Friday 18th October 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling with retired International relations professor Ron Mandel

February 2019 Ofcom complaint result: UKLFI exposed as creation of Israeli foreign ministry – Bristol Post article: BCfm cleared after being reported to Ofcom for anti-semitic conspiracy theories

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First hour news review: with Lib Dem Councillor for Brislington East and Lord Mayor, Jos Clark and Brexit Party PPC for Tiverton and Honiton, Ian Berkeley-Hurst. Also joining us is retired International relations professor Ron Mandel. Law and child protection;  Brexit;  politicians not coming on show; Jean Claude Juncker on the new Brexit deal made with Boris; how new deal is different; David Drew, Stroud Labour MP, on BBC, saying Lib Dems helped bring in austerity; Labour and Brexit; Louise Ellman – MP quits Labour over anti-Semitism concerns – criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism; Red faces at Hargreaves Lansdown following collapse of Neil Woodford’s investment empire;  Extinction Rebellion stopping tube trains and angry people pulling them off, report on BBC Points West; Harry and Chris song about the end of the world; Marvin Rees and his annual State of the City address – he has created six new thematic boards; losses of Bristol Energy; is it possible to be carbon neutral by 2025? as Extinction Rebellion say is necessary; Marvin on the climate emergency in his address and the blue plaque for  Bristol being ‘City of Hope’; Neighbourhood Plans scheme – Hengrove Park – Council riding roughshod over.
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Second hour Investigative reports: with retired biology and physics teacher Alan Jeffrey from the ‘Stop Hinkley’ campaign. John Potash does a review of book just out – ‘Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the 60s’ by Tom O’Neill – about drugs introduced to the rich and famous by the secret services.  Alan Jeffrey, from Stop Hinkley campaign, discusses how he got into campaigning against nuclear, and recent developments with the extremely expensive, ten years late, project:  fracking stopping in UK; how EPR technology works; plutonium to build bombs in the 1950s; book ‘Critical Mass’ by Carter Hydrick;  Fukushima and extra safety measures now bringing up costs; flooding dangers and climate change;  new renewable technologies coming in – tidal power and the Queen’s MayGen scheme in Scotland; nuclear waste;   pop up brothels opening near Hinkley C site; www.stophinkley.org – www.no2nuclear.com. Prometheus myth: Boris’s speech at United Nations about A.I. and Prometheus; The Prometheus Project; The Prometheus Legend. Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of ‘The Left Hand of God – taking back our country from the religious right’, discussing how self interest is subtly promoted in modern society to the detriment of us all. extract from Unwelcome Guests edition 522 – Catalonia riots – nine politicians imprisoned.  Ceasefire by Turkey against Kurds in Syria. 
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