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Chatter Episode 12 – Regional Secretary of UNISON Patricia McKeown On The Stealth Privatisation Of The Health Service and The Importance Of Trade Unions

Patricia McKeown, Regional Secretary of UNISON, was our guest on the show today. Ever since we became politically aware and involved we have been horrified and terrified by the gradual privatisation of the health service in the UK that has gone largely under the radar to the general public. She took the time to…

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Russian Bots, The US Election, And Trevor’s Axiom

South Park may be a cartoonish, poorly drawn parody of society, but more often than not they manage to cut through and make some fantastic insights into the way in which the world works. The clip above from the season 20 finale depicted an idea called “Trevor’s Axiom” (we can’t find a source…

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How The Conservatives Are Trying To Win Back Young Voters

The results of the 2017 election made it very clear to even the upper echelons of the Conservative Party that the youth vote was abandoning their party in droves. The Conservative vote share in the 2015 General Election amongst 18-29-year-olds was a respectable 32% to Labour’s 36%, but by 2017, that share had…

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Chatter Episode 9 – Sam Ancliff on Activate and Young Conservatives

Sam Ancliff from Activate Britain was our guest on today’s show, he has been at the centre of a huge storm of controversy and hacking over the past week since the launch of Activate. He came on the show to talk about that controversy, why he wanted to be a part of Activate,…

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Chatter #8 – Stephanie Farnsworth on Mainstream Media, Clickbait, and The Media Revolution

Stephanie Farnsworth of Stand Up Magazine has joined us on today’s show to talk about independent and mainstream media, the click model of journalism, her experience running Stand Up magazine, and how she see’s the future of news media in the UK. You can now find us on iTunes so you can give us a…

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Chatter Episode 5 – Andrew Smith On UK Arms Sales and The Global Arms Trade

On today’s show, we are talking to Andrew Smith from Campaign Against Arms Trade. We wanted to talk to someone to put the UK’s impact on the global arms industry in context for us and lay out the arguments against selling arms to all corners of the globe. You can now find us…

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