As the spring series of The 9pm Edict continues, Rishi Sunak becomes the new prime minister of the UK — at least at the time of recording — so who better to join us than Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous?
In this episode we talk about the joy that is British politics, plus Elon Musk’s imminent purchase of Twitter, Vegemite, poetry, hope, transparency, the concept of a “wellbeing budget”, some weird conspiracy theories about Rishi Sunak, and whether Queen Elizabeth II is actually dead.
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Episode Links
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The official website of Scottish Author David F Porteous
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Author. Podcaster. Social researcher. Karaoke superstar. New novel ‘The Wicker Man Preservation Society’ is out 21 June 21.
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[25 October 2022] Rishi Sunak will become Britain's third prime minister in three months, and the first of Indian heritage after winning the Conservative Party's leadership.
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[25 October 2022] One of the key skills a Prime Minister needs is the ability to talk to a random spot on the wall in the voice of Alexa.
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Rishi Sunak (/?r??? ?su?næk/; born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since October 2022. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2020 to 2022 and Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond (Yorks) since 2015.
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[24 October 2022] Sunak’s rise to the top job in British politics is notable for a number of reasons.
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[25 October 2022] The UK is undergoing its own “Barack Obama moment” with Rishi Sunak becoming the country’s first Hindu prime minister, says the president of his home temple.
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The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles. Milton Friedman and George Stigler are considered the leading scholars of the Chicago school.
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[25 October 2022] Most of the chatter in UK conspiracy circles today refers to Rishi Sunak as a World Economic Forum "puppet" controlled by China who's tasked with eroding individual rights by implementing digital ID and a social credit system in Britain.
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[24 October 2022, by Anne Marie Waters, leader of For Britain.]
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Download Our Entire For Britain Manifesto for 2022. You can now download our new for 2022 manifesto as showcased at our party conference in November 2021. Our manifesto is subject to change upon decision of For Britain members, and additions will be made in accordance with circumstances.
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[13 July 2022] For Britain has decided to cease operations as a political party with immediate effect.
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The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 2.1 to 3.8 million Bengalis perished, out of a population of 60.3 million, from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions and lack of health care. ... Historians usually characterise the famine as anthropogenic (man-made), asserting that wartime colonial policies created and then exacerbated the crisis. A minority view holds that the famine was the result of natural causes.
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[29 March 2019] Study is first time weather data has been used to argue wartime policies exacerbated famine.
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[19 October 2022] How embarrassed do you feel, if at all, by the economic and political situation in Britain at the present time?
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In an interview with two school pupils, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak admitted to being a “total coke addict” before awkwardly explaining his love of Coca-Cola in great detail.
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[25 October 2022] A clever man, with a penchant for bad ideas.
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[9 October 2017] Is the average Conservative Party member really 72 years old? It’s almost impossible to know exactly, but 57 is probably the best guess for now.
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The European Research Group (ERG) is a secretive research support group and caucus of Eurosceptic Conservative Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom. The journalist Sebastian Payne described it in the Financial Times as "the most influential [research group] in recent political history". Serving an annual average of 21 MPs including cabinet members, the group's focus is the single issue of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.
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"Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity" is a political book written by several British Conservative Party MPs and released on 13 September 2012. Its authors present a treatise, arguing that Britain should adopt a different and radical approach to business and economics or risk "an inevitable slide into mediocrity".
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[25 October 2022] HarperCollins has brought forward the publication of a Liz Truss biography by Harry Cole and James Heale to include the dramatic events that led to her downfall last week. Originally scheduled for December, "Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss" by the Sun’s political editor Cole and Spectator writer Heale will now be available as an e-book on 1st November, with a hardback and audio release following on 24th November.
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[24 October 2022] Chalmers has promised that Australia will follow countries like Scotland and New Zealand in judging the success of government spending not just against GDP and income per person, but based on whether it improves the wellbeing of the Australian people.
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[13 July 2022] Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed Australia will follow Aotearoa New Zealand’s example and put wellbeing at the centre of the national budget.
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Find information on Scotland’s National Performance Framework and how Scotland is performing against it.
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Delivered on 25 October 2022 on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2022–23.
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[23 October 2022] AI renditions of Lenny Kravitz working with dumbbells in his house generated by Midjourney.
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[24 October 2022] The clock is ticking for Elon Musk to complete his deal to buy Twitter. The billionaire Tesla CEO has until 5 p.m. ET on Friday to close his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face a trial that was previously delayed to allow both parties to close the deal. The high-stakes countdown comes after a months-long battle over an acquisition that would put the world’s richest man in charge of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms, with vast potential impacts on the company’s employees, users and for online discourse generally.
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[25 October 2022] “Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,” the company said in a statement
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[18 October 2022] The rapper’s antisemitic remarks have got him banned from Twitter and Instagram. But here’s a safe space where he’ll be able to say just what he likes.
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[26 October 2022] These "heavy tweeters" account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in "absolute decline" since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?”
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