Connected & Disaffected Podcast
1) S3E42 Google's Chequebook & The Media [ft. Alexander Fanta]
LEGACY PRINT MEDIA HATE THEM! Local tech company discovers one weird trick to gain positive press coverage FAST! We sit down with journalist Alexander Fanta to talk Google's place in the media landsc...Show More
2) S3E41: The Public Wants Tax Justice, So Why Are Labour Dragging Their Feet?
This week we're all about Tax, and kicking off we speak to Paul Hebden of Tax Justice UK about their recent survey of attitudes to tax in the UK. The results may surprise you. Suitably sprung from a...Show More
S3E41: The Public Wants Tax Justice, So Why Are Labour Dragging Their Feet?
57:08 | Apr 8th, 2021
3) S3E40 Silenced No More in Silicon Valley (feat. Ifeoma Ozoma)
This week the gang are catching up with Ifeoma Ozoma again, to discuss her efforts to introduce legislation in California to address the muzzling of workers who have been pushed out of organisations d...Show More
4) S3E39 Can Capitalism Address Environmental Crisis? (feat Adrienne Buller, Common Wealth)
The gang are talking environmental crisis this week, centred around Rowan's interview with Adrienne Buller of Common Wealth. Her recent paper explored the problems with "ESG" finance, and the issue o...Show More
S3E39 Can Capitalism Address Environmental Crisis? (feat Adrienne Buller, Common Wealth)
1:02:45 | Mar 1st, 2021
5) S3E38 Health & Our Infosphere [ft. Jess Morley]
People are FINALLY paying attention to the potential of health data - it just took a global pandemic to make it happen. It's kind of a no-brainer, when you dig into it, but governments apparently need...Show More
6) S3E37 Merry Christmas, Oh Wait, Actually, No Christmas
The gang return for the last one of the year, looking back across a year of pandemic, incompetence, and one more Brexit crisis. Ho Ho Ho. Rowan discusses how different countries across Europe and th...Show More
7) S3E36: Is Electoral Reform The Key? with Jon Narcross of the Electoral Reform Society
This week it's an election double-header. First, Warren takes us through a Week In Bullshit on Trumpism: is the USA really so polarised? Will Trump supporters ever swing back to the centre? And how mu...Show More
8) EP35 Diversity in Economics, A Lack Of (feat. Fadekemi Abiru of The Black Economists Network)
The gang return this week with a special episode devoted the issue of diversity in economics, specifically Black representation and the fields relative silence in the face of upheavals we've seen this...Show More
9) S3E34 The Keir Starmer Review Pod
This week the boys are responding to a listener request, and reviewing Starmer's performance so far. Will he continue Corbynism? Is he Blair Mk.2? Is Labour guaranteed to win under his leadership? ...Show More
10) S3E33 Diversity Isn't A Buzzword; It's A Matter Of Public Health (feat. Ifeoma Ozoma)
We've spoken about tech platforms failing to police their content several times before, but every so often we like to highlight successful examples. Back at the start of lockdown, we spoke about the...Show More