Whose Flag Is It Anyway?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Can Keir Starmer re-energise Labour by connecting it to the symbols its old voters admire? And why are progressives so neurotic about patriotism? Plus, with Russia and China distributing Sputnik and Sinovac around the world, are COVID vaccines a surprisingly hard tool of soft power? And why is supposedly ‘Global’ Britain giving up on learning foreign languages? Ahir Shah, Yasmeen Serhan and Arthur Snell join Andrew Harrison for this week’s panel edition. “To a lot of us the Union Jack only means two things: the World Cup, or fear.” – Ahir Shah “Rich countries need to understand that they may have all the vaccines, but it doesn’t mean they’re more immune.” – Yasmeen Serhan “What the outside world doesn’t realise is, Putin’s popularity in the polls is dropping fast.” – Arthur Snell Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Logo and branding by Mark Taylor. Music: Kenny Dickinson. 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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1:17.0	there's a row on in labor about flags again
1:20.0	can Kia stama finally make this progressive patriotism thing happen after all?
1:24.4	Will the party ever get over its neurosis about the national symbols that are so beloved
1:28.2	by the people who've stopped voting for it?
1:30.4	Plus, how are countries like China and Russia using it to increase their influence around the world?
1:35.5	And monolingual Britain.
1:37.5	At a time when we're supposed to be going global, why is Britain still so reversed to learning foreign languages?
1:43.0	But does the government think we can still get away with just shouting everything in English?
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