Paula McIntyre was my guest on today’s show. Paula is the head of Slow Food Northern Ireland, author of “A Kitchen Year” and “Paula McIntyre’s Down to Earth Cookbook”, and former guest chef on Ready, Steady, Cook! She is a member of the Craft Guild of Chefs, and the Irish Food Writers Guild, and is…
In the intro to her book Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World, author Carolyn Steel recounts the tale of meeting a Dutch Shell Executive at a Ted Conference. He was looking for ideas to save the world and was dispairing at his perceived lack of investment opportunities. How he felt uninspired in the midst…
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. He’s the author of Disaster Capitalism:…
Journalist, author, and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens was my guest on today’s show. He is a former foreign correspondent from Moscow and Washington and author of numerous books including The Rage Against God and The Abolition of Britain. This was a really exciting interview for me and definitely one of the biggest guests…
Brian O’Boyle, the author of People Before Profit’s Eco-Socialist Manifesto, was my guest on this version of the show. As part of research for a future book I have been doing a lot of thinking about how we might reimagine our world post-covid. People Before Profit have obviously sat down and thoughtfully constructed a way…
Scott Santens, writer, full-time advocate of unconditional basic income (UBI), and editor of Basic Income Today was my guest on this episode of Chatter. I first heard of the idea of Universal Basic Income during my time at university and have been fascinated by the idea ever since. I’ve thought for quite a while that…
