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, the DUP,…
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 If you…
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 – https://soundcloud.com/justjim If…
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 Brexit…
Sam Ancliff of Activate was the guest on today’s podcast. We wanted to get Sam back on to discuss the Conservative Party Conference, the fringe events going on as well as the headline speeches, the tuitions fees freeze, the moral argument for free markets, Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, and Theresa May’s closing speech. Resources http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/…
Lisa-Maria Neudert of the Computational Propaganda Project was our guest for today’s show. The Computational Propaganda Project is a research group that has spent the last year looking at the way bots on social media and “junk news” (aka fake news) have affected and attempted to influence elections in Germany, France, the US, and the UK. Sadly…
