An Abdication of Responsibility

The Government has been bounced into doing more for Ukrainian refugees, but are new plans just shifting responsibility? Plus, we discuss how Russia is trying to win the information war – and dissect the facts from fiction. And finally, we take a look at what’s going on with Spotify, after a major outage and dip in subscribers. Mathilda Mallinson, of the Media Storm podcast and co-founder of Refugee Media Centre, is this week’s guest.

•  "There's such a bad faith approach in the right-wing media reporting on refugees." – Arthur Snell
• "This is a very racist lesson as to why we haven't been treating other populations as refugees." – Mathilda Mallinson
• “What we have in Calais now is a two-tiered system.” — Mathilda Mallinson
• “I imagine a lot won’t be able to go home… for many it will be because the lives that they had are not available for them to return to.” — Arthur Snell 
• "For all Russia's craziness inside Ukraine, I still don’t think they're crazy enough to do something inside a NATO country." — Arthur Snell 

Find resources to help the Ukrainian people here: https://ukrainewar.carrd.co/ 

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Presented by Andrew Harrison with Arthur Snell and Ahir Shah. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production

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