James Cook

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1,779 appearances 16 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 19 Sep

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Newscast · Andy Burnham's Emergency Cobra Meeting On Extreme Heat · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

And he was saying, we invited John Swinney to a security briefing.

We gave him the access.

We got him into that briefing, I think as a member of the Privy Council, which allows him certain privileges to see secret information online.

Michael Shanks challenged on whether or not the UK government would rethink this, said, we basically said no, not in so many words, but that was the gist of it, because he said, I am very surprised.

I'm surprised that John Swinney, having seen what he's seen in this security briefing, is still advocating that this will go ahead.

Now, the problem for us as journalists is, well, we'd love to verify who's right and who's wrong about this, and can we see it, please?

But no, I don't think we

think the idea is to project

Binface.

Just to be clear, I think the idea is to project the image through the colander onto

and you're not to look at the sun

colander or otherwise unless you're wearing

glasses.

weird.

What is it, 34?

wasn't going to tell that one.

Oops, yes, do.

My colleague Lorna Gordon relentlessly reminds me...

complains that I wrote the line over a TV report about a partial eclipse in the UK when I think we're in Dundee at the Mills Observatory reporting on it, that I opened the piece with the line, in the heavens above us, where the dance never ends.

And she thinks this is ludicrously pretentious

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