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Một năm trước, trong diễn văn khai mạc Tuần lễ Công nghệ Luân Đôn (London Tech Week 09-13/06/2025), thủ tướng Anh Keir Starmer đã nêu ra chiến lược lấy việc phát triển trí tuệ nhân tạo AI làm bàn đạp thúc đẩy tăng trưởng kinh tế giai đoạn 2025-2030. Sau một năm lên kế hoạch, với khoản đầu tư gần 100 tỷ bảng vào các trung tâm dữ liệu, vào y tế và giáo dục, ngành AI của Anh đã đạt được tiến bộ gì và giúp cho tăng trưởng kinh tế tới đâu? Thông tín viên Nguyễn Giang từ Luân Đôn giải thích: Anh Quốc đánh cược vào AI RFI : Đầu tiên, xin Nguyễn Giang nói về việc triển khai chiến lược AI của Vương quốc Anh?   Nguyễn Giang : Quan sát những gì Anh quốc đã và đang làm hơn một năm qua, tôi thấy họ đặt trọng tâm của kế hoạch phát triển AI vào các Khu vực Tăng trưởng Ai, tức AI Growth Zones, gọi tắt là AHGZ, với ba mục tiêu: hỗ trợ tăng trưởng kinh tế, tạo đột phá công nghệ và cân bằng, kết nối các vùng miền của Vương quốc Anh. Mô hình AI Growth Zones (Khu vực Tăng trưởng AI) tạo ra các cụm siêu trung tâm dữ liệu (hyperscale data centres) và điện toán hiệu năng cao. Chính phủ Anh đã phê duyệt hàng loạt khu vực trọng điểm ở hạt Oxfordshire (Culham - trung tâm đầu tiên), Đông Bắc Anh (Blyth & North Tyneside), xứ Wales (Wylfa) và gần đây nhất là Scotland (khu vực Lanarkshire - tháng 1/2026). Họ chia ra để mọi khu vực địa lý chính của Vương quốc Anh đều có cơ hội tiếp cận AI.  Khu quan trọng nhất là hành lang công nghệ Oxford-Cambridge (thực tế là cùng Luân Đôn lập ra một Tam giác High-Tech). Xin nhắc là từ Luân Đôn tới Cambridge và Oxford khoảng cách chỉ chừng hơn 100 km. Các đại học lớn, kể cả phòng thí nghiệm nguyên tử quan trọng nhất của Anh (Arbington), cũng nằm trong tam giác này. Điều này giảm được chi phí giao thông, hút được nguồn nhân lực chất lượng cao và tạo điều kiện cho việc kết nối băng thông cho hệ thống điện toán. Nhưng Anh cũng lập các vùng AI Growth Zone ở cả Wales, miền bắc Anh và Scotland là có ý duy trì nhiều động cơ kinh tế cho các vùng đất kia. RFI: Cho tới nay thì các khoản đầu tư được khu vực tư nhân đăng ký vào các khu vực tăng trưởng AI này là bao nhiêu? Nguyễn Giang : Mục tiêu chung là phải đạt tới 100 tỷ bảng Anh đầu tư từ khối tư nhân vào hạ tầng AI thông qua cơ chế này. Ở vùng Đông Bắc (North East AIGZ), quỹ đầu tư Blackstone đã cam kết bỏ ra10 tỷ bảng Anh để xây dựng trung tâm dữ liệu tại Blyth, đồng thời mở đường cho 20 tỷ bảng bổ sung từ các đối tác khác. Chính phủ Anh cũng trực tiếp chi ngân sách tài trợ ban đầu hơn 2,5 tỷ bảng để kích hoạt hệ thống điện toán quốc gia. Điều đáng chú ý là phần cam kết từ cả hai phía. Về phía mình, chính phủ Anh cam kết giá điện đặc biệt cho data centre tại các vùng có thặng dư năng lượng (ví dụ: giảm từ 14 đến 24 bảng/MWh tùy khu vực, tiết kiệm tới 80 triệu bảng/năm cho một trung tâm 500MW). Để đẩy nhanh tiến độ thiết kế các trung tâm dữ liệu, họ ưu tiên đưa chúng vào danh mục Hạ tầng Quốc gia Trọng yếu (Critical National Infrastructure - CNI), cho phép rút ngắn thời gian chờ đấu nối vào lưới điện quốc gia lên đến 5 năm và cắt giảm quy trình phê duyệt quy hoạch từ 18 tháng xuống còn 12 tháng. Còn về phía các nhà đầu tư cùng đối tác ở địa phương thì họ tìm cách bố trí quỹ đất tối thiểu 100 mẫu Anh (acres) đã được dọn sẵn hoặc đủ tiêu chuẩn sẵn sàng xây dựng trước 2028, cam kết tạo ra hàng nghìn việc làm chất lượng cao (như vùng North East cam kết tạo 5.000 việc làm), và phối hợp với các đại học địa phương (Newcastle, Durham...) xây dựng chương trình đào tạo nhân lực AI. Họ cam kết sẽ kết nối với các đại học địa phương. Hiện đang làm nghiên cứu trong một đại học ở Luân Đôn và đã dự nhiều khóa học, hội thảo, tôi thấy một xu hướng rõ rệt: các đại học Anh đang xóa bỏ, thậm chí đóng nhiều khoa ở các trường khắp cả nước trong các bộ môn khoa học xã hội, nghệ thuật, ngôn ngữ, nhưng lại đang mở rất nhiều khóa, ngành liên quan đến trí tuệ nhân tạo, từ mảng nghiên cứu, phát triển công nghệ tới ứng dụng Ai trong đủ mọi lĩnh vực. Xem ra đây là tương lai mới cho giáo dục đại học. RFI: Một câu chuyện nhiều nước nói tới là các trung tâm dữ liệu tiêu thụ điện năng rất lớn. Vậy ở Anh, nguồn năng lượng điện đến từ đâu? Có nằm cạnh nhà máy điện hạt nhân? Nguyễn Giang : Đúng thế, năng lượng là "nút thắt" lớn nhất của hạ tầng AI, và chiến lược của Anh là áp sát nguồn phát năng lượng sạch quy mô lớn, nhưng không chỉ giới hạn ở điện hạt nhân. Điện nguyên tử không phải tất cả, nhưng đây là một trục xương sống cho AI. Ví dụ điển hình nhất là North Wales AI Growth Zone, nơi được thiết kế cặp đôi chiến lược (strategically paired) nằm ngay cạnh dự án Lò phản ứng mô-đun nhỏ (SMR) đầu tiên của Anh tại Wylfa. Sự kết hợp này nhằm cung cấp nguồn điện tải nền (baseload) cực kỳ ổn định và khổng lồ cho các cụm chip AI mà không làm quá tải lưới điện dân dụng. Ngoài ra thì tại vùng North East (Blyth), các trung tâm dữ liệu dùng nguồn điện đến từ các trạm tiếp bờ của điện gió ngoài khơi lớn nhất thế giới ở Biển Bắc (North Sea) và mua cả năng lượng qua cáp ngầm kết nối thủy điện từ Na Uy. Tại Scotland, họ tận dụng nguồn năng lượng tái tạo thặng dư (gió và thủy điện) vốn thường bị nghẽn, không thể truyền tải về miền Nam. Các báo Anh gần đây hay đăng các câu chuyện thú vị như nhà nông nào đó ở vùng quê bán trang trại, lò sản xuất bánh mì, trạm xay bột cho công ty Ai để xây data centre. Theo một điều tra của nhà báo Henry Mawhood cho trang báo nghề cá ở Anh thì thực ra câu chuyện không đơn giản như vậy nhưng đúng là các vùng ven biển phía Tây đảo Anh, từ Weston-Super-Mare tới Cumbria (England), rồi miền Nam xứ Wales và duyên hải Đông Bắc Scotland, người ta đang có kế hoạch xây hai thứ: các nhà máy điện nguyên tử mini, các trạm nhận điện qua cáp ngầm từ Bắc Âu (Na Uy) và các trạm đón tuyến cáp truyền dữ liệu xuyên Đại Tây Dương, nối Anh với Hoa Kỳ. Vì thế, đúng là có những nơi nhà nông được mời chào bán lại các miếng đất, nhà xưởng, ít nhất với diện tích 1-2 trăm mét vuông, để chứa data centre. Trong tháng 6 năm nay, có câu chuyện mang tính biểu tượng ở Anh. Thủ tướng Kier Starmer đã thăm một nhà máy xà phòng cũ có 130 năm tuổi ở Warrington, hạt Cheshire, để dự lễ khai trương dự án trung tâm dữ  liệu. Tức là họ biến một điểm công nghiệp rất là cũ thành trung tâm dữ liệu, dùng nguồn điện, nước có sẵn.  RFI: Theo anh, công suất cho điện dùng vào trí tuệ nhân tạo ở Anh có đủ không? Nguyễn Giang : Theo các báo chuyên ngành đánh giá thì điện ở Anh, gồm cả điện nguyên tử, hiện tại là đủ cho lộ trình giai đoạn 1 nhờ chiến lược phân bổ vùng. Ví dụ, riêng trung tâm dữ liệu AI tại Blyth đang tăng tốc để đạt công suất 1,1 GW (Gigawatt) trong vòng 6 năm tới, biến nó thành một trong những cụm dữ liệu lớn nhất châu Âu. Bằng cách đặt data centre tại nơi "nguồn phát" dư thừa, Anh giải quyết được bài toán tổn thất truyền tải và giá điện cao. RFI: Cho tới nay, việc sử dụng AI trong y tế, tài chính và giáo dục tại Anh ra sao? Nguyễn Giang : Theo chỉ số tâm lý AI (EY AI Sentiment Index) tính đến giữa năm 2026, bức tranh ứng dụng của Anh như sau: Trong Dịch vụ Sức khỏe Quốc gia (NHS- tức Y tế công) thì kế hoạch 10 năm của Anh đã đưa AI từ giai đoạn thí điểm sang tích dợp hệ thống toàn diện. AI hiện là "trợ lý số" bắt buộc ở nhiều khâu: các công cụ "Ambient Scribing" (AI ghi âm cuộc thoại bác sĩ - bệnh nhân tự động chuyển thành hồ sơ bệnh án) phổ cập mạnh mẽ; ứng dụng NHS App tích hợp AI thành cổng sàng lọc bệnh tự động. Đặc biệt, Bộ Y tế Anh vừa tung ra mô hình "MHRA AI Airlock / Sandbox" (tháng 6/2026) để thử nghiệm AI trong việc dự đoán tác dụng phụ của thuốc, giúp NHS giảm bớt gánh nặng chi phí 2 tỷ bảng/năm do phản ứng ngược của thuốc gây ra. Mạnh và sâu hơn là ứng dụng trong tài chính dùng công nghệ số (fintech). Trên thực tế thì tỷ lệ ứng dụng AI ở Anh trong ngành này đã đạt 75%. Các ngân hàng và công ty tài chính Anh đang dùng AI sâu trong phát hiện gian lận (anti-frauds), trong giao dịch tự động và tuân thủ pháp lý (compliance). Vào tháng 1/2026, Cơ quan Quản lý Tài chính (FCA) đã mở cuộc điều tra Mills Review để đánh giá toàn diện tác động dài hạn của AI đối với dịch vụ tài chính tiêu dùng, đồng thời tích hợp sâu công cụ Agentic AI (AI tự chủ) vào hệ thống vận hành. Trong giáo dục đại học, Anh đang chuyển mạnh từ các ngành xã hội sang công nghệ. Hiện Bộ Giáo dục đã chuẩn hóa hơn 400 chương trình thạc sĩ chuyên sâu về AI và 28 trung tâm đào tạo tiến sĩ (CDT). Các trường đại học lớn như Edinburgh (với Bayes Centre), Cambridge, Oxford hoạt động như các lõi R&D chuyển giao công nghệ trực tiếp cho doanh nghiệp trong các AI Growth Zones. RFI:  So với Liên Âu thì Anh Quốc đi trước hay sau về công nghệ AI trong ứng dụng vào kinh tế và các ngành nghề? Nguyễn Giang : Có thể nói về mặt thương mại, hạ tầng và đầu tư thì Anh đi trước. Anh hiện đứng đầu châu Âu và thứ 4 thế giới về năng lực nghiên cứu cũng như thu hút vốn đầu tư mạo hiểm cho AI (riêng năm 2024 đạt gần 3 tỷ bảng). Do lợi thế về nguồn dữ liệu tập trung của NHS và thị trường tài chính London, các tập đoàn Mỹ (Google, Microsoft, OpenAI) chọn Anh làm bãi đáp hạ tầng lớn hơn so với Liên Âu Ưu thế của Anh là có tốc độ tích hợp AI vào dịch vụ công như trong y tế công (NHS) đồng bộ hơn nhờ cơ chế quản lý tập trung, trong khi EU bị phân mảnh theo từng quốc gia thành viên. Nhưng so sánh Anh và Pháp thì bức tranh lại hơi khác RFI:  Anh và Pháp được cho là hai quốc gia châu Âu hành đầu, cạnh tranh với Hoa Kỳ, Trung Quốc về AI nhưng cũng cạnh tranh với nhau? Nguyễn Giang : Các thông tin do hai chính phủ Anh và Pháp công bố dần dần cho thấy sự khác biệt, ưu điểm và nhược điểm của mỗi bên trong chiến lược phát triển AI. Tôi xin điểm ra một số nhỏ: Anh đã triển khai các trung tâm dữ liệu nhanh hơn Pháp. Vì ở Pháp, dù Hội nghị thượng đỉnh Choose France cam kết cắt giảm thủ tục hành chính của Pháp, nhưng Pháp cũng bị ràng buộc bởi các quy định quản lý đất đai và bảo vệ môi trường chặt chẽ của Liên Hiệp Châu Âu nên thủ tục làm tốn thời gian hơn trong việc giải phóng mặt bằng quy mô lớn. Pháp muốn đi nhanh nhưng vẫn phải tuân thủ luật Liên Âu (EU AI Act), còn Anh thì có môi trường pháp lý thoáng hơn, gần với Hoa Kỳ hơn, và thái độ ‘pro-innovation' có vẻ đang tốt hơn Pháp. Trong việc xây dựng hệ sinh thái tài chính và thương mại kỹ thuật số thì Anh có sẵn Luân Đôn là trung tâm Fintech số 1 châu Âu, kết nối truyền thống mạnh mẽ trong thế giới nói tiếng Anh với New York, với Singapore, Hồng Kông nên giúp các AI Growth Zone dễ dàng kết nối trực tiếp giải pháp AI vào thị trường tài chính toàn cầu. Thêm vào đó, việc sở hữu Dữ liệu tập trung của Y tế công NHS là lợi thế độc quyền mà Pháp không có. Anh dễ dàng thu hút các tập đoàn y sinh AI lớn đến thiết lập trung tâm tính toán, vì họ có thể tiếp cận kho dữ liệu y tế khổng lồ hàng đầu thế giới thông qua các cơ chế an toàn số (như MHRA AI Airlock). Thế nhưng, về quy mô vốn đầu tư hạ tầng khổng lồ bằng tiền nước ngoài (FDI Magnitude) thì Pháp đang hơn Anh. Ví dụ, Hội nghị Choose France, tập đoàn SoftBank đã cam kết chi tới 75 tỷ euro (trong đó 45 tỷ euro giải ngân trước 2031) để xây dựng cụm trung tâm dữ liệu AI khổng lồ công suất 5 GW tại Dunkerque. Bên cạnh đó là 10 tỷ euro từ Brookfield và 7,5 tỷ euro từ quỹ MGX (UAE). Hiện chưa rõ cuộc chạy đua đường dài về AI (AI race) giữa Anh và Pháp ra sao, nhưng cả hai nước đều đang đổ tiền vào. Tổng thống Emmanuel Macron công bố trong tháng 6/2026 khoản đầu tư 1,55 tỷ euro tiền công vào công nghệ quantum và bán dẫn (semiconductors). Cùng lúc, chính phủ Anh cũng trực tiếp chi ngân sách tài trợ ban đầu hơn 2,5 tỷ bảng để kích hoạt hệ thống điện toán quốc gia kết nối AI. RFI: Nếu làm tốt, các kế hoạch này có giúp kinh tế Anh tăng trưởng giai đoạn 2027-2030 không? Nguyễn Giang : Anh Quốc đang hy vọng kế hoạch AI Growth Zones và chuyển đổi số này được thực thi trơn tru, Nhờ đó mà tác động lên giai đoạn 2027-2030 sẽ có thể phát huy tác dụng qua ba kênh: Một là người ta hy vọng có dòng vốn dịch chuyển mạnh từ Mỹ sang Anh, không chỉ với con số 100 tỷ bảng đầu tư hạ tầng cam kết đến năm 2030 và còn có các cam kết mới. Các đầu tư này sẽ trực tiếp đóng góp vào GDP thông qua xây dựng và mua sắm thiết bị công nghệ cao ở Anh. Hai là AI sẽ làm tăng hiệu suất của y tế và tài chính, dịch vụ công. Lấy ví dụ ứng dụng AI giúp rút ngắn thời gian chẩn đoán của bác sĩ, cắt ngắn thời gian chờ được khám bệnh, và gián tiếp giải phóng hàng tỷ bảng Anh áp lực ngân sách (thời gian, giờ công) cho phép tái đầu tư tiền vào các khu vực kinh tế tạo ra thặng dư cao hơn. Và thứ ba là tác động lan tỏa (Spillover effects). Đây là điều cần chờ xem. Thế nhưng theo các mô hình dự báo, khi các AI Growth Zones đi vào hoạt động ổn định từ năm 2027, các ngành kế toán, tài chính, năng lực tính toán trong sản xuất v.v. sẽ nhờ giải pháp AI mà giảm được chi phí. Qua đó, giá trị chung của toàn chuỗi cung ứng ở Anh sẽ tăng lên, cùng sức cạnh tranh của hàng hóa Anh. Chúng ta sẽ không thấy ngay lợi ích này, nhưng đây là quá trình chuyển đổi, có người nói là cuộc cách mạng cơ sở hạ tầng lớn nhất từ thế kỷ 16 nên cần phải có  thời gian để “hưởng lợi”, nhìn từ góc độ của Anh Quốc.

Weaving in Scotland In this episode of 'Unique Scotland', John Harbour explores the history and cultural significance of weaving in Scotland, inspired by his previous interview with Clare Campbell of the Highland tartan mill, Prickly Thistle. The podcast traces Scotland's textile heritage from its earliest beginnings through industrialisation and into the modern era. He talks about the survival of hand looms in the Outer Hebrides, especially in the Isle of Harris where the woven material is legally protected. And how did one man, with a loom in his garden shed satisfy NIKE's demand for 20,000 metres of cloth. You will hear an interview with Donald John Mackay who satisfied that order. Although ancient textiles rarely survive in Scotland's climate, archaeological evidence shows that Scots were working with fibres and woven fabrics thousands of years ago. Over centuries, weaving became an essential part of rural life, with families producing cloth in homes, crofts, and villages. This domestic industry laid the foundations for Scotland's later textile evolution. Scottish weaving developed around four key fibres, each shaping different regions and communities. Wool, Scotland's most iconic fibre, was produced from sheep in the Highlands, Islands, Borders, and upland regions, leading to famous products such as tweed and tartan. Flax, used to make linen, was cultivated mainly in eastern Scotland and supported important industries in Fife, Angus, and Perthshire. Cotton, imported through Atlantic trade, fuelled the growth of textile mills in Paisley, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and New Lanark, transforming clothing and fashion. Jute, imported from Bengal, turned Dundee into one of the world's leading industrial textile centres, producing sacks, canvas, and other durable materials. The Industrial Revolution transformed Scottish weaving by moving production from homes into mechanised mills. While industrialisation brought growth, employment, and international trade, it also disrupted traditional ways of life, reducing the role of hand spinners and weavers and creating new factory-based working conditions. Two of Scotland's most famous textiles are Tartan and Tweed. Tartan became closely associated with Highland culture, clan identity, and ceremonial dress. Tweed developed as a practical woollen cloth suited to Scotland's rugged climate before becoming internationally recognised for its quality and connection to country life. Royal patronage, particularly from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Balmoral, helped elevate tweed's prestige. The pinnacle of Scottish weaving tradition is Harris Tweed, produced in the Outer Hebrides. Protected by law, Harris Tweed must be made from pure virgin wool, dyed and spun in the islands, and handwoven by islanders in their homes. Its unique colours, durability, and craftsmanship have made it one of the world's most respected fabrics, demonstrating how traditional skills can thrive in modern markets. John's interview with Donald John Mackay, a Harris Weaver for 70 years, brings to life this cottage industry where Harris Tweed is protected by law. Today, Scotland's textile industry combines large-scale luxury manufacturers with smaller craft businesses and independent weavers. Companies in the Scottish Borders, Elgin, Dundee, and the Outer Hebrides continue to produce world-class fabrics, while businesses such as Prickly Thistle emphasise sustainability, local identity, and traditional craftsmanship. Ultimately, Scotland's weaving story is one of adaptation, resilience, and cultural continuity. From prehistoric fibres and cottage industries to global fashion and luxury textiles, weaving remains deeply connected to Scotland's landscape, communities, history, and identity. You will also hear an interview with Dan, an army veteran whose cancer diagnosis brought him to Scotland to make memories for his family. John, a Navy veteren himself, organised the tour and a special visit to the prestigious Army club in Edinburgh, the Royal Scots Club.

Sheila Dillon heads out on the highway to investigate the world of food at motorway service stations. Historically they have been a place viewed as a functional stop-off for a "tea and a pee" and often maligned for the quality of their food. Motorway services enthusiast Dr David Lawrence from Kingston University talks through a short history of the Great British service station from Watford Gap and Newport Pagnell in 1959 through to present day.AA President Edmund King briefs Sheila on how his membership views motorway service food and Robin Markwell reports on the opinions of lorry drivers from Chippenham Pit Stop on the M4 in Wiltshire where more healthy eating options are now appearing on the menu. Dan Sutton from Roadchef - one of the largest motorway service operators - also gives his thoughts on what the British motorist is looking for when wanting to be fed on the motorway and argues that familiarity of brands is key.Sheila takes a trip to Tebay Services on the M6 in Cumbria to understand a different way of providing motorway service food. She meets the Dunnings family who have since opened services at Gloucester, Cairns Lodge in Lanarkshire and will soon open another at Tatton in Cheshire. Their ethos includes an emphasis on locally sourced, homecooked food. Sheila meets with their coffee and bread suppliers as well as touring their farm to understand how service areas might also be an engine for the local economy.Produced by Robin Markwell in Bristol for BBC Audio.

He owns 12 properties. He lives in his mate's spare room. And he accidentally bought a Chinese restaurant from an airport while flying back from Japan.

I spoke to Kyle and Tom from My Status Is Quo, as the name suggests they are a Status Quo tribute band based in Lanarkshire, we spoke about their childhood influences, early exposure to music, formation of the band, and the challenges and experiences in school. Afterward we got into the bands gigs so far and where they're headed next before picking their heroes (oh and Tom kinda turned into a robot towards the end as well lol)Check My Status Is Quo this Saturday (21st March) in The Railway Tavern in Motherwell

This month's Listener Special is one of those episodes that reminds us why your stories are at the very heart of Paranormal Activity.First, we head to Holland Hall Hotel in Lancashire, where Naomi shares an unforgettable experience from the eve of her wedding.A 17th-century hall known for its hidden priest holes becomes the backdrop for a shared sighting she and her bridesmaid still can't explain.A hooded monk-like figure standing silently at the end of their corridor.Was it connected to the building's recusant history… or something far older embedded in the walls?Then Gemma sends in a chilling photograph taken in the 1970s, a Christmas tree glowing softly in the window… and a face staring back from the glass.When the negative was checked, the figure was still there.Family members believe it's her late grandfather.Is this a classic case of spirit photography, or something imprinted in film at the moment of development?From there, Georgia takes us to a quiet residential street in Leeds where reality itself seemed to unravel.Footsteps echoing out of sync.The same parked van appearing again and again.A road that refused to end.Time passing, but not passing.Was she briefly caught in something that didn't want her to leave?We also hear from Ellie in Lanarkshire, who stepped onto an empty football pitch at dusk only to find the environment reacting as though a match was still being played so nets moving, lines bending, grass shifting under unseen feet.Had she crossed into another moment still unfolding?And finally, Emily recounts a deeply unsettling night shift at a small regional zoo.Animals standing frozen in unison.A rhythmic tapping just beyond the enclosure.The unmistakable sense of something large moving, unseen, just out of sight… and the chilling realisation that the animals knew exactly where it was.Five stories.Five very different encounters.Shared sightings, photographic mysteries, looping streets, overlapping moments in time, and something pacing in the dark beyond the fence.As always, you decide what you believe.Welcome to February's Listener Special.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The First Minister answers questions from Party Leaders and other MSPs in this weekly question time. Topics covered this week include:   Michelle Thomson MSP To ask the First Minister how often he or the Scottish Ministers engage with the Scottish Government's Washington DC International Office regarding the Scotch whisky industry and other economic interests in the United States.   Rachael Hamilton MSP To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will provide an update on the Service Delivery Review of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.   Mark Griffin MSP To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports that police stations across Lanarkshire, including in Bellshill, will be closed permanently to the public or have their hours reduced from 1 April.   Jamie Greene MSP To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will make further changes to the draft Budget 2026-27 published in January in relation to business rates, hospices and the care sector.    A full transcript of this week's First Minister's Questions will be available on the Scottish Parliament website: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report

Darren hosts Danny and Tony on a bruising episode of 4 Tims and a Podcast as the lads dissect a disastrous night in Lanarkshire, where Celtic slumped to a 2–0 defeat against Motherwell at Fir Park. The result leaves new manager Wilfried Nancy with five losses in his opening seven matches, and the pressure is rapidly mounting amid growing belief that his time in the dugout may be running out.We dig into where it has all gone so badly wrong, asking whether the situation is still salvageable or if the damage has already been done. The discussion turns to the alarming lack of desire, confidence, and quality being shown by the players, and how years of incompetence at boardroom level have left Celtic sleepwalking into this perilous position.The focus then shifts to a massive derby weekend, with Rangers heading to Celtic Park just three points behind the champions. With so much at stake, we debate whether defeat would spell the inevitable end of Nancy's tenure. Finally, with the transfer window now open, we examine how Celtic's current instability could see the club taken advantage of, and what—if anything—can realistically be done to turn things around. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Celtic's final match of 2025 involves a visit to Lanarkshire to face Motherwell.This will be an appropriate way to end the year that marked Fir Park's 130th anniversary.In 1895, Celtic were the first team to visit, and over the years it's been a big part of Celtic history.This podcast tells the story of Celtic and Fir Park.Every week, you can listen for free to more tales from Celtic's past, as told by Matthew Marr (Hail Hail History).You can also take part in free walking tours which visit the sites that have shaped the Bhoys' history. To find out more, visit: www.celticwalkingtours.wordpress.comEnjoy…Apple podcastsSpotifyAmazonPlayer.fmSpreakerAudioboomYoutube This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thecelticunderground.substack.com/subscribe

The two vehicle collision occurred in Gibstown outside Dundalk on Saturday night and claimed the lives of young people from Meath, Louth, Monaghan and Lanarkshire in Scotland. Our north east correspondent Laura Hogan was in Dundalk. We also hear from the president of Dundalk Institute of Technology Dr Diarmuid O'Callaghan.

Five young people in their early 20s died in a two-vehicle road traffic collision in Co Louth on Saturday night. They were Chloe McGee from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, Alan McCluskey from Drumconrath, Co Meath, Dylan Commins from Ardee, Co Louth, Shay Duffy from Carrickmacross, and Chloe Hipson from Lanarkshire, Scotland. Ann Tydings knows only too well what their families are going through. Twenty-one years ago this month her son Pádraig was killed in a crash, he had just recently celebrated his 22nd birthday.

Communities in Ardee, Carrickmacross, Drumconrath and Lanarkshire in Scotland have been devastated following a car crash which claimed the lives of five young people this weekend. Speaking to Pat on the tragedy was Mgr Shane McCaughey, Parish Priest, Carrickmacross and Paula Butterly TD, Fine Gael, Louth.

In the latest Radical Reformers episode, Andrew Laird welcomes Des Murray, Chief Executive of North Lanarkshire Council and Chair of Solace Scotland. Des shares his personal journey from growing up in Lanarkshire to leading the council in his hometown, highlighting the power of local roots and the value of a generalist perspective in leadership. He explains how North Lanarkshire's “one plan” approach integrates housing, economy, infrastructure, and digital strategy to deliver real change for communities. The council's success, he argues, comes from aligning all partners behind a shared vision and focusing on outcomes that improve lives, not just statistics. Des emphasises a need to steer away from our obsession with immediacy and that meaningful change comes from long term vision, tough decisions and the bravery to address bias in all its forms to achieve the best for the people that need it most. It's a powerful reminder that visionary leadership, local knowledge and honest conversations are essential for public service reform.

In this episode I was pleased to be joined by a truly talented young player in 2023 European Ladies' Amateur Champion, 3x Palmer Cup Participant & Former World Number 1 Amateur Julia Lopez Ramirez as we discuss her upbringing, brilliant amateur career and what her rookie season on LPGA Tour has looked like in her own view so far. Julia is from Benahavis in Malaga and developed her impressive driving ability from getting in her own words 'teased by her coach' that he could hit it further.  Julia would go to Mississippi State University as part of the Mississippi Bulldogs and would win 8 individual titles which included the prestigious 2023 European Ladies' Amateur Championship defeating then World Number 1 player Ingrid Lindblad in a thrilling final as well as participating in 3x Palmer Cups for Team International, 2023 Vagliano Trophy participant, 2023 Espirito Santo Trophy participant for Spain & 3x European Ladies' Amateur Team Championships for Spain which included winning for Spain in 2023 alongside ANWA champion Carla Bernat Escuder, Carolina Lopez-Chacarra, Cayetana Fernandez, Tejedo Mulet & Lopez Ortega. Julia would also be the 2023 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year & of course Number 1 Amateur in the world in 2024. At the end of 2024 Julia would turn pro and would finish T10th at Final Stage of LPGA Q School to gain a tour card for this year 2025. She would tee it up in her first full event as a LPGA pro in Bradenton, Florida for Founders Cup before struggling with a shoulder injury that would hinder her start to the year before finding form early summer finishing T29th at Liberty National for Mizuho Americas Open followed by T45 at Mexico Riviera Maya. At Erin Hills for US Womens Open in June would see Julia be joint first round leader and 2nd going into the final day being in the final group at a major, although it didn't go to plan on the Sunday Julia sees the positives from that week and would make the weekend at 2 of the next majors T36th at KPMG PGA Championship & T28th at Evian Championship. At the Scottish Women's Open in July it would see Julia post her best LPGA Tour finish at Dundonald Links finishing T3rd before struggling at the tough Royal Porthcawl for AIG Women's Open. It was a great pleasure to have Julia on the podcast. Such a talented player to watch. I wish her nothing but the best for the future and her battle to make CME Tour Finals. This show is in co-operation with Bunker Brigade Golf Apparel. Bunker Brigade is a golf brand formed in 2024 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It's main objective is high quality clothing for affordable prices so be sure to check the Bunker Brigade website for the latest clothing.  

A Biggar, Brighter Future Find more episodes on Sanctuary First Rev Mike Fucella prays for a Biggar, Brighter Future.Mike returned to South East Asia to find the churches he was involved with mushrooming & growing remarkably. Presently he is helping lead Biggar & nearby congregations into a challenging & positive future. In time, he hopes & aspires to return to a similar situation of Christ's Kingdom multiplying with blessing in Lanarkshire & Scotland. Be encouraged & inspired! Neil Urquhart explores the stories of struggle and perseverance within the church allowing Jesus to renew our vision & vigour for His New Life. Join us as we discover, faith hope and stories of grief in the Church of Scotland. Come! Emmaus, Emerge from the gloom. Come Holy Spirit Come! #emergingemmauspodcast #podcast #church #faith #bible #community

Lanarkshire voters now have a Reform MSP after Central Scotland member Graham Simpson announced his defection from the Conservatives to Nigel Farage's party. Simpson, who has represented the electoral region comprising all of North and most of South Lanarkshire since 2016, revealed his decision at a press conference alongside the Reform leader – saying: “I've joined because we have a chance to create something new, lasting and exciting.” Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn is set to launch a new socialist party with fellow MP Zarah Sultana. Provisionally called ‘Your Party', it has attracted around 800,000 supporters and a branch in Glasgow is set to launch. Contesting next year's Holyrood election would be Corbyn's first major electoral test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Cammy and Iona are joined by Sheep farmer Dougie Fleming of Nisbet Farm in Lanarkshire. Dougie is a successful Blackface and Texel breeder and has went from shepherding at places like Whelphill and Midlock to contract farming 3,200 ewes on his own. We hope you enjoy, Cammy & Iona      Leave us a voice note or text with your question at: (+44) 07986 909845 No calls will be answered, and please keep voice notes short. Thanks to our Sponsors: Crystalyx Herdwatch: https://herdwatchng.app.link/FedbyFarmers You Can Support the show here: Buy us a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fedbyfarmers Visit our website to see our range of custom made clothing www.fedbyfarmers.co.uk Our podcast releases on Audio platforms at 7am, and on youtube later the same day.

Good Sunday morning to you,I am just on a train home from Glasgow, where I have been gigging these past two nights. I've had a great time, as I always seem to do when I go north of the wall.But Glasgow on a Saturday night is something else. My hotel was right next to the station and so I was right in the thick of it. If I ever get to make a cacatopian, end-of-days, post-apocalyptic thriller, I'll just stroll through Glasgow city centre on a Friday or Saturday night with a camera to get all the B roll. It was like walking through a Hieronymus Bosch painting only with a Scottish accent. Little seems to have changed since I wrote that infamous chapter about Glasgow in Life After the State all those years ago. The only difference is that now it's more multi-ethnic. So many people are so off their heads. I lost count of the number of randoms wandering about just howling at the stars. The long days - it was still light at 10 o'clock - make the insanity all the more visible. Part of me finds it funny, but another part of me finds it so very sad that so many people let themselves get into this condition. It prompted me to revisit said chapter, and I offer it today as your Sunday thought piece.Just a couple of little notes, before we begin. This caught my eye on Friday. Our favourite uranium tech company, Lightbridge Fuels (NASDAQ:LTBR), has taken off again with Donald Trump's statement that he is going to quadruple US nuclear capacity. The stock was up 45% in a day. We first looked at it in October at $3. It hit $15 on Friday. It's one to sell on the spikes and buy on the dips, as this incredible chart shows.(In other news I have now listened twice to the Comstock Lode AGM, and I'll report back on that shortly too). ICYMI here is my mid-week commentary, which attracted a lot of attentionRight - Glasgow.(NB I haven't included references here. Needless to say, they are all there in the book. And sorry I don't have access to the audio of me reading this from my laptop, but, if you like, you can get the audiobook at Audible, Apple Books and all good audiobookshops. The book itself available at Amazon, Apple Books et al).How the Most Entrepreneurial City in Europe Became Its SickestThe cause of waves of unemployment is not capitalism, but governments …Friedrich Hayek, economist and philosopherIn the 18th and 19th centuries, the city of Glasgow in Scotland became enormously, stupendously rich. It happened quite organically, without planning. An entrepreneurial people reacted to their circumstances and, over time, turned Glasgow into an industrial and economic centre of such might that, by the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was producing half the tonnage of Britain's ships and a quarter of all locomotives in the world. (Not unlike China's industrial dominance today). It was regarded as the best-governed city in Europe and popular histories compared it to the great imperial cities of Venice and Rome. It became known as the ‘Second City of the British Empire'.Barely 100 years later, it is the heroin capital of the UK, the murder capital of the UK and its East End, once home to Europe's largest steelworks, has been dubbed ‘the benefits capital of the UK'. Glasgow is Britain's fattest city: its men have Britain's lowest life expectancy – on a par with Palestine and Albania – and its unemployment rate is 50% higher than the rest of the UK.How did Glasgow manage all that?The growth in Glasgow's economic fortunes began in the latter part of the 17th century and the early 18th century. First, the city's location in the west of Scotland at the mouth of the river Clyde meant that it lay in the path of the trade winds and at least 100 nautical miles closer to America's east coast than other British ports – 200 miles closer than London. In the days before fossil fuels (which only found widespread use in shipping in the second half of the 19th century) the journey to Virginia was some two weeks shorter than the same journey from London or many of the other ports in Britain and Europe. Even modern sailors describe how easy the port of Glasgow is to navigate. Second, when England was at war with France – as it was repeatedly between 1688 and 1815 – ships travelling to Glasgow were less vulnerable than those travelling to ports further south. Glasgow's merchants took advantage and, by the early 18th century, the city had begun to assert itself as a trading hub. Manufactured goods were carried from Britain and Europe to North America and the Caribbean, where they were traded for increasingly popular commodities such as tobacco, cotton and sugar.Through the 18th century, the Glasgow merchants' business networks spread, and they took steps to further accelerate trade. New ships were introduced, bigger than those of rival ports, with fore and aft sails that enabled them to sail closer to the wind and reduce journey times. Trading posts were built to ensure that cargo was gathered and stored for collection, so that ships wouldn't swing idly at anchor. By the 1760s Glasgow had a 50% share of the tobacco trade – as much as the rest of Britain's ports combined. While the English merchants simply sold American tobacco in Europe at a profit, the Glaswegians actually extended credit to American farmers against future production (a bit like a crop future today, where a crop to be grown at a later date is sold now). The Virginia farmers could then use this credit to buy European goods, which the Glaswegians were only too happy to supply. This brought about the rise of financial institutions such as the Glasgow Ship Bank and the Glasgow Thistle Bank, which would later become part of the now-bailed-out, taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).Their practices paid rewards. Glasgow's merchants earned a great deal of money. They built glamorous homes and large churches and, it seems, took on aristocratic airs – hence they became known as the ‘Tobacco Lords'. Numbering among them were Buchanan, Dunlop, Ingram, Wilson, Oswald, Cochrane and Glassford, all of whom had streets in the Merchant City district of Glasgow named after them (other streets, such as Virginia Street and Jamaica Street, refer to their trade destinations). In 1771, over 47 million pounds of tobacco were imported.However, the credit the Glaswegians extended to American tobacco farmers would backfire. The debts incurred by the tobacco farmers – which included future presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (who almost lost his farm as a result) – grew, and were among the grievances when the American War of Independence came in 1775. That war destroyed the tobacco trade for the Glaswegians. Much of the money that was owed to them was never repaid. Many of their plantations were lost. But the Glaswegians were entrepreneurial and they adapted. They moved on to other businesses, particularly cotton.By the 19th century, all sorts of local industry had emerged around the goods traded in the city. It was producing and exporting textiles, chemicals, engineered goods and steel. River engineering projects to dredge and deepen the Clyde (with a view to forming a deep- water port) had begun in 1768 and they would enable shipbuilding to become a major industry on the upper reaches of the river, pioneered by industrialists such as Robert Napier and John Elder. The final stretch of the Monkland Canal, linking the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas, was opened in 1795, facilitating access to the iron-ore and coal mines of Lanarkshire.The move to fossil-fuelled shipping in the latter 19th century destroyed the advantages that the trade winds had given Glasgow. But it didn't matter. Again, the people adapted. By the turn of the 20th century the Second City of the British Empire had become a world centre of industry and heavy engineering. It has been estimated that, between 1870 and 1914, it produced as much as one-fifth of the world's ships, and half of Britain's tonnage. Among the 25,000 ships it produced were some of the greatest ever built: the Cutty Sark, the Queen Mary, HMS Hood, the Lusitania, the Glenlee tall ship and even the iconic Mississippi paddle steamer, the Delta Queen. It had also become a centre for locomotive manufacture and, shortly after the turn of the 20th century, could boast the largest concentration of locomotive building works in Europe.It was not just Glasgow's industry and wealth that was so gargantuan. The city's contribution to mankind – made possible by the innovation and progress that comes with booming economies – would also have an international impact. Many great inventors either hailed from Glasgow or moved there to study or work. There's James Watt, for example, whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. One of Watt's employees, William Murdoch, has been dubbed ‘the Scot who lit the world' – he invented gas lighting, a new kind of steam cannon and waterproof paint. Charles MacIntosh gave us the raincoat. James Young, the chemist dubbed as ‘the father of the oil industry', gave us paraffin. William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, developed the science of thermodynamics, formulating the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature; he also managed the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.The turning point in the economic fortunes of Glasgow – indeed, of industrial Britain – was WWI. Both have been in decline ever since. By the end of the war, the British were drained, both emotionally and in terms of capital and manpower; the workers, the entrepreneurs, the ideas men, too many of them were dead or incapacitated. There was insufficient money and no appetite to invest. The post-war recession, and later the Great Depression, did little to help. The trend of the city was now one of inexorable economic decline.If Glasgow was the home of shipping and industry in 19th-century Britain, it became the home of socialism in the 20th century. Known by some as the ‘Red Clydeside' movement, the socialist tide in Scotland actually pre-dated the First World War. In 1906 came the city's first Labour Member of Parliament (MP), George Barnes – prior to that its seven MPs were all Conservatives or Liberal Unionists. In the spring of 1911, 11,000 workers at the Singer sewing-machine factory (run by an American corporation in Clydebank) went on strike to support 12 women who were protesting about new work practices. Singer sacked 400 workers, but the movement was growing – as was labour unrest. In the four years between 1910 and 1914 Clydebank workers spent four times as many days on strike than in the whole of the previous decade. The Scottish Trades Union Congress and its affiliations saw membership rise from 129,000 in 1909 to 230,000 in 1914.20The rise in discontent had much to do with Glasgow's housing. Conditions were bad, there was overcrowding, bad sanitation, housing was close to dirty, noxious and deafening industry. Unions grew quite organically to protect the interests of their members.Then came WWI, and inflation, as Britain all but abandoned gold. In 1915 many landlords responded by attempting to increase rent, but with their young men on the Western front, those left behind didn't have the means to pay these higher costs. If they couldn't, eviction soon followed. In Govan, an area of Glasgow where shipbuilding was the main occupation, women – now in the majority with so many men gone – organized opposition to the rent increases. There are photographs showing women blocking the entrance to tenements; officers who did get inside to evict tenants are said to have had their trousers pulled down.The landlords were attacked for being unpatriotic. Placards read: ‘While our men are fighting on the front line,the landlord is attacking us at home.' The strikes spread to other cities throughout the UK, and on 27 November 1915 the government introduced legislation to restrict rents to the pre-war level. The strikers were placated. They had won. The government was happy; it had dealt with the problem. The landlords lost out.In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, more frequent strikes crippled the city. In 1919 the ‘Bloody Friday' uprising prompted the prime minister, David Lloyd George, to deploy 10,000 troops and tanks onto the city's streets. By the 1930s Glasgow had become the main base of the Independent Labour Party, so when Labour finally came to power alone after WWII, its influence was strong. Glasgow has always remained a socialist stronghold. Labour dominates the city council, and the city has not had a Conservative MP for 30 years.By the late 1950s, Glasgow was losing out to the more competitive industries of Japan, Germany and elsewhere. There was a lack of investment. Union demands for workers, enforced by government legislation, made costs uneconomic and entrepreneurial activity arduous. With lack of investment came lack of innovation.Rapid de-industrialization followed, and by the 1960s and 70s most employment lay not in manufacturing, but in the service industries.Which brings us to today. On the plus side, Glasgow is still ranked as one of Europe's top 20 financial centres and is home to some leading Scottish businesses. But there is considerable downside.Recent studies have suggested that nearly 30% of Glasgow's working age population is unemployed. That's 50% higher than that of the rest of Scotland or the UK. Eighteen per cent of 16- to 19-year-olds are neither in school nor employed. More than one in five working-age Glaswegians have no sort of education that might qualify them for a job.In the city centre, the Merchant City, 50% of children are growing up in homes where nobody works. In the poorer neighbourhoods, such as Ruchill, Possilpark, or Dalmarnock, about 65% of children live in homes where nobody works – more than three times the national average. Figures from the Department of Work and Pensions show that 85% of working age adults from the district of Bridgeton claim some kind of welfare payment.Across the city, almost a third of the population regularly receives sickness or incapacity benefit, the highest rate of all UK cities. A 2008 World Health Organization report noted that in Glasgow's Calton, Bridgeton and Queenslie neighbourhoods, the average life expectancy for males is only 54. In contrast, residents of Glasgow's more affluent West End live to be 80 and virtually none of them are on the dole.Glasgow has the highest crime rate in Scotland. A recent report by the Centre for Social Justice noted that there are 170 teenage gangs in Glasgow. That's the same number as in London, which has over six times the population of Glasgow.It also has the dubious record of being Britain's murder capital. In fact, Glasgow had the highest homicide rate in Western Europe until it was overtaken in 2012 by Amsterdam, with more violent crime per head of population than even New York. What's more, its suicide rate is the highest in the UK.Then there are the drug and alcohol problems. The residents of the poorer neighbourhoods are an astounding six times more likely to die of a drugs overdose than the national average. Drug-related mortality has increased by 95% since 1997. There are 20,000 registered drug users – that's just registered – and the situation is not going to get any better: children who grow up in households where family members use drugs are seven times more likely to end up using drugs themselves than children who live in drug-free families.Glasgow has the highest incidence of liver diseases from alcohol abuse in all of Scotland. In the East End district of Dennistoun, these illnesses kill more people than heart attacks and lung cancer combined. Men and women are more likely to die of alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow than anywhere else in the UK. Time and time again Glasgow is proud winner of the title ‘Fattest City in Britain'. Around 40% of the population are obese – 5% morbidly so – and it also boasts the most smokers per capita.I have taken these statistics from an array of different sources. It might be in some cases that they're overstated. I know that I've accentuated both the 18th- and 19th-century positives, as well as the 20th- and 21st-century negatives to make my point. Of course, there are lots of healthy, happy people in Glasgow – I've done many gigs there and I loved it. Despite the stories you hear about intimidating Glasgow audiences, the ones I encountered were as good as any I've ever performed in front of. But none of this changes the broad-brush strokes: Glasgow was a once mighty city that now has grave social problems. It is a city that is not fulfilling its potential in the way that it once did. All in all, it's quite a transformation. How has it happened?Every few years a report comes out that highlights Glasgow's various problems. Comments are then sought from across the political spectrum. Usually, those asked to comment agree that the city has grave, ‘long-standing and deep-rooted social problems' (the words of Stephen Purcell, former leader of Glasgow City Council); they agree that something needs to be done, though they don't always agree on what that something is.There's the view from the right: Bill Aitken of the Scottish Conservatives, quoted in The Sunday Times in 2008, said, ‘We simply don't have the jobs for people who are not academically inclined. Another factor is that some people are simply disinclined to work. We have got to find something for these people to do, to give them a reason to get up in the morning and give them some self-respect.' There's the supposedly apolitical view of anti-poverty groups: Peter Kelly, director of the Glasgow-based Poverty Alliance, responded, ‘We need real, intensive support for people if we are going to tackle poverty. It's not about a lack of aspiration, often people who are unemployed or on low incomes are stymied by a lack of money and support from local and central government.' And there's the view from the left. In the same article, Patricia Ferguson, the Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Maryhill, also declared a belief in government regeneration of the area. ‘It's about better housing, more jobs, better education and these things take years to make an impact. I believe that the huge regeneration in the area is fostering a lot more community involvement and cohesion. My real hope is that these figures will take a knock in the next five or ten years.' At the time of writing in 2013, five years later, the figures have worsened.All three points of view agree on one thing: the government must do something.In 2008 the £435 million Fairer Scotland Fund – established to tackle poverty – was unveiled, aiming to allocate cash to the country's most deprived communities. Its targets included increasing average income among lower wage-earners and narrowing the poverty gap between Scotland's best- and worst-performing regions by 2017. So far, it hasn't met those targets.In 2008 a report entitled ‘Power for The Public' examined the provision of health, education and justice in Scotland. It said the budgets for these three areas had grown by 55%, 87% and 44% respectively over the last decade, but added that this had produced ‘mixed results'. ‘Mixed results' means it didn't work. More money was spent and the figures got worse.After the Centre for Social Justice report on Glasgow in 2008, Iain Duncan Smith (who set up this think tank, and is now the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) said, ‘Policy must deal with the pathways to breakdown – high levels of family breakdown, high levels of failed education, debt and unemployment.'So what are ‘pathways to breakdown'? If you were to look at a chart of Glasgow's prosperity relative to the rest of the world, its peak would have come somewhere around 1910. With the onset of WWI in 1914 its decline accelerated, and since then the falls have been relentless and inexorable. It's not just Glasgow that would have this chart pattern, but the whole of industrial Britain. What changed the trend? Yes, empires rise and fall, but was British decline all a consequence of WWI? Or was there something else?A seismic shift came with that war – a change which is very rarely spoken or written about. Actually, the change was gradual and it pre-dated 1914. It was a change that was sweeping through the West: that of government or state involvement in our lives. In the UK it began with the reforms of the Liberal government of 1906–14, championed by David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, known as the ‘terrible twins' by contemporaries. The Pensions Act of 1908, the People's Budget of 1909–10 (to ‘wage implacable warfare against poverty', declared Lloyd George) and the National Insurance Act of 1911 saw the Liberal government moving away from its tradition of laissez-faire systems – from classical liberalism and Gladstonian principles of self-help and self-reliance – towards larger, more active government by which taxes were collected from the wealthy and the proceeds redistributed. Afraid of losing votes to the emerging Labour party and the increasingly popular ideology of socialism, modern liberals betrayed their classical principles. In his War Memoirs, Lloyd George said ‘the partisan warfare that raged around these topics was so fierce that by 1913, this country was brought to the verge of civil war'. But these were small steps. The Pensions Act, for example, meant that men aged 70 and above could claim between two and five shillings per week from the government. But average male life- expectancy then was 47. Today it's 77. Using the same ratio, and, yes, I'm manipulating statistics here, that's akin to only awarding pensions to people above the age 117 today. Back then it was workable.To go back to my analogy of the prologue, this period was when the ‘train' was set in motion across the West. In 1914 it went up a gear. Here are the opening paragraphs of historian A. J. P. Taylor's most celebrated book, English History 1914–1945, published in 1965.I quote this long passage in full, because it is so telling.Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter, a foreigner could spend his life in this country without permit and without informing the police. Unlike the countries of the European continent, the state did not require its citizens to perform military service. An Englishman could enlist, if he chose, in the regular army, the navy, or the territorials. He could also ignore, if he chose, the demands of national defence. Substantial householders were occasionally called on for jury service. Otherwise, only those helped the state, who wished to do so. The Englishman paid taxes on a modest scale: nearly £200 million in 1913–14, or rather less than 8% of the national income.The state intervened to prevent the citizen from eating adulterated food or contracting certain infectious diseases. It imposed safety rules in factories, and prevented women, and adult males in some industries,from working excessive hours.The state saw to it that children received education up to the age of 13. Since 1 January 1909, it provided a meagre pension for the needy over the age of 70. Since 1911, it helped to insure certain classes of workers against sickness and unemployment. This tendency towards more state action was increasing. Expenditure on the social services had roughly doubled since the Liberals took office in 1905. Still, broadly speaking, the state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.All this was changed by the impact of the Great War. The mass of the people became, for the first time, active citizens. Their lives were shaped by orders from above; they were required to serve the state instead of pursuing exclusively their own affairs. Five million men entered the armed forces, many of them (though a minority) under compulsion. The Englishman's food was limited, and its quality changed, by government order. His freedom of movement was restricted; his conditions of work prescribed. Some industries were reduced or closed, others artificially fostered. The publication of news was fettered. Street lights were dimmed. The sacred freedom of drinking was tampered with: licensed hours were cut down, and the beer watered by order. The very time on the clocks was changed. From 1916 onwards, every Englishman got up an hour earlier in summer than he would otherwise have done, thanks to an act of parliament. The state established a hold over its citizens which, though relaxed in peacetime, was never to be removed and which the Second World war was again to increase. The history of the English state and of the English people merged for the first time.Since the beginning of WWI , the role that the state has played in our lives has not stopped growing. This has been especially so in the case of Glasgow. The state has spent more and more, provided more and more services, more subsidy, more education, more health care, more infrastructure, more accommodation, more benefits, more regulations, more laws, more protection. The more it has provided, the worse Glasgow has fared. Is this correlation a coincidence? I don't think so.The story of the rise and fall of Glasgow is a distilled version of the story of the rise and fall of industrial Britain – indeed the entire industrial West. In the next chapter I'm going to show you a simple mistake that goes on being made; a dynamic by which the state, whose very aim was to help Glasgow, has actually been its ‘pathway to breakdown' . . .Life After the State is available at Amazon, Apple Books and all good bookshops, with the audiobook at Audible, Apple Books and all good audiobookshops. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Good Sunday morning to you,I am just on a train home from Glasgow, where I have been gigging these past two nights. I've had a great time, as I always seem to do when I go north of the wall.But Glasgow on a Saturday night is something else. My hotel was right next to the station and so I was right in the thick of it. If I ever get to make a cacatopian, end-of-days, post-apocalyptic thriller, I'll just stroll through Glasgow city centre on a Friday or Saturday night with a camera to get all the B roll. It was like walking through a Hieronymus Bosch painting only with a Scottish accent. Little seems to have changed since I wrote that infamous chapter about Glasgow in Life After the State all those years ago. The only difference is that now it's more multi-ethnic. So many people are so off their heads. I lost count of the number of randoms wandering about just howling at the stars. The long days - it was still light at 10 o'clock - make the insanity all the more visible. Part of me finds it funny, but another part of me finds it so very sad that so many people let themselves get into this condition. It prompted me to revisit said chapter, and I offer it today as your Sunday thought piece.Just a couple of little notes, before we begin. This caught my eye on Friday. Our favourite uranium tech company, Lightbridge Fuels (NASDAQ:LTBR), has taken off again with Donald Trump's statement that he is going to quadruple US nuclear capacity. The stock was up 45% in a day. We first looked at it in October at $3. It hit $15 on Friday. It's one to sell on the spikes and buy on the dips, as this incredible chart shows.(In other news I have now listened twice to the Comstock Lode AGM, and I'll report back on that shortly too). ICYMI here is my mid-week commentary, which attracted a lot of attentionRight - Glasgow.(NB I haven't included references here. Needless to say, they are all there in the book. And sorry I don't have access to the audio of me reading this from my laptop, but, if you like, you can get the audiobook at Audible, Apple Books and all good audiobookshops. The book itself available at Amazon, Apple Books et al).How the Most Entrepreneurial City in Europe Became Its SickestThe cause of waves of unemployment is not capitalism, but governments …Friedrich Hayek, economist and philosopherIn the 18th and 19th centuries, the city of Glasgow in Scotland became enormously, stupendously rich. It happened quite organically, without planning. An entrepreneurial people reacted to their circumstances and, over time, turned Glasgow into an industrial and economic centre of such might that, by the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was producing half the tonnage of Britain's ships and a quarter of all locomotives in the world. (Not unlike China's industrial dominance today). It was regarded as the best-governed city in Europe and popular histories compared it to the great imperial cities of Venice and Rome. It became known as the ‘Second City of the British Empire'.Barely 100 years later, it is the heroin capital of the UK, the murder capital of the UK and its East End, once home to Europe's largest steelworks, has been dubbed ‘the benefits capital of the UK'. Glasgow is Britain's fattest city: its men have Britain's lowest life expectancy – on a par with Palestine and Albania – and its unemployment rate is 50% higher than the rest of the UK.How did Glasgow manage all that?The growth in Glasgow's economic fortunes began in the latter part of the 17th century and the early 18th century. First, the city's location in the west of Scotland at the mouth of the river Clyde meant that it lay in the path of the trade winds and at least 100 nautical miles closer to America's east coast than other British ports – 200 miles closer than London. In the days before fossil fuels (which only found widespread use in shipping in the second half of the 19th century) the journey to Virginia was some two weeks shorter than the same journey from London or many of the other ports in Britain and Europe. Even modern sailors describe how easy the port of Glasgow is to navigate. Second, when England was at war with France – as it was repeatedly between 1688 and 1815 – ships travelling to Glasgow were less vulnerable than those travelling to ports further south. Glasgow's merchants took advantage and, by the early 18th century, the city had begun to assert itself as a trading hub. Manufactured goods were carried from Britain and Europe to North America and the Caribbean, where they were traded for increasingly popular commodities such as tobacco, cotton and sugar.Through the 18th century, the Glasgow merchants' business networks spread, and they took steps to further accelerate trade. New ships were introduced, bigger than those of rival ports, with fore and aft sails that enabled them to sail closer to the wind and reduce journey times. Trading posts were built to ensure that cargo was gathered and stored for collection, so that ships wouldn't swing idly at anchor. By the 1760s Glasgow had a 50% share of the tobacco trade – as much as the rest of Britain's ports combined. While the English merchants simply sold American tobacco in Europe at a profit, the Glaswegians actually extended credit to American farmers against future production (a bit like a crop future today, where a crop to be grown at a later date is sold now). The Virginia farmers could then use this credit to buy European goods, which the Glaswegians were only too happy to supply. This brought about the rise of financial institutions such as the Glasgow Ship Bank and the Glasgow Thistle Bank, which would later become part of the now-bailed-out, taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).Their practices paid rewards. Glasgow's merchants earned a great deal of money. They built glamorous homes and large churches and, it seems, took on aristocratic airs – hence they became known as the ‘Tobacco Lords'. Numbering among them were Buchanan, Dunlop, Ingram, Wilson, Oswald, Cochrane and Glassford, all of whom had streets in the Merchant City district of Glasgow named after them (other streets, such as Virginia Street and Jamaica Street, refer to their trade destinations). In 1771, over 47 million pounds of tobacco were imported.However, the credit the Glaswegians extended to American tobacco farmers would backfire. The debts incurred by the tobacco farmers – which included future presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (who almost lost his farm as a result) – grew, and were among the grievances when the American War of Independence came in 1775. That war destroyed the tobacco trade for the Glaswegians. Much of the money that was owed to them was never repaid. Many of their plantations were lost. But the Glaswegians were entrepreneurial and they adapted. They moved on to other businesses, particularly cotton.By the 19th century, all sorts of local industry had emerged around the goods traded in the city. It was producing and exporting textiles, chemicals, engineered goods and steel. River engineering projects to dredge and deepen the Clyde (with a view to forming a deep- water port) had begun in 1768 and they would enable shipbuilding to become a major industry on the upper reaches of the river, pioneered by industrialists such as Robert Napier and John Elder. The final stretch of the Monkland Canal, linking the Forth and Clyde Canal at Port Dundas, was opened in 1795, facilitating access to the iron-ore and coal mines of Lanarkshire.The move to fossil-fuelled shipping in the latter 19th century destroyed the advantages that the trade winds had given Glasgow. But it didn't matter. Again, the people adapted. By the turn of the 20th century the Second City of the British Empire had become a world centre of industry and heavy engineering. It has been estimated that, between 1870 and 1914, it produced as much as one-fifth of the world's ships, and half of Britain's tonnage. Among the 25,000 ships it produced were some of the greatest ever built: the Cutty Sark, the Queen Mary, HMS Hood, the Lusitania, the Glenlee tall ship and even the iconic Mississippi paddle steamer, the Delta Queen. It had also become a centre for locomotive manufacture and, shortly after the turn of the 20th century, could boast the largest concentration of locomotive building works in Europe.It was not just Glasgow's industry and wealth that was so gargantuan. The city's contribution to mankind – made possible by the innovation and progress that comes with booming economies – would also have an international impact. Many great inventors either hailed from Glasgow or moved there to study or work. There's James Watt, for example, whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. One of Watt's employees, William Murdoch, has been dubbed ‘the Scot who lit the world' – he invented gas lighting, a new kind of steam cannon and waterproof paint. Charles MacIntosh gave us the raincoat. James Young, the chemist dubbed as ‘the father of the oil industry', gave us paraffin. William Thomson, known as Lord Kelvin, developed the science of thermodynamics, formulating the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature; he also managed the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.The turning point in the economic fortunes of Glasgow – indeed, of industrial Britain – was WWI. Both have been in decline ever since. By the end of the war, the British were drained, both emotionally and in terms of capital and manpower; the workers, the entrepreneurs, the ideas men, too many of them were dead or incapacitated. There was insufficient money and no appetite to invest. The post-war recession, and later the Great Depression, did little to help. The trend of the city was now one of inexorable economic decline.If Glasgow was the home of shipping and industry in 19th-century Britain, it became the home of socialism in the 20th century. Known by some as the ‘Red Clydeside' movement, the socialist tide in Scotland actually pre-dated the First World War. In 1906 came the city's first Labour Member of Parliament (MP), George Barnes – prior to that its seven MPs were all Conservatives or Liberal Unionists. In the spring of 1911, 11,000 workers at the Singer sewing-machine factory (run by an American corporation in Clydebank) went on strike to support 12 women who were protesting about new work practices. Singer sacked 400 workers, but the movement was growing – as was labour unrest. In the four years between 1910 and 1914 Clydebank workers spent four times as many days on strike than in the whole of the previous decade. The Scottish Trades Union Congress and its affiliations saw membership rise from 129,000 in 1909 to 230,000 in 1914.20The rise in discontent had much to do with Glasgow's housing. Conditions were bad, there was overcrowding, bad sanitation, housing was close to dirty, noxious and deafening industry. Unions grew quite organically to protect the interests of their members.Then came WWI, and inflation, as Britain all but abandoned gold. In 1915 many landlords responded by attempting to increase rent, but with their young men on the Western front, those left behind didn't have the means to pay these higher costs. If they couldn't, eviction soon followed. In Govan, an area of Glasgow where shipbuilding was the main occupation, women – now in the majority with so many men gone – organized opposition to the rent increases. There are photographs showing women blocking the entrance to tenements; officers who did get inside to evict tenants are said to have had their trousers pulled down.The landlords were attacked for being unpatriotic. Placards read: ‘While our men are fighting on the front line,the landlord is attacking us at home.' The strikes spread to other cities throughout the UK, and on 27 November 1915 the government introduced legislation to restrict rents to the pre-war level. The strikers were placated. They had won. The government was happy; it had dealt with the problem. The landlords lost out.In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, more frequent strikes crippled the city. In 1919 the ‘Bloody Friday' uprising prompted the prime minister, David Lloyd George, to deploy 10,000 troops and tanks onto the city's streets. By the 1930s Glasgow had become the main base of the Independent Labour Party, so when Labour finally came to power alone after WWII, its influence was strong. Glasgow has always remained a socialist stronghold. Labour dominates the city council, and the city has not had a Conservative MP for 30 years.By the late 1950s, Glasgow was losing out to the more competitive industries of Japan, Germany and elsewhere. There was a lack of investment. Union demands for workers, enforced by government legislation, made costs uneconomic and entrepreneurial activity arduous. With lack of investment came lack of innovation.Rapid de-industrialization followed, and by the 1960s and 70s most employment lay not in manufacturing, but in the service industries.Which brings us to today. On the plus side, Glasgow is still ranked as one of Europe's top 20 financial centres and is home to some leading Scottish businesses. But there is considerable downside.Recent studies have suggested that nearly 30% of Glasgow's working age population is unemployed. That's 50% higher than that of the rest of Scotland or the UK. Eighteen per cent of 16- to 19-year-olds are neither in school nor employed. More than one in five working-age Glaswegians have no sort of education that might qualify them for a job.In the city centre, the Merchant City, 50% of children are growing up in homes where nobody works. In the poorer neighbourhoods, such as Ruchill, Possilpark, or Dalmarnock, about 65% of children live in homes where nobody works – more than three times the national average. Figures from the Department of Work and Pensions show that 85% of working age adults from the district of Bridgeton claim some kind of welfare payment.Across the city, almost a third of the population regularly receives sickness or incapacity benefit, the highest rate of all UK cities. A 2008 World Health Organization report noted that in Glasgow's Calton, Bridgeton and Queenslie neighbourhoods, the average life expectancy for males is only 54. In contrast, residents of Glasgow's more affluent West End live to be 80 and virtually none of them are on the dole.Glasgow has the highest crime rate in Scotland. A recent report by the Centre for Social Justice noted that there are 170 teenage gangs in Glasgow. That's the same number as in London, which has over six times the population of Glasgow.It also has the dubious record of being Britain's murder capital. In fact, Glasgow had the highest homicide rate in Western Europe until it was overtaken in 2012 by Amsterdam, with more violent crime per head of population than even New York. What's more, its suicide rate is the highest in the UK.Then there are the drug and alcohol problems. The residents of the poorer neighbourhoods are an astounding six times more likely to die of a drugs overdose than the national average. Drug-related mortality has increased by 95% since 1997. There are 20,000 registered drug users – that's just registered – and the situation is not going to get any better: children who grow up in households where family members use drugs are seven times more likely to end up using drugs themselves than children who live in drug-free families.Glasgow has the highest incidence of liver diseases from alcohol abuse in all of Scotland. In the East End district of Dennistoun, these illnesses kill more people than heart attacks and lung cancer combined. Men and women are more likely to die of alcohol-related deaths in Glasgow than anywhere else in the UK. Time and time again Glasgow is proud winner of the title ‘Fattest City in Britain'. Around 40% of the population are obese – 5% morbidly so – and it also boasts the most smokers per capita.I have taken these statistics from an array of different sources. It might be in some cases that they're overstated. I know that I've accentuated both the 18th- and 19th-century positives, as well as the 20th- and 21st-century negatives to make my point. Of course, there are lots of healthy, happy people in Glasgow – I've done many gigs there and I loved it. Despite the stories you hear about intimidating Glasgow audiences, the ones I encountered were as good as any I've ever performed in front of. But none of this changes the broad-brush strokes: Glasgow was a once mighty city that now has grave social problems. It is a city that is not fulfilling its potential in the way that it once did. All in all, it's quite a transformation. How has it happened?Every few years a report comes out that highlights Glasgow's various problems. Comments are then sought from across the political spectrum. Usually, those asked to comment agree that the city has grave, ‘long-standing and deep-rooted social problems' (the words of Stephen Purcell, former leader of Glasgow City Council); they agree that something needs to be done, though they don't always agree on what that something is.There's the view from the right: Bill Aitken of the Scottish Conservatives, quoted in The Sunday Times in 2008, said, ‘We simply don't have the jobs for people who are not academically inclined. Another factor is that some people are simply disinclined to work. We have got to find something for these people to do, to give them a reason to get up in the morning and give them some self-respect.' There's the supposedly apolitical view of anti-poverty groups: Peter Kelly, director of the Glasgow-based Poverty Alliance, responded, ‘We need real, intensive support for people if we are going to tackle poverty. It's not about a lack of aspiration, often people who are unemployed or on low incomes are stymied by a lack of money and support from local and central government.' And there's the view from the left. In the same article, Patricia Ferguson, the Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Maryhill, also declared a belief in government regeneration of the area. ‘It's about better housing, more jobs, better education and these things take years to make an impact. I believe that the huge regeneration in the area is fostering a lot more community involvement and cohesion. My real hope is that these figures will take a knock in the next five or ten years.' At the time of writing in 2013, five years later, the figures have worsened.All three points of view agree on one thing: the government must do something.In 2008 the £435 million Fairer Scotland Fund – established to tackle poverty – was unveiled, aiming to allocate cash to the country's most deprived communities. Its targets included increasing average income among lower wage-earners and narrowing the poverty gap between Scotland's best- and worst-performing regions by 2017. So far, it hasn't met those targets.In 2008 a report entitled ‘Power for The Public' examined the provision of health, education and justice in Scotland. It said the budgets for these three areas had grown by 55%, 87% and 44% respectively over the last decade, but added that this had produced ‘mixed results'. ‘Mixed results' means it didn't work. More money was spent and the figures got worse.After the Centre for Social Justice report on Glasgow in 2008, Iain Duncan Smith (who set up this think tank, and is now the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) said, ‘Policy must deal with the pathways to breakdown – high levels of family breakdown, high levels of failed education, debt and unemployment.'So what are ‘pathways to breakdown'? If you were to look at a chart of Glasgow's prosperity relative to the rest of the world, its peak would have come somewhere around 1910. With the onset of WWI in 1914 its decline accelerated, and since then the falls have been relentless and inexorable. It's not just Glasgow that would have this chart pattern, but the whole of industrial Britain. What changed the trend? Yes, empires rise and fall, but was British decline all a consequence of WWI? Or was there something else?A seismic shift came with that war – a change which is very rarely spoken or written about. Actually, the change was gradual and it pre-dated 1914. It was a change that was sweeping through the West: that of government or state involvement in our lives. In the UK it began with the reforms of the Liberal government of 1906–14, championed by David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, known as the ‘terrible twins' by contemporaries. The Pensions Act of 1908, the People's Budget of 1909–10 (to ‘wage implacable warfare against poverty', declared Lloyd George) and the National Insurance Act of 1911 saw the Liberal government moving away from its tradition of laissez-faire systems – from classical liberalism and Gladstonian principles of self-help and self-reliance – towards larger, more active government by which taxes were collected from the wealthy and the proceeds redistributed. Afraid of losing votes to the emerging Labour party and the increasingly popular ideology of socialism, modern liberals betrayed their classical principles. In his War Memoirs, Lloyd George said ‘the partisan warfare that raged around these topics was so fierce that by 1913, this country was brought to the verge of civil war'. But these were small steps. The Pensions Act, for example, meant that men aged 70 and above could claim between two and five shillings per week from the government. But average male life- expectancy then was 47. Today it's 77. Using the same ratio, and, yes, I'm manipulating statistics here, that's akin to only awarding pensions to people above the age 117 today. Back then it was workable.To go back to my analogy of the prologue, this period was when the ‘train' was set in motion across the West. In 1914 it went up a gear. Here are the opening paragraphs of historian A. J. P. Taylor's most celebrated book, English History 1914–1945, published in 1965.I quote this long passage in full, because it is so telling.Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country forever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter, a foreigner could spend his life in this country without permit and without informing the police. Unlike the countries of the European continent, the state did not require its citizens to perform military service. An Englishman could enlist, if he chose, in the regular army, the navy, or the territorials. He could also ignore, if he chose, the demands of national defence. Substantial householders were occasionally called on for jury service. Otherwise, only those helped the state, who wished to do so. The Englishman paid taxes on a modest scale: nearly £200 million in 1913–14, or rather less than 8% of the national income.The state intervened to prevent the citizen from eating adulterated food or contracting certain infectious diseases. It imposed safety rules in factories, and prevented women, and adult males in some industries,from working excessive hours.The state saw to it that children received education up to the age of 13. Since 1 January 1909, it provided a meagre pension for the needy over the age of 70. Since 1911, it helped to insure certain classes of workers against sickness and unemployment. This tendency towards more state action was increasing. Expenditure on the social services had roughly doubled since the Liberals took office in 1905. Still, broadly speaking, the state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.All this was changed by the impact of the Great War. The mass of the people became, for the first time, active citizens. Their lives were shaped by orders from above; they were required to serve the state instead of pursuing exclusively their own affairs. Five million men entered the armed forces, many of them (though a minority) under compulsion. The Englishman's food was limited, and its quality changed, by government order. His freedom of movement was restricted; his conditions of work prescribed. Some industries were reduced or closed, others artificially fostered. The publication of news was fettered. Street lights were dimmed. The sacred freedom of drinking was tampered with: licensed hours were cut down, and the beer watered by order. The very time on the clocks was changed. From 1916 onwards, every Englishman got up an hour earlier in summer than he would otherwise have done, thanks to an act of parliament. The state established a hold over its citizens which, though relaxed in peacetime, was never to be removed and which the Second World war was again to increase. The history of the English state and of the English people merged for the first time.Since the beginning of WWI , the role that the state has played in our lives has not stopped growing. This has been especially so in the case of Glasgow. The state has spent more and more, provided more and more services, more subsidy, more education, more health care, more infrastructure, more accommodation, more benefits, more regulations, more laws, more protection. The more it has provided, the worse Glasgow has fared. Is this correlation a coincidence? I don't think so.The story of the rise and fall of Glasgow is a distilled version of the story of the rise and fall of industrial Britain – indeed the entire industrial West. In the next chapter I'm going to show you a simple mistake that goes on being made; a dynamic by which the state, whose very aim was to help Glasgow, has actually been its ‘pathway to breakdown' . . .Life After the State is available at Amazon, Apple Books and all good bookshops, with the audiobook at Audible, Apple Books and all good audiobookshops. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

Jonathan in London takes on the quiz against Alistair in Lanarkshire but who will be top?

Today we welcome Michael Rolfe onto the R2Kast!

In this monthly collaboration series, Adam from the UK True Crime podcast and I take a step back from individual cases to explore a curated selection of gripping crime stories that made headlines in February 2025. From chilling local, national, and international headlines to quirky and more lighthearted stories, this series offers a glimpse into the diverse and often shocking world of true crime. This month's stories include: Lanarkshire dad's jaw shattered while protecting stepson in Carluke Fraudster pretended to work for Greggs to nick thousands from Leeds City Council Killer who snatched girl from garden tent makes new bid for freedom Woman dies in shooting at village pub in Kent on Valentine's Day Hartlepool convenience store selling bootleg cigarettes Private detectives to hand over info on 'new witnesses' to death of Scot in Spain Female Police Officer Arrested for Shooting and Killing Her Son and His Teen Girlfriend Polish murderer writes a second novel revealing secrets of his crimes Kayaker survives being swallowed by humpback whale in Chile Join us as we dive into these extraordinary stories in the February 2025 edition of The Crime Roundup. Join my Patreon community at patreon.com/britishmurders for exclusive perks, including early access to ad-free episodes, bonus episodes and content, exciting giveaways, and welcome goodies! Social Media: Facebook | British Murders with Stuart Blues Instagram | @britishmurders TikTok | @britishmurders Private Facebook Group: British Murders Podcast - Discussion Group Website: britishmurders.com Is there a news article you'd like us to share and discuss? Please send it to contact@britishmurders.com or fill out a Contact Form at britishmurders.com/contact Intro music:⁣ David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'⁣ davidjohnbrady.com Disclaimer: The cases discussed in this episode are real and represent the worst day in many people's lives. We aim to cover such stories with a victim-focused approach, using information from publicly available sources. While we strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. Due to the nature of the content, viewer discretion is advised. Thank you for your understanding and support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this monthly collaboration series, Adam from the UK True Crime podcast and I take a step back from individual cases to explore a curated selection of gripping crime stories that made headlines in February 2025. From chilling local, national, and international headlines to quirky and more lighthearted stories, this series offers a glimpse into the diverse and often shocking world of true crime.This month's stories include:Lanarkshire dad's jaw shattered while protecting stepson in CarlukeFraudster pretended to work for Greggs to nick thousands from Leeds City CouncilKiller who snatched girl from garden tent makes new bid for freedomWoman dies in shooting at village pub in Kent on Valentine's DayHartlepool convenience store selling bootleg cigarettesPrivate detectives to hand over info on 'new witnesses' to death of Scot in SpainFemale Police Officer Arrested for Shooting and Killing Her Son and His Teen GirlfriendPolish murderer writes a second novel revealing secrets of his crimesKayaker survives being swallowed by humpback whale in ChileJoin us as we dive into these extraordinary stories in the February 2025 edition of The Crime Roundup.Join my Patreon community at patreon.com/britishmurders for exclusive perks, including early access to ad-free episodes, bonus episodes and content, exciting giveaways, and welcome goodies!Social Media:Facebook | British Murders with Stuart BluesInstagram | @britishmurdersTikTok | @britishmurdersPrivate Facebook Group:British Murders Podcast - Discussion GroupWebsite:britishmurders.comIs there a news article you'd like us to share and discuss? Please send it to contact@britishmurders.com or fill out a Contact Form at britishmurders.com/contactIntro music:⁣David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'⁣davidjohnbrady.comDisclaimer:The cases discussed in this episode are real and represent the worst day in many people's lives. We aim to cover such stories with a victim-focused approach, using information from publicly available sources. While we strive for accuracy, some details may vary depending on the sources used. Due to the nature of the content, viewer discretion is advised. Thank you for your understanding and support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we discuss migration to the Vision system for EMIS users in Scotland, focusing on key aspects of preparation. Some advantages of the new hosted environment include automatic backups, improved access to clinical systems across multiple sites, more collaborative working, and the ability to use non-medical prescribing with barcoded scripts. Vision Anywhere provides a secure backup system, and offers offline access to patient records, and can be used for home visits. Preparatory steps for migration include the management of non-DM&D drugs, addressing unissued acute scripts, and understanding the Vision system's "Preferred Pharmacy" approach. The migration process involves a structured pre-go-live period with data validation, training, and familiarization with the Vision interface and functionality. GPs are encouraged to complete training, utilize the trial system for their practice, and familiarize themselves with system basics. Transferring methods of working can start now, as users understand how they need to use the new system, re-build data entry templates, appointments, recall and messaging systems. We speak to Dawn Ellis, one of the IT Facilitation Managers working with the NSS GP IT Re-provisioning Team, about how practices, and GPs in particular, can start to approach preparation for migration. We also hear from Dr Mark Kirk, of the Avon Practice in Lanarkshire, which is the first practice to have completed the migration from EMIS to Vision, about how he feels about the move. By accessing the NSS GP IT practice toolkit and actively engaging in available training resources, GPs can effectively adapt to the new system, ensuring improved efficiency and minimizing potential anxieties associated with this significant change. Detailed notes from this podcast discussion with Dawn Ellis NSS GP IT site   EMIS to Vision GP Practice toolkit (only accessible via SWAN) Process and preparation PPT – detailed overview of process at practice level with overview of Vision  (only accessible via SWAN) Vision 3 Quick Reference Guide for Clinicians Cegedim Learning Zone It will all be alright in the end… Any feedback or comments are welcome via email: alex.defranco@phs.scot    www.snughealth.org.uk 

Spooky Season is back. We have a week of brilliant audio drama coming your way. Today is Inedia by Lucy Wilson. Content warnings to be aware of themes of blood, surgery and body dysmorphia. Voice Actor: Shawny McAloon Lucy Wilson Lucy is a writer from Lanarkshire. Normally more of a comedy writer, this is her first foray into anything resembling horror, a genre she is not naturally inclined towards due to being scared of everything. Inedia When a young women's obsession with their body and weight takes her on a path to a Doctor who may have the answer to all her dreams. Will her obsession be the thing that gives her all she wants or will it devour her. OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES Equity Toolkit: Link Stellar Quines: Link Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – persistentandnasty@gmail.com Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE

The Braw and The Brave is a podcast about people and their passions. Episode 235 is in conversation with singer Paul Michael. Recognising his incredible innate vocal talent at a young age, Paul's parents supported and nurtured his passion for music which saw him go on to study music. After starring on ITV's Starstruck, uploading a video of him on to YouTube performing a Shania Twain song led to him auditioning for the global star's up coming tour and well, they say the rest is history! Touring the world, performing in sell out arenas singing in Shania Twain's band, the Lanarkshire lad has had the most unbelievable few years. I chat to Paul and his mum Michelle about his journey this far and what it means to pursue your dreams. Follow Paul on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/fidkPemjFXxnA8Qw/?mibextid=LQQJ4d See Paul live at the King Robert Hotel on 16th of November!

Today Elaine chats the performers of Singin I'm No a Billie She's A Tim - Dionne Frati, Jade McDonald and Rachel Ogilvy. We chat taking a show that was origiinaly written for male actors and transforming it and updating it for women and for 2024. We talk the importance of the language we use and how we need to actively challenge outdated language in older plays and why it's important and much more. Singin I'm No A Billie She's A Tim - Pleasance EICC - Lomond Dates: 12-14, 18, 20-21 of August @ 6.00 pm Tickets available here: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/singin-i-m-no-a-billie-she-s-a-tim Singin I'm No A Billie She's A Tim The Billy and Tim brand is one of the most successful touring Scottish theatre shows of the modern era and now they're back with a brand-new re-write of the original show, but this time it's with an all-female cast! Because let's face it… It's not just the boys that are fanatical about their football teams. Singin I'm No a Billy She's a Tim will have you laughing and crying so hard, you'll be begging for full time. Join Billie and Timmy on their journey of discovery. Are you singing their tune? Dionne Frati Dionne Frati is an actor and tutor based in Glasgow. She has gained a first class honours degree from New college Lanarkshire where she now works as a production assistant part time. Dionne has worked in the industry in various areas including new Scottish writing, short films, voiceover, touring productions and panto. Jade McDonald Jade McDonald is based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is 2020 BA Acting for Stage and Screen graduate from Queen Margaret and Edinburgh Napier Universities. Jade has experience in working in short films, theatre, music videos and voice overs. Rachel Ogilvy Rachel is an actress, writer, theatre maker and voiceover artist. Her lengthy and varied career has stretched across theatre, TV and radio both in the Uk and abroad. Rachel is a founder and director of Paribus Productions. HIPA GUIDES: HIPA GUIDES OUR WEBSITE - www.persistentandnasty.co.uk Persistent Pal & Nasty Hero - Pals and Hero Membership Email – persistentandnasty@gmail.com Instagram - @persistentandnasty Twitter - @PersistentNasty Coffee Morning Eventbrite - Coffee Morning Tickets LINKTREE - LINKTR.EE Resources Samaritans - Rape Crisis Scotland - Rape Crisis UK ArtsMinds - BAPAM Freelancers Make Theatre Work Stonewall UK - Trevor Project - Mermaids UK Switchboard LGBT+ - GATE PLANNED PARENTHOOD DONATE - DONATE ABORTION SUPPORT NETWORK UK - ASN.COM- DONATE

When Peter Smart failed to show up for work on the morning of January 6, 1958, officers in Lanarkshire, Scotland were dispatched to Smart's home to conduct a well-being check. When no one came to the door, the officers forced their way inside, where they found Smart, his wife, and their eleven-year-old son all dead from gunshot wounds to the head. A week later, Peter Manuel was arrested and charged with the murders of the Smart family, but in time the police in Lanarkshire would learn that was only one of Manuel's horrific crimes.Thank you to the incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research!ReferencesBirmingham Post and Gazette. 1958. "3 shot dead: no gun found." Birmingham Post and Gazette, January 7: 1.Coventry Evening Telegraph. 1956. "Three dead in bungalow beds." Coventry Evening Telegraph, September 17: 1.Daily Record. 1956. "Fifth tee murder." Daily Record, January 5: 1.—. 1956. "Fifth tee murder: dramatic appeal." Daily Record, January 6: 1.—. 1957. "Teenager vanishes." Daily Record, December 30: 1.—. 1958. "Two sensations as trial opens." Daily Record, May 13: 7.Daily Telegraph. 1958. "1958." Daily Telegraph, May 15: 15.Evening Sentinel. 1956. "Bloodstains found on bed sheets." Evening Sentinel, September 17: 1.—. 1957. "Tjhick snow hampers moors hunt." Evening Sentinel, December 11: 1.Hull Daily Mail. 1957. "Police seek fresh clues in murder mystery." Hull Daily Mail, December 10: 5.Lundy, Iain. 2007. "Psychopath who brought terror to the west." Evening Times, December 27.MacLeod, Hector. 2009. Peter Manuel, Serial Killer. Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Books.Nottingham Evening News. 1956. "Bungalow riddle: two women and girl dead in bed." Nottingham Evening News, September 17: 4.Silvester, Norman. 2022. The story of Scotland's first known serial killer Peter Manuel. October 10. Accessed June 9, 2024. https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23034356.story-scotlands-first-known-serial-killer-peter-manuel/.The Times. 1958. "Statement on 8 murders." The Times, May 22: 5.Western Mail. 1958. "Watt denies shooting his wife." Western Mail, May 16: 5.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, Tom and the host discuss the captivating story of Gentle Johnny Ramensky, a legendary safe breaker and prison escaper from post-war Scotland. Renowned for his non-violent nature and acrobatic skills, Ramensky became a Robin Hood-like figure whose exploits were widely covered in the tabloids. Born as Johannes Ramanskus to Lithuanian immigrants in Lanarkshire, Johnny learned his proficiency with explosives from working in the mines as a child. Despite opportunities to lead a lawful life, including serving with distinction during World War II, his addiction to celebrity and thrill of escaping prison defined his life. The conversation delves into his numerous daring escapes from Peterhead Prison and his complex relationship with law enforcement, highlighting the grudging respect and unique rapport he cultivated with senior detectives. Johnny's story underscores not just the nature of crime but also the enduring themes of celebrity culture and immigrant struggles, remaining relevant to this day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode covers a wide range of topics related to policing history and contemporary events. It begins with a discussion on the Elizabeth Emblem, a new award available to families of emergency service personnel who died in the line of duty. Various families have applied, and there are sentiments about the need for further individual recognitions. The conversation then shifts to historical police tales, including notable incidents and characters from Lanarkshire, such as violent altercations involving police and criminal activities in the 1960s. The speakers also delve into the impact of organized crime and gambling before drugs became the cash cow for criminal enterprises. The discussion transitions into WWII, highlighting how bombing campaigns affected local areas and policing efforts, including a humorous yet tragic bombing of a hen house. The podcast shares insights into the resilience and challenges faced by officers, both in urban and rural settings, and acknowledges the importance of the Women's Auxiliary Police Corps during wartime. Finally, it reflects on contemporary police recruitment and the importance of historical societies in preserving and educating about police history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this first episode of 2024, the duo discuss the news that Ayesha will soon become Baroness Hazarika of Coatbridge in the County of Lanarkshire and the role of the House of Lords in legislating before focusing on the current political landscape and the challenges and opportunities ahead for Labour as the party prepares for its return to government.Notes: Sam Freedman and Ayesha Hazarika return to the airwaves as The Power Test - the weekly political podcast with a purpose exploring how Labour should govern to really change Britain for the better - gears up for this election year.in this first episode of 2024, the duo discuss the news that Ayesha will soon become Baroness Hazarika of Coatbridge in the County of Lanarkshire and the role of the House of Lords in legislating before focusing on the current political landscape and the challenges and opportunities ahead for Labour as the party prepares for its return to government.A 'torturous holding pattern' is seeing people more and more assured that Keir Starmer will be the country's next Prime Minister, and the party is quickly being treated as the next government - yet, it is still not clear exactly what inheritance it will be gifted by a Conservative Party burning down the house on its way out of the door.So what does that mean for Labour and what it hopes to achieve in government?Can the party really even get a head start before it is derailed by circumstances far from its control? Does its junking of key landmark policies and its commitment to Tory fiscal rules to strengthen its reputation for security hinder or help its aspirations for governing? Will Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves suddenly change tack once they walk down Downing Street and what can the party do to really deliver economic growth?Sam and Ayesha chew the fat and set out the big issues and themes which they will dive into throughout the next few weeks and months alongside some extra special expert guests as we move forward towards the election and review the party's plans for a "decade of national renewal" in more detail.The podcast continues weekly wherever you get your pods. Send in your reactions, questions and ideas on how Labour can change Britain at thepowertest.co.uk - become a member and get involved in our growing community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Recollections - Paul McStay   Paul McStay was born on 22nd October 1964 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Grand-nephew of former Celtic team captain and manager Jimmy McStay, playing for Celtic was in the family blood. A hotly tipped youth prospect Paul McStay was a member of Celtic Boys Club who burst onto the football scene in remarkable style when he hit two goals and was man of the match as Scotland schoolboys defeated their English counterparts at Wembley in front of a live TV audience in June 1980. He signed for Celtic aged seventeen and made his senior Celtic debut in a 4-0 home Scottish Cup win over Queen of the South on January 21st 1982. Part of a great Celtic dynasty – his Great Uncle's Jimmy and Willie were both Hoops greats while brothers Willie and Raymond also played for the club – Paul McStay seemed almost destined to write his name into Celtic folklore….   Enjoy

Welcome, welcome to Episode 131 of the ABZ Football Podcast and it's a depressingly familiar tale as we are back to full strength so Gary, Gavin & Graham pore over:-   - Our late capitulation in the Conference League against PAOK last week; - Our dismal showing in Ayrshire on Sunday in our 2-0 defeat to Kilmarnock in the CINCH; - We take a look back at the week that's been down AB24 way; - We check in with our loanees in Loan Watch; and - After the break, we look forward to our midweek visit to Lanarkshire to take on Motherwell on Wednesday!   Like what we do?  Keep us fuelled for future episodes by buying us a beer or coffee over at - https://ko-fi.com/abzfootballpodcast   Support our Aberdeen to Hamburg (via Gothenburg) challenge by visiting:- ABZFP Aberdeen to Gothenburg Challenge   Follow the us on our social media channels:-   Twitter - @AbzPodcast Facebook - @ABZFootballPodcast Instagram - @abzfootballpodcast

Rob pays tribute to Jock Stein, a legendary figure in the world of football management, who hailed from the coalfields of Lanarkshire, Scotland, overcame adversity and went on to become one of the most esteemed football managers of his time. Rob discusses Stein's humble beginnings as a part-time player and his transition into coaching and management. He highlights Stein's exceptional work ethic, tactical knowledge, and man-management skills, which led to his success at Celtic, including winning nine consecutive championships and the European Cup in 1967.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Jock Stein's upbringing in the coalfields of Lanarkshire shaped his values of hard work, determination, and team spirit, which he carried throughout his life and career. Despite facing adversity and sacrificing his own football career for the love of his family, Jock Stein remained committed to his values and ultimately found success as a coach and manager. Jock Stein's work ethic, attention to detail, and knowledge of the game set him apart as a manager. He was known for being the first to arrive at the club, studying opponents extensively, and constantly striving to improve his players. Jock Stein's ability to balance authority with a humanistic approach was evident in his relationships with players like Jimmy Johnston and George Connolly. He cared about their well-being and went above and beyond to support them. BEST MOMENTS "Jock Stein was from the world of football and football management. I'm going to be talking about a guy called Jock Stein."  "Jock broke the mould. A Protestant man playing for Celtic, and as a result, lost friends and suffered because of family division."  "Jock was the first into the club in the morning, opening up, and consistently, numerous nights per week, would travel hours and hours to away games, to watch teams and players."  VALUABLE RESOURCES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2 https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches. The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.LEARN MORE HERE Football, coach: https://www.patreon.com/robrylesThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to Room 1 on 1 from the Homebhoys Celtic are away from home again, an we're back in Lanarkshire, this time its Motherwell and Fir Park. So we are delighted to speak to Ross Mitchell about the Steelmen and their chances. The lads look back at a bumpy last season and we get Mitch's thoughts on the goings ons and managerial changes. Breaking down the ins and outs of the summer, Mitch tells us about the new guys and the stand outs in the Motherwell squad. They then look at the season so far and have a look at Motherwells impressive start. The pod finishes with Mitchs thoughts on the weekends match and his hopes for the season. Enjoy

While schools and universities boast urban legends alongside ghosts, prisons tend to be more like hospitals. You find tales of hauntings, but little in the way of folklore. It's probably due to the concentration of human life in one place - and the brutality that runs alongside it. Haunted prisons somehow don't seem so surprising. Due to matters of space, our main focus is on just three prisons: Joliet Prison in Illinois, Shepton Mallet in Somerset, and Barlinnie Prison in Lanarkshire. Let's dig into the newspapers and local history to find our tales of haunted prisons in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/haunted-prisons/ Pre-recorded illustrated talks: https://fabulousfolkloreschool.ezycourse.com/all-products?category=1035 Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Enjoyed this episode and want to show your appreciation? Buy Icy a coffee to say 'thanks' at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Request an episode: https://forms.gle/gqG7xQNLfbMg1mDv7 Get extra snippets of folklore on Instagram at https://instagram.com/icysedgwick 'Like' Fabulous Folklore on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fabulousfolklore/ Find Icy on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/icysedgwick.bsky.social Tweet Icy at https://twitter.com/IcySedgwick

In this emotionally charged episode of "Crime Time Inc," we journey back to Lanarkshire, Scotland, where two separate acts of incredible bravery went unrecognized for far too long. In 1976, George Taylor, a local Policeman, confronted escaped psychiatric hospital inmates in a deadly encounter. Seven years later, in 1983, Police Sergeant Ross Hunt met a tragic fate while attempting to arrest a suspect for attempted murder.Join us as ex-Superintendent George Barnsley shares the harrowing details of these events and the profound impact they had on the community. Discover how, decades later, George embarked on a passionate campaign to ensure that the bravery of these fallen officers received the recognition it rightfully deserved. It's a story of heroism, justice delayed, and one man's unwavering determination to honour the memory of Lanarkshire's forgotten heroes.You can buy the books mentioned in the podcasts by clicking the links belowTom's Best Selling Book:Ruxton: The First Modern Murder Paperback EditionRuxton: The First Modern Murder Kindle EditionSimon's Best Selling Book:The Ten Percent Paperback EditionThe Ten Percent Kindle Edition Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode I am joined by Helen and Fiona, they are working on a research project that is aimed at supporting adopted children and their families. I wanted to learn all about it and to spread the word.    Are you interested in taking part in the RIGHT research trial and contributing to improving care pathways for adopted and fostered children? The Right trial is looking to determine the effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy versus other appropriate treatment, offered to children experiencing difficulties related to early years trauma. We are also looking to identify how care pathways can be improved to ensure our vulnerable children are easily able to access the right treatment at the right time.   RIGHT is currently recruiting for adoptive families in the following areas: Hertfordshire, Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Oxfordshire, Lanarkshire, Doncaster, East Midlands – Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Nottinghamshire, West Midlands – Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, and Walsall And for children in a long-term foster placement in: Lanarkshire, Nottingham City, Norfolk, Oxfordshire   Get in touch with us at right-trial@glasgow.ac.uk or find out more at www.gla.ac.uk/right Please follow us on  www.facebook.com/righttrial and  @RIGHTTrial

In this midweek conversation we speak to Prof Helen Minnis and Fiona Lettice from the University Of Glasgow. They are undertaking a trial (The Relationships in Good Hands (RIGHT)Trial) looking at Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) therapy.  We chat about the DDP generally and then consider the specific questions that the study is looking at Can DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy) improve the mental health of 5–12-year-old fostered or adopted children and is DDP worth the commitment families need to give to it - and the extra cost to the services that deliver it? Notes from Helen and Fiona: "Are you interested in taking part in the RIGHT research trial and contributing to improving care pathways for adopted and fostered children? The Right trial is looking to determine the effectiveness of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy versus other appropriate treatment, offered to children experiencing difficulties related to early years trauma. We are also looking to identify how care pathways can be improved to ensure our vulnerable children are easily able to access the right treatment at the right time. RIGHT is currently recruiting for adoptive families in the following areas: Hertfordshire, Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, Oxfordshire, Lanarkshire, Doncaster, East Midlands – Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Nottinghamshire, West Midlands – Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, and Walsall And for children in a long-term foster placement in: Lanarkshire, Nottingham City, Bradford, Norfolk, Oxfordshire Please get in touch with us at right-trial@glasgow.ac.uk or find out more at www.gla.ac.uk/right"   As always if you've experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page or twitter or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com Listen/subscribe on iTunes here Spotify here Google here

Lanarkshire Girls By Liz Lochhead

Another game on two halves sees Rangers improve after the break to come from behind and comfortably beat Motherwell in Lanarkshire. Craig is joined by John and Patrick to discuss all the action at Fir Park, as well as the protests seen before the match. The pod is brought to you in association with our partners: Forrest Precision Engineering. The Gersnet Podcast: the independent Rangers FC podcast, by fans, for fans. LIVE and FREE every Sunday on YouTube at 9.30pm with match preview shows ahead of each game as well. All available from a range of other platforms on the following day (including iTunes and Spotify).

Peter Manuel was an American-Scottish serial killer dubbed "The Beast of Birkenshaw" after being convicted of seven murders across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and 1958.    We are discussing his story as the end of Pisces season nears. Manuel's zodiac sign is Pisces! Fun fact... according to several studies the water signs (Cancer, Pisces, and Scorpio) accounted for the highest number of serial killers.    Twitter and Instagram - @biarpodcast Facebook - Bug in a Rug Email us your ideas at biarpodcast@gmail.com   Sources: Pisces Zodiac Sign: Dates, Traits, Compatibility and More | Horoscope.com Most Common Zodiac Signs Of Serial Killers | ZodiacSign.com 4 Most Common Serial Killer Zodiac Signs, According To Study | YourTango Killer: Peter Manuel - Beast of Birkenshaw profiled on Killer.Cloud Peter Manuel - Wikipedia Old Glasgow Murders: Peter Manuel Part 1: Early Life and First Crimes 10 Things You Didn't Know About Peter Manuel, Scotland's Most Notorious Serial Killer (wgbh.org) Who were Peter Manuel's victims? | The US Sun (the-sun.com) Peter Manuel | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

paypal.me/LibroTobias Esta semana en nuestra “Sección principal” le dedicamos la película “La carretera” a nuestro mecenas Pablo Menéndez. La película de esta semana es una adaptación de la novela de Cormac McCarthy de la mano de John Hillcoat y protagonizada por Viggo Mortensen. Además en nuestra sección “El callejón oscuro” os traigo a Peter Manuel fue un asesino en serie escocés-estadounidense que fue condenado por asesinar a siete personas en Lanarkshire y el sur de Escocia entre 1956 y su arresto en 1958, y se cree que asesinó a dos más. Finalmente en la sección “¿Qué fue de?” esta semana os hablo de Anna Baetjer que investigó y relacionó el trabajo industrial con la salud de las empleadas e hizo que se implementasen una serie de cambios para la seguridad y el bienestar de las trabajadoras. Enlace al programa sobre Cormac McCarthy: https://www.ivoox.com/libro-tobias-3-10-cormac-mccarthy-audios-mp3_rf_9312964_1.html Tiempos: Sección principal: del 00:03:35 al 01:48:05 Sección “El callejón oscuro”: del 01:48:06 al 02:37:03 Sección “¿Qué fue de?”: del 02:37:04 al 03:17:16 Presentación, dirección, edición y montaje: Asier Menéndez Marín Diseño logo Podcast: albacanodesigns (Alba Cano) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

On this week's episode - the Dons bounce back following their Tannadice Tanking. We look back upon the 2-0 win over Hearts, and ahead to the Cup Game against Partick as well as the league fixture in Lanarkshire this weekend when we visit Motherwell. Plus, how did Aberdeen's Women get on against their Hearts counterparts when they matched up at Oriam? And could Alfie Bavidge make it more than a hat-trick of hat-tricks for the Under 18s, and if so, what would we call it?There's the latest from Cove, Peterhead, the Highland League and Juniors too. We've got it all covered, and, as always, it's all in the company of Andrew Shinie and Dave Macdermid, hosted by John Mellis.Support the Show.

This week we are in beautiful Lanarkshire, in the heart of Scotland, an area with a long tradition of food production. Rosalind went along to visit some of the businesses who now make up Lanarkshire Larder, a regional food group that includes food and drinks producers, restaurants, cafes, pubs, hotels and farm shops, all of whom share a passion about the provenance and quality of products they sell.First up, everyone's favourite - cheese. Rosalind met Selina Cairns who runs Errington cheese and who founded Lanarkshire Larder.Next up was a visit to Thankerton farm to speak to owner Michael Shannon who rears and produces all the meat for his butchers and supply shop - Damn Delicious.Moving on to Strathaven, Rosalind sat down with Theo Giameos, owner of Roasted. His business ethos is very much focussed on sustainability, locally sourced products, socially consciousness and environmentally friendly practices. Finally you'll hear Rosalind chatting to Andrew and Linda Smellie of Greenhall Country Cafe and Farm Shop. They have been growing and expanding a business; the original idea for which was born at a dinner party where they served crocodile, ostrich and wagu beef.

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Moving right along this week the gals chat about a maternal line this week. The Frame lineage from Lanark, Scotland to smack dab in the middle of the Battle of the Brandywine near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Our Margaret Frame is a 5th GGrandmother and was born that same year. 

It's an international break week but there's no rest for your ABZFP crew.  Join us this week as we provide our thoughts on the Aberdeen FC / Atlanta United partnership as we approach the two year anniversary of its inception and we are also joined by Doug Roberson from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to give the State-side view of the link-up.  We have an exclusive early play of Iona Fyfe's new track, "The Cauld", and we round things off with a preview of our visit to Lanarkshire this coming weekend as the Dons return to SPFL Premiership duty against Motherwell.

Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-born Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, and is believed to have murdered two more. Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the unidentified killer "the Beast of Birkenshaw". Manuel was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison; he was the second to last prisoner to die on the Barlinnie gallows.