CC: UK Tax payers Can Soon Buy Shares In Bank that Lost Its Soul @RealConstable @Ian_Fraser

 BY SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo description: An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft.WWI

Photo credit: Australian War Memorial collection, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

Ian Fraser, author of "Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain," joins us for his CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL debut. We discuss what Fraser describes as a culture that lost its soul and never got it back, is soon to be sold back to the UK public after being bailed out by the British taxpayer. Fraser explains the bizarre logic behind this news and analyses some recent problems for the bank that has now changed its name to NatWest. We also point out that the Scottish economy shrank significantly in the last quarter of 2023, which Fraser says wasn't much covered by the Scottish press.

Photo description: An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft.WWI

Photo credit: Australian War Memorial collection, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

CC: Anti-semitism Hits Record Highs Around the World @BenWeinthal @RealConstable

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Photo description: Scene from the Arab-Israeli war circa 1948

Photo credit: Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Distinguished Middle East analyst Ben Weinthal joins us again from Jerusalem, where he writes for Fox News Digital, the Jerusalem Post, and the Middle East Forum.

This week, we discuss the record-breaking levels of antisemitism around the world, plus the efforts of the U.S. administration to release frozen money to Iran while at the same time sending the U.S. Navy to build a temporary port on the Gaza Strip's coastline to help deliver humanitarian relief to refugees. That port will be simultaneously be close to a recent mega find of 4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves at the eastern end of the Med.

Isabel Vincent's piece from the New York Post

https://nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-news/fire-princeton-professor-who-helped-irans-terror-campaign/

Ben's pieces from Fox News digital

https://www.foxnews.com/world/biden-admin-under-pressure-stop-billions-dollars-sanctions-relief-iran

https://www.foxnews.com/world/antisemitic-incidents-across-europe-canada-record-levels-5-months-hamas-massacre-israelis

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

WSJ: How Much Do You Know About the History of Hacking?

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Who is considered the first hacker? When did the first denial-of-service attack occur? Test yourself on these and other questions with this quiz. Read more here.

#FRANCE: Britain tiptoes out of recession. @RealConstable @BatcehlroShow Occitanie

By SIMON CONSTABLE

John and I discuss the reality of Britain’s economy. Technically it has come out of a recession, but it is still stagnating.

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Antiquities of Great Britain: illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing.Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

CC: Scottish Local Governments Make Economic War on Workers @RealConstable

By SIMON CONSTABLE

Glasgow-based entrepreneur and businessman Alan Quinn joins us for this episode of CONSTABLE CONFIDENTIAL to discuss the latest efforts by local government to impose more living costs on already cash-strapped people. Notably, this involves ultra-high car parking charges in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, and Scotland's largest city, Glasgow.

We also get Quinn's view on where the Scottish votes will fall in the forthcoming general election.

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Photo description: A cropped version of express trains leaving Edinburgh for Aberdeen and Glasgow.

Photo credit: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Forbes.com story about the rising car parking fees in Edinburgh

The intro is a shortened version of a clip by Richard Wagner, EEF OAL-1, licensed via Wikimedia Commons, performed by:

Conductor: James Allen Gähres

Ensemble: Ulm Philharmonic

Location: CCU Einsteinsaal, Ulm

Opera: The Valkyrie (Die Walküre)

Movement: Prelude from Act 3

Date 3 June 2014

The thunderclap outro is a shortened version of a clip by Jonathan Hunt, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Korn Ferry: A 4-Day Workweek… Maybe?

 By SIMON CONSTABLE

Half of UK firms testing the shorter week say they will make it permanent. Still, skeptics say innovation and training could suffer. Read more here.

#France: Remembering DOW 10,000. @RealConstable @WSJ @BatchelorShow

By SIMON CONSTABLE

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Blancard, Hippolyte (1843 - 1924), photographe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons