Podcast Episodes

Episode 136: Dr Chris Day on His Decade-Long Legal Battle With The NHS

In 2014, an NHS junior doctor named Chris Day made “protected disclosures” to the hospital trust he worked for in south east London. He raised issues of understaffing (doctor/patient ratios were 1:18…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 135: Velina Tchakarova on Cold War 2.0 and the DragonBear

Are the nations of ‘the West’, especially the United States, in a new Cold War with Russia and China?

What does the world look like now that nations favouring authoritarian governance and repression o…

Published on 5 months ago

Episode 134: Raja Miah MBE on Britain's Grooming Gangs

In January 2025, Elon Musk started posting on X about a long-festering blot on the copybook of British justice, the decades-long organised mass rape of children across the cities of northern England …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 133: Helen Freeman on Britain's Farmer Protests

In recent months, Britain, like Europe, has seen farmers take to the streets in their thousands to protest against changes in the law that they say will make their jobs harder, undermine food securit…

Published on 6 months ago

Episode 132: Marika Mikiashvili on Resisting Georgia's Burgeoning Authoritarianism

“This is something that you don’t fully comprehend until you face it.”

The small, historically important and culturally rich country of Georgia, nestled in the Caucasus between Turkey, Russia, Azerbai…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 131: Jeremy Duffy on Working For The National Security Agency

The existence of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States was highly classified for over twenty years until the Senate’s Church Committee investigation in 1975. Prior to that, the long…

Published on 7 months ago

Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World's First AI Brothel

AI has come for the world’s oldest profession!

Cybrothel in Berlin offers customers a range of human-free sexual experiences involving sex dolls, AI, and virtual reality.

“The world’s first AI brothel”…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 129: Richard Sanderson on Getting Cancelled

Richard Sanderson was a director of the London Musicians Collective for ten years, helped set up the UK radio station Resonance FM, and founded the experimental music label Linear Obsessional through…

Published on 7 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids

I’m suspicious of social media, and the effect a smartphone has on my attention in general.

Books like The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, about how devices and social media are negatively affe…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban

Falak Enayat worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Afghanistan until Kabul was seized by the Taliban in 2021.

Overnight, Falak became a hunted fugitive on a ‘red list’ of wanted perso…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago