In this week’s episode of London Calling, James and Toby talk about James’s adventures in the Far East, including a trip to a Muslim Thai restaurant in Malaysia where he had the best cup of tea he’s ever had; Toby’s adventures in the Far North, i.e., Stoke-on-Trent, where he went on Saturday to see QPR’s final away game of the current football season; what the real motivation is behind Ryan Reynolds’ and Rob Mcelhenney’s purchase of Wrexham Football Club (would they have done it if they weren’t able to sell the television rights to Disney+?; whether the collapse of First Republic is another case of ‘Get Woke, Go Broke’ and what it means for the future of ESG and Stakeholder Capitalism; the bizarre ‘afternoon tea’ ceremony that Toby participated in at Lake Louise in Canada, which started at noon and was over by 1pm; and, in Culture Corner, Anna Karenina, Modernity and Malaysia by Alberto G. Gomes, Andrew Roberts’s biography of Churchill, and The Whale.
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