Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in as guest Lettice Bromovsky from the UK returns to Heard Tell to discuss new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. Lettice and Host Andrew talk the process of Liz Truss defeating Rishi Sunak, her background and political rise, and the weeks of news media coverage and narratives leading up the her first day in No. 10. Lettice walks us through the tough political reality PM Truss is walking into, heading a post-Boris Tory Party, facing a reinvigorated Labour Party, the pressing issues of cost of living and energy crisis, and the looming general election that in reality only give her a matter of months to make her mark and a very steep political hill to climb. Lettice also deals with the comparsion - fair and unfair - of Liz Truss and previous prime minsters, and the inevitable comparisons to Theresa May and Margret Thatcher. Plus, a judge has ordered the selection of a Special Master and temporarily enjoined the DOJs use of materials collected from the Mar-a-lago search warrant, we'll turn down the noise on the latest in what is looking to be a long legal process. Also, new polling gives context to trending issues regarding higher education and stiudent loans, as data on regrets over chosen majors and fields of study shows. We go to Pakistan where catastrophic flooding has left a third of the country under water and massive humanitarian and economic destruction, and how folks can help.All that and more on this Wednesday edition of Heard Tell.

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