The autumn series of the Edict concludes with a returning special guest, Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous, to chat about the UK election campaigns and much, much more.
We discuss cocaine and koalas, Scott Morrison’s post-parliamentary career, Elon Musk’s $56 billion package, the King’s Birthday, and an encounter between an echidna and a tiger shark.
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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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The King's Official Birthday is the selected day in most Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those countries. It does not necessarily correspond to the date of the monarch's actual birth.
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[2 June 2024] City saw 143mm of rain on first day of winter – more than the June average of 132mm
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23 May 2024] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the date of the UK General Election. In a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, he revealed that the election date will take place on Thursday, 4 July.
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One of the cheesiest party election broadcasts in history. Labour still won by the largest landslide in its history.
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07. Rish!’s warehouse visit takes the biscuit for talking down to voters | John Crace | The Guardian[24 May 2024] Not content with treating workers at a distribution centre as if they were half-wits, the PM relied on Tory plants to lob easy questions as if no one would notice.
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[23 May 2024] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kickstarted his election campaign with a tour of the UK's four nations but a trip to a brewery in South Wales didn't go quite to plan.
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[26 May 2024] Rishi Sunak has once again suffered a blunder on the campaign trail after being asked whether he is captaining a "sinking ship" during a visit to Northern Ireland's Titanic Quarter.
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
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[7 June 2024] In a crowded field, is this Rishi's worse gaffe yet? Satirical political comedy sketch from the comedian Matt Green.
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[8 June 2024] Long-serving activists and MPs left aghast by unforced errors, poor strategy and a growing sense of resignation.
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Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since being elected in 1987. She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020 and is an advisor to the Privy Council. She is both the first black woman elected to parliament and the longest-serving black MP.
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[31 May 2024] Britain's opposition Labour Party said that Diane Abbott, Britain's first Black woman lawmaker, would be able to run in the July 4 election after confusion over her candidacy sparked a backlash within the party.
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[24 Mar 2024] Former Labour leader confirms he will stand as an independent candidate in Islington North
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[28 May 2024] The Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey toppled over his paddleboat and fell into the water whilst campaigning in the Lake District. Lake Windermere has been the source of millions of litres worth of sewage dumping after a fault in February. Stopping sewage dumping is one of the Liberal Democrats' key pledges in this campaign.
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[5 June 2024] Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has been fined for speeding after being caught doing 73mph in a 60mph zone on the M1 motorway. Sir Ed was caught by a speed camera near Caddington, in Bedfordshire.
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[26 May 2024] The UK government has unveiled plans to introduce a year's compulsory national service for 18-year-olds if it remains in power.
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[27 May 2024] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service if it wins the UK general election on July 4. It was the first major policy announcement since Mr Sunak called a snap election last week.
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Q. The UK government has recently announced plans to reintroduce a year’s mandatory national service for all eighteen-year-olds. If implemented, this could include unpaid volunteer work one weekend a month doing community service or a paid full-time military placement. To what extent would you support or oppose the government introducing each of the mandatory national service options for all eighteen-year-olds in Australia?
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Sunak worked as an analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs between 2001 and 2004. He then worked for hedge fund management firm the Children's Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in September 2006. He left in November 2009 to join former colleagues in California at a new hedge fund firm, Theleme Partners, which launched in October 2010 with $700 million under management (equivalent to $978 million in 2023). At both hedge funds, his boss was Patrick Degorce. Sunak was also a director of the investment firm Catamaran Ventures, owned by his father-in-law, the Indian businessman N. R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys, between 2013 and 2015
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[28 May 2024] According to the most authoritative sales index, Nielsen BookScan, in the week to May 18 "Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness" sold 218 copies in the 1300 Australian booksellers monitored by the global analytics giant, putting the nation’s 30th prime minister at 827th spot on Nielsen’s bestseller list for the week. Oh, and the hardback notched up one sale on the Nielsen index.
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[24 May 2024] The small window that was open for India-UK free trade deal being clinched by the Sunak-led Tory government has now been swept away with election in both countries
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[30 May 2024] The Age reports Morrison is listed as a strategic advisor at a newly created venture called the Seafloor Minerals Fund, alongside ex-US secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Both men are also behind venture capital firm DYNE, set up to support the strategic goals of AUKUS, and which also has interests in deep sea mining, according to the story.
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[7 June 2024] Robyn Denholm says electric carmaker’s CEO could spend his time elsewhere if biggest pay deal in US corporate history isn’t approved.
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[4 June 2024] By ordering Nvidia to let X jump the line ahead of Tesla, Musk delayed the automaker’s receipt of over $500 million in processors by months.
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[7 June 2024] Tesla Board Chair Robyn Denholm shares her thoughts on if Elon Musk would be demotivated if his $56 billion pay package was overturned.
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Robyn M. Denholm (née Sammut; born 27 May 1963) is an Australian business executive. In November 2018, Denholm succeeded Elon Musk as chair of Tesla, Inc.
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[11 August 2022] Or was it just another instance of Elon blurting out a half-formed idea?
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[15 September 2023] The problem with only hiring "idea guys," techbros and consultants is that eventually you'll need actual work done.
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[4 June 2022]
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[7 June 2021] What the hell did we expect, really?
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[7 June 2024] Tiger Shark's Bizarre Diet: Researchers Witness Shark Regurgitate Echidna and Dugong.
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[7 June 2024] A group of James Cook University researchers got the shock of their lives after witnessing a Tiger Shark throw up an iconic Australian animal - the echidna — also known as spiny anteaters, which must have been hard to swallow.
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The dugong (/?d(j)u????/; Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal. It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees. It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
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[5 January 2024] Beaches between Sydney and Newcastle have seen more than 170kg of cocaine wash up on their shores in the past couple of weeks.
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Cocaine Bear (released as Crazy Bear in some countries) is a 2023 American comedy horror film directed by Elizabeth Banks and written by Jimmy Warden. It is loosely inspired by the true story of the "Cocaine Bear", an American black bear that ingested several kilograms of a bag containing about 75 lb (34 kg) of lost cocaine.
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Cocaine Shark is a 2023 horror film directed by Mark Polonia. Originally released in Japan under the title Kanizame Shakurabu, it was renamed in order to profit from the release of Cocaine Bear.
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Coulson Aviation is an aviation company headquartered in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. The company's fleet specialises in air tankers used for aerial firefighting. It operates in Canada, the United States, Australia and Chile.
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[1 March 2024] The Home Office has so far refused to say how much more money, on top of the £290m already confirmed, the UK has agreed to pay Kigali under the stalled plan. But a National Audit Office report has revealed millions more in spending.
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[5 May 2024] The first migrant sent from the UK to Rwanda under a new asylum programme is nowhere to be found in the African nation.
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