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Last Call with John Sweeney and Michael Weiss

Two hacks boozily opine on the news of the day.


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  • 14. Have Fun Storming the Capitol!

    55:25
    John finally concedes that America is more fucked than the UK after seeing the QAnon wilderpeople invade both houses of Congress.

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  • 13. A Very Trumpy Transition

    51:30
    John and Michael on why, against all expectation, things just might be getting a bit better.
  • 12. The Bounty Hunter

    01:01:38
    John and Michael talk to Doug London, the C.I.A.’s former chief for counterterrorism in south and southwest Asia, and a 34-year veteran of the Agency. Doug discusses the alleged GRU payments to the Taliban for killing American and British soldiers in Afghanistan, the way intelligence-gathering and classification works at the Agency, the Mueller Report, Russia's plans for the 2020 U.S. election, and much else.
  • 11. Vladimir's Victories

    01:00:09
    John and Michael talk to two bestselling journalists, Luke Harding, author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, and Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. Go on, guess what they talked about.Also, pay to keep John and Michael in wine and gin by contributing to The Last Call's Patreon fund. Details here: https://t.co/Q4OSEfMFhP?amp=1
  • 10. The Novichok Nightmare

    57:07
    John and Michael talk to Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, the screenwriters and executive producers of the hit BBC mini-series The Salisbury Poisonings, about the GRU's attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and how that terrorist attack in Salisbury eerily prefigured our pandemic paranoia.
  • 9. Statues of Limitation

    56:15
    John and Michael discuss the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping the U.S. and UK and why tearing down some statues is better than tearing down others.
  • 8. Labour Pains

    01:02:52
    John and Michael talk with former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson about English cheese (yes), life after politics and COVID, and everything that went wrong with Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, from the cranks to the Stalinists to the anti-Semites.