Mumbrellacast: Mischievous robots, expensive expenses, and the media deal of the decade

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This has been a terrible week for teenagers, who have been booted off social media today and forced to go out blinking device-free into the glaring sunlight of IRL. It’s also been a terrible week for MP Anika Wells — or as Tim Burrowes refers to her in the podcast, the Minister For Fun — who has been happily spending tax-payer money on ski trips and thousand-dollar Parisian meals, all of which dripped out trip by trip during a week when she should have been taking a victory lap after successfully landing the under 16 social media ban.

As you’ll hear, Tim has a good conspiracy theory about all that.