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Sleeping with the Stars
Episode 382
There was a huge response to last week’s episode on Universal Basic Income.
On Free State, Dion and Joe look at the arguments made in the emails and c…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Heads I win, tails I also win: How private equity took over the world
Episode 381
A study after the covid pandemic established that in care homes controlled by private equity firms the death rate was more than 50 per cent higher th…
4 weeks ago
Why Everyone Needs Free Money
Episode 380
More than 60 per cent of Irish jobs are in positions highly exposed to the threat from AI. So what do we do in the face of this threat? Give everyone…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
The Story of Us, the Story of Gaza
Episode 379
What does Ireland in 1926 tell us about Ireland today? What do absences tell us about the lives we live whether it is in Ireland a hundred years ago …
1 month ago
Living with an AI psychopath
Episode 378
It would be harder, Jamie Bartlett says, to open a sandwich shop in Dublin than to release a large language model of near infinite power into general…
1 month ago
Handing the conscience of the world over to a king who has his shoelaces ironed
Episode 377
What does the world look like when the world has turned away? On Free State today we ask about the loss of faith that will echo through the generatio…
1 month, 1 week ago
Urban-rural toxicity, a Guard's fears for Ireland and the even more toxic Roscommon-Mayo divide
Episode 376
“I’m getting in touch because I’ve written the attached open letter as a serving Garda,” this email was one of many we received since Sinead O’Sulliv…
1 month, 1 week ago
Roger Casement - Rebel and Traitor? With Rory Carroll
Episode 375
“The bravest man it fell to my unhappy lot to execute.” These were the words of the hangman who took Roger Casement to the scaffold in Pentonville Pr…
1 month, 1 week ago
Power and Control: How a manager falls to earth
Episode 374
What allows a manager to bring a group with them? What is it? How do they possess it and what happens when they lose it? On Free State today, Joe and…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Premature Birth of a Nation with Sinead O'Sullivan
Episode 373
When Sinead O'Sullivan created a graph which she believed illustrated the problems in Ireland, she hadn't realised what would happen next. She found …
1 month, 2 weeks ago