Coco Kahn
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19 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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Right, okay. Exactly.
There will be hell to pay, actually. Look, she's a titan of politics, but she's also the target of so much racist abuse, sexist abuse. And, you know, because we were just talking earlier about like how the conservatives are doing better. You could say better, whatever, quotation marks better around diversity than Labour are.
But one of the things I often think about is like if you're a woman of colour in the Labour Party, you just get pilloried.
in the press they're constantly talking about you as being not competent and then maybe it's no surprise that then the Labour leaders are like well don't put them front and centre they'll get pilloried in the press and it's like a vicious circle of like the public the press and do you know what I mean like in a way I wonder if we all need to take responsibility for our role in the public as well
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. And then it sort of softly creates this manufactured opinion of our diverse politicians that, you know, they're not good enough. Well, they're not good enough. Whereas the Tories, they don't really get that. Anyway, rant over. No, you're absolutely right. Angry about it. We get it all the time. In journalism, we get it as well.
If you have a POC byline, you'll just get rinsed. way more than you would if I was just John Smith. I'm just going to become John Smith, right? You heard it here first. I'm changing. I'm changing my work.
Now, this week the government also announced a rise in student fees for next year. It'll be the first rise in eight years and it matches inflation at 3.1%.
The National Union of Students called the move a sticking plaster, however pointed to the increase in maintenance loans provided to students to support their living expenses while in university as something that would have a positive impact on the poorer students struggling with the cost of living.
Now, while this rise is not like the trebling of university fees under David Cameron's coalition government, it's still going to affect thousands of students across the country. And so we're going to be diving into the issues next week. So we'd like to know your thoughts.
Oh, I don't know. Just having a very long bath. One week long bath, shrivel like a prune.
No, no. Also, Elon Musk, he's definitely had a role in all of this, so I just... Wait, I mean, you don't need to...
Oh, really?
You have one already?
Oh, right, okay.
Yeah.
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Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Kahn.
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