Jam 1st

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert discuss the Hartland Institute, a UK right-wing thinktank which appears to be following the same ideology as the Heritage Foundation and Project 25 in the USA.

Send us some feedback here!Garth interviews a senior retail manager about how supermarket shopping habits are changing as price rises take hold on most of us.

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert muse on the Iran War.  What is Trump's objective?  Has he got stuck in a quagmire?  What will this do the world's economy?

Send us some feedback here!A grassroots win by the Green Party against oligarch politics?  Garth and Robert discuss.We also talk about Council elections in Cornwall.  Who is winning and why?

Send us some feedback here!In this episode, Robert examines the intellectual argument for liberalism: its tenets, its history, what it has done for ordinary folk, and how it can resist the current rise of populist oligarchical authoritarianism

Send us some feedback here!Garth interviews Christine Leisner about her work to build the institutions which underpin democracy in many nations round the world.

Send us some feedback here!It's time Garth and I spoke about Reform.  Why have they done well in Cornwall Council elections?  What do they plan to to on a national level regarding migrants?  Do recent developments in American politics - with DOGE and ICE - hold a clue?

Send us some feedback here!A three-minute explainer on what populism means in our politics.  Can it affect Cornwall?

Send us some feedback here!Garth has some old mates from His Majesty's Civil Service.  Given what Musk's DOGE did to their American counterparts, we wonder if it could happen in UK too.

Send us some feedback here!Happy New Year! here is our roundup of 2025 - in macrocosm of world politics, and in microcosm how this is reflected in Cornwall's politics.

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert discuss what Cornwall Council owes, and how it might be paid back - and in macrocosm what the UK owes in government debt, how we came to owe it, and what can be done about that,

Send us some feedback here!The final episode from tech entrepreneur Rick, discussing what citizens of democracies can do to counter disinfo, fake news, bot swarms on social media and the distorting effect of algorithms on the information presented to us.

Send us some feedback here!We are please to talk with Cornwall Council Leader Leigh Frost.- Leigh discusses -his liberalism-how the Lib Dems and Indy group are back in charge at Lys Kernow- why Reform Councillors are leaving the party- Industry in Cornwall- the housing crisis

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert discuss the recent No Kings protests across the USA.Garth interviews social media business guru Rick concerning the role of AI in shaping our politics - is it a threat to democracy?  How can that threat be countered?Garth completes his series of interviews with New Yorker Sarah, about the liberalism of her city, and whether the Democrat Party has become out of touch with the needs of Middle America.

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert begin a new series called "Sunday Scone" - obviously with jam on first! - where they discuss the previous week's political events.

Send us some feedback here!Garth continues his interview with Sarah from NYC, and speaks with an American tech expert about the pervasive role of social media.

Send us some feedback here!Garth interviews a citizen of New York City concerning President Trump's anti-democracy tactics - and sounds a warning.  Could it happen here?

Send us some feedback here!Respected Cornish historian and community leader Michael Bunney talks to Robert about what makes Cornwall unique - and how community engagement is the key to resisting divisive voices.

Send us some feedback here!Garth's impressive young friend Tod explains why and how young people should get involved in participatory democracy.Jam 1st thanks Tod for his fine contribution to our podcast, and hope that he will return in future!

Send us some feedback here!Robert attempts to tease out the strands of this knotty issue.

Send us some feedback here!Garth explains his American wife's view on Trump, and sounds a warning.

Send us some feedback here!What is free speech?  Where are its limits?  Should its expression have legal consequences?  If yes, why?

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert talk more of the distorting power of wealth, and the effect of disinformation by media which is bought and paid for.

Send us some feedback here!Garth and Robert discuss the distorting effect of extreme wealth on our democracy and freedom.

Send us some feedback here!Robert & Garth state their manifesto:  politics is NOT a spectator sport!