Don’t mess with a Baroness

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Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nish and Coco ask how we can save the UK from knife crime. It turns out we have evidence of what works - so why aren’t we doing it? We meet Jon Yates, who leads a charity that has been given £200 million by the Home Office to research what works and then put it into practice. He’s trialling a targeted, interventionist approach, called ‘focused deterrence’ which helped Glasgow dramatically reduce violent crime. Those lessons are now going to be applied in 5 cities in the UK. One of those is Nottingham, a city that’s home to Dr Marcellus Baz, a community champion who turned his life around after being stabbed - what does he think of Jon’s plans? Nish and Coco also cut through the rows about notebooks and WhatsApp messages to talk about why the Covid Inquiry really matters - they have a message for the government: “don’t mess with a Baroness”. Plus we salute the Secret Tory and ask is the Post Office racist?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Potsaid the UK. I'm Coco Khan. I'm Nish Kumar. And on today's show, we're saving
0:15.7	the UK from knife crime. We'll meet the man who has £200 million burning a hole in his
0:20.6	pocket. That's money he's got from the government to find out what works and to actually put
0:25.0	it into practice.
0:26.0	In the eights, we'll tell us his plans and community worker and charity CEO Dr Marcellus
0:30.1	Bars. We'll tell us what he thinks of them.
0:33.0	Plus, has anybody seen Boris Johnson's notebooks? Anyone?
0:40.0	They're almost certainly filled with drawings of penises.
0:44.2	So, Nish, how are you doing? I saw you strolling into the studio with your Beyoncé cap on
0:50.7	my Beyoncé cap. Yes, I saw Beyoncé on Monday. When you wear it, is it so that everyone
0:58.8	knows you saw Beyoncé?
1:00.5	Yeah, if anything, it's too discreet. It just says Renaissance World Tour, much rather
1:04.0	it said I was in the presence of Beyoncé. Yeah. I saw the succession finale and Beyoncé
1:10.0	within 24 hours of each other. Wow. It was a real like, it was a day of culture Monday
1:16.2	for me.
1:17.2	You must feel sort of emotionally drained after all that.
1:19.7	Well, I think the succession finale, without giving any spoilers, although if you've watched
1:25.3	even a minute of the show, you'll know a bit of a downer. It's brilliant TV, but it
1:31.4	is not feel good stuff. So, in a way, it was perfect to have had that experience and
1:37.2	then in the evening, see Beyoncé lift us back up. I don't need to sell the show to you.
1:44.0	It's selling itself, but let me tell you, at one point, she flies around on a model
1:49.2	horse.
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