Podcasts about bath street

Elections across the world are increasingly being won by parties described as ‘populist', but what does the term actually mean? According to our national broadcaster, it means “far right-wing, neo-fascist, xenophobic, racist, anti-Islamist…(the list goes on)”. But they would say that, wouldn't they? Parties described as ‘populist' may be economically left-leaning, right leaning or centrist - some are Social Democrats - but they are unified in representing the values and aspirations of an electorate let down by the establishment parties and institutions. A vote for any ‘populist' party is a vote for patriotism, nation state, secure borders, family, faith and community – a sense of rootedness and identity. It is a vote against excessive individualism, globalisation, unchecked free-market capitalism, open labour markets and supra-national organisations. Populism is a revolution against social and economic neoliberalism, an ideology which has grotesquely overreached and is now – thankfully! - destroying itself thanks to its inherent contradictions. Rod Liddle and William Clouston discuss the roots of neoliberalism, its impacts on our society, and its current demise. Good riddance, says Rod: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/good-riddance-to-neoliberalism/ Learn more about the SDP at: https://sdp.org.uk/ Promoted by R. Malyn on behalf of the Social Democratic Party at 272 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JR

What the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities In this episode of SDPtalk, William Clouston is joined by writer and research analyst Rakib Ehsan, who specialises in matters of social cohesion, race relations and public security. In his new book Beyond Grievance: what the Left gets wrong about ethnic minorities, Rakib highlights the growing tensions between the liberal-Left cosmopolitanism of the mainstream political parties and the patriotic faith-based conservatism in many of Britain's ethnic-minority communities. He argues that Britain needs a robust civic patriotism which understands that a stable family unit is the best form of social security. The SDP rejects the current obsession with grievance and identity which divides our society into hostile and opposing camps. We favour strengthening the common bonds which unite us and, in so doing, reinforcing communitarian impulses in public life. Our policies seek to defend and support traditional family life, particularly in welfare and economic policy, education and housing. Rakib and William discuss the impacts of tribal identity politics on social cohesion, and identify the steps that need to be taken to create a more unified and tolerant society. Learn more about the SDP at: https://sdp.org.uk/ Promoted by R. Malyn on behalf of the Social Democratic Party, 272 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JR

In this episode, Michael Taylor and William Clouston discuss how the SDP would tackle the UK's housing crisis. The shortage of affordable homes is the largest domestic problem facing the UK. It entrenches immobility between generations and between regions, stifles everyone's potential and cuts the productivity of the entire country. The SDP have a suite of policies to tackle the shortage by reinvigorating state housebuilding and removing market distortions which prevent housing supply meeting demand. But with a rapidly changing population, how should house-building targets be calculated? Link to SDP housing policy: https://sdp.org.uk/policies/housing/ Learn more about the SDP at: https://sdp.org.uk/ Promoted and Published by R Malyn, Social Democratic Party, 272 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JR

If you remember the Porty BikeFest from last year, well it's back. This afternoon, parts of Bath Street and Mentone Avenue will be closed off to cars so that all kinds of interesting two and three wheeled vehicles can be shown off and tried. And it's also been an exciting week for the Bike Library further along the Prom as its home in a storage container now has a new livery.

The leader of Dover District Council has called a decision by Eurostar not to call at Ebbsfleet and Ashford International Stations a 'national disgrace'.Hear from Jeremy Kite who has been speaking to our political editor Paul Francis.Also in today's podcast, there's a thunderstorm and wind warning in force for Kent as the summer washout continues.We've been speaking to the organiser of a large event in Broadstairs that has been postponed because of the bad weather.Anton Du Beke's revealed he spent three days in hospital after being stabbed in the stomach and leg by his dad at their family home in Kent when he was younger.The Strictly judge, who lived on a council estate in Sevenoaks, has spoken out about his father's "alcoholism and violence".Two men have been arrested after a woman was found dead in a car park in Gravesend.Emergency crews were called to Bath Street at half five this morning.Conservative county councillors in Kent have been told to keep quiet or resign, after it was revealed there had been a leadership challenge.We told you in yesterday's episode how a back bencher had claimed to have enough support to stand against Roger Gough.Tiny bits of meteorites have been discovered on the roof of Canterbury Cathedral.Scientists from the Uni of Kent hope what they found will go someway to unlocking the secrets of the solar system. They have been speaking to Chris Britcher.And, Alessia Russo's former coach expects her to go on and score more goals for England at the World Cup.The striker from Maidstone got the first in their 6-1 win over China yesterday to go through to the knockout stages.

Week 2 of the conference has started - Cameron visits the People's Summit for Climate Change, based at 209 Bath Street in the city centre. He speaks to Jana Ahlers (Programme Coordinator) and chats to people attending an event at the summit called ‘A Grassroots Feminist Path to Climate Change'. Cameron then meets Katherine Jones (COP26 Project Manager for Stop Climate Chaos Scotland) to discuss the Homestay Network. Then, in the Blue Zone, Cameron meets Rodne Galicha from The Philippines and Lobsang Yangtso from Tibet - they share their thoughts on today's discussion (adaptation, loss and damage). David Cooper, Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, also comments on these issues. Towards the end of the show, Cameron highlights sections of Barack Obama's speech. People's Summit for Climate Change: climatefringe.org/events/peoples-summit-for-climate-justice-2/ Cop26 Coalition: cop26coalition.org Stop Climate Chaos Scotland: www.stopclimatechaos.scot Homestay Network: www.humanhotel.com/cop26/ Climate Fringe: climatefringe.org For more information about COP26 Daily, go to: www.thebiglight.com/cop26

It’s Thursday the 11th of February. Welcome to Porty News from the Porty Podcast. Firstly, thanks to local MP Tommy Sheppard for pointing out the call by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) for the £20 a week uplift in Universal Credit to be made permanent. In its latest briefing document, it describes the extra £20 a week, introduced at the start of the pandemic, as vital in improving the adequacy of the payment. It points out that, if the extra cash is removed, the value of the Allowance will drop by as much as a quarter, just when people need this money the most. In fact, they point out that removing that £20 would leave the Standard Allowance worth less in real terms now than it did when first introduced 8 years ago. People affected can get more information and help from the local CAB in Bath Street. I’m not sure how many of you have spotted that ‘Living Streets’ is running quite an interesting photographic competition. It started on Twitter and Instagram (#WalkingFromHome) but, as they put it, they’ve have decided to get serious. So between now and the end of March, if you post your photos on the theme of the week, you could win a £25 shopping voucher. It’s important that you tag both #Living Streets and #WalkingFromHome with your entry in your post. The themes of the week are all colours – so last week’s was red, the current one is orange, the next after that will be Yellow, and so on. The competition will run from Monday to Sunday and all entries must be posted as specified by midnight of the Sunday. There’s a link as usual in the transcript of this bulletin. https://bit.ly/2Z3E2RH There’s an appeal from BBN Portobello, the local netball team, for us all to get behind the sport – if not by playing then at least by watching on television (which, at the moment, means Sky Sports) or by streaming on YouTube. And the reason they’re so keen to show us their sport? It’s the return of the Vitality Netball Superleague whose 2021 season starts this Friday. The first match pits Celtic Dragons (a Welsh netball team based in Cardiff) against Leeds Rhinos – and all of the matches will be broadcast or streamed live. There are details on BBN Portobello’s Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BBNPortobello Finally back to the weather – that was quite come d ump of snow we had – but one thing that continues to amaze me is the resilience of our open-water swimmers. Not only was it snowing yesterday (well, at least for part of the day) but the swimmers braved not just the snow-covered beach but also really large breakers to enjoy their daily dip in the sea. I get cold just thinking about it! That’s it for today – more tomorrow.

For our 9th episode, we invited two locally based DJ/Producers into the studio - Rebecca Vasmant and Patrick Pothul. Rebecca juggles a busy DJ schedule with a slot on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and production with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra trombonist Chris Greive in Glasgow Jazz Experiment. Patrick also DJ’s regularly across Glasgow and runs the Glasgow-based Hip Hop label, Handpicked.Aside from their involvement in running labels, club nights, radio shows and producing music, They’ve been friends for a number of years in Glasgow. They play together a lot as well we knew the camaraderie between these two would make for some great listening. They discuss early forays into Glasgow’s clubbing culture, fond memories of the now closed but much loved Soundhaus, their various creative projects and breaking through different genres of music in a city known for it’s love of House & Techno. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. Rebecca can be found hosting Worldwide Glasgow on Worldwide FM. Rebecca will also be playing alongside Gilles Peterson at the Sub Club on November 2nd, following the launch of a new night in collaboration with the Sub Club showcasing the fresh and growing Jazz, funk, latin and world music scene in Glasgow. Find out more on Resident Advisor. You can find Patrick and Handpicked on Subcity Radio hosting their regular radio show plus a monthly event at Bloc on Bath Street in Glasgow. You can check out label releases on the Handpicked Bandcamp page.Do check out and have a listen to our Glasgow Music Tour, which hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. We will be venturing away from Glasgow in our next few episodes, exploring themes from our other walking tours in arts & culture across Scotland.You can subscribe to our podcast on all the major platforms, like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Acast. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

In our 8th episode, the Talking Feet team is joined by fellow podcasters Halina & Phoebe from PodcART. They host the New Music podcast together and are very active within music in Glasgow but inhabit different areas of the community. In this episode, Halina & Phoebe opened up about where their music experiences in Glasgow began, where they are now and enlightening each other of music spaces & places. They also discuss their upcoming creative endeavours, DIY events and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. And although they make some genuine, positive and constructive criticism of Glasgow’s scene, they ultimately come back around to what makes this dear green space so dear to them. You’ve been listening to the Talking Feet podcast, brought to you by Walking Heads and produced by Inner Ear. You can find out more about PodcART at podcart.co, p o d c a r t . c o. You can subscribe to the Podcart New Music Podcast on all major platforms. You can find out more about UNKNOWN on twitter on the handle UNKNOWNGLASGOW, all one word, all caps. The first event is on the 20th of September at Bloc on Bath Street, from 11-3 and is titled Knowledge & Understanding. The event is free entry and all proceeds/donations will go to the GSA People of colour society. Do check out and have a listen to our Glasgow Music Tour, which hosted on the Guidigo app, just search for Walking Heads. It’s also available on our website. Download the Guidigo app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Is there someone in particular you’d like to hear on our podcast? Contact us via twitter for your suggestions. Continuing in the theme of our Glasgow Music Tour, we are joined in our next episode with two DJ/Producers based in Glasgow - Rebecca Vasmant and Patrick Pothul. Rebecca juggles a busy DJ schedule with a slot on Worldwide FM and production with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra trombonist Chris Greive Glasgow Jazz Experiment. Patrick also DJ’s regularly across Glasgow and runs the Glasgow-based Hip Hop label, Handpicked. You can subscribe to our podcast on all the major platforms, like iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Acast. If you have any feedback for us or enjoy what we are doing, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or on whatever platform you use. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

A block of flats in Portobello has become an international talking point. The building at 26 Bath Street was unique in the way, not that it was constructed though that was unusual enough, but in the way it was financed and developed. It’s already won awards. For example just last month, it won the Wood Award for best use of wood in a building in Edinburgh, presented by the Edinburgh Architectural Association. Journalists from as far afield as California have come to learn about it. One magazine this past week went so far as to suggest that it “could be the future of Scottish housing” – a claim that architect John Kinsley finds flattering but a little over the top. To find out more, Porty Podcast producer, David Calder went to meet him in his top floor flat.

Are flowers art? Can gardening be culture? This week I talk to Rachel Ballard and Letting in the Light about how they are Greening Church Street in Stoke. And yes it involves a bath on Bath Street too! Intro music credit The Big House by Jason Shaw used under Creative Commons license. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this forth episode, we are joined by Catriona Reilly and Fraser Bone. They both DJ regularly in Glasgow but across the UK, promote club nights, run radio shows on local independent station Subcity Radio and very active in the LGBTQ+ community in the city. On top of all this, they both work in venues in Glasgow - Cat is the booker at Stereo on Renfield Lane and Fraser works in Bloc on Bath Street. We knew they’d provide an interesting and unique insight about the music scene here in Glasgow and they did not disappoint! Talking Feet is brought to you by Walking Heads & produced by Inner Ear. You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes and the usual places. Our artwork is by Rae-Yen Song and our music is by Ryan Gibson. To find out more about Walking Heads, go to walkingheads.net.

Bath Street

Milling About visits the Bath Street Inn in Santa Barbara, California. Host Robin Milling chats with co-owner Deborah about this lovely 1895 Victorian home which was gifted by Mr. Hales to his wife Abigail for their 50th wedding anniversary. In fact, Deborah tells Robin that The Abigail Room is the former master bedroom where guests have reported sightings of a white-haired woman sitting on the edge of their bed. This however was 15 years before their time with the inn so Deborah jokes that perhaps she's moved out! The Bath Street Inn is a mixture of the old and the new with eight guest rooms. We stayed in The Rose Room, aptly named for the wallpaper which has a jacuzzi; perfect at the end of a long day walking downtown Santa Barbara. The newer Summer House with fireplaces and jacuzzis is adjacent to the wisteria covered courtyard where breakfast is also served. And breakfast is a healthier vegetarian alternative which Deborah says was put into place because the former owner wasn't exactly a morning person! Each morning homemade granola with seeds and nuts is served along with fresh fruit complimented by gourmet-style meatless dishes. You will never miss the meat or taste the difference as they are delicious as well as nutritious. During our stay we were served peach-topped croissant french toast, baked pear with ginger sauce, eggs florentine with raspberry muffins, and pain perdu with cherry berry stuffing...yum! For more information visit www.bathstreetinn.com