That Saturday Night Thing

Saturday 24th June 2018

The final show, after a run of just 16 episodes as Love Sport Radio focuses on sport and, in particular, on cutting costs. I talk less sport, more Brexit, climate change, internet echo chambers, the Trump child migrant scandal and crocodiles heading south.

Anger, outrage and the alt-right

People are, it seems, getting very angry about everything. Oxfam, for example, is now struggling to find the money to help Rohingya refugees because of outrage over workers enlisting prostitutes in Haiti. Tommy Robinson is winning widespread support in his anti-Muslim crusade. His supporters were out on the streets last week giving Nazi salutes. Two years since Jo Cox was murdered and the alt-right seems to be going from strength to strength.

Australia, sporting losers, fake meat and crazy ants

Sports fan David Campbell admits Australia isn’t doing too well in sport at the moment. They must be cheating less. He also discusses the #fakemeat outrage, the destructive crazy yellow ant and mandatory English tests – what for the locals?

Richard Kazimer on Trump’s tariffs, border control and a family cashing in

That Saturday Night Thing’s regular US correspondent Richard Kazimer talks through another week in the Trump dynasty. This week, pissing everyone off at the G7, a flimsy deal with Kim Jong Un, the treatment of child refugees, a family cashing in on the President and how Trump won the 2026 World Cup bid.

The two dictators meet

Oops! Fox News describing the summit in Singapore between Trump and Kin Jong Un as a meeting of the two dictators. Hang on, we haven’t got that page in the script yet! Have a listen …