Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Banks posting record losses, Governments having to guarantee deposits, Corporates looking for safe havens and recessionary rumblings are back in this season. Rejoining us on the podcast to talk about all of the above is economist and listener favourite, Constantin Gurdgiev. We get stuck into Silicone Valley Bank, the wash, rinse, repeat regulatory failures and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The SpyCops Scandal is possibly the biggest scandal that most of you know next to nothing about. Joining us to discuss an act of political policing that has monitored and infiltrated (mostly) left wing movements for decades is director of Ugly Mugs, Lucy Smyth and undercover policing activist and host of the SpyCops Info podcast, […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks with James O Toole, one of the residents of Tathony House, where 26 households face eviction in June. We talk about the fear being experienced by those facing eviction, the absence of evidence underpinning the Government’s decision to lift the ban, and we make an appeal to listeners and […]
This podcast contains themes and subjects that some may find upsetting. Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Mick Finnegan has spent over two decades campaigning justice for the sexual abuse he suffered in St John Ambulance Ireland and this morning the report by Dr Geoffrey Shannon fully vindicated what he and other survivors have been saying for so long. Mick took […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to post-doctoral researcher in the University of Galway, Dr Faiza Alssaedi, who with her two children and partner are facing becoming homeless on the 1st May if the eviction ban is lifted. Dr Alssaedi who has a PhD in Mathematics and works as researcher and tutor in the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack So far in 2023 at least one Palestinian person has been killed per day, and yet that frightening statistic doesn’t come close to telling the full story. Rejoining us on the podcast from Ramallah, is journalist and tortoise shack regular, Hannah McCarthy. Hannah has spent the last week in Tel Aviv, attending Israeli anti-government protests […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks with Dr John Bissett, author of ‘Its not where you live, its how you live; Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate’. John discusses his book and public housing, the life experiences and conditions living in a public housing estate, the problems with the paradigm of classing […]
Please help keep this podcast going by becoming a member at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the series, Stories from the Streets, on Virgin Media TV recently. Well the writer and director, Luke McManus and one of the stars of episode 3, homeless rapper, Tommy KD, came over to the tortoise shack to tell us all about it. Tommy recounts […]