Podcasts about ge2015

According to a survey by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) on Internet and media use during GE2015, it was suggested that candidates' Facebook posts and Instagram photos may have been key talking points during the recent general election, but social media did not play such a decisive role. Carol Soon, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore shares how social media and the internet will play a bigger role in this year's election.

Welcome back to our 3rd episode of Slack & Discuss Problems with our new host, Shawal Yeo and his guest Gerous Khung Wai Yeen who is a CEC member and a Bukit Panjang candidate for SDP at the GE2015. Here they discuss if your voting is secret and what happens next after polling day. This initiative is brought to you by the Young Democrats of the Singapore Democratic Party. Everything shared in this video or podcast does not represent the organisation's view and statement. Topics and views discussed are within the personal capacity of our guests. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sdp3/message

Jessie MacNeil-Brown talks about standing as a councillor in Stepney/Tower Hamlets. somethingnew.org.uk/ openpolitics.org.uk @havesomenew @activistjess

Where to for the Labour branch office in Scotland and down south? What, if anything, will the Tories give to Scotland? Do we need to bother talking about the libdems? These were just some of the questions we got onto it, and I resisted the temptation to say something unspeakable about Ian Davidson, though I did say something about him.As a little aside, I'll be going back to the Scottish Independence Podcast format very soon, so watch out for those.Hope you enjoy…

On this week's podcast Nathan and Adrian bring you the best #GE2015 coverage, discuss Liverpool's Memphis blues and ask who's the biggest PL basket case?

In what podcast can you get Errol Brown, St Enoch's, Nick Clegg and the Institute for Fiscal Studies? This one. Ivan and I give a last wee run round the stories before the polls open, and William makes the nonsense drummed up by someone (pending investigation) in Glasgow yesterday, seem exactly what it was.

In this episode Ivan and I talked about Ed Miliband's monorail, sorry, monoLITH, and then ran through what people seem to be up to in order to create news stories today.William Duguid has his say on Full Fiscal Autonomy too.

Andrew Pakes, Labour's candidate for Milton Keynes South, claimed: "We can do better" at a CitiBlog hustings last week. #GE2015

This time Ivan and I did a little Saturday review show. Where are we at in the campaign? Where's it going to go from here? Is Project Fear 2 going to work?We also have William Duguid on the latest barkings of the Milibeing and the concept that Scotland was encouraged to lead, and not leave, the united (sic) kingdom (capitals deliberately not used).

This time I spoke with Kathleen Caskie on the theme that we're hearing a lot lately, namely that it is somehow illegitimate that SNP MPs (or Plaid for that matter) should be involved in government business in Westminster.

Last night's BBC Question Time special, in which the party leaders faced interrogation by members of the public, was the first serious event of an otherwise unserious election campaign. But this last TV outing for the party leaders will not change much by itself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode I speak with Dr Morag Kerr. Morag is a veterinary surgeon and also the author of Adequately Explained By Stupidity, a book about the Lockerbie disaster.We talked about Cameron's plan to hold a free vote on legalising hunting and more generally about the case against hunting, and for better animal welfare policies.

A question from Tanja Rebel of Cowes, regarding heritage on the Isle of Wight #iwnews #iwvote #GE2015

A question from Chris Preston regarding party representation for the Isle of Wight #iwnews #iwvote #GE2015

Isle of Wight candidates' 1 minute introductions #iwvote #iwnews #GE2015

In this episode Ivan and I had a chat about TTIP. What are the big problems with it, why is it so secretive and why don't the coalition government and that other neoliberal party seem to want to use some of the veto powers that are rumoured to be in there?William Duguid's Terminalogical Inexactitude of the day this time features the Tories getting caught out on one yesterday.

This time I was joined by writer, tutor, campaigner, ex-cop & more than I can put here, Karen Campbell.We talked about a recent statistic showing that a much higher percentage of women in Scotland, as compared to England are likely to vote. Why would that be so?Also, we talked about the broader situation and why Scotland is not "going back in the box".

#DollGate and now the #WorstCrisisSinceTheAbdication. It appears that Project Fear has morphed into Project Hysteria, this was our topic today.Silliness apart, who is this all aimed at, what does it say about Old V New media and is it likely to have much of an effect?

In this episode, as requested, we had a chat about how this election may affect the Scottish Parliament election in 2016. We also had a word about what it is actually like being down at Westminster.

In this episode I was joined by Gillian Martin from Women for Independence.We talked about a story that pro-union parties are fond of repeating (and sticking on leaflets), specifically that under the SNP college places have fallen. However, as she pointed out in her blog, the truth is somewhat different from the soundbites.We also talked about the importance of maintaining free higher education in Scotland or indeed any other society.

As we get closer to the election it appears that project fear is on its way back, but this time ... it's England. Yes, the Tories are trying to hard to scare the living daylights out of the English voters in order to stop them voting Labour. Ivan and I had a chat about if it's likely to work or not.Also, William Duguid speaks of the Libdems and what to make of their promises - there's a meal ticket in there somewhere.

This time Ivan and I got round to SNP economic policy in a UK election. How does it differ from that of the main parties and what influence could it have. On the Scottish side of it, what happens to the oil money if there is full fiscal autonomy/responsibility?Also, William Duguid speaks of Oor Jim and Naebody's Piers Morgan.

In today's episode I am joined by Mark Frankland, writer. Neither Mark nor myself are members of any party, which frees us up to discuss some matters that others may not be free to discuss.And even though the SNP didn't discuss the prospect of IndyRef 2 in their manifesto, and Sturgeon said she wasn't planning one, it didn't stop some of the unionist parties from having a go on the matter. This has of course predictably led to the very funny #NotRuledOutByTheSNP hashtag on twitter.We discussed if the SNP are being too cautious on the matter, what could be the triggers for a new referendum and what's so bad about asking for some more democracy anyway?

Today marks the start of a new feature. From today on William Duguid will be giving us his Terminalogical Inexactitude of the day, and the first one features David Cameron.However, before you get to that Ivan and myself talk about the House of Lords, and I admit that we didn't talk about it in glowing terms.

Rory Scott of Paddy Power outlines the chances of a Hung Parliament, a #Labour or #Tory majority and even a #UKIP defeat in Nigel #Farage's consituency For more @paddypower action, visit www.paddypower.com

Why not come on a lazy train ride this Sunday. Well, I assume most of you would like to, but think it is just too bloody expensive. Why should that be? What can be done about it?Good things come to those who wait, and I'm not talking about your train being late, I am in fact referring to how renationalising the train system may be much cheaper and easier than many suspect.These were our topics for this Sunday...LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

This time we talked about the polls both north and south of the border. In Scotland some prominent types could be in trouble, as you can see in the image above. Down south it seems it is all to play for.Hope you enjoy…LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

In this episode we look at UKIP and their attitude to Scotland, as well as some of the more unusual declarations from some members or former members of that party. That of course brought us onto immigration, which was the main focus of the discussion. With such a poisonous atmosphere surrounding the issue, it can be hard to come out and say that Scotland could actually do with more, not less, immigration.LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

Abolish national insurance? Give the Bank of England the power to mandate a fiscal stimulus? Rein in CEO pay? In the week that the UK parties launched their election manifestos, Tim Harford talks to Ferdinando Giugliano about seven top economists’ plans for how they’d run the country. We value our listeners’ feedback. Please fill out this short survey for a chance to win a pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode we look at the plans to replace Trident. Is it worth the money? Is it good military strategy? And what about the Red Menace. What about the SNP red line?Oh, and a bonus point for anyone who can tell me why I stuck that little bit of music on at the end. It wasn't because there will be another episode tomorrow.Hope you enjoy…Hope you enjoy…LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

In this episode we look at the Labour and Tories occupying the same space but frantically trying to steal each others thunder. More importantly however, we talked about why austerity doesn't work.Finally, is the Better Together love affair over? How bad do things have to be if Willie Rennie is calling YOU confused? Hope you enjoy…LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

The Polling Station is a new podcast of around 5 minutes in duration which we hope will come out every day between now and the election.We will do short informative little pieces on the election matters that are being missed, evaded, obfuscated or terminalogically inexactituded in the normal election coverage.This is the 2nd episode, you can find the others here.This time we spoke of the rather rough day that Jim Murphy's had yesterday, mostly caused by this quote from Chuka Ummuna..."The leader of the Scottish Labour Party will not be in charge of the UK budget. The leader of our country, our next prime minister, Ed Miliband, will be in charge of the UK budget and he has just answered the question, when that was put to him - will there be any cuts over the course of this parliament not just in the first financial year, but in the following financial years? And he was absolutely clear - there will be the need for further consolidation and cuts throughout the rest of the parliament."So was Jim hung out to dry or was it just the head office getting the branch manager back in line?We also talked about the idea of No Detriment and the fact that the Independent ex UK nation of Ireland seems to be doing rather well at the moment.Hope you enjoy…LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwell

James discuss the NHS and his proclivity for hustings. More information: http://horsham.somethingnew.org.uk/ http://facebook.com/somethingnewhorsham http://openpolitics.org.uk

James discusses foreign policy! Originally published on 12th February 2015.

James discusses his recent ODI talk on open data. Originally published on 7th January 2015. Christmas Carol podcast from the Open Data Institute (CC BY-SA 3.0): theodi.org/lunchtime-lectures/friday-lunchtime-lecture-a-christmas-carol-the-ghosts-of-open-datas-past-present-and-future ODI podcast music by Cella One Giga Love (CC SA-BY 3.0) https://soundcloud.com/dtape/cella-one-giga-love

James discusses Energy and the Environment. Originally published on 27th November 2014.

James discussed UKIP, Education and his anti-Christmas stance. Originally published on 10th October 2014

Paul discusses the role of town councillor, his decision to stand for Something New and breaks yet more news. Originally published on 2nd October 2014.