This Matts ad hoc pod episode takes stock of the first days of Operation Epic Fury and wonders if this is the war when it’s going well (as Donald Trump insists) what does it look like when it’s going badly?

The Matts again respond to your queries: World War III, Carney backing Trump, and Dubai-based expats not paying their own way home.

The Matts do their level best to make sense of the last three days – events which make little sense in isolation, but once a wider spectrum of factors comes into play, does a sinister strategy emerge?

The Matts answer questions from listeners, including whether or not the age of deference is dead; is Trump going flat and is Farage just like Thatcher; why doesn’t NATO repel Russia?

Maybe it’s sinking in now? The Matts agree that whatever mitigation there is, Keir Starmer’s Labour government does not have the cut-through with voters to win the next general election

Before the Matts start kicking lumps out of each other, they enjoy the relative calm of a brief discussion on the smokescreen around the arrest of Peter Mandelson

The Matts answer listeners’ questions, including whether Nigel Farage really is a man of the people and if Manchester United deserve an owner as odious as Jim Ratcliffe?

The Matts sweep up an extraordinary 24 hours in British history. But first, they marvel at the power of a single photographic frame – currently splashed on every newspaper front page in the country. Is this the most extraordinary back seat photo since Thatcher? Then they discuss if the media has an innate deference to […]