{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Lesley Riddoch Podcast","title":"Give Peace A Chance","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3842,"description":"Some weeks there are so many issues to get through but we try our best in this episode.\nThe Covid Inquiry continues to throw a hard light on the incompetence and down right corruption of the UK government during the pandemic.\nWe look at the latest revelations and testimonies from amongst others Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham.\nWe also question the almost universal ignoring of the inquiry by the Scottish media.\nThis is in stark contrast to the obsession with Michael Matheson's laptop, which spilled over into the last FM's Questions to the exclusion of any debate on the closure of Grangemouth.\nThe media frenzy around this will pale into insignificance when the Alex Salmond case for \"misfeasance in public office\" comes to court with the potential for star witnesses like Nicola Sturgeon. Why has he decided to bring the case now?\nImmigration is at the centre of European politics right now.\nThe \"secret\" Sunak/Braverman agreement. The success of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and the Dublin far right riots.\nWe examine each of these in turn but also consider the impact of the rise of ant-immigrant, far right, parties on the future shape and policies of the EU.\nThe truce between Hamas and Israel has been extended by a further two days. But what does the future hold for the people of Gaza?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TKOlqg4xKOK2bn8lxAR0BKU_Ic-p9GXvCAC9p0Malv4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNjdl/Y2Y2MTczOWY1OTYw/NTEzNGY3MTY2Yzgw/ODAwYy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}