Donald Trump is perhaps a multi-billionaire, however his wealth is nothing in comparison with former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg’s $64 billio
Donald Trump is perhaps a multi-billionaire, however his wealth is nothing in comparison with former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg’s $64 billion. Bloomberg is within the operating for Democratic nominee, and Freddy Grey writes on this week’s cowl article that he isn’t afraid to chuck billions of his personal {dollars} into his marketing campaign. However as Wednesday’s debate (the place Bloomberg was roundly trashed) confirmed: possibly cash isn’t a adequate substitute for, properly, character. So how severe of a menace is he to his Democratic rivals and to Trump? I speak to Freddy and Invoice Barnard, former chair of Democrats Overseas UK.
Plus, on this week’s concern, Douglas Murray writes about his conversion right into a BBC-sceptic. It’s not a lot about any political bias, however that it now not produces intellectual cultural programmes that it used to take action properly. So has the BBC gone downhill? I ask him, and Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Concepts and a panellist on the BBC’s Ethical Maze.
We additionally discover time to speak about Toby Younger‘s latest venture – a stand-up comedy set. It’d all the time been on his bucket checklist. Providing him the prospect to get on stage was Andy Shaw, co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, a month-to-month comedy evening getting down to present an alternative choice to mainstream comedy. They each be part of me on the podcast to speak about how you can make comedy humorous once more.