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5/11/2025 | This day's featured sermon on SermonAudio: Title: 1988 Talk Back Catholicism Radio Debate Subtitle: Paisley CD Series Speaker: Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley Broadcaster: Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley Event: Debate Date: 10/1/1988 Bible: Revelation 17 Length: 29 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Ian Paisley Protests the Pope Speaker: Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley Broadcaster: Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley Event: Sermon Clip Date: 10/12/1988 Bible: Revelation 17 Length: 1 min.
5/4/2025 | This day's featured sermon on SermonAudio: Title: The Scottish Reformer John Knox Subtitle: Paisley CD Series Speaker: Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley Broadcaster: Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley Event: Classic Audio Date: 3/1/1965 Bible: John 17 Length: 31 min.
What were The Troubles and why did they lead to 30 years of violence and division in Northern Ireland? How were Irish Catholics inspired by the American Civil Rights movement in 1969? Why did the British government deploy troops on the streets of Belfast? In the first of four episodes, Anita and William are joined by Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing, to discuss the beginning of The Troubles, and to introduce three key characters: Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams, and Dolours Price. _____________ Empire UK Live Tour: The podcast is going on a UK tour! William and Anita will be live on stage in Glasgow, Birmingham, York and Bristol, discussing how the British Empire continues to shape our everyday lives. Tickets are on sale NOW, to buy yours head to empirepoduk.com. Empire Club: Become a member of the Empire Club to receive early access to miniseries, ad-free listening, early access to live show tickets, bonus episodes, book discounts, and a weekly newsletter! Head to empirepoduk.com to sign up. Email: empire@goalhanger.com Instagram: @empirepoduk Blue Sky: @empirepoduk X: @empirepoduk goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Anouska Lewis Senior Producer: Callum Hill Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Rev Harold Good witnessed the IRA decommissioning their arsenal of weapons. He facilitated secret talks at vital points during the Peace Process. In his new book he reveals his role as a back channel between the DUP and Sinn Féin. He joins Ciarán Dunbar to discuss his role as a peacemaker, his experiences with Ian Paisley and his extraordinary friendship with Martin McGuinness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Send us a textCan you be a Christian and a friend of the Pope? That's just one of the bold questions we tackle as we unpack the controversial legacy of Billy Graham. Known for his widespread influence, Graham also faced significant criticism, particularly around his associations with the Catholic Church and notable figures like DL Moody and John Nelson Darby. This episode invites you to critically evaluate whether Graham's alliances compromised the integrity of the gospel. Drawing inspiration from critiques by Ian Paisley, we provide a fresh perspective on what it means to uphold sound biblical doctrine amidst complex religious dynamics.Moving from earthly controversies to celestial questions, we delve into the profound debate of eternal condemnation and free will, using Graham's teachings as a lens. Does God send people to hell, or is it the outcome of personal choices? We explore this theological puzzle, likening it to the complexities of the criminal justice system, where punishment is imposed rather than chosen. By questioning the nature of free will within divine judgment, we aim to provoke thoughtful reflections and encourage you to find your own understanding of these deep and enduring questions.Funny news, Real Talk & Spiritual Growth - Faith that's honest, Deep & Intentional Breaking down faith, culture & big questions - a mix of humor with real spiritual growth. Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
This Christmas the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland made available papers which were previously classified. Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar to reveal his discoveries, including new details of Ian Paisley's relationship with developer Seymour Sweeney, an ambitious plan to dam Strangford Lough, and the DUP's discomfort with sex education booklet for children that included “activities too foul to describe”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nollag Shona Daoibhse.I enjoy Christmas time. It a time for family and friends and for relaxation. For children and Dadaí na Nollaig and presents. For visiting family. For good food – often too much good food - good craic and sitting at home watching a movie, listening to music and reading a good book. It's a time for remembering those who are no longer with us or for visiting those sick or in hospital.60 Years A Growing. As this year draws to a close it strikes me that I first became an activist sixty years ago. It was in September 1964. I was a student in St. Mary's Grammar School in Barrack Street at the bottom of Divis Street. On my way to school I noticed that a shop front in Divis Street was plastered with election posters for the upcoming British General Election. Liam McMillan, a local republican had his election office there. He displayed the Irish national flag in the shop window. The flag was illegal and the RUC, at the behest of Ian Paisley, an up and coming demagogue, using crowbars and pickaxes smashed their way into the election office and seized the flag. The republicans replaced it and there were a few days of street disturbances. The Divis Street Riots. 2024 – A defining year for UnityLast February the North's political institutions were re-established. This was an important development but more crucially Michelle O'Neill was elected as First Minister of the Executive. This was a historic moment in the constitutional transformation that commenced with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 9ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1985 tharla cruinniu ríthábhachtach chun cosc a chur le cur isteach ar na mbus timpeall mí na Nollaig. Tharla easaontas ar an DART mar sin de fhuaidrigh 140 tiománaithe agus bhí a lán bealach curtha ar ceal. I 1986 chuir agóid Ian Paisley stop le hóráid Margaret Thatcher ag Parlaimint na hEorpa ach dhiúltaigh sí é. I 1998 dhícháiligh CBS Durlas ón Dr Harty Cup de bharr níor aistrigh imreoir ó scoil chuig an scoil eile. Fuair an t-imreoir fionraí ar feadh trí mhí. I 2006 fuair lucht oibre i monarcha i Ros Cré amach go mbeidh an mhonarcha á dhúnadh. Chaill 30 duine a bpost. Sin Michael Jackson le The Way You Make Me Feel – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1987. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1988 tháinig suirbhé amach i Meiriceá go raibh amhráin Neil Diamond an ceol is fearr chun a bheith sa chúlra, tháinig Beethoven sa dara háit agus Luther Vandross sa tríú háit. I 2003 chuaigh Ozzy Osbourne chuig an ospidéal tar éis a bhí sé i dtimpiste cuadrothar taobh amuigh de a theach sa Bhreatain. Bhris sé a dealrachán, ocht easna agus a veirteabra ina mhuineál. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Felicity Huffman i Nua Eabhrac i 1962 agus rugadh aisteoir Judi Dench sa Bhreatain i 1934 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sí. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 13ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 2003 bhí ceannairí na hEorpa i sáinn de bharr bunreacht nua san Eoraip. Bhí An Fhrainc agus an Ghearmáin ar son córas vótála nua agus dhiúltaigh An Spáinn agus An Pholainn. I 2007 tháinig Ian Paisley agus Martin McGuinness le chéile chun siopa Ikea nua a oscailt i dTuaisceart na hÉireann. I 2009 – bhí an cumann córúil in Aonach Urmhumhan ag iarradh fir. Bhí siad ag iarradh fir chun an ceol dráma Anything Goes a dhéanamh mar nach raibh go leor acu chun an ceol dráma a cur i láthair. I 2013 d'oscail TippFM ionad chraoladh ar Sráid Phiarsaigh. D'oscail Alan Kelly an dara stiúideo sa chontae. Sin Outcast le Hey Ya – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 2003. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 2000 bhí síniú leabhair ag Waterstones i Piccadilly le Paul McCartney. Bhí Sir Paul McCartney ann sa siopa chun síniú cúpla cóipeanna de a leabhar nua. I 2013 – tháinig Beyonce amach lena albam nua darbh ainm 'Beyonce'. Bhí sé seo a chúigiú albam. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh aisteoir Jamie Foxx i Texas i 1967 agus rugadh amhránaí Taylor Swift i Meiriceá i 1989 agus seo chuid de a amhrán. Beidh mé ar ais libh an tseachtain seo chugainn le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 4ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1973 tháinig cumas socrú amach do Bhaile Átha Cliath ionas go n-aithneoidh siad institiúid Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Dúradh go mbeidh cainteanna ag dul ar aghaidh le ráflaí ann go mbeidh Ian Paisley ag baint leo. I 1975 scaoileadh urchar ar dhá robálaí nuair a bhí 20 ghiall acu ag bainc I bPáras. D'éalaigh siad le dhá ghiall. Ag an deireadh bhí siad I dtimpiste ach bhí na ghiall sábháilte. I 2001 d'éirigh na táillí páirceála I Durlas. Dá mbeifeá chun do charr a pharcáil sa bhaile, bheifeá ag íoc 31p d' uair a chloig agus 1 punt agus 18p don lá ar fad. I 2011 chruthaigh leathanach Facebook darbh ainm Tabhair Pictiúrlann chuig Ros Cré. Lean a lán daoine nua an leathanach Facebook I gcúpla seachtain agus de bharr sin tháinig coiste le chéile. Chruthaigh an leathanach Facebook chun suim a léiriú go bhfuil siad ag iarradh pictiúrlann I Ros Cré. Sin The Wolfe Tones le Helicoper Song – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1973. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1988 sheinm Roy Orbison a cheolchoirm dheireanach I Cleveland. Fuair sé bás dhá lá tar éis de thaom croí. I 2006 tháinig sé amach go raibh Britney Spears an duine a raibh daoine á chuardaigh an chuid is mó. Chuardaigh daoine Britney Spears an chuid is mó an bhliain sin ná aon rud eile. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Tyra Banks I gCalifornia I 1973 agus rugadh amhránaí Jay-Z I Nua Eabhrac I 1969 agus seo chuid de a amhrán. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 13ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 2003 bhí ceannairí na hEorpa i sáinn de bharr bunreacht nua san Eoraip. Bhí An Fhrainc agus an Ghearmáin ar son córas vótála nua agus dhiúltaigh An Spáinn agus An Pholainn. I 2007 tháinig Ian Paisley agus Martin McGuinness le chéile chun siopa Ikea nua a oscailt i dTuaisceart na hÉireann. I 2000 rinne Minnie Baker ó Chroisín cuilt phíosála agus thug sí é chuig ospís an Chláir chun airgead a bhailiú. Sheas an chuilt do na oibrí deonach, na hothair agus an fhoireann. Bhí an chuilt an chéad duais i gcrannchur na Nollaig. I 2007 bhí ceithre theaghlach in O'Callaghan Mills, iargúlta do cúig lá de bharr tuilte. Bhí siad ábalta rudaí a fháil agus dul áit éigin i dtarracóir. Dúirt Rory Moloney a raibh ina chónaí ann, nach raibh a chlann ábalta dul abhaile do chúpla lá nuair a chuaigh siad amach chun siopadóireacht na Nollaig a dhéanamh. Sin Outcast le Hey Ya – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 2003. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 2000 bhí síniú leabhair ag Waterstones i Piccadilly le Paul McCartney. Bhí Sir Paul McCartney ann sa siopa chun síniú cúpla cóipeanna de a leabhar nua. I 2013 – tháinig Beyonce amach lena albam nua darbh ainm 'Beyonce'. Bhí sé seo a chúigiú albam. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh aisteoir Jamie Foxx i Texas i 1967 agus rugadh amhránaí Taylor Swift i Meiriceá i 1989 agus seo chuid de a amhrán. Beidh mé ar ais libh an tseachtain seo chugainn le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 9ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1985 tharla cruinniu ríthábhachtach chun cosc a chur le cur isteach ar na mbus timpeall mí na Nollaig. Tharla easaontas ar an DART mar sin de fhuaidrigh 140 tiománaithe agus bhí a lán bealach curtha ar ceal. I 1986 chuir agóid Ian Paisley stop le hóráid Margaret Thatcher ag Parlaimint na hEorpa ach dhiúltaigh sí é. I 1986 bhí dinnéar ag Cumann an Chláir i Manchain. Mhol Frank O'Dea an cúnamh ón phobal agus na h-imeachtaí cultúrtha. Bhí an oíche lán de cheol traidisiúnta. I 1987 scríobh Lorna King ó Rinn na Spáinneach dán darbh ainm The Wave. Mhol na moltóirí an dán ag gradam críonna do scríbhneoireacht chruthaitheach. Sin Michael Jackson le The Way You Make Me Feel – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1987. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1988 tháinig suirbhé amach i Meiriceá go raibh amhráin Neil Diamond an ceol is fearr chun a bheith sa chúlra, tháinig Beethoven sa dara háit agus Luther Vandross sa tríú háit. I 2003 chuaigh Ozzy Osbourne chuig an ospidéal tar éis a bhí sé i dtimpiste cuadrothar taobh amuigh de a theach sa Bhreatain. Bhris sé a dealrachán, ocht easna agus a veirteabra ina mhuineál. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Felicity Huffman i Nua Eabhrac i 1962 agus rugadh aisteoir Judi Dench sa Bhreatain i 1934 agus seo chuid de na rudaí a rinne sí. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Fáilte ar ais chuig eagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo ar an 4ú lá de mí na Nollaig, liomsa Lauren Ní Loingsigh. I 1973 tháinig cumas socrú amach do Bhaile Átha Cliath ionas go n-aithneoidh siad institiúid Tuaisceart na hÉireann. Dúradh go mbeidh cainteanna ag dul ar aghaidh le ráflaí ann go mbeidh Ian Paisley ag baint leo. I 1975 scaoileadh urchar ar dhá robálaí nuair a bhí 20 ghiall acu ag bainc I bPáras. D'éalaigh siad le dhá ghiall. Ag an deireadh bhí siad I dtimpiste ach bhí na ghiall sábháilte. I 1975 bhí an Miss E.I ar siúil sa West County in Inis. Bhí seacht gcailín ón tír in iomaíocht don teidil. I 1978 tháinig sé amach go raibh Rev. Hayden Foster mar Reachtaire nua in Inis. Rugadh é I mBéal Feirste agus d'oirnigh sé I 1974. Sin The Wolfe Tones le Helicoper Song – an t-amhrán is mó ar an lá seo I 1973. Ag lean ar aghaidh le nuacht cheoil ar an lá seo I 1988 sheinm Roy Orbison a cheolchoirm dheireanach I Cleveland. Fuair sé bás dhá lá tar éis de thaom croí. I 2006 tháinig sé amach go raibh Britney Spears an duine a raibh daoine á chuardaigh an chuid is mó. Chuardaigh daoine Britney Spears an chuid is mó an bhliain sin ná aon rud eile. Agus ar deireadh breithlá daoine cáiliúla ar an lá seo rugadh Tyra Banks I gCalifornia I 1973 agus rugadh amhránaí Jay-Z I Nua Eabhrac I 1969 agus seo chuid de a amhrán. Beidh mé ar ais libh amárach le heagrán nua de Ar An Lá Seo.
Kevin Meagher's book "What A Bloody Awful Country" examines the creation of the state we know as Northern Ireland and how the 100 plus years of existence as gone.We discuss the reasons for partition in the first place, the sectarian violence during the state's early years, the anti-catholic discrimination built into Northern Ireland's governing system, the various forms of civil rights violations that Catholics had to endure and how violence erupted into what we call "the troubles".TIMSTAMPS 0:00 Intro, ‘What A Bloody Awful Country'5:30 How Did Northern Ireland Come To Exist 12:30 Violence in Northern Ireland's History16:05 Key Factors Leading To The Outbreak of Violence32:50 Ian Paisley 38:10 Kevin's Irish History Counterfactual 50:50 Border Poll56:40 Kevin's Interest (Q&A coming soon so please drop any questions in the comments or email me at thegoodlistenerpodcast@gmail.com )PLEASE HELP OUT THE SHOW IF YOU CAN SPARE IT.. THANK YOUhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/goodlistenerpodcastBUY THE BOOK: https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/what-a-bloody-awful-country
Alf McCreary walked into the Belfast Telegraph on September 1, 1964 – and asked for a job. 60 years on, he's still writing for the paper. Alf's career has given him many insights into our society and its divisions. He charted the evolution of the Rev Ian Paisley, and he wrote a biography of Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie was killed in the Enniskillen bombing. He spoke to Ciarán Dunbar about his life in journalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10/27/2024 | This day's featured sermon on SermonAudio: Title: 1950's National Radio Debate in Canada Subtitle: Paisley CD Series Speaker: Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley Broadcaster: Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley Event: Debate Date: 10/1/1950 Bible: Romans 3:28 Length: 12 min.
9/29/2024 | This day's featured sermon on SermonAudio: Title: Fundamentalism vs. Apostasy Subtitle: Paisley CD Series Speaker: Dr. Ian R. K. Paisley Broadcaster: Sermons of Dr. Ian Paisley Event: Classic Audio Date: 3/1/1969 Bible: Jude; Genesis 1 Length: 30 min.
In a recent episode I interviewed author Dan Lawton about his book focusing on the fallout from the murder of dept Governor, Albert Miles, of the infamous Maze Prison in November 1978 in which an innocent man was convicted.Alan Miles witnessed his father's brutal murder as a young man at the hands of the IRA but almost immediately got to a place in his mind where he was not interested in revenge or retribution.Alan tells us about his childhood growing up with a prison guard as a father, his father's views on unionism & Ian Paisley, how he himself views the IRA men who m*rdered his father.If you would like to help out the show please like, subscribe and share. I plan on doing bigger things with this show including walk through of areas, documentary-type videos and more.. if you would like to help fund these efforts please consider donating on Buy Me a Coffee. (link below)Thanks a million!!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/goodlistenerpodcastTIMESTAMPS 00:00 Growing up05:00 Father's worker in the prison service 15:00 The blanket and no-wash protests 17:03 Does Alan want “revenge” or want to meet his father's killer(s) ? 26:03 Night of the m*rder 36:30 Did Alan believe that Kevin Barry Artt was the killer ? 51:15 Thoughts on current-day N.I
Sam McBride on why Ian Paisley Jr lost his seat and if this is truly the end of Paisleyism. And could he head off and work for Farage or even Trump? Host: Ciarán Dunbar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Alex Kane, Political Commentator and Former Communications Director with the Ulster Unionist Party.
The DUP have suffered a series of defeats in the general election including Ian Paisley's North Antrim seat.Alliance have won Lagan Valley with Sorcha Eastwood but lost North Down and Stephen Farry.In a great night for them, Sinn Féin have held all their seats comfortably.SDLP hold their seats. The UUP's Robin Swan wins South Antrim Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In the second part of our look at Tom Baker's final season, we wax (appropriately) lyrical about Warrior's Gate, muse on the poor observation skills of the people of Traken, and mourn Aunty Vanessa (because someone has to). Jacob has issues with Traken as a moral fable, Ciarán ponders whether the Keeper is more Arthur Scargill or Ian Paisley, and we come to a distressing realisation about the inhabitants of Logopolis. Warrior's Gate: 0:35 The Keeper of Traken: 28:29 Logopolis: 46:00 Conclusions and rankings: 1:17:58 Twitter: @LotsPlanetsPod Email: lotsofplanets@gmail.com Theme Music: "Special Spotlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Donald Trump, the 1st former president of the US to become a convicted felon -discussion.
Renowned Northern journalist Eamonn Mallie has published his new book. In 'Eyewitness to War and Peace', he takes us through his many eventful years working as a journalist in the North. Eamonn made a name for himself by covering the Troubles from the frontlines and the developments from the corridors of power. His career has seen him enjoy unparalleled access to political heavyweights such as John Hume, Gerry Adams, Margaret Thatcher, Ian Paisley, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and a host of other influential figures involved in the peace process. Alan Morrissey was joined by Eamonn, who highlighted his memoir, Eyewitness to War and Peace, on Thursday's Morning Focus.
Graham Cousins grew up protestant in East Belfast and spent his late-teen years and early 20s in the Ulster Defense Association better known as the UDA, a loyalist paramilitary group formed in the early 70s. He has since become close friends with ex-paramilitaries from the other side including my last guest, ex-b*mb-maker Packy McMahon (https://youtu.be/R5XJQrUCeMk?si=zCipaXh0uMIK6P0j)Graham speaks to us about his mindset during the early 70s, his reasons for joining up, his thoughts on the UDA's policy of targeting innocent Catholics and how he left the group. Graham shared some interesting thoughts/insights into his mentality during the UDA days, the time that RUC officers let him “steal” their weapons, his memories of Ian Paisley, thoughts on a united Ireland and much moreIf you would like to help out the show please like, subscribe and share. I plan on doing bigger things with this show including walk through of areas, documentary-type videos and more.. if you would like to help fund these efforts please consider donating on Patreon or Buy My a Coffee.Thanks a million!!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/goodlistenerpodcastTIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro6:20 RUC COLLUSION w/ UDA 10:10 Why join UDA not UVF 15:05 How were catholic families intimidated out ?16:55 How did graham feel about his UDA activities at the time?18:00 Does Graham identify as British ?21:45 Ian Paisley 27:15 How did he view the UVF ?29:10 Any respect for the IRA ?31:25 Would Graham have known the main hitmen in the UDA ? 35:45 Women in the UDA37:50 Dual membership UDA/UDR 39:35 Living in England
Show notes and Transcript Andrew Bridgen MP is one of those rare individuals in UK politics. He is driven by convictions and critical thinking as opposed to fame and power which is the norm in Westminster (or on Capital Hill I assume). He was an absolute Brexiteer and led part of that campaign for The UK to have freedom from the EU. He joins Hearts of Oak to discuss how he fought for Brexit all through his political life, but his biggest battle has been against the Covid Tyranny imposed on us by the UK government. Andrew spoke up for all who have been vaccine injured and for that he was thrown out of the Conservative party and vilified in the media. But the Conservatives loss was the gain of The Reclaim Party as he now represents them as the MP for North West Leicestershire. His bravery and boldness is plain for all to see and as long as we have people like Andrew Bridgen in Parliament, we have a glimmer of hope in the UK. Andrew Bridgen was elected in 2010 after spending 25 years running his successful family business, AB Produce, based in the constituency at Measham. Prior to this Andrew attended local state schools and Nottingham University. He has also trained as an officer in the Royal Marines. During his time in Parliament, Andrew has been a prolific speaker and has campaigned on a variety of local and national issues in Parliament. Locally Andrew campaigned for grant funding to bring all of NW Leics District Council housing up to the Decent Homes Standards. Andrew has also campaigned for better transport infrastructure which led to the duelling of the A453 and the planned electrification of the midland mainline. He has also worked with business and community groups to bring down the rate of unemployment in the District, as well as holding a jobs fair. On a national level, Andrew led the successful campaigns to decriminalise non-payment of the TV Licence and to scrap Air Passenger Duty for Children. He has also used his business experience to serve on the Regulatory Reform Committee as well as the Deregulation and the Enterprise Bill committee. Connect with Andrew... X: https://x.com/ABridgen?s=20 The Reclaim Party: https://www.reclaimparty.co.uk/andrew-bridgen Interview recorded 22.9.23 *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/ Support Hearts of Oak by purchasing one of our fancy T-Shirts.... https://heartsofoak.org/shop/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Andrew Bridgen, it is wonderful to speak to you today. Thank you so much for your time. (Andrew Bridgen MP) Yeah, you're welcome. Andrew Bridgen, of course you can find him @ABridgen on Twitter and he has served as Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire since 2010, re-elected 2015, 2017 and 2019 with a whopping 62% off the vote, one of the few MPs with anywhere near that. Obviously, thrown out of the Conservative Party, the whip removed, and then that was in April 2023 for raising concerns on the Covid jab, and Andrew now represents the Reclaim Party in Parliament as an MP. Andrew, may I ask you first, what got you into politics? You entered Parliament in 2010. What made you think it would be a good idea to get into politics? Frustration, Peter, and I've been running a business for 22 years, which would start it up the thousand pounds. So I've been I've been MD and chairman of the company and we built it up to 25 million turnover company employing 300 people by 2006. And I'd give, I'd been interested in politics. I joined the Conservatives in 1983 at Nottingham University. And I'd been chairman of the Institute of Directors and on the council of the IOD in Pall Mall, and through working during the Blair years with the East Midlands Regional Assembly as a business member. Obviously I'd met a lot of ministers and I can't say that I was impressed. Well, it was pretty clear they were going to bankrupt us. So a group of friends, most, they were all really sort of small and medium-sized business people and their wives, we used to meet in a pub locally and every Friday night it was sort of a groundhog day, so they always moaned about the state of the country. I'd given a reasonable donation to the Conservative Party in 2005 and I think we had a half a percent swing to the Conservatives so worked out at that rate we're never going to get rid of Tony Blair. And so they moaned every Friday night and it eventually it got to me but I mean by that time I was running a business that was making about three million pounds a year across the group. I've got a good management team and no debt whatsoever and one pint of Marston's Pedigree on a Friday night too many and I said to this group of collected individuals, that's it then. It's no good relying on anybody else. There's only us. So in North West Leicestershire was supposed to be a rock solid Labour seat. The council I don't think had ever been conservative controlled properly. I think they may have had control for about three months once out of 40 years after a by-election. So I said well you all stand for the council, the district council, I'll stand for MP, we'll take over and we'll get it sorted and to a man and a woman every single one of them agreed. And so I put most of the money up for the, I put the money up for the campaign and I got the nomination. Nobody really wanted to be the MP for North West Leicestershire, well the candidate for North West Leicestershire because no one, the Conservatives told me we can't win North West Leicestershire, 83rd target seat. They also said they weren't giving me any money but I said that's fine, I've got my own money and my factory was in the, in the, so I actually did have a payroll vote. So 300 people plus their families in the constituency and the District Council elections came round first in 2007 and I was already selected as the parliamentary candidate. I ran those elections and put the money up and it was the first time the Conservatives had put a full slate up in the seat and they said I was running them too thin but I always thought basically if you didn't put a candidate up at an election it's very difficult to see how how they're going to vote for somebody aren't they? So we put a full slate of candidates up and took Labour down to five councils out of 38 in one night, the biggest swing in the country in the District Council elections in 2007. We took control of the council obviously, and I had the second biggest swing in against Labour in 2010, so I turned a rock-solid four and a half thousand Labour majority with a much loved Labour MP, who sadly died, into seven and a half thousand Conservatives at one, so that's like a 12.5% swing. The seat's my home and, you know, I'm very comfortable in North West Leicestershire. And we moved it to, in 2015, it went up to 11,200 majority. And despite Theresa May's best efforts in 17 with her manifesto, which was appalling, I moved it up to 13,300 majority. Then in 19, I led the leave campaign in the referendum for the East Midlands. I told my seat that if they didn't back me I would have to resign as their MP because we didn't agree on the big issues but to be honest Peter I was fairly sure they would. So the East Midlands voted 59-41 to leave and my own seat voted 61 39 and I'm actually the MP who persuaded Boris Johnson to back leave. He was no way that he was a natural Brexiteer and also if you look back on YouTube you'll find that on the eve of the referendum Boris Johnson came to my seat and we went round Ashby de la Zouch. That's when I told him we were going to win and you should have seen his face when I told him we were going to win. I don't think that that wasn't actually part of the plan Peter and in fact he tried to talk me out of it he said no no it's going to be close but we're not going to win. I said no no we're going to win tomorrow. No, it's going to be close. I said, well, maybe I said, but certainly not around here, not around here. It's not going to be close. You know, the bit we're running. So, and then in 19, on the get Brexit done election, which now seems so much happened since 19. It feels like a very long time ago, more than four years away. And I got a 20,400 majority, it was 62.8% of the vote. And the BBC, I had no sleep that night, the next morning the BBC interviewed me and they said, Mr Bridgen, you must be delighted, this is your fourth election victory, each time you've increased your vote, you've increased your majority, your percentage of the vote, you must be delighted. I said, no, it's terrible actually. They said, why is it terrible? I said, well, I've, you know, it's nine years since I was first elected as the MP, I've delivered the highest economic growth in the country. We've taken the poorest constituency in Leicestershire and made it the richest, the only part of Leicestershire with above-average UK salaries and wages. We've got the happiest place to live in the Midlands now, Colville, which was the most deprived town in Leicestershire. I said one in three of the electorate are still not voting for me. I'm gonna have to work much much harder. Tell me about that whole Brexit battle. I mean my time was UKIP and UKIP was easy because 100% of Kippers were on board. The Conservative Party have always had that tension and division over Europe. What was that like actually in the Conservative Party pushing something that wasn't necessarily what the Conservatives wanted? Well it wasn't what the establishment wanted, all the established parties were backing Remain. I think it was interesting that the Conservative Party was like, a very civilized internal war, and there were probably only a quarter to 30 percent of conservative MPs who were for leave, so still the majority were, remain, or indifferent, and some of them maintaining indifference, which I mean, I don't know what you're into politics for. If a big question like whether we should remain or leave the European Union, they say, I don't want to get involved in this. I'll just sit down and see what my people say. I mean, that's not exactly leadership, is it? I mean, I think that should be pretty much automatic deselection, if you can't make your mind up on that sort of issue. And what comes back to mind is that the Conservative Party, we used to, when I was in the Conservative Party, before they threw me out, well, first I'll tell you this, Conservatives have never been encouraged in the Conservative Party, they're only ever tolerated. And the Conservative Party, Parliamentary Party, had something called an away day every two years, and they pay for them in advance to get a good deal. So despite the fact that there was this internal schism over the referendum that was coming, the party had paid for an away weekend in Oxfordshire at this basically hotel that's like a Bond villain's hideout, with an underground lecture theatre, which is a very weird place, and because we paid for it, we were told we'd all got to go there, and this is only sort of three months before the referendum, and we had a very civilised weekend of talking about policy, but no one mentioned the EU and no one mentioned the referendum over the whole two and a half days and the dinner, but I do remember that Craig Oliver sat with me at the final dinner he sat next to me on my table at the final dinner and I told him, I said have you got yourself another job lined up for when you lose, and he said to me he said that's fine he said if we win by one vote that's it settled and that's that's it done. I said well I'll be honest I'll take though I'll take that on as as it cuts both ways, you know, if we win by one. And I knew we were going to win, Peter, because, I'd been around the East Midlands and I could tell we were definitely going to win. But it's about driving the vote up because it wasn't just winning by a seat, all the votes were cumulative, so every vote counted. And what I'd sussed out is in my seat and in the East Midlands is that people who didn't normally vote were going to come out and vote. They weren't, those people who didn't normally engage with politics, they weren't coming out to, they weren't coming out to vote for the status quo, they were voting for change. So I concentrated my campaigning efforts the last six weeks. And did a lot of campaigning and also I was running a load of field operatives who were, 90% of it, they were UKIP. The Remain campaign had nobody on the ground willing to deliver leaflets, hardly at all, for them. We were destroying them on the ground battle. Obviously, in the air campaign we could only be responsive because they got all the media, they got all the established parties, and we were the insurgents. So that was more of a struggle, but on the ground we were doing very, very well. And what I'd sussed out was that people were going to come out and vote who didn't normally vote and every time I saw the polls I was not disappointed because I knew that we were probably, we probably got five or six percent better than the polls were saying because these people who were going to come out and vote and they told me they were and I believe they were, They're not engaged in politics, they're not on YouGov's polling panel, and when Com Res or somebody else rang them up and they said, oh, I'm going to vote to leave the European Union, they'd say, well, did you vote in the last general election? No. Did you vote in the local? No. Did you vote in the one before? No. Have you ever voted? No. And they'd put them down as zero chance of voting. Well, I knew as long as we got those people out, it was all going to come as a bit of a surprise to the Remain campaign. In North West Leicestershire, and we counted our votes, so I know it's fine, I know exactly what the vote was in North West Leicestershire, but you could terminate my seat of North West Leicestershire until the next boundary changes. I think it was a sort of 70-75% turnout to get me in in 2010, important election. And then ever since then, as my majority had gone up, the turnout had gone down and it dropped to sort of 68.5% or something in 19. But I mean, it was a stonking massive majority. And obviously the referendum, I was very encouraged when it was nearly 80%. And I'd spent all my time in Northwest Leicestershire and across the East Midlands. In my villages, I mean, it's a general election, they turn out 85 percent anyway. I'm not going to squeeze much more out of those people. You know, it's very hard to squeeze that they're on the second, third pressings of the pips. So I went to all the areas that normally turn out 50, 55, 60 percent because there was plenty of low-hanging fruit and you know it was that turnout in North West Leicestershire and across the East Midlands some people who didn't normally vote and that's why we won and that's why the polling was so wrong and that's what people like David Cameron who'd come to my seat in 2008 when he was leader of the opposition and he really upset me Peter so I'm a a candidate. We've just taken the council with the biggest swing in the country for the first time in living memory and Cameron told me in front of constituents that my seat was a dump and it should never be conservative. And they weren't giving me any money and I said I don't need your money and to be honest David if that's your view, never ever come to my constituency again and I will with it. And to be honest, David Cameron is a man of his word, he never came, he never came again. So that's fine. And I think now my majority is bigger than Whitney, so I mean what a dump the Cotswolds must be. North West Leicestershire. And we've gentrified. So people used to say Coalville was a very poor place and it didn't have a chance and now it's Coalville and proud. In fact I'm speaking to you from Coalville today. I want to get on to the COVID discussion situation, but just you, you talked at the beginning about having a business and I guess part of your reason for getting into politics was you wanted the government to butt out, you want local businesses to be able to get on, to have, not to have restrictions on them actually doing well, making money, employing people. What kind of other kind of interests or passions? Well, I've actually cut my teeth in politics when I was chair of the Institute of Directors, which they didn't like particularly because they were fairly pro-EU, is that I got involved as a businessman in the,business for sterling in the no campaign to keep the pound so 25 years ago and thank goodness we didn't join the euro otherwise I mean it'd be much much more difficult to extract ourselves. Yes and Simon Wolfson the chairman of Next we used to meet at Enderby in his boardroom and plot business for Sterling in the No campaign. So I suppose that's where I got involved. And a chap called Chris Eaton Harris, who's gone on to great things, apparently, he was an MEP. And his father had a fruit and vegetable wholesale pitch in Covent Garden Market. And since I was into washing, packing, and distributing vegetables, mostly potatoes, nothing sexy. Chris was one of my customers. I used to buy from Mark Potatoes from Mark Spencer. And Philip Dunn as well. They're farmers. So we had the whole supply chain between us, do you know what I mean? But I made most of the money. Which is just as well because they're not in parliament. Just as well. So yeah, I wanted to put something back and yeah, that's where we ended up. Obviously being a Brexiteer, there was backlash in the media, there was probably some pushback within the party itself. But I guess none of that even prepared you for the backlash whenever you addressed COVID tyranny. Is that a fair assessment? Well I know that the two years under Theresa May were purgatory quite honestly. I mean I was a Spartan so I voted three times against Theresa May's deal which you know it wasn't, you know, some colleagues were conflicted and there was Steve Baker crying his eyes out. Well I mean there's nothing to cry about because I've already voted against it twice, it hasn't got any better and once you've come to the conclusion, which was the correct conclusion, that Theresa May's deal was constitutionally and democratically worse than being in the European Union. I mean at least if you're in the European Union you have a chance of leaving whereas Theresa May's deal we would be in vassalage forever and there's no way of leaving. Well I mean that's not a deal, not in my name and that vote on the third time Theresa May's deal came up before the Commons I was pretty convinced that there were probably going to be 28 Conservatives in the no lobby. The rest of Parliament would vote yes and that we would have been slung out of the Conservative Party within a few days. That was where I thought we were. Thank goodness. I mean we always criticise Jeremy Corbyn but he is a man of principle and he is secretly a Brexiteer really I think and he marched the Labour Party in behind us and the rest, as they say, is history. But I mean, a politically savvy Keir Starmer would never, would have taken Theresa May's deal and consigned us to EU vassalage. So thank goodness it was Jeremy Corbyn. But he did win the Conservatives the 19th election. That wasn't, down to Boris, it was pure fear of Jeremy Corbyn. Yeah, no, it was, you don't want Corbyn, 100% I remember that well. Well, I actually had two, during that 19 election, I can remember when I was going around the doorsteps, two members, two paid-up locally members of the Labour Party came to me and said I'll be voting Conservative, I can't vote for Jeremy Corbyn. And they actually told me they were paid up members of the Labour Party locally. Well I mean if you, I mean that is your core, ultra core vote. They weren't even voting for him. Wow. On to the COVID. I've never seen anything and I mean I've loved politics, forever with Northern Ireland parties, the DUP and we've had Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson on before and then conservatives then over to UKIP, but nothing has divided people like what we've had in the last three years with the COVID tyranny. But you spoke a step, it wasn't just on the restrictions that we had, that civil liberty, but you also saw what was happening with harms and went on that. Tell us about that, how you worked that out, because that was a big step and that was an unacceptable step. I think there's an element of destiny about all of this Peter. When I was 18 and I'm the only member of my family that's been to university, I had a foreground because my parents weren't very wealthy, they were poor. So about two and a half percent of people went to University when I went in the 80s and I went to Nottingham locally but I studied biological sciences with biochemistry specializing in genetics, virology and behaviour. Oh dear! And I don't know why, just they were things I found quite fascinating so I've tried to keep my knowledge up so I mean in February when we'd had the 19 election and then we had a sort of six weeks period and then we had then we had COVID and everything changed. Well in the February I was sent and I looked through the scientific papers for the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, its effectiveness against coronaviruses and it was compelling. They were scientific papers and because I've got, my degree a very long time ago in those subjects I mean I can read them and I can understand the papers and I sent the papers to Mark Spencer, Chief Whip, and said the government need to look at this urgently, this could be could be very useful and also sent them to Jeremy Hunt who was at the time, Chair of the Health Select Committee, and I didn't get anything back from Spencer. And I also told Spencer, I said, you realise that I've got qualifications in all the areas that'll be useful, if you want some help in the number 10, with someone who can actually read the papers and understand it and put it across politically, I'll be quite happy to help. They never, Mr Stewart never asked me to help, and I rang up Jeremy Hunt a week later, and this shocked me, Peter and it will shock your listeners. So I rang him Hunt up and said Jeremy I sent you these papers, have you have you looked at them? And he said Andrew he said don't send me scientific papers he said I don't understand them and I said but Jeremy you're chairman of the health select committee and you were health secretary for seven years. I said what? You don't understand scientific papers, and what you have no access to anyone who does understand them he could actually explain them to you and he put the phone down and that was it and so my suspicion, so I hadn't got a great deal of confidence I did support the first lockdown because I don't think anybody knew, well somebody knew what was going on it certainly wasn't me, you know was it three weeks to flatten the curve. Anyway, so, and I was, from then on, things just didn't seem to stack up. The masks, I couldn't see the sense behind the masks. I mean, those paper masks, they are to stop saliva from the doctors and nurses going on to the patient's wounds and to stop blood and other bodily fluids squirting into the medic's mouths, which they don't really like, they don't like that. That's what they're there for. So not to stop viruses and the gaps around the edges And I was briefly in the military. And if you had a full nuclear biological chemical suit, you've only got an 80% chance of keeping a virus out. Well, I mean, that's not what these paper masks are. And I guess, I hated putting them on anyway. They're horrible. So I was on that. And then the continuous lockdowns, and Northwest Leicestershire was chucked in with Leicester. And so we were locked down as much as anywhere in the country. It was completely unprecedented and unwarranted. I also really objected to the schools being closed. And I objected. I mean, they were making the children wear masks. And even some schools were making the children wear masks when it wasn't mandated. And none of this seemed right. And there are some, speaking to some scientists who were speaking out about their concerns, And the fact that they were silenced, and they said all the science is all settled, I mean we've heard that one before several times, I'm sure we'll hear it again, but I mean science is never settled. It's a bit like politics, there's always another view, and if you can't defend your position, then there's something wrong. You know, every scientific thesis is open to challenge, or should be able to challenge, and most of them, I mean half of everything that doctors are taught in medical school within 10 years will be proved to be completely wrong. That's a fact, I mean that's just a fact. So, you know, the only constant is the evolution of science and new theories to supersede old ones and saying that, you know, we're not having any debate about this and cancelling eminent scientists. Then my concerns grew and grew and grew but I didn't want to believe the worst of the government. I actually am double vaccinated. They will call me an anti-vaxxer so which is difficult when I'm vaxxed. I'm more the sort of concerned vaxxed and I had two shots of AstraZeneca, I wish I had none, and I had a bad reaction after the second jab, which really, really hurt me. So I'd bitten my tongue, that also uncovered a lot of corruption around PPE. My whistle-blower was sacked. We uncovered £860 million worth of PCR tests that had disappeared from stock at Kuehne & Nagel were the distributor. We traced some of the unique barcodes and they turned up in Berlin. They'd been resold. So nearly a billion pounds. And my whistle-blower could only go back 12 months on his computer. And he was only in one of the three channels. He was in the channel to do with bulk. So it was only sort of prisons, schools, hospitals, things like that. But 860 million pounds worth of PCR tests had gone missing the taxpayer paid for. We took it to the government and the civil service. My whistle-blowers computer was switched off on the day and he was sacked within seven days, no investigation. I was pretty annoyed. And I mean, the corruption of the Boris Johnson regime was the first one I'd, and he was the he'd been the first Prime Minister I'd actually voted for and I was feeling very betrayed. So I hadn't voted for David Cameron, obviously, I voted for David Davies, and Cameron got in and I didn't vote for Theresa May. She got in. And so then Boris turned out to be as crooked as all the rest of them. So that wasn't good. And then my pretty view on the vaccines and the mRNA technology, the messenger ribonucleic acid technology. I was working behind the scenes and obviously Matt Hancock had to go and we had, Sajid Javid became health secretary. But there are about five Conservative MPs who are qualified doctors. Well Matt Hancock, not a good man, but he had said in the House of Commons that these vaccines were for adults, they weren't for children, so no one under 18 was going to have them. I know that every one of the doctors, qualified doctors, went to see Sajid Javid and told him not to use the experimental vaccines on under-18s and he listened to all of them and then approved it. It's interesting that these two health secretaries are both leaving the Commons at the next election, isn't it? I wonder where they'll land, you know what I mean? I suspect Peter, there'll be earning a lot more money than MPs get paid, let's just put it that way. And then when the MHRA came out in November last year and wanted to extend the experimental vaccines to babies, down to six months of age, and I'll declare an interest, I've got a five-year-old and I thought now, I've got to speak out and I knew there'd be a huge backlash from the party, politically and I knew the vested interests that were involved in it but I also knew that it was probably going to cost me my position in the Conservative Party because they were so committed, but that I could win, that I'm pretty sure I thought, well there's no point doing it for nothing, you've got to win and I was pretty sure that I could put the science over that there were no healthy child of that age had died anywhere in the world of COVID-19 so there was minimal, minuscule risk from the virus but there was a risk from the vaccine. I thought even the most pro-vaccine person I could persuade that since the manufacturers still had immunity from prosecution that there had to be a risk. But there was no risk for those children. I thought I could get that message across and we could actually do some good and so I'd spoken out in a Westminster Hall debate, in I think it was October and then on November 13th I secured an adjournment debate and and blew the lid off the childhood vaccines, vaccination with the experimental mRNA. And that night, my life changed. I was basically immediately cancelled by the mainstream media. And from that moment onwards, I had hundreds of thousands of emails from around the world from people who were telling me about the vaccine harms and the vaccine deaths that they were seeing and that was it really. So after that, although the government will say that I'm a conspiracy theorist and anti-science, anti-vax, and all the people who call me anti-science and everything, I mean they haven't got any science degrees between them and the fact is that the government, our government was never able to approve those vaccines for healthy under fives, whereas all the other countries around the world did. So despite the fact that they said that I was talking absolute rubbish, they never bought the policy and every other country did. And then we got round to sort of January and the infamous tweet, which was actually, I mean, yes, so I retweeted, I actually didn't do it, but it was retweeted on my Twitter, a tweet from Dr. Josh Guetzkow of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and it's fair to say that Mr. Guetzkow is a Jewish gentleman, that he'd been told by a top cardiologist that the rollout of the vaccine was the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust, and the party seized on that, the Conservative Party seized on that, to say I was an anti-Semite, and suspended me immediately from the party. I had a meeting at that time with a Conservative Party grandee who'd clearly been briefed by the party. We had an hour together in his office and I told him all of my concerns around the vaccine harms, the midazolam and morphine, the creation of the first wave of deaths by moving people out of care homes and then putting them onto the death pathway, putting them down, treating them with respiratory suppressants to give them the symptoms of COVID-19 which will appear on their on their death certificate and they were pretty much all cremated very shortly afterwards so there was no autopsies and we had an hour of that. I also knew that the person I was meeting with, because I'd done my research and I've got plenty of informers, he knew full well all of my concerns because he'd been told them. I also know that his sister had had to go into hospital after the second Pfizer jab with chest pains, but I didn't tell him any of this. And at the end of the meeting this grandee turned around to me, obviously with the party line, I've been suspended and said that there is currently no political appetite for your views on the vaccine, Andrew. They may well be in 20 years time and you're probably going to be proved right but in the meantime you need to bear in mind you're taking on the most powerful vested interest in the world with all the personal risk for you which that will entail, and at that point I said well the meeting's over then isn't it? I'm not, don't ever threaten me and I don't like being threatened by public school boys. You know, as a comprehensive school boy, if they had been at my school, they'd have spent most of their time with their head down the toilet. It was a very comprehensive education. So we basically called it a day at that and then they just fast-tracked the investigation and found me guilty and permanently expelled me from the Conservative Party, which is interesting because in their investigation what they didn't discover is I never put the tweet out myself anyway. I've never ever had the codes to my own Twitter. It was actually posted by my association chairman who remains in the Conservative Party. Can I ask you about... I need to ask you about the conversations with colleagues and obviously not breaking confidentiality of that, but working with Lord Pearson I'm always amazed people come to him after a debate and says well done. I could never say that but well done you said that. Did you have any kind of similar? Yes, it's coming up to a year since I first spoke out so yeah I've probably had 20, I probably had 30 backbenchers have come up to me and said you're definitely onto something with these vaccine harms, keep going but that's a million miles from standing in the chamber and saying anything. I've had senior members of the Conservative Party have come to me and said that they're going to speak out. I've had a very senior MP came to me before summer recess and said he'd been approached by a constituent representing 1,100 vaccine-harmed people and he'd have to speak out, but he hasn't, and I had a very senior minister who came to me and said that they're, I mean this is all in private in parliament, no witnesses, so I mean they can deny it if they want to, but you have my word it's the truth, and come to me and said you do realize that my sister's just taken the Moderna booster and now she's paralyzed from the neck down. And I said well that's that's that's terrible news but clearly you're going to have to speak out now aren't you? and they said no, well she doesn't want any publicity and they think they're going to get her to walk again. I said well you don't have to name names I mean you know, you've got to speak out you know and the minister said I'm not speaking out and walked off. And I don't know what to go, I mean, we're supposed to speak without fear or favour, you know, I think the job of an MP is to, certainly I see the job as being to represent, the people, start with my people in North West Leicestershire, against the government and the establishment. And now what we seem to have is a lot of MPs who represent the government and the establishment against the people. That's an inversion of the job of a Member of Parliament. They said to me, you know, why are you willing to die on the hill of vaccine harms, you know, of an issue? And I said, well, because that's the hill you're killing my people on. No completely. I want to add two things to finish. One, you're in the Reclaim Party because that seemed to be the only option. Course you could do as an independent, that doesn't really happen in the UK, but also you're continually asking the government questions. One of the latest questions is did the MHRA inform the Minister of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine had been switched? Tell us about Reclaim and I'm assuming you're yet to receive an answer to that government question. Well Reclaim are a political party, they didn't have any MPs but they're well funded and they've got some lovely premises and they've got great people and they're also aligned with something called the Bad Law Project, so I have access to lawyers and solicitors and so I'm taking Matt Hancock to court for defamation and we have a very strong case. I'm probably going to take the Conservative Party to court for the way they handled my dismissal from the party, which is unbelievable. I'm on my fifth subject access request to the Cabinet Office. I mean, Peter, I've put in for all the information they're holding on me, and even when I'm over four, this is the fifth one going in now, I keep cutting down the number of keywords and compressing the time, and every time they come back and say, I mean, they must have a library on me. They haven't got a black book, they've got a whole library on me. And every time they come back and say, it's too much work. I mean, the last one was about 10 key words. And I said, it's only from 1st of January, 2017. I'll publish all the papers one day and it'll be fascinating, but goodness knows what they're hiding. They're certainly not willing to release any documentation. So I think we're going to have a massive, massive, massive bust up with the government over that. And if they're doing it to me, it won't be just me, will it? There'll be. Yeah, I mean, if there is any mitigation of my colleagues, and I'm not thinking of any any mitigation at all for their inactivity when so many of them, I mean, what you've got to understand, Peter, is people say to me, So there was a lovely female Conservative MP who will remain nameless, but she was elected in 19. And she came up to me a few months ago and said, Andrew, I'm really worried about you. You speak in the chamber on your own. You have all your meals on your own. You sit on your own table in the tea room and the dining room. No one talks to you. You seem really isolated. I'm really worried about you. I said, well, that's very touching. I said, but you've got to remember, 4,000 real people work in Parliament. The cooks, the cleaners, the waiters, the security guards, the police, I said, and they all come to me and 80% of those agree with me. So I'm not really isolated at all, am I? I said, actually, you're isolated, you just don't realise it. So it's not been that bad in Parliament. As far as the Pfizer data, it was again Dr. Josh Guetzkow sent me some from the Hebrew University, sent me some evidence and he's not a scientist, he's a criminologist but he's a specialist in fraud and he went through the Pfizer papers and discovered how they'd switched the vaccines. There were two batches in the initial batch, one that they basically made a Rolls-Royce vaccine up which they gave to 22,000 individuals and they had 22,000 in the placebo group who got a saline shot and that's what they got approval for with the MHRA and every other regulator around the world. But that wasn't the vaccine, that wasn't the Pfizer vaccine that was rolled out. And the smoking gun for the switch of the vaccines is the fact that the MHRA changed the protocols on day two of the mass rollout of the vaccination in the UK, and said that everyone got to stay at the vaccine centre for 15 minutes after day two because of the risk of anaphylactic shock and you only get anaphylaxis if there's endotoxins in the vaccines and you only get endotoxins in the vaccines if they're cultured up in bacteria such as Escherichia coli and the MHRA hadn't expected anaphylaxis because that is not how the vaccine that was given approval for was manufactured, it wasn't manufactured in bacteria with all the contaminants that would go with it. Now, you can't, to get approval for a drug, you have to use the same mechanism of production. You can't change anything because then you've got a different drug with different side effects. So basically, what my allegation is, supported by 44 pages of evidence supplied to me by a doctor of criminology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the government will not answer or even acknowledge, is that the vaccine that was rolled out in the UK and around the world was effectively completely untested and it also explains why the, I mean that the harms from the Pfizer trials of the very best vaccine they could make in in a very small, basically a bespoke vaccine that they made for 22,000 doses, I mean that was horrific enough and that should never have had approval but it was nothing like the harm profile we've seen in actuality through the VAERS system and the yellow card system and the fact that the vaccine is a different vaccine basically explains that as well. If they were doing that with Pfizer, I mean I have no doubt that Moderna and the same and of course I had the AstraZeneca vaccine which which was actually that bad. It was just quietly withdrawn, wasn't it? And it's interesting that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is the AstraZeneca vaccine is not a messenger RNA. It's a DNA strand in an adenovirus vector. So it's different technology to the Pfizer and the Moderna. It's because obviously the DNA then will code for the messenger RNA. And so it's one step further back. It's interesting also that the, I asked for an urgent question in Parliament a few months ago because the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was withdrawn in America and I saw the FDA, the Federal Drugs Agency guidelines and it said stop basically, stop injecting the Johnson and Johnson and all stocks are to be destroyed. And the Johnson and Johnson that was also, a DNA strand not a messenger RNA strand and also in an adenovirus vector to get it into the into the cell. So it's interesting that basically both the vaccines, experimental vaccines were using the DNA adenovirus vector method, they were, both withdrawn and destroyed. But it is interesting that India are still producing effectively AstraZeneca under license. They call it Covishield in India. And of course they didn't stop the Australian version of the AstraZeneca vaccine until only a couple of months ago, so there's going to be a big kickoff there as well. So that's it. I sent it to the Attorney General because one of the questions I did ask was did the MHRA tell the Minister that they'd switched the vaccines, in which case if they didn't then the MHRA are guilty of potentially a crime which is I think it's a two-year prison sent us an unlimited fine, but if they did tell the minister, then how could the minister go out and say they're safe, effective, and tested when they knew that they weren't? I don't understand why the prime minister doesn't want to come back to me. I'm afraid the letter I sent him was a bit of a, do you still beat your wife question. There isn't a good answer, because either I'm going to nail the MHRA, or I'm going to nail the ministers. And it's also interesting, I think, you know, so many health ministers are deciding to not stand at the next general election. No, 100%. Andrew, I've watched your many speeches in the Commons and followed those written questions and I think for our UK viewers and listeners who are very frustrated at UK politics, I think as long as there remains someone like you speaking this truth, then there is hope. So thank you for what you do and thank you for your time today. Thank you very much for having me on. I'm sure we'll speak again in the future.
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Wallace Thompson was a founder member of the DUP and a loyal follower of the late Ian Paisley. Now he feels that some form of Irish Unity is inevitable – why? He spoke to Sam McBride.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Pat Leahy and Harry McGee join Hugh to talk about the week in politics, including:Ifac cautions coalition on expenditure and its potential consequencesSinn Féin defend IRA commemoration in South ArmaghIs James O'Connor a Jekyll & Hyde figure within Fianna Fáil?Plus, they share their favourite Irish Times piece of the week:Kiss rocker Gene Simmons visits House of Commons as Ian Paisley's guestFAI request huge investment commitment from governmentGerard Howlin highlights parties on the wrong side of history for climate change Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Also, paramilitary flags are even outside the PSNI's Garnerville base and at Tesco.
Agreement 25The three days of the conference to mark Agreement 25 at Queens University, a quarter of a century after the Good Friday Agreement, was an opportunity to meet again many of those who were there when the Agreement was thrashed out in 1998. I was particularly happy to see George Mitchell. He was in great form and for me his speech was the highlight of conference. Lucid, reasoned, futuring and compelling. The absence of John Hume, Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, David Trimble, Seamus Mallon and David Irvine and others was a reminder of the transient nature of life and the permanency of death. Voting for the PresidentThis is not the only matter that the Irish Government is failing on. Dublin Castle was the venue last week of “Together Again – Le Chéile Arís” – the third of the Irish government's Global Irish Civic Forums. These events bring together representatives of the Irish diaspora from across the world to promote a conversation on issues of concern and interest to the diaspora.In Praise Of Tulips. I bought a bag of assorted tulip bulbs before Christmas. I was looking for daffodils and picked up the tulips by mistake. When I discovered this I was disappointed. I love daffodils. Now I love tulips as well. They are in full bloom. In pots. Beautiful bright colours. Pinks and reds.Earth Day – defending our natural environmentLast Saturday was Earth Day. The theme was ‘Invest in Our Planet' with the emphasis on encouraging businesses and people to use sustainable practices in their everyday work.The first Earth Day took place in April 1970 in the USA. The massive oil spill at Santa Barbara in California in January 1969 and the student anti-Vietnam war movement were the catalysts. Twenty years later the event went global and hundreds of millions participated and set the scene for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
On this edition of Parallax Views, Fintan O'Toole, long-time journalist of The Irish Times, joins us to discuss his acclaimed new book We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland. Although the book is not exactly a memoir, it is a sweeping journey through the decades of Ireland's evolution from the late 1950s through to today from the perspective of Fintan himself. As someone who lived through the turbulence of the Troubles, the bombings carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Good Friday Agreement, Fintan is uniquely able to tell the story of Ireland in from the mid-20th century to the present. In addition to all of this, Fintan and I will also delve into the issue of Brexit, the possibility of Irish reunification, and the rise of English nationalism and the Little England mentality. Fintan will also comment on the differences between English nationalism and Irish nationalism, give details on the Northern Ireland conflict ( aka The Troubles) and its complexity (we'll discuss not only the IRA but also North Irish Unionists like Ian Paisley), what it means to be Irish, national identity and Catholic identity in Ireland, the theme of "Unknown Knowns" and "Doubleness" in Fintan's personal history of Ireland, Catholic Church child sex abuse scandals in Ireland, conservatism and social control, Us Vs. Them mentalities, Irish economist and diplomat T.K. Whitaker and the Irish gambit, Irish composer Seán Ó Riada and traditional Irish music, the European Union and national identities, and much, much more!
There was one major party in Northern Ireland that did not participate in the multi-party talks that resulted in The Good Friday Agreement. The DUP, led at the time by Ian Paisley, refused to engage in the negotiations and campaigned for a 'No' vote in the referendum that followed. Peter Robinson, who took over as leader of the party and served as First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 2008 until 2016. explains to Bertie why the party stayed out of the talks, why he regrets not engaging with Sinn Féin sooner and what aspects of the agreement he thinks have been a success.
How did the violence of The Troubles come to an end on the island of Ireland? Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach who served from 1997 to 2008, speaks to Alastair about his father's time in the IRA, how Ireland has changed over the last three decades, and what it was liking working alongside Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley on the road the Belfast Good Friday Agreements. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive a weekly newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up. Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nuacht Mhall. Príomhscéalta na seachtaine, léite go mall. * Inniú an ceathrú lá de mhí an Mhárta. Is mise Sibéal Dempsey. Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mhí Feabhra d'fhógair Rishi Sunak “Creatlach Windsor” – leagan nua de phrótacal Thuaisceart Éireann a comhaontaíodh tar éis ceithre mhí d'idirbheartaíocht leis an Aontas Eorpach. Tugann an comhaontú “coscán éigeandála” do rialtas na Ríochta Aontaithe ar dhlíthe nua an Aontais Eorpaigh a chuirfear i bhfeidhm i dTuaisceart Éireann má chuireann polaiteoirí sa chúige ina gcoinne. Cruthaíonn sé lána glas nua freisin do thrádálaithe, a bhaineann an teorainn le haghaidh earraí tomhaltóra as Muir Éireann, ag laghdú na riachtanas maidir le páipéarachas agus seiceálacha agus dualgais eile. Beidh seiceanna fós ag teastáil le haghaidh earraí sa lána dearg. Glacadh go dearfach leis an margadh go ginearálta cé is moite de lucht an Bhreatimeachta agus baill áirithe den Pháirtí Aontachtach Daonlathach, Ian Paisley ina measc. D'fháiltigh rialtas na hÉireann roimhe mar “chaibidil nua” sa chaidreamh idir an tAontas Eorpach agus an Ríocht Aontaithe. D'fhógair an tAire Oideachais Norma Foley go raibh sí ag cur moill ar na pleananna chun roinnt scrúduithe na hArdteistiméireachta a bhogadh go dtí an cúigiú bliain. Bhí sé i gceist go ndéanfaí an cinneadh bunaidh sa bhliain fiche fiche agus bhí sé i gceist an brú a mhaolú ar scoláirí na hArdteistiméireachta trína gcuid scrúduithe a scaipeadh thar thréimhse dhá bhliain. Tá cur síos déanta ag Aontas Múinteoirí Éireann ar an gcinneadh mar “fhorbairt fháilteach” ar an mbonn nár cuireadh bunús an togra i láthair riamh. Dúirt Ms Foley nár léirigh sé seo nach mbeadh athruithe eile ag dul ar aghaidh mar chuid den athbhreithniú níos leithne ar an Ardteistiméireacht. Áiríodh sna pleananna níos leithne seo, daichead faoin gcéad de na marcanna ag teacht ó mheascán d'obair thionscadail, ó scrúdú cainte agus ó chleachtaí praiticiúla agus bunú “scoileanna líonra” a sheolfadh ábhair nua ar nós drámaíochta, scannánaíochta agus staidéar amharclainne. Tá Raidió na Gaeltachta ag leanúint lena chomóradh caoga bliain le roinnt ceolchoirmeacha a bheith ar siúl ar fud na tíre. Bhí ceann acu ar siúl an tseachtain seo caite in Amharclann Ghaoth Dobhair agus beidh dhá cheann eile ar siúl an mhí seo chugainn i gConamara agus i mBaile Bhúirne. Nuair a seoladh an stáisiún den chéad uair bhailigh sé taifeadtaí de mhuintir na hÉireann, cartlann luachmhar de chuid na Gaeilge agus an chultúir Ghaelaigh. Inniu craolann sé raon ábhar lena n-áirítear spórt, ceol agus nuacht. Rinne Údarás Craolacháin na hÉireann taighde le déanaí freisin a thug le tuiscint go mbeadh an seans ann go n-éistfeadh tríocha ocht faoin gcéad de dhaoine idir cúig bliana déag agus tríocha a ceathair le stáisiún nua Gaeilge ar an gcoinníoll go gcloisfeadh sé ‘an ceol ceart, go gclúdódh sé ceisteanna atá tábhachtach don spriocghrúpa, agus d'fhéadfadh sé go mbeadh sé saor ó fhógraí.' * Léirithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge i Londain. Tá an script ar fáil i d'aip phodchraolta. * GLUAIS creatlach - framework earraí tomhaltóra - consumer goods an Ardteistiméireacht - the Leaving Cert obair thionscadail - project work cartlann luachmhar - valuable archive coinníoll - condition
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“If we're not careful, the United Kingdom is going to have its Notre Dame moment…. that Parliament is going to burn to the ground.”Ian Paisley, Jnr. Member of Parliament, United Kingdom“It's very politically sensitive because no politician wants to be the one who tells the public that a very large amount of taxpayers' money has to be spent on MPs' place of work.”Rowan Moore, Architect Critic for The GuardianIn this episode, Rats and Other Disasters in the Palace of Westminster these two experts delve into the danger of this historic place.Urgent intervention is needed to save the Palace of Westminster which is not only on its last legs but is potentially hazardous in various ways. This is not fresh news sadly but our two distinguished experts will certainly offer you some fresh perspective.Rowan Moore, Architecture Critic, The Guardian & ObserverRowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer and was named Critic of the Year at the UK press awards 2014. He is the author of Slow Burn City and Why We Build. Follow him on twitter: @rowanmoore“Obviously, the longer it takes to do the work, the greater the risk, you simply multiply the risk per year by the number of years it takes. And also all the work done on a project so far says the more slowly you do it, the more it costs.”Ian Paisley, Jnr. MP, Westminster Spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and SportsMember of the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Refurbishment and RestorationIan has represented North Antrim since 1996 when he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue. In 1998 he was then elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim.As a member of the Assembly Ian served as Chairman of the Agriculture Committee and also as a Junior Minister in the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister from 2007 until 2008. He was also a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board from 2001 until 2007.“You have to have a crew of four man walk that building constantly 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and they spot fires, fire hazards and put them out and we're working in that building.”After Dr Paisley stepped down as the Member of Parliament for North Antrim Ian contested the General Election of 2010 and comfortably retained the seat for the Democratic Unionist Party. He was again re-elected at the General Election in 2015, 2017 and 2019.Ian is currently the DUP spokesperson for Communities, Local Government and Culture, Media and Sports. He is also a member on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.Read the full page here on Constructive Voices.Constructive Voices: Inspiring change within the construction industry and related sectorsFollow Constructive Voices on:LinkedInTwitterFacebookRequest a media pack: jackie@constructive-voices.com
Also, is the the honours system fit for purpose or is it outdated?
Today we will be talking about Bernadette Devlin McAliskey the Irish politician and activist during the Troubles in Ireland and how badass she is.Contact infoeffeduphistory@gmail.com@effeduphistory on all socialsBook a Tour of Salem, MAhttps://www.viator.com/tours/Salem/Curses-and-Crimes-Candlelight-Tour/d22414-325232P2Buy Me A Coffee:buymeacoffee.com/effeduphistoryMusicEverything you Want by Dan Lebowitz andMedieval Loop One and Celebration by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/SourcesThe Price of My Soul by Bernadette DevlinOn Bloody Sunday by Julieann CampbellToward Peace in Northern Ireland by George J. Mitchellhttps://www.historyireland.com/march-07/ https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch68.htm https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch69.htm https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z3w2mp3/revision/7 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/events/pdmarch/arthur74a.htm https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ian-Paisley https://speakola.com/political/bernadette-devlin-maiden-speech-1969 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1969/apr/22/northern-ireland#S5CV0782P0_19690422_HOC_269 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF71_st6ThE https://www.historyireland.com/fidel-castro-in-a-miniskirt-bernadette-devlins-first-us-tour/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/03/archives/irish-give-key-to-city-to-panthers- as-symbol.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKx0wOFQP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLlpVQFdjC0 https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/21/Three-charged-in-Devlin-shooting/2888348901200/ https://www.derryjournal.com/news/bernadette-mcaliskey-only- reason-i-wasnt-killed-was-chance-775685https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/21/world/around-the-world-belfast-man-admits-devlin-murder-attempt.html Support the show
Vincent Kearney, Northern Editor, went along to Ballymena - the former stronghold of DUP founder Ian Paisley - to test their claim that oppositon to the Protocol is the most important issue facing unionists at this time.
In the Spring of 2019, Scottish police launched investigations into incidents at two football matches. In the first, Aberdeen fans were accused of using colorful language to suggest that English football manager Steven Gerrard was an Orange man. A few weeks later, Aberdeen's own manager Derek McInnes was targeted with similar chants from Celtic fans. The fact that fans from Aberdeen – a largely secular city could find themselves on either side of this type of incident is indicative of the fact that many of us have little understanding of the subject. For one thing, when you remove the accompanying pejoratives, any actual member of the Orange Order would be quite proud of his membership and his heritage. But it's this kind of conflict, based around misunderstanding and prejudice that I was all too familiar with having grown up in the 1980s. On one hand, we saw in the news how the IRA a nominally Catholic terrorist group would plant bombs and do battle with nominally protestant groups like the UVF. But somehow, in the back and forth, amid accusations of doing right and wrong, a group of people known as the Orange Order would get drawn into the conflict seemingly just for holding commemorative marches. Meanwhile, outspoken firebrand protestant politician Ian Paisley was often held up by rivals as the archetypal Orange man even though he had long since left the group. Incidentally, the apparently extremist Paisley went on to form a close friendship with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness. The stereotypes you hear are of presbyterian, Scots Irish doing battle with Irish Catholics. But anyone with even a cursory knowledge of Irish history could tell you this was an inaccurate oversimplification. As someone with mixed Irish and English, Catholic, and Protestant heritage, I've always been curious to learn more about the Orange Order. Who they are, what are their origins, and what they actually believe. And above all, to understand the group in the context of its origins versus what it represents today. I was fortunate enough to find an expert in the field. Dr. Jonathan Mattison, Curator of the Museum of Orange Heritage. Music from Pixabay.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/support
On this episode of the Irish History Show we were joined by journalist and author Ed Moloney to discuss the life of Ian Paisley. Reverend Ian Paisley was the founder of the Free Presbyterian Church and the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party from 1971 to 2008. In 2007 he became the First Minister of Northern Ireland. We discussed Paisley's rise to prominence in Northern Ireland during the 1960s; the political and religious traditions he came from; his American influences; his opposition to ecumenism, liberalism and the Civil Rights Movement; his relationship with Loyalist paramilitaries; his longevity and popularity in Northern Irish politics; power sharing with Sinn Féin, and the end of his leadership of both the DUP and the Free Presbyterian Church. Ed Moloney is the former Northern Editor of both the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. He has published work in a variety of newspapers and magazines in Ireland, the UK, and the United States, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Economist, The Independent, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Moloney is the author of three books dealing with aspects of the Irish Troubles, A Secret History of the IRA (2007), Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat? (2008) and Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland (2010). He has also helped to produce documentaries for the BBC, Channel Four, London Weekend Television and a recent RTÉ documentary, Voices From the Grave, which was based on his book and was shortlisted for best documentary prize by the Irish Film and Television Academy. Ed Moloney's website is available here.