Chatter #320 – Sarah Hardiman [Free Speech Ireland] – Ireland’s Controversial New Hate Speech Law

I was joined in this podcast by Sarah Hardiman from Free Speech Ireland to discuss Ireland’s controversial new Hate Crime legislation. https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/hate-speech-laws-kick-storm-055515251.html https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/05/05/simon-harris-dismisses-trump-musk-concerns-over-new-irish-hate-speech-laws/ https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/05/05/why-are-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-jnr-so-concerned-by-irelands-new-hate-crime-legislation/ https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/irelands-hate-speech-law-tuv-the-sole-party-to-comment-on-case-as-it-issues-a-defence-of-freedom-of-expression-4128410 https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/105/eng/initiated/b10522d-p-c-sent.pdf —————————————————– DONATE and help the channel grow – https://donorbox.org/help-me-buy-stuff  PRE-ORDER MY GAMESTOP BOOK – https://wen-moon.com  Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War – https://amzn.to/39XXVjq    —————————————————– You can listen to the…

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Chatter Episode 40 – Máirtín Ó Muilleoir on Why There Is No Government at Stormont and the Evolution of Belfast

Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, former Lord Mayor of Belfast and Sinn Fein MLA, was our guest on the show today. We had a fantastic conversation about the way Belfast has changed during his time in public office, the lenses through which we should view DUP politics, and the progressive alliance for reform in Stormont. Resources http://www.sinnfein.ie/mairtin-o-muilleoirhttps://twitter.com/newbelfast…

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Chatter Episode 32 – Jamie Pow on Northern Slant and a Citizens Assembly For Northern Ireland

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…

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Chatter Episode 31 – Tatton Spiller On Brexit, The Motivations of Politicians, and Simple Politics

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…

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