Sweary WhatsApps At The Covid Inquiry

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

WhatsApps seen by the UK’s Covid-19 Inquiry have given us an insight into the different opinions inside government during the pandemic. Health reporter and host of The Covid Inquiry Podcast Jim Reed has been closely following every day of evidence. He’s in the studio with Dr. Catherine Haddon from the Institute for Government to look at what we’ve learned. Marianna Spring is also in to help with tips on how to recognise disinformation online, as claim, counterclaim, and straight up lies swirl on social media. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Today's Newscast was presented by Paddy O'Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Arsenii Sokolov. The technical producer was Ricardo McCarthy. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello to you in the podverse.
0:06.6	Now, Israel and Gaza dominate our news agenda quite rightly
0:10.4	and we will be explaining more about the developments
0:13.0	on this newscast.
0:14.0	But it also means that there are some big issues
0:16.4	that we have not been talking about, which we should.
0:19.6	And one of those we will address today
0:22.0	is extraordinary exchanges at the UK's COVID inquiry,
0:26.3	looking into the global pandemic
0:29.1	and how we reacted in the UK says an awful lot
0:31.9	about how government was functioning at the time
0:33.9	and why does the British government use the F word so much?
0:37.2	Not white all, F all.
0:39.8	That plus some expert advice
0:42.1	on navigating the news from the Middle East
0:45.1	on this episode of newscast.
0:47.5	Newscast.
0:48.4	Newscast from the BBC.
0:50.0	Why can't people buy a house?
0:51.8	Look at their wages.
0:52.9	There are many questions on things that are not related to maths.
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