Do we need cold hard cash?
Sweden is almost entirely cashless? Is this the way of the future? And what if the machine stops?
Month: June 2018
Crocs are heading south
Crocodiles are slowly heading south, thanks to climate change. That plus all the other big news of the week from down under.
The lady don’t care
The First Lady turned up at a child detention centre wearing a jacket with the words “I Don’t Care’ on the back. What was she thinking?
Watch the final hour of That Saturday Night Thing
I Periscoped the last hour of my last show on LoveSport Radio. You can watch it back here.
Brexit – two years, no progress
Martin Fletcher, former foreign editor at The Times, talks about the lack of progress on Brexit negotiations.
Is the Internet making us lose reason?
Jamie Bartlett wrote ‘The People versus Tech – how the internet is killing democracy’. I spoke to him on my show on LoveSport Radio.
Ice melting faster than we thought
New research shows the effects of climate change could be accelerating. I talk to Professor Andrew Shepherd about the acceleration in the melting of polar ice.
May’s Deadlock
This week Theresa May has to win over the rebel Tory MPs if she is to get her EU Withdrawal Bill over the line. So why is it so contentious?
The two dictators meet
Oops! Fox News describing the summit in Singapore between Trump and Kin Jong Un as a meeting of the two dictators. Hang on, we haven’t got that page in the script yet! Have a listen …
Richard Kazimer on Trump’s tariffs, border control and a family cashing in
The US President pisses off the G7 and claims to have won the World Cup.
THE TWITTERATI
I am confused. @RishiSunak just spoke on @bbcbreakfast about going out for dinner with family and friends. Is social distancing over now?
With Comcast shelving it's plans for a global news channel they need to rebrand @SkyNews UK to lose its affiliation with the Murdoch owned @SkyNewsAust, which now seems to be to the right of Fox News.