Taking aim at the circus that surrounds British sport. First, the footballer on Strictly Come Dancing and the “effort face” that comes with being out of their comfort zone, plus the professional partners who do the real work. Next, Manchester City’s 115 charges, a case so slow and complicated that it has become its own sport, with every result sitting under an asterisk nobody can yet read. Last, boxing’s move to the Gulf, where the money has opened up some great fights but raises the question of sportswashing and who the spectacle is really for. The episode closes with three verdicts.

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Three British guilt trips unpacked. Why water companies are lecturing you about hosepipes while losing billions of litres through leaking pipes. How an oil company invented the "personal carbon footprint" to convince you that recycling is your responsibility. And why we've become a nation of amateur enforcement officers, reporting our neighbours for the wrong bin day while actual utilities get a free pass. A sharp take on how guilt gets redirected away from those actually responsible.

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Effort is disappearing. But not evenly.

This week on Am I Out Of Touch!, we're looking at who quietly got permission to stop trying — and who never got that memo. We're tackling the great male dress-down and the double standard nobody talks about, why designer jeans are still just jeans no matter what they cost, and how "overdressed" became one of the most cutting insults in modern social life.

Because somewhere along the way, we decided that trying too hard was more embarrassing than not trying at all. And that's exactly backwards.

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