Europe Calling: Recent Episodes
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Chat show host Vince Tracy discusses the latest news with Neil Colbourne. We just try to be two normal guys discussing the important items in the news. We-ve worked on various radio stations together and this podcast is heard worldwide.
Whilst the politicians struggle to form a new Government in Spain former King Juan Carlos's sister, Pilar de Borbon and footballer, Lionel Messi, join David Cameron in the Panama Papers leak, British holiday home owners will be repaid inheritance tax wrongly charged by the Spanish Government. A young boy died in the swimming pool just after his family arrived for a holiday in Torrevieja.
In the UK an unlicensed doctor is exposing widespread drug taking in UK sport. In Glasgow a taxi driver admits to killing fellow Muslim because he disrespected Islam by claiming he was a prophet and a staggering number of EU citizens have become jihadists and returned to the continent hiden in the migrant numbers. This is set against Government agencies admitting they have no accurate numbers on migrants
entering the UK and Arabic is now the second language in Sweden. The Junior Doctors are on strike but the GPs surgeries are at breaking point after the influx of the migrants.... and an ex-Aid minister urges UK Government to hand back 172 million overspend on aid as British steel threatens to fade into obscurity.
Spanish women are protesting against a culture of sexual assault at San
Fermin's annual bullfighting festival, after a British teen was reportedly raped.
Verónica Landa says it's time the world heard the truth about Pamplona.........
A 44-year-old man from France has been killed by a bull during festivities in
the town of Pedreguer, on Spain’s east coast. The unnamed man, who was
identified by authorities as O.L., was attending the festivities with some
friends. He was gored by the bull at around 1am on Tuesday, “causing serious
injuries and doctors were unable to prevent him from dying almost
immediately, Pedreguer town hall said in a statement...........
ROBOTS are set to become Spain’s newest weapon in the battle for
education. However, there is nothing to fear, as Dash and Dot, the resident
robots of a growing number of Spanish classrooms, are designed purely to
teach.
The con artists are pulling a fast one on foreigners by slashing a car's tyre,
pointing it out as a ‘blown out tyre’ and then having their cohorts arrive to tow
the car to a nearby garage that is in on the ruse.
Sir Michael Wilshaw said he was dismayed by behaviour in some schools
and called for 'grammar school ethos' in every comprehensive, with teachers
banned for calling pupils 'mate'
BBC claims to be slashing staff but increased payouts to top stars.... Some
29 celebrities, including Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig, have put their
names to an open letter to the Prime Minister in which they argue that the BBC
is ‘the envy of the world’
Does anyone miss the British Sunday, when our cities were like vast, well-
ordered cemeteries, the sky always seemed to be black with impending rain,
and a deep quiet fell on the land
Spanish driver fined for biting fingernails at the wheel and another fiddling with a packet of chewing gum! Man dies after cafe serves him detergent instead of white wine in Valencia..Spanish banker forbidden from taking his Picasso to the UK...Hottest May on record and tourist numbers are up.There are fears of a reappearance of Diptheria in Spain. More problems with British families going to join Isil and the migrants fighting to get into Europe.
Customers inconvenienced as millions of pounds 'go missing' after beleaguered RBS suffers an horrific and embarrassing technical glitch.
'Teach British values in schools', says head of Ofsted as ....Female PE teacher banned from the classroom for life for having sex with 15-year-old female pupil and....Award-winning foster carer is jailed for 13 years for child sex crimes!
The Duke of Cambridge has come under fire after it emerged the second in line to the throne used the Queen's helicopter to make a journey that would have taken just 90 minutes by car.
Unfortunately, Spain is home to all of the EU's top five employment blackspots ...and another two Spanish regions are in the top 10. Elsewhere, Spanish policemen are facing long prison sentences for 'torturing' two Brits in custody in Mallorca. A captain and three police officers stand charged with intimidating and viciously attacking the two Brits, who had been arrested after a pub brawl.
In the UK news David Cameron has not only been stung by a jellyfish whilst on holdiay but A Tory crony of David Cameron put in charge of a £60 billion quango was dramatically fired last night after it was revealed that he was declared bankrupt for not paying his taxes....and Nick Clegg's controversial taxpayer-funded election strategist was censured by a watchdog over his role in the awarding of a multi-million-pound contract. Why do top politicians get mixed up with these dodgy people?
There's a very worrying article written about UK prison Wormwood Scrubs.Open drug deals are mentioned. Muslim fanatics are evident. The prison is on a knife edge and our repeated warnings to the Ministry of Justice have been brushed aside, writes ANGELA LEVIN.
Judges are in the news again. Senior judge Sir Paul Coleridge has called for action to 'stem the tide' of family breakdown. This is set against the revelation Britain has more failed marriages than almost any other country. What is happening to UK morals? Eleanor Jackson, 23, was taken from her biological father Frank Humphreys, 51, when she was just 17 months old, Carlisle Crown Court heard. Later, she traced him as an adult and the pair began a sexual relationship. The headline speaks of hime being a paedophile. Is this right? ...and there is anger at a proposed law shake-up that would 'let off Bulger killers' Lord McNally, the new head of the youth justice quango, is the most senior serving figure to suggest raising the age of criminal responsibility from ten to 12.
Neil Colbourne is back from a very sad bereavement and joins Vince to discuss the issues of the day starting with an argument in Spain over a pizza.
Peter Hitchens writes in The Mail Online that ...."by the end of his or her childhood, a British boy or girl is much more likely to have a TV set in the bedroom than a father at home." He adds....."almost 50 per cent of 15-year-olds no longer live with both their parents. Although the figures are only an indication he states that that 79 per cent of children aged between five and 16 have a TV in their room. In almost all cases the absent parent is the father. There is no doubt about the facts here. He writes, "The cost of our wild, unprecedented national experiment in fatherlessness is now £49 billion each year – more than the defence budget." He gives us a figure..... costing each taxpayer £1,541 per year is rising all the time. Where does this money go? Hitchens informs us that the money partly goes on handouts and housing, which an old-fashioned family with a working father would not have needed. Partly it goes on trying to cope with crime, disorder, truancy, educational failure, physical and mental illness and general misery, which are so much more common among the fatherless than in those from stable homes. One in three marriages ends in divorce, while many who would once have married never even bother. About 300,000 families of all kinds separate every year. There are now three million children growing up in fatherless homes. What a picture of glowing hope for the future.
The podcast clearly shows how life works in circles and that the fatherless society is heavily influenced by the lack of male teachers in Primary schools and the influences of pop idols. Can the G8 address these issues? No chance as Syria and Turkey are still encountering problems and we are now wondering whether David Cameron's priority is to send arms to the rebels. Maybe his problems are closer to home?
In the Uk we saw the pageantry and splendour of the State Opening of Parliament which the Queen handled impeccably. It's easy to see how England is respected abroad. Legendary soccer manager Sir Alex Ferguson has retired after a wonderful career. A sex offender teacher was spotted acting in EastEnders by his former pupils, it was claimed. Rob Turner, 39 - a former music teacher who admitted sexual activity with a young girl at Basildon Crown Court in Essex four years ago - said he was on the popular BBC soap for six months.An EastEnders spokesman said its supporting actors are booked through agencies that have undergone ‘an approval process with the BBC. All this whilst the BBC celebrities scandal rolls on. In Spain, thousands of students and teachers took to the streets to in protest against educational reforms. Soaring unemployment has driven a record number of Spaniards to leave the country with Germany proving a star attraction. Finally, Prince Harry has never been one to stand on ceremony and as he played a game of sitting volleyball today, Prince Harry fell flat on his back with a decidedly unroyal hoot of laughter. The prince was opening the 2013 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs on the third day of his so far hugely successful US tour.
Comments from readers of this terrible tragedy wrote..
“END THE VIOLENCE” On TV, in movies, and video games. This is where our society and especially our children see violence, where they are desensitized to it, and where it is glorified as POWER. That is what these mass shooters want and need, to show that they have power. This will give them the recognition they need.........Amodeus et us not lose sight of how this was simply a demented and deadly person, akin to those we have seen throughout history. Others may see that the murderer played video games or used a gun for his weapon and think the blame lies there. It is a fallacy; not far removed from reasoning that since he drank water and breathed oxygen that must have made him kill. Mr Clarity How about we stop drugging children with the phony attention disorders? And if schools truly need to drug the hell out of children to make their job easier, then watch those who have been prescribed the drugs. They are the ones that become school shooters. Courtney.