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Standard Issue Podcast

The Bush Telegraph: Back from the dead?

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Returning from a BT hiatus, Mickey and Hannah take a rifle through some of the daftest stories of the week, including AI failures, ball pits, watered down beer, rumours of Trump's death and odd book choices. While in Sexism of The Week, it turns out everything has been fixed in our absence. Oh no wait, it hasn't. Shame. Chloe's story about The Salt Path is here: http://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Bush Telegraph. Welcome back to the Bush Telegraph. I'm Mickey Noonan, just a woman standing in front of

0:08.1

another woman, Hannah Dunleavy, asking you, shall we immediately dive into some, you could not make

0:14.0

this shit up. Mate, I was literally about to say the same thing, as it's the first BT back since we had a

0:20.4

little break. Should we just have

0:21.7

a daft story off? I think you'll find that this contender is going to go on the first whistle.

0:28.0

To be honest, I don't really know what to make of or do with this story, but I am compelled

0:33.7

to share it. So the Green Party has a new leader with former deputy leader,

0:38.9

Zach Polanski, winning a contest that was, if not quite hostile, definitely a tad grouchy.

0:45.7

Grouchy Greens isn't the story, by the way. The story is in fact an old story, first brought

0:51.3

into the light in 2013 by the sun. And it's not going to take you too long to

0:56.1

understand why that particular paper had an interest. It turns out prior to his political career,

1:02.5

Polanski worked at a clinic on Harley Street where he admits he performed hypnotherapy to enlarge women's

1:10.8

breasts.

1:12.3

Sign me out.

1:14.2

I'm not sure you need that therapy, but okay.

1:17.6

In the 90-minute sessions allegedly costing a delightful sum of 222 pounds,

1:23.7

women were told to visualize themselves with bigger breasts.

1:31.0

Sure. I can't see why this would work, Wiki. No, I'm scared that during this conversation, because we're doing it as we talk,

1:36.8

our boobs are just going to take over the screens. I can't afford to buy any new bras at the moment.

1:42.1

I've had a really expensive mother.

1:50.5

In an interview with LBC, Polanski apologized for his past actions and said he never believed them. Okay. It does not represent my work. It does not represent me, he said, adding he never

1:57.1

charge for the service. I mean, it kind of does given he did it. Yeah, but he didn't even think it had work. What a con artist. I mean, I was going to say I already like him, but I don't. But, you know, Zach, in fairness, you've admitted something and you publicly apologize. Does it warrant an apology? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Unless the woman, the women, there's no numbers involved.

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