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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week as ever we have

Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater. Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Whelan.

Hi. Coming up on the show, the circus around Dominic Cummings, the ban on gas boilers,

microaggressions at Cambridge and race after George Floyd.

Dominic Cummings damning testimony describes a chaotic government ill-prepared to face a global pandemic.

The government rhetoric was we put a shield around care

homes and blah blah it's complete nonsense. We did everything we could to protect the

NHS. I've been dealing with getting the vaccination rollout going and

saving lives. What would have happened here is essentially in my opinion you'd have had a kind of dictator.

Former advisor Dominic Cummings gave evidence to Parliament in a blockbuster more than seven hour session this week.

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