I chatted to Lydia Walker-Cox who kept her shop open in defiance of Government coronavirus mandates in the UK telling her to close and was hit with £44,000 in fines and costs which she is fighting in the courts now. I really enjoyed talking to

Conversation with James Ray

Dec 28th, 2021 51m 52s

James is awesome! He made me smile so much during this chat.He is a proponent of research and development of Thorium reactors which may be a preferable option to the nuclear reactors we use today. Way over my head but it was very interesting

Episode 10- Some animals are more equal than others

Aug 8th, 2021 8m

A short episode on why it appears elites have different rules to the peasants when it comes to Covid 19 restrictions

Episode 9- Dear parents

Aug 8th, 2021 11m

A short episode discussing the vaccination of children against Covid 19

Episode 8- Alex Dunnett

Jul 11th, 2021 1h 6m

A conversation between myself and one of my best friends, Alex Dunnett. We talk about the UFC, comedy, which is a particular love of Alex's and a little about Covid. This episode is unedited aside from sound quality

Episode 7 - The end?

Mar 20th, 2021 22m 27s

As we hit episode 7 which is the average number of episodes a new Podcast has before it's creators give up on it, Stephen looks at a newspaper article and deconstructs the holes in its logic and sources. Lots of media on all sides are at thi

Episode 6 - The 1% (not that 1%)

Mar 9th, 2021 18m 22s

The UK governments proposal to give health service workers a 1% pay rise, the reaction to it and how it highlights working class peoples unfortunate penchant for holding each other back instead of raising each other up and how to be more positi

Episode 5- Potato head: You got played

Feb 28th, 2021 18m 25s

A brief riff on Shamima Begums UK citizenship being revoked and why that's not necessarily great going forward. Also Mr Potato head losing his Mr: completely boring and not actually what happened but important in terms of the reaction to i

Episode 4- A bit of a rant

Feb 13th, 2021 17m

This episode is a little bit of a rant brought on by lockdown blues. Laying out yet again the need for better conversation and a little less sanctimony and fleshing out why something that seems as innocuous as poor discussion brings about real

Episode 3-Are they though?

Jan 30th, 2021 11m 53s

We hear terms like anti vaxxer and covidiot being thrown around quite a lot at the moment. Is that fair? Or is that person just a little unsure of a new vaccine? Are they suffering through lack of access to medical care due to covid restriction

Episode 2- You want me to sign what??

Jan 23rd, 2021 8m 49s

Why calls to force the media to only print facts, whilst sounding very noble is actually very scary

Episode 1- An introduction

Jan 17th, 2021 11m 20s

An introductory episode to the new podcast "Just below the surface" where we learn that just a shallow dive into a topic could be enough to understand ourselves and others better in the modern world of information and argument overload via trad