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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

PCR & R – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and Arthur Snell

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Omicron cases continue to rise, but will new travel rules actually stem the tide of infections, or is it too late? Plus, as ‘crime week’ begins, traces of drugs have been found in Parliament toilets. Will the PM’s hard-hitting announcements fall on deaf ears? And the latest on last years Number 10 party, which did break Covid rules, but it was in the past so it doesn’t matter, right Mr Raab? “There are so many hurdles to get over in order to travel, this will put a lot of people off.” - Arthur Snell “The Science of dealing with pandemics has come on leaps and bounds in the last two years.” - Arthur Snell “If you talk about drug use and the Conservatives, you can list a whole host of names who have taken them.” - Arthur Snell “My hunch is that Yvette Cooper knows Priti Patel’s brief better than Priti Patel.” - Alex Andreou “These attacks on ‘lefty lawyers’ are straight out of the populism playbook.” - Arthur Snell Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. 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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0:00.0

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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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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:21.0

The omicron variant of COVID-19 has remained and I suspect will continue to be the

1:26.4

dominant story this coming week. The government has issued new travel restrictions. Can you update us?

1:32.8

The latest appears to be the complete blockage of travelers from African countries

1:39.1

whilst not really taking much effort to reduce travel from other parts of the world and there's a lot of

1:46.6

feeling out there that this could be seen as a racist policy even if it hasn't been undertaken for racist reasons the effect

1:54.3

obviously targets a particular group and I think the reason this is

1:58.4

controversial is that there is very strong evidence if you look there are

2:02.0

serious scientists speaking out publicly that

2:05.2

omicron variant is already spreading in the community in the UK so stopping someone

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