This week: Why should political activists learn from the hedge fund managers? Do speed cameras actually work? And is there something Orwellian about what people like us say about science? Yes. And much more!
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Coalition (3:24) by James O’Malley & Liz Lutgendorff (ft Robert Khan & Tom Salinsky)
Boycotts and Finance (11:09) by Salim Fadhley (ft Max Kaiser)
Orwell and Science (20:01) by Sean Davidson
Speed Cameras (29:48) by Drew Rae
Conspiracy (39:13) by Tom Hodden
The sketch at the end is by David Lovesy and Brian Two
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Boycotts and Finance. Fascinating piece. Using cleverness to influence corporates, after all the City of London boys have being doing this for years, hence all political parties drifting to the right. To stop it we need to pull the same levers.
Interesting that Greenpeace were not interested, they don’t want anything to do with nuclear power even though pound for pound it is the most likely to help reduce CO2 fast enough. They know that their supports would cancel their DD’s on mass and opt for self preservation over would should be their core mission. Luckily they are not the only eco pressure group around.