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Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens

Andy Bungay@Chiminea Productions

An offshoot of presenter Andy Bungay"s long-running weekend evenings on South-West London"s Riverside Radio, this is an insider irreverent, yet erudite ramble through the weeks" stories in London, nationally and internationally. The "insider" bit is provided by Leonie, mal and Graham covering a vast Polymath area of expertise from Climate Change Science, Law, Policy-Making, the engine of local government, Nuclear technology and much more. A sideays but spot-on guide to the political weather

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45:59

76: Mal Grimston on Lucy Powell, Geopolitics,...

Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens ·

2025/11/01

Will Lucy Powell's election to Deputy Leadership tilt the Starmer ship of state? Amid Gaza's very fragile cease fire other conflicts rage relatively unnoticed- whither intervention/ national interest? And Paddington's dodgy bros' impending court case and what it might be now to be a national treasure.

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54:19

75: Cooper and Stevens 25th October

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2025/10/25

The sidelining of a century of Labour political history in Caerphilly, Reform UK's Welsh leader involved in a political engineerng conference in Russia before his arrest (s Byline Times reports this month), George Monbiot on whether the UK needs a written constitution to stop the far right and how thecuts at the Met (Police not Opera) will pan out.

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50:57

74: Andy Worthington- Sunday 19th October

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2025/10/19

After a hiatus around media protoco, it as a pleasre this morning to resume my regular conversation abot politics and culture with www.andyworthington.co.uk - we attempted to condense events in Gaza and across the pond pivoting on an HR announcement from Reform UK this morning.. As I publish this fresh attacks on Gaza in response to alleged volatioons of the ceasefire by Hamas....:/

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55:00

73: 18th October- Gazxa Ceasefire, Zelensky, China,...

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2025/10/18

We reflect on the Gaza ceasfire in its fragility , Zelensky at the White House for a third encomium,on the collapf the Chinese espioage trial in the UK and a volatile set of By-Election results this eek.

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62:40

72: Grimston and Stevens on Starmer, Reform, Tories,...

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2025/10/04

By-Elections occured during the Labour conference, and do not augur well- yet the applause in the hall is voluble. There is mood music.Will it be that way for the Tories next week ? We have to start with the horrendous event in Manchester and thebreak-up and deporting of much of the Gaza Floitilla.

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44:01

71: Graham Stevens on Ed Davey, Starmer, Gatwick and...

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2025/09/27

Leonie is we gather off to the Labour conference, Mal is away- we consider Starmer and the foment around his leadership in relation to Ed Davey's stunt/personable/ barnstorming at the Lib Denm conference, not least in the light of speculation that the two parties might yet collaborate to fend off Reform( incidentally near theoffice, where Reform have just won a council seat, an old timer was waxing lyrical about Ben Habbib and Advance UK of whom more perhaps next time).Graham the Architect also

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49:45

70: Graham Stevens ' Morning Thoughts-20th September

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2025/09/20

The image is of Graham the conceptual artist and eco-engineer at work in St Katherine's Dock in the 60s animating his problem-solving and illustrative art- amongst other things, he had a simpoler vision for the soon-to-be unveiled Thames Tideway Tunnel . I recently saw him acclaimed as part of the Architecture on Stage season at the Barbican. here are some early morning thoughts on the trends and alarms of our times and their sources, plus a sideways glance at Party Conference season (Leonie is

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50:09

69: Cooper and Stevens 5th September- Zach Polanski,...

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2025/09/06

Leonie knows Zach pretty well from the London Assemnbly, so a bit about him and how the rethought Greens might register onwardly. We recorded before Rayner's resignation, but came up with a Plan B for these kinds of moments. We also discuss the return of the pre-fab which Graham the architect tackled in a previous iteration plus our usual sidebars.

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58:24

68: Saturday 23rd August- Cost of Living, West Bank,...

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2025/08/23

We begin with Telegraph's suggestion that Reeves' black hole is closer to 50bn and why we are in such a fiscal pickle and have been encroachingly for some time. Then a deep dive into the Knessit's predictable rubber stamp of the West Bank incursion by the IDF (we'll get the Palestinian angle from Andy W asap,). we also touch on Zelelensky back at the White House backed by the Coalition of the Willing , and a very brief By-Election corner- more next time no doubt.

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48:08

67: Saturday 16th August 25: Sturgeon, Vance, Snap...

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2025/08/16

Last weekend some 450 people including retired lumanaries were arrestedprosting about an organisation whose name we could not initially use. Currrently Yvette Cooper's edicts are amidst Judicial Review as a snalection call attracted some 760,00 online signatures, presumably optioning a debate in the Autumn... the Asylum Hotels issue has relented for a bit with Tommy Robinson's arrest. Previoulsy one JD Vance spoke very highly of him, and he is enjoying a vortex of umbrage from the Cotswolds to

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89:56

66: Rural Rumblings

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2025/08/09

Sir Keir is often accused of not getting far beyond his doorstep in Primrose Hill. This image from the on-trend Crewkerne Gazette appears to contradict this impression, t politico Uk reckons that next years' locals will be fought and won in the Shires. this leads Leonie and Mal (Graham is away) to take a deep dive into the styate of town and country in2025, plus a few pertinent dioversions.

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65: Norman Tebbitt, Ozzy Osbourne, Palerstine and more

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2025/08/02

As JD Vance gimlet-eyes Albion from his bunker in the Cotswolds, having broken bread and diet coke with Lanmmy, we consider the passing of two (other) pribes of darkness and the prospects for a Palestinian state amongst other things (Graha returns next week)

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55:35

64: Cooper and Stevens on Gaza and Your Party

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2025/07/26

This time, a deep dive into Gaza with Mal looking at the Israeli side of the question as reports of Stage 5 famine and mounting deaths by starvation are upon us. Then we look at Your Party , formerly Arise amidst the flurruy of by-elections and the none-too-distant prospect of local elections nexzt May. Do check Double Down News on the Epstein Files and on Gaza by the way. www.doubledown,news

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43:25

63: Graham Stevens8th July - Ecopolitics Round-Up

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2025/07/19

I, facepalm, fell asleep while sending the agenda for this weeks' conclave, but Graham ( this is his giant Desert Cloud Rainmaker , commissioned by the Sultan of Brnei in the early 70s ) was up bright and early.

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39:48

62: Macron, the Welfare Bill, Indie Schools and more

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2025/07/12

We've moved back to the weekend- for our informal but well-informed trawl through the weeks political and cultural doings with an occasional South London spin ( here, Southwark's Council Leader Rota) . I had hoped we could discuss Norman Tebbitt's legacy but a domestic kerfuffle cut the ignal temporarily. More next weekm if not before.

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70:35

61: Andy Worthington plus Pamela Mounter with...

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2025/05/15

Wandsworth Prison Improvement Campaign prompts the first leg of my conversation with AW this month- the question of the state of our facilities and their vesdtigial values is exercising Wandsworth Quaker spearheaded by Liz Bridge, the former Prison Chaplain and the inveterately skilled actor and now activist Dame Sheila. AW and I move on the shaledown of the (temporary ?) rise of Reform locally , Inevitably Gaza -also a mode of inescapable confinement under siege- and much more. It was a late

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54:57

60: Cooper and Stevens Monday 12th May

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2025/05/13

This time we consider Wandsworth Quakers' concerns about the state of the local HMP and national policy ( more on this with Dame Sheila Hancock and Andy Worthington next up) , the UK: US Trade Deal , Reform embarking on local governbance and more with a late lunch flavour rather than Breakfasting for the time being.

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33:36

59: Lindsay Wesker: The Mistakes I Made and How You...

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2025/04/21

Lindsay Wesker has worn all the hats that there are to wear in the music business with irreverent zeal and professionalism - including creating or co-creating major platforms to spread soulfulness and genre-hopping talent -spotting and cajoling . At 65, he has written his fourth book - an autobiography peppered with evocative road stories and hard-won wisdom. It's available through Amazon and is highly recommended.

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51:23

58: Easter Monday with Leonie Cooper - Pope Francis, ...

Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens ·

2025/04/21

The smoke will be going up in a few weeks from the Vatican and from the UK Polls. Leonie reflects on the augurs ahead .

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48:07

57: Thelma Ruby and Susan Cusack- Saving Wimbledon Park

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2025/04/15

Thelma Ruby - Theatrical Doye , ( most recently in the Amy Winehouse biopic), and now Activist- has just turned 100 and yet beat me up the stairs to the spectacular view she has across Wimbledon Park, where Capability Brown's design has been preserved by the All- England tennis Club since it took on the stewardship in 1993, the year that Thelma moved in. Now she contemplates watching this view dissolving into concrete infrastructure to support expansion of the prep phase of the tournament. we

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