Balls Radio
24
Feb
2015
What's the Big Idea comes up with more bright new inventions - like a wearable wrist strap that counts how many words you are speaking. Useful for those people who talk to much.
24
Feb
2015
There are allegations that Thames Valley Police failed a candidate because they didn't like his name, Brian. Brian could probably sue, if it wasn't for the fact that he is a horse.
24
Feb
2015
Two Russian planes have been escorted from the edge of UK airspace. It seems Vladamir Putin wants to return to the days of the cold war.
24
Feb
2015
We often hear the claim that by stopping the boats we have saved lives. Can we really make that claim? Likely as not, we have just shifted the problem elsewhere.
24
Feb
2015
Last week we heard how NBC newsreader Brian Williams quit NBC under the embarrassment of making up war stories. Well it seems Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly is just as guilty.
24
Feb
2015
As Australia prepares for the death of Andrew Chan and Myran Sukumaran, Utah wants to show how barbaric it can be, proposing to introduce death by firing squad.
24
Feb
2015
There are 3.4 million Australians aged over 65 – in ten years’ time that’ll be 4.6 million, in twenty years 6.1 million. Can we really afford to keep them in the manner they'd like to…
24
Feb
2015
Only 640 of 1,600 New Zealand state schools surveyed had religious education classes - even then many didn't know what syllabus they were following.
24
Feb
2015
Cathryn Herd, a Dunedin woman has asked her boyfriend to marry him, despite refusing each request he has made over the last 15 years. Now there's a woman who clearly wants to be in control.
24
Feb
2015
Last year New Zealand lowered the blood alcohol level for drink driving. So what impact has it had on alcohol sales?
24
Feb
2015
Last week was a bad one for English cricket. What could be more humiliating that a defeat by New Zealand. Answer? A whopping defeat by New Zealand.
24
Feb
2015
People like Tim Blair complain about people who say the actions of terrorists had nothing to do with Islam. Sure it does, but he is another one struggling with the concept that because someone does…
24
Feb
2015
Even though UKIP claims they are not a racist organisation, their membership seems littered with characters who are overtly so.
24
Feb
2015
Big bad John. He was a former Deputy PM from somewhere 'up norf. He left politics shortly after belting a protestor who threw a rotten egg at him. Now he's back to add colour to…
24
Feb
2015
It's feared that three girls, aged 15 and 16, have left the UK to become Jihadist brides for Islamic State fighters in Syria. What are they thinking? It's not exactly a Club 18-30 holiday.
24
Feb
2015
Christine Milne, the Greens leader, is taking a bit of a hammering on Facebook for her comments on Tony Abbott’s national security address.
24
Feb
2015
Whilst the US President has promised to lift the US minimum wage to a level where people could afford to eat, Walmart has unilaterally adding a few extra dollars on the payback of its half…
24
Feb
2015
In America, all it takes is an injunction from a federal judge to stop the President in his tracks. As Richard Kazimer explains, Obama has a fight to progress his immigration policy.