Ryan Hoey, a politics student at Queen’s University Belfast. I got in touch with Ryan after he wrote a piece for https://www.challengesni.com/ entitled “Coronavirus Vindicates Austerity”. I was curious to explore the arguments he laid out in his piece, especially given the noise coming from the left about how the spending commitments made…
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59 Times Jeremy Corbyn Condemned Anti-Semetism, Sexism, Homophobia, and More
Jeremy Corbyn is not perfect, he is not the messianic leader of an all powerful cult. He is just a principled man. He is not an anti-semite. Since he appointed Jennie Formby as General Secretary, “the rate at which antisemitism cases have been dealt with, increased fourfold.” and Jewish Voice for Labour has…
Chatter #53 – Adam Ramsay on Neo-liberalism and the Government Response to Corona Virus
My guest on today’s show was Adam Ramsay, he’s the main site editor at openDemocracy and is a member of the Scottish Green Party, sits on the board of Voices for Scotland and advisory committees for the Economic Change Unit and the journal Soundings. I asked him on the show in response to…
Chatter #52 – Jackson Rawlings on Covid-19 and How Modern Democracy Can Change
Jackon Rawlings is our guest on today’s show. We last interviewed Jackson in the summer of 2018 and now he is back to discuss his new project “This Modern Philosophy”. We discuss the Corona virus, the government response, and how this crisis could change (or not change) how politics and society operate. Resources…
The Mounting Lies and Scandals of GE2019 (And Why They Don’t Matter)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, and the Tories were attempting to win the crown for most disastrous campaign from Theresa May. May’s 2017 campaign set out to “Crush the Saboteurs” and give the next Iron Lady a stomping parliamentary majority with which she could enact the Brexit means…
The Tabloid Noise Machine Is Proving Its Worth
For the past 40 years in Britain we have been subject to the rule of neo-liberalism and the conventional wisdom of free-market economics. Beginning with Thatcher and tracing it’s way through a series of ideological heirs in Blair, Cameron, and now Johnson, this ideology is responsible for the ever rising wealth and income…
