A Quick One with Ed Parnell

Sunak's Conference speech contained nothing. Opening what is probably his last speech as leader and Prime Minister (if the polls are right), his speech either angered, infuriated or disheartened those in the audience, especially as minutes later Michael Gove contradicted much of the content. Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--59...

Protests expected at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester today and for the rest of the week. Where to meet, where to join and what? It's odd they have allowed this protest, given recent legislation, and it shows there is a very specific game being played about who is allowed to protest and about what Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-on...

All the might of the British Press compressed into a segment and treated with the level of respect it deserves by a man sat in his pajamas bitterly regretting his late night too tired to reconsider eBay purchases. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

Drivers, Rishi's last stand, dodgy polls, dodgy donors, crime, coriander, Carre, Posh and Becks and a pineapple (separate stories) It's all in your soaraway mine of information that is today's strictly impartial newspapers. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

A veritable cavalcade of crap courtesy of billionaire off shore press barons for which to influence opinion and bend you to their will - reviewed. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

Sad news that one of the most modest actors in our country has left us today. Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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. Source Update 17:15 - they have arrested a 16 year old boy in connection with this incident. Become a supporter...

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 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani's former lawyer, Bob Costello, in a new civil lawsuit. Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

The absolute STATE of the printed press today. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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 t...

Lawrence Fox opens his mouth, talks about a woman, sent to naughty corner. Honestly, what is wrong with the man? Oh... yes. That. Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

The podcast this morning contains all you need to know to live a wholesome and fulfilled life. Plus a paper review. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

From Avazz This 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 la...

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 game Source Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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, effectivel...

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-...

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--...

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-quick-one-with-ed-parnell--5948367/support .

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 re...

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. Become a supporter of this podcast...

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 mo...