The Echo Chamber Podcast – Page 16

Climate (In)Action – More Blah, Blah, Blah?

Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647?aff=oddtdtcreator We’ve seen in Ireland and indeed globally a rebranding of State failures to make real progress in Climate Action into so-called historic successes. Yes, there has been some good things added to plans, but surely we should have moved beyond worrying about what type of linguistic gymnastics is less offensive to the fossil fuel industry? […]

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1168. Tadhg Hickey on Gaza, Activist Art and being Honest about Dishonesty

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Actor, comedian, satirist and activist, Tadhg Hickey, has had a very big 2023. Whether it was a sold-out tour, viral sketches or appearances in some controversial places, he’s still, as he says himself, a work in progress. In this podcast Tony and Tadhg talk about everything from Gaza to George Galloway and from recovery to […]

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1166. Reviewing 2023 with The Ditch

Tickets for Podcasts for Palestine:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/podcasts-for-palestine-tickets-782538141647 Merry Ditchmas and a Happy New Media Landscape The Ditch have had a year. From exposing political corruption to getting smeared by the Tanaiste and that’s before we get to the Paddy Cosgrave stuff. But there’s no doubt they’ve shook up people who were complacent and upset some parts of legacy media that needed to […]

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1171. ‘I Can’t Sleep’ with Paul Biggar

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When (now former) founder of Circle CI, Paul Biggar wrote his blog “I can’t sleep’ about the Israeli “war” on Gaza, and the fear of many in the tech and venture capital industry to speak up, he knew it would have repercussions. But he did it anyway because he believed it was the right thing […]

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1163. Who the F@@k is Scott Moore?

Please click the link and help us keep going in 2024:patreon.com/tortoiseshack As a political nerd, I’d heard of former Alliance Party candidate, Scott Moore. But I had no idea who Scomo was until Conor McGregor got into a battle rap with him on twitter or X as the Muskovite’s call it. So we decided to ask him who is the […]

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1161. Irish Nationalism, Sinn Féin and the far right

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack There has been a lot of nonsense by people who frankly haven’t a clue about the far right, their playbook and the ways to counter them. Our guest, researcher in global politics and extremist online subcultures, Joshua Molloy, ain’t one of them. Josh wrote a fascinating piece recently about far right telegram channels, the links […]

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1160. The Failure of Bidenomics and Schrödinger’s Property Crash

Help keep this show on the road and join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As if things weren’t cold and miserable enough, we decided we needed to catch up with Colorado-based, Irish-Russian Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev. We’re kidding. We love the man, even if when we disagree on the odd thing. We talk the gap between the “booming” US economy and […]

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1152. ‘We’re Becoming Immune to the Shock’ – CAMHS Update

Help us keep going into 2024. Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a great pleasure to be rejoined by some of the amazing people behind Families for Reform of CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services). Hannah, Jenny and Eimear discuss the latest developments in their campaign to get a systemic reform of CAMHS, the work to get in the […]

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