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 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 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 […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We know there are at least 4,700 notices to quit (eviction notices) ready to come into force when the temporary moratorium on no-fault evictions lapses at the end of this month. We don’t know how many men, women and children that is. But it’s not good. Yesterday Sinn Féin introduced a motion to extend the […]
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, […]