Lost in implementation is a limited six-part series exploring the unfinished work of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. While focus for the 25th anniversary is on celebrating the glory days this podcast will be taking a harder look at the unimplemented aspirations of 1998. Hosted by writer and activist, Emma DeSouza and produced by the tortoise shack’s Tony Groves. Episode one […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the videos of Eamon Ryan getting confronted by students in Trinity College who are deeply unhappy with the Green Party in Government. I say more power to them. Joining me to discuss this is one of the people involved in the protests and co-founder of the Postgraduate Workers Organisiation, PhD Researcher […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lifting of the eviction ban, analysis & action: Keeping people in their homes This is the live Reboot Republic Podcast/Webinar where Rory and a panel of guests discuss the real life human impacts of the lifting of the eviction ban, the terror facing renters, the trauma of home loss, and analysing solutions such as the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Despite all the domestic woes, there’s still a global climate emergency playing out that needs our attention. Our guest is Green Party MEP, Ciarán Cuffe and he’s working on legislation that has been dubbed the renovation wave which aims to reduce emissions from buildings across the EU. He’s also been duped Hard-Left by Brietbart for […]
Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshack Just before Sinn Féin tabled legislation to extend the temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions, the Ceann Comhairle accepted a Government amendment that would scupper the vote. It seemed most unparliamentary to us, tbqhwy. Joining us to discuss this, the Land Development Agency report, the unreported homelessness figures and the latest in auction politics, is Sinn […]
Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You’d be forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu as we watch banks crash, fold, merge and or rattle bailout buckets. But, as always, it’s more nuanced. Rejoining us to make some sense of it all on is listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy. Richard breaks down the economic woes and gives his insights into not […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Podcast Rory talks to Tony about the implications of the Government’s terrible decision to lift the eviction ban, the social explosion of evictions and misery that is ahead as a result of lifting the ban, an idea for a COVID -like response to implement the tenant-in situ scheme, action for continuing to keep […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In a tortoise shack special, independent housing consultant and former No 10 Special Adviser on housing and local government to Prime Minister Theresa May, Toby Lloyd, joined Tony and Housing Lecturer, Dr Lorcan Sirr to talk all things housing. Toby explains how a lifelong left wing activist and social housing advocate found himself as a […]