** "I'm not into politics for good feelings - I got an ideology..."

Same Puppets, Different Day. Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on Harris, Haley, Clarence Thomas, race, gender, Bonapartism, Malcolm and punchlines...

** "I think this film is a timely reminder, just the terrible damage that war can do..."

Iain Glen Talks Game Of Thrones, The Iron Lady, and his latest film, The Last Front - a historical drama depicting the World War I invasion of Belgium. And the massacre of its rural masses - a grim reality that is nothing new, rebranded in the present time as collateral damage.

The Scottish actor, delving into his defiant portrayal of rural farmer Leonard in standing up to the fierce German battalions, weighs the dramatic responsibility, even when a fictional depiction of history. And in that forgotten war, overshadowed in collective memory by WWII that followed. 'It's very addictive to you as an actor - but you just want to take on that responsibility to do it justice...'

**" Modern policing has become an Orwellian nightmare - where power corrupts and justice is an illusion..."

UK Desk: Jack Clarke in a Crime Scenes Episode this week, deconstructing police brutality and mass resistance - 'welcome to the dystopian reality of contemporary law enforcement...'

** "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" wrote Yeats in The Second Coming - 'but he might as well have been covering the French election.'

Bro On The Euro Cultural Beat: Arts Express Paris Correspondent Professor Dennis Broe on the French elections, the rise of the left, and the fall of the center right and far right. And 'an abrogation of the main power of any legislative body dating back to the Magna Carta - the power of the purse...'

** "The borders have been manipulated in these different ways - not because of this natural thing, it's because we could actually exert more economic power if we are able to push it further West...'

The Case For Open Borders: A continuing conversation with investigative journalist, human rights activist and author, John Washington - mulling 'twenty-one arguments for open borders' - "Things don't have to be this way..."