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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tory sleaze rumbles on as opera becomes a new frontier in the Culture War and Chris Pincher MP lives down to his name. We unpack the current political turmoil and the latest class row between Raab and Rayner. Plus, the reversal of Roe v. Wade prompts women in the US to delete period tracker apps. What does it tell us about Big Health Data? And as the Fred Perry polo turns 70, we talk about the politics of clothes. Our guest this week is tech journalist and author of Social Warming, Charles Arthur. “I think it’s quite a safe bet to assume there will be another vote of confidence within a year of the last one.” – Marie Le Conte “Codes of class are so nuanced in Britain, but if you haven’t grown up here it probably makes no sense.” – Justin Quirk “I don’t think the Tories have ever been the party of upward mobility.” – Charles Arthur “Every office in the country has a woman like Angela Rayner in it, but in Westminster she stands out.” – Justin Quirk https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison with Marie Le Conte and Justin Quirk. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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?
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1:14.0	Andrew Harrison. This week a night at the opera or a day at the races does
1:17.6	drinking sparkling wine and liking opera automatically expel you from the
1:21.3	working classes as Dominic Rob seems to think it does,
1:24.0	and why do our political classes have such an outdated idea of what constitutes
1:27.5	posh and who should have access to it?
1:30.4	Plus, the fallout from the US Supreme Court's shocking ruling on abortion continues to fall.
1:35.0	Women are being advised to delete period tracker apps to prevent their phones from potentially incriminating them.
1:40.0	What are the dangers of gathering health data in such vast quantities?
1:43.7	Plus, it's Wimbledon and this year marks 70 years of the existence of the Fred Perry Polo shirt.
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