“The most serious science policy failure in a generation”

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Britain’s COVID response is now officially the worst in Europe – yet somehow Boris Johnson is getting away it. How? Plus: The NHS triumphant. Health policy expert Roy Lilley on how the service must change after the Corona ordeal. And what have we learned on our enforced retreat into inner space? Gavin Esler and Ayesha Hazarika join Andrew Harrison for this week’s full-length BUNKER. “Everyone’s an epidemiologist nowadays.” Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison. Script and assistant production by Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickenson. Logo and artwork by Mark Taylor. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:14.5	edition blame tennis is back the Prime Minister's return to work is attended by a
1:18.6	chorus of voices saying that criticizing him and his government is just not on.
1:23.4	It's got your journalism, it's missing the mood of the nation.
1:26.2	Is Boris Johnson getting away with it again?
1:28.6	Why isn't he carrying the can for his own government's failures?
1:31.8	Plus, these are heroic days for the NHS but what
1:34.2	comes next? Health policy analyst and NHS commentator Roy Lily joins us to
1:39.0	discuss the future of British health care. And what have we learned during lockdown? Not so much about
1:43.9	making sourdough and learning French, but you know, insights and stuff. All this and
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