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 album) and…
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. We explored…
Professor John Barry of Queen’s University Belfast was my guest on today’s show. John was my favourite professor whilst I was at University, I took his class on the politics of sustainable development and was almost immediately captivated by his passion for green politics. It was a real pleasure for me to get to interview…
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 in the…
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 the midst…
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 Disaster Capitalism:…
