Women with Balls: The Jess Phillips Edition
Best of the Spectator
The Spectator
4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Women With Balls is a podcast series where Katy Balls speak to women at the top of their respective games. To hear past episodes, visit spectator.co.uk/balls.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Just before you start listening to this podcast, a reminder that we have a special subscription offer. |
| 0:04.8 | You can get 12 issues of The Spectator for £12, as well as a £20,000, Amazon voucher. |
| 0:10.3 | Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher if you'd like to get this offer. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello and welcome to Women of Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers. |
| 0:24.5 | Today I'm joined by Jess Phillips, Labour MP from Birmingham Yardley, and author of Every Woman, |
| 0:29.8 | One Woman's Truth about Speaking, The Truth. |
| 0:32.7 | Jess joined Parliament in 2015 after a career in the charity sector. |
| 0:36.6 | She quickly made a name for herself in the |
| 0:38.2 | Commons for her work on bullying and harassment and also made some headlines. She told Diane Abbott |
| 0:43.1 | to F off and a row over the lack of women important positions in labour and she also recently |
| 0:48.5 | went viral about a speech on privilege and olives. Thanks very much for joining us today, Jess. |
| 0:54.5 | You grimace slightly when I mention the olive. |
| 0:56.7 | No, I'm really pleased with it, |
| 0:58.0 | but I feel like I'm going to become the face of olives. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, I was going to get some in for you. |
| 1:03.1 | Somebody sent me some in the post today. |
| 1:04.9 | How did they travel, like in a jar? |
| 1:06.6 | Yeah, it was in a tin, actually. |
| 1:07.8 | It's like, you know, sort of posture, Spanish version that's in a tin, actually. It's like, you know, sort of, the sort of poshous Spanish version that's in a tin. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah, I haven't got to that height, yeah. Oh, wow. |
| 1:17.2 | I was just clearly on that speech before we get to, I suppose, the main part of the podcast, |
| 1:22.8 | you have gone viral. What is that like to those of us who have not gone viral? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Spectator, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Spectator and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.