This week we’re going to be talking about lockdown (we had to eventually right?), mercenaries being investigated by the police for war crimes, and enquiries to save local democracy and the the environment – and the legacy of PFI on local government.
Check out our guests
@Fox_Claire
@Abla_Kan @mydylarama
@nowthenmag
And check out the pieces
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/nort…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england…
https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/…
NOTES ON THE GUESTS
Claire Fox is director of @instofideas, author of ‘I find that Offensive!’, former MEP; now Baroness Fox of Buckley. A lifelong Eurosceptic, she was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party until it disbanded 1996. She became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and was elected as an MEP in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was nominated for a peerage in July 2020 despite her past opposition to the authority of the House of Lords. After founding the Institute of Ideas now the academy of ideas which she still runs, Fox became a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze, the longest serving panelist in the programme’s history and appears on a range of media outlets including INCLUDING BBC One’s political television programme Question Time.
Sam Walby is Editor-in-Chief at Now Then Magazine in Sheffield, a position he has held since 2009. Now Then amplifies unheard and marginalised voices, while encouraging ‘active citizenship’, community participation and a do-it-yourself approach to making things better. Articles, reviews and interviews are written by local people and the direction of Now Then is shaped by them. At the heart of Now Then’s approach to publishing is a belief that systemic change is needed to address the pressing social, economic and political challenges we face, as a city and as a society.
Abla is a journalist, translator and film programmer. As a journalist and researcher, she specialises in long-form and investigative work, labour relations, Middle East politics… and film. She is an editor for film mag Mydylarama, UK partner of the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and member of the Media Fund, and has worked for Radio France, the Associated Press and the BBC World Service as a news producer, journalist and specialist researcher. She currently co-produces a film programme on BBC Arabic and co-hosts Mydylarama’s new film podcast. She has worked as an interpreter and presenter for the likes of the BFI and the Cannes Film Festival, and translates theatre, research and novels.
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