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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: How to fix a world wrecked by Putin and Trump

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How do we tackle new international threats from terrorism to forced migration as people flee climate change? Does diplomacy still work? How has big tech changed the game for global security? Former British ambassador, Oxford University Principal, and The Naked Diplomat author Tom Fletcher talks to Arthur Snell about his new book, Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux… and why old school “maps and chaps” won’t cut it any longer. “The diplomatic system has been orphaned by Trump, and vandalised by Putin.” “We should stop analysing Putin as some master strategist. He’s just willing to out-kill us.”  “COVID has forced young people to make fewer, but deeper, relationships on campus.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees and Martin Bojtos. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/ten-survival-skills-for-a-world-in-flux-tom-fletcher?variant=39456637714510  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Arthur Snell. If there's one person who can be described as the

1:14.8

outstanding diplomat of his generation, it's Tom Fletcher. Former British

1:20.0

Ambassador to Beirut, Lebanon. He then transitioned to become a thinker and writer on education, on global

1:27.5

development and on geopolitics. He has recently published a book called Ten Survival Skills for a World In Flux, which is a fascinating

1:37.1

manifesto on how we can change the way we educate people and how we plan for the future. So Tom, welcome to the bunker.

1:46.0

Thank you so much and thanks for that introduction. I'm now worried that any former colleagues listening to this are going to be on the phone to both of us very soon furious at that description but I'm I'm relishing it.

1:58.6

You know I'm prepared to face the music from those former colleagues. You are of course, among other things now, the principal of

2:05.8

Hartford College in Oxford, so you are in your day job at the heart of what might be called a traditional elite educational environment.

2:15.0

But you've written a book about radical changes to the way we prepare ourselves and

2:21.1

particularly how we prepare young people for the life that they're

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