Podcast appearances and mentions of Esther McVey

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former minister Esther McVey, Labour MP Rachael Maskell, journalist Zoë Grünewald and political commentator and former Cameron adviser Sarah Southern.

Is the Chagos Islands deal collapsing? And are big age gaps in relationships?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former minister Esther McVey, Labour MP Rachael Maskell, journalist Zoë Grünewald and political commentator and former Cameron adviser Sarah Southern.

Labour are considering a ban on smoking outdoors which the hospitality industry are understandably concerned about. Esther McVey however, posted a response which managed to be, not just incredibly stupid and disproportionate and offensive too. Well done, you've won gold in the wally Olympics. Dorries has been in the running too because Johnson's biggest cheerleader is not happy that Rayner...danced...on holiday. Marina and Jemma unpack the outrage, dissect the responses but talk seriously too about the partial ban on arms to Israel which is far higher on their list of things to be concerned about. There are underrated tweets as ever and pudding is by Larry and Paul Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcastPatreonhttps://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcastYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawlTwitterhttps://twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcastCreated and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina PurkissEdited by Max Carrey

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 88 This week:  -Nick and Toby  talk about Ofcom's attack on GB News, why it's unfair and what's behind it -We're all gutted about the death of the President of Iran, obviously, but why did Britain's Deputy Ambassador to the UN stand to observe a minute's silence for he “Butcher of Tehran”? -Everyone thought Geert Wilders wouldn't be able to form a government, but he's built an unbelievably sensible coalition with a robust, Right-wing programme -And a brief canter through the stories we would have covered last week if Nick hadn't been ill, courtesy of Toby -Plus everyone's favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Donald Trump threatening to stand for a third term -The growing support for Trump among African-Americans and Hispanics -And Trump's threat to send ‘kill teams' to take out the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels -And in the Based Department, Toby nominates JK Rowling, Esther McVey and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for refusing to rename the ‘Hitler Beatle' Go to www.basedmedia.org to sign up as a premium subscriber for as little as £5 a month!   This week's sponsors: Thor Holt  To connect with Thor Holt go to GrowthPresenter.com or linkedin.com/in/thorholt To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com       You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org     Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/     Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/     Listen to Nick's podcast – The Current Thing –  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905     Subscribe to Nick's Substack www.nickdixon.net   Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon     Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions.   Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.      Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

In today's email special, Jane enlightened Fi on 'mucky-tube'... buckle in for that. They also cover beautiful pebbles, Jane's Esther McVey impression and finding a late in life love interest at Crossed Wires... You can book your tickets to see Jane and Fi live at the new Crossed Wires festival here: https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/book/instance/663601If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radioFollow us on Instagram! @janeandfiAssistant Producer: Hannah QuinnTimes Radio Producer: Rosie Cutler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The UK is officially out of recession - Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt have been banging the drum of the 0.6% GDP growth in the Jan-March quarter, but are things actually getting better?George Monbiot drops into the studio to demystify Neoliberalism - the invisible economic doctrine that has influenced UK politics and policy since the Thatcher years. George also brings some fresh ideas for how citizens can move away from being consumers and recapture our democracy. Finally, Nish and Coco eviscerate Esther McVey's campaign to ban that most dreadful example of civil service impropriety - the rainbow lanyard. Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: PSUK@reducedlistening.co.ukWhatsApp: 07494 933 444 (UK) or + 44 7494 933 444 (internationally)Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheukTwitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheukTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheukFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/podsavetheworld Guest:George Monbiot, activist and writer Audio credits:BBC LBC The Guardian  Useful links:Come to see Pod Save the UK live at Edinburgh Fringe!The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) by George Monbiot and Peter HutchisonThe Guardian - Latest GDP figures offer some better news – but boom-boom Britain it ain't

We read the papers so you don't have to. Today: Culture War-drobe. Common Sense minister Esther McVey sparks row over rainbow laywards. Freak in the (Excel) sheets. Should you have a spreadsheet for your love life? Plus – Past their sell-by date? The Telegraph investigates the OAPs taking over the food market with their artisanal treats. Rob Hutton is joined by journalist and host of the Good Bad Billionaire podcast Zing Tsjeng and comedy writer Jason Hazeley. Support Paper Cuts and get mugs, t-shirts and extended ad-free editions: back.papercutsshow.com Follow Paper Cuts: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/papercutsshow • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/papercutsshow • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@papercutsshow • Threads: https://www.threads.net/@papercutsshow Illustrations by Modern Toss https://moderntoss.com  Written and presented by Rob Hutton. Audio production: Simon Williams. Production. Liam Tait. Assistant Production: Adam Wright. Design: James Parrett. Music: Simon Williams. Socials: Kieron Leslie. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Exec Producer: Martin Bojtos. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. PAPER CUTS is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jemma and Marina kick off with a quick look at the latest MRP poll as reported in The Times, which doesn't read well for Sunak and Co. For some unknown reason, Rishi is still laughing however, as are the Question Time audience when Esther McVey is asked about her role as 'Minister of Common Sense.' Though arguably X (formerly known as Twitter) could do with some sort of Common Sense Tsar because over Easter there was a lot of performative Christianity happening which was more sickening than overdoing the chocolate, frankly. Everywhere you looked Tories were outdoing themselves with their devout displays of worship - to the point where Liz Truss saw fit to stand outside a boarded up church clutching a live lamb that looked like it really wanted to escape. The Trawl ladies discuss the juxtaposition between supporting the Rwanda policy, wanting to criminalise the homeless and painting over murals to make refugee centres less welcoming, and being Christian. Interesting. Meanwhile, just before the Easter break, Sunak sneaked out his latest list of people he wants to stuff into the Lords. Marina and Jemma inspect a few of them. Easter themed Under rated Tweets and clips finish of the episode along with an Easter themed pudding. Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcastPatreonhttps://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcastYoutubehttps://www.youtube.com/@TheTrawlTwitterhttps://twitter.com/TheTrawlPodcast

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are government minister Esther McVey, SNP MP and home affairs spokesperson Alison Thewliss, non-affiliated peer Baroness Hoey and Liberal Democrat campaigner Mathew Hulbert.

Is antisemitism at our universities getting out of control?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are government minister Esther McVey, SNP MP and home affairs spokesperson Alison Thewliss, non-affiliated peer Baroness Hoey and Liberal Democrat campaigner Mathew Hulbert.

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from Hope Valley College in the Peak District

Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from St Matthew's Church in Burnley

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza has resumed after a seven day ceasefire. We speak to UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese about the latest developments. Plus: MSNBC cancels Mehdi Hasan's show; and Esther McVey faces an angry audience on BBC Question Time. With Michael Walker and David Adler.

Complete our listener survey for a chance to win an OGWN t-shirt or mug: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92531764 The Supreme Court throws out the Government's Rwanda plan quicker than a Cruella tantrum. Is the infamous scheme dead or will the Government have the brass neck to appeal to the ECHR? Plus the Thug Life madness of the Braverman Letter, why David Cameron is the Harold Bishop of Conservatism, Greg Hands finds there is no job left, and Esther McVey, Minister for GB News.  This week's special guest is Twitter's now-outed Secret Tory Henry Morris. His new book is The Diary of a Secret Royal – buy it here and help the podcast through our affiliate links! Hear This Is Not A Drill, the podcast formerly known as Doomsday Watch, on all platforms at ThisIsNotADrill.co.uk  • “What a week… I'm just waiting for Iain Duncan Smith to turn up on Strictly.” – Matt Green • “This was a crushing verdict from the court… Justice Reid's message was ‘If you think leaving the ECHR will fix this, it won't.” – Alex Andreou • “We had the Government saying the judges have ‘misjudged the public mood', as if that's their job instead of interpreting the law.” – Henry Morris https://www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Matt Green and Alex Andreou. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NonCensored is a weekly round up of Harriet Langley-Swindon's very popular, very real daily radio show, completely non-Censored (but with all of the rubbish edited out). This week Harriet and Producer Martin are Lee Anderson, the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, to explain how the government are going to respond to the failure of their Rwanda plan, and by new Minister For Common Sense, Esther McVey, who explains the difference between Common Sense and Exotic Tomfoolery. We also have our Etiquette & Penmanship Correspondent Eshaan Akbar to analyse two letters that werre very publicly sent this week - one by Dame Andrea Leadsom, and one by Suella Braverman. If you are subscribed to the RSS feed https://audioboom.com/channels/5077879.rss, this will stop working next week. Switch over to https://feeds.megaphone.fm/AUDD3237190894 to make sure you never miss an episode (if you are subscribed via Apple podcasts or Spotify, this has probably happened automatically). Keep your questions coming to the team by emailing noncensoredpodcast@gmail.com. Thanks to Rosie Holt (@RosieIsAHolt), Brendan Murphy (@notmurphy), Eshaan Akbar (@eshaanakbar), Will Sebag-Montefiore (@wsebag), Margaret Cabourn-Smith (@CrushedbyMCS) and Ed Morrish. Tickets for Rosie's show, That's Politainment!, are available here. Tickets for Brendan's show, Buffy Revamped, are available here. Will is hosting the London's ultimate immersive Christmas party, Velvet Pines, until the 23rd December. Tickets here. You can hear Margaret's podcast, Crushed By Margaret Cabourn-Smith, here. Show photography by Karla Gowlett (photoperspective.co.uk) and show design by Chris Barker (chrisbarkerprints.co.uk). Music and jingles by Paddy Gervers & Rob Sell (torchandcompass.com). NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production (leadmojo.co.uk).  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 63! This week: -Sunak's ‘Ri-shuffle' rocks the Conservative Party as Suella Braverman is out, and, bizarrely, David Cameron is in -Esther McVey becomes the ‘minister for common sense' -The Armistice Day march goes much as predicted, as does the gaslighting response from the media and the Left  -Nigel Farage […]

As yet another Tory Cabinet reshuffle took place we ask if Sunak is making the last throw of the electoral dice by ditching Braverman and bringing back Cameron?Was he trying to entice back "the blue wall" while assuaging the red meat right with the recall of Esther McVey?Massive pro peace demonstrations took place across the UK last weekend. This display of popular disgust at the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ensuing loss of life seems to signal a shift, at least among the public, towards a ceasefire. However, despite this the Labour Party leadership seems wedded to the "humanitarian pause" narrative. The SNP have put forward a ceasefire amendment to the King's Speech. How will Labour respond?We look at the attack on Humza Yousaf by Spectator journalist, author and commentator, Douglas Murray and take a closer look at who he is and his ideology.Lesley spoke at the recent Revive Coalition conference, and she updates us on its plans for the future.The Break Up of Britain conference takes place on Saturday the 18th of NovemberTickets are available herehttps://www.tickettailor.com/events/thebreakupofbritain/936799 ★ Support this podcast ★

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 63! This week: -Sunak's ‘Ri-shuffle' rocks the Conservative Party as Suella Braverman is out, and, bizarrely, David Cameron is in -Esther McVey becomes the ‘minister for common sense' -The Armistice Day march goes much as predicted, as does the gaslighting response from the media and the Left  -Nigel Farage enters the jungle  -Greta Thunberg's protest gets protested  Plus the Daily Sceptic's top stories with Will, and Peak Woke! To advertise to our large and discerning audience (1 million downloads and counting!), drop Toby a line: thedailysceptic@gmail.com             Donate to the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/donate    Sponsored by: Life Guru AI: http://www.LifeGuruAI.com    info@LifeGuruAI.com       Thor Holt:
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Email Us: TheDayAfter@THENEWBLXCK.com WhatsAPP: 07564841073 Join us in our twitter community - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shorturl.at/jkrNQ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Day After, (00:00) Intro: (09:39) Headlines: David Cameron vows to support Rishi Sunak after surprise cabinet comeback, Rightwing Tories meet in wake of Suella Braverman's sacking, Sunak seeks to appease Tory right by giving Esther McVey ministerial role (17:58) What you Saying? Where does talent come from? How does work ethic, mentorship & environment tie in??

Expect straight talking and common sense in abundance as Leilani Dowding joins Hearts of Oak for an hour of news driven chat and discussion, giving her unbridled opinions on some of the top stories bouncing around this week on the web, in the papers and from her social media. Join us as Leilani and Peter take a look at.... - Penny Mordant, leader of the House of Commons, attacking Andrew Bridgen MP for speaking up for the vaccine injured. - 'My daughter's life has been ruined by the Covid vaccine, and so has mine' A heart-breaking story from a mothers perspective. - VAERS death data and justice for the family of a Doctor who died 10 days after receiving his first dose of AstraZeneca. - Evolution of The Soy Boy: A 20 year old now has the testosterone levels of a 70 year old man. - NATO allies 'agree Ukraine will become member'. - Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes a huge shake up after 'woman-face' controversy. - Censorship, YouTube and being demonetized for not playing along with delusions. - Mob Rule: Large group loot gas station in LA and the Police couldn't intervene. - In a story that's been suppressed by the media for years, Elon Musk reveals Mark Zuckerberg gave $400M in the 2020 US election in support of efforts that benefit the Democratic Party. - UK Government Nationwide Alert: Who else is turning their alerts off on Sunday? Leilani Dowding is a regular contributor to The Mark Steyn Show. Half-Filipina, half-English, she is a former Page Three Girl and was crowned Miss Great Britain in 1998, going on to represent her country in the Miss Universe pageant. Leilani had a starring role in The Real Housewives of Cheshire and has appeared on The Big Breakfast, This Morning, Celebrity Wrestling and in numerous national newspapers. She is a proud 'Freedom Fighting Refusnik' and an unmissable commentator on world affairs, with her stance against tyranny and wokeness, Leilani has found a whole new army of fans. Follow Leilani on Twitter... https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding?s=20 Catch her Wednesdays on the brilliant Mark Steyn Show... https://www.steynonline.com/ Originally broadcast live 22.4.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Links to topics discussed this episode... https://rumble.com/v2ju3dc-the-week-according-to-.-.-.-leilani-dowding.html Transcript (Hearts of Oak) It is wonderful to have Leilani Dowding with us today. Leilani, thank you so much for joining us today. (Leilani Dowding) Thanks for having me on. Always a pleasure.   Not at all. It was good to bump into you at Comcast and I've been on with you, different times on Ickonic, and people can obviously follow you there is your Twitter handle on the screen, also in all the descriptions, and they can catch you on Mark's Steyn. Tell us about that. You're on regularly on Mark's new show. Yeah, so I'm on Mark's show on a Wednesday night with a couple of other people and we just kind of talk about the news and stuff that's going on. But Mark's got his own channel now on his own website, marksteynonline.com. So all of the shows are on there. Obviously, with everything that happened with Ofcom, he's no longer on GB News and they seem to just keep wanting to employ politicians or ex-politicians. So, you know, Mark had to go do it himself, but just like you, doesn't do it on YouTube either. So, yeah. It's much safer, but people can get it. Mark can get it on steynonline.com. You can get everything directly on Mark Stein's website. So let's jump in and look at our first story, which is the wonderful Penny Mordant, who could have been Prime Minister, although I'm not sure she'd really be any worse. Pro-Jam, do you wanna just play that clip of Penny? What other colleagues are not doing is promoting false propaganda, which is widely known to originate from the Kremlin, abusing and undermining colleagues and the occupant of the chair, and using the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl as clickbait on their social media feed, all of which the Honourable Member has done in the past week. And he might like to reflect on that. This is obviously criticism of the wonderful, the one and only Andrew Bridgen MP who's spoken up for the vaccine injured, just like Mark Steyn really has done, and that's why he got clobbered by Ofcom for his honest conversations. So, Leilani, tell us about this, about Andrew Bridgen once again being attacked by others in the Chamber. I mean, what Penny Mordaunt said was absolutely disgusting and disgraceful, isn't it? I mean, she's completely and utterly gaslighting the whole situation, yet again, like they've all been doing. But worse, worse is that she's saying it's Kremlin propaganda. I mean, it's like, it's laughable at this point. Like, really, are we going to say that everything's Kremlin propaganda and it's Russian affiliated or whatever? You know, what Andrew Bridgen has said is his experience. He's vaccine injured himself. He's spoken up for the vaccine injured. He's, you know, been on the marches. He's tried time and time again to raise awareness to what's going on. And you have this woman standing there. And it doesn't surprise me, though, because, you know, I've seen her on interviews and she kind of is friends with Bill Gates. She won't have a bad word said about him.   It's really because I've been really shocked. I mean, I've worked in the Lords for 12 years and have been shocked at the lack of support that Andrew Bridgen, I think Esther McVey has come out and kind of backed him, but I would have thought there was maybe a dozen MPs kind of I would have thought in my mind would have come out and backed Andrew Bridgen and yet there's been silence and you know at the time he spoke in the chamber on this issue everyone got up and left and he was speaking to an empty chamber.   Yeah I saw that it was a disgrace, absolute disgrace. You saw somebody like tap someone on the shoulder then go over and usher everyone out. So there's obviously a big orchestrated effort here to keep it under wraps and keep it silent and not talk about it. Now they're going to keep, it seems, sticking to this official narrative that things are safe and things are effective and the public know it's not true. Now at this point they're learning. A lot of people know other people now that are a vaccine injured. I know a few personally, myself, and that's if they're lucky. That's if they're not dead. So for Penny Mordant to completely and utterly lie like that, and then Andrew Bridgen, I think he posted the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl in Japan. For her to then say that's just clickbait, I actually don't have any words for it, because it's just, It blows my mind that this can happen. No, it does. And it's, when you, you get excited whenever you see one politician stand up, but then whenever they're just attacked by every single other politician. But again, I guess it's fear of the leadership of the Conservative Party, because they realise that when the truth gets out, it'll not just be Dominic Raab just simply resigning, it'll be the rest of them and serious issues. And I guess they're all thinking of their jobs.   And that's the thing, isn't it? It's a bit like the Thalidomide. It took, what was it, 10 years for it to come out. And I don't think that these people want to speak about it yet, because these people are the people that were pushing it. They were telling their constituents, they were telling the country, take it, it's safe, it's effective. You're gonna end lockdowns. It's the only way to stop the lockdowns. They put us in these lockdowns. They put all these stupid measures out. They put the fear of God into people that they would never be able to get back to normal unless they took the jabs, then they coerce people into them. So for them to suddenly say, ooh, you know, we made a mistake. It would be the right thing to do, but you know, they're not good, honest, genuine people working there. So you know, it would be the right thing for them to say I made a mistake, but they won't. And it seems like the only person doing that now is Andrew Bridgen. Well in the media it's the same, and here is an article, Leilani, which you had retweeted, and this is Conservative Woman, which seems to be, well it's regularly talking about this issue, and is one of the few doing it and 'this is my daughter's life has been ruined by the COVID vaccine and so has mine' and it goes in the story written by someone who is anonymous again there is a fear of speaking truth on this and it just starts off this is the latest in our series of accounts of injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines this is a heart-breaking story by Karen from a mother's perspective. And it's heartening, it's harrowing that this story has to be told, it's heartening that you have great publications like Conservative Woman getting this out. But again, they seem to be a voice in the wilderness in regards to other media outlets. That's right. There's very, very few people and media outlets talking about it. We saw it with Charlotte Wright's case, which I'll go into a bit later. There was just no media outside the court when they had the new coroner's review. And so there's very, very, as you said, very few cases, but this is heart-breaking. And you do see who the victim is, you see the daughter in it, because it shows her GoFundMe page, and there's photos of her and what happened and how she turned from this lovely, vibrant, she's only 36, so you know, much younger than me, this vibrant woman with two children and a husband, to somebody that was in a coma from I think it was blood clots and she was in a coma and she was in hospital a long time, she cannot walk properly, she can't, you know, bath herself and what have you, she can't get up her stairs, you know, she's really struggling because her house, you know, is a two-story house, there's no downstairs shower room, so she's, you know, it's an absolute nightmare, and of course, you know, where's the government support? They're not, you know, there's no, there's very few bungalows for her to go in, she can't work anymore, you know, they're struggling to pay the bills, and on top of this, you know, she really needs a carer. So it's, you know, it's another horrific situation. And I think the compensation that is being given out is pitiful. It's pitiful, whether it's for the vaccine bereaved, it's pitiful whether they're injured. And of course, big pharma have the only immunity around, financial immunity, you know, they should be paying out for these poor people to be looked after and taken care of, or the private health care that they need, or alternative kinds of health care.   And I guess whenever, and she talks about her daughter being in a coma for six or eight weeks, horrendous, and I guess the fear is that if someone goes to a hospital with a vaccine injury, that that's not a, that's not taken into consideration. So I could imagine they look for everything except that and by the time they come around to accepting that it could be too late for many people that's the scary reality.   And I don't even know if you know if they recognized it as a vaccine injury if there's anything that can actually be done to, you know to remedy that because I guess they just have to treat it as a stroke and it's just, oh sorry I accidentally pulled that out, it's just whether or not they can get themselves back into any state of health. And a lot of these poor people can't, Andrew Bridgen can't. He's, you know, I think he's, he's got to be on drugs, I think, for the rest of his life. Luckily, it's only antihistamines, because he gets, you know, these allergic reactions every time he stops now since but, you know, for some people. It's this and it's absolutely horrific. Well, let's look at some of the data which you had put up, some of the VAERS data. Projam, can you just double click on that graph and bring it up full screen? And this shows the top is, let me bring it up, the top is all US deaths reported to VAERS by year. And as you can see, there's a pattern from 1990 up until 2020. That pattern is there are very, very, very few not even registered on this. And then something happens in 2021 and these are only the ones that are reported through the system. But I mean, tell us about, you put this up, tell us about this graph.   So Dr Thomas Binder put this up in response to what I put about Charlotte Wright. So what happened with Charlotte Wright is her husband, Stephen Wright, died 10 days after having the vaccine, and for a long time they wouldn't acknowledge that it was the vaccine that caused it. I think it's taken her about two years and about two days ago she, was it Wednesday, she went to court, she went for a coroner's review and they actually changed the death certificate to say AstraZeneca. So in a way it was a relief, Obviously, it doesn't bring any comfort, her husband's dead now. But the most insane thing is that he was classed as unvaccinated, because it was within two weeks or 14 days of the vaccine, they had natural causes, unvaccinated. So I think Dr. Thomas Binder was trying to demonstrate that, you know, that a lot of the deaths that are supposedly unvaccinated people dying could have been people that had the same reaction as him. And I know there's a lot of people who, wouldn't even think twice about it being a vaccine and just think, you know, oh, you know, it must be something rare that's happened. It's not the vaccine. It's a random blood clot. And it doesn't occur to them. But luckily, you know Charlotte fought so hard and for so long to get this acknowledged and recognised and changed. I hope this can open the door now for other people who have questions about, you know, someone passing away within 14 days of the vaccine and then it just not even being recorded as a vaccine injury or vaccine death.   I mean, Charlotte's story is so important because I'm sure there are many people who have tried and simply haven't got anywhere, and now they see actually there is recognition available, then I do hope that gives many courage to actually find out the truth about the deaths of their loved ones. Yeah, that's right. I mean, it's really scary to think. I know a couple of people who say they have friends who kind of had heart attacks randomly, previously quite healthy people who didn't, think they had any underlying illnesses, just pass away of a heart attack or stroke. And I, you know, and then I think, I can't say it, I want to ask the question, but I can't say it. And I'm pretty sure, you know, that they had, they had the jab, but you know, and it's not really the right time to ask, is it? But I don't think... It is a difficult conversation to have. It really is. So yeah, but you know, hopefully now this is opened a couple of doors for people. And the gaslighting has to stop and the censorship and you know what she was, she's been censored a lot she's been shadow banned. There's another lady that appears on Mark Stein's show, Vicky Spitz, her fiancé died the same way. She's been banned off Twitter for talking about it and there are so many people with vaccine injuries or have loved ones who've, you know, died from it, that can't even speak about it on social media. It's like, no, bye, let's, you know, wipe them off. And another one like Gareth Eve, his wife, Lisa Shaw, also died of it. And, and there's just, you know, silence, people aren't talking about it on in the mainstream. It's crazy to me. Well, it's not when you know the agenda, and you know, everyone's covering their back, but it's still, you know what I mean? Oh and the government blame Russian disinformation, of course, of course. It's an easy way out and an easy way dismiss. It's like calling someone a Nazi or whatever, racist, just call them a Russian spy. They love that. They love it these days. Any like slur you can come up with, just, you know, for anything that or so what now you're a Putin super sympathiser if you believe there's vaccine injuries or something. They'll come out with anything to cover their backs. It's crazy. Now they will. Well, let's move on to a completely an interesting graphic that you put up. And it was this. And this is talking about the frightening change of testosterone levels of men and how it is affecting masculinity. And there are many things I guess this has done. But I mean, tell us about this, because it is a worldwide issue that is having an effect on the whole of humanity, really. Well, they're saying now that a 20 year old has the same levels of testosterone as a 70 year old would have had in 2020. Was it 2000? Yeah. In the 2000s. And obviously, there's a huge decrease in testosterone, natural testosterone levels that men are making and producing. And I think it comes down to a lot of chemicals that are around. Now, Alex Jones got called an absolute nutter when he said, look, there's these chemicals that are changing the sex of frogs, but it is, I think it's called atrazine. And it will sterilize a male frog, and in some of them will actually change their sex. So if this is in the water, and water just goes round, it gets recycled and purified, then this is going to be in our water. And we're going to be taking it in. And then there's other chemicals, like the BPAs in the plastic, in your plastic water bottles. And when the heat gets on a water bottle or the cold gets on a water bottle, it can make the BPAs come out, and things we store our food in, and microplastics, and all of this. So there were a whole load of chemicals that disrupt, I think it's the endocrine system, whatever it is that produces hormones. I think it's the endocrine system. But I've been saying this for years, that, you know, they keep talking about carbon being the end of the world, and the toxic thing, and that they're making carbon to be out the enemy. But actually, it's these toxins and poisons and chemicals that are entering our, you know, our air, our food supply and our water, that are really going to cause a, you know, a massive problem and lower sperm counts, lower testosterone levels. And I'm sure it probably has the same effect on women's oestrogen levels or, you know, egg production and what have you? Well, see, the push for fertilizers and also the push for GM foods that I guess food companies are looking for maximum productivity and maximum profit, but not really looking into the long term effect it would have on the population.   Now, what's really scary as well is when you see the experiments they're doing, kind of the transhuman experiments or trying to grow, something out of the womb and in a sack or, you know, they'll get two male mice and splice their DNA together to create something. It's like, do they even care that, you know, sperm counts are going down? Do they care that the fertility rates are going down? If they can clone things, if they they can breed things outside the human body completely unnaturally. I don't think, I think the answer is they don't. They don't care. That, you know, they're playing God. They put a white coat on and they think they're God and they can do whatever they want. And of course, if only we had governments who are interested in the well-being of the population as opposed to, I guess, being in bed with these large companies in varying degrees, whether it's financial or contracts. But you wonder what is behind the scenes that would limit the government's desire to actually investigate some of these. Yeah, and you know what, there's probably so much money going around and backhanders being given to each other, little brown envelopes and cash here and there. And then also think about it, if the only way a human can reproduce is to have it done artificially, the amount of money that's going to be generated. And that seems to be all these people care about. When you look at Big Pharma, they're so motivated by money. They really couldn't give a damn about anybody. It's how much money can they make, their profitability, their first priority is their shareholders, not the patients. And they just want more customers and more customers. And here's another way. You have more customers because people can't even reproduce anymore, because all the chemicals from their other products are now reducing our fertility. Oh, completely. let's just looking on, get our biotech babe, hello. Pat's Canyon, hello. Scotland the Brave. Let me... Gareth1965... Trevor and Chris who commented on so yeah it's fire in your, let us know how you're watching always good to and if I don't actually go through them now I can always go through them after but to drop your comments in. Let's move on to something completely different. Let's move on talking about that Russian propaganda. Let's look at this story in Sky News. NATO allies agree Ukraine will become a member. Jens Stoltenberg, and there he is, if you can just scroll it down, who's the Secretary General of NATO, has repeatedly promised that Ukraine would join NATO throughout the war. Meanwhile, the Kremlin maintains that preventing this from happening is one of the goals of its war in Ukraine. It does seem madness to do the one thing that Russia is scared about. I mean, what could go wrong? Well, this is what's mad to me. I mean, this is what Russia, this was what it was all about, wasn't it? This was supposed to be why Russia invaded in the first place, because they believed that Ukraine was going to become a NATO member, or they were getting too, you know, NATO was pushing too far east for their liking, and what have you. So, you know what, it doesn't surprise me and what but what drives me mad is you never hear anybody calling for peace. We just from day one we escalated it and anybody that wanted peace or de-escalation or any kind of negotiation was called again, name called a Putin sympathizer, Russian apologist, you know whatever it was. And I was one of them because I immediately said I was like come on you know, we just Biden's just pulled the troops out of Afghanistan in the worst way ever now he wants to go and stick them in Ukraine and send all this money over there. We know the Hunter Biden laptops, there's 10% for the big guy. It's just so much corruption. And again, it's the military industrial complex that win out of this. It's never going to be the innocent people. It's not the innocent people of Ukraine. It's not the innocent people of Russia that win. It's the military industrial complex, the leaders, and the people that gain financially out of it. It's like they don't even care about their people dying. And then also we saw in America, the whistle-blower who came out and showed that, I don't know who it was, the guy stood up in the Senate and lied and said, look, we've got this. We're doing well. We're winning. And it showed that seven Ukrainians were dying for every Russian soldier. So how is that winning? completely lied, but the whistle-blower then gets carted off to jail and there's absolutely, you know, no comeback on the people that were lying and doing this. Well, the leader of NATO, he says, 'let me be clear, Ukraine's rightful place is in the Euro-Atlantic family', he told a press conference. Ukraine's rightful place is in NATO. And then I heard Orban coming out from Hungary and saying, hmm, this may not happen. I guess it's good to have some other voices within it that aren't just simply going along with whatever they're told to do by the major superpowers.   And I think we've seen, I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, I think I think Macron said something about America's involvement as well. But we've seen this over and over again. And then all the propaganda machines come out. My mom was over at the weekend watching Sky News. And it was, please, turn it off. And obviously, it's all the bad things that have happened in Ukraine, supposedly by the Russians. All right, well, this is war. Where were you lot when we were trying to say, please, de-escalate, because there's going to be so many deaths. Do not prolong this. Try and find resolution. But, you know, you're not allowed to say find resolution. You have to say, come on, bomb them, like send them money and everything else. So it's nuts. They just do not care about innocent Ukrainians or Russians, either of them. No, Ukraine is just a pawn in the middle of the West's attack on Russia, really. Again, moving on to something completely different. Bud Light. So Bud Light, I actually don't know if you, this could be one that you didn't repost possibly Leilani, but I wanted to cover it anyway. So Bud Light's marketing leadership undergoes shakeup. Wow. After Dylan Mulvaney's controversy, who is the bloke who thinks he is a woman. We can happily say that on, not on YouTube. But I saw some of the comments from her saying how wonderful this was about looking at a younger audience and now suddenly, well, she's now gone and been replaced by the global marketing VP, Todd Allen. So it looks as though the anger and frustration and boycott of Bud Light has worked. Yeah, well, you know what? When you actually see what she said about her own customers, she basically, she was so rude about them. I mean, these are Bud Light customers that have probably been loyal to the brand. She's just saying they're so out of touch and calling them kind of fratty, out of touch people. Like, is that what you tell your customers? Is that how you gain brand loyalty? So it doesn't surprise, I'm glad she's gone and it doesn't surprise me. But what's disgusting is that they even got Dylan Mulvaney on there because he's an insult, a complete insult to women. Like, when I was growing up, it's like the legally blonde stupidity, right? Bimbo-esque that I hated growing up as a little girl that made me actually a tomboy because, you know, I thought the stereotypical girly stuff. He takes it to another level. So to watch him is actually such an insult to women. It's like a complete and utter, it's woman face. And it's trying to emulate us in the most ridiculous, stupid caricature of a way. And it's embarrassing. And like, I would not want to be a friends with any woman that behaved like that. So for a guy to dress up and then expect us all to believe and use these pronouns and affirm that he's a woman when he's, he's obviously clearly got a mental illness. And he's a complete and utter attention seeker. I mean, I've seen him. I've seen him, I think he did 'The Price is Right' as a male.   Oh, it's so bad.   And I'm like, Oh, cringe, can anything be like, it can't be what and then he's doing same moves that he did when Nike sponsored him. And the whole thing is as well with that Bud Light affiliation promotion is that he's sat there talking about March Madness now if If you're getting paid, But please, do a bit of research. Find out what March Madness is and the fact it's basketball. Don't be a dim idiot and pretend like you're a girl and girls don't know what sports are and girls don't know that March Madness is basketball. Even when I moved to America and I heard, I was like, OK, what is this March Madness everybody's going out about? It took me two seconds because I look into things. You have to be a complete and utter imbecile. So the whole thing's insulting. And I'm so glad people boycotted it. Sorry, I've got a lot to say on Dylan Mulvaney, don't I? I hadn't actually come across it before, and I watched some of the videos, and I thought, I do feel very disturbed. I feel as though someone has abused me in some way by watching some of these, which are, and again, as I've said on this regularly, that these people used to be able to go and seek treatment and get help for the conditions they have. And now they're celebrated. and whenever we celebrate people who have got some mental issues, no wonder the world isn't such a crazy place whenever that's not treated but celebrated. So you're lucky that you didn't see them. I saw them early on. I saw his videos and it was girl, the worst thing was he was talking about it as like, this is day three of girlhood and he had pigtails, he had a little crop top, like a little netball skirt. Like cheerleader outfit. And I'm like, okay, first of all, you're like, you're sick. Like, are you trying to get an audience of young, like 12, 13 year old girls? Then he gets like some tampon sponsorship as well. So my calling, did he call it my female pouch or something? And I'm just like, my female pocket or my female.... And I'm like, wow, I don't want some pervy fetishy dude talking about tampons. It's like, it's just disgusting. So, you know, and I've seen fridges full of Bud Light and all the other beers are gone. So I hope long may it continue. I saw that in Morrison's the other and I didn't post, I meant to post it, but it was a whole massive, and it was, I have never seen beer as cheap as it was, and yet it was, wasn't moving. So yeah, I did have, Bud Light. No, no, I'm not, but like, no, no, no, I'm not buying that. So many people in the same situation. [30:19] Leaving Dylan far behind, as it's frustrating that we need to even talk about a poor person like that. This is Matt Walsh. Projam can you just double click on the Matt Walsh tweet actually and bring it up. This is obviously what we're talking about you cannot discuss on YouTube and this is Matt saying on the 20th of April. 'As I announced during my speech tonight YouTube have demonetized my show and threatened to ban us if we don't respect the pronouns of trans people. I'd rather take my show off YouTube, then cooperate with all that nonsense. So I'm starting Monday. You can watch my free...' And it's refreshing to see individuals like Matt Walsh, who I think is absolutely brilliant, but not bowing down to this censorship and saying, no, that is a bloke. I'm going to call him a bloke. But yeah, tell us about this Leilani.   So it's really good to see, and he's another person, just like Mark Steyn, who's like, you know what, I'm not going to be dictated to by some other people about what I can say when I believe it to be right. So why should he be bullied into saying a man is a woman and a woman is a man and using he and her for a her and her for a he? I mean, I won't do it. I absolutely refuse to do it. But I know also Ofcom have given out guidance on it as well, you know, and I think it came about when that Scottish male rapist, dressed as a woman, just because he had a wig, he had a wig on, the guy had a wig on, in leggings you can see his package, and a bit of lipstick, I think the heel, the boots had some heels on, and that was around the time when Ofcom gave out this guidance saying, you know, respect people's pronouns, then you see Richard Madeley on Breakfast TV apologizing profusely for calling Sam Smith he, not not they. And it's like, God, you're all, you know, you're kowtowing to the woke mob and it's not right. So I, you know, I really admire Matt Walsh for this. And he actually got hacked as well. It was really bad. He got his Twitter got hacked. And luckily he was able to get it back. But you know, what's transpired since then is that he's got to have 24 seven security because the woke mob was so after him. So all these people that say they're liberals are only liberal if you agree with their narrative because Matt Walsh has never actually said anything transphobic. Matt Walsh has simply asked, what is a woman? Matt Walsh has said, you know, if you've got a penis, you're a man, if you have a vagina, you're a woman. And I'm not going to use pronouns that you want me to use and affirm your delusions. You know, if to me, I don't see anything wrong with what you said. If you see, you know, a skinny lady, man, lady, whatever, who's anorexic, who thinks they're fat and wants to go on a diet, you don't affirm that by saying, oh, let me help you. Let me get you on this diet. You get them the help they need. And these men are not women. So...   Actually I signed up for Daily Wire for the year, simply because I wanted to watch What is a Woman by Matt Walsh. I love it because he lets others speak their stupidity. He puts a microphone and they just talk nonsense. It's great you don't have to speak over them, you don't have to coax them. People are dumb enough to actually spout this nonsense. No, I'm the same. I got it. And I just, you know, the professor that's talking of gender studies, talking round in circles. And you're like, wow, you're really digging your own grave. And I saw the poor, the trans man, who's a biological woman, saying, look, I'll always be a biological woman. And they got me, and they coaxed me at this age, they've got to leave children alone. And she shows a scar that she's got on her arm from where they take off the skin and make a fake penis. She describes all of the medical issues she now faces as a trans man. And it actually brought tears to my eyes because you could see that she genuinely needed a different kind of help. And all they did is affirm a mental illness that she had at the time. And I know there's a couple of other, trans people I know, you know, the same way that have just said, look, I was in, I was in a really bad place. And they offered this solution instead of talking through my actual problems. And I thought this would be the solution. And I was in such a bad place. I kind of went along with it. And you know and then they get attacked so it's a horrible situation.   The trans lobby are, I've you when you when you talk about a range of stuff as as you do Leilani, you kind of wonder where the attacks the response will will come from and the names you'll get called. The trans lobby are, a level above the vitriol, the utter hatred and obviously what you're watching but, the response from them is, I mean, I think it's just possessed that they seem to have such an utter hatred and I'm sure you've seen that as well. Absolutely, the real full-on trans activists are completely and utterly nuts. I mean, after that school shooting by the trans, you know, the biological female. People, the trans activists were coming out saying that she was misgendered because they called her a she and she should have been a he and they were dead, they dead named her because they should have used her male name and it's like hold on a minute, this woman, person, whatever has killed six people and this is what you come out with and then they were like um well you know you mess with our kids, will mess with yours, meaning, because I think it was in a state that had passed a bill that would not allow genital mutilation of children in that state, and also for children to go on hormone blockers, that apparently is messing with their children, so they have every right to attack others. So yeah, you know, I think the trans activists are some of the most dangerous. I mean, you look at the death threats J.K. Rowling's had. I think it was Rachel Johnson, Boris Johnson's sister, that said that if she grew up being a tomboy and she was concerned, maybe she wouldn't say it now, but she was concerned that if she was born a few years later, that she would then be a male because she would be pumped full of hormones. And that's the fear that the madness that prevails today is injecting children and destroying them, sexually abusing them in a way where in a situation where kids grew out of things, they experience life, they explore and now we're taking knives and slicing them instead of just letting them grow up.   See I always think that, I always, because I was such a tomboy growing up, I mean I was, I thought everything girly was just so ridiculous. I wanted to play with boys toys. I love Transformers. I thought Barbie was ridiculous. I like Transformers and Action Man and I'd climb trees with the boys and I'd get dirty and I didn't want to put a skirt on. And I really feel like they would have, and I even got my school. It went on for a while because I think I was 17 when I got my school to start a rugby team for girls and Bournemouth actually had a female rugby team and I played rugby in it and like the local paper wrote about it but they would have said that, you know, they would have tried to convince me that I was born in the wrong body and you know maybe I was really a guy and it would have definitely it would have destroyed my life. Because you know I think I might have got to 18, 19. I was like oh actually I really like being a girl I actually don't want to be covered in bruises anymore like no more bruises stick with horses, I'll be a girly girl, um... Life's fun as a girl. You know, I got attention from guys and I was, you know, things went back to how they should have been for me. And some girls might not even grow out the tomboy stage. And that's also fine. For them to be a tomboy. It doesn't mean they should be a male and, and, you know, mutilate their genitals and, you know, cut off their breasts. And it's a social contagion as well. Oh it is, it is. Let's move, End Wokeness is one of the Twitter handles that I've really enjoyed. ProJam, I'm going to play that, it's just 30 seconds long. This is a large mob looting an LA gas station and the police couldn't intervene. We'll talk about what the Leilani said about that in a moment. Do you want to play that?   (Video plays) 'A Video into our newsroom shows hundreds of people crowding in ARCO near central and Alondra. After smashing the door, dozens of looters flooded into the store, grabbing anything they could. LA Sheriff's deputies, tell us there were thousands of dollars worth of merchandise stolen and a thousand more in damages, this as deputies deal with numerous street takeovers in the city, deputies say they couldn't intervene because of safety concerns as they were very outnumbered. Only one an arrest was made last night.' So they couldn't intervene out of safety. I thought the police would just get involved and put themselves in harm's way, but obviously not. So yeah, the LA police couldn't intervene. You know, what worries me is that this could be possibly done on purpose. Well, first of all, you know, that guy was in the camera, so we can arrest that guy. Surely, they can arrest the guy whose face was there. But what worries me is they're letting this happen, and then what they will then do is say, look, we need to use facial recognition more, because this is going to happen. Or what we need is we need the barriers that go outside the storefronts that you have to swipe to get into, which I've seen. I think there's one on Kensington High Street. I think it's the Amazon store. You have to show your ID to get in. And I saw on Twitter, there was a couple of Whole Foods somewhere in New York where you have to swipe your thing to get in. So this could end up being the gateway into having cameras everywhere, facial recognition everywhere, under the auspices of safety for ourselves. You swipe in to go in, and then you think, well, I'm not going to be one of these looters, so it doesn't matter. But then, next thing, when it's like, hey, you're not allowed to go within a three mile radius of your house, that's then when they arrest you as well. You know, like we saw with COVID, oh, you can't go into this zone, you can't travel out your zones, because I don't know, there's probably people here from other countries, but in England, you had, what was it? Like red, yellow, or green, or something, where if there was more COVID cases in one area, you were probably red and you couldn't go to the next county or drive across the line. So, that's where, you know, in that totalitarian state, that is what it could then be used for. You know, they put it in to stop these people looting in, you know, in mass. But then next time there's a lockdown. It's like, oh yeah, you know, Leilani's broken it again. She's gone over to Derbyshire from Staffordshire, naughty girl. Let's stick her, you know, slap her with a thousand quid fine. Yeah, because it doesn't, obviously we've seen this in more Democrat controlled, I mean in California's where you can steal a thousand dollars and it's fine. But if you're a shop owner, for you to face that and the police not to turn up, and you're right, it has to be, it doesn't make sense to allow that to happen, so it has to be to push towards something else. That's the only sensible kind of read of what we're seeing. Because you would think, wouldn't you, that if someone made a 911 call for that, that they'd send out, you know, a big team of policemen, maybe it's America, they've all got guns. Something would happen that, you know, they could control the situation. So if they're not controlling it, then that kind of it has to be, you know, part of the plan. And it's just in California just turned into a complete and utter mess. Anyway, like you said, you can go in, you can you see it all the time on, you know, on social media, the way people go in, and they just put, you know, goods in a bag because they know they can steal up to 1000 quid and nothing's going to happen. And then they literally walk out. You know, I try to post, not to post them because I don't want people to see how easy it is. And you know, it kind of catch on through, you know through sharing it and posting it. But basically that's what happens all over California. And then so many shops have got to close down It's just no point in them trying to do business with it happening, but I can see that that's going to be the way forward. They'll say, well, you know, we're not going to send the police out, but what you can do is you can have these barriers and we'll have facial recognition everywhere, but then it leads to, leads to other things when they start abusing the powers like, you know, we've seen them do. I think my advice would be to any shop owner, if that happens, when you phone the police, Do let the police know you've been misgendered. I think that's the only way you'll get the police back. And then they'll come out with an armed support unit. Oh, million percent! But a SWAT team will be there, I tell you, in a second. That's the only way round it. This is Elon Musk, who is an interesting character in many ways, but, this was an interview he gave to Tucker Carlson. Of course, he's been discussing all different things. We may not, we'll see if we can watch it all, but talking about Mark Zuckerberg, who, obviously the founder and ex-owner of Twitter, gave 400 million in the last election support off at the Democrat party, ProJam. Can you just play that clip there? (Video plays) 'The goal of new Twitter is to be as fair and even-handed as possible, so not favouring any political ideology, but just being fair at all. Why doesn't Facebook do this? I know that Zuckerberg has said, and I take him at face value, that he... Well, I do actually in this way, that he is a kind of old-fashioned liberal who doesn't like to censor, he has, but he, you know, like, why wouldn't a company like that take the stand that you have taken, which is pretty rooted in American traditional political custom, you know, for free speech? My understanding is that Zuckerberg spent $400 million in the last election, nominally in a get-out-the-vote campaign, but really fundamentally in support of Democrats. Is that accurate or not accurate? That is accurate. Does that sound unbiased to you? No, it doesn't.' We could listen to it more and I'd encourage people to watch the full interview and he's been giving different interviews around and setting aside, I know we will both have issues with a lot of stuff that Musk may stand for, especially the transhuman stuff. I think we are loving what he is doing with Twitter and calling out things like that. And in regards to Twitter, he seems to be straight up, wants to do something positive for that. And I guess we should all be applauding that, even though we may have issues with some other areas of his activities.   See, yeah, that's the thing. It's like you don't have to agree 100% with everything that everyone does or everyone says. But, you know, I do applaud him for everything that he's doing and saying about Twitter right now, and he's exposed the corruption that's been going on, the blatant, you know, partnerships with the government and the CIA, or, you know, is it the FBI? And, and the censorship, and literally putting people's names down and saying these people can't speak, and for whatever, whatever reason it was, because they were against the narrative. And, you know, I'm sure they would have done it with climate change next too. I'm sure they would have done it with the Russia-Ukraine situation had he not bought it. To me, I wish, you know, Zuckerberg is just so full of it, because like he says, he gave up so much money. And I know for a fact, whatever's happened with Twitter, for sure has happened with Facebook and Instagram. I know that I've been thrown off Instagram. I cannot put my full name on Instagram anywhere. I can't set up a new account. I've had someone within Instagram say to me, gosh, I've never tried to get my account back for me. So I've actually never seen this before. You know, I didn't have to pay him anything. He's like, you can pay me if I can get your account back. He's like, I cannot get your account back. I don't want anything, but I've tried, but I haven't seen this before. You are properly blacklisted. So I am actually... What did you say? What was so bad? Well, I was against, I was talking about vaccine injuries. I was showing how easy it was to walk into shops without a mask. I was, you know, when we couldn't sit on furniture, because in the UK, you were not allowed to sit on outdoor furniture or drink a hot drink outside because that was classed as a picnic. I was posting pictures of myself sitting on park benches with a cup of coffee with my sister laughing at the stupidity and I think I had a rant about the word birthing parent and I think I said I'm sorry but you know there are mothers out there who have adopted children who haven't given birth but they'll be more of a mother than a mentally ill person who thinks they are a male. I think I said, so there was a few things, but anyway, I got properly thrown off. You can actually follow me on Instagram now under my last half, of my first name. So Leilani Dowd, I'm on it as that, but I cannot put my full name in my profile anything. So if you were to type in my name, you wouldn't be able to find me. But yeah, anyway, my point being that whatever censorship has been going on and collusion with the government that happened with Twitter prior to Elon, that has most definitely happened with Facebook and Instagram, in my opinion. And, you know, Zuckerberg isn't repairing any of it like Elon is, he's not letting people back on, he's not letting people have their old accounts back. You know, he's just, yeah, Facebook and Instagram were a joke as far as that's concerned. And you're not ever gonna be able to speak against the narrative on them. Completely. Let's let's finish off with something that the UK are getting tomorrow, actually Florida already got, but this is that the government are going to send an alarm to you, an alert, a high-pitched alarm at 3 p.m. I believe on Sunday and this is a test so they can warn you if, well I was talking about about this with my older son. And he would say, well, you know, if maybe there's something happening, what? What, in London, is it gonna be an earthquake? Maybe we're on a volcano? Or might there be an alien attack? So what, well, but yeah, the government are gonna alert us all at 3 p.m. Tell us about this and what your advice is to the viewers. Well, I've turned mine off. Look, so I used to live in Los Angeles and there were wildfires, okay? So you might want an alert for a wildfire. The problem is that by the time you hear about the wildfire, they've already knocked out the electricity pylons. It's knocked out your phone anyway. So you're never going to get the alert. You're struggling. You've got no Wi-Fi. The electricity's gone if you live in a remote area. And the lines are down. So to rely on it would be ridiculous anyway. And probably the same if there was a big volcano or something, unless you had a lot of time to prepare, in which case, you know, it would be all over the news or social media or something like that. But what's scary as well is there's people that might have, you know, apparently they say that abused women or abused children might have a secret phone to get help. And obviously these phones are going to be bleeping everywhere at 3pm. So, you know, it's going to be quite distracting. I don't know if my mum even knows, I couldn't be bothered to tell her, she wouldn't switch it off anyway, but she'll have a like heart attack if it starts bleeping while she's driving along in the car. So it's, and I think personally, they want to see what phones are on, what phones are off, what, who's compliant with the government, who's not. And anyway, I'm turning mine off. I don't need it. I've seen a lot of the headlines. I saw a news headline just weeks saying the UK is going to bake in 20 degree weather. I literally saw that. 20 degree weather to people in America or something is 68 degrees. And it's like maybe one degree warmer than I have my heating on at the winter. So it's like, it's a joke. I don't want alerts like that. I don't want those headlines. I don't want an alert saying it's a little bit windy outside because, you know, it's England. I've survived, you know, 46 years. This is the conversation I was having. Well, I've survived for 46 years. I've never felt the need for the Prime Minister to send me a message at any time. And I think I probably can cope for the next however many years without the Prime Minister alerting me. So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, if Russia's going to send a nuke over because he's sick of the way we've handled everything, where are you going to hide from that anyway? Three minutes to an impending nuclear attack. Enjoy your last three minutes. Yeah, exactly. And that's about as much as it's going to say, I'd rather not know, to be quite honest, I'd rather be completely oblivious. But you know, that's not going to happen anyway. So that was another headline that The Telegraph trying to scare people with. They were. And obviously people can, you put up the screenshot there, people can find that on your Twitter, going through if you've Android or iPhone and how to turn it off, go into notifications and turn that off. I think, did you see the headline I saw in Florida, I think yesterday, they also have a similar system and it went off by mistake at 4.30, 4.35am. So everyone in the whole of Florida got woken up by their phone blasting at them and oh it was a little mistake. That's what I mean, it's like they're incompetent aren't they, absolutely incompetent. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't want them on my phone, not the way they were, they're scared, like everybody get in, you're not allowed to, you've got a mask up today, put your mask, full face on you, mouth and nose, you know, who knows what alerts they'll try and send us. Leilani, thank you so much for joining us today. Let me just bring this, obviously this is Mark Steyn's website, steynonline.com and there you are on the Mark Stein Show. What's the time again on Wednesdays? 8pm on Wednesdays.   8pm UK time?   Yes, yeah UK time. And I'm glad you got the website right because there was me saying it as well. I'm like, oh gosh, I work for him and I haven't even got it right. Yeah, steynonline.com. I get confused because his Twitter's Mark Steyn online.   I still could never spell his surname, but no one can ever spell my surname. So that's fine. No issues with that. Thank you so much for coming on and thank you to our viewers for tuning in or if you're listening later on a Podbean or any podcasting apps, you listen on the go. I hope you enjoy the conversation on audio. So I wish our viewers and listeners a wonderful rest of your Saturday. I hope you spare yourself that 3pm siren. But if not, I hope it, I don't know, alerts you to something that may be happening in your area at three o'clock. For me, it won't be an earthquake volcano. It could be an alien attack. It could be a nuclear missile. So we may not be with you on Monday, who knows. But if you're joining us on Monday, we will have, who do we have, James Harvey from Students Against Fascism. He'll be joining us on Monday, talking about what it is to be a conservative student these days, that would be many decades ago for me, and what it is like to have strong non-woke opinions, so tune in on Monday for James. And on that, good night to you all, and we'll see you on Monday.

[Warning: this is a long post, and probably not of interest to everyone, but you never know. Also it's probably one to read rather than listen to, but some prefer the audio, so I've given you the choice.]As regular readers of my stuff will know, I'm of the view that a society should be designed around direct democracy and very low levels of land value tax (LVT), what Milton Friedman called “the least bad tax”. I may dream of Ancapistan, a land of no government, but the reality is that taxation of some kind, even if it be voluntary, is inevitable. There has never been a civilisation without taxation.Ideally, land value tax would replace ALL other taxes. However, if you offered me LVT in the UK and all other taxes, income tax especially, slashed to 10, 15 or even 20%, I'd bite your hand off. My friends in the countryside hate the idea, and I get angry messages about it, but the reality is that it is the owners of prime city centre real estate, the likes of the Crown, the Grosvenor Estate, major institutions and so on, who would bear the brunt, not ordinary homeowners or someone with 10 acres of field with no planning permission. (In my book Daylight Robbery, I argue for location value tax - it's the same as land value tax, but I use the word “location” because the location of the land - ie city centres - is more important than the actual amount of land).In any case, LVT is not going to happen here in the UK. Introducing a major new tax is too big an undertaking. It's easier for politicians to raise and lower the taxes they already impose, and tinker round the edges of the existing system. LVT would be a whopping vote-loser in a nation whose primary concept of wealth is the value of their house. Just explaining it, never mind getting it across the line, is hard enough. (If you want an explainer, by the way, there is one here and another here). Anyway this is all pre-amble, and I'm not here today to discuss the merits - or lack thereof - of LVT. For the purposes of this blog, just take my word that LVT keeps the relationship between ruler and citizen, between governor and governed, in healthy, transparent check. With LVT you would pay fewer taxes and lower levels of tax - ie less tax overall.So I've been trying to come up with a politically possible means by which* LVT can be implemented and shown in practice to work* Beautiful housing can be made affordable to ordinary people without collapsing the housing market or having to reform the fiat money system* Corporations, particularly crony capitalist building companies, planners, regulators and government are kept out of it, and people can be left to their own ingenious devicesAnd, by George, I think I've got it.Here's my idea. I stress: it is just an idea I am working through so there are bound to be flaws. I'd be grateful for any comments, pointers, thoughts, statistics, data, and so on.Water Location Value TaxSummary:Today's unaffordable housing is a consequence of both our system of planning and our system of money. They have conspired. But wholesale reform to either as good as politically impossible. With Britain's over-leverage to housing, the financial repercussions of markedly lower house prices are politically intolerable. Instead we propose to bypass the housing market altogether with an initiative to re-populate the underused rivers, keys, docks and canals of Britain with houseboats, barges and floating homes. Local authorities and the land registry will determine who “owns” the water and the land beside it (most water is nationally owned). That which is not needed for transportation (eg the middle of rivers) will be parcelled off into small plots to be sold to individual owners – not corporate entities – on which they can then build or buy, then moor floating homes and other edifices. An annual Water Tax will then be levied along the lines of Henry George's Single Tax (land value tax), based on the rental value of the plot, payable to the local authority and to the body in charge of the waterway, usually the Canal River Trust.20 housing ministers since 1999The unaffordability of housing has been for twenty years or more one of the biggest issues in the country. As if to illustrate the priority this problem is being given in Whitehall, we have this:In fact, we have had two more, since Esther McVey and this chart: Christopher Pincher Stuart Andrew and Steward Andrew. I make that 20 different housing ministers since Hilary Armstrong in 1999. It's not what you would describe as evidence of a long-term strategy.It seems absurd that we should have any crisis at all. A house does not cost a lot of money to build. In China it has long been the case that a 3D printer can build a home in a day for about £3,000. Here in the UK you can buy a flatpack 3-bed house, which takes 6-7 hours to erect, yours for £24,000. The interior of one of architect, Renato Vidal's 3-bed, flat-packed homes, £24,000. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of land. Little more than 4% of the land in England and Wales is built on, even less in Scotland. This was the finding of the National Ecosystem Assessment in 2011: just 1.1% of rural and urban land in England and Wales has domestic property on it, another 1% has commercial property and 2% is roads. The rest – around 95% - is not built on. You could, in theory, double the housing stock of England and Wales, using little more than 1% of land. (It is more complicated than that but you take my point).How on earth have we got into the situation that in 21st century Britain almost an entire generation is “priced out”? Underlying cause of high house prices number one – money supplyBetween 1997 and 2007 the population grew by 5%, yet the housing stock grew by 10%.  If house prices were a simple function of supply and demand, they would have fallen slightly over the period. Instead, they tripled.Mortgage lending over the same period went up by 370%. It was the increased supply of money, which caused house prices to rise. Money supply increased at a rate of roughly 11.5% per annum in the 40 years between 1971 and 2011. Some 40% of it went into residential and commercial property. Roughly speaking, house price inflation mirrored money supply growth. The Bank of England has a remit to curb inflation, but it does not include house prices or money supply growth in its standard measures, and so house price inflation went unchecked. If interest rates had reflected 11.5% annual money supply growth, house price inflation would have been stopped in its tracks.  Underlying cause number two – planningPlanning laws are the second part of the problem. The newly created money poured into a market which had limited ability to expand.The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, passed by Clement Attlee's Labour Government, became the foundation of modern town and country planning in the UK, followed by new statutes in 1990 and 2004.  It was founded on the laudable aim “that all the land of the country is used in the best interests of the whole people”. What happened, however, was that it became difficult to get permission to build anything, so the act had the effect of reinforcing the monopoly of the landowner. Today, just 6,000 or so landowners (the Crown, large institutions and a few rich families) own more than 70% of UK land. Most people do not have the time and resources to navigate planning laws, so house building has become the preserve of a few large corporations. An acre of rural land worth £10,000 becomes an acre of land worth as much as £1m once it has planning permission. This is an expensive and utterly needless cost of government, and it goes a long way to explain why house prices are so much higher than build prices. The act led to huge concentrations of both people and capital in areas that were already built up – especially London – and brought vast, unearned wealth to those who owned at the expense of those who didn't. Our most beautiful domestic architecture was predominantly built in the 18th and 19th century, before planning laws. The more planning there is, the uglier buildings seem to get. This is causation not correlation: it is inevitable when the final say on creative decisions is in the hands of planners. Imagine Van Gogh needing regulatory approval on a painting. Here are some nice houses built before planning laws.Why this housing crisis is unsolvableTo solve the crisis requires two things: money reform and planning reform.  Both are such huge undertakings with such opposing vested interests as to be almost unachievable. As a nation, Britain is over-leveraged to housing. Too many people have too much money tied up in their house. The economic risks of significantly lower prices are high. What party standing for lower house prices would even get elected? Homeowners are more likely to vote than renters. The house price crash of 1989-94 was a major factor in making the Tories unelectable for half a generation. No party wants such a fate. A land value tax, along the lines of the Single Tax suggested by Henry George, would go a long way to resolving many of the housing market's distortions, but there is as little chance of that as there is of money and planning reform. Politicians promising new taxes when there is no national emergency tend not to be popular. Margaret Thatcher's Community Charge is one of many examples.There is an impossible deadlock. We must seek a solution elsewhere. In his 2009 essay, The Education of a Libertarian, tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel argued that political change cannot be achieved through political activism. Instead, one must “find an escape from politics in all its forms”, he says, and “focus on technologies that create a new space for freedom”. The Internet, for example, was one such “new space” albeit a virtual one.  In the future sea steading or outer space might be. “The mode for escape,” he says “must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country.”It might be that there is an “undiscovered country” that exists in the middle of every major city of the UK: on its water.The most valuable real estate in the worldThere is a piece of prime Central London real estate, bigger than Hyde Park and better located. It is undeveloped - 150 years ago Londoners were making more use of it than they are today. Yet it could create all sorts of possibilities for people, not least billions of pounds worth of business, as well as lighten London's chronic congestion and housing problems. The River Thames.I lived for many years on a barge, docked on the Isle of Dogs. How it used to frustrate me, as we drove up the river, that this enormous resource, the Thames, was barely used.  A few party, pleasure and tour boats, some barges carrying freight, HMS Belfast, the Thames Clippers, a couple of floating restaurant-bars and the occasional mooring for houseboats. That's pretty much it. Plenty of office and apartment blocks have been built along each side (what a missed opportunity to produce something beautiful that was), but in front of them, from Teddington Lock to the Isle of Dogs and beyond, there is mile upon mile of unused bank wall, foreshore and river with hardly any activity. Here is Canaletto's Greenwich Hospital painted on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs in around 1750. It is a haven of activity: boats ferrying people about, delivering goods, industry, commerce - as well as people living in boats moored on the river. It was bustling. Here is that same view today. There is nothing going on.This is the view from either side of Vauxhall Bridge. I took these pictures during the rush hour a couple of years back. Plenty is happening on either side, but on the river itself there is nothing going on. We cross the Thames, we walk along the side of it, we look at it, occasionally we take boat trips on it, but we don't actually use it. The River Thames used to be the lifeblood of London and we have lost touch with it. The story is the same in so many cities across the country. Each one has its water: its docks, its quays, its rivers, its canals. Almost invariably the banks have been developed in some way – the docks of Liverpool, Cardiff, Salford or Birmingham, for example - but the water itself just sits there, looking on – idly ignored. Canary Wharf is another example – even there, so much of the quay water goes almost unused. The waterways of Britain have become a relative economic desert.There should be houseboats, barges, floating structures, shops, restaurants, workplaces, offices, cinemas, theatres, small craft ferrying people in between. The possibilities are enormous. Of course there are ecological and aesthetic concerns, but these can be addressed. In London especially, but elsewhere too, there are safety issues with the tide and currents, but these are challenges which can easily be overcome by entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors between them. They managed 200 years ago. Take a leaf out of Venice's book, take a leaf out of Amsterdam's book, out of Seattle or Vancouver's book. But the mayor cannot just shout “everyone in a boat”. How then to develop our water? How to do it well? And why has it not happened before?Without clear ownership capital will not be investedOne of the barriers to development has been lack of clear ownership. On the non-tidal Thames (from Teddington Lock to the source in Oxfordshire), for example, there are riparian rights. The owner of the bank has ownership of the bed to the middle of the river. However, the middle of the river must be left clear for craft to pass and the Environment Agency limits what can and can't be done. (Can any lawyer readers confirm this?)On the tidal Thames, however – which stretches from Teddington Lock to the Estuary - these riparian rights are less clear. The Port Of London Authority (PLA) inherited ownership of the riverbed and the foreshore from the City of London in 1907. The bank and one boat width immediately next to it are owned by somebody else. Often there is a dispute over ownership of the wall alongside the river. Many moorings - Reed Wharf by Tower Bridge, Nine Elms in Vauxhall, St Mary's Church in Battersea, for example - have been there for decades, yet they are all constantly in and out of legal disputes over ownership. Much of the problem is that ownership was never registered and recorded in the same way that “normal” land was. Water moves.When ownership is not clear, capital is less likely to be risked. Things then fall into disrepair. Take a look at the mooring by St Mary's Church in Battersea if you want to see the depths of disrepair to which boats on an unmaintained mooring can sink (literally). This could be such a beautiful mooring. The spot is glorious (though not as nice as it was before they built those horrible glass fronted apartment blocks next to it).The disrepair gives rise to nimby-ism. Riverside properties don't want their view of the river spoiled by grotty old boats.  When they have control of the access point on the bank to the water, they have control of what can or can't happen. Moored boats, complain those who live on the river, even if lived on for many years, have fewer rights than squatters. They can be moved on with little notice or permission. The waters of Britain are, for the most part, nationally owned, under the stewardship of the Canal River Trust. The Environment Agency also has a role. In the case of the tidal Thames, the Port of London Authority is the body responsible. These bodies made certain decisions about how the waterways were to be used – no residential development on the Thames was one. But these decisions were taken without any kind of public vote. All three would vehemently defend this charge, but they have proved barriers to rather than facilitators of progress. None are popular with those who live on boats. Our goal is to sell small plots of water – on docks, canals, rivers, wherever there is ample space – to private (not corporate) owners. The owner, not the public body, will then have the say as to what they moor there. The solutionHow ironic that a land value tax could be the answer.The local authority, together with the land registry, should parcel up each area of water, foreshore and bank in its jurisdiction into plots, with a register of who owns what. Most of the water is nationally owned, but there may be some disputes over ownership of access points and banks. These will be resolved in due course, as I'll explain.Each plot that is nationally owned should then be put up for auction with a 125-year lease, some for domestic use, some for commercial. The proceeds of the sale go to the local authority and the body in charge of the water on a 70:30 basis. We want to encourage individual owners. We want to discourage property speculators, landlords and corporate developers. So there will a maximum size to each plot and no body may buy more than one - at this stage. Buyers of domestic plots may be individuals or families – but no corporations. Against every plot a tax is then levied, which should be a proportion – likely 10% - of the annual rental value of that plot. That percentage rate is agreed in advance and, probably, fixed for the duration of the lease. Thus everyone will know where they stand. No chains are allowed in the commercial plots. Small businesses only.Every year for 125 years the lessee will pay, say, 10% of the rental value of the plot. If he/she doesn't want to pay the tax, they sell the plot to someone who is happy to. Rental values can be assessed every three years - but they are pretty easy to determine. You just look at what nearby plots are renting for.This tax revenue, as with the sale money, is shared 70:30 between the local authority and the body in charge of the waterway in that area, usually the Canal River Trust, thereby providing an income stream for both. The Authority then has an obligation to spend or invest that tax revenue maintaining and improving the waterways, in consultation with those who live on them. The lure of the tax and the sale revenue should encourage the compliance of both in the scheme, but the order should come from above - from central government.The administration of the tax should settle many issues surrounding ownership. In many cases it should force disputes to be settled. The obligation to pay tax will force many owners, either to make use of the plot - to develop it in some way (a way that is ecologically and aesthetically agreeable, of course) - or to sell it to someone who will. Once ownership is clear, and development possible, capital will follow.With individual families and small businesses developing floating properties according to their own needs and wants – self-build essentially – we are guiding development along the lines of a Schumacherian, “small is beautiful” ethos. The large building corporations (not to mention the regulators who approved their projects), who between them have between brought Britain its bland and characterless architecture of the last 70 years, will not be involved in any way. There will be certain craft specifications (usually a limit on size), but the main say will lie with the creator not the regulator. We do not want not homogenisation, but individuality and character. Individuals developing their own places to live and work will have a far greater incentive to create something unique and beautiful than a planner looking to tick boxes. Houses – and boats and barges – can be bought and sold for much closer to their build costs, a far cry from the astronomical prices paid elsewhere. It is unlikely banks will lend recklessly, if at all, thus will we keep “excess money creation” out of this market. The obligation to pay tax should deter speculators and land-bankers. Beautiful floating edifices can be built, homes, places of work and entertainment, water commerce can flourish once again, congestion elsewhere can ease. Fantastic communities can flourish - boating communities are as close-knit and happy as you get. Thus do we create a thriving new opportunity in the middle of our cities at a low cost to entrants. A market-based policy to alleviate the UK's housing shortage. Please share your thoughts. I'm particularly interested in any data there is on how much water is actually available. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

[Warning: this is a long post, and probably not of interest to everyone, but you never know. Also it's probably one to read rather than listen to, but some prefer the audio, so I've given you the choice.]As regular readers of my stuff will know, I'm of the view that a society should be designed around direct democracy and very low levels of land value tax (LVT), what Milton Friedman called “the least bad tax”. I may dream of Ancapistan, a land of no government, but the reality is that taxation of some kind, even if it be voluntary, is inevitable. There has never been a civilisation without taxation.Ideally, land value tax would replace ALL other taxes. However, if you offered me LVT in the UK and all other taxes, income tax especially, slashed to 10, 15 or even 20%, I'd bite your hand off. My friends in the countryside hate the idea, and I get angry messages about it, but the reality is that it is the owners of prime city centre real estate, the likes of the Crown, the Grosvenor Estate, major institutions and so on, who would bear the brunt, not ordinary homeowners or someone with 10 acres of field with no planning permission. (In my book Daylight Robbery, I argue for location value tax - it's the same as land value tax, but I use the word “location” because the location of the land - ie city centres - is more important than the actual amount of land).In any case, LVT is not going to happen here in the UK. Introducing a major new tax is too big an undertaking. It's easier for politicians to raise and lower the taxes they already impose, and tinker round the edges of the existing system. LVT would be a whopping vote-loser in a nation whose primary concept of wealth is the value of their house. Just explaining it, never mind getting it across the line, is hard enough. (If you want an explainer, by the way, there is one here and another here). Anyway this is all pre-amble, and I'm not here today to discuss the merits - or lack thereof - of LVT. For the purposes of this blog, just take my word that LVT keeps the relationship between ruler and citizen, between governor and governed, in healthy, transparent check. With LVT you would pay fewer taxes and lower levels of tax - ie less tax overall.So I've been trying to come up with a politically possible means by whichLVT can be implemented and shown in practice to workBeautiful housing can be made affordable to ordinary people without collapsing the housing market or having to reform the fiat money systemCorporations, particularly crony capitalist building companies, planners, regulators and government are kept out of it, and people can be left to their own ingenious devicesAnd, by George, I think I've got it.Here's my idea. I stress: it is just an idea I am working through so there are bound to be flaws. I'd be grateful for any comments, pointers, thoughts, statistics, data, and so on.Water Location Value TaxSummary:Today's unaffordable housing is a consequence of both our system of planning and our system of money. They have conspired. But wholesale reform to either as good as politically impossible. With Britain's over-leverage to housing, the financial repercussions of markedly lower house prices are politically intolerable. Instead we propose to bypass the housing market altogether with an initiative to re-populate the underused rivers, keys, docks and canals of Britain with houseboats, barges and floating homes. Local authorities and the land registry will determine who “owns” the water and the land beside it (most water is nationally owned). That which is not needed for transportation (eg the middle of rivers) will be parcelled off into small plots to be sold to individual owners – not corporate entities – on which they can then build or buy, then moor floating homes and other edifices. An annual Water Tax will then be levied along the lines of Henry George's Single Tax (land value tax), based on the rental value of the plot, payable to the local authority and to the body in charge of the waterway, usually the Canal River Trust.20 housing ministers since 1999The unaffordability of housing has been for twenty years or more one of the biggest issues in the country. As if to illustrate the priority this problem is being given in Whitehall, we have this:In fact, we have had two more, since Esther McVey and this chart: Christopher Pincher Stuart Andrew and Steward Andrew. I make that 20 different housing ministers since Hilary Armstrong in 1999. It's not what you would describe as evidence of a long-term strategy.It seems absurd that we should have any crisis at all. A house does not cost a lot of money to build. In China it has long been the case that a 3D printer can build a home in a day for about £3,000. Here in the UK you can buy a flatpack 3-bed house, which takes 6-7 hours to erect, yours for £24,000. The interior of one of architect, Renato Vidal's 3-bed, flat-packed homes, £24,000. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of land. Little more than 4% of the land in England and Wales is built on, even less in Scotland. This was the finding of the National Ecosystem Assessment in 2011: just 1.1% of rural and urban land in England and Wales has domestic property on it, another 1% has commercial property and 2% is roads. The rest – around 95% - is not built on. You could, in theory, double the housing stock of England and Wales, using little more than 1% of land. (It is more complicated than that but you take my point).How on earth have we got into the situation that in 21st century Britain almost an entire generation is “priced out”? Underlying cause of high house prices number one – money supplyBetween 1997 and 2007 the population grew by 5%, yet the housing stock grew by 10%.  If house prices were a simple function of supply and demand, they would have fallen slightly over the period. Instead, they tripled.Mortgage lending over the same period went up by 370%. It was the increased supply of money, which caused house prices to rise. Money supply increased at a rate of roughly 11.5% per annum in the 40 years between 1971 and 2011. Some 40% of it went into residential and commercial property. Roughly speaking, house price inflation mirrored money supply growth. The Bank of England has a remit to curb inflation, but it does not include house prices or money supply growth in its standard measures, and so house price inflation went unchecked. If interest rates had reflected 11.5% annual money supply growth, house price inflation would have been stopped in its tracks.  Underlying cause number two – planningPlanning laws are the second part of the problem. The newly created money poured into a market which had limited ability to expand.The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, passed by Clement Attlee's Labour Government, became the foundation of modern town and country planning in the UK, followed by new statutes in 1990 and 2004.  It was founded on the laudable aim “that all the land of the country is used in the best interests of the whole people”. What happened, however, was that it became difficult to get permission to build anything, so the act had the effect of reinforcing the monopoly of the landowner. Today, just 6,000 or so landowners (the Crown, large institutions and a few rich families) own more than 70% of UK land. Most people do not have the time and resources to navigate planning laws, so house building has become the preserve of a few large corporations. An acre of rural land worth £10,000 becomes an acre of land worth as much as £1m once it has planning permission. This is an expensive and utterly needless cost of government, and it goes a long way to explain why house prices are so much higher than build prices. The act led to huge concentrations of both people and capital in areas that were already built up – especially London – and brought vast, unearned wealth to those who owned at the expense of those who didn't. Our most beautiful domestic architecture was predominantly built in the 18th and 19th century, before planning laws. The more planning there is, the uglier buildings seem to get. This is causation not correlation: it is inevitable when the final say on creative decisions is in the hands of planners. Imagine Van Gogh needing regulatory approval on a painting. Here are some nice houses built before planning laws.Why this housing crisis is unsolvableTo solve the crisis requires two things: money reform and planning reform.  Both are such huge undertakings with such opposing vested interests as to be almost unachievable. As a nation, Britain is over-leveraged to housing. Too many people have too much money tied up in their house. The economic risks of significantly lower prices are high. What party standing for lower house prices would even get elected? Homeowners are more likely to vote than renters. The house price crash of 1989-94 was a major factor in making the Tories unelectable for half a generation. No party wants such a fate. A land value tax, along the lines of the Single Tax suggested by Henry George, would go a long way to resolving many of the housing market's distortions, but there is as little chance of that as there is of money and planning reform. Politicians promising new taxes when there is no national emergency tend not to be popular. Margaret Thatcher's Community Charge is one of many examples.There is an impossible deadlock. We must seek a solution elsewhere. In his 2009 essay, The Education of a Libertarian, tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel argued that political change cannot be achieved through political activism. Instead, one must “find an escape from politics in all its forms”, he says, and “focus on technologies that create a new space for freedom”. The Internet, for example, was one such “new space” albeit a virtual one.  In the future sea steading or outer space might be. “The mode for escape,” he says “must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country.”It might be that there is an “undiscovered country” that exists in the middle of every major city of the UK: on its water.The most valuable real estate in the worldThere is a piece of prime Central London real estate, bigger than Hyde Park and better located. It is undeveloped - 150 years ago Londoners were making more use of it than they are today. Yet it could create all sorts of possibilities for people, not least billions of pounds worth of business, as well as lighten London's chronic congestion and housing problems. The River Thames.I lived for many years on a barge, docked on the Isle of Dogs. How it used to frustrate me, as we drove up the river, that this enormous resource, the Thames, was barely used.  A few party, pleasure and tour boats, some barges carrying freight, HMS Belfast, the Thames Clippers, a couple of floating restaurant-bars and the occasional mooring for houseboats. That's pretty much it. Plenty of office and apartment blocks have been built along each side (what a missed opportunity to produce something beautiful that was), but in front of them, from Teddington Lock to the Isle of Dogs and beyond, there is mile upon mile of unused bank wall, foreshore and river with hardly any activity. Here is Canaletto's Greenwich Hospital painted on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs in around 1750. It is a haven of activity: boats ferrying people about, delivering goods, industry, commerce - as well as people living in boats moored on the river. It was bustling. Here is that same view today. There is nothing going on.This is the view from either side of Vauxhall Bridge. I took these pictures during the rush hour a couple of years back. Plenty is happening on either side, but on the river itself there is nothing going on. We cross the Thames, we walk along the side of it, we look at it, occasionally we take boat trips on it, but we don't actually use it. The River Thames used to be the lifeblood of London and we have lost touch with it. The story is the same in so many cities across the country. Each one has its water: its docks, its quays, its rivers, its canals. Almost invariably the banks have been developed in some way – the docks of Liverpool, Cardiff, Salford or Birmingham, for example - but the water itself just sits there, looking on – idly ignored. Canary Wharf is another example – even there, so much of the quay water goes almost unused. The waterways of Britain have become a relative economic desert.There should be houseboats, barges, floating structures, shops, restaurants, workplaces, offices, cinemas, theatres, small craft ferrying people in between. The possibilities are enormous. Of course there are ecological and aesthetic concerns, but these can be addressed. In London especially, but elsewhere too, there are safety issues with the tide and currents, but these are challenges which can easily be overcome by entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors between them. They managed 200 years ago. Take a leaf out of Venice's book, take a leaf out of Amsterdam's book, out of Seattle or Vancouver's book. But the mayor cannot just shout “everyone in a boat”. How then to develop our water? How to do it well? And why has it not happened before?Without clear ownership capital will not be investedOne of the barriers to development has been lack of clear ownership. On the non-tidal Thames (from Teddington Lock to the source in Oxfordshire), for example, there are riparian rights. The owner of the bank has ownership of the bed to the middle of the river. However, the middle of the river must be left clear for craft to pass and the Environment Agency limits what can and can't be done. (Can any lawyer readers confirm this?)On the tidal Thames, however – which stretches from Teddington Lock to the Estuary - these riparian rights are less clear. The Port Of London Authority (PLA) inherited ownership of the riverbed and the foreshore from the City of London in 1907. The bank and one boat width immediately next to it are owned by somebody else. Often there is a dispute over ownership of the wall alongside the river. Many moorings - Reed Wharf by Tower Bridge, Nine Elms in Vauxhall, St Mary's Church in Battersea, for example - have been there for decades, yet they are all constantly in and out of legal disputes over ownership. Much of the problem is that ownership was never registered and recorded in the same way that “normal” land was. Water moves.When ownership is not clear, capital is less likely to be risked. Things then fall into disrepair. Take a look at the mooring by St Mary's Church in Battersea if you want to see the depths of disrepair to which boats on an unmaintained mooring can sink (literally). This could be such a beautiful mooring. The spot is glorious (though not as nice as it was before they built those horrible glass fronted apartment blocks next to it).The disrepair gives rise to nimby-ism. Riverside properties don't want their view of the river spoiled by grotty old boats.  When they have control of the access point on the bank to the water, they have control of what can or can't happen. Moored boats, complain those who live on the river, even if lived on for many years, have fewer rights than squatters. They can be moved on with little notice or permission. The waters of Britain are, for the most part, nationally owned, under the stewardship of the Canal River Trust. The Environment Agency also has a role. In the case of the tidal Thames, the Port of London Authority is the body responsible. These bodies made certain decisions about how the waterways were to be used – no residential development on the Thames was one. But these decisions were taken without any kind of public vote. All three would vehemently defend this charge, but they have proved barriers to rather than facilitators of progress. None are popular with those who live on boats. Our goal is to sell small plots of water – on docks, canals, rivers, wherever there is ample space – to private (not corporate) owners. The owner, not the public body, will then have the say as to what they moor there. The solutionHow ironic that a land value tax could be the answer.The local authority, together with the land registry, should parcel up each area of water, foreshore and bank in its jurisdiction into plots, with a register of who owns what. Most of the water is nationally owned, but there may be some disputes over ownership of access points and banks. These will be resolved in due course, as I'll explain.Each plot that is nationally owned should then be put up for auction with a 125-year lease, some for domestic use, some for commercial. The proceeds of the sale go to the local authority and the body in charge of the water on a 70:30 basis. We want to encourage individual owners. We want to discourage property speculators, landlords and corporate developers. So there will a maximum size to each plot and no body may buy more than one - at this stage. Buyers of domestic plots may be individuals or families – but no corporations. Against every plot a tax is then levied, which should be a proportion – likely 10% - of the annual rental value of that plot. That percentage rate is agreed in advance and, probably, fixed for the duration of the lease. Thus everyone will know where they stand. No chains are allowed in the commercial plots. Small businesses only.Every year for 125 years the lessee will pay, say, 10% of the rental value of the plot. If he/she doesn't want to pay the tax, they sell the plot to someone who is happy to. Rental values can be assessed every three years - but they are pretty easy to determine. You just look at what nearby plots are renting for.This tax revenue, as with the sale money, is shared 70:30 between the local authority and the body in charge of the waterway in that area, usually the Canal River Trust, thereby providing an income stream for both. The Authority then has an obligation to spend or invest that tax revenue maintaining and improving the waterways, in consultation with those who live on them. The lure of the tax and the sale revenue should encourage the compliance of both in the scheme, but the order should come from above - from central government.The administration of the tax should settle many issues surrounding ownership. In many cases it should force disputes to be settled. The obligation to pay tax will force many owners, either to make use of the plot - to develop it in some way (a way that is ecologically and aesthetically agreeable, of course) - or to sell it to someone who will. Once ownership is clear, and development possible, capital will follow.With individual families and small businesses developing floating properties according to their own needs and wants – self-build essentially – we are guiding development along the lines of a Schumacherian, “small is beautiful” ethos. The large building corporations (not to mention the regulators who approved their projects), who between them have between brought Britain its bland and characterless architecture of the last 70 years, will not be involved in any way. There will be certain craft specifications (usually a limit on size), but the main say will lie with the creator not the regulator. We do not want not homogenisation, but individuality and character. Individuals developing their own places to live and work will have a far greater incentive to create something unique and beautiful than a planner looking to tick boxes. Houses – and boats and barges – can be bought and sold for much closer to their build costs, a far cry from the astronomical prices paid elsewhere. It is unlikely banks will lend recklessly, if at all, thus will we keep “excess money creation” out of this market. The obligation to pay tax should deter speculators and land-bankers. Beautiful floating edifices can be built, homes, places of work and entertainment, water commerce can flourish once again, congestion elsewhere can ease. Fantastic communities can flourish - boating communities are as close-knit and happy as you get. Thus do we create a thriving new opportunity in the middle of our cities at a low cost to entrants. A market-based policy to alleviate the UK's housing shortage. Please share your thoughts. I'm particularly interested in any data there is on how much water is actually available. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit frisby.substack.com/subscribe

WARNING: This podcast contains dangerous levels of inspiration! Esther McVey had an unconventional start in life and has emerged as one of the most optimistic politicians in Britain. In this remarkably honest interview, Esther talks about how being a Barnardo's child shaped her and her politics. She also tells the incredible truth about the abuse she has received during her time in politics and talks movingly about Philip Davies and the support he has given her. It's an astonishing listen, Esther McVey is unlike any politician in the country. Follow Esther on Twitter: @EstherMcVey1 Subscribe to Matt's other podcast British Scandal here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/british-scandal/id1563775446 Email the show: politicalpartypodcast@gmail.com Order Matt's book 'Politically Homeless' here: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/2100000262618 Follow Matt on Twitter: @mattforde Follow Matt on WTSocial: https://wt.social/u/matt-forde For the latest UK Government advice on coronavirus go to: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello and welcome to 'Oh Lockdown! How We Laughed..' season three, episode three, with special guest, all the way from The Wirral, Mark McKean(Inspired To Laugh). Mark is Wirral born and dragged up (which explains a lot) and came into comedy by accident, having watched a lot of it down the years - mostly at Tranmere Rovers matches. He's been trying to make audiences laugh for just over four years. One day he might succeed. Mark previously worked for the actor, comedian, best-selling author and top 5 recording artist Tony Hawks. He got no advice from him (which explains a lot more). Join us we chat about Comedy, Lockdown and the appropriate moment to do a joke about stepping on Esther McVey's throat.

A grim anniversary, but one former Conservative cabinet minister Esther McVey is hoping to turn into something positive. She joins Christopher Hope to tell listeners how she's planning to bring some light to March 23rd - one year on from the UK's first coronavirus lockdown - and whether it's fair to credit Brexit with the UK's speedy vaccine rollout. Also on the podcast: vice chairman of the 1922 committee, Sir Charles Walker tells Chopper why he's encouraging fellow MPs to vote against increased powers on coronavirus restrictions, and why his relationship with the state will never be the same following the UK's pandemic response.Take part in our podcast survey for the chance to win one of three £100 John Lewis vouchers: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/choppers_politics_survey |For 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper |Listen to Brian Moore's Full Contact: https://www.playpodca.st/fullcontact |Read more about Esther McVey's 'Day of Reflection': https://www.esthermcvey.com/news/esther-mcvey-asks-minute-silence-day-reflection-23-march |Email: chopperspolitics@telegraph.co.uk |Twitter: @chopperspodcast |

Esther McVey MP is the former Minister of State for Housing has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2017. She joins Rachel and Alice from her office in Westminster to reveal how her life began in the care of Barnardo's, before being returned to her parents and going on to become children's tv presenter and a politician.Get The Times free for a month: thetimes.co.uk/pastimperfectIf Chloe Can: ifchloecan.org.ukBarnardo's: www.barnardos.org.ukThe Children's Society: www.childrenssociety.org.ukProducer: Ben Mitchell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode, Jennifer shares some new poems, and talks about the invisibility of older women, moving house, renewal after hardship, finding new love, and what happens at the end of the human experience. Jennifer also updates you on recent events in British politics, including Esther McVey giving us prime cringe content, the implosion of the Scottish conservatives, local lockdowns in the North of England and Charlie Elphicke being found guilty. Featuring The Poems: Ashes Julian Was Coming To Visit Old Women Something About Him Timestamps for What The Actual F*** Is Going On In Your Life? Pile 1: 1:21:46 Pile 2: 1:41:13 Pile 3: 1:57:55 Find more information on Jennifer Juan and her work, along with hundreds of free to access poems, short stories and videos at www.jenniferjuan.com   Get involved with Jennifer’s new radio show: https://jenniferjuan.com/contact-links/diverse-verse/ Get the new album, Hunnymoonin’: http://jenniferjuan.bandcamp.com/album/hunnymoonin Order the new book Confessions of a Self Aware Manic Pixie Dream Girl: https://jenniferjuan.com/merchandise/books/confessions-of-a-self-aware-manic-pixie-dream-girl/ See Jennifer Juan perform live: https://jenniferjuan.com/events/  Find Jennifer Juan on social media:   Twitter: https://twitter.com/missjsquared Jennifer Juan on Instagram: https://instagram.com/missjsquared Sincerely, Jennifer x on Instagram: https://Instagram.com/sincerelyjenniferx Tumblr: www.missjsquared.tumblr.com   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JenniferJuan  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/missjsquared   Bandcamp: http://jenniferjuan.bandcamp.com   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5aUVh1Lp3P6o5IW39iopyV?si=7OEc_qoWTL-S0eg0wQ8pHw   Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jennifer-juan/1293313532   Soundcloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/missjsquared  Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/missjsquared  PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jenniferjuan  Merchandise: https://jenniferjuan.com/merchandise/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincerelyjenniferx/message

Auntie has tightened the purse strings as this weekend millions of over 75s will have to start paying for their license fee. Former Tory Cabinet minister Esther McVey tells the Telegraph's Christopher Hope why she feels the BBC are out of touch to bring in the move during a pandemic, and also why she's wary of telling people "on yer bike!" as part of the government move to tackle obesity. Also on the podcast, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, peer and Paralympic legend, on why she feels farmers and landowners should be open to making rivers and streams more accessible for swimmers, and Lord Matt Ridley on his 5 reasons to be cautiously optimistic about where we are in the pandemic. England's 20 best wild swimming spots, from rivers and waterfalls to tidal pools: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/best-wild-swimming-waterfalls-rivers-tidal-pools-outdoor-lakes/Matt Ridley - 5 reasons why the coronavirus nightmare may soon be over:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/07/25/5-reasons-coronavirus-nightmare-may-soon/For 30 days' free access to the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper |Listen to the Telegraph's Audio Football Club podcast: https://www.playpodca.st/afcEmail: chopperspolitics@telegraph.co.uk Twitter: @chopperspodcast

November 13, 2019

Está no ar o quinto episódio da quarta temporada! E os assuntos foram: [00:39] Notícia 1: CAU promove consulta pública sobre a resolução das atribuições dos arquitetos. https://www.causp.gov.br/cau-br-promove-consulta-publica-sobre-resolucao-das-atribuicoes-dos-arquitetos-e-urbanistas/ https://transparencia.caubr.gov.br/resolucao51/ [10:43] Notícia 2: Incríveis espaços públicos aos pés da estrutura do transmicable. https://www.archdaily.com.br/br/925371/transmicable-em-bogota-uma-solucao-de-transporte-coletivo-e-espaco-publico?ad_name=flyout&ad_medium=Not%C3%ADcias https://www.transmilenio.gov.co/TransMiCable/ [25:10] Notícia 3: Será que a ministra do Reino Unido, Esther Mcvey, falou bobagem? https://www.dezeen.com/2019/09/30/architects-mock-uk-housing-minister-esther-mcvey-3d-architecture/ https://www.indy100.com/article/esther-mcvey-housing-3d-architects-tory-party-conference-9126621 Matéria citada no episódio que fala mais sobre o caso 'Esther McVey': https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/housing-minister-esther-mcvey-mocked-for-saying-3d-architects-are-now-building-homes-on-computers-a4250356.html Para quem nos acompanha pelo Instagram sabe que terá sorteio quando alcançarmos os 5000 seguidores. Então, compartilhe o nosso podcast com os amigos da faculdade, com os colegas de trabalho, com os familiares mais distantes e até com o vizinho que você nem fala 'bom dia'. E, se quiser participar ou patrocinar, entre em contato com a gente pelo Instagram ou por e-mail. ___ Participantes: Danilo Keila | fundador da DK Elis Cristina | criadora da Soul Verde Samuel Cabrera | sócio da Cawy Satoshi Koike | idealizador da Oarfish ___ Nossos contatos: Site: podcastarq2p.wixsite.com/arq2p E-mail: podcast.arq2p@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/podcast_arq2p/ ___ Fotos utilizadas na capa: Resolução: CAU/BR TransMiCable: Planeacion Distrital Esther Mcvey: BBC

So, 3 years on from the EU referendum, and it’s come to this. Boris Johnson vs Jeremy Hunt to preside over Britain’s season finale.As Tory MPs choose the final two leadership candidates, we assess the breathless events of the past few days, and look at how the debates to come in the next few weeks are likely to pan out.And what about those who fell by the wayside? Will Rory Stewart come back for the next leadership election (say, next year?) Will anyone ever remember Esther McVey once thought she had what it takes to be Prime Minister?Plus we look at the Labour Party’s struggles with Brexit, as Jeremy Corbyn edges closer to backing a second referendum.There’s more at twitter.com/partygamespod facebook.com/partygamespod and instagram.com/partygamespod - plus at partygamespodcast.com you can sign up via Apple Podcasts, Google or Spotify.We’re also at patreon.com/partygamespod

In the first round of voting in the Conservative leadership contest, Boris Johnson confirmed his place as the clear frontrunner. Matt Hancock, Esther McVey, Andrea Leadsom and Mark Harper have all exited. Who will win the battle for second place? Plus, we discuss whether a new prime minister could stop no deal, even by shutting down parliament. Presented by Sebastian Payne with George Parker, Miranda Green and James Blitz. Plus special guest Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Caroline Grady. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The candidates for the Conservative Party leadership will each go head-to-head with LBC’s Iain Dale and the station’s listeners in a series of programmes this month. This episode features Esther McVey, Conservative MP for Tatton and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

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Isabel Hardman hosts the highlights from the Sunday shows as the Conservative leadership race continues. Today's podcast features interviews from Michael Gove, Esther McVey, Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt and James Cleverly. Produced by Matthew Taylor. 

Theresa May steps down as Tory leader today -- and we’re joined by two of the people who are vying to replace her. The Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, is first to set out his stall. Does his background as a private sector dealmaker, his multi-cultural heritage, and his record in office make him the man to lead Britain towards Brexit? And, more importantly still, can he answer a question about the naughtiest thing he’s ever done without using the phrase “fields of wheat”? After that, the former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Esther McVey, makes her case as the only blue collar Tory in the race -- and talks us through her vision of a no-deal Brexit. With Christopher Hope.  Get 30 days free access to The Telegraph online: www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper To listen to our Expenses podcast: www.playpodca.st/expenses Sign up to The Telegraph’s daily Brexit newsletter: www.telegraph.co.uk/brexitbulletin Email: choppersbrexitpodcast@telegraph.co.uk Twitter: @brexitbroadcast

Donald Trump heads to Portsmouth for D-Day commemorations, Change UK party splits, and Esther McVey takes your calls

The race to succeed Theresa May has officially begun as the PM announced her decision to step down on 7 June, following months of intense pressure from inside and outside her party. SEE RELATED Is the British prime minister too powerful? The six times Boris Johnson has denied he wants to be prime minister Theresa May resigns: five moments that sank her premiership A statement from the Tory party chairman and the backbench 1922 Committee said nominations for the leadership will close in the week starting 10 June. MPs will then whittle the candidates down to two by the end of June, before party members - all 124,000 of them - choose the UK's next PM, with May's successor aiming to be in place before Parliament's summer recess at the end of July. So far, four MPs have announced they will run for the leadership - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart. But who will win? Mark and Pete weigh up the options. markandpete.com petertimothycooper.com

The race to succeed Theresa May has officially begun as the PM announced her decision to step down on 7 June, following months of intense pressure from inside and outside her party. SEE RELATED Is the British prime minister too powerful? The six times Boris Johnson has denied he wants to be prime minister Theresa May resigns: five moments that sank her premiership A statement from the Tory party chairman and the backbench 1922 Committee said nominations for the leadership will close in the week starting 10 June. MPs will then whittle the candidates down to two by the end of June, before party members - all 124,000 of them - choose the UK’s next PM, with May’s successor aiming to be in place before Parliament's summer recess at the end of July. So far, four MPs have announced they will run for the leadership - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart. But who will win? Mark and Pete weigh up the options. markandpete.com petertimothycooper.com

The race to succeed Theresa May has officially begun as the PM announced her decision to step down on 7 June, following months of intense pressure from inside and outside her party.SEE RELATED Is the British prime minister too powerful?The six times Boris Johnson has denied he wants to be prime ministerTheresa May resigns: five moments that sank her premiershipA statement from the Tory party chairman and the backbench 1922 Committee said nominations for the leadership will close in the week starting 10 June.MPs will then whittle the candidates down to two by the end of June, before party members - all 124,000 of them - choose the UK’s next PM, with May’s successor aiming to be in place before Parliament's summer recess at the end of July.So far, four MPs have announced they will run for the leadership - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart. But who will win? Mark and Pete weigh up the options.markandpete.competertimothycooper.com

The race to succeed Theresa May has officially begun as the PM announced her decision to step down on 7 June, following months of intense pressure from inside and outside her party.SEE RELATED Is the British prime minister too powerful?The six times Boris Johnson has denied he wants to be prime ministerTheresa May resigns: five moments that sank her premiershipA statement from the Tory party chairman and the backbench 1922 Committee said nominations for the leadership will close in the week starting 10 June.MPs will then whittle the candidates down to two by the end of June, before party members - all 124,000 of them - choose the UK’s next PM, with May’s successor aiming to be in place before Parliament's summer recess at the end of July.So far, four MPs have announced they will run for the leadership - Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary Boris Johnson, former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey and International Development Secretary Rory Stewart. But who will win? Mark and Pete weigh up the options.markandpete.competertimothycooper.com

Isabel Hardman takes you through the highlights from Sunday's interviews. Today's podcast features interviews with Dominic Raab, Esther McVey, Philip Hammond, Shami Chakrabati, John McDonnell and Damian Green. Produced by Matthew Taylor.

With Theresa May stepping down, the Conservative leadership contest has started in earnest. Esther McVey is running but Justine Greening is not - Sophy talks to both of them to understand their reasoning.Theresa May's longtime friend and former deputy Damian Green tells us who he is backing. Plus John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, explains how Labour sees it all.

With Katy Balls and James Forsyth. Presented by Fraser Nelson.

Isabel Hardman presents the highlights from Sunday's political interviews. Today's podcast features contributions from Philip Hammond, Jeremy Corbyn, Esther McVey and Nick Boles. Produced by Matthew Taylor.

Is Jeremy Corbyn enthusiastic for a second Brexit referendum? And are government ministers still bound by collective responsibility? Sophy speaks to the Labour leader, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and former Cabinet minister Esther McVey to find out.

The former Cabinet Minister on deciding to back May's deal, ensuring a 'dignified' exit for the PM and her Liverpudlian roots.

One week, two historic votes in the Commons, and three MPs to weigh in on it all. Christopher Hope is joined by former cabinet minister Esther McVey, leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Vince Cable and Conservative MP Robert Halfon. They each voted against the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal, but for different reasons. We find out why. Also, Steven Swinford and Camilla Tominey give the inside line on one of the paper’s biggest scoops this week: the leaked conference call in which Philip Hammond told over 300 business leaders a no-deal Brexit could be taken off the table. Email: choppersbrexitpodcast@telegraph.co.uk Twitter: @brexitbroadcast Sign up to The Telegraph’s daily Brexit newsletter: www.telegraph.co.uk/brexitbulletin  Get 30 days free access to The Telegraph online: www.telegraph.co.uk/chopper

Isabel Hardman presents the highlights of Sunday's political interviews. This podcast features contributions from Boris Johnson, Stephen Barclay, Esther McVey, Kwasi Kwarteng and Jon Trickett. Produced by Matthew Taylor. 

What is going to happen with Brexit this week? Sophy tries to get to the bottom of it with former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and - in her first TV interview since resigning from the Cabinet - former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey. Plus Dominic Grieve discusses a possible split in the Conservative Party, and Hilary Benn explains why he might be helping the Prime Minister out. #Ridge

This week the government's publication of its draft Brexit Withdrawal Agreement was followed by the cabinet resignations of Dominic Raab and Esther McVey. The financial markets responded with a sharp drop in the pound before it stabilised and a fall in the share price of UK focused companies. Guest: Tom Stevenson Investment Director at Fidelity Worldwide Investments. Some of the biggest clothing retailers are being warned they could be encouraging young shoppers to get into problem debt. Major sports and fashion names are using a new type of “try before you buy” service from the Swedish bank Klarna for online orders. Guest Moira O'Neill, head of personal finance at Interactive Investor. A childminder reveals how problems with the government's tax-free childcare system are impacting on her business. Earlier this month around 22,000 standing order payments from parents to childcare providers were delayed. HMRC have apologised and say it was an isolated issue which has been fixed. Guest: Aoife Hamilton, Policy and Information Manager at Employers for Childcare. Until now Starling Bank services could only be accessed via a smartphone app. That changed this week after it joined a partnership which allows its customers to deposit and withdraw cash at Post Office branches. Is this a step backwards for digital banking? Guest: Anne Boden CEO and founder, Starling Bank. Presenter: Paul Lewis Reporter: Dan Whitworth Producer: Charmaine Cozier Editor: Richard Vadon

Dominic Raab and Esther McVey resign after hearing details of the Brexit draft deal. And Jacob-Rees Mogg has called for a vote of 'no confidence' in the Prime Minister. Joining Paul and Ned again is Brexit expert, Anand Menon.

Ever feel like politics could be different? Join comedian Gráinne Maguire and journalist Marie Le Conte as they work out how we can all get more involved. This isn't just a podcast, it's Changing Politics.This week, Marie and Gráinne look at the gig economy, and how not deleting taxi-ride apps can benefit precarious workers. They speak to James Farrer and Yaseen Aslam, who are taking Uber to court to win rights for cab drivers.They also look at Hero Rebel of the Resistance, Jo Johnson, who bravely resigned from the Cabinet (apparently he was OK with all that cutting benefits stuff, but Brexit has been the final straw); the ongoing disaster that is Universal Credit - who knew that something invented by Iain Duncan Smith and overseen by Esther McVey could go wrong?; and the Taxpayer's Alliance, which it turns out aren't actually an alliance for us taxpayers, but a bunch of lobbyists. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Government minister Esther McVey has become a lightening rod for anger about benefit cuts and welfare reform. The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions knows all about financial struggle, starting out in life as a foster child. Mark Coles finds out how the former presenter has gone from a breakfast TV sofa to the front benches of the House of Commons. In a rare interview, Esther’s father Jim tells us why he decided to put his daughter into care, and how he helped kick-start her on-screen career. We find out what a former producer really thinks of her, and her partner Conservative MP Philip Davies reveals what made him fall for Esther.

In this episode, is social media driving us into debt? I chat with social media influencer Jasmine Jonas, along with Barclays Bank Head of Savings & Investments Clare Francis, to find out whether influencer impulse is outweighing savvy spending. There's also a roundup of the latest personal finance news, with RBS closing more branches, Ofgem capping energy tariffs and Esther McVey passing the pensions dashboard to industry.

Ever feel like politics could be different? Join comedian Gráinne Maguire and journalist Marie Le Conte as they work out how we can all get more involved. This isn't just a podcast, it's Changing Politics.This week we focus on abortion rights in Northern Ireland, which is currently not available even in case of incest or rape, and explain what you can do to help. We speak to activist Mara Clarke of the Abortion Support Network and MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy. Before that though, there's a discussion of the week's news which includes the most surprising thing our "horny on main bae" (listen to last week's episode) Michael Gove's done with a hoover; how it's impossible to get sacked from the Cabinet even if, like Esther McVey, you keep misleading Parliament; and why everyone should leave Twitter and join Matt Hancock's app (the answer has to do with sausages). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.