Chequered Past
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🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this week's podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian, Patrick Maguire and Ailbhe Rea link up to discuss the questions being raised about the government's response in the early days of the coronavirus crisis. Then, in You Ask Us, they field your queries on the role of journalists in the current moment, before looking ahead to what an end to lockdown might look like.
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| 1:12.6 | I'm enoosh and I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Alva and Patrick to discuss |
| 1:17.0 | could the government have done anything differently and have they put us in a bad situation? |
| 1:22.3 | When we'll lockdown be over and you ask us should |
| 1:26.0 | journalists ask different questions at the press conferences. |
| 1:30.0 | So this weekend saw the publication of several articles criticizing the government's decisions |
| 1:41.5 | in kind of the February March period, the period in which we first had a radically different approach, well, significantly different approach to fighting the novel coronavirus than the one that we ended up with in late March, one in the Sunday |
| 1:56.0 | Times, one on the New Station website by Dominic Mingleer, one in the Financial Times, |
| 2:01.1 | with the real focus basically being about the speed of a stepping up British procurement |
| 2:06.3 | efforts or things like protective equipment, masks and tests, and two on the approach to, you know, the kind of the decision-making process that led to sort of phase one of no lockdown, wash your hands. |
| 2:20.0 | That obviously then was reversed when it became clear that the NHS could not maintain capacity. |
| 2:25.8 | I keep thinking about this thing, you know, Patrick, you said a couple of weeks ago about, you know, |
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