# The Bush Telegraph: Let’s ban banning things Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/the-bush-telegraph-let-s-ban-banning-things Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/the-bush-telegraph-let-s-ban-banning-things.md Podcast: [Standard Issue Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324) Published: 2026-06-18T02:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD6672376984.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD6672376984.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/standard-issue-podcast-628324/episodes/the-bush-telegraph-let-s-ban-banning-things Duration seconds: 1500 ## Resource Hannah and Mick can’t say FFS loud enough as The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill returns from the dead for another round in Parliament. And just how good an idea is the blanket banning of social media for under 16s? Or indeed the blanket banning of anything? Still, in good news, reading is up, the Wombles are back, and women get two personality choices courtesy of The Times. How generous. The kids, they be reading more. Here's that article Hannah mentions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze93wggw74o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/standard-issue-podcast-628324/episodes/the-bush-telegraph-let-s-ban-banning-things/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/standard-issue-podcast-628324/the-bush-telegraph-let-s-ban-banning-things.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.