Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Andrew Allison, head of campaigns at The Freedom Association was my guest on today’s show. The Freedom Association is a non-partisan, centre-right, classically liberal campaign group who “seek to challenge all erosion of civil liberties and campaign in support of individual liberty, freedom of expression, and free…
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Chatter #127 – Mat Hope On Tufton Street, Think Tanks, Brexit and Climate Deniers
Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Mat Hope, the editor at DeSmogUK, a UK based climate/environmental news site producing some of the best investigative journalism surround Brexit and climate change in the UK. Mat and I chatted with his colleague Chloe Farand on the climate denial lobby and their pushing of a hard…
The Weaponized Propaganda Machine – Chapter 5
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – George Orwell, 1984 As we’ve already seen, data gathered by companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter allows them to target adverts based on our every click. They can build detailed profiles about our personality,…
Chatter #124 – Peter Geoghegan On Covid Contract Corruption and Government Transparency
Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! Peter Geoghegan is back for round 2! Peter is a writer at openDemocracy and author of the book Democracy For Sale all about the corruption, dark money, and astroturfing going on in British politics. We had him on the show last year to talk about his book…
This Is Only The Start Of NHS Privatisation
In the UK this weekend, a concerned 61 year old woman was arrested and slapped with a £10,000 fine after arranging a protest in opposition to the measly 1% pay rise being proposed for nurses by the government. It’s a scene that would have drawn outrage in the Britain of 2019, but we…