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The Ghost Writer (2010) and Love Actually (2003) – The Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza!
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The Ghost Writer (2010) and Love Actually (2003) – The Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza!

24/12/2023

The fourth episode of the The Grey Album Podcast – an audio companion to the newsletter that takes a free-wheeling look at pop culture.

This episode we talk about two films as part of our Tony Blair Christmas Special Extravaganza: The Ghost Writer (2010), Roman Polanski’s political thriller about a controversial former British Prime Minister and Love Actually (2003), Richard Curtis’s modern Christmas classic rom-com.

Featuring:

  • 2000s anti-neocon pop culture

  • New Labour Home Secretaries

  • 500 IQ Theorycel Gordon Brown

  • Love Actually as Blairite propaganda

  • Deported from Saudi Arabia for being too handsome

  • Joni Mitchell > Joe Rogan

  • Gordon Brown’s Kitchen Nightmares

  • ‘You will never convince me to eat the brown meat’

and much, much, more!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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