CanaryPod: Topple Uncaged EP4

Welcome to Topple Uncaged!

Every week The Canary will be bringing you a new podcast on the media landscape; hosted by me, Steve Topple.

I’ll be giving you the quickest news round up in the UK in Plucked News. Then, I’ll be going in on some of the biggest stories with a very special guest on Free Flying With… After that, I’ll be taking apart, and taking down, this week’s #bbcqt in Question Time: Topple Chirps Back. And finally, I’ll be bringing you the freshest, most banging political music in Revolutionary Bird Song.

This week’s guests? The searingly good journalist and media consultant Claire Stephenson and the staggeringly talented singer/songwriter artist MIRI.

As always, don’t forget to ‘get involved’ by sharing Topple Uncaged and join the conversation using the hashtag #toppleuncaged on social media.

Enjoy!

CANARY POD TOPPLE UNCAGED SHOW NOTES 9/12/18

Presented, edited and produced by Steve Topple.

Plucked News articles in order:

EU support for austerity opens door to far right, Corbyn says

‘Like execution by firing squad’: VIDEOS of French students’ arrest by armed police stirs OUTRAGE

State Dept. official: China holding 800k Muslim minorities in internment camps

When asked by @johnpringdns at a press conference yesterday why the #MentalHealthActReview review had not recommended full implementation of the UN convention, Wessely (pictured, right) said that “those kind of recommendations go too far”. What!!! #UNCRPDhttps://t.co/yEYo4seyuA

— Dr Jay Watts (@Shrink_at_Large) December 7, 2018

Two scandals over inequality hit the UK’s elite universities in just 24 hours

NYU Student Government Passes Israeli-authored BDS Resolution

UN day of disabled people: De Cordova close to tears over Commons access failure

Thankyou everyone who has shared our films debunking Political lies & deceit over the past 12 months. Working together, fighting together we have smashed a staggering 50 Million Views!! Mainstream media is broken, together we are fixing it! If BBC1 won’t report it @CWUnews will! pic.twitter.com/6JjtWdnIP6

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) December 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1070393805667483648

The EU plans to permanently sabotage a Jeremy Corbyn-led government

Free Flying With… news articles in order:

The media hit peak toxicity with its analysis of Corbyn at PMQs

Cuadrilla will seek to raise fracking tremor threshold in Lancashire

Cuadrilla’s biggest shareholder, AJL, is losing investors over the #fracking failure in the UK. It’s probably a good move for them to sell-up now before the final toilet flush on the fracking industry comes. Not long now. #UntilWeWin #BanFracking pic.twitter.com/RdP3mi2cLm

— Lady_Claire 🍉 (@Lady_ClaireEU) December 6, 2018

Who are the gilets jaunes and what do they want?

Question Time: Topple Chirps Back:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bv1yln/question-time-2018-06122018

Revolutionary Bird Song: MIRIThe Plight video:

MIRI’s website.

Follow on Twitter:

Steve Topple @MrTopple; The Canary @TheCanaryUK; Claire Stephenson @Lady_ClaireUK; MIRI @miriofficialuk; Nicola Jeffery @NicolaCJeffery; Rai Star Music @rai_star113

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Topple Uncaged Theme Music: Lost Souls by Lee Wrizzle

Oh Come All Ye Faithful by RobCharles1981

Featured image via Steve Topple, The Canary and Maurice – Wikimedia