If Alisair is correct and he told the absolute truth in that Jon Snow interview, then he failed in his job to convince the public that was the case. Most people in the country believe the dossier was 'sexed up;. Many people think the death of David Kelly suspicious.
Welcome your comments on gambling. I work as a debt adviser. I find that when people pause or cancel gambling accounts they are bombarded by communication encouraging them to gamble, offering deals. But some of the messages are emotive saying things like, 'this is your lucky day', suggesting that the answer to all their financial problems is a spin away, have this £10 credit to win your fortune. This is a real psychological pull to those who can least afford to gamble. They should not be allowed to self regulate - because it's not working and causing real social problem.
If somebody cancels an account or opts out of comms then they legally should not be targeted by that provider again, also that "your lucky day" line would be classed as against responsible gambling rules so if someone has received something to that effect, they would have every right to contact the regulator and sue the ass off them.
Thank goodness, at last! Totally agree with Rory's suggestion of stopping all gifts etc, and using this as an opportunity to radically redraw the rules on the issue for MPs, Cabinet, ministers & the PM to remove all ambiguity, promoting the the principle of removing any sense of "obligation" or"bribery" that could be levelled at them, thus causing embarrassment, accusations of cronyism, favours and indeed, corruption going forward. Also, feeding the media a seemingly constant diet of material to add to disillusion and lowering of opinion and the morale of the public's view of the people we vote into public service.
It will never happen, do you honestly think Starmer and all of these cabinet ministers from both parties don't know that accepting freebies is a complete conflict of interest? They are more than happy to be bought and paid for so long as they don't get caught or held to account by the media and electorate.
I cannot understand how MPs think that it is ok to even consider accepting gifts. As a former local authority officer and a civil servant I knew perfectly well that I couldnt accept anything. Even a cabbage from someone's allotment on one occasion when I was carrying out a site visit.
Your claim makes me sincerely doubt you were head of a local authority. If you go for a meeting with an external body and they provide lunch, that's still hospitality that you have to declare. Are you saying you never had meetings with external bodies or you always took a packed lunch? Because I'd find both impossible to believe of someone doing the job you claim you did.
@PaulStargasm I make no claim to have been head of a local authority. I understand what you are saying about hospitality, and that is indeed a difficult area. However, in the more junior roles I fulfilled, there was indeed a general rule not to accept anything; even a cup of coffee.
MP's know that its NOT ok to accept gifts, they simply don't care, so long as they can argue that it was within the rules. They are more than happy to accept any gifts regardless of any actual or perceived conflict of interest.
@@GrimUpNorth_ytLife is full of poachers turned gamekeepers. Politicians are no different to the rest of us. Given the chance of a freebie season ticket to the football team you support, I think most would jump at the chance. Should we expect higher standards from our MPs? Perks are just a part of working life these days, although as a retired civil servant I was not permitted to accept any hospitality etc. Perhaps MPs should follow the same rule.
@@buzzukfiftythreegiven an MPs salary is 3 times the national average wage, then no, they shouldn’t accept freebies. Next point. Working in the private sector, any gift with a value of over 20 pounds has to be declared through your employer so you can have a benefit in kind for the value of the gift added to your taxable income. Not a single MP has done this. HMRC should throw the book at the lot of them for not paying the required tax on all these gifts. And then any criminal convictions off the back of HMRCs tax fraud investigation will see the offending MP thrown out of parliament.
I personally have a great distaste for the view that we “need to figure out what young men are for”. I think the issue is less that men have no purpose nowadays, and more that they are being called purposeless or useless or even dangerous a lot more. I heard that sentiment quite a lot: “we don’t need men” or “society doesn’t need men”. I strongly dislike statements like that because it somehow predicates that a person only has a place in society as long as they serve a purpose or have a use. That is the same thinking that lead the third reich to euthanising disabled people. Men don’t need a purpose any more or less than women need a purpose. What we need is to stop calling out men in these heinous ways and start fostering self-confidence in young boys so that they can determine their own purpose
@@sluglife9785 I’m not saying that individuals don’t need a purpose, I am saying that we don’t need to prescribe a purpose onto an entire gender. Also, I believe that a lot of those people who can’t find a purpose are exactly the ones who were never given the necessary self-assurance growing up. It’s a vicious cycle.
Yeah I think this is right, most men don’t care about boisterous figure like Farage or Tate. To most people they’re an exaggerated joke. It’s more just about feeling wanted - it’s hard to say that the culture knows how to ‘want men’, or the male identity as things are changing.
If our society genuinely believes that role models and representation are important for women then why is the very low percentage of male teachers in schools not addressed as a problem for boys.
100% agree its wrong for the major football podcasts to constantly plug the Betting companies who sponsor the shows. It wasn't ok for cigarette companies to sponsor major sporting events and music festivals so it was banned.
In business, most people are constrained in the gifts they can receive. Often nothing more valuable than a thermal mug. The possibility for even the *appearance* of corruption is to be avoided. No reason not to have the same rule in politics. Any gift becomes a gift to the state: auction 'em off with procedes to the treasury.
We have far too many politicians in this country. Over 800 members in the House of Lords and over 600 in the House of Commons.What are they doing all day apart from claiming allowances and receiving ‘gifts’?
Glad my question about Young Men and AfD got picked. A few points here: There is also increasing data that young men atleast in America are becoming more religious while women seem to be becoming more a-religious with time. I do think that just bad economic situation is not the major reason that young men are moving right. As for authoritarianism and strong men love a theory that I have is that we now have a generation that has not seen major war and conflict which is what let liberal democracies and political thought flourish from the 90's onwards. And that the importance of peace preservation and civil democratic discourse has been lost due to these long lasting peace times. There seems to be an amnesia of why we have liberal democratic systems and what is the cost of not having them.
As Rory knows, I'm from the team which won the 2012 Nobel Pace Prize, and make no bones about divine guidance. They saw it in action, the shrinks call it hyperperception.
@@PaulStargasm There has to be space for information and comment for grown-ups, who understand the world is a lot more complicated than silly "virtue signallers/haters" who sadly infest so many podcast/news pieces.
I'm more inclined to trust someone who admits a mistake and changes their mind based on new evidence, than someone who absolutely refuses to change their position no matter how unreasonable that appears. I would imagine most reasonable people would feel the same. No-one likes an idealogue.
@stephen - I'm afraid, if you read at least half of the comments on most sites your last point is wrong. From "flip-flops" to stray asides years (decades) even, ago. And of course hindsight long after complex, difficult acts went wrong. Dozens of decent people have hate poured over them...
Why does Alastair have such a problem with the idea of a law banning ministers from accepting gifts? Is it just because he doesn’t want to insinuate that accepting gifts is ever a bad thing? It occurs to me that the only way we can do away with this constant questioning of how much accepting gifts influences the actions of politicians, is to ban the whole thing. Considering it serves literally no purpose other than to buy influence, there’s really no excuse for allowing it at all.
He’s corrupt and wants to continue normalising corruption. There’s tonnes of corruption and brown paper envelopes in media. Perhaps he’s more to gain keeping the status quo.
Because if you knew anything about gifts and hospitality for MPs and the civil service you'd realise it's not so straightforward. But by all means continue with your black and white politics.
11:04 As a long term Labour supporter I consider New Labour’s behaviour on gambling as their primary failure. I know most people would say Iraq but for me it was the obscene spectacle of them promoting a Super Casino.
@@nickt4200 hmmmm. PFI might be a bigger failure. Iraq was never the hot button issue for me. I welcome immigration as we need someone to pay our pensions.
The gambling is a blight on a lot of people's lives and having adverts telling them to take a break or put a limit on is in most cases ridiculous as it is like trying to tell an alcoholic not to drink or don't have as much. As in many cases it is about profit and I'm not saying some of the companies do not care but the money they make will always be the overriding factor not people.
I worked at the company that supplies TV for betting shops (it's the same company for all the betting shops), and the lots of the staff were gambling addicts because they were constantly exposed to gambling adverts.
Young men need a code and role models. If they don't have any positive versions of these in the culture they will chose the wrong codes and the wrong role models.
problem is there aren't famous man you can point to and say "he is a great role model". There are plenty of terrible role models who are great at being terrible, like Andrew Tate. I suppose someone like Keanu Reeves, even though he's famous for playing a killer, or Barack Obama, but he's a bit closed off for a role model. There needs to be a popular, famous man who never shuts up about supporting your family, respecting women, working hard, helping in the community etc.
@@Sheev8435 I’m not talking about existing famous people. There are plenty of good role models, they just need championing. As for a code, all those things you post are not a code. They are the result of a code. Lecturing young men that they need to support a family doesn’t work. Teaching them to cultivate integrity, for example, as an aspect of character, does.
I don't think that would work though. I can think of great role models but t hese young people taking right wing views would dismiss them as being lefty woke. It used to be that the alpha male was the aspiration that everyone had to strive for. Now that's not considered the case and we've called out toxic masculinity those people feel they're losing power so understandably they're kicking back. They used to be top of the pile and could punch down to anyone considered weaker. Now those ones who were lower down don't see them as the ideal to aspire to they're pushing back against everything as woke because they're scared their ideals are becoming irrelevant, hence lack of direction.
And also this generation has not seen the aftermath of any war! No wonder they don't understand the importance of liberal democracies or peace as we would. Christian values of selflessness, honor, kindness, mercy are being lost too. I'm not certain what the answer is.
Wonder if Rory read the London Review of Books review of the Diaries? I recall it said there are two gaping black holes throughout that show AC was rather less honest and transparent than he claims: (a) nothing about the author's many briefings/leaks putting the knife in the back of those of a different view to No 10/AC or (b) detail on the Gordon Brown/Tony Blair relationship.
9:25 I am an intern on capital hill, I am not allowed to receive a gift greater than $50. Why is it that Starmer’s government and Eric Adams alike can receive such generous gifts when I have to declare any non-family gift I receive?
Civil servants can accept gifts and hospitality they just have to declare it. Not sure where you got that nonsence from. They're published on the gov website.
AS a therapist I'm all for authentic emotional display, and anger is a very useful emotion, but, unfortunately, when we are in strong negative emotion our rational brain switches off and we go into survival mode (fight flight) so not useful in a formal environment like an Enquiry. I do a lot of couple work, nothing gets resolved in a fight, that's why people who don't sit down and work stuff out calmly keep repeating the fights.
Politicians (or anybody for that matter) that can't admit they made a mistake - never trust 'em. With something as complex as politics everyone gets it wrong at some time and admitting it is at the heart of accountability and therefore democracy. Why do so many politicians not understand that?
AC Campbell on the previous podcast accused someone of leaking information then found out it was phone hacking. But he says not taking the Internet seriously in the start was his biggest mistake shows you the character of the “”man”.
@@jamj59He obviously wasn't responsible for policy at the time, but I'm disappointed he didn't explore the causes of the explosion of the gambling industry, and dismissed the question quite quickly.
The UK dominated the worldwild gambling industry at the time, america I believe signed a law to ban UK companies from operating gambling in america because we had the whole american market.
@@jamj59A little harsh perhaps. Don’t we all have double standards to some extent. I can recognise things I did as a younger man that I would not now do and feel embarrassment about them.
Alistair and Rory - can you both please just join the Labour party and start advising them on how to sort this mess out? I fear we'll have another Tory government soon at this rate.
You talked about the divide between men and women, changing roles, and young men moving further and further to the right... I've long believed that money and disenfranchisement is at the route of this problem. Women can still have children if they want and have become more vocal about rights that support them. Whereas young men, struggle to get decent jobs with meaningful wages. So they struggle to support a family, buy a house, have fun, and feel like there's is a worthwhile future. No-one with something to lose (something to live for) is going to support a right wing nut case, worry about immigrants or cause trouble. I don't know how to fix this but 50 years of neoliberal economics has led us inevitably to this point.
True. But also politician class without grounding in reality. I think being rich or having many opportunities (which Alastair and Rory do) makes one blind to the effective politicis of regular people. I think one can't truly feel what it feels like to live in this stressful, poor and soulless society with that around one. If Alastair did, he would be out there screaming about justice and fairness in demonstrations.
The UK Gov need to break up the UK press. It is now proven to be an existential threat to the UK to have a completely monopolized and foreign owned media.
I’d love to hear your perspective on the Chagos deal. As a Mauritian living in Mauritius, I can tell you that many of us feel deeply wronged by it. It seems like a rushed agreement where we’ve come out as the losers. That’s why I’m surprised to hear some conservative British political analysts claiming that the Starmer government has given away Chagos at the expense of the UK.
The problem with politicians taking contributions or freebies is that even if it's well meaning it is the perception it creates. People/ Governments etc are not always doing it just to be magnanimous, in some cases they want something in return and there have been enough examples over the years of them getting that.
When I was a young man, one principle was very important to the Civil Service - lack of political bias, but unfortunately that seems to have gone, along with their meritocracy (the latter refers to Gordon Brown's 'positive' discrimination in the 2010 Equality Act). Sue Gray seemed to have thrown the former principle of lack of political bias to the wall even before she joined the Labour Party, so it is not surprising people are attacking her.
How did she lack political bias before joining labour? She was appointed by Boris (and trusted by him before her findings) to investigate Tory covid parties, investgating the government of the day.
@@PaulStargasm - I think you haven't read my comment properly. I said, "even before she joined the Labour Party". That is I suspect she supported the Labour Party even when she was a Civil Servant and may have let that affect what she did.
Rory is exactly right about banning politicians from accepting any gifts whatsoever. If you had worked in finance (and I assume other similarly regulated industries) that wouldn't seem like an extreme policy at all - it is completely standard and every employee receives regular training to make sure they are clear on the rules and 100% clear that any non-compliance is completely unacceptable. I can't see why the same shouldn't be true for politicians.
If all addiction clinical therapists(public & private) employed or running such groups were put under the 'sunk cost fallacy' -microscope they would be shut down much quicker than HS2. 'If it saves just one' is not a good rubric.
NY mayor issue with planning with the Turkish you discuss reminds me of Jenrick and the Westferry printworks cash for favours incident in Tower Hamlets and that Jenrick was sacked subsequently . Why is this not mentioned now in the Tory leadership race ?
There are laws in business in the UK and US against bribery and corruption, where you can't accept or give gifts of value. I really don’t see see why the same can’t apply to politicians. If there aren't clear rules, there will always be grey areas open to ‘interpretation’.
I asked chatgpt how to ensure politicians don't act in their own self interest. Here's its answer: To ensure politicians work for the good of society rather than self-interest, society can: 1. Strengthen transparency through public audits, lobbying disclosures, and open government initiatives. 2. Create and empower independent oversight bodies like ethics committees and anti-corruption agencies. 3. Invest in public civic education and protect media freedom to keep voters informed. 4. Align political incentives with societal benefits through term limits, performance evaluations, and protections for whistleblowers.
We need a military person to take on Politics and call a spade a spade, do what's right for the country, not pander to those who say they are offended, and rid us of the press calling the shots on who is PM.
Dame Maggie might have had a certain 14 year old cadet in mind when she played the recruiting soubrette at the start of Oh! What A Lovely War. She sings of a Baby boy scout - and I'd unwittingly been used by Sir Richard Attenborough to deliver the mssage it's the kids who die. I'd actually come to his attention during the planning when he called Alleyns School, speaking to the CCF Admin Major - the School had the country's largest battalion, anf I was the youngest recruit. So small I had to find a uniform to fit, in an 8' high pile. So you begin at th beginning, sort the pile into sizes, and at the bottom was a box 5' square with a different battledress in. I checked a label, 1917, so I took the set I needed and reported back upstairs. "No, Dickie, we haven't got any WW1 uniforms. What is it, Rahere? We do? Well, you talk to Mr Attenborough then." Off went the box, and I got on with life. A few weeks later, with basic drill under my belt, I get an order, be on parade at 0630 Saturday in uniform, outside the gates. So there I am, fresh off the milk train, feeling a bit of a wally, when a Parp! Parp! comes down the road, with the cast in costume, headed from Joan Plowright's Theatre Royal Stratford (where the stage show had been a hit) to Clapham Common to join the London-Brighton Veteran Car Rally - shades of Genevieve. So, faced with Gielgud and Olivier and the Foxes, the Redgraves, Maggie - you name it, I'd got the High Command of Europe, give 'em a salute - which was properly replied to be two Lords! It was only when I was the real deal, forty years later, as Rory knows (Dana's chum from the Savile Club, the guy who reopened the Indus) I realised I'd unwittingly delivered a message.
Knew things would go awry when Starmer said he had to spend time with wife and kids. You don't strive to become PM to then complain about not having any down-time! Equally as PM you can hardly insist you have to watch tbe football!
A thought about what Alistair said at around the 21 min mark, about why young men are turning to the right (by the way, I'm a lefty). First off, Alistair, you are talking like someone who hasn't spoken to anyone under the age of 30 in a meaningful way in years. Secondly, the reason having more female teachers than male teachers is a problem is that a teacher is often the only positive male role models working class men have, so taking that away is incredibly damaging. If I didn't have my history teacher, Mr Russell, to talk to, I'd be a monster by now. Also, in terms of female doctors. Like most women like to have a female doctor, most men would prefer a male doctor. So, it makes men a lot less likely to seek help when needed. Again, it is very damaging. Lastly, men still do most of the societally systemic roles, eg. waste management, construction, logistics, energy, military, and so on. But when women go into these roles, they often quickly bunnyhop all the menial roles and go straight into management within a year or so. While young men with the same qualifications are kept doing the menial roles for most of their working life. Ultimately, the young men who helped support women in their fight for equality. Now, feel that equality just mean that it's their turn to be suppressed and that we are being punished for the sins of your generation.
Alastair is so out of touch ….. it’s so obvious that having more male teachers is a good thing in that young men need role models …… especially considering many young people grow up in fatherless homes.
Please stop advertising “Getfuse” they are an electric only supplier. More then 60% of Uk domestic properties have smart meters installed, and if you switch electric only to another supplier you are going to lose the “smart” benefits in your gas smart meters, the gas meter becomes a “Dumb” meter. I.E. if someone has smart meters because they can’t top up, or access their gas smart meter either due to mobility restrictions or even due to it being in an inaccessible part of the property. You would have to take gas meter readings every month because the meter can’t communicate with the energy supplier if the electricity is with another. I’m not saying all this because I have an interested in energy suppliers, I’m only an Ice Cream Man by trade. I would hate to think of vulnerable people transferring their supplies to try and pay less, but then maybe find themselves worse off. On another note I love your page, it’s so refreshing to hear politics in this manner. I’ve always loved following politics, even more when it can be discussed without having to argue over it. I’m hoping to come and see you live, I might come to Birmingham (do I not deserve a VIP upgrade for my info above? 😉😉 only joking) Keep up the great work 😊😊😅
The problem is that if you ban gambling companies from sports then what is next? Should some food companies (fast foods, alcohol etc.) be banned since they promote poor behaviour and obesity etc.
As far as Sue Gray's being done in is concerned, she failed to learn from Andrew Sabisky. What happened there was an attempted Press takeover - and Hurley Burley's screams of geek cut me to the bone. Why should we help a culture which behaves like that?
There seems to be misunderstanding of the gender gap among young US voters, something repeated by both of Alistair and Rory: both young male and female voters lean Democrat overall, but young females proportionally lean Democrat in even greater numbers than their male counterparts.
On the subject of gambling ads, along with the sports ads there is also the iceberg of youtube ads. I have never gambled and yet while watching youtube vids I get bombarded with gambling ads. A lot of kids and young people watch youtube as well.
Does Alistair still think that Starmer is about to surprise the world with great national leadership and vision and a clear narrative for the future of the nation, as well as some discernible policies, as I recall he argued we would see once the election was won? How long do we have to wait? Most people have already concluded that he isn’t up to the job and we’re in for five years of muddle, incompetence, U turns and indecision.
I feel that Alastair misses the mark with masculinity thing. It's not about them thinking female teachers are wrong. It's also not Andrew Tate's fault. Quite the opposite - he is a sign. And I am afraid that very attitude Alastair has regarding this issue is very much part of the problem, that masculinity has no place effectively. Of course you will lose males if you never give them any space. We can pretend all we like that masculinity is something one can just pick up and mold but it's not. It's there and you have to deal with it. Effectively. Not theoretically. You need to ground these issues in the population. You can't psuh for example trans rights to the brim without "asking" and honestly listening to the actual people. Don't pretend issues you find laughably easy to be done just because you lot are. You don't walk around in regular people's shoes (anymore) and haven't for a long time. Add to that the fact that the left has majorly focused so much on gender issues and forgotten the economy and welfare of it's citizens. You have to joke to not see the issue here.
Had the 'Pleasure' of visiting the casino at Monte Carlo a few weeks ago! Chandeliers and slot machines and not at all alluring! Felt so bad for those hooked on gambling so I wandered out and stood under a full moon at a viewing point around the back. The moonlight shone on the shimmering surface of the sea in the harbour. Natural beauty and human ugliness intertwined!
Fareed Zakaria interviewed Putin cuz he is a real journalist. Alastair, you are the king of partisanship, hard to see how you understand journalistic ethics.
Are they a target for the media? I don't recall Cameron's political advisors receiving the scrutiny a free press implies! On the one side, the Tax Payer's Alliance who hosted the Leave campaign - and on the other, Cameron's aide de camp Craig Oliver, half-arseing the Remain campaign! Now Sir half-arseing the Remain campaign!
@@karlstone6011 No, I'm saying your initial statement is incorrect. The scrutiny on Coulson was one of the biggest stories during Cameron's premiership.
It’s not misogyny. It’s a reaction to what is seen as overly-woke, pernicious, leftie education, policies, policing practices and laws. And man-up and admit that immigration, beyond a certain level, undermines what Paul Samuelson - the great American economist - called the “social contract” (to paraphrase: “ nobody wants yesterday’s bread, but nobody wants to see yesterday’s baker starve” - we accept that there’s a cycle to dependency and providing. But doesn’t work if too many new arrivals, of a different culture, not willing to integrate and largely assimilate into the prevailing culture and traditions of the adopted country.)
So great work by Laura Kuenssberg, then.. Anyone buy that it was a mistake..? Mind you, I'd pay good money to see Alistair interview Johnson... (No way he's gonna walk into his own bloodbath though, unfortunately)
to me , it’s as though i had lost three CHILDREN : i lost 3 rabbits in three days ! i'm abominable sinner, that's why : i wish i had never existed ! i don't want to exist ever since they went to Heaven : i'm a monster : i feel guilty: i don't see the point of living without rabbits : i lost the three loves of my life : my progenitors won't adopt bunnies : life without bunnies, oh no, HORRIBLE !!! wha a sadness to not have bunnies ! i miss them ! i want them to be with me ! the worst is yet to come : now the r and d say they're going to DESTROY , MURDER my hens and dog: again because of my infame sins : oh NO, NO:: Maker , have mercy on my hens !!!! it's depressing losing your animals !! my rabbits and animals are my sole reason to live i think : i think i ain't got nothing else, no one else : empty house without rabbits :
room, living- room, therasse without caytlin, amanda and crystal my three rabbits : i think i should be in hell and they should be on the earth !! they were INNOCENT, they have NOT sinned !!! I have sinned !!! i'm the one who did bad stuff against the Maker and the curse went on my animals, not on me ?? i feel like my animals got PUNISHED , not me : i've been unjust, not the Maker: he's just : i wish i had never done all these abominations so that crystal, amanda and caytlin would be alive: i want to see you, pet you, look at your beautiful eyes, my fauve de bourgogne rabbit, my mini rabbit and my lop ears rabbit but i can't: i want to hug you, kiss you, i can't: i feel like i'm a zombie without my bunnies : i'm worried about my hens and doggy: WOW !!! the terrible revelations messages from the r and d for my hens and dogs:
scary, HORROR !!!! i think i should ve never existed if i destroy all my loved ones with my sins, causing their death , illness, suffering : horrible things the r and d say they're gonna do to my animals very soon : i want to kick the bucket : i think i should've never existed : everytime i sin strongly, terribly, one or several of my animals die : when will the Maker chastise ME and not my animals ?? the day i don't have animals no more ..... / i want animals !!!!! more than all things!!! i think the animals are the SOLE stuff i want !!!! i think i can NEVER be happy if i don't have animals !!!!
i think that Maker does not chastise me but my animals : i mean he takes away from you the most important, the most valuable thing you think you have : to me, the most IMPORTANT thing are my animals: that's the reason why when i do something ultra bad, the Maker makes pass away one or several of my animals : this time it was the WORST SIN i've ever made ?? for it was not one or two animals , but THREE animals in three days: no wonder why r had said at the same time or simultaneously : i get why they said that : it meant three DEATHS , three SICKNESS at the same time : three sick animals FOR NO REASON , SUPERNATURALLY, at the same time :
on top of that, the r said 3 weeks : now one week has passed : what ? they didn't say the whole say : two weeks for what ?? the DEATH of my hens , or dogs, burned live jennifer ( hen ), fighting to death chelby, brianna and brittany ( hens ) ? shortly after, kylie can't pee and passes away ( dog ) : oh NO , if only i had never been , if only i had never had a life !!!! all this is two or three weeks or a bit more ???? i want to cease living !!!! they must have suffered HORRIBLY !!! how caytlin suddenly screamed , of pain probably, ultra loudly : SCARY !!! and a day after, how amanda would scream, again and again, having convulsions , moving his head ultra fast , putting it ultra on the back, again and again, doing little screams again and again, his legs so hard, so tense, mega extended, wow, he would move and move :
oh poor him ! all this because of my sins ! HORRIBLE seeing this !!!! i wish it had been me , not him ! increible that amanda died one hour after i think, not right away when all this was happening : and then putting his body normal, then moving his body again , his legs mega fast, wow : and crystal couldn’t put his head normal, he was so weak : he would simply put his head on the floor, powerless, without strength : all this because of my sins : farewell everyone ! i can't take it no more : thanks for all
i need to seek the help of Maker and born again christians : but even if i beg pastors to pray for me to stop sinning, for me to stop massacring every single beloved animal i adopt , i CAN NOT stop sinning : i think i'm like these high level murderers: all i do is destroy : that's why i think i deserve to die : i think i MUST de , for if i carry on living and i adopt animals, they will all DIE as newborn animals, i'm sure: i sin so much , so terribly, that they wouldn't last not even one week, poor them !
their destiny would have been different if they had been adopted by someone who is NOT a monstrous sinner unlike me : they would 've lived 10 years, not 2 and 1 year, my adored bunnies : these bunnies were EVERYTHING to me : these hens and dog are MY ONLY loved ones : my only reason to be : or i can live for the rest of my life not adopting any animal but what a SAD life without any animal , too DEPRESSING, oh no, i think i CAN NOT live without animals : i'd be like a zombie, always depressed and sad : i think i must sacrifice myself for my animals : anyway, i don't want to live since the Maker wants me to become his and get pregnant and have sexual intercourse and i'm virgin, with phobia of sexual intercourse : i'm anti pregnancy and anti sexual intercourse : thus, since this is very soon according to the messages from d and r , in october and december 2024, i think all i have left to do is join the majority ( die ) : what else can i do ?
hell is horrible : wow, poor persons there !!! i don't want to get devoured by 15 cm worms, spiders: i don't want to BURN, you can't breath in there: there's no water, you're TOO THIRSTY : but i DESERVE hell : i've been TOO WICKED to animals and men all my life : a vegan that murders all my animals , wow, false vegan i suppose !!!!!! to me , these animals ARE MY CHILDREN, my BABIES !!!!!! i DO NOT want to destroy the destiny, DESTROY the destiny, of holy little animals that i ADORE !!!! poor little dogs !!! my porgenitor is about to adopt two dogs: OH WOW, i'm too afraid for them poor little things , adorable little angels !!!!!!!!!!!!!
i CAN NOT get rid of my sins !!! hatred, wrath, evil thoughts, evil wishes : i beg you Maker, curse me, NOT my animals and future animals !!! i beg you Maker, destroy ME, NOT my animal angels !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think i should not adopt any animal but just go see animals in ethical places such as pedagogic farms , hoping that they treat animals well there : but it's NOT the same than living with the animals, and being able to pet them, kiss them, see them, look at their beautiful faces and bodies and eyes, hugg them , whenever you like : i don’t see the point of living without animals and rabbits : i think that i see the point of living SOLELY with animals and rabbits : why living if you don’t have animals or bunnies ?? i think the only reason why i should get up in the morning is my animals and rabbits if i had some : i think i do NOT find any meaning in life ever since caytlin, crystal and amanda passed away : i think i can NOT find any meaning in life without animals and rabbits : i don’t want to do anyting ever since they went away : i don’t want to eat : i don’t want to exist : i don’t want to adopt and then die : if i adopt 5 animals = the 5 die : if i adopt 3 animals = the 3 die : if i adopt 10 animals = the 10 die : STOP !!! i don’t want to do this : this tourments me : i’m horrified : all this agony of my animals, all these deaths, because of my sins : WOW !!!! and yet i desperetedly wish to adopt PLENTY of animals !!! i think i’ve lost all will to live ever since my rabbits went to Heaven : i think i’m like a zombie now : for the joy to come back, the life to come back, for me to feel alive again, i NEED rabbits : but not for them to die 4 days after i had them : !!!!!! NOOOOO !!!! r said in my head : attack on the hens : they have one- two weeks left to live ?? what do i do ?? then my dog when , in 3-4 weeks ?? zero animal mega soon ??!!! in less than 30 days, i go from having 5 animals to 0 animal ??!!??!!??!! : i think life without animals is HORRIBLE, i think it’s NOT life at all : !!!!!
i don’t see the point in living if i do not have animals or rabbits : i think i don’t see the point in doing anything ever since my rabbits left me : what’s the point in existing if it’s without animals or bunnies ?? i think i see no point in doing nothing anymore ever since i lost my rabbits : i think that my only reason to live was my animals : i think that i ‘ve lost everything : i think that my life is MEANINGLESS without my bunnies and animals : i think i am fed up with this life without rabbits : i don’t want to live any longer , without animals or rabbits : i just wanted to make my rabbits happy : i just want to give happiness to rabbits : but i DO NOT want to murder any animal anymore !!!! i think i’ve lost interest in everything : i think i don’t enjoy anything anymore : i think i force myself to do everything now : i think i can’t be interested in anything any longer : i don’t know why i remain alive : i think i do not want to remain alive : i just force myself to do all the things a human daily do such as eating, brushing my teeth, going to the toilet, taking a shower , ect : i think that nothing in the world is more important to me than animals :
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If Alisair is correct and he told the absolute truth in that Jon Snow interview, then he failed in his job to convince the public that was the case. Most people in the country believe the dossier was 'sexed up;. Many people think the death of David Kelly suspicious.
Welcome your comments on gambling. I work as a debt adviser. I find that when people pause or cancel gambling accounts they are bombarded by communication encouraging them to gamble, offering deals. But some of the messages are emotive saying things like, 'this is your lucky day', suggesting that the answer to all their financial problems is a spin away, have this £10 credit to win your fortune. This is a real psychological pull to those who can least afford to gamble. They should not be allowed to self regulate - because it's not working and causing real social problem.
Completely agree with you!
If somebody cancels an account or opts out of comms then they legally should not be targeted by that provider again, also that "your lucky day" line would be classed as against responsible gambling rules so if someone has received something to that effect, they would have every right to contact the regulator and sue the ass off them.
Thank goodness, at last! Totally agree with Rory's suggestion of stopping all gifts etc, and using this as an opportunity to radically redraw the rules on the issue for MPs, Cabinet, ministers & the PM to remove all ambiguity, promoting the the principle of removing any sense of "obligation" or"bribery" that could be levelled at them, thus causing embarrassment, accusations of cronyism, favours and indeed, corruption going forward.
Also, feeding the media a seemingly constant diet of material to add to disillusion and lowering of opinion and the morale of the public's view of the people we vote into public service.
It will never happen, do you honestly think Starmer and all of these cabinet ministers from both parties don't know that accepting freebies is a complete conflict of interest? They are more than happy to be bought and paid for so long as they don't get caught or held to account by the media and electorate.
I cannot understand how MPs think that it is ok to even consider accepting gifts. As a former local authority officer and a civil servant I knew perfectly well that I couldnt accept anything. Even a cabbage from someone's allotment on one occasion when I was carrying out a site visit.
Your claim makes me sincerely doubt you were head of a local authority. If you go for a meeting with an external body and they provide lunch, that's still hospitality that you have to declare. Are you saying you never had meetings with external bodies or you always took a packed lunch? Because I'd find both impossible to believe of someone doing the job you claim you did.
@PaulStargasm I make no claim to have been head of a local authority. I understand what you are saying about hospitality, and that is indeed a difficult area. However, in the more junior roles I fulfilled, there was indeed a general rule not to accept anything; even a cup of coffee.
MP's know that its NOT ok to accept gifts, they simply don't care, so long as they can argue that it was within the rules. They are more than happy to accept any gifts regardless of any actual or perceived conflict of interest.
The little guys comply, the big guys excuse.
Rorys grimacing never fails to make me smile
As per Rory - yes, absolutely. No MPs should take freebies - ever. Just make a rule. And yes, hard regulation again for all gambling
So easy to say...once you're no longer an MP.
Be interesting to go back and look at what he was sucking up when he had the chance.
So Starmer raids the shop then shuts it for good?
@@GrimUpNorth_yt the fact he's doing this podcast with the person he's doing it with shows he has no principles.
@@GrimUpNorth_ytLife is full of poachers turned gamekeepers. Politicians are no different to the rest of us. Given the chance of a freebie season ticket to the football team you support, I think most would jump at the chance. Should we expect higher standards from our MPs? Perks are just a part of working life these days, although as a retired civil servant I was not permitted to accept any hospitality etc. Perhaps MPs should follow the same rule.
@@buzzukfiftythreegiven an MPs salary is 3 times the national average wage, then no, they shouldn’t accept freebies.
Next point. Working in the private sector, any gift with a value of over 20 pounds has to be declared through your employer so you can have a benefit in kind for the value of the gift added to your taxable income.
Not a single MP has done this. HMRC should throw the book at the lot of them for not paying the required tax on all these gifts. And then any criminal convictions off the back of HMRCs tax fraud investigation will see the offending MP thrown out of parliament.
I always laugh when I hear the phrase 'Gamble responsibly.'
I personally have a great distaste for the view that we “need to figure out what young men are for”.
I think the issue is less that men have no purpose nowadays, and more that they are being called purposeless or useless or even dangerous a lot more.
I heard that sentiment quite a lot: “we don’t need men” or “society doesn’t need men”. I strongly dislike statements like that because it somehow predicates that a person only has a place in society as long as they serve a purpose or have a use. That is the same thinking that lead the third reich to euthanising disabled people.
Men don’t need a purpose any more or less than women need a purpose. What we need is to stop calling out men in these heinous ways and start fostering self-confidence in young boys so that they can determine their own purpose
Some young men need to be given purpose. We're not all capable of figuring a path out for ourselves. Same as some people need religion.
@@sluglife9785 I’m not saying that individuals don’t need a purpose, I am saying that we don’t need to prescribe a purpose onto an entire gender.
Also, I believe that a lot of those people who can’t find a purpose are exactly the ones who were never given the necessary self-assurance growing up. It’s a vicious cycle.
Yeah I think this is right, most men don’t care about boisterous figure like Farage or Tate. To most people they’re an exaggerated joke.
It’s more just about feeling wanted - it’s hard to say that the culture knows how to ‘want men’, or the male identity as things are changing.
I think there is a lot of misandry about
If our society genuinely believes that role models and representation are important for women then why is the very low percentage of male teachers in schools not addressed as a problem for boys.
100% agree its wrong for the major football podcasts to constantly plug the Betting companies who sponsor the shows. It wasn't ok for cigarette companies to sponsor major sporting events and music festivals so it was banned.
In business, most people are constrained in the gifts they can receive. Often nothing more valuable than a thermal mug. The possibility for even the *appearance* of corruption is to be avoided. No reason not to have the same rule in politics.
Any gift becomes a gift to the state: auction 'em off with procedes to the treasury.
quite often entertainment, meals and so on are accepted. The rules on when you can get are often tougher the lower down you are.
We have far too many politicians in this country. Over 800 members in the House of Lords and over 600 in the House of Commons.What are they doing all day apart from claiming allowances and receiving ‘gifts’?
Glad my question about Young Men and AfD got picked.
A few points here: There is also increasing data that young men atleast in America are becoming more religious while women seem to be becoming more a-religious with time. I do think that just bad economic situation is not the major reason that young men are moving right.
As for authoritarianism and strong men love a theory that I have is that we now have a generation that has not seen major war and conflict which is what let liberal democracies and political thought flourish from the 90's onwards. And that the importance of peace preservation and civil democratic discourse has been lost due to these long lasting peace times. There seems to be an amnesia of why we have liberal democratic systems and what is the cost of not having them.
As Rory knows, I'm from the team which won the 2012 Nobel Pace Prize, and make no bones about divine guidance. They saw it in action, the shrinks call it hyperperception.
Yes ! We have such a short memory
"Why Political Advisors Are A Target For The Media"
Because after Alistair Campbell the general public learned to hate advisors etc etc.
I find it insane there’s an audience that think Alistair Campbell is someone worth listening to
@unbabunga229 then how do you explain you being here?
@@PaulStargasm There has to be space for information and comment for grown-ups, who understand the world is a lot more complicated than silly "virtue signallers/haters" who sadly infest so many podcast/news pieces.
Rory for PM
He is dead right about banning freebies.
He'd be as bad as Starmer
@@clivet3252he wouldn’t take freebies 😂
That’s long gone.😊
I'm more inclined to trust someone who admits a mistake and changes their mind based on new evidence, than someone who absolutely refuses to change their position no matter how unreasonable that appears. I would imagine most reasonable people would feel the same. No-one likes an idealogue.
@stephen - I'm afraid, if you read at least half of the comments on most sites your last point is wrong. From "flip-flops" to stray asides years (decades) even, ago. And of course hindsight long after complex, difficult acts went wrong.
Dozens of decent people have hate poured over them...
Why does Alastair have such a problem with the idea of a law banning ministers from accepting gifts? Is it just because he doesn’t want to insinuate that accepting gifts is ever a bad thing?
It occurs to me that the only way we can do away with this constant questioning of how much accepting gifts influences the actions of politicians, is to ban the whole thing. Considering it serves literally no purpose other than to buy influence, there’s really no excuse for allowing it at all.
Maybe he enjoys free gifts??
He’s corrupt and wants to continue normalising corruption. There’s tonnes of corruption and brown paper envelopes in media. Perhaps he’s more to gain keeping the status quo.
Because if you knew anything about gifts and hospitality for MPs and the civil service you'd realise it's not so straightforward. But by all means continue with your black and white politics.
11:04 As a long term Labour supporter I consider New Labour’s behaviour on gambling as their primary failure. I know most people would say Iraq but for me it was the obscene spectacle of them promoting a Super Casino.
Primary failure? Over Iraq, mass migration or crippling the NHS with PFI debt.
@@nickt4200 hmmmm. PFI might be a bigger failure. Iraq was never the hot button issue for me. I welcome immigration as we need someone to pay our pensions.
It was certainly a disaster, but primary failure? No, that was definitely Iraq.
That super-casino never got built.
Try harder next time.
@@FranzBieberkopf true but they relaxed all the laws around betting and advertising.
The gambling is a blight on a lot of people's lives and having adverts telling them to take a break or put a limit on is in most cases ridiculous as it is like trying to tell an alcoholic not to drink or don't have as much. As in many cases it is about profit and I'm not saying some of the companies do not care but the money they make will always be the overriding factor not people.
Love the show. All the little insights and name dropping and ass covering Mr Campbell. Two of the best guys in politics as well as great commentators
I worked at the company that supplies TV for betting shops (it's the same company for all the betting shops), and the lots of the staff were gambling addicts because they were constantly exposed to gambling adverts.
Young men need a code and role models. If they don't have any positive versions of these in the culture they will chose the wrong codes and the wrong role models.
problem is there aren't famous man you can point to and say "he is a great role model". There are plenty of terrible role models who are great at being terrible, like Andrew Tate. I suppose someone like Keanu Reeves, even though he's famous for playing a killer, or Barack Obama, but he's a bit closed off for a role model. There needs to be a popular, famous man who never shuts up about supporting your family, respecting women, working hard, helping in the community etc.
@@Sheev8435 I’m not talking about existing famous people. There are plenty of good role models, they just need championing. As for a code, all those things you post are not a code. They are the result of a code. Lecturing young men that they need to support a family doesn’t work. Teaching them to cultivate integrity, for example, as an aspect of character, does.
I don't think that would work though. I can think of great role models but t hese young people taking right wing views would dismiss them as being lefty woke. It used to be that the alpha male was the aspiration that everyone had to strive for. Now that's not considered the case and we've called out toxic masculinity those people feel they're losing power so understandably they're kicking back. They used to be top of the pile and could punch down to anyone considered weaker. Now those ones who were lower down don't see them as the ideal to aspire to they're pushing back against everything as woke because they're scared their ideals are becoming irrelevant, hence lack of direction.
And also this generation has not seen the aftermath of any war! No wonder they don't understand the importance of liberal democracies or peace as we would. Christian values of selflessness, honor, kindness, mercy are being lost too. I'm not certain what the answer is.
@@PaulStargasm I remember a time when "compassionate conservatism" was hugely appealing to men. How I miss it
Political advisors are usual young, out of Oxbridge and absolutely no idea about the real world
Wonder if Rory read the London Review of Books review of the Diaries? I recall it said there are two gaping black holes throughout that show AC was rather less honest and transparent than he claims: (a) nothing about the author's many briefings/leaks putting the knife in the back of those of a different view to No 10/AC or (b) detail on the Gordon Brown/Tony Blair relationship.
Rory should read a few excerpts of "Busking With Bagpipes" on stage.
9:25 I am an intern on capital hill, I am not allowed to receive a gift greater than $50. Why is it that Starmer’s government and Eric Adams alike can receive such generous gifts when I have to declare any non-family gift I receive?
I would suggest this is a lie, as you don't seem to able to spell the place you claim to work.
Civil servants aren't supposed to accept gifts but politicians make different rules for themselves.
Ask the Tory politicians who wrote the current rules.
Civil servants can accept gifts and hospitality they just have to declare it. Not sure where you got that nonsence from. They're published on the gov website.
@@PaulStargasm It was my impression when I was a Civil Servant.
AS a therapist I'm all for authentic emotional display, and anger is a very useful emotion, but, unfortunately, when we are in strong negative emotion our rational brain switches off and we go into survival mode (fight flight) so not useful in a formal environment like an Enquiry. I do a lot of couple work, nothing gets resolved in a fight, that's why people who don't sit down and work stuff out calmly keep repeating the fights.
Politicians (or anybody for that matter) that can't admit they made a mistake - never trust 'em. With something as complex as politics everyone gets it wrong at some time and admitting it is at the heart of accountability and therefore democracy. Why do so many politicians not understand that?
AC Campbell on the previous podcast accused someone of leaking information then found out it was phone hacking. But he says not taking the Internet seriously in the start was his biggest mistake shows you the character of the “”man”.
Alistair agreed that gambling is out of control, but didn't mention that it was Blair's government that heavily deregulated the industry.
Classic Alastair double standards
@@jamj59He obviously wasn't responsible for policy at the time, but I'm disappointed he didn't explore the causes of the explosion of the gambling industry, and dismissed the question quite quickly.
Campbell and hypocrisy, well I never.
The UK dominated the worldwild gambling industry at the time, america I believe signed a law to ban UK companies from operating gambling in america because we had the whole american market.
@@jamj59A little harsh perhaps. Don’t we all have double standards to some extent. I can recognise things I did as a younger man that I would not now do and feel embarrassment about them.
Alistair and Rory - can you both please just join the Labour party and start advising them on how to sort this mess out? I fear we'll have another Tory government soon at this rate.
Don't we already have a Tory Government in charge ? It seems like it. Ok, Tories but not quite as corrupt.
You talked about the divide between men and women, changing roles, and young men moving further and further to the right...
I've long believed that money and disenfranchisement is at the route of this problem. Women can still have children if they want and have become more vocal about rights that support them. Whereas young men, struggle to get decent jobs with meaningful wages. So they struggle to support a family, buy a house, have fun, and feel like there's is a worthwhile future.
No-one with something to lose (something to live for) is going to support a right wing nut case, worry about immigrants or cause trouble. I don't know how to fix this but 50 years of neoliberal economics has led us inevitably to this point.
True. But also politician class without grounding in reality. I think being rich or having many opportunities (which Alastair and Rory do) makes one blind to the effective politicis of regular people. I think one can't truly feel what it feels like to live in this stressful, poor and soulless society with that around one. If Alastair did, he would be out there screaming about justice and fairness in demonstrations.
I think young mens issues are often times ignored so they turn to the figures/movements that pretend to listen to them and work for them
How much do the UK pay for other foreign officials to visit our country?
The UK Gov need to break up the UK press. It is now proven to be an existential threat to the UK to have a completely monopolized and foreign owned media.
Maybe just better Ofcom regulations? You’re sounding a bit authoritarian here 😭
@@owentill been there done that. Zero foreign ownership and no more than 5% single control. By readership / exposure.
@@owentillhe didn’t mean that the state would control it, just that one company wouldn’t control all of it (i.e. split them into different companies)
I’d love to hear your perspective on the Chagos deal. As a Mauritian living in Mauritius, I can tell you that many of us feel deeply wronged by it. It seems like a rushed agreement where we’ve come out as the losers. That’s why I’m surprised to hear some conservative British political analysts claiming that the Starmer government has given away Chagos at the expense of the UK.
The problem with politicians taking contributions or freebies is that even if it's well meaning it is the perception it creates. People/ Governments etc are not always doing it just to be magnanimous, in some cases they want something in return and there have been enough examples over the years of them getting that.
9 days until Starmer's first 100 days in office. Looking forward to the media's response/assessment on progress to date...
Lol. What has he acomplished so far ? I can't think of a positive.
@@lukedaniels7750 He ain't me
But is he smart enough to employ me?
When I was a young man, one principle was very important to the Civil Service - lack of political bias, but unfortunately that seems to have gone, along with their meritocracy (the latter refers to Gordon Brown's 'positive' discrimination in the 2010 Equality Act). Sue Gray seemed to have thrown the former principle of lack of political bias to the wall even before she joined the Labour Party, so it is not surprising people are attacking her.
Excellent.
How did she lack political bias before joining labour? She was appointed by Boris (and trusted by him before her findings) to investigate Tory covid parties, investgating the government of the day.
@@PaulStargasm - I think you haven't read my comment properly. I said, "even before she joined the Labour Party". That is I suspect she supported the Labour Party even when she was a Civil Servant and may have let that affect what she did.
Maggie Smith Rip girl.
Rory is exactly right about banning politicians from accepting any gifts whatsoever. If you had worked in finance (and I assume other similarly regulated industries) that wouldn't seem like an extreme policy at all - it is completely standard and every employee receives regular training to make sure they are clear on the rules and 100% clear that any non-compliance is completely unacceptable. I can't see why the same shouldn't be true for politicians.
Gambling advertising on sports should be banned.
No good deed goes unpunished.
And sooo many bad deeds do.
Im from Brum ,, Id come BUT ..all the best from Costa Rica
The success of Brian Walden interviews was to get on the side of the interviewee actually got more out of them.
If all addiction clinical therapists(public & private) employed or running such groups were put under the 'sunk cost fallacy' -microscope they would be shut down much quicker than HS2. 'If it saves just one' is not a good rubric.
Love your podcast Romeish Dias, britisher living in Sri Lanka 🎉
Is Rory channelling his inner Johnson with his hair?
NY mayor issue with planning with the Turkish you discuss reminds me of Jenrick and the Westferry printworks cash for favours incident in Tower Hamlets and that Jenrick was sacked subsequently . Why is this not mentioned now in the Tory leadership race ?
minor complaint: not all of us are from the UK and know these abbreviations, eg ECHR, i had to stop the podcast and look it up.
There are laws in business in the UK and US against bribery and corruption, where you can't accept or give gifts of value. I really don’t see see why the same can’t apply to politicians. If there aren't clear rules, there will always be grey areas open to ‘interpretation’.
Campbell and Super Hans both doubted the internet
There were 2 centers of power in number 10. It was those who were briefing against her in Downing Street that did her in.
If you guys truly want to examine the masculinity crisis you need to interview Richard Reeves.
A decent study needs three passes: once for the drift, once for the detail, once to tune understanding. And then there's political autobiographies...
I asked chatgpt how to ensure politicians don't act in their own self interest. Here's its answer: To ensure politicians work for the good of society rather than self-interest, society can:
1. Strengthen transparency through public audits, lobbying disclosures, and open government initiatives.
2. Create and empower independent oversight bodies like ethics committees and anti-corruption agencies.
3. Invest in public civic education and protect media freedom to keep voters informed.
4. Align political incentives with societal benefits through term limits, performance evaluations, and protections for whistleblowers.
The sexual tension between Alistair and Rory is incredible
Rory’s defo a bit frisky today 😂
Just good friends.
lol lol
Not really, in fact not at all.
Kemi Badenoch would be a disaster for the Tories - elect her please!
Claire Fox would be a good guest. She’ll run rings around AC
Why does Rory keep a knife on his bed?
Because he doesn't live in America and doesn't have readied access to a handgun
Maitlis was quite sneaky with Zahawi a couple of weeks ago.
We need a military person to take on Politics and call a spade a spade, do what's right for the country, not pander to those who say they are offended, and rid us of the press calling the shots on who is PM.
This has aged like milk.
Dame Maggie might have had a certain 14 year old cadet in mind when she played the recruiting soubrette at the start of Oh! What A Lovely War. She sings of a Baby boy scout - and I'd unwittingly been used by Sir Richard Attenborough to deliver the mssage it's the kids who die. I'd actually come to his attention during the planning when he called Alleyns School, speaking to the CCF Admin Major - the School had the country's largest battalion, anf I was the youngest recruit. So small I had to find a uniform to fit, in an 8' high pile. So you begin at th beginning, sort the pile into sizes, and at the bottom was a box 5' square with a different battledress in. I checked a label, 1917, so I took the set I needed and reported back upstairs. "No, Dickie, we haven't got any WW1 uniforms. What is it, Rahere? We do? Well, you talk to Mr Attenborough then." Off went the box, and I got on with life.
A few weeks later, with basic drill under my belt, I get an order, be on parade at 0630 Saturday in uniform, outside the gates. So there I am, fresh off the milk train, feeling a bit of a wally, when a Parp! Parp! comes down the road, with the cast in costume, headed from Joan Plowright's Theatre Royal Stratford (where the stage show had been a hit) to Clapham Common to join the London-Brighton Veteran Car Rally - shades of Genevieve. So, faced with Gielgud and Olivier and the Foxes, the Redgraves, Maggie - you name it, I'd got the High Command of Europe, give 'em a salute - which was properly replied to be two Lords!
It was only when I was the real deal, forty years later, as Rory knows (Dana's chum from the Savile Club, the guy who reopened the Indus) I realised I'd unwittingly delivered a message.
Why does Rory keep grimacing? Looks like he's holding in a bowel movement 🤣
Knew things would go awry when Starmer said he had to spend time with wife and kids. You don't strive to become PM to then complain about not having any down-time! Equally as PM you can hardly insist you have to watch tbe football!
A thought about what Alistair said at around the 21 min mark, about why young men are turning to the right (by the way, I'm a lefty).
First off, Alistair, you are talking like someone who hasn't spoken to anyone under the age of 30 in a meaningful way in years.
Secondly, the reason having more female teachers than male teachers is a problem is that a teacher is often the only positive male role models working class men have, so taking that away is incredibly damaging. If I didn't have my history teacher, Mr Russell, to talk to, I'd be a monster by now.
Also, in terms of female doctors. Like most women like to have a female doctor, most men would prefer a male doctor. So, it makes men a lot less likely to seek help when needed. Again, it is very damaging.
Lastly, men still do most of the societally systemic roles, eg. waste management, construction, logistics, energy, military, and so on. But when women go into these roles, they often quickly bunnyhop all the menial roles and go straight into management within a year or so. While young men with the same qualifications are kept doing the menial roles for most of their working life.
Ultimately, the young men who helped support women in their fight for equality. Now, feel that equality just mean that it's their turn to be suppressed and that we are being punished for the sins of your generation.
Alastair is so out of touch ….. it’s so obvious that having more male teachers is a good thing in that young men need role models …… especially considering many young people grow up in fatherless homes.
Not sure AC is right about Cleverly. I thought he was by far the best speaker
He’s mediocre. As good as it’s going to get this time around.
Before giving MPs the money for foreign travel give us a decent pension.
Was the Tories triple lock not enough for you? That's one of the huge blights on the budget that's eating into our funds for public spending.
Please stop advertising “Getfuse” they are an electric only supplier.
More then 60% of Uk domestic properties have smart meters installed, and if you switch electric only to another supplier you are going to lose the “smart” benefits in your gas smart meters, the gas meter becomes a “Dumb” meter.
I.E. if someone has smart meters because they can’t top up, or access their gas smart meter either due to mobility restrictions or even due to it being in an inaccessible part of the property.
You would have to take gas meter readings every month because the meter can’t communicate with the energy supplier if the electricity is with another.
I’m not saying all this because I have an interested in energy suppliers, I’m only an Ice Cream Man by trade. I would hate to think of vulnerable people transferring their supplies to try and pay less, but then maybe find themselves worse off.
On another note I love your page, it’s so refreshing to hear politics in this manner. I’ve always loved following politics, even more when it can be discussed without having to argue over it.
I’m hoping to come and see you live, I might come to Birmingham (do I not deserve a VIP upgrade for my info above? 😉😉 only joking)
Keep up the great work 😊😊😅
The corruption by Eric Adams is far worse than described here.
Does anyone else get the feeling Rory was born 100 years too late ?
The problem is that if you ban gambling companies from sports then what is next? Should some food companies (fast foods, alcohol etc.) be banned since they promote poor behaviour and obesity etc.
Yes.
"The Iraq Thing.."
I wonder if, in 10 year's time, Putin will get annoyed when people quizz him about "The Ukraine Thing..."
Er, he's 72, I doubt if he'll still be around then.
@@rhiannonhillyeah imagine an 82 year old being in charge of a major nation...
ah yes totally the same thing. The leader and sole executor of the decision to invade = press secretary??
@@-JT-543 Well, no, of course it's not.
But amoral Press Secretaries are *enablers* of tyranny.
@@-JT-543 well he hasn't exactly faded into the background has he? The fact that he had too much influence is the issue.
What are these berserk grimacing faces Stewart is pulling - look at 3 to 4 seconds in! Also notice them on every video when he stops talking.
A politician "playing fast and loose with the truth". Surely not?!
As far as Sue Gray's being done in is concerned, she failed to learn from Andrew Sabisky. What happened there was an attempted Press takeover - and Hurley Burley's screams of geek cut me to the bone. Why should we help a culture which behaves like that?
No one vying for the leadership of the Troy party are inspirational, rather they are either loud or boorish or just plain dull 😮😂 what do think ?
There seems to be misunderstanding of the gender gap among young US voters, something repeated by both of Alistair and Rory: both young male and female voters lean Democrat overall, but young females proportionally lean Democrat in even greater numbers than their male counterparts.
On the subject of gambling ads, along with the sports ads there is also the iceberg of youtube ads. I have never gambled and yet while watching youtube vids I get bombarded with gambling ads. A lot of kids and young people watch youtube as well.
Look great Ror
Not one politician in any of the parties has the quality required of a PM. Until there is, politics is pretty useless and frustrating.
It is one thing to be electable as as PM or party leader and to be good at the job sometimes...
Chris Bryant seems like he has his head screwed on. I'd prefer Mick Lynch but that'll never happen.
Does Alistair still think that Starmer is about to surprise the world with great national leadership and vision and a clear narrative for the future of the nation, as well as some discernible policies, as I recall he argued we would see once the election was won? How long do we have to wait? Most people have already concluded that he isn’t up to the job and we’re in for five years of muddle, incompetence, U turns and indecision.
They change the word "gambling" for "gaming" which has a different 'connotation' ... smart guys there
Please, for the love of all that is holy, read Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves. Better still, invite Mr Reeves for an interview on your podcast. 🙏
Abba have said they need to recoup £140million to make Voyage successful.
Wait, no critique of the j.d Vance tim walz debate? I’m shocked…..
Tory leadership? Deciding between Black Pocks and Beubonic Plague….😂
I feel that Alastair misses the mark with masculinity thing. It's not about them thinking female teachers are wrong. It's also not Andrew Tate's fault. Quite the opposite - he is a sign. And I am afraid that very attitude Alastair has regarding this issue is very much part of the problem, that masculinity has no place effectively. Of course you will lose males if you never give them any space. We can pretend all we like that masculinity is something one can just pick up and mold but it's not. It's there and you have to deal with it. Effectively. Not theoretically.
You need to ground these issues in the population. You can't psuh for example trans rights to the brim without "asking" and honestly listening to the actual people. Don't pretend issues you find laughably easy to be done just because you lot are. You don't walk around in regular people's shoes (anymore) and haven't for a long time.
Add to that the fact that the left has majorly focused so much on gender issues and forgotten the economy and welfare of it's citizens. You have to joke to not see the issue here.
Yes get gambling out of sport and then the vast majority of 'sports' would cease to exist - Horse Racing being the first.
Had the 'Pleasure' of visiting the casino at Monte Carlo a few weeks ago! Chandeliers and slot machines and not at all alluring!
Felt so bad for those hooked on gambling so I wandered out and stood under a full moon at a viewing point around the back. The moonlight shone on the shimmering surface of the sea in the harbour.
Natural beauty and human ugliness intertwined!
I can't listen to Anthony and Kathy at all. I find them so annoying.
@@keithp6699 Anthony is too loud and obnoxious. The News Agents USA is a better listen.
So Campbell says he wrote articles for the sex industry and then later says pornography is an issue with young men.
I feel decidedly ill when I contemplate that.🤢
The real world
Fareed Zakaria interviewed Putin cuz he is a real journalist. Alastair, you are the king of partisanship, hard to see how you understand journalistic ethics.
Rory, you cannot be serious about the absolutely ghastly Cleverheisnot!
Quite rightly so
Are they a target for the media? I don't recall Cameron's political advisors receiving the scrutiny a free press implies! On the one side, the Tax Payer's Alliance who hosted the Leave campaign - and on the other, Cameron's aide de camp Craig Oliver, half-arseing the Remain campaign! Now Sir half-arseing the Remain campaign!
Probably weren't in the media much because they weren't very interesting. Cummings on the other hand...
@@xDJxG0LD3Nx I didn't know Craig Oliver is a bore. Why would Cameron appoint a bore to head up the Remain campaign?
Have you forgotten about Coulson? He ended up in jail, it was a massive story.
@@dannyquinn9128 Are you saying hiring Coulson, prevented media scrutiny of Cameron's fake remainer scheme?
@@karlstone6011 No, I'm saying your initial statement is incorrect.
The scrutiny on Coulson was one of the biggest stories during Cameron's premiership.
Like Lady Starmer, Sue Grays date of birth on Google is ambiguous, not being a Conspicuously Theorists or anything.
Agreed
It’s not misogyny. It’s a reaction to what is seen as overly-woke, pernicious, leftie education, policies, policing practices and laws. And man-up and admit that immigration, beyond a certain level, undermines what Paul Samuelson - the great American economist - called the “social contract” (to paraphrase: “ nobody wants yesterday’s bread, but nobody wants to see yesterday’s baker starve” - we accept that there’s a cycle to dependency and providing. But doesn’t work if too many new arrivals, of a different culture, not willing to integrate and largely assimilate into the prevailing culture and traditions of the adopted country.)
So great work by Laura Kuenssberg, then.. Anyone buy that it was a mistake..?
Mind you, I'd pay good money to see Alistair interview Johnson... (No way he's gonna walk into his own bloodbath though, unfortunately)
to me , it’s as though i had lost three CHILDREN : i lost 3 rabbits in three days ! i'm abominable sinner, that's why : i wish i had never existed ! i don't want to exist ever since they went to Heaven : i'm a monster : i feel guilty: i don't see the point of living without rabbits : i lost the three loves of my life : my progenitors won't adopt bunnies : life without bunnies, oh no, HORRIBLE !!! wha a sadness to not have bunnies ! i miss them ! i want them to be with me ! the worst is yet to come : now the r and d say they're going to DESTROY , MURDER my hens and dog: again because of my infame sins : oh NO, NO:: Maker , have mercy on my hens !!!! it's depressing losing your animals !! my rabbits and animals are my sole reason to live i think : i think i ain't got nothing else, no one else : empty house without rabbits :
room, living- room, therasse without caytlin, amanda and crystal my three rabbits : i think i should be in hell and they should be on the earth !! they were INNOCENT, they have NOT sinned !!! I have sinned !!! i'm the one who did bad stuff against the Maker and the curse went on my animals, not on me ?? i feel like my animals got PUNISHED , not me : i've been unjust, not the Maker: he's just : i wish i had never done all these abominations so that crystal, amanda and caytlin would be alive: i want to see you, pet you, look at your beautiful eyes, my fauve de bourgogne rabbit, my mini rabbit and my lop ears rabbit but i can't: i want to hug you, kiss you, i can't: i feel like i'm a zombie without my bunnies : i'm worried about my hens and doggy: WOW !!! the terrible revelations messages from the r and d for my hens and dogs:
scary, HORROR !!!! i think i should ve never existed if i destroy all my loved ones with my sins, causing their death , illness, suffering : horrible things the r and d say they're gonna do to my animals very soon : i want to kick the bucket : i think i should've never existed : everytime i sin strongly, terribly, one or several of my animals die : when will the Maker chastise ME and not my animals ?? the day i don't have animals no more ..... / i want animals !!!!! more than all things!!! i think the animals are the SOLE stuff i want !!!! i think i can NEVER be happy if i don't have animals !!!!
i think that Maker does not chastise me but my animals : i mean he takes away from you the most important, the most valuable thing you think you have : to me, the most IMPORTANT thing are my animals: that's the reason why when i do something ultra bad, the Maker makes pass away one or several of my animals : this time it was the WORST SIN i've ever made ?? for it was not one or two animals , but THREE animals in three days: no wonder why r had said at the same time or simultaneously : i get why they said that : it meant three DEATHS , three SICKNESS at the same time : three sick animals FOR NO REASON , SUPERNATURALLY, at the same time :
on top of that, the r said 3 weeks : now one week has passed : what ? they didn't say the whole say : two weeks for what ?? the DEATH of my hens , or dogs, burned live jennifer ( hen ), fighting to death chelby, brianna and brittany ( hens ) ? shortly after, kylie can't pee and passes away ( dog ) : oh NO , if only i had never been , if only i had never had a life !!!! all this is two or three weeks or a bit more ???? i want to cease living !!!! they must have suffered HORRIBLY !!! how caytlin suddenly screamed , of pain probably, ultra loudly : SCARY !!! and a day after, how amanda would scream, again and again, having convulsions , moving his head ultra fast , putting it ultra on the back, again and again, doing little screams again and again, his legs so hard, so tense, mega extended, wow, he would move and move :
oh poor him ! all this because of my sins ! HORRIBLE seeing this !!!! i wish it had been me , not him ! increible that amanda died one hour after i think, not right away when all this was happening : and then putting his body normal, then moving his body again , his legs mega fast, wow : and crystal couldn’t put his head normal, he was so weak : he would simply put his head on the floor, powerless, without strength : all this because of my sins : farewell everyone ! i can't take it no more : thanks for all
i need to seek the help of Maker and born again christians : but even if i beg pastors to pray for me to stop sinning, for me to stop massacring every single beloved animal i adopt , i CAN NOT stop sinning : i think i'm like these high level murderers: all i do is destroy : that's why i think i deserve to die : i think i MUST de , for if i carry on living and i adopt animals, they will all DIE as newborn animals, i'm sure: i sin so much , so terribly, that they wouldn't last not even one week, poor them !
their destiny would have been different if they had been adopted by someone who is NOT a monstrous sinner unlike me : they would 've lived 10 years, not 2 and 1 year, my adored bunnies : these bunnies were EVERYTHING to me : these hens and dog are MY ONLY loved ones : my only reason to be : or i can live for the rest of my life not adopting any animal but what a SAD life without any animal , too DEPRESSING, oh no, i think i CAN NOT live without animals :
i'd be like a zombie, always depressed and sad : i think i must sacrifice myself for my animals : anyway, i don't want to live since the Maker wants me to become his and get pregnant and have sexual intercourse and i'm virgin, with phobia of sexual intercourse : i'm anti pregnancy and anti sexual intercourse : thus, since this is very soon according to the messages from d and r , in october and december 2024, i think all i have left to do is join the majority ( die ) : what else can i do ?
hell is horrible : wow, poor persons there !!! i don't want to get devoured by 15 cm worms, spiders: i don't want to BURN, you can't breath in there: there's no water, you're TOO THIRSTY : but i DESERVE hell : i've been TOO WICKED to animals and men all my life : a vegan that murders all my animals , wow, false vegan i suppose !!!!!! to me , these animals ARE MY CHILDREN, my BABIES !!!!!! i DO NOT want to destroy the destiny, DESTROY the destiny, of holy little animals that i ADORE !!!! poor little dogs !!! my porgenitor is about to adopt two dogs: OH WOW, i'm too afraid for them poor little things , adorable little angels !!!!!!!!!!!!!
i CAN NOT get rid of my sins !!! hatred, wrath, evil thoughts, evil wishes : i beg you Maker, curse me, NOT my animals and future animals !!! i beg you Maker, destroy ME, NOT my animal angels !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think i should not adopt any animal but just go see animals in ethical places such as pedagogic farms , hoping that they treat animals well there : but it's NOT the same than living with the animals, and being able to pet them, kiss them, see them, look at their beautiful faces and bodies and eyes, hugg them , whenever you like : i don’t see the point of living without animals and rabbits : i think that i see the point of living SOLELY with animals and rabbits : why living if you don’t have animals or bunnies ?? i think the only reason why i should get up in the morning is my animals and rabbits if i had some : i think i do NOT find any meaning in life ever since caytlin, crystal and amanda passed away : i think i can NOT find any meaning in life without animals and rabbits : i don’t want to do anyting ever since they went away : i don’t want to eat : i don’t want to exist : i don’t want to adopt and then die : if i adopt 5 animals = the 5 die : if i adopt 3 animals = the 3 die : if i adopt 10 animals = the 10 die : STOP !!! i don’t want to do this : this tourments me : i’m horrified : all this agony of my animals, all these deaths, because of my sins : WOW !!!! and yet i desperetedly wish to adopt PLENTY of animals !!! i think i’ve lost all will to live ever since my rabbits went to Heaven : i think i’m like a zombie now : for the joy to come back, the life to come back, for me to feel alive again, i NEED rabbits : but not for them to die 4 days after i had them : !!!!!! NOOOOO !!!! r said in my head : attack on the hens : they have one- two weeks left to live ?? what do i do ?? then my dog when , in 3-4 weeks ?? zero animal mega soon ??!!! in less than 30 days, i go from having 5 animals to 0 animal ??!!??!!??!! : i think life without animals is HORRIBLE, i think it’s NOT life at all : !!!!!
i don’t see the point in living if i do not have animals or rabbits : i think i don’t see the point in doing anything ever since my rabbits left me : what’s the point in existing if it’s without animals or bunnies ?? i think i see no point in doing nothing anymore ever since i lost my rabbits : i think that my only reason to live was my animals : i think that i ‘ve lost everything : i think that my life is MEANINGLESS without my bunnies and animals : i think i am fed up with this life without rabbits : i don’t want to live any longer , without animals or rabbits : i just wanted to make my rabbits happy : i just want to give happiness to rabbits : but i DO NOT want to murder any animal anymore !!!! i think i’ve lost interest in everything : i think i don’t enjoy anything anymore : i think i force myself to do everything now : i think i can’t be interested in anything any longer : i don’t know why i remain alive : i think i do not want to remain alive : i just force myself to do all the things a human daily do such as eating, brushing my teeth, going to the toilet, taking a shower , ect : i think that nothing in the world is more important to me than animals :