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Politics Unpacked

What did the pandemic ever do for us?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley goes through some of the positive things to come out of the pandemic and covid breakthroughs with Sunday Times Science Editor Ben Spencer, Dr Angela George and Professor Paul Moss.


PLUS columnists Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester talk about what Freedom Day means to them.



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0:32.4

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0:39.2

accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over £9 million a day

0:46.8

in cleaner, more secure, homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks across the country

0:52.9

to connect renewable energy, households and businesses to a greener grid, pioneering low-carbon

0:59.5

flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

1:04.9

offshore wind farm, a doggar bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete, doggar bank will be

1:10.8

capable of powering over £6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

1:17.8

towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

1:25.3

green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:34.0

slash change.

1:47.7

Good as a pandemic ever done for us. I'm going to be joined by Ben Spencer, Sunday Times

1:53.6

science editor to talk through some of the unexpected upsides of the past 18 months. That's

1:58.4

coming up in just a moment. The first is our columnist panel, it's Monday so it must be Libby Rachel,

2:02.4

it's Libby Peris and Rachel Silvestre.

2:18.7

We know there's bad stuff going on, but sometimes it's nice to focus on the positive,

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