Malice in Blunderland – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou

<p>Parliament returns to a family-sized party pack of Government cruelty and ineptitude: a <strong>National Insurance hike</strong> that hits the lowest-paid the hardest, an end to the <strong>£20 Universal Credit bonus</strong> for the neediest families, and an <strong>Elections Bill</strong> that makes it harder for us to vote them out. Business as usual, then. Plus: the Texas Taliban’s war on abortion, the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and where in the world is Andrew Neil? <strong>Alex Andreou</strong> starts your week. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“The message to backbenchers is, stop opposing us and we might just cancel those vaccine passports you hate.”</em></li><li><em>“Cancelling the extra Universal Credit isn’t just unjust, it’s economically illiterate.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“If I'd have said 'drink bleach, it's good for acne', I'd have been bundled into the back of a van. So why are the police ignoring COVID sceptics?”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>