Graham Finlay
speaker
481 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Graham Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, they might say hello, but they're not going to stalk him or anything like that.
But for the negative stuff, this is – it's really, really – I mean who would want it given that our society is so small?
People have to publish their schedules.
People want to be seen in public.
They want to be on the media, but they end up being confronted by people who just don't really have the public good or solidarity in mind.
Yes, and I think those are really, really serious warnings for us because the kind of security which politicians have to have increasingly in the UK because of a string of, as you say, murders of MPs,
And of course, in the US, I mean, one of the things about this remarkable interview with Eric Trump on DriveTime was his talking about a lot of topics, but one of them was the effect of having to have the kind of security you have to have if you're a Trump in the United States.
And it's really isolating for American politicians and presidents in particular.
Another story is Japan, where there's been a string of
Both coup attempts which have attacked the prime minister's residence and public buildings in the 30s especially but at other times and assassinations of political leaders including with short samurai swords.
And so Sanae Takeichi was recently talking about how she was sad they removed a cockroach which she found in her prime ministerial residence because – partly because she believes in reincarnation but partly because she's lonely and she does most of her work out of the prime ministerial residence.
Because the security is better.
It involves fewer intrusions by staff.
And even though she has children and grandchildren through her – by adopting her husband's children, she confessed to being lonely, which I think is a very, very sad sort of commentary on what you have to give up for power.
Yeah, I mean, again, I always tell people I'm way too lazy to be a politician.
I've been around enough politicians to know that, yeah, the phone just keeps going.
And now with other ways of getting in touch, you know, it's even more difficult.
You know, even in the world of landlines that I was working in the Canadian House of Commons, there was a
An MP was viewed as a good constituency man and he got a call in the middle of the night by a woman whose dog had died and he got up in the middle of the night, went over to the woman's house and buried the dog.
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