Lots on Grenfell one year on – how do we make social housing better and why do we have so little of it? Plus Brexit, the gridlock and how Theresa May’s NHS announcement shows she is ready to side with the hardliners.
- Chat with Charlie Wolf and Ed Bowsher
- Show intro – The Rise and rise of Michael Rimmer
- What next for Grenfell – Jonathan Werren, Localis
- More on social housing – it needs to be better and more of it
- Musical news challenge
- Entertainment news with Caroline Blight
- Hour Two intro – confusing time to be a Brexiteer
- 16th June in history – roller coasters, Martha the dog, Ugly Women’s Institute
- Spotted Dick and the Withdrawal Bill – what’s it all about?
- Brexit in deadlock – Bronwen Maddox – Institute for Government
- Boris Becker goes for diplomatic immunity
- North Korean Summit – no big win
- Pointless dog research
- Hour three intro – Billy Caldwell, young doctors and midlife MOT tests
- USA Report w Richard Kazimer – Trump home to protests, family cashes in, 2026 world cup
- Musical challenge answer, banning the flag?
- Australia with David Campbell – soccer, fake meat, yellow crazy ant, English tests
- Oxfam support, anger and alt right
- Show outro
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Is the USO an expensive irrelevance?
Is the Universal Services Obligation still needed when the NBN is charged with supplying high speed internet access to every home in Australia.
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One Day After the Fed
The markets continue to respond to Fed Powell’s ‘transitory’ remark on low inflation yesterday. I ask NAB’s David de Garis whether that means we’ll see wages pick up in the non-farm payrolls?
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Will the UK leave Europe before World War III?
Will the UK leave the EU before Trump and Iran lead us into WW3? The question of the day on Balls Radio.
