The Reaction
Hosted by Peter Hitchens and Sarah Vine · Daily Mail
4.8from 134 ratings
- 133
- Episodes
- 125
- Transcribed
- 134
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About The Reaction
What's the Big Idea? Finally, Sarah Vine (once memorably described as being ‘like and loathed in equal measure, divisive, but never indecisive’) and Peter Hitchens (a man whose writing a critic was called to compare to a Guardsman’s boot: ‘as highly polished and potentially lethal’) meet once a week to look at the world and mutter, alas… Acclaimed columnist and journalist Sarah Vine and best-selling author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens discuss and dissect social, economic, and pop cultural flotsam and jetsam that have risen out of the dark waters of that week’s news. Taking one big idea each episode and pulling it apart with élan, imagine Vine and Hitchens respective columns brought to life and then skewered, scoffed at, debated, and given the full weight of Vine and Hitchens impenetrable gaze. Though an accord might not always be reached, it’s the journey that matters. Whether it’s the tech bros gone rogue – Meta tearing up its own rule book on fact checking, Musk attempting to influence governmental policy, or the knotty subject on society’s ever-increasing reliance on anti-depressants to treat what might just be the modern malaise and not depression at all. Or, evil, nature or nurture? Does evil actually exist or is it an idea that hangs over us, or do we just sometime embody it and the actions themselves are evil, not the individual? All this and more are to be pored over, one towering topic each week discussed with humour, insight, and real understanding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Daily Mail
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
125 of 133 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Proportional Representation and Apocalypse Now
Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The fantastic thing about this country is if a government becomes really unpopular, then the removal vans could be in Downing Street the day after the election. The unpopular prime minister can be visibly out. And this is enormously comforting to people who feel they have no power over events to know that they can at least chuck them out. It's also very good for politicians to know that they can be chucked out. Whereas again, in proportional representation, they're permanently in work. There will always be jobs for them. Yeah. Jobs, cars, offices. Well, it becomes a bit like they just become sort of glorified civil service. […]
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- 4.9 / 5
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- 4.8 / 5
- 120 ratings
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Peter Hitchens and Sarah Vine host the show. Published by Daily Mail.
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