Keir Starmer announces plans to break the Class Ceiling. Will inequality be the big issue in the next election? And WTF is “oracy” anyway? As ticket offices disappear from the railways, are we in course of a society without face-to-face contact? Plus, the meaning of Biden’s visit to the UK, the feeding frenzy over the BBC’s SEX STORY, and who are our heroes and villains of the week? Listen for surprise revelations about our panel’s social life…
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• “Smashing the class ceiling isn’t new territory for the Labour Party – it’s the POINT of the Labour Party.” – Ayesha Hazarika
• “Repeating slogans works in politics. But when ‘Strong and Stable’ ends up on a novelty birthday card then you know you’ve gone too far.” – Tom Peck
• “It’s hard for Sunak to get away with saying ‘hold your nerve’ when he personally doesn’t have to hold any nerve at all.” – Hannah Fearn
• “When you are at that level of politics … you never need to lift a finger again to do anything basic.” – Ayesha Hazarika
Presented by Alex Andreou with Hannah Fearn, Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Peck. Audio producer: Robin Leeburn. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.
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