News review: with Conservative deputy mayor of Bristol and councillor for Westbury-On-Trym Geoff Gollop. Mayoral system and democracy; housing strategy, affordable housing, empty offices; health of local media â Bristol 24/7, Bristol Post; scrutiny by councillors; Becky Watts murder; UK household incomes near pre-banking crisis levels, think tank claims â QE, social security benefits, still long way to go; Bristol deputy Mayor, Geoff Gollop, opposes library closures â borrowing money, Arena, 6% people use libraries; £600bn bailout of banks, derivatives market bigger than 2008, Enron, the Smartest Guy In The Room (2005), economics, Gordon Brown; PMQs Ed Miliband â reluctance of Cameron to do TV debates â Linton Crosby; PMQs Seema Malhotra MP â tuition fees at Universities â Labour; shock 20-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor people â QE protects assets of the rich without filtering down into the real economy, Von Mises Institute free market, affordable housing; Douglas McWilliams - George Osbornes advisor quits after video showing him off his head smoking crack cocaine in drugs den; Government row over ban on extremist speakers on university campuses Tories and Lib Dems argue over proposed free speech guidelines at centres of learning in wake of claims about former Westminster University student Mohammed Emwazi â if you offend me youre banned? Freedom of speech for what you profoundly disagree with?