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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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63: Graham Stevens8th July - Ecopolitics Round-Up

Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens ·

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, ...

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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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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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54:48

56: Andy Worthington on Mahmud Khalil, British Steel....

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2025/04/15

My monthly catch=up with Investigative Journalist and Campaigner www.andyworthington.co.uk finds us looking at the Khalil case and the moreorless wobbly Oval office decrees, the UK government rescuing British Steel and why, the invasion of London's greenfield- and brownfield- sites prompted by Wimbledon Temnis' designs on nearby heritage ( more on this in situ on the next pod) and much more.

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74:33

55: Trump's Tariffs begin, (Save) Wimbledon Park,...

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2025/04/11

This weekend on Riverside Radio I speak at length to centenerian activist Thelma about her role in the mission to save Capability Brown's heritage from the All England Lawn Tennis Association's plans which is going to Judicial Review in July. Here Leonie and Mal sketch in the political background while Graham comments as an architect and non=practicing Barrister. We also look at the crisis in London renting reported by the Evening Standard ( new legislation is in due process) , at the week in the

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56:57

54: Corey Booker, 'Liberation Day' Thames Water,...

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2025/04/05

The week when mainstream Democrats got their act together in parallel with Sanders and Ocasio-Cortex drawing the likes of 34,000 in oyblic, and the week when Traiffs on the UK and EU started their run-up. Meanwhile Starmer was at Lancaster House again on the Asylum Seekers/ Small Boats issue and Londoners finf gentrification on the rise again as a key utility narrowly avoids bankruptcy with U,.S. Money .

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53: Reeves' Spring Statement and the Oval Office

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2025/03/28

The U.S. Defence Secretary (some of the surrounding intelligensia pictured here) signalling in a supermarket car park, the Senate majority looking a tad wobbly but for the former UN ambassador candidate staying put , and the price of Mexican Blueberries - meanwhile Reeves' Spring Statement wavers under the threat of tarrifs on car manufacture as it now is...

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56:54

52: Musk, Geopolitics, Soho and Blue Note

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2025/03/22

This time, Musk gone rogue , Badenoch launches the local election hustings ever so quietly just as she was underguesstimated by one of her own shadow team, and Blue Note pulls out of a Soho deal due to early doors.

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51: Oval Office Antics, London's Night-Time Economy

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2025/03/15

The picture here is of Becky Burke, a student from Yorkshire on a backpacking trip who was picked up by ICE for being somewhere near a removal process of 'illegals'. Her parents are trying to keep track of where and how she is as no doubt is the Consulate. Meanwhile Mohammed Khalil's deportation for organising student protest at Columbia has been blocked by a Federal Judge. Robert Reich over on Substack suggests that , as per JD Vance suggesting that Zelensky broke the '...Hillbilly code of honour',

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50: Andy Worthington on Musk/ Trump, , Starmer,...

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2025/03/11

AW and I discuss the Hayekian overload in the Oval office , whether we are catching cold from their sneezing and why, International Womens' Day viz a viz its themes of Empowerment and the hitherto disempowered victims of the tabloids on whose behalf Hacked Off is seeking to push for 'Leveson 2' under Starmer

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49: Leonie Cooper, Graham Stevens: '... Fascism...

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2025/03/08

After some tec resolution ( amid the technocracy) we're back with a deep dive into events in the Orangery since we last met, and some sidebars on Rachel Reeves' budgetary headroom and ecology at the London assembly

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48: Andy Worthington : On the Bricks and Mortar in...

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2025/02/11

The News Review crew will be back soon,. Here's investigative journalist and campaigner Andy Worthington ( www.andyworthington.co.uk) in our monthly conclave on the impulse that drives apparently disparate character as Trump and Ben Houchen, and where that vector has the cards falling for the rest of us.

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47: Jimmy Carter , Musk and Oldham, 2025 Augurs with Mal

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2025/01/04

Jimmy Carter spent his latter years discoursing from his boondocks pulpit, curing diseases and building houses for the disadvantaged- RIP. Meanwhile Musk, apparently amesiac about Epstein's friendship with Trump, inveighs about still-emergent abusive grooming in the UK to start the political year. Mal and I talk about what this says about the health of the body politic and some of what may be heading our way this year.

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46: Farage, Spycops and Burnout on the Buses?

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2024/12/28

Morning- I'm surfacing after a long day culminating in the excellent Soul Of Women at St Gabriels Pimlico with Fiona Frank, Maggie Lorelli, Caroline Goodwin and old friend Keith Bray . It began with the dawn patrol News Review(Thanks to my regulars including day off Birthday Lady Leonie Cooper AM) - we talked about Farage on the Hunt, the eye-watering revelations at the Spycops trial (Thanks to Mal's former pupil George Monbiot) and Bus Drivers at TFL protesting the risk of pan-seasonal

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45: Andy Worthington on Syria, Trump, Starmer ...

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2024/12/18

Independent Campaigning Journalist www.andyworthington.co.uk (also now on Substack) joins me for our roughly-monthly survey broadly-leftist of world affairs and the intermingled state of London. This was recorded before the announcement of the release of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu.

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69:03

44: Assad, Democracy and its wavering, By-Election...

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2024/12/14

What degree of nationhood will the new Syria achieve? Will the various elements of the hardish right gathering in Europe strengthen themselves or dissemble? How Trumpworld is lurching towards the dais , how the polls are reacting to Starmerism this week and a glance down at the state of the Thames Watee.

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