The Bush Telegraph: Quick, get Taylor Swift in the title, it's good SEO

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Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you're planning a trip to Europe or to leave your bike at a train station, or both, Hannah and Jen have got big news this week. Also, there's a new Archbishop of Canterbury, a woman no less. Who exactly? Doesn't matter. Or so it seems. You know who is good for clicks though? Taylor Swift. Best mention her a few times. Plus there's a lot of football commentator chat and a lot of women's football in Jenny Off The Blocks. The Flicking episode on Pan's Labyrinth is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sim-ep-689-flicking-21-pans-labyrinth/id1080808404?i=1000547941828 Rev Martine Oborne's Guardian piece is here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/archbishop-of-canterbury-sarah-mullally-change Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bush Telegraph.
0:01.9	Hello and welcome to the Bush Telegraph.
0:04.4	I'm Hannah Donnelly.
0:05.5	And this is Jen Offord.
0:08.0	Hello, Hannah.
0:08.6	Hello, listeners.
0:10.3	Have things?
0:11.8	Yeah, you know.
0:16.2	Me too, Jen.
0:17.4	Me too.
0:18.7	Still, Mickey and I had a smashing holiday. We went to Spain in search
0:24.1	of a place that we've actually talked about on this podcast. So I'm going to use this as an opportunity
0:28.1	to plug. We talked about it when we did Pan's Labyrinth in Flicking, which I'll put a link to
0:35.2	in the show notes. And if you want to see what a lovely time we had in a town that had been ruined by the Spanish Civil War and remains in ruins,
0:44.3	you can sign up for the mail out if you don't get it already.
0:48.0	Because Mickey took some incredible photos, way better than mine because A, she's better to taking photographs than I am,
1:12.0	and B, the lens of her camera isn't cracked. Helps. It helps. So I'm fairly confident that our substack will be absolutely full of some of those photos this week. Why, and you subscribe to our substack if you aren't already, for God's sake. It is, Hannah. What's our substack address, Hannah?
1:13.6	Yes, I do know what it is.
1:14.6	Funny you should ask, Jen.
1:18.0	I haven't just cut a huge amount of us juggling out there.
1:21.4	It is standard issuepodcast.
1:24.0	Dot substack.com.
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