Francesca Lake of Future Science Group was the guest on today’s show. She is the editor of their biomedical open access journal and was keen to talk to us about Open Access week that is taking place around the world this week! Open Access is the idea that all scientific journals should be…
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Chatter Episode 22 – Richard Barbrook On Digital Democracy and The Labour Party
Richard Barbrook was our guest on today’s show. He is about to begin some work with the Labour party on digital democracy and large-scale, crowd-sourced policy making. We chatted all about digital democracy, the Labour party, the general election, Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit, and much more! Resources https://thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-14-bret-weinstein-evolutionary-implications-technology-modern-society/ https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/imaginary_futures_richard_barbrook https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/barbrook-richard http://news.sky.com/story/prudent-for-labour-to-war-game-for-power-says-partys-digital-guru-11054819 Music…
Chatter Episode 21 – Brendan Harkin and Nathan Stewart On The Future Of Northern Irish Politics
Brendan Harkin and Nathan Stewart of Fly By Those Nets were our joint guests on today’s show. Fly By Those Nets is a Northern Irish politics commentary, analysis, and opinion site founded by Nathan and Brendan as a way to build a platform for activism. We spent our time discussing Northern Irish politics,…
Chatter Episode 20 – Luke Belvedere On Getting Paid As A Musician
Our guest on today’s show was L.T. Belvedere, a blues singer-songwriter. We talked all about the challenges of getting paid as a modern musician, whether technology and platforms like YouTube and Patreon have helped at all, and what you are paying for when you hire a musician. https://www.instagram.com/lordofthedance/ Music by Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim…
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…
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…
