America’s new National Security Strategy is a hellish concoction of far-right obsessions, paranoid conspiracy thought, imperial fantasy, and outright aggression. European leaders are horrified but what are they going to do about it? Plus: Glasgow South MP Gordon McKee explains the UK’s debt to GDP ratio using <a href="https://x.com/GordonMcKeeMP/status/1992900776574804227">towers of custard creams and bourbons</a>. But can you make politics too simple? And in the Extra Bit for Patreons, we talk about Netflix’s real goal in trying to buy Warners: to kill off cinema. 
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• Hannah recommends <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13277/9780008511760">Really Good, Actually</a> by Monica Heisy. 
• Jason recommends the BBC documentary <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j0v1">I Am Martin Parr</a>
• Matt went to see Edgar Wright’s The Running Man at the cinema but doesn’t recommend it much. 
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Presented by Matt Green with Hannah Fearn, Jonn Elledge and Jason Hazeley. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio Production by: Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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