11/01/2016 Scotland 2016

his music career spanned decades and he was an icon

Huw Williams explores his influence and impact.

He was Ziggy Stardust. He constantly reinvented himself in music,

appearance and sexuality. He wrote the soundtrack to our lives. I am 43

years old now. He had been making music for seven years before he came

onto the planet. I have known his views at all my life. I discovered

the Ziggy Stardust album. You could put on a T-shirt or a leather jacket

and stand in front of The Mirror and pretend you were in deep purple. But

suddenly this otherworldly being was beamed down from another planet. You

could not go to a High Street store and buy the clothes that David Bowie

was wearing. It was unthinkable to where any kind of make up. He seems

like an alien from another planet. Over his career David Bowie Sauls

140 million albums and influenced generations of musicians. Jim care

openly admits that simple minds would not have existed if it were

not for the music of David Bowie. Radiohead, July and July, the human

league, Spandau Ballet, the list is endless of groups who would not

exist if it had not been for David Bowie. He saw himself as an actor or

an artist, not a rock and roll star but he has left an unparalleled

musical legacy. There is a sadness but the songs are

the reason why we cannot be too sad. The songs are still with us. There

are children who have been bored today into a world that the longer

has David Bowie in it but they will be able to see a the songs. Who

knows what an release material is still in the vaults. Expect to see

albums of outtakes and alternative versions of well-known songs but

also expect to see David Bowie continue to influence new bands. The

fact that he challenged perceptions of what it was like to be a man or a

woman, to be gay or straight, to be an artist, to be creative, that is

his long lasting legacy and that will go beyond music. He was a true

artist. And you can be sure that David Bowie will be back at the top

of this week's album charts with Blackstar, released two days ago on

his 69th Earth Day. You had the sense that David Bowie had said

everything he wanted to see and his most recent statement was precision

tools to be his final statement. He knew the end was coming. He created

work which put a full stop on that career.

I'm now joined by Geoff Ellis, the music promoter who's behind

the T in the Park music festival and by Andrea Mullaney,

He is the man that got away from you. He had had a heart attack the

week before. I always hoped that one day we would get him back. I always

put the call in. But the answer was he was not going to play live again.

But you never give up hope. That was in 2004 but it was cancelled. We had

a great that year. It was a strong though. But to lose David Bowie, he

was special. It would have been the pinnacle of the festival's Kadir. --

of the festival's career. Everybody has been so influenced by

him. Talking about the influence that he had. People older than us

have been saying that he changed the way they thought and looked at the

world. He feeds them in a sense. It has been interesting to hear that.

What has been interesting is that it is coming in different ways from

different age groups. People who were teenagers in the 1970s, he was

a figure of liberation. In the 1980s he was something else. People who

are young to date, the impression I get is that he means something very

talent to them. Unlike a lot of artists of the 1960s and 1970s such

as the Rolling Stones who are so very popular, they do not speak to

this moment in a way that David Bowie continued to do. He was still

releasing new material until the end and whether you like it or not he

has something to say about today's society. Also the post-modern

element in his work, the way he took from every where. He used

influences. That fits in with a time which is about remixes and

remodelling the past. He had that sense of being on the cusp of the

culture that not a lot of other artists had. With the constant

reinvention, you see artists like Madonna and Justin Bieber, but David

Bowie was the first person to do that. Getting rid of the Ziggy

Stardust damage, the pinnacle of that success, the constant

reinvention. The single from his last album is one of his best ever

pieces of music. And what was so great about the The Next Day album

was dead played on his own past. He was an artist who knew where he sat

in the culture. He was able to make an album which was about the myths

of his own career. And Blackstar which was released on

Friday was prophetic in a way. Even in his own death he has made an

artistic statement. It is a phenomenal album. I started playing

it on Friday. It is a great piece of work. You watch the video for

Lazarus. It is prophetic. It is reminiscent of the last Johnny Cash

single which somehow summed up his entire career in one video. It is

not an easy album in general. People will now read into it all sorts of

things to do with the fact that he had this illness that we did not

know about. But there is probably more to it than that and it will

take a while to let its significance come out. That is broadly true of

the career of David Bowie in general. Over the decades we will

see more of what he meant to the culture, of how he changed culture.

That great catalogue, people will discover it. Early material. Heroes.

Low. People who grew up in the 1980s with Let's Dance. We will have to

leave it there. Thank you. Now Golden Years is

the favourite Bowie track of the Scottish Secretary,

David Mundell. In a speech today,

he was essentially looking forward to a golden time for devolution -

Holyrood 2.0, as he called it. With the transfer of new powers,

he's calling for the Scottish government to take the emotive

and important decisions on such things as new welfare powers

and calling for the third sector to call for the changes

they want to see. I asked him if it seemed

as if he was passing the buck, I am not passing the back. If you

are going to criticise and bring up grievances with existing policies

you have got to set out what you would do differently. How you would

pay for that. What changes you would meet. This is about responsibility.

It is also about accountability. I am happy that we have different

policies in Scotland on welfare for example if that is what the people

of Scotland want. But those parties that advocate that have got to tell

the people of Scotland is what they are going to do and where the money

is going to come from. It says that you are trying to stir things up,

maybe cause problems for the Scottish Government. You are calling

on the third sector to meet the case to the Scottish Government. There is

a huge change coming. We are going to see the opportunity in welfare

for us to shape in Scotland are own welfare system, a completely

different system in some respects from what we have in the rest of the

UK. I think that those in the third sector should get involved in that

debate. If they want to see change, if they do not want to just see the

status quo, we have got to get involved in this debate. It will not

be devolution as I think people would envisage it is the Scottish

Government simply do what the Westminster Government do with some

bells and whistles. They have got the opportunity to do something

completely different in many areas of welfare so we need to have that

debate. As you made your speech the SNP have been pointing out there is

no fiscal framework in place for these powers. There is no financial

deal for the new powers. More discussions on Friday. Will it be a

fair deal for Scotland? I am optimistic about reaching a deal on

the fiscal framework. John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon have said they

are also. They want to reach that Agreement. We want an Agreement that

is fair for Scotland and for the rest of the UK and I am confident we

can achieve that. The Institute for Fiscal Studies

said these debates are taking place behind closed doors. White and may

not be debated in public? When we have agreement on the fiscal

framework that will be open to scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament,

the House of Commons and House of Lords. Everyone will have the chance

to scrutinise and debate what has been agreed in the fiscal framework.

I do not think there is any argument, realistic argument, that

it will not be open to proper scrutiny. It is appropriate, it is a

matter discussed between governments and there will no -- there will not

be a running commentary. I'm confident we can get the agreement

and will ensure it is properly scrutinised by both parliaments. And

when will the Europe referendum he, there has been a lot of talk about

it being perhaps in June, how would that play with the Scottish

Parliamentary election the month before? As secular state I made it

clear it was not acceptable there was any suggestion that the European

referendum took place on the same day as the Scottish Parliament

elections. If the Prime Minister can reach a deal in relation to his

re-negotiation with the EU then it is right that we have the referendum

as soon as is practical. That could be in June or later in the year. I

think the people of Scotland and of the UK are entitled to have their

say as to whether we remain part of the EU and to make their judgment in

relation to the re-negotiation the Prime Ministers achieved. Your

Cabinet colleagues will have their say, how will it feel campaigning

for one side when some of your Cabinet colleagues are campaigning

for the other, what does that mean for the principle of collective

responsibility? Everyone knows the EU is a matter on which some people

feel strongly one way or the other. People will campaign in or out

regardless of the results of the re-negotiation. My view will be

formed by the re-negotiation, I'm confident the Prime Minister will be

able to reach a deal to improve our relationship with the EU, improve

the way in which Scotland and the rest of the UK interact with the EU

and on that basis will be able to argue for a the UK and Scotland

remaining within the EU. Thank you. Let's debate some of these issues

further with the Labour MSP James Kelly and from Aberdeen

we have the SNP MSP Mark McDonald. Good evening. Rod McDonald, it looks

like the Scottish Secretary is doing a bit of staring, urging the third

sector to come up with proposed changes which are government would

have to pay for. I'm sure the third sector will be interested to hear

the Scottish Secretary asking them to do this given they have been

engaged in these discussions and debates for some time now, both

during the 2014 referendum was discussion about what would happen

if Scotland became independent and have powers over the welfare state,

through to the Smith Commission itself and then following the Smith

Commission through the Scotland process. I'm not sure where the

secretary has been through this process but the third sector have

been engaged in the debate and discussion taking place. The

Scottish Secretary baby is now saying you have the power, you know

have the responsibility to stop -- you now have. And you may have to

make tough decisions. We do not yet have the power. We need to wait for

the fiscal framework discussions to be concluded, we are about to start

taking evidence on that on the committee on which I sit. The

Scottish Government have set out already had their agenda in terms of

the new powers that could come whether through reforms to the work

programme, the announcement that there would be a social security

Bill early in the next Parliament, so in all these areas the Scottish

Government is setting out its thinking or giving an indication of

when its thinking will be set out in advance of the election. I'm not

sure where the Scottish Secretary has been touring the past few months

but he has certainly not been listening. James Kelly, your

opponents are setting up their thinking on new powers, we heard

from Keswick Dugdale, some policy issues, as the First Minister

pointed out last week, they're meant to be paid for from savings from Air

Passenger Duty. It cannot all come from the same pot. This is an

exciting time in Scottish politics, we will get more power and parties

at the election will have to flush out policies on how to pay for

those. Kes yet Dugdale has been doing that with a speech tonight,

she has made it clear we would support a policy of a top rate of

50p for top earners. Those earning above ?150,000 a year. We heard that

before, but what else would you be doing with these new powers, what

are your suggestions? It is important to spell out that policy

because we can see the gap in attainment widening. This is an

opportunity to address that. That is what we will do with these powers.

In addition, 1 million days are lost through children living with

homelessness. We set out a policy to address that and to ensure that

first-time buyers have additional grants of ?3000, to get more people

on the housing ladder and release more homes so we do not have young

children living with homelessness. That is a scandal in modern

Scotland. A 50p top tax rate, Mark McDonald? The Scottish Government

have announced and agreed by more than one occasion a 50p rate would

be introduced and this is within the power of the parliament to do that.

There is no disagreement on that as a 50p rate in the current climate is

something Nicola Sturgeon is on the record as saying would be

introduced. And that would be in your manifesto for the next

election? The manifesto is not written yet but we have given clear

indications in relation to that in terms of what we would do. For other

policy areas, we set out a number of welfare policy areas, the abolition

of the bedroom tax, an increase in the carer 's allowance. Other

elements as well to the welfare powers that come under the control

of the Scottish Government we would look to flesh out in due course. I'm

interested as always to hear the view of the Labour Party. Of course

the Labour Party at the moment are trying to spend the same pot of

nonexistent money in a number of different areas. Well it is all

coming from a pot of nonexistent money? We will raise the top rate of

tax for top earners, that would raise ?70 million. We will also not

raise the threshold of top earners, which George Osborne is doing, that

would raise up to half ?1 billion over the lifetime of the parliament.

In addition to the challenges of APD money, ?125 million, and ?250

million. These are significant sums of money and we will use these sums

of money to address the attainment gap in education to build more homes

and secure more jobs in Scotland. Thank you both very much.

Arlene Foster has taken over from Peter Robinson

as First Minister of Northern Ireland.

Among those congratulating her was the Prime Minister,

who tweeted he was looking forward to working with her.

At 45, the DUP member is also the youngest person

This report from BBC Northern Ireland Political

Correspondent Chris Page contains flash photography.

Striding downstairs to go up to the highest office.

The new DUP leader was about to become First Minister.

Arlene Foster was asked probably the easiest question she has ever

Mrs Foster, are you willing to take up the office of First Minister?

Thank you very much, Mr Speaker.

I affirm the terms of the pledge of office as set out in schedule

It sounded rather technical but it officially marked her

There was a time she would not have believed it.

As a young girl growing up in rural Fermanagh,

the most westerly constituency in the whole of the United Kingdom,

in the days when we were plagued by terrorism and decisions

affecting our fates and our futures were taken far away,

I could not have dreamt that I would be in this position today.

Is it any wonder that in politics I believe nothing is impossible?

Watching Mrs Foster reach the pinnacle of her career

I hereby resign the office of First Minister with confidence

that the political institutions we have together created will be

Hear, hear. significant, the DUP are attrition,

moulded around Ian Paisley and then Peter Robinson and they never had a

woman in the head of their party. It will be interesting to see how

significant that is. She is seen as a pretty hardline candidate, she has

already refused to go to the official commemoration for the 1916

Easter rising. That will alienate part of the electorate in Northern

Ireland. Whether her being a woman and saying she is progressive and

saying that she is a mother and brings a different perspective,

whether that plays out remains to be seen. Just to ask about the trade

union bill in a minute, but we have this clip from Lord Faulkner. Labour

fears annual income could drop because the legislation requires

members, union members, to opt in rather than opting out. Here is Lord

Faulkner the Shadow Justice Secretary. Do you think it is right

that the amount of funding coming from the unions to a political party

should be attacked in a piece of legislation? I do not. What to think

of people having to opt in property and physically rather than its just

being there, the money being collected? It is all Labour need at

the moment, what financial structural problems to heap on board

all the other problems they have ongoing at the moment. It is a clear

attack on the structural support the Labour Party has relied on for such

a long time. It has cemented the link between organised labour and

the Parliamentary party and now it has been chucked away and people are

being made aware of it and also disagree having to sign a piece of

paper saying I want to support the Labour Party. You can imagine lots

of situations under which people would say I do not think that is

something I want to do, I think it is bad news for the party. The

former head of the UK civil service has criticised this legislation.

Lord callously. He thinks it is draconian. It is but it was Ed

Miliband who came up with something similar to this to a three years

ago. It is not been a great day for Labour. The GMB union have said if

there is a removal of support from Trident they will not support that,

jobs would be at risk. So Labour are losing union backing out on the

other side will lose union funding but they still do not have any

progressive policies to save this is how we will fight this. David Bowie,

what are your memories? Going to see him in Murrayfield in 1983 and

looking at the crowd are so many people there that I felt sick and

even had to go home! I listened to the rest of it from the Garden of my

flat out it was still magical. An incredible figure. How he could

transform himself consistently and still be successful. And to carry on

up until his death still producing new music. He never did the I have

got Ballymoney to pay tour, he never went to the jungle, he kidding -- he

continued to do his thing throughout his career. So admirable. He was

ahead of the curve a lot of the time. He was, he spoke a lot about

literature and Premy I think the day should not go without acknowledging

how much he loved Viz. Anyone who loves the body humour of that gets

the thumbs up. And he was an international figure as well, able

to crack the American market and have success in Germany as well.

Tributes across Europe and in Berlin today, where he spent a bit of time.

He shared a flat with Iggy Pop. He worked with so

many artists, written music with them, his influence is enormous and

that is something we will see, we will re-examine with his death and

look at how far does tentacles reach into culture.

Shelley will be here at the same time tomorrow.

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