Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised we are rejoined by the best person on the planet currently covering the decades old SpyCops Units, who have done some deplorable things to people in predominantly left wing movements in order to maintain some false sense of State order and power. You all need to listen to this and check out Tom […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this peek-behind-the-paywall Echo Chamber special, Martin and Tony talk the news of the week and things get a bit heated. Which is a good thing. We cover Trump, RTE, transphobic journalists, Coolock Says No to Ireland and the awful behaviour of legacy media in both race-baiting and our politics. CW: contains traces of Irish […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack When is austerity not austerity? When it’s done as part of “grownup” politics or so we’re told. Rejoining us is the wonderful Prof Richard Murphy and he paints a picture of the economic future that is unwelcome (and in our opinion one of the drivers of far right hate) in the new era of the […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was, as always, a pleasure to be joined by Senior Reporter with the Business Post and the journalist who in our opinion does the most to keep the housing crisis in the news, Killian Woods. We talk about the scathing Housing Commission Report, the “minority” report that followed and the fudged commencement stats and […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Today’s guest, journalist, podcaster and Our Man in Stockholm, Philip O’Connor tweeted earlier “on this day in 2011, far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in Norway. Instead of being rejected after that horror, his views have since become mainstream – in our parliaments, our media & our workplaces. That tide needs to be […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this very special podcast our friend and contributor of many years, Hana Salah, returns to talk about her life since we last spoke on air almost 3 years ago. Hana talks about life before October 7th, how her world was utterly changed in the months afterwards, her volunteering work (with your help, listeners), reporting […]
Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listener-favourite, writer, essayist and self-proclaimed humanity optimist, Jon Schwarz rejoins us to talk all things America, MAGA, Biden standing aside/getting pushed out and why, despite the incompetence of the current ruling class, he thinks that there are better days ahead. Long live the proletariat etc etc. New Coolock and the Condemning the things we Condone […]
Please Join Us At patreon.com/tortoiseshack A lot has happened since we last spoke to Vice-Deputy Leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party, Joao Pina. From a case of political corruption that never was, to losing their governing majority and on to winning big in the EU elections. So we had a lot to talk about. The news isn’t all good, but […]