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Picture it! 1932. Western Australia. Emus were taking over. They were gobbling up and trampling farmers' wheat, and in turn, destroying their livelihoods. Something had to be done. So, the Australian government came up with a *novel* solution. They'd arm three members of the Royal Australian Artillery with machine guns. They figured those tall, flightless birds would be easy prey. They were wrong. Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:  Brisbane Telegraph. “Emu Butchery - Machine Gun Offensive.” November 1, 1932. Brisbane Telegraph. “Emu Offensive - Birds More Than Hold Their Own - Setback for Gunners.” November 4, 1932. Brisbane Telegraph. “Emu Slaughter - Machine Guns and Drive.” October 17, 1932. Chisholm, A.H. “This Cruel Slaughter | Other Ways To Deal With Emus | Better Fences.” The Daily Telegraph, November 9, 1932. Cook, Richard, and Srdan Jovanovic. “The Emu Strikes Back: An Inquiry into Australia's Peculiar Military Action of 1932.” Romanian Journal of Historical Studies II, no. 1 (2019). Crew, Bec. “The Great Emu War: In Which Some Large, Flightless Birds Unwittingly Foiled the Australian Army.” Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/running-ponies/the-great-emu-war-in-which-some-large-flightless-birds-unwittingly-foiled-the-australian-army/. Daily Commercial News. “Charge of the First Australian Emuliers!” November 16, 1932. Daily News. “Emu Chasers Must Outstrip Peter Pan.” November 9, 1932. Daily News. “Gunners on Wild Emu Chase.” November 4, 1932. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. “Death to Emus | Campaign in West | Inspector To See Birds Do Not Suffer.” November 9, 1932. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. “Destruction of Emus.” December 3, 1932. Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. “Wary Emus | Evade Machine-Guns | 1000 Rounds Fired.” November 5, 1932. Recorder. “‘Brass Hats' Assailed | Campion Settlers Complain of Retreat.” November 11, 1932. Robin, Libby, Robert Heinsohn, and Leo Joseph, eds. Boom & Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country. CSIRO Publishing, 2009. Singleton Argus. “Shooting of Emus | Thousands of Pounds Saved.” November 18, 1932. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/83438322. Stockton, Richard. “Why The Australian Army Waged The Great Emu War Of 1932 — And Lost.” All That's Interesting, October 3, 2021. https://allthatsinteresting.com/great-emu-war. The Canberra Times. “Emu War Again | 300 Killed in First Duel | Machine Guns Re-Issued.” November 12, 1932. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2317086. The Daily Telegraph. “Emu Armistice Resented | Withdrawal of Machine Guns.” November 10, 1932. The Daily Telegraph. “Lewis Guns Against Emus.” October 14, 1932. The Daily Telegraph. “Not Easy to Kill Emus | A Thousand Rounds Fired, 12 Dead.” November 5, 1932. The Daily Telegraph. “The Emu Is a Wily Bird - Gunners Get Only Dozen Victims - Ambush Fails.” November 4, 1932. “The Emu Wars - Only a Little Hilarious | Australia Explained,” December 6, 2021. https://www.australia-explained.com.au/history-shorts/the-emu-wars-only-a-little-hilarious/. The Evening News. “Emu War Still On | Birds Becoming Wary of Lewis Gunners.” November 22, 1932. The Examiner. “The Emu War.” November 8, 1932. The Kyogle Examiner. “Use Aeroplane | Fighting Emu Pest.” November 18, 1932. The News. “Emu War Opens - Gunners Replace Boys on Cycles - Had Long Poles.” November 3, 1932. The News. “Emu War Still On.” November 9, 1932. The News. “Farmers Want Machine Guns to Stamp Out Emus.” October 10, 1932. The News. “More Emus On Way | Big Flocks in Wake of Dead | Killers Busy.” November 8, 1932. The Northern Miner. “The Emu Pest | Queensland Control.” November 23, 1932. The Sun. “First Shot Fired in War on Emu.” November 2, 1932. The Sun. “Herded for the Slaughter - Machine-Gunners Await Emu Flock.” October 16, 1932. The Sun. “Honors With The Emus | Novel ‘War' In The West.” November 6, 1932. The Sun. “Kaiser Emu II. Wins.” November 11, 1932. The Sun. “On ‘Spot' - Chicago Methods - War on Emus - Machine Gunners.” October 12, 1932. The Sun. “The Emu War | Pest Being Driven Away.” November 5, 1932. The Sun. “Two Days' Vigil Brings Heavy Toll of Emus.” November 7, 1932. The Sunday Herald. “New Strategy In a War On The Emu.” July 5, 1953. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18516559. The Sydney Morning Herald. “Attack on Emus - Lewis-Gunners at Work - Fleeing Mob Struck.” November 3, 1932. The Sydney Morning Herald. “Attack on Emus - With Lewis Guns - Relatively Few Killed.” November 5, 1932. The Sydney Morning Herald. “Timely Rainfall Ends Emu Pest.” October 18, 1932. The West Australian. “Another Phase of the Emu Pest.” November 8, 1932. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32565197. Western Australia Makes War On Emus, 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1wA0PKeJqc. Western Mail. “Settlers Astonished.” November 17, 1932. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37767343. Are you enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Then please leave us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts! Are you *really* enjoying An Old Timey Podcast? Well, calm down, history ho! You can get more of us on Patreon at patreon.com/oldtimeypodcast. At the $5 level, you'll get a monthly bonus episode (with video!), access to our 90's style chat room, plus the entire back catalog of bonus episodes from Kristin's previous podcast, Let's Go To Court.

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents- Alan Morrison of the Sunday Herald described Simon Kempston as ‘One of Scotland's very best singer-songwriters.' Scottish Television said he is ‘a stunning Talent.' Tom Robinson of BBC Radio 6 added, ‘Beautifully authentic guitar style & heartfelt vocals.' Kempston will be performing in: Campbell River's Spirit Square from noon to 1:15 on Tuesday, July 9th; Mansons Hall  on Cortes Island, at 7 PM on July 11; and in the Kameleon Cafe on Quadra Island, at 7 PM on Friday July 12th. This is Simon Kemptson's 9th Canadian tour and Cortes Currents caught up with him in Wells BC, where he was playing at the Sunset Theatre.   "Listening audiences are the most important thing to me, an audience that's going to listen to you. I have a lot to say both in the songs and  with the music, but also I like to tell stories and give some context and background about the song. So  small art centers, churches, small theatres, house concerts: these are the type of ideal venues  for what I present," he explained.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comIn this bonus episode, writer and beauty-industry critic Jessica Defino returns to discuss the problems with skin products and skincare in general, why acne topicals aren't long-term solutions, how to have compassion for yourself as you navigate through beauty culture and inevitably get sucked in, and more. Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (The New York Times, Vice, Vogue) and author of the newsletter The Unpublishable. She writes the Guardian's beauty advice column, Ask Ugly, and has been called “the woman the beauty industry fears the most” by the Sunday Herald. Find her at jessicadefino.substack.com.This episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to a free preview here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the full episode!Get Christy's book The Wellness Trap now for a deeper dive into the topics we cover on the pod, and strategies to support true well-being. If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.

Writer and beauty-industry critic Jessica Defino joins us to discuss the intersections of wellness/diet culture and beauty culture, how she went from child beauty-pageant participant to working at the Kardashian-Jenner apps to eventually becoming an outspoken critic of the beauty industry, how social media is spreading harmful beauty ideals, the ageism of “anti-aging,” how to change your relationship with beauty standards, and more. Jessica DeFino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (The New York Times, Vice, Vogue) and author of the newsletter The Unpublishable. She writes the Guardian's beauty advice column, Ask Ugly, and has been called “the woman the beauty industry fears the most” by the Sunday Herald. Find her at jessicadefino.substack.com.If you like this conversation, subscribe to hear lots more like it! Support the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber, and unlock great perks like bonus episodes with our guests, subscriber-only Q&As, full access to our archives, commenting privileges and subscriber threads where you can connect with other listeners, and more. Learn more and sign up at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com/subscribe

The Sunday Herald calls today's guest, Jessica DeFino, “the woman the beauty industry fears.” That's because Jessica, a beauty reporter and beauty culture critic, has seen the inner workings of the beauty industry and didn't like it. More than that, Jessica now spends her time dismantling beauty standards, debunking marketing myths, and exploring how beauty culture impacts people — physically, psychologically, and spiritually.Jessica has written for outlets such as The New York Times, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Harper's BAZAAR, Allure, New York Magazine's The Cut, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Glamour, SELF, and many others. She now writes her own beauty newsletter called The Unpublishable.In today's episode, Jessica talks about her own experience in the beauty industry and why she decided to opt out, the psychological and spiritual impacts of beauty standards, why beauty standards are so powerful, why she sees today's standard of beauty as dehumanizing, and what the beauty industry doesn't want you to know. Jessica's insights are so needed, speaking powerfully to the media-saturated culture we find ourselves in. This is truly a must-listen episode.

Kenny Kemp author, journalist, media communicator I talk to my friend Kenny about his amazing career. Kenny Kemp is an author, journalist, media communicator and one of the UK's most experienced non-fiction writers. He has been engaged as a report writer and media consultant to a number of individuals, businesses and organisations. He has been the preferred ghost-writer to several international business figures. The combined sales of his ghost-written books are c.500,000 copies worldwide. Kenny is a former daily and Sunday newspaper journalist. He was founding Business Editor of the Sunday Herald and Editor of BQ (Business Quarter) Scotland for five years from 2010 until 2015, and has been a contributor to Scottish Business Insider.  He is a former staffer of the Evening Standard in London. He has written comprehensively for a range of titles such as the Herald, Sunday Herald, The Scotsman, and the Sunday Times. He is an Associate of the University of Edinburgh Business School, and Editor of Panmure House Perspectives, the business journal of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is also co-author of a history of Scottish Television. Some highlights Author of a comprehensive business history of Scotland's leading engineering private equity investor. (2018) Writer of two volumes of Navigating the Digital Age, a handbook for C-suite leaders on the implication of cyber-security developments. For Palo Alto Networks. (2017) Worked as collaborator with Sir Richard Branson on his best-selling business book, Business Stripped Bare, published in September 2008. Co-author with Barbara Cassani of Go: An Airline Adventure, WH Smith Business Book of the Year in 2004. Speechwriter and media adviser for a number of high-profile public figures. Author of book on battle between Boeing and Airbus, entitled Flight of the Titans (2005) and author of Destination Space (2006), about rise of space tourism. Journalism and Writing Awards, The Scottish Daily Newspaper Society Scottish Press Awards Business Writer of the Year 2010, 2003, 2001, Business Writer of the Year Runner-up 2010, 2002,BT Technology Writer of the Year Runner-up 2003, WH Smith Business Book of the Year Award 2004   For further details visit http://kennykemp.co.uk/ To support the podcast and get access to features about guitar playing and song writing visit https://www.patreon.com/vichyland and also news for all the creative music that we do at Bluescamp UK and France visit www.bluescampuk.co.uk For details of the Ikaro music charity visit www.ikaromusic.com Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music

Ian Fraser, author of the bestselling book Shredded, stops by this week to discuss the events that led to the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Listen along as we dive deep into the scandal, from the changes instituted in the 80s by Matheson, to the ill-fated acquisition of ABN, the Government bailout and the aftermath... You'll never look at banks the same way after this episode.About IanIan Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes about business, finance, politics and economics. He has written for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, BBC News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Accountancy, CA Magazine and Citywire.His book, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain, published in June 2014, explores how and why RBS, the world's largest company by assets at the time of its collapse, became the world's most expensive bank to bail out. The book — based on extensive interviews with more than 120 current and former RBS insiders, advisers, politicians, and others — was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year and has received positive reviews including from FT chief economics correspondent Martin Wolf.Guest Links:Book Link: USBook Link: UKWebsiteSocials:TwitterLinkedInOther Links:The RBS Crisis: Timeline of EventsIf you like our show, please let us know by rating and subscribing on your platform of choice!If you like our show and hate social media, then please tell all your friends!If you have no friends and hate social media and you just want to give us money for advertising to help you find more friends, then you can donate to support the show here!2 Bulls Discord:https://discord.gg/Q8hft2zMTMAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Buy the book here - Independent -https://uk.bookshop.org/books/shredded-inside-rbs-the-bank-that-broke-britain/9781780276045Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Inside-Britain-Revised-Updated/dp/1780276044/On today's podcast I am happy to be hosting Ian Fraser, author of "Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain".On the podcast we talk about the point at which RBS turned in the wrong direction, leadership incompetence and whether any issues were learnt from the catastrophe which broke Britain. Ian Fraser is an award-winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes about business, finance, politics and economics. He has written for titles including The Economist, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent on Sunday, the Herald, Sunday Herald, BBC News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, Accountancy, CA Magazine and Citywire.His book, Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain, published in June 2014, explores how and why RBS, the world's largest company by assets at the time of its collapse, became the world's most expensive bank to bail out. The book — based on extensive interviews with more than 120 current and former RBS insiders, advisers, politicians, and others — was longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year and has received positive reviews including from FT chief economics correspondent Martin Wolf.Since March 2009, Ian has worked on programmes about the global financial crisis and its aftermath for the BBC. These have included RBS: Inside The Bank that Ran Out of Money, (a one-hour documentary that was shortlisted for Bafta), Trust Me I'm A Banker for BBC Scotland Investigates, Carry on Banking for BBC 1 Panorama and seven Radio 4 ‘File on 4' documentaries (including Badly Behaving Bankers).Ian Fraser - Website - https://www.ianfraser.org/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianfraser/Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ian_FraserWTFinance:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-fatseas-761066103/Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

The Olympic pointman for the Tokyo Games insists the event is safe for athletes and the Japanese population... despite ongoing risks from Covid-19.  A Cranbourne car tinting boss is behind bars.. over a major alleged secret drug lab bust.  A new technique where newborns are being successfully toilet trained... is being hailed a parenting revolution to save time, money and the planet.  The royal flying doctor service has granted an elderly man's dying wish.... returning him to the farm where he had spent all but the last two of his 94 years.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription at The Sunday Herald at heraldsun.com.au  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Martin Stepek shares on The importance of mindfulness in family conversations. How this can impact the results of governance. About: Martin Stepek combines expertise in mindfulness, family businesses, poetry, and family heritage. He sees all four as complementary and corelated. His career has seen him co-own and direct his father's family business, one of Scotland's top 500 businesses, as well as being a director of a Scottish law firm in Glasgow and Edinburgh, a director of several charities including the Scottish Fair Trade Forum, Social Enterprise Scotland, and Employee-Ownership Scotland. He was co-founder and is CEO of the Scottish Family Business Association. His main interests today are twofold: his own and other people's mental wellbeing and happiness, which he delivers through his own philosophy of mindfulness; and creative arts, primarily poetry and Japanese-influenced calligraphy. He has published six books and innumerable articles on mindfulness, and was the UK's first regular columnist on the subject, writing weekly for Scotland's major newspaper, the Sunday Herald. His free weekly mindfulness class in his hometown of Hamilton is the largest of its kind in Britain, with regular attendances of over a hundred. He has published four volumes of poetry, on a broad range of themes; his father's incarceration in a Soviet labour camp, insights gleaned from mindful observation of everyday events, a dialogue in poetry with one of the USA's most respected Polish-American poets, and a philosophical-comic view of one of Japan's greatest poets and Zen monks. He considers poetry and art to be part of being mindful, and mindfulness as a work of art in its own right. Martin offers guidance to individuals, families, and groups of people on any, some, or all of these areas of life.

This episode I am joined by debut novelist, Melbourne writer, via Scotland, Paul Dalgarno. Paul was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and immigrated to Australia in 2010. In Scotland, he was a senior features writer, columnist and Deputy Weekend Features Editor with The Herald and Sunday Herald newspapers. In Melbourne, he was a launch editor, Deputy Editor, Arts Editor and Science Editor of The Conversation website. Paul has written for many publications including Guardian Australia, Australian Book Review, Sunday Times Scotland and The Big Issue. His memoir, And You May Find Yourself, was published in 2015. In 2016, he was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship to work on his second book. When not writing, reading or parenting, Paul loves to cycle vast distances. Poly is his debut novel about Chris and Sarah Flood whose near sexless marriage has led them down the path to polyamory … but as tensions grow between family, friends and lovers Chris discovers he may not know someone close to them as well as he thought. We talk about writing the book you want to read, how difficult it is to write sex scenes, mental health and some fantastic book pairings! The pairings: Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Paul suggested the caffeine-rich, herbal drink from South America called Maté, drunk out of a gourd with friends. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond's big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship—and even love—after all. In honour of the scene where Eleanor winds up eating with Raymond and his mother, Paul suggests a Scotch broth would pair perfectly with this wonderful story - salty and warm and Scottish. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realising her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Justine recommends a warming cup of hot chocolate and - if you're up late - a splash of rum to warm you through and through, just like this book will.

In this week's look at the poltical scene there's a very definite slant towards whose voices are deemed worthy of being heard. Particularly when it comes to the drive towards Scottish independence and the shape an independent Scotland. Lesley kicks off with the snubbing of the former Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, for elevation to the House of Lords. This decision now seems likely to be reversed but beyond this what does the very existence of this unelected second chamber say about British society? And how immune is Scotland from the "chumocracy" of the great and good? This leads into our thoughts on the recent Sunday Herald article on Andrew Wilson of Charlotte Street Partners, the " brain" behind not only the SNP vision for an independent Scotland but apparently also the entire Yes movement. To say we're sceptical about this is a bit of an understatement. Bloomberg has published a leaked memo from the consultants Hanbury to the Conservative Party setting out a strategy to combat the rise in support for Scottish independence. Ex Tory MP Peter Duncan appeared on GMS to discuss this with some surprising results including his suggestion that Michael Gove was just the chap to fill the leadership vacuum to lead the charge. Lesley and I broke the habit of, well not quite, a lifetime and watched last week's episode of Question Time from Edinburgh.  All this plus the usual meanderings including a simile referring to who supplies the pies at Tannadice.  

Brewer Fails Marr Too Gove attracts Norry’s exasperation on Marr and the anodyne Brewer show annoys Stewart. Gerry Hassan gets a forensic attack by both for his Sunday National article. Iain MacWhirter gets a sore bottom again as his equivocal Sunday Herald article reveals the difference since Paul Hutcheon left.

In this episode we speak with Dahr Jamail. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans' resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focusing on anthropogenic climate disruption and the environment. Dahr's stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘. His writing has been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr has reported for Democracy Now! and Al-Jazeera, and has appeared on the BBC, NPR, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr's reporting has earned him numerous awards, including the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and five Project Censored awards. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Izzy Award, in 2018 the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College awarded Dahr an Izzy for his “path-breaking and in-depth reporting in 2017” exposing “environmental hazards and militarism.” The Izzy Award, presented for outstanding achievement in independent media, is named in memory of I.F. “Izzy” Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I.F. Stone's Weekly in 1953 and challenged McCarthyism, racism, war and government deceit. The End of Ice is one of Smithsonian Magazine's 10 Best Science Books of 2019, and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2020.https://www.dahrjamail.net/ Track: Fusion — KV [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/gp613GReEo4 Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/fusion

Asad Shah was an Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper living in Shawlands, Glasgow. Since 2013, he had been using his Youtube and Facebook accounts to share the word of the Ahmadi faith to his online friends and fanbase. At 9:10pm on March 24, 2016, an unknown man walked into Asad’s shop…CreditsPrimary Audio recorded by JSResearch by Matt KScripting/Production by Matt KBackground Audio courtesy of Epidemic Sound (epidemicsound.com)PromosThis week we have run two promos for podcasts we absolutely love, Murder and More and The True Crime Witch. You can find both wherever you get your podcasts and on social media at @murderandmorepod / @truecrimewitchpodcast.SourcesCELL-EBRITY MONSTER Extremist Tanveer Ahmed who murdered Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah held jail meet-and-greets with fanatics who hail him as a hero, Scottish Sun, M Coyle and G Blackstock, 1 Dec 2018Asad Shah murder: Man admits killing Glasgow shopkeeper 'because he disrespected Prophet Mohamed':Tanveer Ahmed has pleaded guilty to killing Ahmadi Muslim he accuses of heresy, L Dearden, C Mortimer, The Independent, 7 July 2016Asad Shah killing: 'Disrespecting Islam' murderer jailed, BBC Online, Anonymous, 9 Aug 2016C4 News Report – Aug 9, 2016: available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy1hRKYE2rkMan who murdered Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah in sectarian attack: Tanveer Ahmed sentenced to 27 years for attack on Asad Shah motivated by hatred of Shah's religious views, S Carrell, The Guardian, 9 Aug 2016I had to kill Asad Shah to defend honour of Islam: CHILLING MURDER ACCUSED'S SHOCK STATEMENT ALLY MCCOIST KENNY MCDOWALL Fatal attack after newsagent 'claimed to be a prophet 'BOMBSHELL MURDER ACCUSED'S STUNNING STATEMENT BOMBSHELL MURDER ACCUSED'S STUNNING STATEMENT This all happened for one reason only .. Asad Shah claimed to be a Prophet ACCUSED TANVEER AHMED YESTERDAY, Hind, Sally. Daily Record; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]07 Apr 2016: 1.Asad Shah killer jailed for life, Anonymous. Eastern Eye; London (UK) [London (UK)]12 Aug 2016: 13.The sectarian killing of Asad ShahPeattie, Karen. Sunday Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]29 Apr 2018: 8.Asad Shah's family living in fear [Scot Region]Watson, Jeremy. The Times; London (UK) [London (UK)]28 Mar 2016: 6.Asad Shah's family question memorial plans for shopkeeperStewart, Catriona. Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]25 Mar 2019: 5.BBC Newsnight Jul 8 'The Murder of Asad Shah'BBC Newsnight Aug 10 2016 'Glasgow shopkeeper: The murder in Pakistan that inspired the killer' S KermaniShunned for saying they're Muslims: life for Ahmadis after Asad Shah's murderThe Glasgow shopkeeper was a member of the Islamic sect persecuted in Pakistan for decades. How did the arcane but deadly tensions, rooted in the theological history of the region, surface in the UK?, L Brooks, 9 April 2016, The GuardianHMA v Tanveer AhmedFury as hate preacher linked to murder of Glasgow shopkeeper cleared to speak in Scotland, Sunday Post, Dec 4, 2016, G Blackstock & Graham McKendryImams across Scotland speak out against violence [Scot Region] Horne, Marc. The Times; London (UK) [London (UK)]09 Apr 2016: 29.Charles tells family of murdered Asad: I feel for you deeply: Prince shares his anguish in moving letter to relatives [Scot Region]Stenson, Joe. Daily Mail; London (UK) [London (UK)]16 Mar 2017: 11.ASAD KILLER 'TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF'McLeod, Keith. Daily Record; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]28 Jan 2017: 19.Extremist killer preaches hate on prison phone [Scot Region]Tomlinson, Hugh; Horne, Marc; Aoun Sahi. The Times; London (UK) [London (UK)]03 Mar 2017: 5.Shah's killer: I don't care if I get 100 years or even death Leask, David. The Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]09 July 2016.Gentle man of peace murdered by fanatic: Murdered for his tolerance [Scot Region]Madeley, Gavin; Kane, Jenny. Daily Mail; London (UK) [London (UK)]08 July 2016: 1.NOTE OF APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE BY TANVEER AHMED AGAINST HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATEIn person interviews. Transcripts available.

On June 30th, 2004, Jodi Jones returned home to find out she was no longer grounded for a small argument she had with her mother, Judith, over her cannabis use. She informed her mother, in that case, that she was going to see her boyfriend Luke Mitchell in the next town over. Jodi was never seen alive by her family again.Credits:Primary Audio recorded by JSResearch by JSScripting by Matt KBackground Audio courtesy of Epidemic Sound (epidemicsound.com)SponsorsHuge thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/And to Fruit of the Bean Coffee, excellent coffee and excellent people. Check out their range here at: www.fruitofthebean.comSources:A truly evil murder - you will rightly be regarded as wicked; Lucy Bannerman finds how a teenage love of music and rebellion ended with a walk to a horrific death, The Herald online, 22 Jan 2005, anonymousTimeline [Jodi Jones Murder Case], The Herald, 23 Jan 2005, anonymousJodi's family hit back over killers claims of innocence, The Express, G Christison, May 13 2012Teenage boy accused of murder joked about killing, court told, The Guardian, S Shukor, 26 Nov 2004http://www.scotsman.com/news/natural-born-killer-1-1401861 - now dead link to a history of Luke Mitchell’s childhoodLuke Mitchell: I would rather stay in jail than admit my guilt for murder of Jodi Jones, The Scotsman, 16 September 2018, The NewsroomJodi 'look-alike' gives evidence , BBC Online, 30 Dec 2004http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=67.0 – transcript of Luke Mitchell’s interview with Sky News in 2005Threat of legal action as Luke Mitchell excluded 'for safety reasons': [2 Edition] Kerr, John. Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]20 Aug 2003: 5. 'Murdered Jodi Jones' mum hits out at heartless thieves who stole special birthday bear from her grave', J Hamilton, The Daily Record, 13 Jul 2018Jodi murder: boyfriend's lawyer urges probe into police 'leak': [3 Edition] Johnston, Jenifer. Sunday Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]30 Nov 2003: 6. Detectives in Jodi murder inquiry enlist help of the FBI: [2 Edition] Duncan, Raymond. The Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]09 Jan 2004: 9. 'Police wrecked my son's life after Jodi died': [CITY FINAL Edition] King, Diane. Evening News; Edinburgh (UK) [Edinburgh (UK)]06 Mar 2004: 13. THE JODI JONES TRIAL: A silent witness: [FIRST Edition] Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]14 Nov 2004: 24. THE JODI JONES TRIAL: The finest day I ever had was when tomorrow never came ; -Lines written on an empty knife pouch found in Luke Mitchell'sbedroom: [FIRST Edition] Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]19 Dec 2004: 19. He didn't kill Jodi ; Luke Mitchell's mother denies that she lied to protect her son McLean, Grace. Daily Mail; London (UK) [London (UK)]15 Jan 2005: 11. Mitchell trial hears of 'suspect', BBC Online, 13 Feb 2008http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=945.0 – discussion around Luke Mitchell’s lie-detector testhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FiVI69P_Lk – footage of Luke Mitchell’s lie-detector test'Mother’s frantic calls when Jodi did not come home' The Times, A Scotland Correspondent, Nov 27 2004'Jodi's Killer is being shielded by someone, says mother', A Cramb, Telegraph, 16 Jul 2003Right of Reply: Whilst Luke Mitchell has been convicted of the murder of Jodi Jones beyond all reasonable doubt by a jury of his peers, we are aware that there have been significant campaigns against his conviction, including by MOJO and Sandra Lean. At Skinwalker, we do not have access to spokespeople from any of these campaigns and our initial emails received no reply. Should any party wish to have the right to reply, we would happily do a follow-up episode or discussion podcast with any points of interest, or probative evidence, should it be provided. Our email address is: skinwalkertruecrime[at]gmail.com

Delighted to be chatting on this episode to Fergus Muirhead – a genuine expert on the topic of money.  His credentials are utterly impeccable, and you are bound to find some, if not all of what he has to say to be enlightening.  In my case, his advice has been life-changing.  His advice in this episode is not just relevant to the financial implications regarding the onset COVID (as of March 2020), but is very helpful the long term. He is the creator of moneysucks.net – “full of accessible, easy to read information and advice on all aspects of money and consumer rights. Fergus is making it his mission to help you understand what you need to be doing to make your money work for you, and to make sure that you understand where you stand as a consumer if you feel you’re getting poor service or your complaints are not being taken seriously.” Some more about Fergus below, taken from www.fergusmuirhead.com – “Fergus Muirhead is an experienced writer and broadcaster. He has written on all aspects of money and consumer issues for a number of newspapers and magazines as diverse as Scotland on Sunday, The Herald, The Sunday Herald, the Sun, The News of the World and the Journal of the Probate Section of the Law Society. He wrote a regular column in Moneywise Magazine and for five years he was Consumer Champion at best selling magazine Women’s Own. Fergus appears regularly on a number of radio and TV programmes. These have included GMTV, BBC Breakfast, Homes Live and Location, Location, Location for TV and Macaulay & Co, The Phil Williams Show and many BBC News programmes on radio.” He’s also a very finer player of the bagpipes, can deliver a full Burns supper experience and has helped many a self-employed Scottish traditional musician improve their understanding of money-related issues. An altogether thoroughly decent man. Enjoy.

On March 15, 2004, Kriss Donald, a 15-year-old boy, was abducted by a hatred-fuelled local gang nearby to his Pollokshields home in relation to a nightclub attack the previous evening. The heinous, race-related murder which took place later that same evening changed Glasgow forever.Join us as we discuss the incident, the gangs behind the slaying, the police investigation and the eventual imprisonment of those responsible. Recording:Primary Audio by JSResearch by Matt KScripting by Matt KBackground Audio courtest of Audioblocks, all rights reserved. Sources:Glasgow boy was murdered 'over his friend's girl': [Final 4 Edition]English, Shirley.The Times; London (UK) [London (UK)]18 Mar 2004: 5.Police fear Kriss may have been tortured; Hunt for girl who could have vital clues as tributes grow to tragic boy: [1 Edition]Anderson, Deborah.Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]18 Mar 2004: 4.Mother's plea for race restraint; Community urged not to target Asians after murder: [3 Edition]Sinclair, Keith.The Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]19 Mar 2004: 4.15-year-old Kriss was snatched from street because he was 'a white boy'; KRISS DONALD MURDER TRIAL: witness tells court why teenager was victim: [1 Edition]Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]06 Nov 2004: 7.Can Big Brother cameras end a community's fears after the killing of Kriss Donald?CCTV SYSTEM TO TARGET YOUNG THUGS AFTER POLLOKSHIELDS TEENAGER'S ABDUCTION AND MURDER The abduction and murder of Pollokshields boy Kriss Donald heightened fears of gang violence and crime in that part of Glasgow. It also revived calls for CCTV cameras to tackle the problem, as STEWART PATERSON reports.: [FInal Edition]Paterson, Stewart.Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]18 Dec 2004: 8.Two Asian men held over Kriss murder: [Final 1 Edition]Duffy, Gerry.The Sun; London (UK) [London (UK)]03 Apr 2004: 11.MURDER SUSPECT MAY BE IN BRUM ; MP alert over escape route to Pakistan: [2 STAR Edition]Wheeler, Caroline.Sunday Mercury; Birmingham (UK) [Birmingham (UK)]28 Mar 2004: 11.Mohammad Sarwar's story: The dignity of murdered Kriss Donald's mum Angela inspired me to battle for justice [online] Brown, Annie 16 Jan 2016Holyrood, 'seeking justice', Alan Robertson 12 Nov 2014Now tranquil, the place where horror visited, 9 Nov 2006, The ScotsmanExpert describes Kriss injuries, BBC, 20 Oct 2006.MURDER, CRIME, RACISM A COMMUNITY DIVIDED; The abduction and killing of teenager Kriss Donald, left, by a group of Asian men in Glasgow's Pollokshields last week inflamed ethnic tensions. But was race really to blame? Jenifer Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Neil Mackay and Torcuil Crichton investigate: [3 Edition]Jenifer Johnston, Home Affairs Editor Neil Mackay and Torcuil Crichton.Sunday Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]21 Mar 2004: 12.TEENAGER TELLS HOW EVIL GANG KIDNAPPED HIS SCREAMING PAL AND DROVE HIM TO HIS DEATH; I fought the killers with my feet and elbows trying to help Kriss. But they sped off shouting 'You're next ...': [2 Edition]EXCLUSIVE: By Deborah Anderson.Evening Times; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]17 Mar 2004: 2.Gangsters, murder and extradition. Wylie, Bob, BBC Scotland, 8 Nov 2006Mohammad Sarwar's story: The dignity of murdered Kriss Donald's mum Angela inspired me to battle for justice, Sarwar, Mohammed. Daily Record, 16 Jan 2016Kriss murder timeline, BBC, 8 Nov 2006Friend of murdered schoolboy is freed, The Herald, 14 December 2004IMRAN SHAHID v. HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATETeenager 'bled heavily before his burning'; Blood found in car allegedly used to abduct Kriss Donald: [2 Edition]The Herald; Glasgow (UK) [Glasgow (UK)]11 Nov 2004: 5.Various interviews and visual media.

Sonia's Kruger's new roles at 7 have been revealed. Seven has axed a number of local shows. Not returning are: Sydney Weekender, SA Weekender, The Great Weekend, Queensland Weekender, The Great Day Out and Creek to Coast. Seven Chief Executive Officer, James Warburton, said: “The programs that are not continuing have all made a valuable contribution to Seven, particularly Sydney Weekender which has been a Sydney weekend institution for 25 years."The axings are being put down to "focusing resources where they will make the most impact.” The axing follows Seven ending Sunday Night (the final episode aired on Sunday) and Today Tonight in Adelaide and Perth. Over at 9 Kids WB has been axed. A couch is available on Gogglebox with Melbourne mates  Symon Lovett and Adam Densten quitting the showAuditions will be held at Westfield Fountain Gate today (Thursday, Nov 28) from 5pm – 8pm as well as  Tuesday 3 December from 12pm – 3pm and  Thursday 5 December from 5pm – 8pm. Sam Neill will receive the Longford Lyell Award at the AACTA Awards in Sydney next week.The Award is the highest honour AACTA can bestow upon an individual and recognises a person who has made a truly outstanding contribution to the enrichment of Australia’s screen environment and culture. Neill has more than 130 credits in film and television, including Jurassic Park, Evil Angels, Jessica, Why Anzac? with Sam Neill and The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook. Shane Jacobson will host the 9th AACTA Awards on Wednesday December 4. The ARIA Awards we held last night (Wednesday). The big winners were ........

Survivor, we have a winner! It came down to a battle between Pia Miranda and Baden Gilbert. Pia said when she started the show she would be the first person voted out or she would win and she won. She takes home $500,000.10 will do an All Stars version of the show early next year.  The Masked Singer starts on Monday. Judges Dannii Minogue and Jackie O have revealed the lengths Channel 10 went to keep the identity of their contestants secret. They had studio sweeps, decoys and extra masks. Australia's Got Talent Grand Final is on Channel 7, Sunday night from 7 pm. The 10 finalists include: Olina Loau, NSW, 15-Year-Old Singer Sienna Osborne, NSW, 13-Year-Old Dancer Captain Ruin, VIC, Knife Thrower Lil Kookies, NSW, Junior Dance Crew Umit Bali, NSW, Comedian Kristy Sellars, VIC, Pole Artist  Don't forget The Brownlow Medal is on Channel 7 on Monday night. The Red Carpet special, hosted by Campbell Brown, Abbey Gelmi, Josh Gibson and Nadia Bartel, will kick off the evening. Seven has announced air dates for Ladies Night, Sunday September 29 at 7 pm and The Real Dirty Dancing, Monday September 30 at 7.30 pm.

The former MasterChef judges have been talking and are predicting a TV return. Channel 10's The Masked Singer will launch on Monday, September 23 at 7.30pm. Hosted by Osher Günsberg, the show features judges Lindsay Lohan, Dannii Minogue, Jackie O and Dave Hughes. Foxtel has confirmed it is bringing back The Real Housewives of Melbourne and there are some new housewives. Fiona attended the premiere of Ride Like  A Girl, the movie based on Michelle Payne's victory in the 2015 Melbourne Cup. Married At First Sight has started filming again with the seventh season in production and the first wedding taking place in Sydney.

We spend the first part of this week's podcast on the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. You'll find out what Lesley liked,why I don't go,very often,and the part it plays in Scotland's culture,for good or ill. Fans of the Tattoo should probably look away now. Iain Duncan Smith, he of welfare reforms and Universal Credit fame, announced the Centre for Social Justice's plans to hike the state pension age to 75. I take a wee peek behind the statistics on UK life expectancy and it's not very pleasant. The Herald and Sunday Herald have been punting major stories of Community buy out "failure" and the "success" of HIE in reversing depopulation. Lesley wonders just their agenda is ,and what exactly is this success. The Electoral Commission is planning to examine the question ,this apparently taking 12 weeks,to be put in any future Scottish independence referendum ,much to the delight of Murdo Fraser. We question the question. There's,as always,other stuff including bizarre encounters with Gordon Brown,and my love of Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads.

A Better World continues its ongoing series on the Environment & the subjects of Global Warming & what has amounted to Climate Catastrophe. Mitchell's guest today, internationally-renowned journalist and author of many books, most recently, The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail, terms it "Climate Disruption".  Today we'll take another look at the global, eco-systemic situation from the point of view of melting glaciers and ice.  Dahr's far-reaching, well-researched work reveals a picture of the planet that we are all better off knowing about than not. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans' resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate and the environment. Dahr's stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘. Join Mitchell and Dahr today in this exploration of 'what's happening on the ground and in the mountains' of our beautiful planet that is heating up more rapidly than anyone might have predicted.  May it help to clear up what choices we can make to be part of the solution.   

A Better World continues its ongoing series on the Environment & the subjects of Global Warming & what has amounted to Climate Catastrophe. Mitchell's guest today, internationally-renowned journalist and author of many books, most recently, The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail, terms it "Climate Disruption".  Today we'll take another look at the global, eco-systemic situation from the point of view of melting glaciers and ice.  Dahr's far-reaching, well-researched work reveals a picture of the planet that we are all better off knowing about than not. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans' resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate and the environment. Dahr's stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘. Join Mitchell and Dahr today in this exploration of 'what's happening on the ground and in the mountains' of our beautiful planet that is heating up more rapidly than anyone might have predicted.  May it help to clear up what choices we can make to be part of the solution.   

A Better World continues its ongoing series on the Environment & the subjects of Global Warming & what has amounted to Climate Catastrophe. Mitchell's guest today, internationally-renowned journalist and author of many books, most recently, The End of Ice, Dahr Jamail, terms it "Climate Disruption".  Today we'll take another look at the global, eco-systemic situation from the point of view of melting glaciers and ice.  Dahr's far-reaching, well-researched work reveals a picture of the planet that we are all better off knowing about than not. In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself, where he has spent more than one year in Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also reported from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. He has also reported extensively on veterans' resistance against US foreign policy, and is now focussing on anthropogenic climate and the environment. Dahr's stories have been published with Truthout, Inter Press Service, Tom Dispatch, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, The Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, The Nation, The Independent, and Al Jazeera, among others. Dahr is currently and has been a feature writer for Truthout.org for five years, and his climate feature page there is titled ‘Climate Disruption Dispatches‘. Join Mitchell and Dahr today in this exploration of 'what's happening on the ground and in the mountains' of our beautiful planet that is heating up more rapidly than anyone might have predicted.  May it help to clear up what choices we can make to be part of the solution. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/abwmitchellrabin/support

Beyond the Noise with David Jamieson is a new weekly podcast with CommonSpace journalist David Jamieson, where he gets behind the 24/7 outrage-driven social media news circus and gets to heart of issues, trying to finding the substance behind the headlines. In this episode, Jamieson looks at the crisis and decline of the media in Scotland and the UK on the weekend of the Sunday Herald's last edition. He discusses what could be the an "existential" threat to major media institutions, and how they can be addressed by as part of a demand for "democratic reform" in British society. Key issues Jamieson explores in the podcast are: - The ways in which corporate control is running-down media institutions. - Why technological change alone cannot explain the crisis in media forms. - How the media fails to represent major political tendencies and social movements in society. - Why the Scottish media is in a particularly bad state. - The impact of the elite background of many senior media workers. - Which reforms are necessary to create a vibrant, democratic media landscape.

This week The Fife Friends get into a bit of the Edinburgh Fringe vibe where Jamie and Cutch recall, to there best efforts, their time at the Whisky Fringe in Broughton. Cutch tells us about being drunkingly sat down by Gal Gadot and They both give some hot takes from some of the best whiskies they tried. Cutch also recommends a show “3’s Comedy” at Fireside Starring Australian Comics, Peter Jones, Luka Muller and Filthy Casuals Podcast host Adam Knox. Although the show is finished now... so… Instead check out there Podcast 25 days where they cover their experiences of their first FRINGE! The friends have a chat about Dan Le Sacs new Album 63 Days and Jamie gives a few recommendations of things to listen to. Mark gets a bit more topical and tells us about the Herald and Sunday Herald editiorial staff being merged and why this might be a tragic thing for the Scottish Press. Finally they head to the Nonagon where they pit some child celebrities against each other and see who wins! Want to know how it all goes? Then listen in!

The BBC has announced it will not appeal the judgement of the High Court that its coverage of a police raid on Sir Cliff Richard violated his privacy. Where does this leave journalism - and the senior figures at the BBC whose errors led to this expensive failure? Amol Rajan is joined by the BBC's Director of Editorial Policy David Jordan and Angela Haggerty, columnist from The Sunday Herald. Also in the programme Jim Waterson, Guardian Media editor, Daniel Gadher, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis and Gady Epstein, from the Economist in New York discuss New TV, a $1bn venture which is trying to outsmart Netflix, and the plan by more than 100 American newspapers to counter President Trump's repeated attack on the media.

Writer, broadcaster, and food anthropologist, Ghillie Basan has been dubbed ‘The Original Spice Girl’ and ‘World Food Expert.’ Her informative and internationally acclaimed books have been nominated for the Glenfiddich, the Guild of Food Writers’, and the Cordon Bleu World Food Media awards; they have appeared regularly in the ‘Best of the Best’ and ‘Top 50’ lists; and she has been described as one of the ‘finest writers on Middle Eastern food’. Her food and travel articles have appeared in the Sunday Herald, Scotland on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Press & Journal, BBC Good Food Magazine, TasteTurkey, Eatinmagazine, Diet & Nutrition USA, and various internet sites and magazines. She has also been short-listed ‘Pasta Journalist of the Year’ and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers.

Halfway through the general election campaign, the various party manifestos slipping into the public consciousness, and the opinion polls remain largely unchanged. Is the UK sleepwalking towards a massive Tory majority? Are their Scottish bedfellows going to consolidate the opposition vote north of the Border? What on earth is Labour up to? How are the SNP responding to all this? And if the Tories win, will they interpret victory as good reason to fend off a second independence poll, or even to diminish Scottish devolution? Podcast regular host Derek Bateman summoned the collective opinions of journalists and commentators Angela Haggerty, editor of Common Space and Sunday Herald columnist, and Maurice Smith, TV producer and media commentator, to make some sense of it all.

We are living in an unpredictable world, with wars in the Middle East, turmoil in Europe, and the Trump ascendancy in the United States. What should we make of all this, and is there a particularly Scottish perspective? Journalist and foreign correspondent David Pratt, a contributor to The Herald and Sunday Herald, has just returned from one of his frequent trips to war-torn Iraq. He tells podcast host Derek Bateman about the role of the war reporter, and differing approaches of the media to coverage of foreign affairs. David believes there are lessons to be learned in Scotland, both in the context of our media and future politics.

Sometimes on Newsnet Radio we use our weekend podcasts to reflect on political events near and far, using that landscape to compare and contrast with the situation here in Scotland. This week the conversation ranged across US, British, Irish and Scottish politics. A few familiar characters popped up, from Donald Trump to Tony Blair, to the leaderships of Ulster's Democratic Unionist Party to Podcast host Derek Bateman was joined by CommonSpace editor and Sunday Herald columnist Angela Haggerty and Adam Ramsay (left), Scottish-based co-editor of openDemocracy UK. This week Adam helped break a fascinating story about Leave campaign funding being channeled via the DUP, a revelation that has been taken up during the current Northern Ireland Assembly election campaign. Adam, Angela and Derek reflected on the current national and international tensions involving populist politics and the media. In a week when Trump spent 77 minutes in a media conference condemning "the media" for not reporting his "facts", that tension has entered centre-stage. Journalism is undergoing a rebirth both in the mainstream and newer alternative versions, thanks to the surge in political populism and the need to check facts and lies, but funding is an ongoing issue.

Episode 143 of the Scottish Independence Podcast is a talk given by Richard Walker (interviewed in episode 135) at the recent Scottish Independence Convention.Richard is now the consulting editor of The National, but was also involved in the formation of that paper and the decision made at the Sunday Herald to begin openly supporting Scottish independence.In this talk Richard talks about the relationship between the Scottish Independence Movement and the Scottish mainstream media. LINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://twitter.com/richardwalker5https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

A lost majority for the SNP... then Brexit...now Trump... Who dares to predict what 2017 might bring, after all that? Surely only a fool would even attempt to do so? Luckily, Newsnet Radio found a few such fools and ordained them the task of ruminating through the tea-leaves of the year that's past, and making some bold predictions for the one that's ahead. Podcast host Derek Bateman was joined by CommonSpace editor and Sunday Herald columnist Angela Haggerty, playwright and author Peter Arnott, and columnist and producer Maurice Smith, all of them challenged to make sense of the madness. It's fair to say they made a decent fist of it, although the lessons of the recent past probably dissuaded them from making firm forecasts (ever again? Ed.) Together the quartet share their angst about the past, present and the future in a discussion featuring several megs culpas, some bad jokes, and a notable impassioned plea on behalf of millennials from Angela. Yes, it is truly a cornucopia of political analysis, incorporating incorrigible optimism and desperate near-despair as the group assess what it all means for Scotland, the UK, Europe, the world and possibly the universe. In other words, a great start to our 2017 series of Newsnet podcasts.

Australia's Westfield ultramarathon had a surprise entrant in 1983: A 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young joined a field of elite professional runners for the 500-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Young's fortunes in the race and the heart, tenacity, and humor that endeared him to a nation. We'll also learn the difference between no and nay and puzzle over a Japanese baby shortage. Intro: Thomas Wedders exhibited his 7.5-inch nose throughout Yorkshire in the 1770s. Two meteorologists played ping-pong on a solid block of snow atop Scotland's Ben Nevis in 1902. Sources for our feature on Cliff Young: Julietta Jameson, Cliffy: The Cliff Young Story, 2013. Phil Essam, ed., I've Finally Found My Hero, 2016. Matthew Ricketson, "Cliff's Not Finished Yet," The Age, Nov. 29, 1983. J. Freeman, "Cliff Calls It a Day," Telegraph, April 17, 1985. Greg Truman, "A Long-Running Favorite Draws to an End," The Advertiser, May 5, 1986. Louise Evans, "Cliff, the Battler's Hero, Refuses to Shuffle Off Into the Sunset," Sydney Morning Herald, June 4, 1988. R. Reed, "Westfield Highway Closed to Cliff: Old Shuffler 'Saved' From Himself," Sunday Herald, March 11, 1990. G. Legg, "Cliff, 70, Has Enough Puff for 170km," Courier-Mail, May 23, 1992. Derek Ballantine, "For Cliff, a Long Road to Nowhere," The Advertiser, April 10, 1993. Alan Rider, "'Where's Cliffy?': In Hobart Run-Walk!," Hobart Mercury, April 20, 1993. Tony Baker, "An Epic of Eccentricity," Hobart Mercury, April 25, 1997. "End of the Road for Cliff," Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 3, 2003. Graeme Leech, "Shy Runner Shuffled Into a Nation's Heart," The Australian, Nov. 7, 2003. Charles Happell, "A Gumbooted Forrest Gump, Cliff Young Ran His Own Race," The Australian, March 23, 2013. "Running Legend's Cup Will Return to District," Colac Herald, April 17, 2015. Here's Neil Kearney's 1983 documentary Cliffy, made shortly after Young's victory and showing his trademark shuffling gait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R276S1KMgQ0 Listener mail: "Frenemies — Churchill’s Planned 1945 Surprise Attack on the Soviets," Military History Now, Oct. 15, 2012. Wikipedia, "Operational Unthinkable" (accessed Nov. 18, 2016). Historical Board Gaming: Operation Unthinkable Custom Map & Rules. BoardGameGeek: Castle Itter. Digital Capricorn Studios: Castle Itter. National Public Radio, "No, Yes, Definitely: On the Rise of 'No, Totally' as Linguistic Quirk," Morning Edition, April 12, 2015. Kathryn Schulz, "What Part of 'No, Totally' Don't You Understand?", New Yorker, April 7, 2015. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Jon Sweitzer-Lamme, who sent this corroborating link (warning: this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Kevin Barry was born in Limerick in 1969 and now lives in Dublin. He writes sketches and columns for the Sunday Herald in Glasgow and the Irish Examiner in Cork. He has written about travel and literature for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in the New Yorker. His recent short story collection is called Dark Lies the Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the 135th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast, I spoke with Richard Walker.Richard is now the consulting editor of The National, but was also involved in the formation of that paper and the decision made at the Sunday Herald to begin openly supporting Scottish independence.We talked about those decisions and why they were made,and how The National has been getting on.As well as that, we tried to get our heads around some of the unusual media appointments that have been made recently, and what could or should be done about the media in Scotland more generally.And of course, I asked Richard why he supports Independence for Scotland.Hope you enjoy.LINKShttps://twitter.com/richardwalker5http://www.thenational.scot/https://twitter.com/ScotNationalhttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheScottishIndependencePodcast

Where next for the Scottish media? And what exactly is it anyway? We invited a group of people from the industry into the studio to discuss the type of media Scotland needs, and what is being done to achieve it. We chose a recent book – Christopher Silver’s Demanding Democracy: The Case for a Scottish Media* – as the basis for an informed discussion about Scotland’s traditional, “mainstream”, media and its newer digital counterparts. Our guests Angela Haggerty, Kevin McKenna and Christopher Silver himself joined journalist and producer Maurice Smith in a conversation that travelled all the way from life in traditional and digital newsrooms to the Daily Mail, Leveson Inquiry and the Wee Ginger Dug. Our group are all media practitioners in various guises. Angela is editor of Common Space and a Sunday Herald columnist, and Kevin is a regular contributor to The Herald, Observer and The National. Combined with Christopher’s writing experience and Maurice’s career in newspapers and broadcasting, the group’s experience spans decades of journalism in Scotland – decades that have witnessed massive change in politics and the media. The main thrust of Demanding Democracy is that Scotland needs a stronger media that is more appropriate to the needs of modern society. It covers the relative decline of the newspaper industry, the growth of digital for both mainstream and “new” media, and different models including Scandinavia, where larger media are obliged to effectively cross-subsidise smaller concerns. Our group examines the current media landscape, how it may develop and what should happen next, including the BBC, new media and existing newspapers. It’s a fascinating listen, so click on the audio file above, or download from your usual sources. * Demanding Democracy; Christopher Silver; See www.word-power.co.uk Newsnet.scot podcasts are professionally made to enhance your listening experience. Please support our ongoing media services by subscribing whatever you can afford. Thank you.

Ian Fraser on Writing about RBS the Bank that Broke Britain - MPAF94 The financial crisis of 2008 rocked the world. Institutions collapsed. Economies tottered on the brink. In the UK the Royal Bank of Scotland fell. The Government had to step in and bail the bank out. My guest today wrote a book called Shredded about the bank’s failure. Although triggered by the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, it was largely the consequence of its pursuit of scale for its own sake. Listen to Ian's story of how he came to write the book. He describes how RBS became a rogue institution with few qualms about “misselling” financial products pursuit of profit, a cavalier disregard for the law and a warped idea of its own financial skills and strength. Hear about the lessons the whole financial services industry can learn from the Bank that broke Britain. That's all right here in episode 94 of the Marketing Protection and Finance Podcast. Who is Ian Fraser? Welcome to the MPAF Podcast – I’m Roger Edwards a Marketing guy from Edinburgh, talking to a wide range of guests about marketing topics, and issues and stories from protection and finance. Thanks for downloading or streaming the show I really appreciate your support. I’m really excited about today's interview with Ian Fraser. I’ve known I am for many years. In fact, when I was Marketing Director at Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, Ian was my go-to person for media training. Ian is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in corporate finance, financial services and economic analysis. A contributor to the FT, Sunday Times, Sunday Herald and numerous other titles, Ian wrote the definitive account of the rise and fall of The Royal Bank of Scotland in his book Shredded: Inside RBS the Bank that Broke Britain. And it’s the story behind that book that we’re going to dive deep into today, right here on the Marketing Protection and Finance Podcast. Links and Show Notes. For links to the books and apps mentioned by Ian, please visit http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MPAF for the show notes. What is the Marketing Finance and Protection (MPAF) Podcast? It’s the Podcast for Financial Services Professionals looking to share business ideas and inspiration in the world of Marketing, Protection and Finance. The MPAF Podcast is a 30 minute audio show you download from http://rogeredwards.co.uk/MPAF, iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Each week I’ll be interviewing financial services providers, advisers, experts and journalists. Interviews to listen to in the car, on the train or on the treadmill. The main focus of the podcast is on what we can do to make protection and finance more accessible to the consumer and how financial services professionals can develop and promote their businesses. We’ll look at financial services products, interesting business models and campaigns with an emphasis on the following: Marketing – talking about how financial services professionals can develop and promote their businesses using traditional marketing tools but focussing on modern content marketing and social media techniques. Protection – talking about life insurance, critical illness, income protection and other protection products Finance – talking about pensions, platforms, savings and investments My aim is to make sure that you will get one or two big business ideas that you can apply to our own business.  Whether it is a sales idea, advice idea, product tweak or simply an app that is worth looking at. I’m your host, Roger Edwards. A marketing guy from Edinburgh I help people like you with your marketing strategy, content and social media. Until I set up my own business I was in and out of senior marketing roles in UK Financial Services Companies for two decades. Some of you might remember me as the Marketing Director and Managing Director of Bright Grey and Scottish Provident. Please subscribe to the...

In Episode 32 of Apolitical we welcome back Angela Haggerty as our first guest of Season 2. Angela was also a guest early in Season 1 and joins us to discuss the fallout from her recent sacking as a Sunday Herald columnist.   Magnus Llewellin, Editor-in-Chief of the Herald Group of newpapers, was offered an opportunity […] The post #32: Angela Haggerty 2 appeared first on Apolitical Podcast.

In Episode 32 of Apolitical we welcome back Angela Haggerty as our first guest of Season 2. Angela was also a guest early in Season 1 and joins us to discuss the fallout from her recent sacking as a Sunday Herald columnist.   Magnus Llewellin, Editor-in-Chief of the Herald Group of newpapers, was offered an opportunity […] The post #32: Angela Haggerty 2 appeared first on Apolitical Podcast.

OUTSpoken welcomes guest Aaron Hicklin​, joining us to discuss his career as the editor-in-chief of Out, United States’ largest gay men’s magazine.Previously, he was editor of BlackBook magazine. He began his tenure as editor-in-chief of Out in April 2006 after Brendon Lemon resigned in October 2005. Before this he also had a column in theScottish newspaper, The Sunday Herald, in which he wrote articles about life in New York.He is the author of Boy Soldiers (Mainstream), and the editor of The Revolution Will Be Accessorized (Harper Perennial), an anthology of essays that appeared in BlackBook. Aaron Hicklin also was the Executive Editor for Gear Magazine from 1998 – 2003.WWW.OUT.COM

A leading musician, writer and activist, Pat Kane is one half of Scottish pop duo Hue and Cry. He has also played a prominent role in the media, writing for NME, The Scotsman and The Guardian; presented a number of TV and radio shows, and helped found The Sunday Herald. Pat explains how he balances his music and consultancy work, outlines his role as Lead Curator of 'FutureFest' and discusses how the music industry is embracing new business models.

Kentucky's Four Roses Distillery announced this week that supply problems will prevent this spring's release of the annual Four Roses Limited Edition Single Barrel Bourbon. In his first interview on the subject, master distiller Jim Rutledge explains why dropping the limited-edition release will make more single barrel bottlings available to consumers, along with the prospects for bringing back the annual release in the future. In the news, Scotch Whisky producers are preparing for a fight with Westminster over taxes, we have more details on last weekend's Sunday Herald report about water usage violations at some Scottish distilleries, US regulators are cracking down on vague age statements, and there are new whiskies to talk about from Woodford Reserve and Glenmorangie. Finally, tasters at an event planned for Valentine's Day in London may really detect a note of sweat in their whiskies...

Shadow Minister Emily Thornberry resigned last week after posting a picture on Twitter showing a house in Rochester draped in the St. George's flag, and a white van outside. The homeowner Dan Ware, in an exclusive interview with The Sun, branded her 'a snob', and had his own manifesto published in the paper. Steve hears from Lauren Fruen, the graduate trainee who secured the story for the Sun, and editor David Dinsmore about what this story, and the latest expose of David Mellor's exchange with a cab driver, tell us about the newspaper's wider strategy. Kaleidoscope TV has been awarded the licence to broadcast a new local TV channel for Birmingham. It was originally given to City TV, but the company failed to get it off the ground, and subsequently went into administration. Kaleidoscope TV now has just three months to get the channel to air. Chris Perry, Director of Kaleidoscope explains why he thinks they can make the channel work, when others have failed. A new daily paper that "supports an independent Scotland" has launched this week. The National, published by Newsquest - which also publishes the Sunday Herald, has already had its print run increased from 60,000 to 100,000 copies. But does it have a long term future as a daily newspaper in Scotland? Steve speaks to its editor Richard Walker.Kenyan journalist Maurice Oniang'o last night won the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Award. His winning entry included a story about two child soldiers who provide security for their village from Ethiopian raiders. Steve Hewlett talks to him about sourcing stories from some of the most remote areas of the world. Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

The media regulator Ofcom has rejected London Live's request to reduce programming commitments. After just four months on air, the local TV station asked to produce just one hour of London content during the prime time evening slot, compared to the current three. It also wanted to scrap its commitment to 10 hours of repeats every day. Steve Hewlett hears from Peter Davies, Director of Content Policy at OFCOM about why they rejected the request, and asks him what it means for the future of London Live and local TV.News UK, publishers of The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun, has moved from its iconic home in Wapping to a new building across the Thames. It marks a new start for Rupert Murdoch's organisation, which has been plighted by controversy in recent months with the conclusion of the trial into hacking. But with more trials on the way, can staff really put the past behind them? Steve Hewlett gets a tour of the building from Chief Executive Mike Darcey on the day of the opening, and talks to him about how the business is doing, and why he's got no plans to make changes to Page 3.The Sunday Herald is still the only newspaper in Scotland to back a 'yes' vote in the referendum with the rest either sitting on the fence or backing a 'no'. With just one day to go, with both sides of the independence debate pushing for votes, we look at the role and the impact the press has played in Scotland's big decision. Steve hears from Ruth Wishart, broadcaster and columnist for the 'Herald' and 'Guardian'; Allan Rennie, Managing Editor in Chief of Media Scotland, publishers of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, amonst others, and Greg Philo, Professor of Communications and Social Change at Glasgow University.Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

"Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots through the stories of people I've had the good fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and resilient people on the planet. They've had to be. Some have transformed their parts of Scotland. Some have tried and failed. But all have something in common – they know what it takes for Scotland to blossom. We should know too."The ScotIndyBook series features audio book versions, full books or selected pieces, fiction and non-fiction, of some of the books being written about the independence referendum, or using it as a theme.All the books in this series have been given by the kind permissions of their authors.This time it is part of Blossom, by Lesley Riddoch (who was also on the other podcast just before christmas).I'm sure you know who Lesley is but in case you aren't sure...An honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, president of the student union in 1981, founded and directed a feminist magazine known as Harpies and Quines, contributing editor of the Sunday Herald and assistant editor of The Scotsman. She was editor of a special one-off edition of The Scotsman known as The Scotswoman produced by the paper's female staff.Writing columns for The Sunday Post, The Scotsman, and occasionally The Guardian, shortlisted for the Orwell prize. From 1989 to 1994 she presented the BBC Radio Scotland programme Speaking Out and was one of the presenters of Radio Four programme You and Yours. In 1993 Riddoch won a Cosmopolitan woman award for Communication and in 1994 for the best talk show award. Her programme Speaking Out took the Silver Quill Law Society award that same year. Between 1999 and 2005 she had her own daily radio programme the Lesley Riddoch Programme on Radio Scotland.8392802340_fea0d5a957_zRiddoch presented TV programmes of which include The Midnight Hour on BBC2, and The People's Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4, runs her own independent radio, podcast and TV production company known as Feisty Ltd.Riddoch was involved in the buyout of the Isle of Eigg by the local community. She assisted in putting together the buyout plan and later became a trustee of the Isle of Eigg Trust. The trust bought the island in 1997.In 2008, Riddoch served as a member of the Scottish Prisons Commission. In 2009, she acted as Chair in Task Force, set up by the Scottish Government, to transfer the island of Rùm into community ownership from Scottish Natural Heritage.So there you have it. And she's donated part of her book, so here it is...Hope you enjoy...

For the 74th episode of The Scottish Independence Podcast I spoke with someone a little further away from home than usual, specifically in Galicia.Pilar Fernandez. Pilar writes a blog called A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland. She has also been working hard on a new campaign called Solidarity With Scotland, which describes itself thusly..."A few months ago, a friend in the USA asked what she could do to help the cause of Scottish independence. "Nothing much," was my reply, before going on to explain that this is a debate that has to be held within Scotland. However that is not the view of the UK Government, despite Cameron's protestations that he cannae debate Alex Salmond because he doesn't have a vote in September. But it turns out that there is something she can do after all.In January, the Sunday Herald published the news that the UK Foreign Office is heading a campaign to enlist support for Better Together in foreign countries. Wee Wullie Hague wants to hear from you if you have bad things to say about Scottish independence. According to the Herald, the Foreign Office has contacted the governments of China, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the 28 members of the EU in a desperate search for viagra to bolster the flaccid Project Fear."One of the things on the site is this letter, translated into many languages, which she is encouraging people to send to embassies around the world. Find out why and much more in the new episode.Hope you enjoy…P.S.She also translated her song for us...Entre nós (Between us) by Uxia (oo-shee-ah)A wee translation:Aqui vin, aqui cheguei, aqui me mandaron vir,I came here, I arrived here , someone told me to come hereAqui está o meu corazón se o queren recibirHere it is my heart if they want to receive it

For the 42nd episode of the For A' That podcast two returning guests joined Andrew and I.The first of those is Ivan McKee of Business for Scotland and the second was Ruaridh Waddell who is an Aid worker (usually to be found in Zambia, but not at the moment).Our first topic was the CBI. Who are the winners and losers coming out of the storm regarding their involvement in the Independence Referendum? Who could we get impartial information from if not them?Are there going to be some grey areas surrounding campaign funding? It would seem so, and Andrew outlined what he saw as some of the problems.You won't be getting your pensions in Indy Scotland, except for the fact that, as the letter shows, you will.Is the Sunday Herald coming out for Yes a big turning point in the campaign or much wahoo about nothing?You can find out where Cybernat control distributes its orders too.Oh and what's Rupert Murdoch got to do with chocolate?There is all that and more. Hope You EnjoyLINKShttp://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rome-to-home-1421-miles-on-a-bike-for-yes#homehttps://twitter.com/Ivan_McKeehttps://twitter.com/mgreenwellhttps://twitter.com/PeatWorrierhttps://twitter.com/RuairidhWaddell

Lord Patten has stood down from his role as chairman of the BBC Trust due to ill health. The former cabinet minister who took the job in 2011, has presided over a time which included three director generals and scandals such as excessive executive pay. Now begins the quest to find a replacement. But, with charter renewal due in 2016, and the very future of the BBC Trust being debated, finding the right candidate could prove challenging. Chair of the DCMS Select Committee John Whittingdale talks to Steve Hewlett about the kind of person required, and former Trustee Richard Tait about how this could impact on the organisation.American media group Viacom which owns Nickleodeon, MTV and Comedy Central has bought Channel 5 for £450 million. It will be the first US broadcaster to buy a UK channel with a public service remit. Why is Channel 5 so attractive to Viacom? And what are they likely to do with it? We hear from Tara Conlan, media reporter for the Guardian.Jeremy Paxman has announced he's to leave Newsnight in order to get to bed at a decent time. Famous for his acerbic interrogation of guests, he's long been the programmes most popular presenter. So, what now for a programme that's been suffering a decline in audience figures? Steve Hewlett talks to two former Newsnight editors, Richard Tait and Sian Kevell, about the direction they'd now take the programme.Scotland's Sunday Herald has become the first mainstream newspaper to support independence. Is it a cynical ploy to boost readership? The paper say it will remain balanced in it reporting but how easy is it to do when you have come out in favour of the Yes campaign. Steve speaks to Richard Walker, editor of the Sunday Herald about the decision.Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

Lesley’s back in the hot seat for this week’s Riddoch Questions. She was joined by Stewart Hosie, Dundee East MP; David Pratt, foreign editor for the Sunday Herald and Rev David Robertson from St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee. The stories making the headlines this week, included: Afghanistan and a report from MPs which claims a lack of helicopters is costing soldiers’ lives; controversial Sunday ferry sailings in the Western Isles – the first boat is due to sail this weekend; Blair for President of Europe? And the return of the wrinkly rockers – Bruce Springsteen versus Chrissie Hynde.

Some general advice about the Writing exam paper and some tips about short story writing. Adapted from an article included in the Sunday Herald, 20th March 2005.

On this episode of SecuraBit: Multiboot Security DVD Mubix posted an awesome link on his blog to a Multiboot Security DVD that allows you to choose which common security distros, all on one medium! OS Choices: Backtrack 3 Damn Small Linux 4.2.5 GeeXBoX 1.1 (not geekbox ) Damn Vulnerable Linux (Strychnine) 1.4 Knoppix 5.1.1 MPentoo 2006.1 Ophcrack 1.2.2 (with 720 mb tables) Puppy Linux 3.01 Byzantine OS i586-20040404 Make a bootable FAT32 USB stick using Unetbootin Some distros the Securabit guys would like to see added: Helix Intelguardians Samurai RedHat/Fedora OpenSSH Compromises As noted on the Securabit website, a Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers were compromised. The ComputerWorld Blog - Linux Security Idiots article explains how the servers were compromised -Stolen SSH keys are used to gain access to the system -After that, rootkit "phalanx2" is installed and steals more SSH keys -Obviously this could be used to install any malware at all The RHEL offshoot CentOS was not affected by the compromise. Joomla Vulnerability US CERT Joomla! Password Reset Vulnerability Joomla Core Exploit Announcement - Password Remind Functionality Joomla user password reset vulnerability being actively exploited BREAK After Break Banter Italy tries to ban PirateBay Awesome Quote: "Fear makes the wolf look bigger" Best Western Pwned Originally Discovered by The Sunday Herald. As many as 8 million accounts compromised Best Western Response Vulnerbilty of BGP This exploit of Border Gateway Protocol allows the attacker to monitor internet traffic and forward it to anywhere in the world. Five hours of traffic was forwarded to New York during Defcon 16. This vulnerability is going to be bigger than the Kaminsky DNS Vuln. Speaking of Dan, he loves Securabit! Defcon presentation from Anton Kapela and Alex Pilosov Border Gateway Protocol Wired - Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Wired - More on BGP Attacks -- Updated The Middler Jay Beale - Middler - Release it already! DefCon Talk Audio Steganography Hiding information by slightly altering the binary sequence of a sound file From simple algorithms that insert info in the form of signal noise, to more powerful methods that exploit sophisticated signal processing techniques to hide information. LSB coding (least significant bit):  substitute with a binary msg Parity coding Phase coding:  #  The original sound signal is broken up into smaller segments whose lengths equal the size of the message to be encoded. A Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is applied to each segment to create a matrix of the phases and Fourier transform magnitudes. Phase differences between adjacent segments are calculated. Phase shifts between consecutive segments are easily detected. In other words, the absolute phases of the segments can be changed but the relative phase differences between adjacent segments must be preserved. Therefore the secret message is only inserted in the phase vector of the first signal segment as follows: Spread spectrum Two versions of SS can be used in audio steganography: the direct-sequence and frequency-hopping schemes. In direct-sequence SS, the secret message is spread out by a constant called the chip rate and then modulated with a pseudorandom signal. It is then interleaved with the cover-signal. In frequency-hopping SS, the audio file's frequency spectrum is altered so that it hops rapidly between frequencies. Least Significant Bit BREAK Security Justice stops by Tom and Dave from Security Justice -Search for pics of Mubix gets you this -Shmoocon will have another Podcasters Meetup and Hak5 will be there. -List of Hacker/Security Con's Forensic recovery on SSD SSD Forensics: - no physical security hooks that prevent them from being removed from enclosures - ultraviolet laser to wipe out lock bits (encryption) from fuses on chips that secure SSDs - overall easier to erase data on SSD (with encryption) vs HDD Forensics: - Harder to fully erase data 9have to overwrite or physically damage) - easier to fully encrypt Jim handy: hacker could easily unsolder NAND chips from an SSD and read the data using a flash chip programmer, then reassembled using data recovery software. SSDs are hot, but not without security risks Scott A. Moulton presentations on data recovery and forensics. Contact Securabit Securabit Website and Forums IRC: #securabit on irc.feenode.net Join us on LinkedIn Skype Number: (469) 277-2248 Follow us on Twitter - Securabit Delicious Tag: securabit

DAHR JAMAIL: Book BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ In late 2003, Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, DAHR JAMAIL an independent journalist from Anchorage, Alaska went to Iraq to report on the war himself. His dispatches were quickly recognized as an important media resource. He is now writing for the Inter Press Service, The Asia Times and many other outlets. His reports have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald, Islam Online, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to name just a few. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, the BBC, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints. http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. His first book was recently published, BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE: DISPATCHES FROM AN UNEMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ