Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
Blue Yeti ·
Jan 31 at 3:14pm
Author, Top Chef judge, charter school advocate and raconteur Toby Young joins and Ricochet's Rob Long stops by for a lively chat about the death of the Eurozone, David Cameron's troubles, how a British CoC might differ from ours, the appeal of Downton Abbey, Toby explains how he invented Rob Long, and the contradiction-in terms-sounding issue of conservative groupies.
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Cheers, EJ.
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Feb '11
Re: Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
You three will not revisit the Dubstep-Mumbathon controversy? Quel dommage!
Mar '11
Re: Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
This is fast becoming my favorite Ricochet podcast, no doubt because of my English roots - though I didn't get the previous musical one - must be getting old.
Feb '11
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I'm enjoying Radio Free immensely, James. It's the best thing on Ricochet since Golberg/Steyn/Long flamed out eight months ago.
May '10
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I think we have to be careful in applying too careless a template to "European Problems". Spain and Italy, for example, do not have an exceptional crisis in terms of Government spending (and thus debt) - while Berlusconi can't control the lower half of his anatomy, his fiscal control has been excellent. However, both economies are suffering desperately from having the wrong interest rate - their problem is the one-size-fits-all nature of the Euro. France's welfare payments, for example, are far more time-constrained than those in the UK (or even the US, for that matter). And the excellent Tim Worstall (an Adam Smith Institute blogger) keeps citing the French health care system as the best-in-class in the world - I would really like to understand why he thinks that, and what (if anything) we could learn from that.
Dec '11
Re: Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
Toby Young:
I would never deign to describe Rob Long as an "overpaid writer" - even in jest.
And oh, one of the attractions of Masterpiece Theatre --Downton Abbey, in particular-- is that it has provided Americans the ability to distinguish between regional accents (ex: Estuary vs. King's English).
Nov '10
Re: Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
Agreed!
Jul '10
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Robert Lux
Agreed! · 2 hours ago
We have a consensus! Keep up the good work, James!
Nov '10
Re: Radio Free Delingpole #7: Delingpole Abbey
This episode was bawdy, awkward, and hilarious. I loved it.
Edited on Feb 1 at 6:42amApr '11
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The "Bilderberg-like, vampire squid that is the European Union"
May '10
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems like saying semi-sensible states in the US don't share the debt problem of heavily indebted states. Even states which have been minding their budgets will suffer when the debtor states go down because our economies are linked.
Even if the EU broke up, European nations would still be invested in each other's economies. If any bankruptcy gets really ugly, we might even see people emigrating from that country and taxing another's welfare system.
Meanwhile, even Germany, the strongest economy in the EU, is in debt, if not to the scale of Greece or Spain. How can one debtor bail out another? At best, this will cause inflation.
A domino effect seems inevitable. Every Western nation is in debt. Each fall will apply additional stress to other struggling economies invested in that country. And our economies are separated by few degrees, when at all... even leaving aside our IMF obligations.
Mar '11
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"Swivel-eyed?"
Oct '10
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I'd like to add my kudos to the general chorus. Though I don't enjoy modern music as a rule, I also enjoyed the last Delingpole.
Having Rob paired with another Brit was especially good. More of that, to contrast and compare views.