成人快手

This edition includes: mining companies are looking at the ocean bed as the next source of metals and minerals in tech production, but does the potential environmental damage mean it should be off-limits to development? Chris Williams, managing director of UK Seabed Resources and Monica Verbeek, Executive Director of the environmental organisation, Seas at Risk, discuss. The decades-old spat between Greece and the UK over ownership of the Elgin Marbles blew up again this week. Journalist Anthee Carassava reports on the latest bust-up and how Greek sensitivities over the subject have deepened in recent years. The Scottish Government agreed to increase spending and powers for local authorities this week, but the problem of council funding remains an apparently intractable issue. Johanna Boyd, former Labour leader of Stirling Council, and Richard Kerley, Professor of Management at Queen Margaret University, examine potential alternatives to the current system and the political obstacles they face. It was Groundhog Day this weekend, and to mark it the show invited Ryan Gilbey, film critic for The Guardian and The New Statesman, to discuss the 1993 film inspired by the curious event, its abiding popularity and the many mystical interpretations of it.