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Politics Unpacked

Political Clubhouse

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley ventures on to the much-hyped social media app, and joins a room with Conservative MP Esther McVey and Labour's Stephen Doughty to find out how British politicians are using it, while the New Yorker's Jiayang Fan describes how young people in China used it to discuss human rights abuses - before the app was banned.


PLUS: Finkelvitch - Daniel Finkelstein and David Aaronovitch give their take on the political news.



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0:00.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy

0:06.0

champion, accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:14.3

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:20.4

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low carbon

0:27.1

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

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offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will

0:38.3

be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

0:45.2

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

0:52.8

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.6

slash change.

1:12.1

Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shorty bringing you the best of my times

1:16.0

video show, Monday, Thursday, 10 till 1. Now, Clubhouse, are you on it? Have you got any idea what

1:22.8

it is? You're probably going to hear a lot about it this year. It's another sort of social media

1:29.2

platform, but you don't post pictures or even text. It's all about chatting. Some British

1:34.6

politicians already using it and it's also had an incredible impact in China, well, lo and behold,

1:40.6

it's now been banned. So we explore Clubhouse, including my first venture into a Clubhouse room.

1:46.7

You can hear that coming up in a moment on the podcast. First, though, it's our columnist panel

1:51.3

and it's Tuesday. So it must be everybody's favorite. Finkelvitch, it's Daniel Finkelstein and

1:56.2

David, one of it.

2:04.6

Danny, why do we put it up with it? Why don't we just have our own show? I mean,

2:08.2

this is not ridiculous, because we come on and he does this to us.

2:12.8

It's the start of a world of times. How are you both doing, Jens? Were you up late last night

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