Podcast Episodes

You’ll Have to Kill Me – Ali’s Story Part 2

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains a personal story that discusses topics that some listeners may find upsetting. …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

The Donroe Doctrine – ‘I Heard You Hit My Brother’

Season 1 Episode 1546

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this tortoise shack special, lecturer at ATU Sligo, Editor of the Irish Marxist Review and author of T…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Scales of Justice

Season 1 Episode 1545

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Tortoise Shack special, Manager of Environmental Law Ireland, and human dynamo, Attracta Ui Bhroi…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Pedro Sanchez vs Trump and Spain in 2025/26

Season 1 Episode 1544

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Madrid-based Journalist Eoghan Gilmartin and Professor at IE University, Madrid, Joe Haslam are back to t…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

‘You’ll Have To Kill Me’ – Ali Skaik

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack CW: This podcast contains a personal story that discusses topics that some listeners may find upsetting. …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Government Does Not Want To Hear From You!

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Very unhelpfully, our Government chose to publish a "Consultation on the regulation of costs" pertaining …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump, Venezuela and the Far Right in Latin America

Season 1 Episode 1542

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Colombian journalist with el Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, rejoined me to talk Latin America, Trump’s regime …

7 months, 4 weeks ago

A Tent is Not a Home

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Riwaa Abuquta is a young woman from Rafah city whose life has been shaped by displacement, loss, and the …

7 months, 4 weeks ago

2025, So How Was It For You?

Season 1 Episode 1540

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It's that time of year again where we sit and reflect on the year gone by and talk optimistically about o…

8 months ago

The Ditch 2025 Review

Season 1 Episode 1538

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack From Housing Tzar’s to Children’s Health Ireland and on to Israeli military equipment, The Ditch has had …

8 months ago