In this podcast, we jump off from Dawn Butler's expulsion from the House of Commons for the offense of mentioning the Prime Minister's predilection for lying. This event, in combination with incompetent handling of increasing COVID infection, the breakdown in supply chains to supermarkets as a consequence of Brexit, and the steady turning of the right wing press on the Tory government add fuel to a dangerous and chaotic public mood which the far right will attempt to capture. [Free. 31 minutes.]

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DAWN BUTLER & THE POST-TRUTH PARLIAMENT - INTERESTING TIMES 39

In this podcast we comment on the state of the Tory Cabinet as members are 'pinged' as  a result of the Secretary of Sate for Health testing positive for COVID19 on the eve of 'free-dumb day'. We focus on contradictions within the right as authoritarian social conservatism vies with libertarian-libertinism for dominance and powerful opportunists attempt to face both ways. In this context we examine Javid's espousal of Randianism. [Free. 35 minutes.]

SAVAGE JAVID'S RANDIAN FANTASY - INTERESTING TIMES 38

In this podcast, I examine the mental health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic and their embeddedness in entwined economic, cultural/ideological and ecological systems. [Free. 26 minutes.] 

COVID19 & MENTAL HEALTH

This podcast is a commentary on Eyes which is a verse from Songs of No and Yes explicating a meditation on the human face. [Free. 15 minutes.]

EYES - COMMENTARY ON A VERSE

This episode in our Lao Tzu series deals with Chapter 52 of the Tao Te Ching in which Lao Tzu discusses the benefit of contemplative alignment with the Tao and the modest comportment it induces. [Free. 15 minutes.]

LAO TZU 39

This podcast is the first in an ongoing series on Freud and psychoanalysis which is meant to be useful to our series on fascism and reason, as well as to our many considerations of the workings of propaganda and ideology. Here, give some background to Freud's intellectual journey and elucidate the notion of 'the unconscious' and its significance for humanity's self-image. [Free. 34 minutes.]

REMARKS ON FREUD PART 1 - THE UNCONSCIOUS

This short podcast offers some preliminary reflections on questioning and curiosity. [Free. 13 minutes.]

QUESTIONING QUESTIONING

In this podcast we examine El Salvador's recent decision to make Bitcoin legal tender. [Free. 28 minutes.]

EL-SALVADOR TAKES HISTORIC STEP - INTERESTING TIMES 37

This podcast deals with Chapter 53 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. We draw out resonances between this chapter and our current state of affairs and explain Lao Tzu's contemplative communism. [Free. 17 minutes.]

LAO TZU 38

In this podcast, we attempt to identify the covert thinking behind the Tory Party's implementation of post-Brexit arrangements. We arrive at the conclusion that a nihilistically destructive agenda that can only benefit the global oligarchs is being forced through despite the fact that its supporting neoliberal cock-and-bull story is now running out of momentum. We find some grounds for optimism in  the fact that the government's wish to greenwash itself in direct contradiction to its attempt to install techno-feudalism in the UK, as well as signs of progressive consolidation. [Free. 34 minutes.]

TORY DESTRUCTIVE NIHILISM - INTERESTING TIMES 36

In this podcast we discuss Chapter 51 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. This chapter deals with Lao Tzu's vast vision of the cosmos and its origins. We suggest that this vision is acquired through a particular meditation which we recommend as both useful to us collectively in our current situation and as a beautiful and sublime good in its own right for individuals. [Free. 15 minutes.]

LAO TZU 37

This podcast gives our immediate reaction to Dominic Cummings' answers to question put to him by the Commons Committee on Health and Science. [Free. 26 minutes.]

CUMMINGS SPILLS THE BEANS - INTERESTING TIMES 35

This podcast deals with the current bombardment of Gaza, placing it in the context of history and geopolitics and identifies certain questions that have to be addressed if peace is to be attained and maintained. [Free. 41 minutes.]

ON PALESTINE - INTERESTING TIMES 34

This brief podcast tells the story of French fishermen being denied access to Jersey's waters as a result of Brexit and the ensuing French government threat to cut off Jersey's electricity supply and the intervention of the Royal Navy. I draw out some wider ramifications of this farcical tragi-comedy. [Free. 18 minutes.]

JERSEY & FISH - INTERESTING TIMES 33

In this podcast, I review Peter Georghegan's recent book Democracy for Sale. This book deals with our kleptocratic politics and is well written, rigorously referenced and consequently very useful as an aid to our understanding of our situation. [Free. 29 minutes.]

DEMOCRACY FOR SALE - BOOK REVIEW

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