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Ep 267Your epistemology is bad and you should feel bad

https://extra.ie/2021/08/29/news/politics/brian-leddin-slurs-against-womenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc2t21xlxEhttps://www.ign.com/articles/y-the-last-man-hulu-fx-binary-tackling-transgender-issues

Sep 1, 202144 min

Ep 266Supply and demand believes in you

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soaring-pay-puts-waitrose-lorry-drivers-on-a-par-with-lawyers-r5673lblshttps://www.businesspost.ie/energy/balance-of-power-why-irelands-electricity-supply-is-threatened-and-what-can-be-done-to-bolster-it-d8fbf07ahttps://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/publications/ida-ireland-economic-benefits-of-data-centre-inves

Aug 29, 202151 min

Ep 265Is it a hotpoint you have sir?

https://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/afghanistan-helpline-redirected-callers-to-washing-machine-company-15156117/https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/555a928a-06a8-11ec-89b3-29a9a04e8645?shareToken=93be4692c0e358916b35ef44444a3ef0https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1431282869654204420 - The forbidden image

Aug 27, 202147 min

Ep 264Less of a statistic, more of a guess

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/undocumented-migrants-in-ireland-offered-once-in-a-generation-amnesty-40775476.html

Aug 25, 202147 min

Ep 263Michael on auto-pilot

https://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-factcheck-5521191-Aug2021/

Aug 20, 202141 min

Ep 262I can mash-potato, and I can do the twist

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anpro-Stainless-Potato-Perfect-Vegetable/dp/B07HF1NS12/ - A ricer, it'll improve your life.https://www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-40360784.htmlhttps://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/what-driving-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-sub-saharan-africahttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02158-6https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/13/covid-booster-jabs-for-rich-countries-will-cause-more-deaths-worldwide-say-expertshttps://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/08/17/the-taliban-has-access-to-us-military-aircraft-now-what-happens/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoI-6lQFIE - Title song

Aug 18, 20211h 5m

Ep 261We advance funeral by funeral

https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/blackouts-loom-this-winter-as-emergency-plan-is-abandoned-f5281ae2https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40357121.htmlhttps://maynoothuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/gathering-information-on-anti-choice-protests

Aug 15, 202126 min

Ep 260A very aggressive application of statistical analysis

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210730-muammar-gaddafi-s-son-suggests-he-may-run-for-president-in-libyahttps://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-taliban-26d485963b7a0d9f2107afcbc38f239a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Aug 13, 202142 min

Ep 259Take up the white progressive's burden

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/08/gov-kate-brown-signed-a-law-to-allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-or-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.htmlhttps://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-114-katharine-birbalsingh/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/22/controversial-michaela-free-school-delights-in-gcse-success#:~:text=Compared%20with%20other%20non%2Dselective,the%20national%20average%20of%2022%25.

Aug 11, 202155 min

Ep 258Clear and unambiguous that the laws are unclear and ambiguous

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40354553.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Aug 8, 202141 min

Ep 257The past is a different place

https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0624/626038-fianna-fail/https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf

Aug 4, 202155 min

Ep 256Scorpions and frogs

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/minister-rumbled-in-extraordinary-leak-ruse-over-katherine-zappone-job-fury-40708099.htmlhttps://www.independent.ie/business/irish/rtewill-need-to-be-rescuedstatesnew-consultants-report-40704307.htmlhttps://bariweiss.substack.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biologicalhttps://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFroghttps://mobile.twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1421787842884288530

Aug 2, 202150 min

Ep 255With the Balkans no news is good news

https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/27/bosnian-serbs-will-shut-down-government-over-genocide-denial-law

Jul 30, 202156 min

Ep 254The Zapp is back

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/https://www.thejournal.ie/obrien-says-e600000-is-not-an-affordable-home-as-concerns-loom-over-poolbeg-development-5507344-Jul2021/

Jul 28, 202153 min

Ep 25320 minutes every day on how great nuclear power is

Fracking saves the environment - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmarkind/2020/11/23/the-united-states-and-the-paris-climate-agreementswhat-does-the-data-say/https://despair.com/collections/demotivatorsRTE's climate group membership - https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/climate-change-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-media-choose-to-overlook-40686853.htmlhttps://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/were-fat-and-getting-fatter-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it-40684928.htmlLive footage of one of Michael's mood swings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJd5oQXt4g

Jul 25, 202145 min

Ep 252First you get the gas, then you get the power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNstQ6q-kYw

Jul 23, 20211h 0m

Ep 251Death, Disease, Famine, Sinead O'Connor

O'Toole's piece - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-ian-bailey-deflects-us-from-the-reality-of-violent-misogyny-1.4624916Projected deaths in UK from missed healthcare - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltextHPSC's last report on the weekly COVID-19 epidemiology - https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_Slidset_HPSC_%20Week_18_WEB_20210511.pdfIrish COVID-19 hub - https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/Dutch COVID-19 hub - https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/varianten

Jul 21, 20211h 14m

Ep 250It's too hot for politics

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/bitter-and-angry-fianna-fail-are-now-a-laughing-stock-40663668.htmlhttps://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416536109459329026https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416534480093843462 - B&A poll

Jul 18, 202128 min

Ep 249The ghost in the machine

https://thecountess.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Countess-Irish-Gender-Poll-2021.pdfhttps://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mentalhealthhttps://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923

Jul 16, 202136 min

Ep 248Batista and what Cuba could have been

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/voters-see-fianna-f%C3%A1il-as-deeply-divided-internal-research-shows-1.4618579https://gript.ie/cork-county-council-forced-labour-and-genocide-merely-differences-in-values/https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1414645006707707912https://psmag.com/magazine/the-lucrative-art-of-chicken-sexinghttps://www.thedailybeast.com/fidel-castros-horrific-record-on-gay-rights

Jul 14, 202148 min

Ep 247Will Fianna Fail go gentle into that good night?

12:19 - Fianna Fail results35:41 - Where are the free Irish voters?47:48 - What is to be done with Martin?

Jul 10, 20211h 11m

Ep 246You can't handle the costings

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

Jul 9, 202140 min

Ep 245Your campaign has the momentum of a runaway freight train

Bohemia glassworkers in the time of the Third Reich; the media has picked their candidate to win the DBS byelection; and a kind word for Malcolm Byrne as he calls China out.

Jul 7, 202134 min

Ep 244I've been a bad, bad newspaper

The mad kings of NPHET declare lockdown shall continue until they are satisfied with our tribute; and the Irish Times decides Viktor Orban is too extreme to let him talk to their readers, but the genocidal CCP are just right.

Jul 4, 202138 min

Ep 243Enjoy the silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZs8l2AMpshttps://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1405157995068207109https://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/2015/https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2021/06/15/Ireland-Selected-Issues-460785

Jun 17, 20211h 7m

Ep 242It's not our fault

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/confessions-of-a-phoney-pollster-and-a-guide-to-other-political-dark-arts-40529610.html

Jun 13, 202123 min

Ep 241You must believe!

Forstater judgement - https://legal.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Maya%20Forstater%20v%20CGD%20Europe%20and%20others%20UKEAT0105%2020%20JOJ.pdf

Jun 11, 202155 min

Ep 240Vote for our bastards, not theirs

In a year heavy with silly ideas an Irish NGO has gone for gold by saying it wants to give the government the power to remove candidates from elections if they say the wrong things; Ze Germans say they're coming for our EU Veto; and the lab leak theory makes a glorious return to respectable discourse.

Jun 9, 202151 min

Ep 239Professor Theo Boer

We sat down with Dr Theo Boer, professor of Health Care Ethics at Groningen Theological University, to discuss euthanasia, assisted suicide, the cultural impact of euthanasia on the Netherlands, and the future of medical care in this area.

Jun 6, 202130 min

Ep 238Consensus - real or imagined

The Citizens' Assembly goes off the rails; a Scottish feminist up in court for transphobic tweets shows Ireland how FG's hate speech bill will be used here; FF remain unable to do basic due diligence on their election candidates; and the Belarus situation has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

Jun 4, 202153 min

Ep 237Simon Coveney lies back and thinks of China

https://web.archive.org/web/20210531133639/https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1880004.shtml https://gript.ie/gravy-train-how-public-money-keeps-the-iccl-in-business/ https://gript.ie/over-100000-in-public-money-to-be-given-to-anonymous-far-left-group/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgubhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyuM0PODuY&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgub

Jun 2, 202155 min

Ep 236We assure you these tigers will never eat your face

Perjury bill - https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/112/eng/ver_c/b112c18s.pdf

May 28, 202152 min

Ep 235The backroom boys

https://twitter.com/OCallaghanJim/status/1396459170136825862https://www.nuigalway.ie/media/irishcentreforhumanrights/files/reports/ICHR-Report-International-Human-Rights-Impacts-of-Fracking.pdf

May 26, 202149 min

Ep 234Interview with Christopher Snowdon of the IEA

http://nannystateindex.org/

May 23, 202151 min

Ep 233At the heart of Irish government lies a vacuum

The High Court has refused to hear a case on religious COVID-19 restrictions, arguing it is moot - we argue the judgement is nonsense; the HSE hack, which no one will be blamed for; and what achievements have Irish politicians actually had over the last decade?

May 21, 202141 min

Ep 232Simon Coveney's Cenotaph

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-newshttps://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/thousands-attend-rallies-in-irish-cities-in-solidarity-with-palestine-1.4566435

May 19, 202155 min

Ep 231Votes are equal, voters are not

Arlene Foster and the DUP demonstrate the danger of getting what you wish for; and public confidence in the Government's ability to handle COVID-19 improves, but SF continue to move up in the polls.

May 16, 202145 min

Ep 230A holiday is really just an opportunity to work without distraction

https://twitter.com/NewstalkFM/status/1392812766696771586

May 14, 202130 min

Ep 229The M Night Shyamalan of ethnographic research papers

https://twitter.com/AlanFarrell/status/1390818311638765576https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf

May 12, 202152 min

Ep 228You asked for this

https://www.cochrane.org/CD013705/INFECTN_how-accurate-are-rapid-tests-diagnosing-covid-19

May 9, 202158 min

Ep 227And then the locusts came

FF have some thoughts on housing policy; the Government has pumped millions into Irish media; April vaccine target missed by 160,000; and Mick Wallace says China is a normal country.

May 7, 202153 min

Ep 226Interview with Professor Gerard Casey

http://books.imprint.co.uk/book/?gcoi=71157100341290https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Agender-Transgenderisms-Struggle-Societas/dp/1788360583

May 5, 202155 min

Ep 225The hills are alive with the sound of repression

Musical drama 'The Wings of Songs' showcases beautiful Xinjianghttps://www.lawlibrary.ie/News/Statement-of-the-Four-Bars-on-PRC-Government-Sanct.aspxhttps://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40275344.htmlhttps://www.legalcheek.com/2021/03/china-bans-magic-circle-chambers-over-alleged-human-rights-disinformation/

Apr 30, 202153 min

Ep 224We used to have a thing called charities

The EU goes to court; man pokes bear, surprised when mauled; the party of law and order decides to reward breaking the law; and the nanny state comes for bridal parties.

Apr 28, 202155 min

Ep 223The Citizens' Assembly is just a prophylactic

https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/what-we-do/meetings/voting-results-citizens-assembly-on-gender-equality/full-list-of-recommendations.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190331155445/https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/News/RED-C-Internal-Audit.pdf

Apr 25, 202156 min

Ep 222We've got some targets out the back we could show you

https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1613725900577_AZ_FIRMATO_REPORT.pdf

Apr 23, 202141 min

Ep 221A verdict, if you can keep it

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/171/made/en/printhttp://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/168/made/en/print

Apr 21, 202151 min

Ep 220The Pascal is a great name for a currency

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/General_Scheme_Criminal_Justice_(Hate_Crime)_Bill_2021.pdf/Files/General_Scheme_Criminal_Justice_(Hate_Crime)_Bill_2021.pdf

Apr 18, 202159 min

Ep 219Like an old folk's home at dementia hour

https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/39/eng/initiated/b3918s.pdf

Apr 14, 202159 min

Ep 218Speak ill of the dead

https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-68-what-exactly-are-antifa/https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ohhib - Spitting Image Election Special

Apr 11, 202154 min