Caley Corner

Ajmal talks us through his life and his business philosophy. We discuss a range of subjects from working in hospitality, why he doesn't like crypto and how he transformed his Indian restaurant business from a Mom & Pap shop to one of the biggest commercially successful takeaway operations in the country. Listen first hand to Ajmal as you've never heard him before on how he pers

My guest on this episode is Karina Molloy who served with the Irish military for over thirty years. Karina is a women of many firsts, she was part of the first swathe of female recruits to be enlisted officially in the Irish army as well as the first to attempt to pass selection for the Irish special forces. Unfortunately, her time in the army was plagued by sexual harassment and e

This podcast sees me chatting with David Walsh who's a Professor of Health Inequalities at Glasgow University. He's also co authored a book with the same title as the podcast.We talk about the shocking impact of austerity policies on life expectancy and what kind of political decisions have triggered this and some policies that could be changed to improve things. Austerity on its o

From Binman to SAS: Who Dares Wins Champion In this episode, I sit down with Grant Flynn, the "ninja binman" turned SAS: Who Dares Wins Champ. Grant is a fitness fanatic with an incredible story that takes him from working on the bins to competing and succeeding in one of the toughest reality TV challenges. We kick things off by discussing what it’s really like to work on the bin

Hugh was a Professor of Applied Philosophy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He taught, classical sociological theory and medical ethics. The latter of which takes up the bulk of today's discussion as we chat about the assisted dying bill or, assisted suicide as Hugh termed it that is currently making it's way through the Scottish parliament. We also talk a bit about Scottish witch

My guest on this episode is Jeanette Findlay. Jeanette is a Professor of Economics at University of Glasgow. She is also a committed Trade Unionist as the head of UCU Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and activist on various issues. She is also the chairwoman and founder of Call It Out which campaigns against anti catholic bigotry and anti Irish racism. We talk about what econo

My Guest on this episode is Nicola Mantalios who hails from South Shields. She starts off by discussing some activities that she got up to as part of bucket list of 30 things to do before she turned 30. We then discuss the benefits and natural high you get from some low level crime (sorry local supermarkets) Nicola was brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness and she explains what that

Joining me on today's episode is Alan Knight a film maker and documentarian. Alans films included him directing a documentary called London Calling which shone a light on BBC editorial bias during the Scottish Independence referendum so, we chat a bit about that and some of the stories that were covered in both the documentary and a book about the same subject. Alan also talks abou

Joining me on episode 23 is Darren Bleakley who is a photographer and the creator of the People of Glasgow. We talk about his inspiration for getting into photography and some of the ethics around taking pictures in the street. Darrens a funny guy who has a big interest in MMA and Jiu Jitsu as well so, there's some chat about that also. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m

Joining us today is Kevin Lindsay from Aslef, he gives us a detailed background of the recent disputes between Aslef members both at a UK wide level then he gives us a detailed insight of things from a more local Scottish perspective. Hear why Kevin see's himself as a baby in the game with his 22 years of trade union organising (Aslef were founded in 1880) Kevins a staunch defender