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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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61:34

89: Grimston and Stevens- UK Economy, Board of Peace,...

Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens ·

2026/02/21

The Grauniad summarised a rather grim set of economic data issued a week ahead of the bellweather Denton and Gorton By-Election. Mal's By-Election corner reveals that 3 have quietly already taken place as diverse Labour losses, notwithstanding some form of jam tomorrow. We delve into the intertwining of Politics / Diplomacy and Sport this week and the Real Estate casino vibe of aspects of Trump's Board of Peace inaugural . Thanks to Al-Jazeera for the image, where one eminence described it as

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51:42

88: 14th Feb 26: Leonie Cooper, Graham Stevens-...

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2026/02/14

Leonie and Graham consider the viability of compulsory female co-leading as proposed by the sometime bejeaned and maternity-frocked Harriet Harman ( a similar proposal is on the statute book in Bangladesh as of yesterdays' election result) . There's also the legitimacy or otherwise of Israel inserting itself into the West Bank by decree, and the faltering of the Scottish space mission. Excellent work we touched on by Peter Jukes on Epstein and new finance : In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of

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61:25

87: Sunday 8th Feb- Mandelson, Zach Polanski's Greens

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2026/02/08

A deep dive into the dystopia around Mandelson (here with Neil Kinnock in the pre-Blair dreamtime) , Epstein and Big Money , which via our usual detours wends its way to the Greens pitching up in Lewisham as well as Gorton.

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56:32

86: 1st Feb 26: Starmer In China, Iran and...

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2026/02/01

Mal and Graham consider the ripple effect of a pivot to China in the light of previous iterations, whether the Burnham factor will lurk on , Iran and triangulation and, as Television reaches its centenary, what happens to British inventions and why.

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56:48

85: 18th January- Trumpland/ Greenland and more

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2026/01/18

How much of the political heat at the moment is transactional ? Reform nudges at alleged opacity in Ealing and Croydon( their Mayoral candidate has since been announced and is purveying the hot water). and the Greenland monetisation/ net zero is not apparently bothering the White House any more than the opinion of NATO.

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47:53

84: 10th Jan 26- Venezuela, Met Police Bad Apples...

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2026/01/11

This week a report concluded that around 21,000 serving Police officers in London were not properly vetted, and a significant number of them did some impactful, in some cases very nasty things while in and around uniform. Funding the Police and other important services is mechanically changing as prep for the new financial year gets underway. Moving fast and breaking things, often people, is back in Trumpland and Queen Camilla highlights the empowerment of literacy and the urge to read ( eg in

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62:14

83: Grimston and Stevens 20th December- Venezuela,...

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2025/12/21

A pre- Christmas look at (in the Will Hutton phrase) the state we're in , from Trump's Venezuelan,er, strategy to Doctors back on the picket line and the unique moral codex of Defence contracting. Leonie sends her best from a sizeable in-tray at City Hall. Thanks for listening and we'll talk to you again in the New Year- Happy Festives.

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60:52

82: 14th December - Archbishop of Canterbury , Trump...

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2025/12/14

Leonie and Graham on the prospects for Dame Sarah Mullally, who as they point out emanates from SW London, for Trump's South American gung-ho and for the changing of the guard in favour of the Greens and Reform amongst iother issues.

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57:50

81: Cooper and Stevens 8th December-Only Connect

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2025/12/07

A rangey ramble through Climate Change, Thames Water on the watery backfoot and the ripple effect and the launch of Your Party in the context of Labour perhaps not being all that communicative,

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60:54

80: Cooper, Grimston and Stevens 30th November 25 -...

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2025/11/30

When the national dailies got wind of the anactment of the Mansion Tax, they went to Richmond- when is a mansion not a mansion? The mansioning of Soho was accused of Nimbyism this week by Westminster Council Tories and some of their constituents, while Pope Leo trode a deft and delicate line in the Middle East, but what do these interventions mean nowadays?

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60:41

79: Cooper, Grimston and Stevens on Cop 30, George...

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2025/11/22

This week included International Mens' Day and a reception at Downing Street. Howfar can the political weather level up he cultural odds? Cop 30 nears its conclusion this weekend and we look at the performance of the absentees as well as the attendees. Mal's former student George Monbiot cits an '...Epistemic crisis' in how we get clear information which we examine a bit.

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56:54

78: Cooper, Grimston and Stevens 15th November-...

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2025/11/15

It seems a while since the Oval Office spoke of '...Draining the swamp' , owever as Trump considers litigation against the Beeb, London Citizens have been in 'Enemy Of The Peole' mode agin Thames Water's lucrative failings. Byline Times has bn ibestigating the Trump-funding links through JD Vance's mentor appearing soon, for example, at 'How The Light Gets In' to points across the political spectrum.

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60:04

77: Cooper, Grimston and Stevens on Cop 30, Angela...

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2025/11/08

Mal's By-Election Corner hops across the pond to look at Momdani and the Dem wins this week- before that, we track the progress of Angela Rayner's Employment Rights Bill and what it will achieve in the current financial climate, and the fiscal, scientific and optical aspects of Cop-30 in Rio.

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45:59

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

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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

Chiminea News Review -Cooper, Grimston and Stevens ·

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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