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Politics Unpacked

Rebuilding After The Riots

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News, Politics, News & Politics

4.11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the riots that followed the Southport attacks, Adam Boulton asks what Keir Starmer can learn from other politicians who tried to rebuild and unite communities after a period of unrest.


Plus: Columnists Carol Lewis and Melanie Reid discuss how we can better care for mentally ill people in the community, whether we learnt anything from Donald Trump's interview with Elon Musk and drinking martinis on a flight like Queen Elizabeth.


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0:00.0

From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular change in the last hundred years

0:08.0

and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster.

0:12.0

From electric cars to the Metiverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions

0:16.0

and genetic sequencing. We are investing in the companies that are not just changing the world

0:20.4

today, but are also shaping the future. the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford

0:27.3

Invest in Progress, Capital at Risk. Hello, welcome to the politics without the boring bits podcast with me Adam Bolton.

0:41.0

The country may now be past the worst of the rioting and disorder which followed the killing of three children in Southport.

0:47.0

Now comes the more difficult part, uniting communities and creating prosperous peaceful towns.

0:53.0

I'm speaking to the historian Phil Tin Line, Michael Hesseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minister who led the rebuilding of Liverpool after riots in Toxeth in the 1980s, as well as Patrick Stevens, who worked with

1:04.8

Sakeer-Starma at the Crown Prosecution Service, talking about how to rebuild

1:09.6

after the riots. First though, it's time for this.

1:14.8

The columnist's. And the columnist joined me today are the Times Property Editor Carol Lewis.

1:23.7

Hello to you. And also the Times, uh, columnist you can see her every week in the magazine

1:28.6

and other places. Melanie Reed, good morning to you.

1:32.0

Hello, Adam. Hello, Carol. Hi. Very morning to you. Hello, Adam.

1:33.0

Hello, Captain.

1:34.0

Hi.

1:35.0

Well, let's start with probably the most concerning story of the day.

1:39.0

Blood on your hands is certainly how the Daily Mail puts it.

1:42.0

This is following the revelations that the Care Quality

1:45.4

Commission has found that health authorities in Nottingham made basic errors failing to

1:50.4

stop a man who went on to stab three people unknown to him last year.

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