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

Ireland's political, social and current affairs podcast

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

May 19, 2023 • 84 mins

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

May 18, 2023 • 54 mins

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

April 27, 2023 • 71 mins

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

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Here's How 155 – Computer says Tá

April 6, 2023 • 28 mins

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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Here's How 154 – Faithful Translations

March 23, 2023 • 51 mins

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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Here's How 153 – Tax Reform

March 9, 2023 • 46 mins

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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Here's How 152 – We Are Still Here

February 16, 2023 • 44 mins

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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Here's How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots

February 2, 2023 • 55 mins

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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Here's How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy

January 19, 2023 • 77 mins

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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Here's How 149 – Schrodinger's Cake

January 5, 2023 • 61 mins

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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Here's How 148 – Labouring Forward

December 22, 2022 • 68 mins

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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Here's How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda

December 8, 2022 • 78 mins

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

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Here's How 146 – Another Calm Discussion

November 11, 2022 • 65 mins

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

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Here's How 145 – A Calm Discussion

October 13, 2022 • 54 mins

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

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

September 29, 2022 • 62 mins

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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Here's How 143 – Question Time

September 15, 2022 • 43 mins

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

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Here's How 142 – Both Sides Now

September 1, 2022 • 71 mins

Joel Keys is a Belfast Loyalist activist and prolific tweeter. ***** I discovered a big discrepancy. Well, I didn’t so much discover it as notice it. And it isn't really isn't a big discrepancy, it is an enormous discrepancy. A gigantic discrepancy. A sort of a so-big-you-could-see-it-from-space. discrepancy This is the discrepancy. Have a look […]

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Here's How 141 – Defender of the Faiths

August 18, 2022 • 45 mins

Marc Coleman is a business consultant, former broadcaster and journalist. He is currently working on a book on the persistence of western democracy. ***** ‘Magical thinking’ is a great phrase that I learnt years ago, it’s a concept that’s useful to understand someone’s thought processes, maybe even your own. If you know what it is, […]

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Here's How 139 – German Divisions Part I

July 26, 2022 • 55 mins

Professor Julian Nida-Rümelin is is a Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was the State Minister for Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany under Gerhard Schröder. Professor Nida-Rümelin, along with dozens of other prominent Germans signed a letter in Die Zeit, a leading German newspaper, about the […]

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Here's How 138 – Market signals

July 7, 2022 • 45 mins

Seán Keyes is the finance correspondent for the Currency, a subscription news website. ***** I spoke to a Sinn Féin supporter in the years after the Good Friday Belfast agreement, I think it was during one of the interminable negotiations trying to get DUP to participate and have the institutions up and running, and she […]

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

Episodes

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

Here's How 155 – Computer says Tá

Here's How 154 – Faithful Translations

Here's How 153 – Tax Reform

Here's How 152 – We Are Still Here

Here's How 151 – Never Mind the Ballots

Here's How 150 – I Wanna Be Anarchy

Here's How 149 – Schrodinger's Cake

Here's How 148 – Labouring Forward

Here's How 147 – Makey-up Nonsensical Propaganda

Here's How 146 – Another Calm Discussion

Here's How 145 – A Calm Discussion

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

Here's How 143 – Question Time

Here's How 142 – Both Sides Now

Here's How 141 – Defender of the Faiths

Here's How 139 – German Divisions Part I

Here's How 138 – Market signals

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