Culture and Wars
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The new Trump administration has continued its assault on the norms of political activity by appeasing Putin and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Representatives of the USA and Russia are meeting in Saudi Arabia but there's no place for Zelensky. Meanwhile the USA has made a bid to "buy" Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
What does this tell you about Trump's foreign policy? is there any more to it than an admiration for so called strong men and a desire to extend economic colonialism?
Meanwhile Vice President JD Vance in a speech in Munich lambasted the European liberal democracies claiming that they were in retreat from their most fundamental values, and that this ,not China or Russia, was the true threat to Europe.
This was echoed by Kemi Badenoch, hard on the heels of the mutually shameful exchange on Palestinian refugees at PMQs with Starmer, in a another speech given at the ARC -Alliance for Responsible Citizenship- conference in London. She clearly played the anti-immigration culture wars card.
Not to be left out UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting was quick to concur with Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain that immigration was a key factor in pressures on the NHS.
Are we seeing the ground that the next UK General Election being fought on laid out in front of us as both Labour and the Tories seek to see off Reform?
Streeting has mad no secret of his intention to expand private involvement in the English health system this while privatised Thames water staggers from crisis to financial crisis.
Brewdog's James Watt has announced his intention to start up a "Shadow UK DOGE" mimicking Musk's cost cutting regime in the USA. How practical are Watt's ideas? Has he completely misread the reality behind the rhetoric in the States?
We also discuss David Tennant's BAFTA kilted singing exploits plus the other usual other meanderings.
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| 0:00.0 | With J.D. Vance questioning Europe and suggesting that we've lost the way in terms of Western |
| 0:05.7 | values, that'll be the man who doesn't like the cat ladies, by the way. With Donald Trump, |
| 0:10.9 | managing to discuss the future of a country, Ukraine, without them in the room and talking to a man |
| 0:15.5 | labelled a war criminal vis President Putin. With Nigel Farage saying there's no split in the right in Britain and |
| 0:22.8 | England particularly because the Conservative Party, even led by the right-wing Kemi Badernach, |
| 0:28.0 | is not right-wing enough to count. There's just a rush in the wrong direction in the view of |
| 0:33.1 | Pat and myself. We're asking who will stand up and articulate a proper case for social democracy in |
| 0:40.3 | Scotland particularly those are the headlines now for the podcast hi johnson i'm to stick with this, Riddick. You laughed. Hi, Jumson. Welcome |
| 0:58.8 | this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. Because I know what's coming here, right? Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:04.2 | Because yes, folks, you know that what we've done over the past few months is thanks to the coach, |
| 1:09.5 | we've been putting up the episodes of the podcast |
| 1:12.9 | up on YouTube. And it's been going gangbusters. Really, really, really great to see. But what's |
| 1:19.5 | happened is that there was a decision reached that possibly people who were interested in all the other |
| 1:25.1 | multifarious things that Leslie does, |
| 1:30.7 | particularly those in the Nordics who are looking at the films, etc. |
| 1:33.8 | Might not that be interested in, in-depth lefty chat about Scottish independence and Scottish politics. |
| 1:39.1 | So we decided to create a new YouTube channel, |
| 1:43.3 | and we're kind of betwixt in between and setting it up. |
| 1:47.9 | And we've also got the issue is we're going to tell everybody who listens to us |
| 1:52.5 | to the usual podcast provider how to access the podcast on YouTube. |
| 1:58.9 | Whereas paradoxically, the people who actually need to know this will be |
| 2:03.4 | listening on YouTube. So, but anyway, if any of you are interested, and you follow this line of |
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