Oli Dugmore, head of News and Politics at Joe Politics, was my guest on today’s show. In this conversation we went deep on the power of the meme, the GameStop saga, and the power of social media to influence politics. We also covered a number of issues that I cover in my book,…
Tag: UK Politics
The Left Forgot To Care
Without a doubt, of the strangest occurrences of the past year has been the left’s failure to care about the damages of the lockdowns. I had always believed that whilst occasionally misguided or over-zealous, most people believed in the ideas of the left because they genuinely cared about people. Yet, throughout 2020 I…
Chatter #67 – Matteo Bergamini on Political Literacy, Censorship, and Young People in Politics
Matteo Bergamini, the founder of ShoutOut UK, was our guest on todays show. We had a really great conversation about the importance of teaching political literacy to school children, censorship, the culture war, and giving young people both a voice and the right language to express themselves in politics. If you haven’t already…
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…
Books To Read To Understand Brexit
What To Read To Understand This Mess In the process of writing my upcoming book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, I had to do my fair share of background reading. It seems every month there is another book on Brexit or the current state of British politics, so I thought I’d compile a…
