Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack On Saturday October 1st at 1pm in Dublin’s 3 Arena, Ireland’s Future will host the largest public meeting about the plans for a United Ireland that this island has ever seen. Joining us (again) on the podcast is Queens University Belfast Human Rights Lecturer and member of the Ireland’s Future Management Committee, Professor Colin Harvey. We […]
Constantin Gurdgiev returned for what was one of the broadest, but most informative podcasts we’ve ever done. We discuss events politically and economically in his now home of the US. We look at the ideological barriers to addressing the “cost of living crisis” and the need for long-term thinking and not widening the subsidy net. We also discuss the issue […]
This week we were joined by PBP TD, Paul Murphy, Barrister, Seána Grant and Fingal Cllr, Daniel Whooley, for what was a very eye-opening Live Show. We talk about the Fingal Library twitter (J.K Rowling) controversy that saw Daniel wake up to the him been quoted on the front page of the Sunday Times. We discuss the NI Census results, […]
PBP TD Richard Boyd Barret joined us for the first time since early 2020, so we had plenty to chat about. We discuss the cost of living and housing crises, the upcoming Budget, the radical solutions that are actually just commonsense and his position pre any future general election on the potential for a government of the left. Hope to […]
While Russian President, Vladimir Putin, announced a partial mobilisation of the Russian army, the Ukrainian Parliament was getting on with their work. Rejoining me from a noisy and busy Assembly floor is MP Lesia Vasylenko. We discuss Putin’s latest moves, the heartbreaking uncovering of war crimes as the Ukrainian military retake land that was occupied by the Russian army and […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking that our (returning) guest today, Space Engineer, Loay Elbasyouni, would be content with building the helicopter that flew on Mars. But that’s not Loay. Now he’s set his sights on tackling the problems of powering a permanently manned base on the moon. As you do. We talk about his work, his proud Palestinian background, issues […]
This week we were joined by writer and activist, Emma DeSouza, Stockholm-based journalist, Philip O’Connor and editor at noteworthy.ie, Maria Delaney. We discuss the ugly weaponising of immigration in the US, the excellent and troubling noteworthy investigation into pesticides, Sinn Féin having a great week, the Budget kites obscuring the real fiscal space, government housing targets getting missed again, the […]
Listeners loved the last podcast with Economic Justice campaigner, Accounting Professor and Co-founder of the Green New Deal, Richard Murphy, so he’s back now to tell us about the new UK Prime Minister, Lizz Truss and her cabinet of right wing die-hard neoliberals. We discuss how unlikely this new government are to “deliver” for the people suffering from inflation and […]