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London Calling

A Pair of National Treasures

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We start with Saturday’s anti-lockdown protest in London and the under-reporting of it by the BBC. When press does report on such events you can count on them to be generally characterized as being populated by Covid deniers, conspiracy theorists and far right extremists. (James Delingpole with the hat trick!) Then we move on to the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) and... Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

And so there's a lot of people who feel like they've been voiceless throughout this pandemic

0:09.0

and their point of view, including medical experts who've come out and said what we're doing is

0:15.3

actually not based on the evidence and it has all sorts of unintentional consequences

0:22.3

that are negative.

0:23.7

Because as Rita says both Labour and the Conservatives there,

0:26.7

well Boris Johnson is a joke, he's not a Conservative.

0:29.1

Welcome to London Calling with me James Daddin Park and my very good friend

0:37.1

Mr Toby Young my very good friend Mr Toby Young whom I missed strangely strangely, at the March, the London March that you promised to attend.

0:47.0

What happened, Tobes?

0:48.6

So I went for a walk with my wife and son and dog.

0:54.4

Yes, you had to do that to earn your time off, didn't you, really?

0:57.1

I have to earn my time off to earn my pink ticket.

1:00.0

So she dropped me off at Acton Town Tube Station at 1215 and I had arranged to meet various people at Hyde Park Tube and walk up from there to to the station, I thought,

1:15.0

great, there's a train sitting on the platform.

1:18.0

Perfect timing.

1:19.0

Jumped onto the train, and then the doors remained open. I sort of said okay well maybe I just got on it

1:27.6

particularly early and it then the doors didn't close after another five minutes I

1:31.6

looked out of the I looked on the platform

1:34.1

and it there was no departure time and then there was an announcement saying that

1:40.8

the tube had been temporarily suspended because of disruption at Heath Row.

1:47.0

No, at King's Cross.

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