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Chatter #87 – US Election Special with Ryan Hartwig!

This is my US Election Special with Ryan Hartwig the former Facebook employee and whistleblower!If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. You’ll find the link…

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Rehumanising: How Food Can Change The World

In the intro to her book Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World, author Carolyn Steel recounts the tale of meeting a Dutch Shell Executive at a Ted Conference.  He was looking for ideas to save the world and was dispairing at his perceived lack of investment opportunities. How he felt uninspired in…

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Chatter #85 – Antony Loewenstein on Disaster Capitalism, Privatisation, and Immigration

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. He’s the author of…

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Chatter #84 – Peter Hitchens on Covid, Free Speech, and the Failure of Britain’s Institutions

Journalist, author, and Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens was my guest on today’s show. He is a former foreign correspondent from Moscow and Washington and author of numerous books including The Rage Against God and The Abolition of Britain. This was a really exciting interview for me and definitely one of the…

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Chatter #83 – Brian O’Boyle on Planet Before Profit and Transitioning To a Post-Carbon Economy

Brian O’Boyle, the author of People Before Profit’s Eco-Socialist Manifesto, was my guest on this version of the show. As part of research for a future book I have been doing a lot of thinking about how we might reimagine our world post-covid. People Before Profit have obviously sat down and thoughtfully constructed…

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Chatter #82 – Scott Santens on the Case for Universal Basic Income

Scott Santens, writer, full-time advocate of unconditional basic income (UBI), and editor of Basic Income Today was my guest on this episode of Chatter. I first heard of the idea of Universal Basic Income during my time at university and have been fascinated by the idea ever since. I’ve thought for quite a…

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