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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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…