Ep.262 - "Loaned" Loot, Devolution & Facebook @ 20

"What's Good?" W/ Charlie Taylor

In a week where:

1. Northern Ireland approve power share after nearly two-year long DUP boycott.
2. Lewis Hamilton will join Ferrari in 2025.
3. Universal Music Group stops licensing its music to TikTok.
4. Joe Biden announces sanctions against Israeli settlers in West Bank.
5. "Rocky" & "Predator" actor Carl Weathers dies aged 76.

In History: (9:47) The Victoria & Albert (V&A) has "loaned" back Asante Gold back to Ghana and on the face that obviously doesn't make sense, so what is the framework? Why is stolen Gold being "loaned" back? (Article By Georgios Giannakopoulos)

In the 1st of two Society segments: (22:39) I've been saying since "The Exit" that the UK will cease to be "United". Time to revisit the topic & take the temperature of UK's devolution. (Article By Simon Jenkins)

In Tech: (37:29) Facebook is now 20 years old. What was once a gass spot for US University students is now a global online cesspit for election rigging and radicalising your grandmother. Where did it all go wrong? (Article By Chris Stokel-Walker)

Lastly, in the 2nd Society segment: (51:57) The survivors of The Grenfell Tower Fire are still going through it as justice - after what will be seven years in June - justice is still yet to be served. (Article By Simon Childs)

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