At the beginning of 2020, we gave New Year's Resolutions to each of the three main UK Political Parties. Now Steve and Cory check in with Patrick Cook to see if Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats took our advice.
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Steve and Cory talk to Shaz Rahman about the links between sport and race.
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Steve and Cory check in with Patrick Cook on the US Presidential race.
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Steve and Cory talk about the activities of the far-right during COVID-19 and how social media giants are dealing with their hate speech.
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Steve and Cory talk about the practical problems that face schools reopening safely and the failure of the government to deal with these problems.
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Steve and Cory talk with Patrick about race, Black Lives Matter and American Policing.
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Links we have found useful:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html
https://8cantwait.org/
https://twitter.com/themanacho/status/1267609472589090816?s=21
http://useofforceproject.org/#project
https://www.thesocialreview.co.uk/2020/05/31/we-could-never-breathe/
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/n7wbyw/george-floyd-uk-state-racism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-george-floyd-in-context
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/protests-are-the-final-expression-of-outrage-84116037857
https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2020/06/01/to-white-people-on-racism/
https://crooked.com/podcast/justice-for-george-floyd/
https://crooked.com/podcast/keep-the-fight-with-justine-barron-and-amelia-mcdonell-parry/
Steve and Cory compare their post-election podcast on the Lib Dems with the party's own analysis of their December 2019 campaign, and argue about the value of leaflets.
Features cameos from Luke John Davies, Brigid Jones and John Cotton.
Read the Lib Dem's post-mortem here: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/libdems/pages/58994/attachments/original/1589548753/embedpdf_The_2019_Liberal_Democrat_Election_Review.pdf?1589548753
Read Chris Butler's article here: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057/s41293-020-00139-3?sharing_token=QosstmmJ96OtIn1G08E-olxOt48VBPO10Uv7D6sAgHszgz307szN-iCSA5_qn2qFUAWaxQh6l32rePQ3nCwI8LeQSXTpbYDj5SiN1No9IJj1MrBjdA5MdLFe4s_LKH413cGEhJNmc6l1eiT4FpaMeplRCz-Zo7pY-RK1HNECgr8%3D
The Lib Dem organisational chart Steve is referring to can be found here: https://images.app.goo.gl/
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Steve and Cory talk about a busy Bank Holiday Weekend.
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With apologies to LJ and the rest of Ian Murray's pub quiz team for stealing the episode title.
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Shaz Rahman comes onto our show once again to talk about how the fall in carbon emissions since lockdown can be sustained in whatever passes for the new normal.
Shaz's website is https://www.shaziety.com/.
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What issues does this pandemic show us about global food supply chains? How might we act in the future to ensure everyone has access to the food they need? And what about the B-word?
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Steve and Cory talk about the government's botched messaging strategy over easing the lockdown and what that tells us about the Tory Party more generally.
You can read the Medium article by Jon Alexander we discuss here: https://medium.com/@jonjalex/johnsons-message-is-very-deliberate-and-very-dangerous-here-s-how-to-combat-it-d336cae96348
You can read the Ailbhe Rea article we discuss here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2020/05/what-went-wrong-governments-communications-strategy-over-weekend
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Steve and Cory talk once again to Patrick Cook about the different US federal agencies and how they have responded to COVID-19. What powers do states have to help them get through this crisis? To what extent is the coronavirus a partisan issue? And can the US really just let states go bankrupt?
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In this special episode of West of Centre, the Birmingham and West Midlands Fabians Podcast, our chair Luke John Davies interviews newly-elected member of Labour's NEC Gurinder Singh Josan about his experiences on that body, Keir Starmer's performance as leader so far and what the Labour Party needs to do over the next few years.
Unlike the Not Enough Champagne podcast, this episode was not recorded in a soundproof bunker. Sadly there are some issues with sound quality but hopefully you can still listen and enjoy to this very interesting interview.
Luke John Davies tweets at @LJDLabour
Gurinder Singh Josan tweets at @gsjosan.
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Steve and Cory talk about the Doomsday Clock being set at 100 seconds to midnight, the three major threats to the world that it tracks, and how coronavirus is impacting on them.
You can read more about the Doomsday clock here: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/
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Steve and Cory talk to our friend across the pond Patrick Cook about working for a hospital in New York as well as preview November's election now Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee for the Democrats.
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In January, Steve and Cory picked the people who they thought would influence British Politics in 2020. This week, we revisit our picks to see just how wrong our predictions are.
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Steve and Cory talk about the 5G conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the internet, which are leading to phone masts being attacked. Who is pushing them and what are they saying?
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Steve and Cory talk about Keir Starmer's victory in the Labour Leadership election.
You can find the Europe for the Many report's into Labour's election defeat here: https://www.europeforthemany.com/category/reports/
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Steve and Cory talk about Mark Pack's new book Bad News: What the Headlines Don't Tell Us.
Find Mark and his book here: https://www.markpack.org.uk/160672/bad-news-what-the-headlines-dont-tell-us/
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Steve and Cory practise social distancing and podcasting at the same time.
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Shaz Rahman once again joins us to talk about the problems facing the Energy Market in the UK and how we can invest to make the sector greener.
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***This podcast was recorded a month ago, so there's no reference to the global pandemic. Cory and Steve will be recording episodes with appropriate levels of social distancing next week.***
Steve and Cory talk about the differing responses to Covid 19, and Cory finds a way to talk about Brexit.
***This episode was recorded over two weeks ago. Figures about death tolls are now sadly out of date, and Covid 19 is now a pandemic***
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Steve and Cory talk once again with Patrick Cook about the ramifications of Super Tuesday, the establishment of a two-horse race. and some themes we've seen in the Democratic Primary so far.
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Steve and Cory discuss the government's proposed points-based immigration policy.
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Steve and Cory talk about Dominic Cummings' style of government, Andrew Sabisky, and the impact this is having on the civil service. It's made all the more relevant by Sir Philip Rutnam's resignation yesterday.
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