163: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

The government wanted this week to be about its plan to bounce back from the economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. Then Leicester was put into local lockdown, as tens of thousands of job losses were announced across the UK. And this might just be the beginning.

Britain’s promising a way out for close to 3-million people in Hong Kong, after China started to brutally enforce its new security law in the territory. But if China refuses to let them go, what then?

Dominic Cummings’ plan for world domination continues, as the head of the civil service is pushed out — who would ever want to replace Sir Mark Sedwill?

And we explore an exciting new earning opportunity during lockdown — personalised video insults.

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