Flares and foreign aid

The New Normal

16-07-2021 • 1 hr 11 mins

Richard Porritt, Cash Boyle and Matt Withers return to bring you the week’s news, politics, gags, gaffes and guests in The New Normal.

This week they discuss the toxic racism that followed England's Euros final defeat, the government surviving a rebellion to pass cuts to the foreign aid budget and the impending chaos of whether we're expected to wear masks or not next week.

James Grimes, founder of anti-gambling harm campaign group The Big Step, joins us to talk about his organisation's attempts to force a change in football’s relationship with betting.

Plus there is, of course, discussion of the man who attempted to unite a nation by putting a flare up his backside.

Music: 8 Bit Sauce by Mikey Geiger

For more information about Gambling with Lives, the group set up by the families and friends of young people who had taken their own lives as a direct result of gambling, click here.

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