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Standard Issue Podcast

The Bush Telegraph: Is that a really long scroll, or are you just pleased to see us?

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What could go wrong in an unregulated fertility clinic, asks our Jen while discussing a BBC report on families seeking fertility treatment in Northern Cyprus. Mick has better news about guidance aimed at making public spaces safer for women and girls, and there's a glimmer of hope from the Middle East. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail invites us to play a Guess Who? of “bodycounts” in SOTW, and there’s some uplifting news in Jenny Off The Blocks about sports science for female athletes, and the upcoming Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals. Donate to the British Red Cross’s Gaza Crisis Appeal here. You can find out more about the University of Portsmouth’s research group in breast health here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Bush Telegraph. Welcome to the Bush Telegraph. I'm Mickey Noon and this is Jen Offord. It is indeed. Hello.

0:09.2

Hello. Look, Jen, I am sure that you're the same. It is only April, but I am already looking forward to my traditional Christmas of a can of tuna while watching the guns of Navarone.

0:22.6

Wowzers, that sounds like quite the day to celebrate Jesus.

0:26.7

Where'd you get that from?

0:28.0

It's what the Lord would want.

0:29.6

That's right, Jensler.

0:30.8

I need to tell you about the most recent example of,

0:33.9

You got me all wrong, Gov.

0:36.3

Will nobody think of poor richard keys surely the only

0:40.6

real victim of i don't let me just check the telegraph interview he did oh this as a highly

0:50.9

privileged white man you simply can't say anything these days, can you?

0:56.4

It is very tricky, yeah.

0:58.7

Yes, it is the Telegraph and yes, it's behind the paywall.

1:01.9

But I am low-key obsessed with Keesies' interview with Oliver Brown.

1:06.8

It couldn't be more reminiscent of Greg Wallace's 2024 monsterpiece, My Saturday, also for the

1:13.5

Telegraph, if it was, I don't know, conducted by Greg Wallace himself.

1:17.8

Someone put Keys and Wallace in a room together immediately.

1:21.8

Then lock that room, walk away, toss the key in a river, don't worry about the screaming,

1:26.6

just never look back. There is, well, there in a river, don't worry about the screaming, just never look back.

1:29.4

There is, well, there's a lot to choose from in this paying to the goodness of Richard Keyes

1:34.7

according to Richard Keyes, but I'd like, if I may, to read out my favourite bit.

1:39.6

Yes, please.

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