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Here"s How ::: Ireland"s Political, Social and Current Affairs Podcast

William Campbell

Ireland"s political, social and current affairs podcast

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1:00:36

Here’s How 162 – Gravy Trains and Spin Cycles

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2023/07/20

Repeats on podcasts don’t always make a lot of sense, but if you are subscribed, you’ll know that I put up a podcast from 2019 into the feed again last week; the podcast was an investigation into RTÉ and their relationship with the AA which supplied them with AA Roadwatch, the erstwhile traffic news segments. […]

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55:33

Here’s How 161 – Once Again for Those at the Back

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2023/07/13

I think that it’s about time to hear this edition of the podcast from 2019 again. Dr Michael Foley is professor emeritus at the school of media at TU Dublin – formerly DIT – also a member of the NUJ’s Ethics Council, and has been invited by the International federation of Journalists and UNESCO to […]

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58:27

Here’s How 160 – Heading South

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2023/07/06

Uki Goñi is a historian, journalist and author who has lived in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina. ***** Sometimes it helps to draw a parallel between two events in the news, but two big recent stories – in Ireland, the scandal of RTÉ lying about Ryan Tubridy’s salary, and internationally the over-before-it-began apparent coup […]

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1:00:46

Here’s How 159 – War and Peace

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2023/06/22

James Ker-Lindsay is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on conflict, peace and security in South East Europe (Western Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus), European Union enlargement, and secession and recognition in international politics. He has created many Youtube videos explaining his subject. ***** The Financial Times recently made a […]

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1:24:56

Here’s How 158 – Up with this sort of thing Part II

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2023/05/19

Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. Statistics of the sharp rise in the number of referrals to the Tavistock clinic, and their age distribution are here, and here. False claims that puberty blockers, given to children to delay typical-age puberty are ‘completely reversable’ are incredibly common, and have been made by the taxpayer-funded […]

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54:49

Here’s How 157 – Up with this sort of thing Part I

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2023/05/18

Freda Wallace is the cohost of the Gender Nebulous podcast. ***** I want to comment on a rant that was previously posted on this podcast. The rant in question was posted with episode 120 Levelling the Field and the topic was Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol or MUP. MUP, long-time listeners may recall, prohibits the […]

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1:11:20

Here’s How 156 – Down with this sort of thing

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2023/04/27

Graham Linehan, now back on twitter, is the creator of numerous famous TV shows including Father Ted. *****

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28:05

Here’s How 155 – Computer says Tá

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2023/04/06

Annabel Fenwick Elliott is a British freelance journalist who previously worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. ***** It might have been Tomorrow’s World, that science programme from the BBC from my dim and distant childhood, where they demonstrated an early chatbot, although I think it wasn’t called that. You typed in some […]

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51:23

Here’s How 154 – Faithful Translations

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2023/03/23

Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and religion and author of the book YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach. ***** I don’t much talk about Jordan Peterson, I don’t think that he is as interesting a character as the internet makes out, certainly not as interesting as he thinks he is himself. […]

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46:22

Here’s How 153 – Tax Reform

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2023/03/09

Graham Neary is a financial commentator who has been a fund manager and analyst in the London financial markets. ***** The transport minister, Eamon Ryan who is also leader of the Green Party, it has been announced will set up an inter-departmental group to make sure the transport sector meets its emissions reduction targets. Related […]

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44:18

Here’s How 152 – We Are Still Here

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2023/02/16

Dafydd Iwan is the former president of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party. ***** Bertie Ahern, we are told, had been readmitted, to Fianna Fáil. It might be better to use the term rehabilitated. Fianna Fáil activists gave him a standing ovation at an event recently, it was to mark the 25th anniversary of the […]

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55:03

Here’s How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots

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2023/02/02

John Rentoul is the chief political commentator for the Independent. ***** I’m pessimistic. I’m not naturally a pessimistic person, but I’m pessimistic. Maybe I’m getting older, maybe I’m entering the ‘the whole world is going to hell’ phase of my life, maybe I’m right to be pessimistic, maybe I’m not paying attention to the right […]

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1:17:21

Here’s How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy

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2023/01/19

Jesse Spafford is a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin working on the project REAL – Rights and Egalitarianism. His research is focused on ethics and political philosophy with particular attention paid to debates between libertarians, socialists, and anarchists over the moral status of the market and the state. ***** I was talking to someone […]

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1:01:56

Here’s How 149 – Schrodinger’s Cake

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2023/01/05

Brooks Newmark was a British Conservative Party MP for the constituency of Braintree and is now a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. ***** I’ve got a proposal for tax reform. The idea is to make tax easier and simpler to understand, simpler for the government to collect, thereby lower costs which would lower […]

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1:08:05

Here’s How 148 – Labouring Forward

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2022/12/22

Brendan is the Labour Party TD for Wexford, and former party leader. ***** So, we’re talking about a war. We’re talking about a war where a huge, nuclear-armed superpower, attacks a territory to its south that this formerly-communist superpower views not as a real country, it views but as an integral part of its own […]

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1:18:41

Here’s How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda

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2022/12/08

Eoin Ó Murchú was the political editor for Raidió na Gaeltachta. *****

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1:05:28

Here’s How 146 – Another Calm Discussion

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2022/11/11

Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author.

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54:30

Here’s How 145 – A Calm Discussion

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2022/10/13

Aoife Gallagher is a research analyst for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and author. *****

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1:02:29

Here’s How 144 – Stuck in the Middle with you

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2022/09/29

Kellie Armstrong an Alliance party MLA for the Strangford constituency. ***** I saw a load of comments from commentators online, from talking heads on radio and TV, from people on Twitter, that the mobilisation ordered by Putin last week to try to shore up his invasion of Ukraine was stupid. It was stupid to try […]

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43:36

Here’s How 143 – Question Time

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2022/09/15

It’s Q&A time! Thank you to everyone who sent in a question!

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