rostaylor.bsky.social
presenter of Oh God What Now, The Bunker and More Jam Tomorrow; freelance writer and editor; author of The Future of Trust (Melville House).
‘The most calming voice in the podcast world’, maybe.
https://rostaylor.me
https://morejamtomorrow.com
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Thanks Lul!
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Women's careers in four (usually unspoken) questions.
'Could you get pregnant?'
'Are your kids wearing you out?'
'Is the perimenopause getting to you?'
'Oh. You're too old and expensive for us.'
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Last of these is not a question, but the last of these isn't getting an interview.
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Women's careers in four (usually unspoken) questions.
'Could you get pregnant?'
'Are your kids wearing you out?'
'Is the perimenopause getting to you?'
'Oh. You're too old and expensive for us.'
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There's a trust issue though. When it's unregulated, how can you know what you're getting?
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Yes, I wonder about this too. What kind of epilepsy does she have?
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Not seeing it tbh. Starmer seems adamant.
Though I admit the guy can change his mind.
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Well, diamorphine isn’t that different from heroin.
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Or Farage. He’s now in favour of legalising it…
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It makes no sense on any level. Either it’s too dangerous to prescribe, or it’s not!
Meanwhile you can buy it otc in half of America.
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Not only that, but you have to try and fail on two other heavyweight drugs before you can get a prescription at all - one of which I took for several years, and was hell on Earth to come off.
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It was approved 7 years ago, and yet only a tiny number of people can get NHS prescriptions.
So they go private and pay over the odds. People who can’t work.
It’s not just because it’s a class B drug. So are codeine and Ritalin.
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I try to stick to dead people for Seth’s VOs.
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Getting bored of The Rest is History? Again, this pod is for you.
‘I'd say from 15 to 35 I was I was probably doing that drug every day barring holidays and Christmases.’
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If you want to know how Ian weaned himself off weed and how it gave him a revelatory new perspective on how to write his book about Brexit, this podcast is also for you.
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That did occur to me but the ‘What does AI say about this topic?’ journalistic trope is already feeling old
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Oh no, the best!
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'but also how bad it currently is for many of the 1.1 million children with SEN who are already being educated in that sector.'
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Private schools won an important case in 2013 which meant they could pretty much decide how they were going to be of charitable benefit. It emboldened them
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It's everything. More subjects. More facts. No coursework. Harder. Competitive sixth form entry.
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Does it get easier? Or did they all handle them differently?
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I pretend I understand how hard it is for her, but for several reasons I had an easier time.
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Child 2 GCSEs incoming in 2029.
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One of the best writers I used to commission at the Guardian.
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My mother remembered this event well, as ‘it was so hot, and I was heavily pregnant with you when I walked to the village hall to vote’.
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You should see a list of episodes. Scroll down until you get to the one on ID cards.
The top ep is indeed a message to say the pod has moved to More Jam Tomorrow, but the earlier series are still available.