Mask Hysteria! plus We’re Only Quarantining Nigel

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Are you wearing your facemask? If not, WHY NOT? Plus: Has Britain’s shambolic response to COVID exposed something worse than bad leadership: a deep-seated rot in the British state itself? What’s going to happen when mass unemployment hits the sharp-elbowed, politically-engaged middle classes? And most importantly, when can we finally, finally get our highlights done? Ros Taylor welcomes Ayesha Hazarika, Nina Schick and Alex Andreou into our specially-hardened Bunker for this week’s panel show. Stay tuned for Alex’s deep-dive on anti-COVID “moustache and beard snoods” and PPE niche porn… “There are people now who’ve only heard of older people as a burden… We wheel out our veterans and then let them drown with COVID.” – Alex Andreou “The infamous Red Wall is a blessing and a curse for Boris Johnson.” – Ayesha Hazarika “Britain needs to complain more and whinge less.” – Alex Andreou Presented by Ros Taylor. Script and assistant production by Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickenson. Logo and artwork by Mark Taylor. Audio production by Alex Rees. Produced by Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. 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.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
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1:12.5	Rod Taylor on this week's edition our supposedly world-beating response
1:16.8	to COVID has turned out to be a world-beaten response with an app that doesn't
1:20.9	work compounding areas of late lockdown and the muddled messaging.
1:24.4	But does the problem go deeper than the current government?
1:27.4	Plus, the middle classes have often escaped the full impact of mass unemployment in recent
1:32.0	recessions, but that may not be happening this time.
1:35.0	Will the return of middle-class joblessness change our politics?
1:39.0	And mask hysteria.
1:41.0	Are you wearing one?
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