Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackProf Richard Murphy is back and he's not pulling any punches. We talk the UK's self-sanctioning budget, the Labour-becoming-the-Tories, but somehow worse, the fight between Zack Polanski's Populist Ecosocialist

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackA short podcast with MEP for Dublin, Lynn Boylan, on the return (again!) of CETA, the Governments insane push for unconstitutional investor courts, Mercosur's hormone enhanced cows for German cars and how to rea

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackEva Abu Mariam is a 20 year-old woman from Gaza studying dentistry at Al-Azhar UniversityGaza, who is involved deeply in community work in the field in Gaza. She joins us from her family home after 25 months of

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWorkers rights getting rolled back. Environmental protections getting torn up. Financial regulation getting loosened. Data privacy laws getting sacrificed to the AI Gods. Access to Justice being undermined. Cap

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAbdullah Al-Yazouri, is a 15-year old sophomore currently residing in Gaza. He came to global attention as the narrator of the award winning documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War-zone." The BBC later pulled th

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackJournalist, writer and our man in Stockholm, Philip OConnor is back and he had a lot to say. We talk the shift in rhetoric around immigration policy by senior politicians, what the Ivan Yates controversy actual

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAward winning Columnist with the Guardian, and host of their Politics Weekly podcast, John Harris, rejoined me in advance of the Budget to talk Labours lurch to Farage framing, the lack of a plan to improve the

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackFresh from her dalliance with another podcast that I try not to listen to, but sometimes do, is returning champion, UCD's Orla Hegarty. She gives us a great breakdown of where the newest housing plan breaks down

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackMaryam Elwaheidy is a translator with a strong foundation in English, Arabic. She holds a B.A. in English Language and Translation from Al-Azhar University in Gaza. She joins us from Gaza city to update us on th

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackOur guest, Andrew Stroehlein, has over 20 years of experience in Human Rights Advocacy, including several years as the European Director of Human Rights Watch. He recently started his own newsletter, Internation