Our first special guest in the summer series is Scottish author and social researcher David F Porteous, and we’re going to talk about everything that happened in 2024. Every single thing.
Well, no. However we do have to talk about Donald Trump. Sorry, but we do.
We also talk about the latest challenge to honesty on OnlyFans, the latest in adult diapers, certain aspects of biology, the Spanish Armada, Australia’s love of Olympic-level breakdancing, and much more.
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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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[19 December 2024] H&W is rescued a second time from administration in five years. The BBC's David Waddell explains the latest twist in the tale of the Titanic builder in its long voyage through choppy waters.
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H[19 December 2024] Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipyard best known for the Titanic, has been saved by a deal with Spain's state-owned shipbuilder.
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The Spanish Armada (often known as Invincible Armada, or the Enterprise of England, Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada, lit.?'Great and Most Fortunate Navy') was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain. His orders were to sail up the English Channel, join with the Duke of Parma in Flanders, and escort an invasion force that would land in England and overthrow Elizabeth I.
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[24 May 2024] Fortunately, NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris was on hand to remind the British prime minister of the Taoiseach’s name.
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[18 December 2024] The black pleather accessory includes metal studs and chains and prevents bathroom breaks from spoiling a concert.
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[20 December 2024] Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has hit back at claims she was demanding $10,000 from a comedian as she tried to put the saga to bed.
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[20 December 2024] Who said what and when during the battle between Olympic breaker Rachael Gunn, musical creator Steph Broadbridge and promoter Anthony Skinner.
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[8 December 2024] A Raygun-inspired musical has been pulled just hours ahead of its Sydney premiere, after the Olympic breakdancer’s legal team threatened action over the show.
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Rachael Louise Gunn OLY, PhD (born 2 September 1987), known competitively as Raygun, is an Australian academic and competitive breakdancer. In September 2024, she became ranked as the world number 1, by the World DanceSport Federation. She is a lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University Faculty of Arts.
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An extract from the One Show featuring Herbie Flowers, and his part in the classic bass intro to Lou Reed's 'Walk on the wild side'. Broadcast 9th June 2010.
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Brian Keith "Herbie" Flowers (19 May 1938 – 5 September 2024) was an English musician specialising in bass guitar, double bass and tuba. He was a member of groups including Blue Mink, T. Rex and Sky and was also a prolific session musician.
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[18 Decembe 2024] Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has met the world's richest man Elon Musk. The meeting comes amid a rumour that the billionaire is considering a huge donation to Farage's party.
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[6 December 2024] Elon Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, campaign finance records filed Thursday show.
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[18 December 2024] Musk, CEO of Tesla and co-leader of Trump's new DOGE nongovernmental advisory group, has seen his fortune increase 77% since the Nov. 5 election to $447 billion, USA Today reported.
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Mansa Musa[a] (reigned c.?1312 – c.?1337) was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige, although he features comparatively less in Mandinka oral traditions than his predecessors. Often described as the richest person in history,[6] he is known to have been extremely wealthy, described as being inconceivably rich by contemporaries;
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John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
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The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025 (for half the Senate), or be held on or before 27 September 2025 (for the House) to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia.
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[18 December 2024] A national Essential poll , conducted December 11–15 from a sample of 1,151, gave the Coalition a 48–47 lead including undecided, unchanged from the late November Essential poll. Primary votes were 35% Coalition (steady), 30% Labor (down two), 13% Greens (up two), 6% One Nation (down two), 1% UAP (steady), 11% for all Others (up two) and 5% undecided (steady).
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A cèilidh (/?ke?li/ KAY-lee, Scottish Gaelic: [?k??e?l?]) or céilí (Irish: [?ce?l?i?]) is a traditional Scottish and Irish social gathering. In its most basic form, it simply means a social visit. In contemporary usage, it usually involves dancing and playing Gaelic folk music, either at a home or a larger concert at a social hall or other community gathering place.
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A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, growing where it conflicts with human preferences, needs, or goals. Plants with characteristics that make them hazardous, aesthetically unappealing, difficult to control in managed environments, or otherwise unwanted in farm land, orchards, gardens, lawns, parks, recreational spaces, residential and industrial areas, may all be considered weeds.
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QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game quiz show for television created and co-produced by John Lloyd. The series currently airs on BBC Two and is presented by Sandi Toksvig. It features permanent panellist Alan Davies and three guest panellists per episode; the panellists are mostly comedians. The series was presented by Stephen Fry from its beginning in 2003 until 2016.
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Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes. It differs from other forms of ecological restoration in that rewilding aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. It is also distinct from other forms of restoration in that, while it places emphasis on recovering geographically specific sets of ecological interactions and functions that would have maintained ecosystems prior to human influence, rewilding is open to novel or emerging ecosystems which encompass new species and new interactions.
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(informal) Cowardly; lacking courage or morals.
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[19 December 2024] Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has boldly declared no new coal mines have been approved in 2024. The comment came just minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others.
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The earliest Australian English was spoken by the first generation of native-born colonists in the Colony of New South Wales from the end of the 18th century. These native-born children were exposed to a wide range of dialects from across the British Isles. The dialects of South East England, including most notably the traditional Cockney dialect of London, were particularly influential on the development of the new variety and constituted "the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing" Australian English.
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[19 December 2024] A neo-Nazi who amassed an "armoury" at his home and discussed an attack on a LGBT group has been jailed for 10 years. Alan Edward, 55, was detained after armed police swooped in on his house in Redding, Falkirk, in September 2022.
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[19 December 2024] An extremist who amassed an "armoury" at his home and discussed launching an attack on a local LGBT group has been jailed for 10 years. A court heard Alan Edward, 55, from Falkirk who had nearly 28,000 followers on social media, believed in white supremacy and openly expressed racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views.
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[15 December 2024] That OnlyFans model you’re having a personal, one-on-one chat with? There’s a chance it’s not actually them — at least not a flesh-and-blood version of them. It might be an AI bot designed to sound just like them.
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[11 December 2024] AI is replacing the humans who pretend to be OnlyFans stars in online amorous messages.
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[15 March 2023] The misogynist influencer’s legal team claims he created a character to sell his gospel, but will separating fact from fiction finally bring him down? [This link is a placeholder until I can find one that completely confirm's David's comments.]
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[11 February 2019] Four Corners takes you inside the world of online scamming, as reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop meets teenagers running romance scams out of internet cafes in West Africa and tracks global crime rings involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.
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[26 November 2024] The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’.
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