We are now on day eight of the scandal into Tory corruption and sleaze and the revelations just get worse and worse. Today, we're taking you through all the shocking details of Geoffrey Cox's side jobs in the British Virgin Islands. Yes, that's a tax haven. He was there during the coronavirus lockdown. To discuss that story and more, I'm joined by Aaron Bostani from Glasgow. How are you doing, Aaron? Michael Walker, it's so good to see you. Do make sure you subscribe and if you have any comments, any questions, tweet them on the hashtag TiskeySour or put them in the comments box. Sir Geoffrey Cox is a big deal in the Conservative Party. He was Attorney-General under Theresa May and Boris Johnson over the final two years of the Brexit process and became famous for booming interventions like this. This Parliament is a disgrace given the opportunity. Given since I am asked, let me tell them the truth. They could vote no confidence at any time, but they're too cowardly. They could agree to a motion to allow this House to dissolve, but they're too cowardly. Pantamime-like performances of that kind made Cox popular within the Tory Party, so much so that Boris Johnson chose him to launch his leadership campaign. I am pleased today. I am proud today to introduce the candidate whom I shall support to lead the Conservative Party and our nation, a man who has already shown that he can lead this great global city through two successful terms. Ladies and gentlemen, Boris Johnson. Thank you very much. Good morning everybody. Thank you. But Boris Johnson, who once celebrated his relationship with Cox, no longer wants to hold him so close. That's because we've learnt that while Cox has gone silent in the Commons, only speaking once in the past 18 months, he's been very busy elsewhere. Specifically, Cox has been representing the Government of the British Virgin Islands in an inquiry into institutional corruption. That inquiry was launched by the British Government. Over the past six months, Geoffrey Cox has spent 680 hours working for the law firm that represents the Government of the island. In the process, he's pocketed £637,000. Those hours included 10 days appearing in a Caribbean court when the UK Parliament had been sitting. One of those was this June when Cox opined about just how seriously the Virgin Islands, which is a tax haven, takes the issue of transparency and corruption. Those I represent, I think, accept entirely that it is central to the democratic idea that the purpose of elected office is to serve the public. It is not to enrich the office holder, and it is not to enrich the office holder's personal connections. Members should not use their position plainly to influence the legislative process for their own advantage or for someone to whom they are connected. For this purpose, as you know, many parliaments, most frankly in democratic countries, have now provided for members to make periodic returns of pecuniary interests to be recorded in a register. And the purpose of that register is to strengthen public trust and confidence in parliamentary processes, and those I represent fully accept that principle. There are a couple of things that jump out about that clip. First, Cox is himself now the best argument as to why a register of interest, what he was arguing for there, is not enough to maintain confidence in a parliament. That would also require MPs to not take the piss. Second, if you thought Cox sounded rather defensive of the government he was representing, he's essentially saying, trust me, they do think corruption is a problem. He has reason to be. According to the mail, members of the British version island government are among other things accused of giving 29 million pounds of COVID relief funds in cash handouts to political allies, misusing 70 million of tax payers' money that were supposed to be spent on infrastructure projects and wasting 23 million pound building a pier after awarding construction contracts to cronies. These are of course the allegations which led the UK Foreign Office to launch a judicial inquiry into institutional corruption on the island. When it comes to Cox's lucrative role working for the Virgin Island government, what adds insult to injury is the timings of his trip to the Caribbean. Cox flew to the Virgin Island on April 26 when holidays for ordinary Brits were still banned. What's more is in the month he was there he voted in the UK parliament 12 times, something only possible because proxy votes had been temporarily introduced during COVID. It goes about saying proxy votes were meant to enable working from home during the pandemic to stop social interaction and travelling. They weren't meant so that people could vote from the Caribbean. It's of course worth noting none of the events I have described so far while outrageous reach parliamentary roles. They're all above board. However, Cox, who considering the fees he charges for his legal services should have a keen eye for the law, does seem to have slipped up on Tuesday night, 24 hours into the controversy, a video emerged of Cox representing the Virgin Islands government in what appears to be his own parliamentary office in Westminster. What you say is that you may want submissions to put the premier's evidence into context and you may write it. Let me give that some thought. Would you forgive me for not being present this afternoon? I'm afraid I have compelling other commitments, but Miss Petey will be here. I know. And that was explained this morning. I'm very grateful. Forgive my absence during some of the morning, I'm afraid. Thank you very much. That clip was from a hearing on the 14th of September.  That's thought to be a reference to the division bell, which rings when MPs can go into the lobby to vote. This is all a problem for Cox as while holding lucrative second jobs is not against any rules operating those jobs out of parliamentary offices very much is. This is something the Health Secretary, Sadid Javed, accepted earlier today. Whether it's your parliamentary office or any other parliamentary stationery or anything that's funded or supported by the taxpayer, of course that should not be used. And again, I can't talk about any individual case. I think the rules on the use of whether it's parliamentary property or your letters or letterheads or stamps or anything like that. I think the rules are clear. And of course, all MPs would be expected to observe that at all times. Sadid Javed is saying that MPs are expected to follow the rules, although if they're friends of the prime minister, he might try and let them off. Cox has released a statement defending his role. So in it, he says the following or his representatives say the following in the third person. So Geoffrey Cox is a leading barrister in England and makes no secret of his professional activities. He was asked to advise the Attorney General and the elected government of the British Virgin Islands, a British overseas territory, in a public inquiry into whether corruption, abuse of office or other serious dishonesty may have taken place in recent years in the Virgin Islands and to carry out a review of its systems of government in preparation for that inquiry. This is not to defend a tax haven or as has been inaccurately reported to defend any wrongdoing, but to assist the public inquiry in getting to the truth. No evidence of tax evasion or personal corruption has been adduced before the inquiry and if it had been, that person would have been required to seek their own representation. Later in the statement, he goes on to say, So Geoffrey regularly works 70-hour weeks and always ensures that his casework on behalf of his constituents is given primary importance and fully carried out. Throughout this period, he continued to have online meetings with organisations, businesses and individuals within the constituency and it made no difference where he was for that purpose since it was not practicable or desirable at that time to meet face to face. As to the use of the proxy, prior to his visit to the BVI, he consulted the Chief Whip specifically on this issue and was advised that it was appropriate. So potentially some problems for the Chief Whip there who we know takes orders from Boris Johnson. And next, so Geoffrey's view is that it is up to the electors of Torridge and West Devon whether or not they vote for someone who is a senior and distinguished professional in his field and who still practises that profession. That has been the consistent view of the local Conservative Association and although at every election his political opponents have sought to make a prominent issue of his professional practice, it has so far been the consistent view of the voters of Torridge and West Devon. It is very content to abide by their decision. Elsewhere in the statement, Cox does not deny working from his parliamentary office when doing private business, but nonetheless suggests he doesn't believe he broke any rules. I'm still waiting to see how he squares that circle. From those parts we showed you there are a couple of points I think it's important to make first. It's obvious why Cox appears happy to let constituents decide his future. He represents one of the safest Tory seats in the country. Second, his justification of his activities in the Virgin Island is to say he wasn't defending corrupt practices but was assisting the public inquiry in getting to the truth. But that brushes over the fact that in that inquiry he is representing one side, the government. He is not, for example, assisting the judge. That would be a neutral role. The role he has taken is not that. It also seems unlikely that his role on the Virgin Islands is to promote maximum transparency. These comments on the drawbacks of an open register of interest suggest he could be helping the government to justify only the bare minimum of reform. Accepted the principle of having an open register. There are real drawbacks to open registers. It becomes a political tool for every many, many frivolous complaints. It is a profound invasion into a legislator's private life because what happens is, as you can imagine, stories get written, minor infractions are written up to be morally shameful or even in pure dishonesty. I accept the need for a register. Of course I do. Every legislator must. But there are perfectly understandable reticence to invite that kind of onslaught that it can sometimes mean. I understand that. That was Geoffrey Cox suggesting we should be a bit transparent, but not necessarily that transparent. The electorate might get ideas. I assume that his view of open registers will have only got worse over the last couple of days. My favourite part of this story I haven't told you yet, which is, while Cox earned a total of £1 million last year, so that was the full tally of his jobs outside of his £82,000 job that he gets in Parliament, the taxpayer part of his salary, he felt the need to build taxpayers £629 for an iPad to enable effective working while travelling and another £419.95 for tablet accessories to help with remote working. As is so often the case, being filthy rich does not mean Cox is not a penny pincher, so he's earning £82,000 from the taxpayer, £1 million from various clients, including Tax Haven Islands, and then still charging the state £600 for iPads. I mean, it's pretty outrageous. Before we move on, I want to address one particular argument that's made in favour of MPs having second jobs and, in particular, Cox having a second job. This was Dominic Raab speaking to Times Radio. Do you think you can do your job properly as a constituency MP from the British Virgin Islands during a pandemic? Well, look, I think it's first of all important to say that all of any outside interests have to be properly declared. In relation to the British Virgin Islands, there's a foreign secretary that commissioned a commission of inquiry given the allegations of misgovernance and very serious ones, including criminal wrongdoing. Now, I'm not going to get dragged into what individual MPs do, but actually having the former Attorney General, and it wasn't my decision, it was hired by the government of the BVI to advise them on how to correct and deal and address those allegations, which actually is a legitimate thing to do as long as it's properly declared. And, of course, it's quite important in the Parliament, which is responsible, residualy, for some areas of our relationship with the overseas territories. It's got some knowledge of what's going on in those territories. So I'm not getting dragged into individual cases, but actually being in touch and working with our overseas territories is quite an important piece of the responsibilities of the UK and indeed our Parliament. There might be, at a stretch, some arguments as to why second jobs could be a good idea for MPs. If you're a doctor, it's a no-brainer. If you're a nurse doing a few hours on the side to maintain your professional qualification, that's a good idea. It's also obvious that it doesn't really create any conflicts of interest. But working for a government in a tax haven, I don't think that really makes the grade. And in any case, if what we're interested in is getting experience, getting experience and knowledge that can input into the legislative process, Cox didn't need any extra practice because he already has enough experience working for these guys. The Mail report that in 2014, taxpayers were forced to stump up 1,800 pounds to fly Cox home from the Cayman Islands when Parliament was unexpectedly recalled during a recess to discuss an emergency in Iraq. And in 2018, Cox provided support to the governments of both the British Virgin Islands and the Caymans in Parliament in 2018 when he spoke repeatedly against a proposal to increase transparency in tax havens. So this is a guy who is no stranger to these overseas territories. Aaron, I think we can hear you okay now. I'm going to ask you the same question I sort of begun with, which is, I suppose, super basic. How significant do you think this Jeffrey Cox scandal is?  That's normal in democratic societies. There are people who are shown to be hypocrites. That happens a lot. It'll happen in the future. Tory, Labour, whatever. But I think we're in a new moment politically, Michael, where you can have an elected legislator lobbying for a Crown territory or a different sovereign entity, but it's a political entity that separates the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which has directly competing interests against the country within which they're a legislator. And I don't use this word frivolously. I think you would probably define that as treachery in centuries past in terms of the public interest of this country, which of course, as a legislator, as he notes in a conversation which you just appealed to a few minutes ago, he is duty-bound to defend the public interest of the people of this country, and yet he's representing interests who have interests of their own directly odds with ours here. And it's important to say as well, Michael, this is not all one-off. Jeffrey Cox is a lawyer and he has a specialisation in issues of tax and minimising the levels of tax that people and organisations, in the case of the BBI, a Crown territory, I think that's what it's called, would like to pay. And this is new. And I don't know if you call that corruption. He's lobbying for an entity with directly conflicting interests with those of citizens here in the UK. And I think that's something really remarkable. And I hope it's explained with the utmost clarity to the British public at large in the coming days, weeks and months. And I'm worried, Michael, with the whole Tory corruption sleaze scandal that there's this kind of universal equivalence and that actually people don't get into the specifics of what's going on with Jeffrey Cox and how remarkable this is and how it shouldn't be permissible in a liberal democracy. The man should be run out of town as far as I'm concerned politically. If I was Boris Johnson, if I was the chief whip or if I was a chair of a Conservative Association out there in the Shires, I would be terrified of what this man means to my political brand. Now, look, in the short term, they don't need to worry. They've got the male. They've got the son. They've got the express. They've got the telegraph. But this will have consequence in terms of corroding the core sort of political message which they have, which is we represent the people of this country better than anyone else. No, the man was being paid very lucratively to do the precise opposite of that, opposite of that in my opinion. I suppose it's probably worth saying that he wasn't necessarily lobbying because his job was to give advice to the government of the Virgin Islands in a public inquiry, a judge-led public inquiry or judicial inquiry or whatever, in the British Virgin Islands which had been set up by the British government. So he'd also say, you know, it's not where there are, it's not that there is a claimant and a defender and one of them is the British government and one of them is the British Virgin Islands. It's that there was the British government who advised that there was institutional corruption in that territory. They set up this judicial inquiry and then Geoffrey Cox goes to defend the government of the British Virgin Islands. Now, he's trying to say, that just means I'm there to try and find out the truth and try to get to the bottom of this. As I say, I don't think that stands up because he's there to advise the government and even if they aren't formally, you know, a defendant in that inquiry, practically they are. If he's looking into institutional corruption on the island from the government then that is kind of the role, it's not formally, they're not formally the defendant. That is kind of what's going on. He could also have lobbied. I mean, it's clearly you've got a lot of possibility for him to lobby, given that he's being paid handsomely by the British Virgin Islands and the UK government has a lot of sway over what happens. We don't have evidence of it yet. What we do know at this point in time is that he got paid a million pounds last year, spent a lot of it in the Caribbean while we were all under lockdown and yeah, he was defending a system which seems very unsavory in many ways. Moving beyond Cox, we have a couple more updates on this general story. First, MPs are still moaning about their 82,000 pound salaries. The Financial Times quotes an MP as saying the following, there's no way I could be an MP without my outside interests. My wife works full-time. I've got kids and need the money for childcare. It's of course worth remembering that MPs are among Britain's top 5% of earners. They also get expenses on top of that. The idea that on that income in the top 5% of the population you can't afford childcare, it would suggest something. Why have these Tory MPs not yet passed universal childcare for people? Surely they realise that it's a problem if you're in the top 5% of earners and you need a second job before you can pay for childcare. On Twitter, whether childcare was sort of a euphemism for private school. But because it's an anonymous MP we might never find out. Second, we have some more detail on the original Owen Patterson scandal and Boris Johnson's relation to it. Tom Newton, Donov Times Radio tweeted, this is quite something. Two different backbench Tory MPs tell me they have been approached by whips in the last 24 hours to tell them the chief Mark Spencer was not the instigator of last week's disastrous motion but he was following direct orders from the PM. It means government whips have officially or not begun actively briefing against number 10. Sources close to Spencer emphatically deny he sanctioned this. Government source it was a government decision, it's a team game we stand or fall together. I mean we saw from the Labour Party over the past 5 years if you've got a lot of backbenchers who decide that they've fallen out with the leader it really does make a story just run and run and run. So potentially if Boris Johnson is trying to throw people under the bus and they're now sort of resisting being thrown under the bus, we could see a bit of a circular firing squad within the Conservative Party and that could be politically consequential at least. I don't know Michael, look I'm in Glasgow, I don't know about the political implications of it but how it seems to me is that the big work of Labour has to be the specifics of what's going on with Cox which I do think is unprecedented moral nadif politicians in this country I sincerely believe that my worry is that it just becomes corruption and sleeves and oh it's all the same, no this is really qualitatively quite bad I think unprecedented and it has to be addressed now so like I say the big work for Labour or the left or for me and you here on the foreign media is that this is just another sleaze, corruption scandal because this is not somebody you know sleeping with somebody that they shouldn't be this is a politician I think using public resources in a certain way which is really unbecoming of somebody in the elected office and they shouldn't frankly be an MP anymore. I mean what normally comes out of these scandals is you know some new rules that for a while stopped that particular infraction happening and then you all work out that another infraction was going on at the same time so the expenses one you know that was a route but it did change the rules as did the cash for questions one I mean obviously it doesn't get to the bottom of the rot in British politics and society but I don't know what would be your sort of desired implication of the Cox affair where could this lead because I mean it doesn't seem like he's going to prison for example No. No I think it feeds fundamentally into a culture thing Michael and both parties don't want principled independently minded people representing constituencies as MPs because that's the personality type they don't want in politics and that might sound sort of conspiratorial but you see the exact same thing in the Labour Party Michael the idea of somebody who's independently minded and principled and ethically driven and who doesn't just basically you know count out the status quo that kind of person really isn't welcome in elite politics in this country Michael really really is not welcome and like I said it's a cultural thing you're seeing a little bit of a break with that in the Tories and the kind of blue walk the form of red walk constituencies and I think if this kind of behavior probably concerns them the most because their electoral base formerly Labour voters now voting Tories are probably more sensitive to the idea of conservative corruption than anyone else but generally speaking people like Jeffrey Cox are the kind of people elevated to public life in this country have been for hundreds of years I think it boils down to a cultural thing and I think that's why I'd like to see in both major parties open primaries and a culture of mass public participation accountability, scrutiny the media, the Tories and the Labour Party all have a vested interest in not doing that so it's going to have to change from the outside people have tried to do that with the Labour Party look what happened 500,000 people labeled Holocaust denies and racists and anti-Semites and misogynists and bullies the collective might to the British establishment thrown at them so it's going to be very tough but like I say for me the solution is culture and very different kinds of people being involved in politics there is an institutional fix for that like I say it's more democracy open primaries but Michael these people will fight like their lives depend on it so that doesn't happen I think that's a really good point I wanted to get down to what you wanted to be the consequence of this and I very much agree with that point I think if an argument for democratic renewal would be a good outcome from this as opposed to just some tighter rules for the more obscene things that MPs do on the side we have almost 2000 people watching almost 400 likes who hit that like button it helps us on the algorithm and we're staying on a similar story going to the Labour Party the side job scandal embroiling the Tories should give Labour an opening to steal their voters however as we've discussed on previous shows Labour seem unwilling to come out with a strong opposition to MPs making money on the side we now have a possible explanation it's that Keir Starmer has been known to dabble inside jobs himself this is a 2017 article from Labour List at the time that article was written Starmer was Brexit Secretary and Corbyn was due to rule on whether he would be allowed to take the job it was controversial because Sir Keir should have been busy enough in his Shadow Cabinet job but also because Michelin de Rayer that's the company he was going to be working for had just represented Dina Miller in her bid to block the Brexit process it would not have been a good look for Labour in 2017 remember they were still backing Brexit the correct position ultimately the move was blocked but the fact Starmer was considering it was brought up in an excruciating interview this week with Sky in 2017 you were in talks to take a consultancy job yourself with Mishkan de Rayer was the decision was that decision wrong do you regret that now I have in fact given up my practicing the point at which you said it was wrong you were in talks to take a job yourself no I wasn't and I was in discussion nothing happened you were in talks to take a job yourself no I wasn't I was in discussion Aaron this is one of my favourite Keir Starmer clips so far I wasn't in talks I was in discussions incredibly different forensic what did you make of that answer in terms of the zeitgeist Michael Keir Starmer is the worst possible politician to lead the Labour Party right now in terms of his style of politics in terms of how he relates to people in terms of his personality he needs to win back loads of the North with a strong working class message of national renewal and yet this is a guy who's a London lawyer who's led to politics with terrible political instincts and I think people really underestimate Michael with somebody like Jeremy Corbyn the sort of slick PR stuff often didn't work but what did work was he knew who he was he had a set of core values and he always stuck to them so he'd be confronted with the problem and he said Jeremy Corbyn responds to this and actually on many things that was popular so I'm not allowing Keir Starmer to have a sideline working for a massive law company when he should be an effective shadow secretary of state for Brexit a pretty good political response and he was very coherent probably for Starmer is he's not coherent because he doesn't have any backbone or principles or sort of guiding moral compass and so he's a bit like Boris Johnson the trolley as he's defined by Dominic Cummings or varying from thing to thing Keir Starmer is an establishment politician in 2017, 2018 it would have seemed perfectly fine to him to have a sideline working for Mishkon Rea because he didn't have that moral compass that Jeremy Corbyn did and does now of course it's politically inexpedient for him to say that so he looks ridiculous, he looks hypocritical which is the exact reason why Jeremy Corbyn became the Labour Party leader in 2015 did so impressively in 2017 is because he said look I'm not a politician like all the rest of them, I'm not business usual Starmer if he wants to win a majority going against Tory sleaze we'll have to do something similar okay far more palatable, far more with far greater media refinement but this really illustrates that he can't and you know it's going to be a very tough sell let's see, but I thought it was deeply embarrassing and look, fundamentally the guy's meant to be a lawyer a retritition and yet he contradicts himself again in the space of 10 seconds we have some comments Robert with a 5, corruption is a feature not a bug like being part of a mafia or a gang everyone must be guilty of something and so depend on the gang for protection I like those theories of elite power you all have to have something on each other to trust each other Rosa Gilbert tweets on the hashtag Aron has excellent taste in whiskey Balvin E. Doublewood 12 year and Lagavulin if I'm not mistaken I'm wondering Aron if they are your whiskies because I imagine you're in an Airbnb no they are our host whiskies and Rosa should know that I prefer Irish whiskey red breast is my favourite sorry it's Scotland this is all going completely above my head let's go straight on to our next story this year alone Israeli police have stormed the holiest site in Palestine Israeli courts have expelled Palestinians from their homes and the Israeli army have killed 260 Palestinians including 60 children in airstrikes it should then be no surprise that when the country's ambassador speaks in public protests take place this is what happened on Tuesday night when Zippy Hotovelli spoke to students at the London School of Economics that to me looked like a pretty standard protest I spoke to a bunch of people who were on it and by all accounts it was but that's not how the media reported it the Jewish Chronicle quickly published a leader titled on the anniversary of Kristallnacht a Jew hunting mob on the streets of London the night of broken glass was a pogrom against Jews carried out by Nazi paramilitaries it happened over two nights in 1938 267 synagogues were destroyed over 7000 Jewish businesses were damaged and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps it was one of the most despicable events of the 21st century and it has absolutely nothing to do with some LSE students protesting apartheid other journalists got in on the act though Theo Usherwood from LBC tweeted the following not quite sure what is more worrying the fact that this happened at a London University or the fact that 11 hours on that same university the LSE still has nothing to say about it LSE did go on to make a statement it condemned any threats made to the Israeli ambassador on social media but it didn't condemn the protests themselves Labour politicians had less of a spine Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandi tweeted the following the appalling treatment of Israeli ambassador Sipi Hotovelli is completely unacceptable there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated now Hotovelli took part in a 90 minute debate at LSE it was uninterrupted when she left the building she had to witness a protest against the crimes committed by the state she represents the only threat to free speech here is the demonisation of peaceful protestors she took part in a 90 minute debate Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas Simons had an even worse statement so he tweeted the following shocking scenes last night involving Israel's ambassador anti-Semitism has no place in our society I wish Zipi Hotovelli well and support the police in any investigation now why do I say this tweet is worse because without any evidence it explicitly accuses the protesters of anti-Semitism secondly it explicitly wishes Zipi Hotovelli well now let's look in more detail at who this person is who the Israeli ambassador is to see why both parts of that tweet are ridiculous so before taking her job as Israeli ambassador to Britain Zipi Hotovelli served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and then Minister for Settlements Minister for Settlements just keep that in mind both were in governments of Benjamin Netanyahu that means Hotovelli is on the right even in Israel which might be why Netanyahu was confident putting her forward to defend Israel's bombing campaign this May this is Hotovelli speaking to Sky on day 10 of Israel's bombing campaign by this point Israeli forces had killed 260 Palestinians including 66 children who wanted this conflict to begin with it was a pure provocation of a radical jihadi terror organization Hamas that wanted to shoot our kids our women our men millions of Israelis spend the last 10 days in bomb shelters because the whole country was under attack of over 3,000 rockets the reason Israel wants to make sure that those kind of attacks won't be coming back again and again so we want to restore quiet we don't want to be in a war but we would like not to have a quick fix we would like to have something that is sustainable so our people can get back to normal life first of all the idea Israel didn't want this conflict or that its leaders deserve sympathy is ridiculous 260 Palestinians were killed as more than 20 times the number of Israelis who were killed in that period just as importantly the conflict started because of Israel's unprovoked actions storming holy sites and Palestinians from their homes in that clip Hotter Valley also spoke of bringing quiet to Israel and the sustainable solution to the conflict these might sound like reasonable statements to the uninitiated so its important to know some background to get what she means he here is that Hotter Valley is a supporter of a greater Israel that means all of the Palestinian territories should be a next no Palestine she said this land is ours all of it is ours she justifies annexation by another extreme claim that Palestine and thus the Israeli occupation have never existed in 2019 Hotter Valley told a US audience using the term annex is not true you annex something that is not yours this is not a story of annexation this is a story of realisation what's next what's going to happen what's going to change after the annexation of area C for 52 years we were feeding this myth of occupation it's a myth it's not true so the occupation which has been recognised by the UN for 52 years Palestinians recognise it as going on from 1948 she says it's never existed because the Palestinian people have never existed Palestine doesn't exist in this extreme related to the belief that there has never been an occupation is Hotter Valley's belief that the Nakba is an Arab lie that's what she told the British Board of Deputies about the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians by Israeli forces in 1947 and 1948 if this was about any other conflict the Labour right would be calling her a genocide denier and they would be backing the protests outside the debate not in this situation it's also worth noting given the condemnations of the LSE protests that Hotter Valley is by no means herself an advocate of a vibrant public sphere in 2017 Netanyahu cancelled a meeting with the German Foreign Minister because he had previously met two Israeli human rights organisations defending that decision Hotter Valley described one of those groups they're called Breaking the Silence it's ex-IDF veterans as an enemy of Israel called them an enemy of Israel and even implied they were war criminals if you are still not convinced that Hotter Valley is worth protesting I have one more bit of information about her politics this one is really shocking it's from an article written by the journalist Jenny Fraser in Jewish news it was it came out just before Hotter Valley had become ambassador and it argues that she is too extreme to take on that role her examples of her extremism include the following what are we to make of her 2011 invitation to the Lahava organisation to speak to the Knessitz committee on the state of women and gender equality of which she was a member Lahava's mission is prevention of assimilation in the Holy Land and it's bigoted members, yes bigoted have frequently demonstrated against personal or business relationships between Jews and Arabs Hotter Valley's reasoning was that it was important to check systems to prevent mixed marriages Fraser writes it should scarcely be necessary to point out that even the most traditionally observant of politicians has no role in preventing mixed marriages would anyone have as casually invited members of the Ku Klux Klan to address a Knessitz committee so you can see this person's politics this person's politics is they don't want marriages between people of different ethnicities this is like 1960's Ku Klux Klan stuff she doesn't think Palestine has ever existed she wants Israel to occupy the whole of the lands of Israel and Palestine incredibly extreme and yet when there is a peaceful protest against her speaking at a university this is very ordinary this is not exceptional it's a protest about someone speaking who they disagree with and for good reason you have the shadow home secretary of the Labour Party tweeting about any evidence whatsoever that the protesters who by all accounts oppose apartheid by all accounts oppose bombing campaigns on one of the most densely populated areas in the world which killed 60 children very reasonable reasons to protest I'd say good reasons to protest he's called them all anti-Semitic and then he said solidarity to the person who doesn't want people of different ethnicities to get married he wishes her well he wishes her well this is the person who in May this year was going out on television saying oh no it's absolutely fine that Israel is continuing to bomb as I say the most densely part one of the most densely populated parts of the world it's completely fine because I think she said in that clip you know my grandma had to go into a bomb shelter well let's have some perspective as I said before in Israel there were 12 people killed over that 10 days in Palestine there were 260 including as I've said 60 children this is not someone who anyone anywhere near the Labour Party should be expressing their solidarity in a tweet with and especially not because they've experienced a protest this is you know you can imagine if there was some sort of terrorist activity you can imagine wishing well to someone who you vigorously disagree with you know I might disagree with what you stand for but this was obviously a tragic action if something really appalling has happened but this was a protest this was people holding up signs and saying you're not welcome at LSE because you are part of the government of an apartheid regime that's not my words that's the words of the Human Rights Organization or sorry Human Rights Watch and Betsalem which is Israel's most prestigious human rights organization and yet and yet we have Lisa Nandi saying this is terrible what has happened this peaceful protest this is terrible what has happened I find the whole thing cowardly I find it despicable and it frankly means no one should have any trust whatsoever in the people at the top of the Labour Party that they will do anything to the left of Tony Blair you know these are people who are coming out with actively imperialist statements backing people who are against marriages it's unbelievable I'm even saying it she's someone who opposes marriages of Jews and Palestinians Israelis and Palestinians Jews and Arabs Jews and Muslims this is not the kind of person who the Labour leadership should be standing up for and just piling in there and smearing these protesters as anti-Semites is despicable Boris Johnson is a self-absorbed egotist who cares for nothing but himself his prime ministership has been a disaster and it's cost tens of thousands of lives there is however just the tiniest silver lining to his inept role it's that his shameless incompetence means that over and over again on morning TV we get to see other self-absorbed egotists making fools of themselves defending his ridiculous actions this is Dominic Raab looking like an idiot after Boris Johnson refused to wear a mask on a recent hospital visit we've talked a fair bit haven't we about Boris Johnson and that hospital visit yesterday I'm just going to share some images now from the hospital yesterday he was at Hexham General Hospital not wearing a mask everybody else in the image that we can see at the moment is wearing a mask what type of message do you think that sends out well I know the prime minister took the advice on the clinical setting that he was in and followed all the protocols and procedures that were applied there and that's what everyone should do do you think though that maybe you're not the best look for a prime minister going into a hospital and you know I know you're saying that in clinical settings he wore a mask I was working in a hospital last week I was filming we put masks on from the moment we stepped through the door I think the right thing to do in all those settings is to take the advice that you've got follow the guidance very carefully and I know that's what the PM did I'm just going to read you the quote actually from the hospital itself they say anyone attending our hospitals and community settings must continue to protect patients, visitors and staff your reaction to that well my understanding is that the Prime Minister was given followed all the guidance that was given to him from the moment he was at the hospital and obviously in the different settings that he visited and that's right my understanding is that the Prime Minister followed all the protocols and all the advice for the setting he was in the host reads him the protocols and the advice for the setting that that was in surprisingly on the hospital's website it tells you that when you enter any part of the hospital you should wear a face mask and then Dominic Rogers repeats it I understand that that was the advice he was given was there bespoke advice written for the Prime Minister because that wouldn't be particularly good health policy that we should make complaints to the hospital if that were the case but I think more likely here is that Boris Johnson just thought why do the rules apply to me why should I wear a face mask now and I've said this before I'm not that militant about face masks it's very polite to wear them in supermarkets where there might be vulnerable people in there who really feel uncomfortable because people are breathing in and out I think it does make that setting safer I've spoken to epidemiologists who don't necessarily think that if we all wore face masks that would dramatically reduce transmission in Britain overall but in particular places absolutely it does on trains absolutely it does in supermarkets absolutely it does I'm going down the numbers because transmission mainly happens in schools and in social events where masks are well some would argue impractical some would argue wouldn't but in any case I'm not here to judge people who aren't wearing one I go out to bars and I'm not wearing a mask but where I do wear a mask is where I've been asked to wear one and where I do wear a mask is where other people are wearing one and where I do wear one is if I think that people around me might be vulnerable might be people who are particularly you know for a good reason really really don't want to risk catching Covid I should say I do lateral flow tests regularly as well but Boris Johnson is in a place where anyone you probably learn about age 4 that hospitals are full of vulnerable people I don't think it doesn't take that long to work that out Boris Johnson has gone there speaking to all these healthcare workers who are all wearing masks who speaks to a bunch of people in masks and doesn't think that maybe I should wear one but how in your own world where the only thing you are thinking about is yourself and what joke you're going to make next do you have to be to do that it's unbelievable and I do struggle to work out what he's trying to do like I saw some people on Twitter say maybe this is a dead cat maybe he didn't wear a mask because he wants us to be talking about masks instead of all the scandals about MPs second jobs now I don't normally find that kind of thing particularly convincing I think that's often over thinking it at the same time what's the other explanation it has to be a proactive decision because I just feel like anyone who's not a sociopath would feel somewhat uncomfortable walking around a hospital speaking to healthcare workers who are all wearing masks and not wearing a mask it's phenomenal but in any case at least we get to watch Dominic Raab making a fool of himself on national television because that guy did not look good I hope when this government collapses all of them you know condemned to the dustbin of history what have they contributed to society they've defended an idiot whose government has killed a bunch of people it is not really something that you want the history books to remember you for let's go to a comment we're finishing exactly on time Saul with a fibre those protesting against a far-right politician who is the diplomatic representative and apartheid regime should be applauded not condemned absolutely I think it's you know when I saw that video loads of people were sharing how outrageous is this this is you know I think if you've got an apartheid regime as I say human rights watch both said it's apartheid then I'd be worried if people weren't protesting the chief diplomat of that place so I mean we live in a really really topsy-turvy world that's it for tonight for your comments if you are already a Navarro media supporter thank 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A long time manufacturer favorite I would say of the Apple community is the Satechi line of products and I am here with Chris Martinez to talk about what they've got this year. How you doing today? I'm doing super so let me show you what we're gonna be announcing. Before you start I always forget to tell people this this is an audio podcast and some people will be on video so use a lot of detail to describe what you're looking at. Absolutely we'll do so. So first and foremost we're launching our new G2 product portfolio. So G2 is the evolution of MaxSafe. MaxSafe meaning you can magnetize your device to charge it. And charge now at 15 watts without being licensed by Apple. You were skipping ahead of me. I'm sorry. You love it though. I want to make sure the audience knows that's why this is cool. 100% so with this device here you charge your Apple watch on the back five watts it's also fast charging it also provides charging for your AirPods in the front as well as as you said the new G2 module that charges up to 15 watts this also provides vegan leather so soft finish touch. Does this articulate where I attached my phone? It does have an articulating arm here also what's unique it folds completely flat so allows you to travel. Oh that's nice. You can see the design how flat and flush that is. It's like a standard a stand-up stand except it folds flat for travel. Exactly and that's what we're trying to do empower the consumer to travel easily while empowering them to power all their different devices. And what's the name for this? This is our new 3-in-1 stand a foldable stand. And what's the price point on that? That's going to be $129 and then it's little brother which has a similar design minus the watch module is at $79.99 charging two different devices your AirPods as well as your device also charging at full 15 watts and as you can see also flat folds. Thinner. Everybody's in love with this kind of a design now because of standby mode. Absolutely. Everybody loves to have their phone up on the stand. It's a perfect way to charge and know what time it is. Exactly and to your point what we did is we're taking advantage of that so these are going to be announced tomorrow available in about the May timeframe. What we're also going to be announcing later in the summer is a couple new variants. So this device is similar but also allows you that complete pad version for the consumer. This is more like what is that like seven inches by four inches and then each of the pads lay flat. Exactly. Completely lays flat versus the other vertical design but this also allows is for consumers to utilize night stand mode for your watch or the articulating arm to also use standby mode. Very nice. Also fold completely flat for travel has the same vegan leather soft touch all aluminum design all the way around. So whatever your look is now I'm excited about this wallet looking MagSafe stand looking thing. Describe this. So this is our new magnetic wallet that launched with the iPhone 15. In addition to it being available on our site in four different colors. This also has exclusive colors on Apple's website. What this allows us to do 39.99 is MSRP but what's unique about this is in addition to it being a wallet it also has this the built-in stand. So it allows you to have a stand also holds four separate cards room for four cards inside and you can see the window here so you can have your own ID there. Very light design in four unique colors and so you'll continue to see and it's also vegan leather so you can see that feel that soft touch and you continue to see newer products and newer designs leveraging that same technology. I really like this idea of MagSafe and a wallet and a stand it's kind of getting it all done. Exactly and that's what we're looking to do is have a complete family of products that is empowering the consumer to leverage the magnetic capabilities of their device. All right got a couple more products down here. I'm going to show you one additional product at least because I know you got to go. This is our new international travel charger so this is 145 watts of power that's going to give you the ability to fully charge like your MacBook Pro so four USB-C PD ports out. What's also unique about this it allows you to simply remove this. The power adapter so it's taking the US AC adapter. Exactly so you can pull the US adapter out and then it comes with all these three different travel adapters for all your international travel. Also comes with a nice little mesh bag to carry everything with you and this is going to debut at 129. I love it. This is basically a throwback to something that Apple had years ago with our adapters was you could pop the plug off and put the international plugs on or as someone from New Zealand would say put the US plug on which is the international plug to them. So you said it was 140 watts? 145 watts. 145 watts and so it'll pull up to 140 watts of power depending on the combination of things you plug in. Exactly. Now wait there's one more product I'm going to have to show you. I knew he's going to do it. Satechi which is known for all the different type of products to fully immerse yourself with your desktop. We're launching our new mechanical keyboard so the new mechanical keyboard is going to be launching. It gives you that nice touch to the finish. You can see and feel that. So we're announcing that also in the next the day after tomorrow. We'll be having the press release. That really rounds out the overall portfolio that we're going to be having that expands the consumers ability to both beautify their desk and have a full performance. Very good. Thank you Chris. This is fantastic. That was that was a lot of products in a short amount of time. Well we have a lot more coming too. There you go. Keep an eye on Satechi. S-A-T-E-C-H-I and where would we go to buy those products? Satechi.net. Very good. Thank you.


Glenn Clark with Stevenson coach Gary Stewart after a thrilling 74 71 win for the Mustangs over Lebanon Valley Coach the win itself was great But the heart that your kids showed tonight after they fell behind a couple of times to keep coming up with big shots They were dudes banking in a half court buzzer beaters and your team still stuck in there and came up with big shot after big Shot how much does that mean to you? It means a lot. I thought our kids showed great resilience and and As you mentioned, I thought we fought really really hard we got down in second half and and Kept climbing the mountain and climbing the mountain and we got a couple good Possessions at the end and some critical baskets and free throws and and And we're able to get just enough separation, you know light is until you go to the to the last buzzer You know, you don't you you're worried and we didn't play it right at the end and he ended up getting the three we had Something else drawn up, but he's a good player and give him credit He you really hurt us tonight, and I thought our guys played him pretty well I mean he made some tough shots and and Andy or two so they're real difficult matchup So we're real proud of our effort Coach it's a team that's been through a lot this season And you have you mentioned those two shots at the end both bird and we but she'd fallen behind in the final Minute and you're up by just one How much is that can those guys take that with them not just moving forward this season But for their careers a moment like that and what they were able to do in those final closing moment Yeah, we got a thing that we've come up with here in the last Couple weeks talking about winning time in the last four minutes and things that we have to do and and we're seeing that We're seeing the execution. We're seeing the one stopping out You've got to make free throws to close one and two possession games out. We were able to do that against Alvernia Cliff made some good important free throws here down the stretch So it's starting to coming together and and we just got to continue to keep our head down and keep playing We've got we've got to have a good Saturday and and a good Wednesday We've obviously we've got a practice will in between we got to mention Cameron Hey is a 20-point night for him And it seems like in the last couple weeks when you've needed someone to kind of take some big shots and put a Put things on his shoulders Cameron Hayes been the one step up and do it. Yeah, I've been really really hard on him But he's gonna be special, you know, he's got a a lot of things that he can do He can take you off the bounce and I can Get separation at the rim and elevate over the top you days difficult matchup. I'm glad he's on our side About that atmosphere tonight. How about that crowd? How about the band here tonight? It was pretty fun night at Owings Mills gymnasium? Yeah, that's college basketball. I mean it was it was rocking and all the credit to our fans and the band Creates an atmosphere unlike any in our conference and our kids a feed off of that That was a big help. They were they were worth a couple possessions for us today. Well coach I know it's been a tough year Congratulations on a big win and best of luck moving forward this weekend. Thank you is Gary Stewart I'm Glenn Clark for go Mustang sports.com You


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards. We are ripping Switch the break title hold on one sec There we go 2019 panini plates and patches football hobby 12 box full case break number 35 random team style There's a look again at your end results as always can find those on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat It's good luck guys. Here we go Now that blades actually a low key kind of doll This is awesome 139 a spot to get into some older stuff. Hell, yeah empty. Here we go Come on. Let's see like a Brady dude. Let's see a Brady in my home. It's too bad. Everyone's gone How would you do this here? I'm gonna Donnie. I'm gonna Donnie archives. They don't want to do that Don cives SIG series here Lord, all right, so we've got a Barry Sanders from luminance 2019 luminance black plate nice one-on-one There you go for the Lions Mike. Hell, yeah, dude Steve young to 99 that is gonna be a Devin singletary 10 of 35 nice one there for the bills Who cool one here is Derek Brooks 73 of 75 player worn slash used material Congrats bucket ears great iron gear. This is sick Lance Briggs 48 of 99 for the Bears Congrats Chicago going to Joel. Let's go Joel Let me drop you guys a link again to optic down to nine spots remaining Nine to go just two group breaks with spots tonight everybody. It's nine to go Well Sean McCoy nice Buffalo Bill Sean McCoy So I'm there from certified that's cool got a rendez-barber legends 99 of 99 for the bucks It's gonna be a Keenan Allen. That is gonna be 31 of 35 Cool one here for the Steelers Alejandro Villanueva 7 of 10 Congrats on that there Steelers 7 of 10 Alejandro Villanueva and a Riley Ridley 33 up 50 going to the Bears Two colored RPA Calvin's younger brother played at Georgia Didn't quite pan out in the NFL unfortunately, but still a cool one See a Kyler see a Kyler shield He's not so I believe this is coming back this year. Well, that's cool Wesley Woodard captain's scion plate for the Titans Got a second year Lamar to 99 For the Ravens, this is called rookie Debo Samuel to 35 For the Nair Steven W. Congrats Steven Brent picking up two spots in the next break. Thank you Brent. We're down to seven Me coal hardman, Jr 26 of 50 Three two color all the way around for Kansas City. That is player worn me Cole Hardman on the patch trio Now a jet, right? Yes now a jet is correct and Tony Pollard on card rookie auto 28 of 99 last week Rookie upper echelon going to the Cowboys Which is I hate that team. It's pretty cool card solid man. He's running back one there for sure. Yeah. Oh, boy We can't hear about the distance All right, that is gonna be a Josh Allen From 19 Don Russ retro 99 scion plate for the bills dash 11 of 99 kill a Trav Travis Kelsey for the Chiefs that is gonna be a Tyrell Williams nice one there 34 of 35 for the Raiders Nice one here for the Bears. That is a Two of 99 we've got David Montgomery and Riley Ridley Three color and two color. It was a nice patch. This is 2021. I know I know we're one year off Going to Todd see in the Jags Minshew mania 36 of 99 on card Gardner Minshew the second rookie auto Grats there The stash is back in town stash is back Colt that's new Indianapolis Colts Gardner Minshew Yes All right, we've got a Zeke Elliott's Base from 18 rookies and stars.  Geez taking over DK And I think taking over Terry Couldn't be my team to do that. You know that we did take That is a Willie McGinnis 38 of 60. That's disgusting Alex. That's awesome. Nice one there Patriots How about for the Ravens Lamar and Marquise Brown 31 of 99 Player worn on bull three color three color Lamar and Hollywood. That's pretty sweet. Hell. Yeah, dude That's awesome. There's a bit jealous. I am very jealous of that one Good job guys a link to flawless divisionals again, everybody. We are down to six to go six to go Flawless collegiate 2020 greedy Williams Rookie upper echelon 36 of 99 for the Browns. He's still hanging around somewhere in the NFL I forget where but he went somewhere else. I think we pick them up to be honest. It sounds right Yeah, that does sound right.  I love play some patches. It's so cool We've got a printing plate that is Saquon Barkley rookie from 2018 select for the Giants. Nice. Very cool Got a Zeke Elliott to 99. Oh, that's really cool This is a really freaking cool card man. We've got a David Tyree 23 of 35 with the helmet catch For the Giants is such a good set, dude. This is such a gorgeous set How about a rookie of Nick Bosa 51 of 99 patch trio for the Niners? There you go. San Fran. It's gonna be Hunter Renfro 56 of 99 three colored RPA for the I look exactly like Brian Holliday. I saw one there for the Raiders All right, we're only halfway through here Donnie. This doesn't have to be Jacob's for a second. Oh, yeah That it would be the same year. Yeah, would be the same year. So it's RPA though. Very nice Hunter Renfro's a beast. Yeah, probably one of the like most underrated receivers Right probably agree with that to be honest. We got the most but he's definitely one of them Yeah, two printing plates on this one. Yeah, we do. We've got a rookie of Benny Snell from 19 elite and a Juju Smith Schuster highlight reel prestige 2019 54 of 99 oh god Earl Thomas for the Ravens got that was a That was an era for a bit. That's one here. It's gonna be a rookie of Devon Bush That is 12 of 35 for the Steelers Next up is full coverage of Daryl Henderson. Oh, that's six 38 of 50 full coverage three colored patch Congrats Rams And go to the Buccaneers Ring of Honor Auto Derek Brooks That's so cool. That is on card as well. Congrats Tampa Bay Brian B There you go, Brian Derek Brooks Ring of Honor Hall of Famer Inducted the Ring of Honor and September 14th 2014 you want a Super Bowl there as well Wonder who else is on this checklist for the Ring of Honor? That's pretty cool. Yeah, those are nice I'm imagining just sets all On guard most likely I'd have to imagine I guess ooh a Mari Cooper One of one printing plate auto from Luminance. Oh, yeah for the Cowboys. Let's go The boys nice one there. That was Cowboys Minka to 99 for the Steelers We've got a Michael Thomas nice one there 11 up 25 on the green. That's pretty cool That's some good names right there. 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Yeah Spoken into existence Uh, this will be a random to these two teams. We've got a Joey and nick bossa joey with four colors nick with two Nice one there congrats. Uh, we've got that is steven w with the niners And Chargers is wyming h So that'll be a random for you guys there and a drew lock 13 of 25 three colored rpa for the broncos. We got the bold had to Had to Very nice. I'll do a quick random here for the bossa brothers again bossa's Patches 40 now we'll do chargers Chargers 49ers 49ers All right guys gonna roll the dice whatever team is on top after nine times. 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I think right now, the top performing company in our portfolio doesn't have a website, doesn't have a logo, has never been... There's nothing about it on LinkedIn, employees, I don't know, a few dozen people, I don't think any of them... There's nothing about it online and yet it's raised three rounds of financing now and it has a great valuation and products incredible, huge traction.  And I don't know, it's just like... But that's also when you see, I call them work pipes based on this guy Shane Snow's idea of, you play Super Mario Brothers and I think it's in his book, Smart Cuts, but there's this, he tells the story of his roommate who basically essentially played the world record in Super Mario Brothers by playing through the game, basically completing the entire game in the shortest amount of time in the world. And I think the previous world record was like 36 minutes and he did it in, I don't know, five minutes and 30 seconds. And he was able to do this because he used warp pipes, which I mean, I as a being a Super Mario generation guy, which I recognize you probably aren't, I always thought they were put in by the game designers so that people, testers who were playing the game could skip levels. So, you know, at the end of Super Mario Brothers, if you hop on this elevator at the end of level one, you can go up above the entire game field and then you can basically run all the way to the end of the level, kind of where the scores are, you know, where you're not supposed to be able to go, right? And then you get into this special thing where you can use warp pipes to skip levels. So using those, it's cheating, total cheating. You're not supposed to do that, or are you? And this is something, this happens in VC2, right? So occasionally you get this founder that's using warp pipes to skip all the normal process and raises money like that. And you're grateful that you were able to get into that deal. And that's what the VCs are looking for. And those founders have this kind of traction, right? And so when that happens is, you know, the VC hops on a plane if needed, you know, desperately tries to get an intro. So it completely turns around. Suddenly now you have VCs pitching the founder. And then, you know, the idea is like, I remember I was spending a weekend with a friend before I came here to Helsinki in Big Sur. And he said, well, he was pitching this Andreessen firm in the valley that I'm sure you know well. And I said, well, I was like, how did that process go? And well, I was like, it was really fast. I was invited to the partner meeting. And then I had the term sheet in my email before the Uber arrived to pick me up after the meeting. It can be really fast because you really want that deal. And as a VC, you need, that's the moment of sheer terror for the VC. It's right when you suddenly realize, now I got to move. And so as a founder, you want to be the catalyst for that kind of moment in the VC's brain. And it doesn't come unless, number one, you have this kind of idea that matches what we just talked about, right? Because the VC is doing, it's, you know, the gears are grinding in my brain when you pitch me and I'm thinking, is this going to return my fund 3X, right? And then the second thing is, is this founder obviously going to lead this company to a massive exit?  The follow on financing to get this there, right? Is it going to come from customer revenue or do I need to look at my friends, the bigger VC's and figure out which ones of them are going to be, you know, a match in order to fund the, you know, like my friend Blake Scholl is building a supersonic jet, boom supersonic, right? Imagine, or I'm, you know, I invest in a company called Isai here in Helsinki that makes radar satellites, right? So you can already tell that those companies are going to need more follow on financing than Rahul who's building an email client, superhuman or, you know, Ulf Schwieckendijk who's building, you know, meditation productivity app called Centered. These are SaaS businesses that, but again, so, you know, you can build both kinds of companies, but you're going to need to raise from people who are aligned with that. Isai probably couldn't have invested that from YesVC, but True Ventures has a fund that is actually set up for something like that because the fund size is right, you know, they have the capability to do the kind of follow-ons that are needed when you need to raise more money to launch satellites and fundamentally, you know, you look at a business like that and you're like, oh, radar satellites, really, really, really hard technology to create and expensive. So, but generates data, right? So you're not just selling satellites. You're going to have this satellite in the air that's going to be taking pictures through the clouds at nighttime, providing completely reliable 24-7 coverage of any spot on the earth, whereas any normal satellite that's using a camera, 70% of the time can't image anything because there's clouds or it's dark, right, because the cameras just can't see through the clouds, right? It's just logic, right? So, oh, if you've got a satellite that can see through clouds, that's probably pretty valuable. And then if it's the only satellite that can see through the clouds, it's probably even more valuable, right? And so just from that perspective, then from a VC, you're like, oh, this is interesting because, wow, like, this could be super valuable, right? And so, and what's not to like because also it's really hard to copy. So it's justified to invest tens of millions of dollars into something like that because you realize that it's also building this mode that's making it increasingly difficult for others. And you realize that the value that you're getting out of it could still return that kind of multiplier because it could be so incredibly valuable, right? So, you know, you can just plug this into a spreadsheet. And I think it's fun also to, as a founder, I just recommend it. It's like, I run a cafe. So this is the other thing.  It used to be like, VCS always would say, you have to put all your eggs in one basket as a founder. You've, you know, we get to do a portfolio, but you as a founder, you have to focus on your own company, right?  You know, as a founder, you should be proliferating. You should be angel investing. If you can, you should be exposing yourself to other founders. Start multiple companies. I think that's great. So, you know, and I run a cafe, but it gives me incredible information advantage because now like I just got pitched, I don't know, like a time management solution for small businesses. I can just test it out with my employees and I can see what works and what doesn't and I can actually evaluate these deals because frankly, I'm a customer. So that's another thing is like if you are a founder and this is what I call these soda straw links, it's the best founders are always connecting in social networking terms to communities, right? Like for instance, let's say cafe owners and website or, you know, online internet technology companies, right? So these typically don't really overlay, right? Not many cafe owners are also Silicon Valley tech company builders, right? But when as a VC, like I am now, I can be my own customer, right? And so I can see from my personal experience what works and what doesn't. And so as a founder, I think that's why I'm also saying, and especially as a young founder, you know, trying out and being wearing multiple hats at the same time is great because it gives you this ability to work as this sort of soda straw link that's, you know, basically connecting to networks that would otherwise not be connected.


Welcome back to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. Now in our first conversation it's on the demand by PANDEV, that's the Pan-Nighter Delta Forum, demanding a 50% increase, that's from 13% derivation. Right, now just to also mention that you also have some members of the House of Representatives who have requested that a part of the Constitution subsection 162, subsection 2, 1999 as amended be deleted. This is to allow the revenue directly to the governors, I mean saying delete this revenue sharing from the Constitution. So that has generated a lot of reaction, a lot of talks and this is not the first time the issue of derivation is on the front burner of this cause. But we do have with us this morning, we're going to be having a conversation with the spokesperson of PANDEV, Ken Robinson. Ken Robinson thank you for joining us, he is the National Publicity Secretary of PANDEV. It's good to have you join us this morning on the show. Good morning to you and good morning to you as across the world, good morning Nigeria. And once again it's nice to be here and we thank you for this opportunity. Okay so let's go straight to the crux of the matter, what are the consents of PANDEV? That will be my first question to you, what are your consents? Consents, the consents of PANDEV are the consents of the Niger Delta people. PANDEV is committed to the collective wishes and aspirations and of course the consents of the Niger Delta people across the region and that's what we stand for, that's what we project, that's what we promote, that's our focus and so our consign, this demand for 50 percent of derivation is of 13 percent, that is what it used to be, let us not forget that following the McFarcy's constitution of 1946 and the Richard's constitution of 1951. No, Richard's constitution is 1946, the Richard's constitution is 1946 and the McFarcent constitution is 1951. Yes, sorry for that CS, thank you for that correction. So it's 1946 constitution and 1951 constitution of McFarcent, derivation principle became a major factor in revenue sharing in Nigeria and this was reflected in the 1960 and the 1963 constitutions of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. At that time, when Koko in the west, Granote in the north and of course Bamfrogus and Kohl in the east were the mainstay of the nation's economy, it was 50 percent at some point it was even more than 50 percent but it is sad that since crude oil became the economic mainstay of the country, derivation principles have been suppressed, grossly suppressed, at some point it was zero, at some point it was 1 percent and during the upper deck period it was 1.3 percent and thanks goodness that those who framed the 1999 constitution and of course made a constitutional conference before then increased it to 13 percent which is even part three compared to the 50 percent that other regions were enjoying when they had their own resources. So what Pandef is saying is that let us go back to what it used to be. Ridiculously, some dishonorable members of the National Assembly are thinking of deleting derivation principle because the target is derivation principle, the cosine is 13 percent don't forget that the derivation principle was included to kind of recompense the people of any area in Nigeria where natural resources were being exploited and due to the consequences of the operations of the industry, in Nigeria Delta have suffered a lot, our environment has been degraded, livelihoods means of livelihood have been devastated, our people are living in abject poverty and the government of Nigeria has not done enough so to kind of if you like to say to improve the resulting their standard of living of our people. The Niger Delta today has reduced the vision of struggle for survival you know and it is so annoying, so provocative that some persons will consider even deleting the part three 13 percent that were even being given and it's not even 13 percent as it were complete 30 percent because if it is 13 percent it's every revenue earned by Nigeria True Crude Oil the 13 percent should should should apply to it but what they do today is is the benchmark for the budget that the 13 percent applies to so the excess crude account we should get 13 percent of it if it is 30 percent but now the Nigeria Delta people position is that it is 50 percent or nothing less. Okay so well I also like to find out the demand for 50 50 percent are you demanding for host communities or is Pandev demanding for governors because I also remember that there's been some kind of conflict between you know stakeholders and governors so who is Pandev demanding the 50 percent increase for? Pandev's position is that there is no difference between governors and host communities the governors are elected by the people of Nigeria Delta of their states if by using of a 14 1999 constitution there are there are no strong institutions to to to check the excesses of governors don't forget that the constitution of Nigeria has made the president of Nigeria to be like a god of Nigeria and the governors are demigods so it's not the problem of of the governors it's is the quality constitution if if the the people have the power as it is it is supposed to be the governors will not do what is not aligned with the people so we are not asking for host communities we're not asking for governors we're asking for the people of Niger Delta Niger Delta belongs to everybody the governors come from a community if if we are in a proper system a proper constitution where there are checks and balances still the excesses that we are seeing being demonstrated by by governors not just governors of the Niger Delta governors across the 36 days of the federation and of course the presidents the excesses the the the dictatorial tendencies will not be there if we have a proper system if we have a proper democratic structures and institutions to to monitor and check the excesses of this of these elected officials so so we are asking for the Niger Delta people the Niger Delta is demanding 50 percent of of our resources before we talk about sharing that is what it used to be but that is what they not before now used to to to to develop their area and and provided massive scholarships to their people that is what the west used to advance itself building the first this and the first that and the first this and then provided massive education free education at all level because they had 50 percent of resources now we are being given at some point zero percent by by the decree of 1959 where it was said that it was to because they wanted to use resources for the war the war has been over for about 50 60 years and we are still talking about the derivation here we want 50 that's the position of the Niger Delta people okay for those who think that they can delete the derivation we have said it is a legislative coup against mineral producing areas of Nigeria and regions of Nigeria and those men are dishonorable they don't have any reason to be in the federal house of representatives of Nigeria so you have also mentioned that zero percent when you say zero percent are located what what does that mean can you please clarify that please come again you talked about zero percent allocation what does zero percent allocation mean at some point in the 70s it was zero percent allocation there was no that is there was no derivation derivation was zero at at some point in Nigeria and then I think it was during the the Babangidar regime when they set up umpade oil mineral producing areas development commission it was 1.3 percent today it is by reason of the constitution of 1999 it's 13 percent we are saying yes and that that there should have been a review every five years the derivation principle has not been reviewed for about 20 about 22 years so we are saying at this time we want 50 percent that's what it used to be what others enjoy the Niger Delta people should also enjoy it is it is disturbing that the Nigerian state and by extension Nigerians from other regions of this country continue to treat the Niger Delta in such a shabby manner we have breastfeed Nigeria for all these years without the food from Niger Delta we don't know what Nigeria would have been like okay so last so enough of this this this neglect enough of this regard we deserve we are critical stakeholders in fact as one of our leaders we are critical shareholders of the Nigerian project what others enjoy the Niger Delta people should also enjoy it so we are asking for 50 percent derivation although I was hoping for some clarity with who a pandemic is representing at this point in time whether the host communities which are stakeholders or you know the governors at this point in time but however you also have stakeholders I mean persons host communities saying that the demand for 50 percent increase is not you know governors have not been able to justify it and they have not been able to judiciously explain how 13 percent is used because the issue of infrastructure deficit is still very great in the region as you don't have access to portable water drinking water and road infrastructure amongst other issues so I'd like you to share your thoughts on that this stakeholders are saying that the governors have not been very judicious in spending that their themes be sent you know that has been allocated to the region that that narrative is neither here nor there and it's a narrative that some sections of the country some very uniform persons in the corridors of power have also been counting that what have you done with the resources that been given to you unfortunately some of these persons have never been to the Niger Delta the host communities are complaining now members of the host communities are complaining no let me let me come what I'm saying is this and it's categorical quotes us anywhere we are speaking for the Niger Delta people there is no well informed there is no well meaning Niger Delta person who is without political and personal prejudice that will say that the demand for 50 percent is out of place no Niger Delta anyone we are saying that is say is a political psychopath or is agreed for for one reason or the other the Niger Delta people are dissatisfied with the way we have been treated by the Nigerian state and so the position of the Niger Delta people and Pandem is not speaking for host communities Pandem is not speaking for governors Pandem is speaking for the collective interests of the Niger Delta people that's what we stand for we had a meeting on Monday and we had people traditional rulers leaders of host communities representatives of governments and and activists youths women leaders were in that meeting Pandem represents the collective interests and aspirations of the Niger Delta people and that's what we're saying that whether the governors have used these resources probably or not is secondary but have they done so no to some extent but it is not peculiar to the Niger Delta it's a Nigerian problem and it arises from the faulty constitution we have because there are no proper checks and balances the assemblies are the pockets of the governors the national assemblies in the pocket of the president that is the situation we have in Nigeria and that's what we're asking for fundamental changes in terms of restructuring of the political system of the constitution and of the structure of Nigeria until we have a proper structure where things are done rightly we will have to continue to have these complaints but to say that because perhaps one governor the other is not doing what somebody thinks that he should do and so the people of Nigeria should be denied what is their right it is completely ridiculous we are saying that the people of Nigeria that are saying we are tired of this disregard we're tired of this neglect and we want 50 percent derivation as it used to be that's an underlying factor that is what obtains when there was cocoa and granades as main states of the nation's economy why is it different now that it is food oil because we are Niger Delta people because we're minorities is it because of the diversities and the complexities of the Niger Delta God has a reason why has made us so and has blessed this land with this so much resources perhaps and definitely to compensate for the difficult terrain that we live in like those who are scared to lead Nigeria go around Nigeria visit Nigeria and know this country most of us speak from USA and guest stations they don't know Nigeria we don't know this country we don't love this country if we love this country we will not do some of the things that we've been doing as leaders of Nigeria okay but one of the major concern in a country I mean like you've rightly mentioned is the issue of accountability and we have never seen anyone the world where funds and resources are enough and no one is also saying that you know the demand for 50 percent is not okay or it's I mean it's not your right to demand for that but the question still is with the 13 percent that has been put out that's been given for about 22 other about how efficient what infrastructures what projects can you categorically mention that you know the region has actually achieved with that or with the resources that has been allocated can you mention any any development any structure or anything the best response will be to say that I wish we had pictures of what Niger Delta used to used to be in 1998-1999 the roads the structures and then what it is today the rivers that we are coming from in 1999 there was no roads to Opopo kingdom a riverine community today there is a road you can drive to Opopo you can drive to Andoni by by to in coral that's that's that's development is that enough perhaps no they could have done better but the fact remains that if you have tools that that you can abuse you will abuse them where human beings when there are no checks and balances look at what is going on in the national assembly look look at what is going on across all the states when local government elections are conducted in the particular state 90 percent or 80 percent or 100 percent of elected officials are from the party controlling the state does that mean that all the other parties didn't have people that are liked by the citizens of those states we have issues fundamental issues in Nigeria and it boils down to the constitution we were operating with we're saying for Nigeria to stand firmly as a united progressive indivisible country they are asked to be restructuring when we have restructured and the people have the power to choose those that will become their governors and senators the house of assembly members the house of red members and even the president they will begin to behave better but to say that there is no development in the Niger Delta is it's a fallacy and most of those who are saying these things outside the Niger Delta are people who don't know the Niger Delta they come to protocol they go to you they go to worry and perhaps vinnicity on Yenegwa and they think that they have seen Niger Delta that's that's not the complete Niger Delta go to a Keremo go to Kolaama go to Kola go to go to Ibeno that was mobile and and look at the roads what has the federal government done what what is the extent of contribution but by the IOCs so we are asking that if we give the Niger Delta region as 50% as the west and the north and east used to have development will be fine and we will have a better living for our people okay but you know if it's like there seem to be some contradiction because the argument is that one of the argument is that the resources or the resources is not sufficient these funds are inadequate 13% is inadequate to address address issues that you know the region is faced with and so on the other hand you're saying you know you already have development and there are a lot of infrastructure so on which site should we now stay there is no contradiction the development aspect is to answer the question and devolve the claim the financials claim that there is nothing done with the 13% to be receiving for some years now that's not true there are changes the changes are not enough because the resources are not enough but the demand for 50% is beyond the resources not been enough we are saying do what you used to do for others there should be no discrimination there should be no biases when it was cocoa in the west when it was granite in the north when it was palm oil and coal in the east it was 50% that's what it used to be we are saying let's revert back to that that's the that's the cross of demand the other issues are secondary and let me emphasize that there is no true Niger Delta no well meaning no well informed Niger Delta that is without political and personal biases or prejudice against any of these political officials that will say that 50% demand is out of place because he or she thinks 13% has not been used appropriately to his satisfaction or to our satisfaction the Niger Delta people are saying enough of this this this kind of very sharp treatment and not for the disregard we we we will not accept anything less than 50% going forward okay so but you also mentioned the issue of restructuring and it brings to mind why pandev is asking for a 50% increase why not ask for resource control so why are you asking that you have a 50% increase instead of asking for resource control that allows you to control your resources true reputious we are not greedy self-centered people we are very generous people and we have demonstrated good will to the Nigerian state for all these years even before independence we have been very accommodating we are very loving people and it is in that spirit and in the letters of the constitutions of 1963 and 1963 and it is in that spirit that we are saying we fight back to 50% what you sucked in asking for 100% and then we are not we are not very greedy people we are not self-centered we love this country we want Nigeria to progress we want Nigeria to be united we want a peaceful and progressive Nigeria and and that's why we are saying look this is what you used to do let us go back to the standards where so are you saying that pandev is not in support of true fiscal federalism our we have submitted papers on our devolution of powers and and and we have asked for for for resource control to the extent that that this is the demand that states and states should control their resources and pay some some amount of money to go to the center as compromise to the Nigerian state Niger Delta people are saying let us have 50% of our resources and then let us put 50% with this this this report okay so let's move away from that now in the communique that was signed some of the consents that the two made or some of the point that was raised is the fact that you said the Niger Delta people are ready and mobilized to dispense full resistance against this wicked mechanization if i'm correct and any future attempt to further economically take away the region and its people from what they actually deserve and this is me paraphrasing what do you mean what does that really mean because when you say full resistance it feels like you know some sort of force can you please show more light and that is that is the wicked and satanic attempt to deprive the Niger Delta people of even the little that we are getting for whatever reason one cannot fathom why 59 members of the House of Representatives from a section of the country will move to delete section subsection 2 section 162 of the 1999 constitution as amended that act is a call to an act and so it's a message to those dishonorable 59 members of the House of Representatives and to their backers whoever they are that the Niger Delta people can no longer be taken for granted and that we are ready to resist them with with every fiber in our faith so what approach is a pandev going to take to ensure that their demands are being met what are the approach that you have put out and prior to this time what efforts have you made as you know a body to ensure that you know government actually needs and those who are responsible or stakeholders pay attention to your request it is it is sad that the only language in Nigerian states as as it appears this seems to is the is the language of violence is the sad everything the Niger Delta has gotten from the Nigerian state has been through one form of resistance or the other and and we can go back to the days of even before independence to the days of adakaburu and and down to kensarua and until 20s 2016 the niger delta versions and and mend and all that the history is is is is sad history and and it's unfortunate that a country of responsible people will treat a very special as a vision of the country in this manner and so the message we are sending to the rest of nigeria is that look if you are taking us for granted for too long and this acts this attempt to delete section subsection two section 162 of the constitution is an affront and a complete satanic attempt to tell the niger delta people that you can do your worst and we are saying to them if he gets to that level perhaps the niger delta people will do their worst and i say this as a very responsible citizen of the federal republic of Nigeria that is committed to the fundamental rights and welling of his people the niger delta people okay so just as we begin to cost it down now what would be your if you have the opportunity now to speak to those who are responsible what would be your request right now what do you would you be saying to them as we cost this conversation down let us we're speaking to mr president and and in the next couple of days pandef and leaders stakeholders in the niger delta will be reached out to various power points and and speak to the people to to talk to their people that look is this let us not talk the ambass of for us to the ambass of this discord and this unity and disarmament in the country there are fundamental issues that need to be addressed by the presidency and the national assembly and not to attack to begin to cause more people to get revoked and so we are saying please be reasonable be sensitive and and do the things that are right let us move the unless we don't want uh nigeria to progress or less we don't want nigeria to to to exist or less we don't want nigeria to be peaceful and and we are saying that those men who who sponsor that deal and they're backers are in fact terrorists because they don't want peace in nigeria all right thank you so much uh ken robinson for being part of the conversation this morning we do wish you the very best with your quest in asking for 50 percent increase in derivation from 13 percent thank you so much thank you uh go five times once again and thank you so much for this opportunity god bless you well that's so much that we can take at this point in time we'll definitely step on the brakes and when we return uh you know more conversations will come through right here please stick around good morning


Welcome back beatbox fam. I'm Kale and today on beatboxing like a pro We're gonna learn one of my favorite moves the inward TK If you're new here and enjoy this tutorial or even if you're not new here and you haven't subscribed make that rev button gray And as always smash that like button Yeah, so the inward TK guys, right?  Okay, my air passageways closed off good now when you open it vocalize an inward T and Now do it again and do K and Then once you're able to do that inward T and inward K vocalization Then vocalize tuka inward tuka. It's the same concept close off your air passageway and then vocalize an inward tuka And then as you get it crisper and crisper and crisper and trust me guys It takes a little bit of time it takes time and it takes patience It's an it's an advanced technique, but really what it what it what's advanced about it is is it just takes a lot of patience You know, you're gonna have to practice it for a week two three four weeks Maybe you know before you're able to get it like You know, so don't it's not gonna come out like that right away. It's probably gonna be like You know, so if you have any questions leave them in the comments below And that's all I really gotta say guys I'll see you in the next tutorial