Three Old Hacks
Mihir Bose – former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s. They have kept in touch regularly, setting the world to rights over various lunches and dinners. With coronavirus making that impossible, what do journalists do, deprived of long convivial lunches over a bottle of red wine or several? Why, podcast of course.Get in contact with the podcast by emailing threeoldhacks@outlook.com, we’d love to hear from you!
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The Three Old Hacks consider what we might expect from a second Trump presidency. "Will it mean a more isolationist America?" asks MIhir Bose. What will it mean for Ukraine? Has he made political discourse coarser, or are the off-colour remarks he makes no worse than the kind of thing President Lyndon B Johnson used to
The Three Old Hacks have known each other for 40 years, having met when they were all working for Financial Weekly magazine in 1984, which is also the year David Smith went on to join The Times. He recalls how Nigel Lawson set the standard as a tax reforming Chancellor with his autumn Budget that year, while Nigel Dudl
With a certain cynicism born of decades of political reporting, the Three Old Hacks look at the way in which the press have descended on the newly elected Labour government like a pack of ravening wolves over its approach to the Prime Minister receiving gifts. As gifts of everything from expensive clothing to seats to
Tony Blair"s anthem was Things Can Only Get Better. Keir Starmer"s appears to be Things Can Only Get Worse says David Smith, Economics Editor of the Sunday Times in this week"s Three Old Hacks podcast, following on from the Prime Minister"s speech this week warning they will have to raise taxes to fill the black hole l
Author and journalist, former Sports Editor of the BBC Mihir Bose talks to fellow journalists Economics Editor of the Sunday Times David Smith and political analyst Nigel Dudley about the week’s events. “We haven’t seen that in a long time, I can remember this growing up in the 60’s and 70’s in the West Midlands when t
“The ‘We’re here to serve’ mantra sounds a bit trite, but I think he really means it”
The Three Old Hacks, aka prolific author and former BBC Sports editor Mihir Bose, Economics editor of the Sunday Times David Smith and political analyst Nigel Dudley give their analysis of Keir Starmer’s first few days in Government. “The whole focus is on quiet competence, no flashiness.” Get in contact with the podca