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The Football Show · 18 October 2026
"There's a word for alternative facts. It's called lies." Bernard Ponsonby, former STV political editor, and Peter Martin on how politics became "an extension of the entertainment genre": Tony Benn at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Boris Johnson and Brexit ("it was always a game"), Liz Truss, Nigel Farage on Question Time, showmen elected for serious times, and the current-affairs shows that used to hold them to account. From Straight Talk, first published in June 2026.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Tony Benn at the Edinburgh Playhouse
1:20 Denis Healey's "hinterland"
2:14 From Wilson and Heath to Blair: what's changed?
3:00 "An extension of the entertainment genre"
3:58 Boris Johnson and Brexit: "it was always a game"
5:19 Johnson, Truss and Covid: "Nobody's accountable"
6:49 Nigel Farage and Question Time
8:00 "There's a word for alternative facts. It's called lies"
9:18 Social media, misinformation and Keir Starmer
10:17 Panorama, World in Action and Weekend World
12:28 "BBC verified" and the licence fee
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