Nimby Nation
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this year the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, wrote about a group of people he called zealots. And he identified one man in particular who the Prime Minister claimed was costing the country its future. But maybe he's saving it? This is the story of that man, the so-called zealots, and a prime minister who wants to take them on.
Reporter: Katie Gunning
Producer: Matt Russell
Sound design: Dominic Delargy
Artwork: Lola Williams
Editor: Jasper Corbett
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| 0:42.0 | Hello, it's Claudia here and you're listening to the slow newscast from Tautus. |
| 0:46.7 | This week, a tale about zealots. |
| 0:52.6 | Earlier this year, the Prime Minister wrote a newspaper article. |
| 0:56.9 | It was a daily mail splash, with one specific group of people firmly in its crosshairs. |
| 1:03.1 | A group that Kirstama accused of holding the entire country to ransom. |
| 1:08.8 | The Nimbies and the zealots. |
| 1:14.2 | His words, stopping the country from building the infrastructure it so badly needs. In fact, he sharpened his focus even further, pointing the |
| 1:21.3 | finger at one man, one so-called NIMBY, who Kirstarmer blamed for wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money. |
| 1:30.0 | Through a tactic, all the NIMBYs are using these days. |
| 1:33.4 | The courts. |
| 1:35.1 | Or at least, that's what the Prime Minister thinks. |
| 1:38.3 | So my colleagues Katie Gunning and Matt Russell went to meet one of the NIMBY kings |
| 1:43.0 | to investigate whether he's really costing the country its future, |
| 1:47.6 | or perhaps trying to save it. |
| 1:56.5 | Hi, come on in. |
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