Chatter
302 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA series of conversations (some not-so-mindless Chatter if you will) with thought leaders, politicians, YouTubers, academics, authors, and more. We discuss everything from politics and economics to society and culture. Chatter is a podcast from https://www.thejist.co.uk, hosted by Josh Hamilton.
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#271 - Tanyaradzwa Fear on Rebuilding Yourself, Religion, and the Weaponisation of Identity
July 19, 2022 18:31 - 51 minutes - 93.8 MBTanyaradzwa Fear is a British actress, writer and comedian. She had a recurring role on the 2015 television series Spotless and appeared in the Doctor Who episode "Arachnids in the UK" in 2018. Tanya disappeared last year for a number of days in what she describes as her "supernova event". Since then she has rebuilt herself and come back stronger than ever. In this conversation we explored that rebuilding process that she describes as consciousness levelling up, her attitude to social media...
#270 - Dr Gerald Schroeder: Genesis, the Big Bang & the Convergence of Science and Religion
July 14, 2022 18:30 - 1 hour - 123 MBDr Gerald Schroeder was my guest on today's show. Gerald is most famous for his books in which he has explored the areas in which science and religion meet. Where God meets physics. In this show we explore the science of the big bang and the words of Genesis, objective morality, and much more. Gerald Schroeder is a scientist with over thirty years of experience in research and teaching. He earned his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees all at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...
#269 - Andrew Collins - Origins of the Gods: Shamanism, Psychedelics, and UFOs
July 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBAndrew Collins was born in Bedford, England. He is a science and history writer, and the author of over a dozen books that challenge the way we perceive the past. They include The Black Alchemist, The Seventh Sword, From the Ashes of Angels, Gods of Eden, Gateway to Atlantis, Tutankhuman: The Exodus Conspiracy (co-authored with Chris Ogilvie Herald), The Cygnus Mystery, Göbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods, The Cygnus Key: The Denisovan Legacy, Göbekli Tepe and the Birth of Egypt and Denisovan ...
#268 - Dr Michael Nevradakis: Simulating Global Financial Collapse, WEF, and Greece vs IMF
July 07, 2022 18:01 - 1 hour - 123 MBDr Michael Nevradakis is a Greek academic, writer, researcher, and radio/podcast producer. He completed his PhD in Media Studies at The University of Texas in 2018 and has been a Fulbright and Erasmus scholar. In this conversation we cover the recent war games run to simulate a global financial collapse, the WEF, depopulation, the Georgia Guidestones getting blown up, the future of AI, education and the Metaverse, and much, much more! https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelnevradakis/ https...
#267 - Tom Burgis on Dirty Money, Kleptocracy, and the Web of Global Financial Corruption
July 05, 2022 16:54 - 1 hour - 127 MBTom Burgis is an award-winning investigative reporter focused on domestic and international financial crime and corruption. He has exposed major corruption scandals, covered terrorist attacks, coups and forgotten conflicts, and traced dirty money from the Kremlin to Washington. His first book, The Looting Machine, was published in 2015. It revealed how the exploitation of Africa's vast natural resources condemns the continent to corruption, conflict and poverty. The New York Times called i...
#266 - Critical Sway on Food Supply Centralisation and the WHO Pandemic Treaty
July 03, 2022 11:04 - 1 hour - 113 MBCritical Sway runs a website discussing the dangers of centralisation of money, power, and food supplies, the lack of accountability for our leaders, and the corruption at the highest levels of international bodies like the WHO. The government paid him to influence people & uncover secrets. He does the same thing now, but he works for you. In this conversation, we cover all these issues, plus Brazillian Beef giants JBS and the problems of propaganda! https://twitter.com/CriticalSway htt...
#265 - The Great EscAPE! Podcast Your weekly Ape DD in 60 mins!
July 03, 2022 10:55 - 1 hour - 217 MBAs always, this Thursday it's The Great EscAPE! Podcast back again like a renegade master! Doing your weekly #Ape #DD in a beautiful, humorous 60 minutes! Lot's to chat about (unlike last week!) and we're looking forward to it! Join us at 8.30pm BST/3.30pm EST! Remember to like, share, and subscribe folks! It really does help the cast reach other Apes and provide support knowing there are others out there who feel and think the way they do! https://www.podcastape.com https://www.twitter....
#264 - Adam B. Coleman on Roe vs Wade and Racist Progressives
June 29, 2022 22:55 - 1 hour - 119 MBAdam Coleman is an author and the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Adam was born in Detroit but raised in a variety of states throughout America. He writes openly about his personal struggles with fatherlessness, homelessness and masculinity. In this conversation, we explore the reaction to the supreme court ruling on Roe vs Wade, which has sparked the abortion debate around the US once again. https://twitter.com/wrong_speak Calling Justice Thomas ‘Uncle Clarence’ exposes the rotten ...
#263 - Brian Keating on UFOs, Imposter Syndrome, and The Origins Of The Universe
June 24, 2022 11:51 - 1 hour - 120 MBBrian Keating is a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a writer and podcaster and the best-selling author of one of Amazon Editors’ ‘Best Non-ficti...
#262 - Cynthia McKinney: A Career Spent Fighting The System - From Civil Rights To Covid
June 23, 2022 07:28 - 1 hour - 123 MBCynthia McKinney was the first African-American woman from Georgia elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1992. With a background in foreign policy, McKinney used her seat on the Armed Services and International Relations Committees to address human rights issues. She later left the Democratic party and ran for President as a Green Party candidate and Vice President under Jesse Ventura. She lobbied for the release of FBI documents on the murder of MLK Jr and Tupac, she...
#261 - Ted Reese - The End Of Capitalism: The Thought Of Henryk Grossman
June 12, 2022 16:38 - 1 hour - 166 MBTed Reese is a writer and author of the new book The End Of Capitalism: The Thought Of Henryk Grossman. In this conversation we talk about Grossman, why Ted believes we are in the final stage of capitalism, what he believes might come next if we were to abandon capitalism. We also got into the morality of Marxism/Communism and whether people would continue to work and innovate without the need to work. Order The End Of Capitalism: The Thought Of Henryk Grossman. https://amzn.to/3O9Q1EY H...
#260 - Steven Woolfe: Boris Gets Booed, War In Ukraine, and The Cost Of Immigration
June 08, 2022 13:29 - 1 hour - 133 MBSteven Woolfe is a former Member of the European Parliament and Director of the Centre for Migration & Economic Prosperity. Immigration can be a tricky topic to discuss, so bear with us, but Steven is making a solely economic argument against high levels of immigration to Britain. I had some contentions with his discussions but it was a really interesting discussion. The Centre for Migration and Economic Prosperity was founded on the principle of creating a fair, flexible and forward-think...
#259 - Sooz Kempner - There’s C*nts Everywhere: Parody, Partygate and Nadine Dorries
June 03, 2022 17:14 - 1 hour - 121 MBSooz Kempner is an actress, singer, and stand up comedian. Sooz became quite well known online for her parodies of Liza Minelli reading Donald Trump's speeches and Nadine Dorries - our bizarre Culture Minister. We got into a lot of talk about the backlash against comedians like Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, and Ricky Gervais, the anger directed at Jeremy Corbyn, whether the internet has really made everyone crazier, Partygate and much more. https://twitter.com/SoozUK https://www.soozkemp...
#258 - The Butcher Of Wall Street - MOASS Is Coming: Gamestop, Taiwan & Executive Order #13959
May 27, 2022 09:34 - 45 minutes - 83.4 MBMarcel Kalinovic AKA The Butcher Of Wall Street was my guest on today's show. In this show Marcel and I discussed the possibility of Taiwan being invaded by China, Executive Order #13959 and why it might trigger some mad price action around meme stocks, the GameStop saga, how he came to the GameStop Saga. Crucially, we talked about MOASS, the stock split/dividend, the obscene printing of money and how we are approaching a massive crash driven! https://www.reuters.com/business/lme-suspends...
#257 - Zuby on Modern Day Madness: Struggle, Masculinity, Wokeness & The World Economic Forum
May 24, 2022 15:28 - 1 hour - 165 MBZuby (AKA Zuby Music) is a rapper, podcaster, author, fitness influencer, and Twitter boss. He first came to fame after he broke the female deadlift world record in a viral video and has blown up due to his thoughts on the covid -19 pandemic. In this conversation we went deep into why Zuby believes the world has become so polarised, why "wokeness" is on the rise, why the left has lost its purpose, struggle, masculinity and much much more! https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic https://teamzuby.com/...
#256 - Oliver Bullough - Butler to the World: How Britain Enables The Rich And Powerful
May 19, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBOliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. His last book, Moneyland was a great, if not a touch depressing, read - a thorough examination of the world of offshore and elite finance. The super-rich really live in another world. Now he is back with Butler to the World; a book about how Britain became th...
#255 - Scott Horton - The US War Machine: From Iraq and Afghanistan to Ukraine
May 14, 2022 10:27 - 1 hour - 172 MBScott Horton is director of The Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow https://scotthorton.org/ HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you ha...
#254 - Dr Geert Vanden Bossche: Predictions on the Evolution of Covid 19, Omicron & Vaccines
May 14, 2022 10:26 - 1 hour - 76.5 MBGeert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development. Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation...
#253 - Professor Gary Gerstle: The Rise and Fall of The Neoliberal Order
May 14, 2022 09:53 - 59 minutes - 108 MBProfessor Gary Gerstle is the author of the brand new book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order. Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In this podcast, we discussed his previous book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, how the New Deal political consensus gave way to neoliberalism, how neoliberalism triumphed in subsuming both ...
#252 - Kee Jefferys on Encryption, Privacy and Encrypted Messaging
May 04, 2022 12:12 - 55 minutes - 101 MBKee Jeffreys is the CTO of Session, a fork of Signal and an encrypted messaging app. Session is a private messaging app that protects your metadata, encrypts your communications, and makes sure your messaging activities leave no digital trail behind. In this conversation we covered encryption, privacy, encrypted messaging, their cryptocurrency Oxen, and the Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work. You don’t need a mobile number or an email to make an account with Session. Your display name can be ...
#251 - Simon Kuper - Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK
May 01, 2022 11:47 - 54 minutes - 99.3 MBBoris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black-tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. ...
#250 - Seb Whitehouse on Wrestling, Journalism, Masculinity, and Trauma
May 01, 2022 11:43 - 1 hour - 117 MBSeb Whitehouse may have one of the weirdest stories in terms of how he got to where he is today. He's former professional wrestler of seven years turned journalist! His insights into the world of WWE can definitely be applied to our politics... We spoke about a whole range of things from the ideas of trauma, therapy, personal growth, and masculinity to his time in the world of wrestling, the state of modern journalism, and why I believe our media environment is actually getting better. ht...
#249 - Raffaello Pantucci - Sinostan: How China Are Gaining Control Of Central Asia
May 01, 2022 11:39 - 54 minutes - 99.6 MBRaffaello Pantucci is the co-author of the book Sinostan, alongside Alexandros Petersen. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western borders, in Central Asia, that China's influence has been quietly expanding in a more pervasive way. It is here that you can find the first strand of Xi Jinping's grand Belt and Road Initiative,...
#248 - Dr Craig Wright - Is BSV Bitcoin?: Will The Real Satoshi Please Stand Up
April 14, 2022 17:25 - 1 hour - 123 MBDr Craig Wright is the most controversial person I believe I have ever had on my podcast. Numerous people told me not to speak to him, that he is a crook and swindler, and so I decided I wanted to find out for myself. Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto - the creator of Bitcoin. He has appeared in numerous court cases to argue that very fact, with the result never having proven definitively either way that he is Satoshi - though no court has yet found him to be lying about it either...
#247 - Nicolás Z. Moran on Bitcoin Maximalism: The Path To a Post-Fiat World
April 14, 2022 17:13 - 57 minutes - 105 MBNicolás Z. Moran is the host of Simply Bitcoin TV and the founder of Bitvolt.com. He called in to the show direct from the Bitcoin conference to give me his take on Bitcoin Maximalism, how the banks are going to take the next wave of financial disruption, and the path we need to take to get beyond the Fiat system - ie how we separate money and state. https://twitter.com/BITVOLT7 https://bitvolt.com/ HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding c...
#246 - Mark Steadman on Mentors, Podcasting and Building a Business
April 14, 2022 17:12 - 1 hour - 125 MBMark Steadman was the founder of Podiant, an indie podcast host, and is now a prolific email composer and head of Origin.FM a new company offering podcast and audio consulting! I had a great chat with Mark about the podcast space, his work in mentoring (and taking a mentor) and how to build a business and then let it go! https://origin.fm/ HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you ...
#245 - Adam B. Coleman on Tribalism, Censorship and Critical Theory In Schools
April 03, 2022 12:14 - 57 seconds - 1.74 MBAdam Coleman is an author and the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Adam was born in Detroit but raised in a variety of states throughout America. He writes openly about his personal struggles with fatherlessness, homelessness and masculinity. He is always questioning the world around him, even if they are uncomfortable questions to ask. He strongly believes that we should all have the ability to speak freely and is now advocating for people who feel voiceless to be heard. https://twitter...
#244 - Christopher Leonard - ”Fed-Pilled” - The Lords of Easy Money And The Federal Reserve
April 03, 2022 12:13 - 1 hour - 116 MBChristopher Leonard is the author of the new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in 2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us. But the Fed also ha...
#243 - Joanna Chiu: China Unbound - Hostage Diplomacy, Influence Operations, and Soft Power
April 03, 2022 12:11 - 49 minutes - 90.8 MBJoanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to its growing sway over foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. For too long, Western societies have mishandled or simply ignored Beijing’s actions, out of narrow self-interest. Over time, Chiu argues, decades of willful misinterpretation have become harmful complicity in the toxic diplomacy...
#242 - Luke Mikic - How Bitcoin Changes The World: Will The Banks Go Quietly?
March 02, 2022 10:36 - 1 hour - 132 MBLuke Mikic is the host of Fix The Money, Fix The World - a podcast where he talks about Bitcoin and how this technology is changing the world already! Luke believes that if we can fix the problems with our money supply, then we can fix a lot of our economic and political problems. In this conversation, we went deep on his case for Bitcoin, why he believes it is the best cryptocurrency to date, and whether banks will decide to go quietly into the night as they become obsolete (or more worryin...
#241 - Johnny Vedmore: Who Are Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum? [Live]
February 25, 2022 10:10 - 1 hour - 134 MBJohnny Vedmore is a Writer, Investigative Journalist & Phunter. He's also Musician & a #420 Free Wales advocate! I wanted to get Johnny on the show to help me walk through Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum - it's a topic that keeps rearing its head in conversations about CBDCs and vaccine passports and so I wanted to do a deep dive and find out what we actually know about this shady group and it's Emperor Palpatine-like leader! https://twitter.com/JohnnyVedmore https://johnnyvedmo...
#240 - Jeffrey Peel: England Lifts All Restrictions, NI Protocol, and the WEF
February 22, 2022 22:22 - 1 hour - 193 MBIn the last week, both England and Northern Ireland have lifted their covid restrictions, including the vaccine passports, allowing us all to get back to a little more of a normal life. Despite that, we've almost got war with Russia, ongoing disputes about the NI Protocol threatening to bubble over in NI (having already brought down the Executive), and we've got more and more information coming to light about the World Economic Forum (who will be getting a special podcast on Thursday) - the ...
#239 - Kojo Koram on How Britain’s Empire Became A Global Corporate/Financial Empire
February 17, 2022 17:20 - 1 hour - 113 MBThere has been a lot of discussion over the past few years about the impact of Empire, especially with the toppling of the Colston statue and the BLM protests in 2020. However, what is not as often discussed is the financial and corporate legacy left by the British and other European Empires. Kojo Koram is the author of the brand new book, Uncommon Wealth, on this very topic. In this show he walked me through the key points of his book - namely how much of the empire did not disappear with d...
#238 - Dave Elliott: Send The Trolls To Madagascar
February 15, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBNorthern Irish comedian Dave Elliott was the first guest with whom I recorded video for the podcast! Now he is back, in person, to explain why we should send all the world's trolls to Madagascar, why the politicians of Northern Ireland should take part in Naked and Afraid, and why comedians should be taken more seriously than anyone else on the planet! https://twitter.com/TheDaveElliott https://www.facebook.com/DaveElliottComedy/ Check out The Sly Guy Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/w...
#237 - Greg Foss - Truckers vs Trudeau: The Story Of The Canadian Freedom Convoy [Live]
February 14, 2022 20:28 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBI always thought the phrase "the revolution will not be televised" was a cliche, until 2022 and the Canadian Truckers. There is something approaching a soft revolution happening in Canada right now, truckers, farmers, and other supporters drove a convoy of 10s of thousands across Canada to the capital and have blockaded the area surrounding the parliament for 3 weeks now. They have stated they will not leave until Trudeau resigns or the covid mandates and restrictions have been liften. The m...
#236 - Spencer Jakab - GameStop: The Revolution That Wasn’t?
February 10, 2022 09:27 - 59 minutes - 108 MBSpencer Jakab, author of The Revolution That Wasn't, all about the GameStop/Memestock saga in January 2021, was my guest on today's show. Don't worry, Spencer hasn't dented my belief in GME. However, this book is well worth a read for anyone interested in the GameStop story! I learnt a lot and felt that, whilst the conclusions were not the ones I was drawing from this story he is clearly knowledgeable about the inner workings of the market and his perspective was really interesting to me - i...
#235 - Mark E. Thomas on Corruption, Oligarchy, and the NHS Health And Social Care Bill
February 08, 2022 11:21 - 1 hour - 121 MBI think I mention the work of Mark E. Thomas on this show almost as much as I reference Naomi Klein and The Shock Doctrine, so it was a pleasure to have Mark back on the show. In this episode we talked through the privatisation of the NHS, the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill, the authoritarian drift of the UK, whether we live in a one party state, and how we reconcile emergency powers that could help a pandemic with a government that has done nothing but exploit it. Mark E ...
#234 - Jonathan Weissman: Covid Deaths, PCR Tests, and Yellow Card Reporting Explained
February 03, 2022 23:24 - 1 hour - 211 MB*For the purposes of not being banned and as a disclaimer I will say: The views represented here do may not represent the mainstream scientific view on the issues presented. Nothing in this show should be taken as medical advice. We are simply trying to explore the figures and data we're being given by our governments and understand what they mean as we try to reflect on the past two years.* If you feel we've missed or misunderstood something please let me know in the comments below. Jon...
#233 - Mark Solms - The Hidden Spring: A Journey To The Source Of Consciousness
February 01, 2022 15:22 - 1 hour - 145 MBConsciousness is one of the strangest parts of our universe. It's a mind-bogglingly complicated and difficult topic to discuss seriously and almost impossible to measure, let alone define. Where on earth does consciousness come from? However, luckily for us Mark Solms amazing new book, The Hidden Spring: A Journey To The Source Of Consciousness, addresses many of these questions. In this fascinating chat, I asked Mark about how old consciousness is, what part of the brain is creating conscio...
#232 - Melissa Ciummei on Financial Reset, Digital ID and a Social Credit System
January 27, 2022 11:47 - 1 hour - 141 MBMelissa Ciummei first came across my radar after I saw her speak at an anti-vaccine passport protest in Belfast. Once I delved further into her work, I saw that Melissa was discussing ideas of good and evil, financial reset, and above all, she was warning about the dangers of digital ID and a centralised system of control from the government based around smart cities and the promise of integration. I wanted to discuss this properly, not in a conspiratorial way, but in a way that lays out how...
#231 - Andrew Feinstein on Neoliberalism, South Africa, and the Global Arms Trade
January 25, 2022 16:29 - 1 hour - 124 MBAndrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations (formerly Corruption Watch), an NGO that undertakes path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and militarism, predominantly but not exclusively in the global arms trade. Andrew was a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 7 years before resigning in protest at the ANC's refusal to allow an independent and comprehensive inquiry into a multi-mil...
#230 - Dr Brian Klaas on Corruptible: Who Gets Power And How It Changes Us
January 21, 2022 09:02 - 58 minutes - 80.3 MBDoes power corrupt? Or do those prone to corruption end up in power? It's an age-old question answered by Dr Brian Klaas in his brand new book "Corruptible: Who Gets Power And How It Changes Us". I was lucky enough to get a copy and read the book over Christmas. In the middle of a world in which I have witnessed politicians do horrendous damage as they try to help, I have often wondered whether it is corruption, malice, or incompetence that leads them to make decisions that can negatively im...
#229 - Marco Metzler on Evergrande: The First Domino In A Financial Collapse
January 20, 2022 09:21 - 46 minutes - 85 MBEvergrande has been discussed at length during the GameStop saga. Many apes, both smooth and wrinklebrained, have pointed to Evergrande as a potential catalyst for a global economic crisis that could trigger... the MOASS. So I decided to get in tough with Dr Marco Metzler, who's company bought Evergrande bonds to discover more details on the debt situation and are currently filing to have Evergrande declared insolvent. He walked me through the amount of debt they are carrying and why the col...
#228 - Otto English on Creeping Authoritarianism and Extreme Polarisation In UK Politics
January 19, 2022 10:56 - 1 hour - 160 MBThere have been several disparate but converging forces operating within the UK over the past few years - a creeping authoritarianism, increasing polarisation and politicisation, and the pandemic and all it's associated problems. The issue for me is that too often the first two are dismissed as irrelevant due to the pandemic, when in fact, I argue that this crisis is the exact moment we must fight to retain our rights and freedoms. To this end I was delighted to have Otto English back on the...
#227 - Klaudia Fior on Establishment Collapse: Boris, Prince Andrew and Partygate
January 17, 2022 13:07 - 1 hour - 159 MBIs the establishment collapsing? With Boris and Prince Andrew coming under major scrutiny, I wanted to talk about whether the establishment might be on their last legs. The real question is will they suffer consequences! Back for round two is Klaudia Fior. Klaudia is a 23 year-old journalist & PR/advertising MA graduate. She works for Bywire News, Britains only blockchain news network, aggregating the best independent news from across the UK. Klaudia writes about debate topics or topics th...
#226 - Der Gigi on Austria, Bitcoin, Digital ID’s and Authoritarianism
January 13, 2022 10:50 - 1 hour - 169 MBAustria is a country very close to my heart, so it has saddened me greatly to see what has become of such a wonderfully free place. It was my pleasure in this episode to get the time to speak to Austrian Bitcoin and privacy advocate Der Gigi - who has sadly left the country due to fear over covid restrictions. In this episode we dived into how Austria became one of the strictest countries in the world regarding covid laws, the plans for vaccine passports and digital ID's, why they are danger...
#225 - Steven Boykey Sidley & Simon Dingle: Beyond Bitcoin - DeFi and The End Of Banks
January 05, 2022 20:24 - 1 hour - 130 MBI've been having a lot of conversations with people about Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies and blockchain technology and about how they are going to change the world of finance. However, it wasn't until I got the chance to read Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks by Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle that I really understood the full scope of how this space threatens the world of finance, what exactly DeFi is, and how NFTs are going to be so much bigger than just...
#224 - Ted Reese: The Marxist Case Against More Covid Restrictions
December 23, 2021 12:55 - 1 hour - 120 MBTed Reese is a Marxist and the author of: Socialism or Extinction, Humanising Production, and the upcoming book The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman. In this podcast Ted and I talked through the left wing or "Marxist" case against more covid restrictions, particularly the vaccine passports. We talked about why a lot of the left fail to see the damage being caused by lockdowns, the true reason for the struggling NHS, and the lack of opposition from the left about the dangers ...
#223 - Dr Paolo Gerbaudo on GameStop, Digital Revolution, and the End Of Neoliberalism [Live]
December 16, 2021 22:29 - 1 hour - 102 MBPaolo Gerbaudo is a political sociologist and the director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), The Mask and the Flag (2017), and The Great Recoil (2021). In this podcast we talked through GameStop as a blueprint for revolution, online crowds and mobs, transparency in finance and on the internet, why GameStop was a backlash against the neoliberal system that continues to dominate our world, and much much more! HELP M...
#222 - Gavin O‘Toole on Tory Authoritarianism and The End Of Boris
December 14, 2021 21:03 - 1 hour - 107 MBGavin O'Toole is writer and editor with a long background at the UK's leading newspapers, including eight years at the Observer, six years at the Financial Times, and six years at the Guardian. Has written for Reuters IFR, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Futures and Options Association, Markit Magazine, NACLA, Global Government Forum, Public Finance International, Latin America Business School/Ebanx (Brazil). Copywriter for PR agencies serving clients in AltFi, data services, recruitment and design — ...