Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy was our guest on today’s show. They are currently trying to understand how to combat any future attempts by foreign or domestic bad actors to hijack or disrupt democratic elections or influence political conversations online. They aren’t interested in contesting what has gone on during elections over…
Jamie Pow, editor of Northern Slant, was our guest on today’s show. Jamie works as a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and has been looking at ways in which Northern Ireland could use a Citizens’ Assembly to move forward with political issues that politicians seem unable to solve. We talked all about the way in which a…
The real motivations behind the campaign for Britain to leave the EU were never truly clear during the campaign, though revelations over the subsequent 16 months have given us more and more insight into the true forces at work here. There have been numerous investigations launched into the legality of actions taken by the Leave…
Tatton Spiller of Simple Politics was our guest on today’s show. Tatton is a former teacher, who also spent time working in Parliament. He founded Simple Politics to help people who were interested in politics (but maybe didn’t understand what was going on) to get a grounding on the issues of the day. We talked…
Daz from Skank FM was our guest on Today’s show. Skank FM was the first independent underground radio station to pop up in Belfast a few years ago, before Belfast Underground Radio, and Daz has been running it since the very beginning. We chatted all about how the music industry has developed through his life…
In this post, we feature an infographic titled “Why the War on Drugs has Failed” by Paul at Ocean Recovery Centre. Ocean Recovery Centre is an alcohol rehab clinic in the United Kingdom. In this infographic, we outline why the War on Drugs has failed. We also outline positive alternatives that could help to replace…
