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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Lesley's back on her old stomping ground in the north of Ireland showing her Denmark movie at the Imagine! Belfast Festival.
She talks about the reaction to the film and the festival itself. This leads us into chat on the forgotten history of radical Presbyterianism, border polls, and the disputatious nature of the debates over both the Irish language and Ulster/Scots.
We examine the ongoing controversy over the impact of Rachel Reeves Spring Statement on PIP claimants and ask if Trump's latest tariffs have already wiped out the fiscal headroom she gained on the back of her cuts.
The UK government still appears to be clinging to the misplaced belief that sooking up to Trump will result in a US trade deal but at what cost as the MAGA government zealots seem to be placing "free speech" conditions within any deals. This support for "free speech" doesn't extend to anyone speaking out against the Trump administration. We ask, in the light of recent UK events and government statements if Labour isn't immune from this authoritarian contagion?
All this plus updates on the continuing crisis at Dundee University, the barrage of price rises hitting folk today, and spurious references to a classic Will Hay comedy.
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0:00.0 | The podcast this week is coming from a different location on my end anyway. |
0:04.1 | I'm in Northern Ireland at the moment, borrowing a bit of broadband from a very famous coffee chain. |
0:09.3 | We discuss a lot to do with the progressive movements going on in Northern Ireland that people probably hear very little about. |
0:17.0 | We talk also about the changes to bills that have suddenly hit everybody in the United Kingdom. |
0:23.0 | We look at what's going on with Donald Trump and the futile attempts to try and placate a vindictive man in the hopes of avoiding tariffs and getting some sort of trade deal. |
0:34.2 | Those are the headlines. now for the podcast. |
0:47.0 | Hi, Choms, and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast, and it's Gousty. |
0:57.0 | And we kind of feel that way, given the fact that, yes. Yes, so it's a, it's an interesting one. And I I was recalling because the clocks have gone forward an hour and it reminded me of one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies |
1:02.8 | oh mr porter starring will hay which which is all about there on this railway line they're |
1:09.0 | trying to recall whether the clocks spring forward or go back in summertime. |
1:14.2 | And of course, we can see in the background the train approaching and their appending doom as it does. |
1:22.3 | And it takes place in a border railway station between Northern Ireland and the then Irish Free State. |
1:32.8 | So that's quite a nice little link there. |
1:35.6 | Well done. |
1:37.3 | To reveal the revolution that Ms. Riddick is back on kind of him territory. |
1:44.0 | I am. |
1:45.1 | You know, the accent might have drifted a wee bit since I've been here for five days. |
1:49.9 | But currently, just so that people understand, |
1:53.0 | I'm sitting actually borrowing Wi-Fi in Acosta's, |
1:57.1 | having tried how many different ways have we tried to get online? |
2:01.4 | I mean, God Almighty. |
2:02.9 | So it's a wee bit weird. |
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