Notices by iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop), page 13

Why is failed politician Ed Miliband giving radio advice to Geoff Lloyd, who has been on the air since the early '90s?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-44978944/ed-miliband-has-advice-for-stand-in-bbc-host

@medusa I've never really understood anti-semitism, I think I missed something somewhere.

All forms of racism I disagree with, but I can *see* why some idiots are Islamophobic, I can see why some idiots don't like immigrants.

But British Jewish communities seem to keep to themselves, you don't see visibly Jewish people unless you walk around North Leeds on a Saturday, I just don't see why people so vehemently dislike them. All the Jewish people I've met have been super polite and nice.

@medusa We have got issues here with the Labour party being described as anti-semitic.

I don't know enough about the subject to know whether it's true, and I suspect the Conservative media are jumping on it as a way to blast the Labour party, but Jewish communities themselves are saying there's a problem so I have to assume there's a problem somewhere in there.

@medusa I'm impressed that it's in English. If someone here put up a sticker in German no one would be able to read it

@porsupah I say close these places down, the 'food' they sell has no nutritional value, the 'jobs' they provide have no economic value and they're generally a drain on society.

Their only positive quality is that they keep all the screaming little brats in one place during the school holidays.

@porsupah hey I was reading that 😡 😂

Ed Balls

On the radio:

Ed Balls

No, really

@ebel @david_ross Tiffany and Co are experiencing a jewellery shortage, I went in there with a fiver and they wouldn't sell me anything

@amcewen Hi! DoES Liverpool looks amazing. I wish we had something like that where I live, Liverpool's 90 miles away.

I do go there a couple of times a year to spend hours browsing News from Nowhere, though. :)

@ghost_bird The other subtext of such moaning is, of course, "when someone came along with the skill set we wanted, they had the audacity to demand a pay level to match, we wanted to pay £17,000".

Particularly in the North, that's a problem - ridiculously low pay offered for quite skilled work.

@ghost_bird Funny how they always have the money to invest in fancy Manchester offices

@ghost_bird It's on the radio, some nob from a local IT company moaning that we're all stupid round here and that's why he's got to move his company to Manchester.

Britain's "skills shortage" is a myth.

When employers moan in the press that there aren't enough skilled workers to hire for their company, what they really mean is "we don't want to invest in training and there aren't enough people with the *exact skill set* we need to throw them into our business with no training or development whatsoever".

There is no shortage of skilled, educated, bright people in Britain. There is a shortage of bosses who will invest in staff development.

Today's radio phone in topic: "Which is better, Beatles or Stones?"

Are you broadcasting from 1971?

To be honest, the best radio edit of that particular track would be the one that deleted it off the playout system entirely. But maybe I'm getting old.

Listening to a newly launched Scottish radio station this morning. "Wait, who the fuck does he think he is? Took a glass bottle, shattered it on the bouncer's head, that motherfucker" goes the 'song' playing at 9am.

Radio edits, people. Even in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 this shit won't fly.

@silverspookgames Eight times the lowest paid employee is still pretty obscene.

@StuC SoundArt is also in the process of starting a new kind of radio station, more like a radio art installation on Dartmoor in SW England. It's not going to have a studio, instead it's a continuous mix of field recordings.

It picked up a bit of news coverage when it was first awarded a licence: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/03/radio-station-swaps-djs-dartmoor-plays-recordings-wildlife/

I'm planning to start a blog documenting all this type of stuff when I have a little more time.

@StuC Resonance is part of the Radia network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia) which might be a good place to start for similar types of stations.

SoundArt Radio is a station with a similar ethos but has a different feel as it's based in a small town in SW England rather than in central London.

I'd love to be able to pick up Resonance in my car (I live many miles from London) but I know giving it a national output would just dilute it.