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 considers Israel"s war with Iran, the expectation of what "two-week Trump" will do and how likely it is that Britain will get dragged in. Former BBC Sports editor Mihir Bose, Economics editor of The Sunday Times David Smith and political analyst Nigel Dudley"s collective memories can recall the post
The Three Old Hacks talk political memoirs this week. Were they always as salacious, and as quickly turned round post-administration as they are now? Barely has the imprint of the politician"s backside faded from the leather of the despatch box before somebody is telling all. Former BBC Sports editor Mihir Bose, Econom
The Three Old Hacks discuss immigration this week. Mihir Bose, former Sports editor for the BBC, came here as an immigrant from India in the 1960s, not long after Enoch Powell made his famous "Rivers of Blood" speech. Keir Starmer has been accused of evoking a fear of "otherness" by echoing Powell"s words, when he sai
The Three Old Hacks discuss the challenges facing Christian leadership. As the Papal Conclave works its way through multiple rounds of voting to select a new Pope and the Church of England chooses a new Archbishop of Canterbury, they caution against trying to make a fast buck by betting on either. On the papal contes
Who will win the battle for the hearts and minds of those on the right? Nigel Farage or Kemi Badenoch?
The Three Old Hacks look at the relationship between Nigel Farage and the Conservative Party. We are seeing a reshaping of the right in British politics, says Mihir. Nigel Farage is out to destroy the Conservative Party in his mission to become prime minister. He is making a tactical shift towards the centre, says Dav
Supporters of Donald Trump such as Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage tend to brush off his more outrageous statements, saying we shouldn"t take his outpourings too literally. Shouldn"t we? In a week in which he has declared that President Zelensky of Ukraine is a "dictator" and tariffs on Mexico and Canada "will go forwar