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The Rest is Entertainment

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deadpan · 13/11/2025 08:24

Marina Hyde (Guardian columnist) and Richard Osman's YouTube podcast The Rest is Entertainment did an episode on Tuesday about the Davie resignation along with other items.
They both discussed the Trump non saga and also mentioned the gender critical comments made in the memo/letter from Prescott.
They both made mild and sensible comments about how "a lot of people" would have been upset by certain things such as victims of male assault being made to refer to their attacker with female pronouns.
Obviously there were the usual "transphobe" claimants in the comments, but I was surprised they touched on it at all especially as Marina writes for the Guardian.
I'd love to include the link, but the episode isn't in the videos list with all the others. It's possible they had to take it down because overshadowing the TRA's were the people who think the BBC is the work of the devil. So there could have been a lot of comments that might have caused the removal 🤔

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DrBlackbird · 24/09/2026 23:53

Lalgarh · 24/09/2026 08:49

I stopped listening to TRIE ages ago (ads every 20 seconds + goalhanger empire)

Marina is leaving the Guardian. Not sure why.

She was the only reason I still read it. Her and Jonathan Friedland (?). If she’s going k that’s it. I have no more cause to buy it. Kath Viner has run it into the ground.

moto748e · 25/09/2026 01:07

Oh that's so sad to hear, as a long-time (no more) Graun reader. I thought there'd been some movement of the oil-tanker there lately, but this doesn't help. Can't and don't blame her.

Ohthere · 25/09/2026 20:21

Sorry I haven’t read the whole thread so someone may already have shared this but I think this interview couldn’t be clearer on whether or not she’s GC (JKR for PM if you don’t want to click)https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/05/marina-hyde-guardian-columnist-answers-readers-questions. Was also reflecting on it when they talked about Ed Sheeran last week on the podcast and MH was adamant that celebrities getting involved in politics is pointless, and although I don’t totally agree with her on that, given the risks involved for any woman who puts her head above the parapet I can’t blame her for taking that position.

How posh are you? Do you have a therapist? What would you say to Trump at a party? Marina Hyde answers readers’ questions

We asked you what you most wanted to put to our Guardian columnist. You responded in droves, querying her ‘beef’ with Burnham, who she thinks is this generation’s Hugh Grant, and what she really thinks about Richard Osman ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/05/marina-hyde-guardian-columnist-answers-readers-questions

StrongLikeMamma · Yesterday 08:08

Love Marina ☺️

UnaPersson · Yesterday 08:35

Tunnockstester · 13/11/2025 09:02

How do we know MH's view? I don't recall any piece by her about it although she has plenty to say about everything else.
Ordinary women have spoken out and lost jobs etc.

A while back MH wrote an article in the Graun 'JKR for PM', I believe.

I can understand her not wanting to expose herself and her family to the sometimes violent TRA's. She's speaking out on it in a milder way. In some regards that might be more effective with the BeKind crowd.

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