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A Quick One with Ed Parnell

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1:47

AQ1W Actor Michael Gambon dies at 82

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

Sad news that one of the most modest actors in our country has left us today.Source

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5:44

AQ1W What is Sycamore Gap

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

Sycamore Gap, a site along Hadrian's Wall in rural Northumberland, is where a single sycamore tree once stood in a dip between the hills. But on Tuesday 28 September, the world-famous 'Robin Hood tree' - believed to be one of the most photographed in the British Isles - was found felled. SourceUpdate 17:15 - they have arrested a 16 year old boy in connection with this incident.

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3:47

AQ1W Archaeologists Discover Lost Ancient Language on...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

An unknown Indo-European language was discovered on a tablet with cultic ritual links in the long-lost capital of the Hittite Empire in Turkey.Source

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6:32

AQ1W MailOnline terminates contract of its columnist...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

Dan Wootton loses his lucrative MailOnline column, probably reduced to posting comments from a greasy spoon somewhere, meanwhile his future at GB News as in doubt as GB News.Meanwhile Laurence Fox is laughing all the way to the charm and charisma shop.Source

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3:41

AQ1W It's Getting Too Hot for Tropical Trees to...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

It's getting to the point when clothes are not needed, nor is skin.Scientists have spotted a disturbing sign things are not going well for the climate and looking pretty bad tor us too.Source

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2:42

AQ1W Hunter Biden accuses Rudy Giuliani and...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former lawyer, Bob Costello, in a new civil lawsuit.Source

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8:48

AQ1W 27 September 2023 Papers

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/28

The absolute STATE of the printed press today.

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4:22

AQ1W Britain approves huge, controversial oil and gas...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/27

DESPITE all the bleating about being world beating, we have apparently decided to actually give the world a beating by opening new gas and oil reserves, reserves which will be active for many decades.This is not an accident. Someone (who I can't name for legal reasons) 'inadvertantly' is profitting off this, albeit indirectly through his father in laws contracts with gas and oil giants.We have truely crossed the rubicon.Source

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2:37

AQ1W Laurence Fox suspended by GB News over comments...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/27

Lawrence Fox opens his mouth, talks about a woman, sent to naughty corner.Honestly, what is wrong with the man?Oh... yes. That.Source

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12:58

AQ1W Papers 27 September 2023

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/27

The podcast this morning contains all you need to know to live a wholesome and fulfilled life. Plus a paper review.

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3:00

AQ1W UK government’s observations before the European...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/26

From AvazzThis is so alarming you have to know about it and so should everyone else in the UK.Right now, 6 brave kids are suing 32 European countries for not acting to prevent climate change, including the UK. It’s crazy brave!So what is the government doing? The UK claims the devastating impacts of climate change the kids are experiencing are not severe enough!! Check out what UK government lawyers just said and then please share this with everyone you know: “The statements also refer to hot

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1:52

AQ1W Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander dead or alive?

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/26

Ukraine claimed to have killed a Commander in Battle on Monday, but today the same commander was seen on a video meeting with other officials of the Russian military.So either it's old footage, a zombie or someone isn't on their gameSource

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9:50

AQ1W Suella Braverman NY Refugee Speech

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/26

Suella Braverman the current home secretary gave a speech about how the Convention of Refugees should either be modified or re-written to take into the account discrimination and how that is not the same as persecution.Human Rights Organisations and support networks have been up in arms about her proposals, which would leave large swathes of people, LGBTQ, women and other demographics, effectively abandoned.Source Material

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4:43

Some rambling about the sad passing of David McCallum

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/26

A few thoughts on the passing of David McCallum and the state of television acting in general by a bloke who was one in the background on a bed in the TV show Casualty. Which I am now banned from for various reasons, one of them involving dutch blue cheese.

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9:53

AQ1W 26 Sept 2023 Papers

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/26

Join me for capers through the papers where I comment on news as reported by the great british press, all the while being clawed by a cat, suffering IT and studio issues and accidently jamming my hand into a drawer.Also I will be reading some headlines and attempting to be amusing.Sorry it's late this morning.

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12:39

AQ1W Papers 25 Sept 2023

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/25

An array of pretty pathetic reporting from overpaid journos and under appreciated interns making a newspaper which is ideal only for papier mache projects.Rashford, Sunak, Joan Collins, Angela Rippon, HS2, Shapps, Felicity Kendall, and an asteroid.It's a dream from which you will wake up screaming.

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3:43

AQ1W Privacy in Cars by Mozilla

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/24

Did you know your car is spying on you?What is worse it is sending the Data back to the manufacturer who is then sending the data onto unspecified sources. Face, conversations and, in one case, sexual orientation.Selling out your privacy for a tiny crumb of comfort. Always nice.

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6:33

AQ1W Whitstable Protests

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/24

Sewage pollution campaigners will be taking to a beach to protest against hundreds of hours of sewage being pumped out into the sea by Southern Water.SOS Whitstable is vying to draw attention to the pollution levels in the seaside town on Saturday, which suffered more sewage releases than any other location in Kent in 2022, organisers say.From data analysed from Southern Water’s water quality reporting website, Beachbuoy, campaigners found the water company released 648 hours of sewage, across 208

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12:00

AQ1W Papers 24 Setp 2024 SUNDAY

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/24

A forage into the depths of the Sunday papers, traversing the pages and cutting through the dense, verbose nonsense to the citadel which we call news, Ed Parnell moves alone, without guides or security, to the small leafy glade, where, gleaming in the sunshine from the fiery orb above, a being, shining gem of news acts as a beacon to all those who bother to look.

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13:30

AQ1W Rishi's 2nd 'Donate Now for Big Savings' email...

A Quick One with Ed Parnell ·

2023/09/23

Rishi and the Conservatives are getting a tiny bit desperate. They've already restricted media attendance at their conference to donors only; what more can they do? Well, in the words of Donald Trump, they can ask their followers to donate.Because, you know, a party run by some of the wealthiest people in the country is obviously not going to be funded by the wealthiest people in the country's money. It's going to be on members and local campaigners. You know, Members Under Governmental

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