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147: Build back bluster

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🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Tory Party conference, the Facebook outage, Insulate Britain and rainbow crossings… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss.

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

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spiked editor Tom Slater

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Hello and spike columnist Ella Whelan

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Hi coming up on the show the Conservative Party conference the Facebook

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outages insulate Britain and rainbow crossings.

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So we had the conservative party conference this week.

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The country almost feels as if it's grinding to a halt.

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There are shortages everywhere.

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