Disgusting Covid WhatsApps, Starmer’s Gaza dilemma and Sunak’s AI adviser
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Keir Starmer has shifted his position on Gaza. But he’s still not calling for a ceasefire. Has this incident been a wake up call for the Labour party? George Osborne reveals that we’ll be hearing about some “shocking and disgusting” messages sent by Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings at the Covid inquiry next week. And we’re joined by Matt Clifford, Rishi Sunak’s representative for the AI Safety Summit. He’s warning of the need to avoid a “Three Mile Island” moment for AI.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.6 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Ed Bulls and George Osbourne. So here we are again, greetings from Edinburgh. We we are remote this week I can see from |
| 1:45.4 | Is that your red box just behind you? I've especially got it out for you Ed so you can see I'm in my office here |
| 1:51.3 | I've got I've got one too. But where have you been this week? You were in the desert I think. |
| 1:56.9 | Yes I was the Davos in the desert. This is the big summit in Saudi Arabia. |
| 2:02.1 | I have to say the highlight was going to watch Christian Rinaldo play football |
| 2:06.0 | and score a couple of pretty stonking goals and amazing atmosphere in the stadium, |
| 2:11.0 | better than when I watched my team Chelsea throw away a two- goal lead to |
| 2:15.2 | Arsenal which was made even worse because I was standing near Kiestarma who was cheering on the |
| 2:19.8 | Reds. At least they drew. I was at Norwich City on Saturday, two on up at half time, lost three two. |
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