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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This edition recorded before Putin’s speech and the Russian incursion into Ukraine. “Levelling up” is a mantra for Boris Johnson, but what is his government actually doing about it? Our special guest Tracy Brabin, the Mayor of West Yorkshire and former MP, joins us to discuss tackling inequalities between regions. Plus, we discuss moves to tackle “legal but harmful” content online. What does that mean? And what career best prepares you for politics? Spoiler alert: it isn’t being a Telegraph columnist. “The government must stop putting metro mayors into beauty competitions to bid for small pots of money.” – Tracy Brabin “Michael Gove is a bit of a disruptor who wants to deliver. But his levelling up plan has no new money and the same old story.” – Tracy Brabin “MPs are completely in the thick of online abuse on every form of social media… they get the worst of the internet every day in their inbox.” – Marie Le Conte https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison with Justin Quirk and Marie Le Conte. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Recorded by Jade Bailey, audio production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.1	coming up on today's show we drove our Chevy to the leveling up but the leveling up was dry
1:18.6	will the government ever deliver on its promise to make real investments in the north of England.
1:23.0	We have West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin with us
1:25.4	to explain what it's like trying to get a straight answer out of soft southernness.
1:28.9	Plus, the government's online harms bill
1:30.9	threatens to find social media giant up to 10% of their global
1:34.3	turnover if they don't curb genuinely threatening or knowingly false messages.
1:38.9	Will this really make social media a less threatening place or just a land of wind and ghosts.
1:44.0	And everybody hated the career politicians, so we replaced them with journalist politicians.
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