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

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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