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Daily Politics from the New Statesman

NS#186: Sexting, schools and scripts

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen discuss sex education, Jeremy Hunt's moves to stop sexting and how technology is changing childhood. George joins with the latest from the Lobby. Then Stephen and Anoosh pay a visit to James Graham, the writer of the hit West End play 'This House'. And finally, you ask us: who is the most influential person in British politics? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian).

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:21.2

Do you hear that?

0:27.0

It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy.

0:31.0

At EDF, we're busy generating more British zero carbon

0:34.9

electricity than anyone to help keep future energy costs down for

0:38.3

everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our

0:44.8

zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and welcome to the New Station podcast.

1:05.0

Stephen let's talk about what's better than Europe what's more exciting than Europe?

1:10.0

Nothing? Sex. Okay yeah yeah, fine, maybe that.

1:14.0

There's lots of stuff going on this week around sex education,

1:17.0

so the government has rejected calls to make that compulsory.

1:21.0

It's also given a fairly bland response to concerns that have been

1:24.8

raised about the rates of sexual harassment in schools. I think 71% of girls

1:28.6

reported they'd hear language like slutt and things like that being used. And this morning, Jeremy Hunt's come up with a plan to stop teens sexting

1:37.0

because he's discovered that there is software that can block sexually explicit images

1:42.0

and he thinks that this should be rolled out to

1:44.3

all teenagers phones in order to stop them sending pictures of their naughty bits to each other.

1:48.1

I mean because he actually discovered them there is software because I wasn't clear from the

1:52.4

quote which I decided to put in full in my

1:55.1

morning email which I don't talk about very much which is more exciting than sex

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