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from 2019 - @wariotifo's 2nd and 3rd episodes as co-host, on the neoconservative blog Harry's Place. part 2 previously only available @ patreon.com/reelpolitik. SUBSCRIBE AT PATREON.COM/REELPOLITIK TO HEAR A BRAND NEW EPISODE FT. ORIGINAL CO-HOST TOM FOSTER: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-309-mega-114637979 Original episode descriptions: PART ONE: BRING IT ON DOWN TO HARRY'S PLACE Jack is joined by the Reel Politik Podcast's new Director of Strategy & Communications (Mr Seumas Miwne), Geraint (@wariotifo on Twitter), to go back to the mid-00s heyday of the Sensible/Decent Left, the pro-war ideologues who gave us the Euston Manifesto, the website Harry's Place, and various LM Network-style front organisations. We look at how this tendency of the Crank Centre laid the groundwork for much of the centrist hysteria directed today at the Corbynite left for their foreign policy stances, and how they even chillingly predicted many of the concerns & talking points of what would become known as the alt-right. Many stalwart enemies of the show make appearances, such as Nick Cohen and longtime melt enterprise Little Atoms. PowerBase was an invaluable resource when researching this episode (powerbase.info/index.php/Main_Page) and we'd also like to thank our friend Phil BC for some of his writing on Harry's Place and the hated Decents. PART TWO: HARRY'S PISS AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere alight in the early to mid 2000s. We conclude our discussion on these horrendous hawk bastards - including their hated affiliate Stephen Pollard - before discussing the hated Frank Field's new Birkenhead Social Justice Party and portrayals of class and "the underclass" in cinema. We play the episode out with a song by the legendary Silver Jews, in tribute to the late, and dearly missed, David Berman.
This week we look at the NHS sees sense over Trans; THe NYT doesn't; Misgendering pets; Lord Winston banned on TikTok; Resignation of Humza Yousaf and persecution of Kate Forbes; Indian Council's Incredible Letter; Tracy Ullman; Frank Field; Domestic Violence in Australia; Pausing Biden; Seinfield on unfunny comedy; Cicadia one in a 200 year event; SEEK 33- Art; Rico Tice leaves the Church of England; Russell Brand gets baptised; with music from Del Amitri, Bach, Lindisfarne, Duane Eddy, 10CC; Vivaldi; and Handal
Election fever has reached the rocket this week as the co-pilots await the results from local polling stations up and down the country. And there's nothing short of a tsunami of politics in Scotland. Allison thinks the progressive Left are finally being confronted by the consequences of their policies in light of First Minister, Humza Yousaf's resignation.Whilst Liam thinks Scotland's leadership decision will play a crucial part determining Labour's future in the country.Strapping into the rocket this week to pay tribute to her friend the late Frank Field is Baroness Kate Hoey who also gives her take on the latest relations between Ireland and the UKAnd there's an exciting announcement about the upcoming Planet Normal Event…Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |Read Liam: ‘Frank Field's warnings on benefits Britain went unheeded': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/28/frank-field-britain-sicknote-culture-welfare-state/ Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |Read Allison ‘The SNP hasn't realised that ‘socially conservative' is actually normal': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/05/01/humza-yousaf-kate-forbes-snp-social-conservatism-normal/ |Read Robert Mendick: The images that show the two sides of AstraZeneca's vaccine ‘miracle': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/30/astrazeneca-vaccine-jamie-scott-class-action-side-effects/ Need help subscribing or reviewing? Learn more about podcasts here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/podcasts/podcast-can-find-best-ones-listen/ |Email: planetnormal@telegraph.co.uk |Get tickets for Planet Normal event: telegraph.co.uk/eventsFor 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/normal | Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tim is joined this week by Louise Davies from the Christian advocacy charity CARE. Louise shares her experiences within politics and encourages us to support those standing in elections. And Tim is paying tribute to the late Frank Field. Want your question answered next week? Drop a quick email to farron@premier.org.uk.
George Parker of the Financial Times is joined by a range of guests to analyse the latest developments at Westminster. To discuss the boost to defence spending pledged by Rishi Sunak, he speaks to Labour peer and former head of the navy, Admiral Lord West and former soldier and the chair of the defence select committee, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood.Labour MP, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Conservative MP, Sir Edward Leigh discuss Parliament's approval of the controversial Rwanda deportation bill and consider what happens next.Twenty years on from a near-fatal car crash, dotcom entrepreneur and crossbench peer, Martha Lane-Fox explains what her 'mountain mission' is and discusses technology and artificial intelligence. And, to reflect on the life of former Labour minister and crossbench peer Frank Field who died this week, he is joined by Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle whose constituency bordered his and former Work and Pensions Secretary, Conservative MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith
Iain and Jacqui discuss Humza Yousaf's problems, the Rwanda Bill becoming an Act, defence spending, rail renationalization, the US Ukraine vote, the departure of Huw Edwards from the BBC, the death of Frank Field and calls for the Met Commissioner's resignation. Smut quota: Low... with the odd exception.
Matthew Bannister onThe American journalist Terry Anderson who was held captive in Lebanon for almost seven years. In an emotional interview, his daughter Sulome tells us how she followed in his footsteps as she tried to connect with a father she met for the first time when she was seven years old. Lord Field who, the Labour MP Frank Field who campaigned tirelessly for welfare reform.Trina Robbins the feminist cartoonist and writer who was the first woman to illustrate the Wonder Woman comics.Ann Trevenen Jenkin the first woman Grand Bard of Cornwall and a founding member of the Cornish nationalist party Mebyon Kernow.Interviewee: Sulome Anderson Interviewee: Ellin Stein Interviewee: Liam Halligan Interviewee: Loveday Jenkin Producer: Gareth Nelson-DaviesArchive Used:Sulome Anderson writes a letter to her father on his birthday, BBC News, 07/10/1991; Terry Anderson release, Live press conference, BBC News, 04/12/1991; Terry Anderson interview, BBC Radio 1, 01/01/2000; Terry Anderson on What It's Like to Live as a Hezbollah Hostage, Slate. YouTube Channel uploaded, 17/11/2014; Trina Robbins, Meet Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw Wonder Woman for D.C. Comics, KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco, YouTube uploaded 30/03/2023; Frank Field MP interview, Straight Talk, BBC News, 19/06/2010; Frank Field, Profile, BBC Radio 4, 13/12/2014; Frank Field, Lent Talks, BBC Radio 4, 01/04/2009; Ann Trevenen Jenkin interviewed by Carmen Talbot for Dreadnought South West's Rebellious Sounds Archive, 2019; Ann Trevenen Jenkin interview, Cornish March, BBC News, 21/06/1997;
How can we balance our spiritual and political principles when it comes to illegal immigration? What can we learn from Liz Truss' and Humza Yousaf's leadership styles? Will we be able to buy rock from Blackpool? In this episode of In:Dependence, Phil Topham (FIEC Executive Director), John Stevens (FIEC National Director), and Adrian Reynolds (FIEC Head of National Ministries) discuss some of the stories in the news over the past fortnight. Show notes Best Commentaries (thegospelcoalition.org) Former Labour minister Frank Field dies aged 81 (bbc.co.uk) First deportation flight to Rwanda 'booked' as landmark bill becomes law (news.sky.com) Six things that stand out for me in Liz Truss book - Chris Mason (bbc.co.uk) Humza Yousaf: Scotland's first minister cancels speech as he fights for his political survival (news.sky.com) Blackpool rock threatened by inferior imports, makers say (bbc.co.uk) FIEC Leaders' Conference 2024 (fiec.org.uk) You can watch a video of this episode and get more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website. About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC's official podcast, where you'll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. About FIEC: We are a fellowship of Independent churches with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Follow FIEC on social media: Instagram Facebook X
In this episode of V-FM Pensions, co hosts Nico and Darren spend an hour chatting about the news, life and some of the the themes coming out of the podcast so far this year. We also, of course, discuss Arsenal. We chat about AE contribution rates, transfer incentives, at retirement, politics and value for money. And we pay tribute to Frank Field, who recently sadly passed away, for his contribution to politics and welfare reform. Nico also asks Darren about his new venture as part of Untamed Consulting.
The Rwanda Bill has made it over the parliamentary finishing line but not without some last-minute drama. We talk to the SNP's Alison Thewliss MP about what went on in a small room behind the Speaker's Chair away from the cameras!And what on earth is going on in the minds of MPs, after another in a succession of sleaze scandals hits Westminster. This time it's Mark Menzies MP who has resigned from the Conservative Party and won't stand again at the general election. He's facing accusations of fraud and misconduct after telephoning an elderly constituency member claiming he'd been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding money. Are MPs – or specifically male MPs – simply big risk-takers or is there something else at work?Meanwhile, the exodus from Westminster continues to grow: the number of MPs standing down at the next election has now passed the 100-mark. The data reveals some interesting developments that will affect the parties and select committees in the next Parliament.And farewell to Frank Field – the backbenchers' backbencher - and one of the most extraordinary parliamentarians of the last 40 years. We reflect on his lifetime in politics, particularly his outstanding work as a select committee chair, and Mark remembers a tricky visit to Field's Birkenhead constituency while reporting for the BBC.
EPISODE 240: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: One of Trump's stochastic terrorists went to Barack Obama's house to assassinate him. Anybody else notice this, or was it just me? And that a Washington judge was having a hard time last night finding an excuse to hold him without bail? Hold the WOULD-BE ASSASSIN without bail? And that Trump had doxxed Obama and finally found a sucker willing to do his bidding for him? AND park his van full of ammo and weapons a few blocks from Obama's home. AND livestreamed himself threatening Jamie Raskin and Kevin McCarthy and oh he was going to take his van to Maryland to a federal facility containing a nuclear research reactor and blow up the van and the nuclear reactor and… I mean am I the only one seeing this anywhere? Trump – crazier and more dangerous by the minute – is finally clearly and inextricably linked to a guy ready to answer Trump's constant drumbeat to try to get one of his cultists to kill, without TELLING them to kill and thus leaving himself open to prosecution FOR killing or incitement-to-kill, and the Department of Justice remains asleep at the switch. The US Magistrate Judge in DC, Zia M. Faruqui managed to avoid having to release Trump's figurative flying monkey – his name is Taylor Taranto – by keeping him in stir overnight and putting the onus on the government to answer the judge's question: if the original charges against this would-be political murderer Taranto were simply left over trespassing accusations from January 6th, and the government wanted him held without bail because he's a flight risk, what if the Judge finds he's NOT a flight risk? Is it enough that threatening key Democratic and Republican congressmen and talking about going to a government nuclear reactor and blowing up your van next to – oh and responding to one former president's publishing of another former president's address by going there with a van full of weapons of death – is THAT quote “clear convincing evidence” of a danger to the public and even if it is, does that mean the judge can really hold him in jail? Yeah, you guys let Taranto loose while the lot of you argue over how many angels can dance on the head of this proverbial pin, and, you know, if he goes back to Obama's neighborhood or, I dunno, tries to ram the White House with his van while screaming “TRUMP IS GOD” as he does so, maybe then prosecutors can indict him for various vehicular and parking offenses. B-Block (20:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Miles Taylor says Trump negotiated with Erik Prince to form his own private mercenary army to dispatch to Afghanistan and Venezuela; RFK needs money more than power; Steve Bass's new horizon; farewell to Dr. Frank Field and Marvin Kitman. (25:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Laura Ingraham wants to defund Jack Smith. How about demoting him to 7 PM? The warmest day since July 4, 122,977 BC. And GQ Magazine first neuters a piece that offended David Zaslav of Warner BROS, then kills the piece completely, then it turns out GQ's Editor is producing a film FOR WARNER BROS. C-Block (34:10) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Angelina, L'il Bit and Prince in Georgia (35:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Nothing makes me smile more than a week with July 4th in the middle. It's because of that kind of calendar that I got my first network job just 44 years ago. The holiday ate up nearly all the business days they would've had to look for anybody besides me! (Plus that first broadcast from July 1979).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
First July 2023 episode--and first of three episodes on consecutive days--of the program all about TV. Our guests: Nate Dappen, producer-director of Human Footprint, beginning tonight on PBS stations nationwide, and Zak Tanjeloff and Brielle Urserry, co-founder and head of programming respectively of Mansa, the new programming service coming soon through smart TV products and multichannel bundles. Also on this episode: a tribute to pioneering weathercaster, health and science correspondent Dr. Frank Field, who passed away this past weekend at the age of 100.
NBA News, NBA Free Agency, NFL News, MLB News, WNBA News, NHL News, Tron 3, A Farewell to Alan Arkin, Droz, Don Kennedy, Joe Linder, Rick Froberg, Leandro De Niro, Lawrence Turman, Frank Field & Mario Guerrero. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/on-the-radar/support
Frank Field is an American beach volleyball player and indoor standout. A former middle blocker at University of Rhode Island, he took to the beach scene almost immediately, and his skill set has allowed him to transition smoother than some qualifying for the AVP main draw four times. With a hard stop on how long we went, we covered so much, and with so much we left on the table, a future episode is inevitable. 01:11 - NBA playoff picture 08:47 - Boston is a heck of a sports town 13:15 - from the college scene to overseas, the grad program 20:35 - How did we get here? 26:19 - The gnarly qualifier 41:23 - top 5 defenders in the world 46:20 - superior coaching overseas, and tough love vs positive reinforcement 54:40 - Are they looking forward to coming to practice?
In 2021 Frank Field, now Lord Field, was told he had weeks to live. 18 months on he tells Matt he's published his memoirs and is 'just happily waiting for the end'. He talks about his faith, his clashes with Gordon Brown, his relationship with Margaret Thatcher and his advice to Jeremy Corbyn.Plus: Columnists India Knight and Jimmy McLoughlin discuss doing government business on Whatsapp, politicians keeping their hands in their pocket and vaccinating chickens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The pope's tour of DRC Congo and South Sudan culminates with a Mass in Juba, with the archbishop of Canterbury and the moderator of the Church of Scotland. Sister Orla Treacy and student Sarah Adut tell Emily Buchanan about their nine day walking pilgrimage to join the Pontiff. In our series on Ukraine, one year on from the Russian invasion, we hear from father Sergiy Berezhnoy. The Ukrainian orthodox priest and chaplain to the 42nd Battalion of the Defenders of Kyiv, describes some of the challenges of the past year and his hopes for the future. A new report from L'Arche - the international Christian community bringing together those with and without learning disabilities - reveals it's founder, the late Catholic theologian Jean Vanier, used the community as a cover for a mystical sexual sect. Emily speaks with one of the report's authors, to the community's current CEO and to two of its members, about how it moves on from here. Cross-bench peer Frank Field has spent much of his adult life campaigning against poverty and for social reform. Underpinning his political thinking is his Christian faith, as he explains to Emily on the publication of his memoir Politics, Poverty and Belief. The ancient spiritual practice of chanting is now a category in the music industry's Grammy Awards. Emily speaks to chant musician Sean Johnson, of the Wild Lotus Band, about this genre's coming of age. As the Church of England's legislative body prepares to meet, Emily asks the bishop of London, the Rt. Revd Sarah Mullally, about the way forward on the most divisive issue, the recommendation from bishops to allow clergy to bless same-sex civil marriages. Producers: Jill Collins and Katy Booth Production co-ordinator: David Baguley Editor: Helen Grady Photo Credit: Lakshmi Grace Designs
This week's podcast comes from the road! Jake and Mark are joined by fellow North East volleyball players Tyler Penberthy and Frank Field to chat about interesting results in Denver, the Waupaca Tour series event, as well as the Hermosa Pro series event, and some other interesting topics as well!
With Cop26 underway, Professor Tim Evans of Middlesex University discusses the way that the culture wars are moving into the realm of science. He also contrasts how the UK public's behaviour has changed in a generation with the polarised politics of the USA. He examines why the NHS has failed to use private hospitals to clear its backlog despite a £10 billion deal. And he pays tribute to Lord Frank Field, looking at his ideas – way ahead of their time – on the provision of unemployment benefit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Listen to the full episode at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/29372061 NEW RP! We've kinda let down our Patreon subscribers lately in terms of the amount of exclusive content, so this week we've got something very special for those supporting the RP Propaganda Factory... AND YOU HAVE THE second instalment of our two-parter on the hated Harry's Place, the pro-war shitrag that set the blogosphere alight in the early to mid 2000s. We conclude our discussion on these horrendous hawk bastards - including their hated affiliate Stephen Pollard (as in this clip) - before discussing the hated Frank Field's new Birkenhead Social Justice Party and portrayals of class and "the underclass" in cinema. We play the episode out with a song by the legendary Silver Jews, in tribute to the late, and dearly missed, David Berman. Tomorrow a new free episode featuring Yair and Jack, and an RP recording session with a very, very special guest.
Independent MP Frank Field tells Sophy and Matt why he left the Labour Party, how support for children needs to start before they are born, and about the night he visited Downing Street to tell Margaret Thatcher to quit. But can he survive the whole interview without mentioning Br**it?
Frank Field MP chats to Pete Price about his own views on Brexit & Wirral matters.
Chief Executive of The Women's Organisation, Maggie O'Carroll, was alongside Mick Coyle to talk about the roll out of Universal Credit in Merseyside. Maggie was involved in a study looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on the region and who it will affect the most. She also reacted to the question by Frank Field in parliament in regards to women turning to sex work as they can't afford to live.
There is a market for a new political party in British politics, but contrary to the views of the liberal elite, the public appetite is not centrist. In this UnPacked Short, Peter Franklin and Charlotte Pickles discuss the vacuum at the heart of our representative democracy, and ask, in what party could Frank Field find a home?
In this episode of the Five Questions for a Field Service Expert Podcast, we talk to Nick Frank, a highly regarded field service consultant.
Frank Field resigns citing local infighting and racism in the Labour party, but the media don't give enough context to either of these claims. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks makes the outrageously ridiculous comparison of Jeremy Corbyn to Enoch Powell. Hosted by James Fox w/ Alex Maskill
Marcus Stead returns with another Brexit Briefing. Following comments from Boris Johnson, David Davis, and then Michel Barnier, are the Chequers proposals dead? Why did Frank Field resign the Labour whip? And how likely is a so-called ‘People’s Vote’?
Iain reveals all the details of his change of show on LBC. He teases Jacqui about how many times she had it away with her bodyguard as Home Secretary – apparently the answer is a disappointing zero. They also discuss the latest woes for Jeremy Corbyn and whether other Labour MPs might follow Frank Field’s lead.
Frank Field MP for Birkenhead joined Mick Coyle on Liverpool Live to talk about his decision to resign the Labour Whip to serve as an independent Labour MP.
Helen and Stephen discuss the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, as well as the internal politics of the party's NEC elections and the possible deselection ballots against pro-Brexit MPs Kate Hoey and Frank Field. They also answer a popular listener question: will and should there be a “people's vote” on the exit deal Theresa May eventually strikes with the EU?Further reading:—Jon Lansman's obituary for Vladimir Derer.—Stephen's blog on Pete Willsman.—Could a Labour split stop Brexit?Send us your questions for future episodes via Twitter @ns_podcasts, @stephenkb, @helenlewis or join us on Facebook for a live Q&A. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Falmouth University in Cornwall
Robert Colvile talks to Frank Field - the Labour MP who's spent his career thinking the unthinkable, and often been punished for it by his party. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Chris Bowlby profiles the veteran Labour MP and co-author of this week's report on hunger, Frank Field, who is one of the most unusual politicians in Britain. Variously described as "independent-minded" and a "free thinker" Field has been in Parliament for more than 30 years, representing Birkenhead, which contains some of the most deprived wards in the country. He had to fight off a hard left challenge from Militant at the beginning of his career and he has long been a campaigner against poverty. His radical views on welfare haven't always endeared him to his Labour colleagues but he is famous for the friends he has made across the political divide. Most remarkably, perhaps, he was one of those who told Margaret Thatcher, shortly before she resigned, that it was time for her to go. We'll hear from friends, both Labour and Conservative, who speak warmly of a man of dogged determination and great personal integrity. But we'll also hear from critics who say he's not a natural team player who was failed in his brief period as a member of Tony Blair's first government. Producer: Tim Mansel.
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--{ "Learn to be British", Labour MP Frank Field: "Heritage Lost of U.K. White Working Class, Ignored by Labour and Tories for Years, Alas, Now They're Advised to Take Immigration Course To Find Out what British Means, Oh the Remorse Of the Labour Party (Just Noticing Their Existence), Which Pushed Multiculturalism with Persistence, With Help from BBC, Media and Academia, Approaching Nativism with Cultural Bulimia, The Working Slobs Used, to Make Britain Great, "Thanks Very Much", then Wiped Off the Slate" © Alan Watt }-- Army Reserve Training Manual, Christians Listed as "Religious Extremists" - Immigration and Multiculturalism - British White Working Class Alienated from Society - Ed Miliband - Royal Bank of Canada Lays-off Staff---Replacing With Workers from India - Three Trading-Bloc World - Australian and Chinese Currency Conversion and Integration - Deculturization - Abortion 'House of Horrors' in Philadelphia - Devaluation of Human Life - National Health Service - Bill Gates, Vaccination and GM Food, Sterilization - Global Warming Hype and Crisis Creation. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - April 8, 2013 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
Frank Field’s entire career has been concerned with improving the lives of those worst off in society, initially as Director of the Child Poverty Action Group, and for the last thirty years as MP for Birkenhead. The new Coalition Government has now asked him to lead an independent review on poverty and life chances. The Review will look at how we measure poverty in Britain today - whether low income alone constitutes poverty, and if not what are the other aspects of poverty, and how they are measured - what the key determinants of good life chances are - taking account of the importance of a child's development before attending school and how good influences at this stage of a child's life can best be embedded in society.