James Cook
speaker
1,779 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 19 Sep
James Cook’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not all of them, but quite a lot of them.
And I think for some people in Scotland, there's been a sense that he is so far, and I'm not saying this, but there's a sense among some people that he's the Prime Minister of England at the moment.
And I think he's alive to that issue, which is not least why he's saying, I'm going to go tour the UK.
He's keen to talk about Aberdeen and to talk about the oil and gas industry, we are told.
When he does that, I think, is an interesting question.
But also, his devolution agenda is interesting how that plays out in Scotland, because he can't really enforce some of the things he wants to do in England in terms of pushing power down into local communities, as he puts it, in Scotland without the approval or the agreement or the consent of the Scottish government, who are not as keen on that and indeed are criticised
Because they're over-governed.
Well, they're also criticised, the Scottish government, particularly under the SNP, for centralising a lot of power into Edinburgh.
Which they deny, he said, for the
How are you doing?
I've hurt my eye.
How?
I don't know.
I like I have a series of long term series of very boring injuries to my eye involving burning embers from Hawaiian wildfires and tent poles.
And now it's sore again.
And so
Just explaining this in case I need to put these on.
What you're gonna put them on during this?
Am I after the darkened theater?
There are lights.
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