Are we introducing ID papers by the back door?

With journalist mates, Economics editor of the Sunday Times, David Smith, and political commentator Nigel Dudley, Mihir Bose looks this week at how vaccination certificates might change our lives.Coming from India, where the bureaucracy is legend, he wonders whether we are signing up for identity papers by the back door.The Three Old Hacks look at the thorny issue of politicians doing favours for friends and whether the big social media companies will have to pay for news content, following the Australian government’s ruling that Facebook must pay.Then they talk about cricket and the ill fated test match. Somehow, it always comes back to cricket.Get in contact with the podcast by emailing [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!

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Mihir Bose – former BBC Sports Editor, David Smith – Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and political commentator Nigel Dudley have been friends since they first met while working at Financial Weekly in 1980s. They have kept in touch regularly, setting the world to rights over various lunches and dinners. With coronavirus making that impossible, what do journalists do, deprived of long convivial lunches over a bottle of red wine or several? Why, podcast of course.Get in contact with the podcast by emailing [email protected], we’d love to hear from you!