Best Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions Podcasts (2025)

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61: Andy Worthington plus Pamela Mounter with Wandsworth Quakers on Penal Reform ft Dame Sheila Hancock 1:10:35

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Wandsworth Prison Improvement Campaign prompts the first leg of my conversation with AW this month- the question of the state of our facilities and their vesdtigial values is exercising Wandsworth Quaker spearheaded by Liz Bridge, the former Prison Chaplain and the inveterately skilled actor and now activist Dame Sheila. AW and I move on the shaled…

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60: Cooper and Stevens Monday 12th May 54:57

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This time we consider Wandsworth Quakers' concerns about the state of the local HMP and national policy ( more on this with Dame Sheila Hancock and Andy Worthington next up) , the UK: US Trade Deal , Reform embarking on local governbance and more with a late lunch flavour rather than Breakfasting for the time being.…

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59: Lindsay Wesker: The Mistakes I Made and How You can Avoid Making Them 33:36

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Lindsay Wesker has worn all the hats that there are to wear in the music business with irreverent zeal and professionalism - including creating or co-creating major platforms to spread soulfulness and genre-hopping talent -spotting and cajoling . At 65, he has written his fourth book - an autobiography peppered with evocative road stories and hard-…

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58: Easter Monday with Leonie Cooper - Pope Francis, Geopolitics , The Observer 51:23

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The smoke will be going up in a few weeks from the Vatican and from the UK Polls. Leonie reflects on the augurs ahead .By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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57: Thelma Ruby and Susan Cusack- Saving Wimbledon Park 48:07

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Thelma Ruby - Theatrical Doye , ( most recently in the Amy Winehouse biopic), and now Activist- has just turned 100 and yet beat me up the stairs to the spectacular view she has across Wimbledon Park, where Capability Brown's design has been preserved by the All- England tennis Club since it took on the stewardship in 1993, the year that Thelma mov…

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56: Andy Worthington on Mahmud Khalil, British Steel. Wealth Taxation... 54:48

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My monthly catch=up with Investigative Journalist and Campaigner www.andyworthington.co.uk finds us looking at the Khalil case and the moreorless wobbly Oval office decrees, the UK government rescuing British Steel and why, the invasion of London's greenfield- and brownfield- sites prompted by Wimbledon Temnis' designs on nearby heritage ( more on …

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55: Trump's Tariffs begin, (Save) Wimbledon Park, Renting through the roof, By-Election Corner 1:14:33

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This weekend on Riverside Radio I speak at length to centenerian activist Thelma about her role in the mission to save Capability Brown's heritage from the All England Lawn Tennis Association's plans which is going to Judicial Review in July. Here Leonie and Mal sketch in the political background while Graham comments as an architect and non=practi…

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54: Corey Booker, 'Liberation Day' Thames Water, Immigration & Gentrification 56:57

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The week when mainstream Democrats got their act together in parallel with Sanders and Ocasio-Cortex drawing the likes of 34,000 in oyblic, and the week when Traiffs on the UK and EU started their run-up. Meanwhile Starmer was at Lancaster House again on the Asylum Seekers/ Small Boats issue and Londoners finf gentrification on the rise again as a …

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53: Reeves' Spring Statement and the Oval Office 1:02:17

2M ago1:02:17

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The U.S. Defence Secretary (some of the surrounding intelligensia pictured here) signalling in a supermarket car park, the Senate majority looking a tad wobbly but for the former UN ambassador candidate staying put , and the price of Mexican Blueberries - meanwhile Reeves' Spring Statement wavers under the threat of tarrifs on car manufacture as it…

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52: Musk, Geopolitics, Soho and Blue Note 56:54

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This time, Musk gone rogue , Badenoch launches the local election hustings ever so quietly just as she was underguesstimated by one of her own shadow team, and Blue Note pulls out of a Soho deal due to early doors.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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51: Oval Office Antics, London's Night-Time Economy 1:02:31

2M ago1:02:31

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The picture here is of Becky Burke, a student from Yorkshire on a backpacking trip who was picked up by ICE for being somewhere near a removal process of 'illegals'. Her parents are trying to keep track of where and how she is as no doubt is the Consulate. Meanwhile Mohammed Khalil's deportation for organising student protest at Columbia has been b…

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50: Andy Worthington on Musk/ Trump, , Starmer, Leveson... 1:06:34

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AW and I discuss the Hayekian overload in the Oval office , whether we are catching cold from their sneezing and why, International Womens' Day viz a viz its themes of Empowerment and the hitherto disempowered victims of the tabloids on whose behalf Hacked Off is seeking to push for 'Leveson 2' under Starmer…

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49: Leonie Cooper, Graham Stevens: '... Fascism doesn't work- Discuss' 55:09

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After some tec resolution ( amid the technocracy) we're back with a deep dive into events in the Orangery since we last met, and some sidebars on Rachel Reeves' budgetary headroom and ecology at the London assemblyBy Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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48: Andy Worthington : On the Bricks and Mortar in Geopolitics and Democracy 1:05:23

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The News Review crew will be back soon,. Here's investigative journalist and campaigner Andy Worthington ( www.andyworthington.co.uk) in our monthly conclave on the impulse that drives apparently disparate character as Trump and Ben Houchen, and where that vector has the cards falling for the rest of us.…

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47: Jimmy Carter , Musk and Oldham, 2025 Augurs with Mal 49:13

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Jimmy Carter spent his latter years discoursing from his boondocks pulpit, curing diseases and building houses for the disadvantaged- RIP. Meanwhile Musk, apparently amesiac about Epstein's friendship with Trump, inveighs about still-emergent abusive grooming in the UK to start the political year. Mal and I talk about what this says about the healt…

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46: Farage, Spycops and Burnout on the Buses? 1:00:13

5M ago1:00:13

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Morning- I'm surfacing after a long day culminating in the excellent Soul Of Women at St Gabriels Pimlico with Fiona Frank, Maggie Lorelli, Caroline Goodwin and old friend Keith Bray . It began with the dawn patrol News Review(Thanks to my regulars including day off Birthday Lady Leonie Cooper AM) - we talked about Farage on the Hunt, the eye-water…

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45: Andy Worthington on Syria, Trump, Starmer ... 1:19:31

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Independent Campaigning Journalist www.andyworthington.co.uk (also now on Substack) joins me for our roughly-monthly survey broadly-leftist of world affairs and the intermingled state of London. This was recorded before the announcement of the release of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu.…

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44: Assad, Democracy and its wavering, By-Election Corner, Thames Water.... 1:09:03

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What degree of nationhood will the new Syria achieve? Will the various elements of the hardish right gathering in Europe strengthen themselves or dissemble? How Trumpworld is lurching towards the dais , how the polls are reacting to Starmerism this week and a glance down at the state of the Thames Watee.…

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43: Grimston and Stevens - South Korea to Thames Water, National Rail via the New Year Honours 54:02

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We begin with a pre- martial law prognosis PA by the South Korean PM , consider why John Harris in The Grauniad thinks that the Starmer government (and others)'...Don't speak Human' , consider insolvency vs. nationalisation (remembering 1st time round) and glance at the leaked honours list.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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42: Cooper , Grimston and Stevens- Storm Bert revisited, Lebanon Ceasefire, Assisted Dying Bill, Transition Towns 1:03:36

6M ago1:03:36

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Leonie graciously joined us lurgified in the early mirk fresh from a snowy Norfolk Beach - we gents had been luckier this far. This time, the state of the near shire after Bert, the state of and prospects for Lebanon , what we now know was the eventual passing of the first reading of the Assisted Dying Bill, and the very much alive Transition Towns…

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41: John Prescott, Farmers in Whitehall, G20 and COP 29 1:10:34

6M ago1:10:34

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Echoes by way of the legacy of the late John Prescott, with whom Leonie worked as she describes, abound in the weeks' developments around Farming and Environment, Global Warming and GeopoliticsBy Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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40: Trump Picks, Reeves and Pensions, Welby resignation, Sparkle! 1:03:21

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We look at the inevitably disruptive nature of Trumps' emerging team, Rachel Reeves' big announcement about public sector Pensions deployment , Justin Welby's reluctant resignation over the Makin review and, on the upswing, a new chapter in happy and safe inter-generationality in Wandsworth.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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39: The Orange Landslide Edition 1:03:34

6M ago1:03:34

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Mal and Graham Risk Assess in irreverent depth the ripples of the next 4 years considering as per the old adage the Sneezing and the Catching of Colds.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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38: Andy Worthington in Conversation 1:00:17

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Andy Worthington www.andyworthington.co.uk is a campaigning independent investigative journalist with particular interests in civil liberties , the future of the left, the state of London and the Middle East. This is the first in a series of monthly conversations on this platform recorded in his office in South-East London…

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37: 2nd November 24: Reeves Budget, Tory Leadership, U.S Election Augurs 1:04:19

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As we reconvene we consider the Reeves Budget amid early by-election losses for Labour, what shapes the Tories might be in next week and the U.S Election knife-edge with our usual sidebars and diversions.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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36: Julien Assange@Council of Europe, Tory Conference/ Leadership, Johnson, Geopolitics, Old Industry dies hard 59:13

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Johnson releases a warhorse , the Tories take a few round the paddock, the Lebanon is potentially the Israelis' achilles heel and a final blast furnace and coal mine close.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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35: Grimston and Stephens- Starmer's Optics:Delivery, The Lebanon 59:01

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Leonie was away this week at the Wimbledon Park Planning Hearing ( topic for next time I hope)- this time Mal and Graham look at Starmer on or off the ropes but well-dressed, and the threadbare moral compass across Israel and The Lebanon.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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34: 21st September- Europe Now, Poland, Blue Collar MPs... 1:02:54

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Back after a couple of weeks away with Ursula Van Der Layen's tilt this term, according to Paul Taylor in the Grauniad, Mal's recent trip to Poland, Starmer's week or so, Blue Collar Parliaments' prospects to level up the Commons and more.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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33: Starmer, The Far Right enabled?Ukraine, the Croydon effect 1:01:16

9M ago1:01:16

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This podcast is hosted from Croydon, a satellite of London which falters but has had big wins- Will Noble has a new book about it. Prospect discusses whether our political mainstream instrumentalises the far right, and why is Ukraine being held back in Russia?Plus a few thoughts on political portaiture such as this example controversially stashed a…

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32: Kamala@DNC; Tory Leadership Contest, By-Elections ; VAWG in Twickenham; Climaste Change Rhetoric 56:41

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Mal and Graham( plus Mal's Gas Engineer) discuss how clear the Harris/ Walz run at the Presidency might be, the 20th anniversary of Amelia DeLaGrange's murder in Twickenham ( sadly preceding Milly Dowlers') , greenwash and hyperbole in Climate Change conversation and more.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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31: 17th August- Gaza, Venezuela, Cuba, Parenting in Summertime 1:02:04

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This time, talks about Gaza minus Hamas about which Biden feels optimistic, the phenomenon pf clinging on to power post -Biden with reference, for example to Venezuela and Cuba (Mal is a frequent visitor there), and a survey about Parenting and the Summer Holidays highlighted by the SW Londoner suggesting that the mojo and oomph to get out and play…

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30: Riots and The Olympics 59:22

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Synchonised bovver appeared to be putative non-Olympic fringe event this week - a long look at the whys and wherefores and a glance at the Paris medal table .By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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29: Kamala, Rebellions, GB Energy and more 1:02:39

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Leonie, Mal and Graham consider Kamala's prospects, whether Starmer will eventually feel the heat of internal rebellion, the prospects for GB Energy amid a 25bn deficit, the Cofd Enqwury's initial report this week and moreBy Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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28: Leonie Cooper -Rayner, Abbott, Melenchon,Stormont, Housing Crisis... 49:11

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Leonie reflects on the role of women in the new administations getting going, and a deep dive into the Housing Crisis as one of Labours' early challenges.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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27: Post-Election Special - Leonie Cooper. Graham Stevens 49:14

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A relaxed trawl through last nights' general electoral shenanigans with Leonie Cooper AM and Graham Stevens (Mal having been up all night as the John Curteis of our Election coverage while I was at the Lambeth count for Riverside Radio and Leonie in Wandsworth.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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26: Graham Stevens on Farage, Social Media, Art, Therapy... 46:42

11M ago46:42

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With Leonie and Mal elsewhere , Graham and I started with Farage's pitch to Gen Z , which has also been the focus of dietary fixation and a national sports week , and a broader discussion about those bits of experience where politics gives way to art and therapy but lingers. More on Graham's work : https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/offre-aux-profess…

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25: Saturday 16th June: Elections Special ? 59:44

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This weekends' News Review is is now up considerign the week in the hustings, how energy policy might fare in the next parliament/s, the Euro and French elections and the return of Yosser Hughes (in the week of a critical report about the state of the gig economy)By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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24: Election 2024, Paula Vennells, Deliveroo, Childrens' Cities of The Future 1:06:57

12M ago1:06:57

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Mal assesses the prospects for political culture with a Sunak legacy and a Starmer pitch, which , as Graham joins us, to look at thek Deliveroo workers' protest at the corporate AGM, Paula Vennells at the Post Office/ Horizon enquiry , Kenneth Clarke and the retrospective blood scandal and how things might be better run and overseen in the future- …

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23: April 27th - Frank Field, London Mayor 24, Nightlife/Daylife and Nimbys... 58:37

1y ago58:37

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Mal Grimston & Graham Stevens on underdog champion Frank Field (RIP), the London Mayoral debates and prospect, DJ Fat Tony in the Evening Standard on Nimbyism in Soho & elsewhere, Thames Water, AI and of course Gaza.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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22: Saturday 20th April ft Graham Stevens 56:43

1y ago56:43

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While Leonie and Mal are away, Graham and I dug into some of the nat phil and ethics in this weeks' stories- George Monbiot on the possible deportation of Climate Change protestor Marcus Decker , https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/victimise-people-protest-britain-destroy-families-not-in-my-name ,Brian Feeney in the Irish News cas…

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21: Gaza/UK Law Lords, Facial Recognition, Paul Marshall @GB News and beyond 26:12

1y ago26:12

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A briefer conversation this time with Mal Grimston on the Lords /Law Lords/ Defence Contractors and International Law (vide Lord Nicholas Soames pictured here) , a report on our patch from SW Londoner on a first public deployment of Facial Recognition in Wandsworth & Prospect Magazine's investigation into Paul Marshall's sizeable reach and ambition…

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20: March 23rd - The Garrick Club, Leo Vradkar, Air Quality, We Deserve Better/ Peoples ' Primaries 1:08:40

1y ago1:08:40

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Leonie Cooper is away until until early May- in her absence we attempt to tackle the position of all-male bastions like The Garrick Club where right-on denizens were called onto recuse themselves this week. Leo Varadkar resigned as a united Ireland looks a bit more feasible , Owen Jones resigned from Labour in favour of pressure grouping from the L…

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19: 16th March - Mal and Graham on Dianne Abbott, Frank Hester ,Lee Anderson, Political Psychology 1:03:39

1y ago1:03:39

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This week we arrived at Wandsworth's crowning as Borough of Culture for 2025 and started with Lee Anderson's shift to Reform UK , La Mordaunt hovering, Frank Hester and Gove on Extremism. All of which feed our deep dive this week via a recent Psychology paper by Graham's friend Bernard Burgoyne.By Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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18: George Galloway, Gaza, Biden's State of the Union, Boroughs of Culture 56:53

1y ago56:53

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After some tec kerfuffles we're back , and so in another part of the forest is George Galloway. Biden does his State Of The Union Address partly ion the campaign stump amid Ceasefire Now flags in the chamber. Hunt lays out the Spring Budget, and Wandsworth and Merton throw their hats inthe ring to be 2025 Borough of Culture (this was recorded among…

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17: Saturday 20th Jan- Leonie Cooper AM 41:54

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It's 'taters guv in London town - meanwhile over-the-shoulder Sunak and 'small boats' meets a first lamentable-circumstances challenge - Polly Toynbee in The Grauniad speculating that defeat of the new Rwanda Bill in the Lords might be calculated to play to the gallery .Elsewhere in Immigration some EU nationals can stay, some have to go - que pasa…

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16: 13th January - Gaza at the ICJ, Left-field Mayoral bids, Indie Venues, House of Lords 1:02:06

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Leonie (plus hounds Bertie and Toby) and Mal met up with Andy for breakfast at their old haunt in Wandsworth : up for discussion, of course, the ICJ proceedings in The Hague , some left-field candidates for London Mayor ( similar types in By-Election Corner) , the welcome crowdfunded reprieve for The Sound Lounge in Sutton and Labour's position on …

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15: Saturday 6th January - Emotional Intelligence and New Year messaging 57:34

1+ y ago57:34

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Many Thanks to Leonie for stepping in to chair as I had mic problems- I chip in an afterword. This week Graham's citation of Daniel Goleman in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/daniel-goleman-why-societys-emotional-intelligence-is-under-threat-v0kw9lvzj frames a discussion about The Post Office as portrayed in 'Mr bates vs' on ITV this p…

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14: News Review 23rd December- Driving Home for Christmas ? 1:01:57

1+ y ago1:01:57

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A busy Political week but we take stock through the prisms of Levelling Up (or Down) via Gove : Khan and Housebuilding, Motorists monitored under the Criminal Justice Act, Zelensky, Trump and more. A Very Happy Christmas and and New Year all., CBy Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

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13: 16th December- Bibby Stockholm, David Cameron, Election 2024... 1:09:37

1+ y ago1:09:37

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The Braverman legacy continues to unfold with the passing of the Rwanda Bill at first reading and a death on the Bibby Stockholm. John Crace in The Grauniad sees a government in '...Narcisistic death spiral' while Cameron steers a path or two, Tufton Street (reports Byline Times) quietly launches toward the Red Wall and By-Elections are counting ..…

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13: 16th December- Bibby Stockholm, David Cameron, Election 2024... 1:09:37

1+ y ago1:09:37

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The Braverman legacy continues to unfold with the passing of the Rwanda Bill at first reading and a death on the Bibby Stockholm. John Crace in The Grauniad sees a government in '...Narcisistic death spiral' while Cameron steers a path or two, Tufton Street (reports Byline Times) quietly launches toward the Red Wall and By-Elections are counting ..…

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