they might see an even bigger rise because they re on a really low rate now and it ll probably be higher than it is next year, so again, somebody with the average size mortgage, they can expect to pay around £250 more per month, or £3000 a year, and that s based on a mortgage of 130,000 so obviously if you have a bigger mortgage, you will have bigger repayments. trying to work out from listening to the various contributions we ve heard today, whether it be andrew bailey at the bank of england orjeremy hunt
inviting sisters of perpetual indulgence, a drag group. you are a cultural critic, you monitor the stuff. have you seen a marked increase in the hysteria around things like drag that it does feel like it s tied to the trends panic? oh, yeah, absolutely. we trans panic is the easiest afternoon, easiest sounds glib, but it s one of the easier entrées into this bigger, more general sense of repulsion towards people who are queer. it makes sense to me because it is just the most vulnerable group within the lgbt, sort of, system, and most easy to beat up on. it is, essentially, priming people to more easily transpose that feeling of hate on to people who are generally more accepted in that spectrum. so, yeah, i mean, i ve been watching what s happening in the uk for years now, and this is just all according to the
so, like, if i were a lower case c conservative, i would be thinking, wouldn t i like us collectively to be spending less money? so there is a dire, deadly and deadly, because it kills people problem with social care, and that should be addressed for the health of the nation and its inhabitants. so, that is something bad that is happening right now, and i would love to shed light on that so it can be addressed. but are charities doing wonderful work? oh, my god. i mjust, i m beaming right now thinking about the wonderful charities. i wonder where this whole experience and even describing it in that way sounds glib, for which i apologise, i wonder given what you have lived through where it leaves your outlook on comity. but a harder place for you to get to comity. comedy.