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What does racism look like on each side of the Atlantic?

In part one of a two-part series Garth interviews Katherine, a White American,  about the challenges her Black daughters faces at school and the wider challenges presented to her community under the current administration of the USA.

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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Is the centre ground dead or are the LibDems an option?

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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F is for FASCISM.  Garth and Robert look at the famous poster of the Warning Signs of Fascism and discuss to what extent they are coming true in UK and USA.

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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In this short episode, Garth looks back over the last fifteen or so years, summarising how a happy country has tuned angry and disheartened.

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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To commemorate Sir David Attenborough's centenary, Garth and Robert have a tongue-in-cheek discussion about clothes moths and woodlice!

Then they really stretch the metaphor of how these varmints relate to the May 2026 elections in the Welsh Assembly, Scottish Assembly, and the English Council elections.

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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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.

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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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?

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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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?

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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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

Garth and Robert live in Cornwall, UK.  They want you to think about protecting your democracy - in Cornwall, in UK, across the world - before it is too late.

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