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Sorcha Eastwood on Alliance, Northern Ireland, and a ‘No Deal‘ Brexit

Sorcha Eastwood, Brexit advisor for the Alliance Party, was our guest on today's show. We've been doing a number of interviews with politicians and staff at Stormont over the last few weeks to try and get a better grip of what is going on at Stormont and how much influence the Northern Irish parties are able to have in Brexit negotiations. We chatted about our perpetually absent government, the DUP and the Irish border, the possibilities of a 'no deal' Brexit, and the dark money scandal.
**Resources**
[https://allianceparty.org/](http://https://allianceparty.org/)
[https://allianceparty.org/document/brexit-q-a#document](http://https://allianceparty.org/document/brexit-q-a#document)
[https://twitter.com/SorchaEastwood](http://https://twitter.com/SorchaEastwood)
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Claire Hanna on Brexit and the Breakdown of Stormont

SDLP MLA Claire Hanna was our guest on the show today. We spoke all about the breakdown of government at Stomont, the attempts to get it running again, as well the Brexit debate and the Irish border quesiton.
**Resources**
[https://twitter.com/ClaireHanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor](http://https://twitter.com/ClaireHanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/uk/eu-tax-evasion-regulation-reason-brexit-referendum/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/uk/eu-tax-evasion-regulation-reason-brexit-referendum/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-18-dr-katy-hayward-brexit-irish-border/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-18-dr-katy-hayward-brexit-irish-border/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-34-professor-colin-harvey-brexit-good-friday-agreement-citizens-assembly/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-34-professor-colin-harvey-brexit-good-friday-agreement-citizens-assembly/)
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Steven Agnew on Growing the Green Party and the Irish Border

Steven Agnew, the leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland was our guest on this show. He had plenty to say on the breakdown of government at Stormont, the Brexit negotiations, as well as the success and future of the Greens in Northern Ireland and the UK. We also got into some weedsy electoral system talk and his thoughts on a European energy grid and a carbon tax.
**Resources**
[https://www.clcouncil.org/our-plan/](http://https://www.clcouncil.org/our-plan/)
[https://campaigns.greenparty.org.uk/homepage-internal-elections/](http://https://campaigns.greenparty.org.uk/homepage-internal-elections/)
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42735548](http://https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-42735548)
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Professor Colin Harvey on Brexit, The Good Friday Agreement, and a Citizens Assembly

Professor Colin Harvey of Queen's University Belfast was our guest on today's show. He has been doing a lot of work on how human rights guaranteed in the Good Friday Agreement will translate in a post-Brexit Northern Ireland. We also spoke about the potential for a citizens assembly in Northern Ireland and the implications of the latest agreement between the UK and the EU.
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Bret Schafer on The Weaponisation Of Information and Social Media

Bret Schafer from the Alliance for Securing Democracy was our guest on today’s show. They are currently trying to understand how to combat any future attempts by foreign or domestic bad actors to hijack or disrupt democratic elections or influence political conversations online. They aren’t interested in contesting what has gone on during elections over the past few years, rather they want to understand how to combat the weaponisation of information online in order to order to preserve the sanctity of democracy. We spoke all about the ways in which trolls and bots can be used online to influence conversations, as well as how social media firms could and are combatting “junk news” and misinformation.
**Resources**
[http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/](http://http://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/)
[http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/](http://http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/russian-bots-us-election-trevors-axiom/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/russian-bots-us-election-trevors-axiom/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/russia-bots-brexit/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/russia-bots-brexit/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/tech-giants-tackling-bots-misinformation/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/science-and-tech/tech-giants-tackling-bots-misinformation/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/dismissed-dnc-fraud-lawsuit-explained/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/dismissed-dnc-fraud-lawsuit-explained/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/us/trump-clinton-russia-cant/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/us/trump-clinton-russia-cant/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-10-elizabeth-vos-dnc-lawsuit-clinton-trump-russia/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-10-elizabeth-vos-dnc-lawsuit-clinton-trump-russia/)
[https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/4/17/15325172/strikethrough-cnn-espn-trump-surrogates](http://https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/4/17/15325172/strikethrough-cnn-espn-trump-surrogates)
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/womans-effort-to-infiltrate-the-washington-post-dates-back-months/2017/11/29/ce95e01a-d51e-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html](http://https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/womans-effort-to-infiltrate-the-washington-post-dates-back-months/2017/11/29/ce95e01a-d51e-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-election-facebook.html](http://https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-election-facebook.html)
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Greg Fish on Whether We Are Giving Cambridge Analytica Too Much Credit

Greg Fish is our guest on today's show, he is a journalist at Rantt and covers a wide range of topics related to data science, psyops, partisanship, and politics. I first came across his work on Medium and have since been fascinated by his insights on the ever growing Cambridge Analytica data scandal. He has some pretty interesting thoughts on the claims being made by Cambridge Analytica and whether it is actually possible to do what they are claiming they can do with your personal data.
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**Resources**
[https://rantt.com/author/greg_fish/](http://https://rantt.com/author/greg_fish/)
[https://thejist.co.uk/politics/what-the-latest-revelations-about-the-dup-and-vote-leave-mean/](http://https://thejist.co.uk/politics/what-the-latest-revelations-about-the-dup-and-vote-leave-mean/)
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-files](http://https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-files)
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Karl Niklass on The Future Of Car Design

It is great to be back! For our first episode of our second run of shows we spoke to a good friend of mine, Karl Niklass. We call him Charlie. He is a professor of vehicle dynamics, a ski instructor, and amongst other things, he is a dreamer with a head brimming with fascinating visions for the future of car design and manufacturing.
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**Resources**
[http://bit.ly/2HRa89V](http://http://bit.ly/2HRa89V)
[http://bit.ly/2HRnjHH](http://http://bit.ly/2HRnjHH)
[http://bit.ly/HirikoMIT](http://http://bit.ly/HirikoMIT)
[http://bit.ly/2Ci6R3F](http://http://bit.ly/2Ci6R3F)
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Jamie Pow on Northern Slant and a Citizens Assembly For Northern Ireland

Jamie Pow, editor of Northern Slant, was our guest on today’s show. Jamie works as a researcher at Queen’s University Belfast and has been looking at ways in which Northern Ireland could use a Citizens’ Assembly to move forward with political issues that politicians seem unable to solve. We talked all about the way in which a Citizens’ Assembly would work in Northern Ireland, as well as the Irish Border issue and Brexit.
If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. You’ll find the link in the description below.
[**PRE ORDER BREXIT:THE ESTABLISHMENT CIVIL WAR HERE**](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1789044901/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1789044901&linkCode=as2&tag=thejist00-21&linkId=713eb889ae4131bec19abcebdee517f6)
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**Resources**
[http://www.northernslant.com/](http://http://www.northernslant.com/)
[http://www.northernslant.com/if-politicians-fail-to-govern-send-in-the-citizens-instead/](http://http://www.northernslant.com/if-politicians-fail-to-govern-send-in-the-citizens-instead/)
[https://twitter.com/northernslant](http://https://twitter.com/northernslant)
[https://www.facebook.com/NorthernSlant/](http://https://www.facebook.com/NorthernSlant/)
http://www.thejist.co.uk/podcast/chatter-episode-2-niall-bakewell-on-the-dup-dark-money-scandal-and-transparency-in-politics/
https://www.irishnews.com/news/brexit/2017/11/29/news/watch-this-channel-4-video-of-british-people-struggling-to-draw-the-northern-ireland-border-1199556/
http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/knowledge_exchange/briefing_papers/series5/garry-briefing.pdf
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Tatton Spiller On Brexit, The Motivations of Politicians, and Simple Politics

Tatton Spiller of Simple Politics was our guest on today's show. Tatton is a former teacher, who also spent time working in Parliament. He founded Simple Politics to help people who were interested in politics (but maybe didn't understand what was going on) to get a grounding on the issues of the day. We talked all about Brexit, whether facts matter anymore, the Irish Border, and the true motivations of politicians.
**Resources**
[http://www.simplepolitics.co.uk/](http://http://www.simplepolitics.co.uk/)
[https://www.facebook.com/simplepoliticsuk/](http://https://www.facebook.com/simplepoliticsuk/)
[https://twitter.com/easypoliticsUK](http://https://twitter.com/easypoliticsUK)
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMpQ0l7-GvqBW2VpytpvHA](http://https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMpQ0l7-GvqBW2VpytpvHA)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/need-honest-irish-border/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/politics/need-honest-irish-border/)
[http://www.thejist.co.uk/explainer/who-are-aggregateiq/](http://http://www.thejist.co.uk/explainer/who-are-aggregateiq/)
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Daz on FM and How Technology Has Changed The Music Industry

Daz from Skank FM was our guest on Today's show. Skank FM was the first independent underground radio station to pop up in Belfast a few years ago, before Belfast Underground Radio, and Daz has been running it since the very beginning. We chatted all about how the music industry has developed through his life as a DJ and producer and how Skank FM grew from a West Belfast garage to their own studio!
**Resources**
[https://www.facebook.com/Skankfm-1647488362157631/](http://https://www.facebook.com/Skankfm-1647488362157631/)
[https://twitter.com/skankfm?lang=en](http://https://twitter.com/skankfm?lang=en)
[http://www.skankfm.co.uk/about](http://http://www.skankfm.co.uk/about)
[https://www.dazofficial.com/](http://https://www.dazofficial.com/)
[https://twitter.com/dazbelfast](http://https://twitter.com/dazbelfast)
[https://www.facebook.com/dazbelfast](http://https://www.facebook.com/dazbelfast)
[https://soundcloud.com/dazmusic](http://https://soundcloud.com/dazmusic)
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