Mel Corry from Trademark Belfast was my guest on today’s show. Mel is a self-described retired hell raiser, banjo player and Communist. His work with Trademark is focused on going into workplaces and confronting our Northern Irish habit of employing a trifecta of politeness, avoidance, and denial to stop us confronting our sectarian…
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Chatter #100 – Colin St. John and Milan Kordestani on The Doe and Anonymous Journalism
This is a very exciting moment, the release of my 100th episode! We’ll have releases for you every day this week to celebrate this momentous occasion – I have officially spent over 100 hour talking rubbish on podcasts with a vast range of incredible guests and I’d like to say thank you for…
Chatter #99 – Tom Brake on a Written Constitution and Revitalising Democracy
Tom Brake, the director of Unlock Democracy was my guest on today’s show. Unlock Democracy are campaigning to give Britain a codified and written constitution and reinvigorate our relationship with democracy and government. We covered what a written constitution would mean and why we should want one, the idea of citizen’s assemblies, and…
Chatter #98 – Chris Kendall on Cakeism, Federalism, and Post-Brexit Reform
Chris Kendall, EU official and host of the wonderfully informative Cakewatch podcast. Cakewatch is aimed at combatting the British exceptionalism and misconceptions held by both Remainers and Brexiteers. In this discussion we get into the concept of Cakeism, the reforms that both Britain and Europe might undertake post-Brexit, the concepts of Federalism and…
Chatter #97 – James Orr on Ecological Rights and Industrial Agriculture
James Orr from Friends of the Earth NI was my guest on today’s show. We had an incredibly vast conversation that includes the destruction of our local environment and quality of food by industrial farming, the push by those in private industry to industrialise Northern Ireland’s agriculture, systems thinking in our food production…
Chatter #96 – Dr Ulrike Vieten on How To Understand Intersectionality
Dr Ulrike Vieten of Queen’s University Belfast was my guest on today’s show. There has been quite a lot of discussion in certain circles over the past few years about the idea of intersectionality. There has been a lot of heavy critiques of the theory over the past few years and I was…
