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…
Category: Politics
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…
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…
Chatter #95 – Dr Erkin Sidick on the Uyghur Genocide and Authoritarian China
Dr Erkin Sidick, was my guest on today’s show. Dr Sidiq is a Sr. Optical Engineer in space optical technologies at NASA, president of Uyghur Projects Foundation, and an activist for saving Uyghur language and culture. Right now, the Chinese government is in the middle of committing genocide on the scale of the…
Chatter #94 – Dave Elliott on the Art of Comedy and Life as a Comedian
Dave Elliott, the Northern Irish comedian, was my guest on today’s show. Dave has become in his own words, almost an elder statesman of the Northern Irish comedy scene, having been around for 7 or 8 years now. He’s completed his first big tour entitled Dad (a rip off of Michael Jackson’s Bad…
Chatter #91 – Tim Elliott on America, the Late Roman Republic, and Populism
Tim Elliott, an ancient historian researching populist politics in the Roman Republic, was my guest on today’s show. We had a really interesting conversation discussing an article he wrote that alludes to comparisons between the late Roman Republic and the current state of US politics, most intriguingly between Donald Trump and Julius Caesar….
