It used to be that how you voted depended very much on your class or where you were born or grew up. But in recent years, people have been, as Alexander Nix then CEO of Cambridge Analytica, puts it, ‘buoyed by the availability of information and a plethora of options available on the…
Author: Josh Hamilton
Don’t Trust the Papers
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels Mistrust in the mainstream media has been fuelled by allegations of bias and the spread of ‘fake news’. Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2017 found that just over 40 per cent of people in the UK agreed with the statement,…
Chatter #118 – Ruairi Woods on Comedy, Northern Ireland, and Podcasting
Ruairi Woods, Northern Irish comedian and host of the Woods Talk podcast was my host on today’s show. We talked about his first experience in comedy, the worst type of comedy, what we should be laughing at that we aren’t and our plans to punch Steven Nolan for the PayPal donations and write…
Brexit: The Establishment Civil War – Chapter 1 Preview
Data, Data Everywhere With big data comes big responsibilities. – Kate Crawford 27 January 2015, Twitter HQ: Twitter executives are preparing to unveil a set of tools for advertisers. This array of new tools will allow users to be targeted based on specific criteria, such as their postcode or geographical location. The new…
Chatter #117 – Sanjeev Sabhlok on The Great Hysteria and Challenging Lockdowns In Court
Sanjeev Sabhlok, author of The Great Hysteria And The Broken State, was my guest on this episode of Chatter. We talked about why he wrote his book, why the media love covid, and his legal challenge to the lockdowns in the International Criminal Court. If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode,…
Chatter #116 – Emma Knaggs on Why We Need To Reform Our Electoral System
Emma Knaggs, the grassroots leader at Make Votes Matter was my guest on today’s show. Make Votes Matter are a single issue campaign for the reform of the UK voting system into a more proportional and representative one. They are a cross party group working to get more and more MPs on board…
