Almost every single industry has seen major disruption as a result of the explosion of technology over the past two decades. Transport, retail, media, the list is endless, and yet politics has escaped it’s grasp to an extent not seen in many other parts of life. That’s not to say that the technological…
Author: Josh Hamilton
Chatter Episode 19 – Harry Fone On Libertarianism and The UK Libertarian Party
Harry Fone of the UK Libertarian Party was our guest on today’s show. We talked all about what the Libertarian Party in the UK stands for, how it differs from it’s US counterpart, and Libertarian Party stances on a lot of issues in our modern political discourse. Resources https://libertarianpartyuk.com/ https://www.clcouncil.org/our-plan/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIQtxLCgrM Music by Just Jim…
The Republicans Are Tying Their Own Hands, But Why?
Thus far, Republican’s in Congress have been unwilling to remove the Senate filibuster in order to help advance their legislative agenda. Despite swiftly removing the filibuster for nominations in order to push through Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, and calls from Trump to use the ‘nuclear option’. As Matt Yglesias pointed out…
Chatter Episode 18 – Dr Katy Hayward on Brexit and The Irish Border
Dr Katy Hayward, author at QPol (Queen’s University Belfast’s policy unit), was our guest on this show. She is a political sociologist with a PhD on the subject of the impact of European integration on cross-border relations on the island of Ireland and she has written extensively about the difficulties surrounding the Irish border issue in…
The Tale Of Two Conferences
On the surface, there are several very obvious reasons for the significant differences between the atmosphere at the Labour and Conservative party conferences. Labour enjoyed a massive turnaround in popularity during the general election campaign, they sprung from a 24 point polling lead (according to one poll) to a five-point lead in a…
10 Years Since The Crash – Where Is The Economy?
One of the central pillars of the argument for a Conservative government in Downing Street is fiscal responsibility; the idea is that the Labour party would run up debt with unrestrained spending and the Conservatives then have to come in and clean up the mess. With seven years in government, almost 10 years…
