Amanda Slevin, chair of the Climate Coalition NI was my guest on today’s show. In the light of the UK declaring a climate emergency in recent years and Boris Johnson promising a post-Brexit Green Industrial Revolution I thought it was the perfect time to get someone on the show to discuss what is…
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Chatter #105 – Ed Straw on How Systems Thinking Could Change The World
Ed Straw, a systems thinker who has worked for government and private industry, was my guest on today’s show. Ed is also the host of the Hidden Power podcast, where he discusses ways in which systems thinking can change the world. Our system of government, economy, and election are fundamentally broken and it…
Chatter #102 – James Dionne on Unaccountable Power, Secret Societies, and Our Brave New World
James Dionne, author of Fahrenheit 1984: A Concerned Citizens Manifesto, was my guest on today’s show. I was put in touch with James after my episode on cyber torture was released, he’s a rap artist and author from Maine who has been a victim of organised harassment. I wanted to speak to him…
Chatter #80 – Ruaidhri O’Donnell on Life Inside Corbyn’s Labour Party
Ruaidhri O’Donnell, the former Labour staffer and head of the 2019 battle bus, was my guest on today’s show. I first met Ruaidhri when we were briefly working in the same restaurant in Belfast when I was at Queen’s University. Since then he has gone on to work for Open Europe and then…
Chatter #77 – Carolyn Steel on Sitopia and How Food Can Change The World
Carolyn Steel, the author of Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World and Hungry City was our guest on today’s show. I first came across Carolyn’s writing when her book Sitopia jumped out at me in a book store in Utrecht and it proceeded to blow my mind. The way she has made…
Chatter #75 – Pól Torbóid on Lasair Dhearg and Building a 32 County Socialist Republic
Pól Torbóid from Lasair Dhearg was our guest on today’s show. We talked about the founding of Lasair Dhearg, their desire to bring Ireland together in a 32 country socialist republic, the need for governments to admit that socialism works, and how their year of activism has been disrupted by covid-19. If you…
