Chatter #101 – Mel Corry on Trademark Belfast and Promoting Anti-Sectarian Dialogue

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 past, the…

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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 the lack…

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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 Subsidiarity, and…

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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 and our…

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