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Oh God, What Now?

Break Class in Case of Emergency

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Keir Starmer announces plans to break the Class Ceiling. Will inequality be the big issue in the next election? And WTF is “oracy” anyway? As ticket offices disappear from the railways, are we in course of a society without face-to-face contact? Plus, the meaning of Biden’s visit to the UK, the feeding frenzy over the BBC’s SEX STORY, and who are our heroes and villains of the week? Listen for surprise revelations about our panel’s social life…  Listen to our new newspaper review podcast PAPER CUTS here. https://listen.podmasters.uk/PCogwn • “Smashing the class ceiling isn’t new territory for the Labour Party – it’s the POINT of the Labour Party.” – Ayesha Hazarika • “Repeating slogans works in politics. But when ‘Strong and Stable’ ends up on a novelty birthday card then you know you’ve gone too far.” – Tom Peck • “It’s hard for Sunak to get away with saying ‘hold your nerve’ when he personally doesn’t have to hold any nerve at all.” – Hannah Fearn • “When you are at that level of politics … you never need to lift a finger again to do anything basic.” – Ayesha Hazarika Presented by Alex Andreou with Hannah Fearn, Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Peck. Audio producer: Robin Leeburn. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to O God What Now, the politics podcast that sprinkles the orange confetti

0:13.3

of truth on the unsuspecting establishment I am Alex Andréau.

0:17.3

On today's show, a pain in the class, Kirstaama wants to teach kids how to talk proper

0:23.2

like, to break the class ceiling in education while Risha Sudneck tries to work out how to

0:28.0

use contactless.

0:29.7

The next election will put the son of a toolmaker versus the son-in-law of a billionaire.

0:34.8

Will inequality be the big issue of the next election?

0:38.4

And ticket barriers.

0:40.2

A social media network sprout like not wheat, the government is planning to shutter hundreds

0:45.5

of railway ticket offices.

0:47.2

Are we becoming a contactless society?

0:49.6

Let's meet the panel.

0:51.6

First up is Aisha Hazareka, former Labour spin doctor and host of the new podcast The

0:56.5

Power Test, about which we are not at all bitter.

1:00.6

Hello, Judas.

1:01.6

Hello, I'm very, very, very sorry, but my first last is with this collective of podcasters.

1:09.6

Of course it is.

1:10.6

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:12.6

Aisha, President Biden is in the UK today for a cuppa with King Charles and has had a

1:18.8

short bilateral meeting with Sunakown Root.

1:22.0

Number 10 is pointing to this as evidence of the good health of the special relations

1:26.3

of the sixth meeting this year, but might such proliferation of insubstantial bilateral

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