. Presumably, the show seeks to tap into the centrist audience tuning in to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart's The Rest is Politics and Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis's The News Agents . So far, it is a reminder of just how hard that special spice is to recreate. The two men seem, if anything, too similar. Neither is excitable or quick to crack a joke. On){kind=link}
★★★☆☆The first episode of Ed Balls and George Osborne’s podcast Political Currency feels surprisingly flat. The two men who once faced each other pretty feistily across the dispatch box as chancellor and shadow chancellor don’t yet seem to be able to recreate that oppositional flair when stuck behind two microphones (situated, apparently, in a trendy east London studio).
Presumably, the show seeks to tap into the centrist audience tuning in to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s The Rest is Politics and Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis’s The News Agents. So far, it is a reminder of just how hard that special spice is to recreate.
The two men seem, if anything, too similar. Neither is excitable or quick to crack a joke. On
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