Has WhatsApp ruined government?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Guido Fawkes chief Paul Staines.
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| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm |
| 0:23.0 | James Eel and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls, the political editor of the |
| 0:27.8 | Gido Forks website. Now Katie you've written a column this week on |
| 0:31.1 | how WhatsApp is ruining Westminster. This is of course our |
| 0:34.4 | primary mode of communication between us and the popular choice in SW1. Tell us why |
| 0:39.2 | what's that is ruining Westminster. Yes so I personally do use What's Up a lot, so I'm happy to be a hypocrite. |
| 0:46.0 | But I think we just had a week where probably it's been the most fiery week in terms of evidence to the COVID inquiry |
| 0:52.0 | and probably the figure that's attracted the most |
| 0:55.0 | attention as Dominic Cummings. I'm going to try not to swear on this podcast because I know lots of people listen |
| 1:00.8 | who are below the age of 18 even though there's not a legal limit |
| 1:03.3 | on swearing and he thinks about some of the things Dominic coming said about the |
| 1:08.4 | cabinet using expletive words to describe them as a form of the F word and pigs, the fact that he talked about |
| 1:14.4 | handcuffing a female colleague or how he would like to do so in what's that |
| 1:18.9 | messages, it's seen him being accused of misogynist behavior, but I think more widely actually very few people are coming out well and the what's that messages |
| 1:26.6 | So Matt Hancock in a way had his |
| 1:30.0 | Experience come a little bit premature because of the leak or in the fact that he gave his messages to Isabat Oak Shop |
| 1:36.5 | and they were all released. But you add to that that you know it's not even just the politicians. |
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