Sorry, Not Sorry

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson’s apology after Sue Gray’s “update” on Downing Street parties was followed by a shameful bout of obfuscation from the Prime Minister. While he dithers and delays, something he’s bemoaned in the past, can his crumbling defences hold? And with the Winter Olympics due to start in Beijing, amid suggestions the event may serve as a “sportswashing” exercise, we look at the collision between the games and politics. Andrew Harrison is joined by Ahir Shah, Justin Quirk and Yasmeen Serhan for a much-needed session of group catharsis. “I’m continually surprised by quite how low he can go … some of it just seemed deeply, deeply odd.” - Ahir Shah “Much of Johnson’s strategic calculation seems to be ‘I can stay defiant longer than you can stay angry.’” - Justin Quirk “China is trying to whitewash Xinjiang as a Winter Wonderland." - Yasmeen Serhan https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison with Ahir Shah, Justin Quirk and Yasmeen Serhan. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. 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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1:14.4	coming up on today's show we used to think that the grey would never come but now her
1:18.6	findings are out in heavily redacted form and as she says it is not possible at present to provide a
1:24.8	meaningful report has Johnson got away with it has the Met saved him and what
1:28.6	happens now plus the Beijing Winter Olympics start this coming Friday to a backdrop of increasing Chinese
1:34.4	repression in Hong Kong and Xinjiang and aggression in the South China Sea.
1:38.8	U.S. diplomatic boycott in the events should the rest of us refuse to take part in a sports-washing snow job and why are Britain's
1:45.8	MPs so deeply, deeply weird?
1:48.9	All that more in this week's pocket. Bunker. Welcome back to the Bunker. Let's meet the panel. Justin Quirk is a journalist
2:01.4	and editor. Hello Justin.
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