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!
Three Old Hacks
The revolving door of Number 11
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Mihir Bose, David Smith, Nigel Dudley
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Season 1
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Episode 27
The Sunday Times Economics Editor David Smith was with fellow ‘old hacks’ Mihir Bose, former sports news editor at the BBC, and political analyst Nigel Dudley recording their podcast for The Chiswick Calendar when the news broke on Friday that Kwasi Kwarteng had been jettisoned.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has already unpicked the growth strategy which David described as “a gamble that had failed spectacularly.
“It was obvious to me it would go wrong” he said.
“The lesson is to listen to your institutions – the Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility.”
Mihir asked him how key economic advisers had felt about being sidelined.
Get in contact with the podcast by emailing threeoldhacks@outlook.com, we’d love to hear from you!