Why do some parts of mainland Britain have less people than in the 19th century?  People want to live there, but economics drives them away.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2015/04/15/how-the-british-empire-blighted-britain-and-more-british-politics/

The familiar story comes from Homer, but there are others.

Thinking about the real history and how story-telling changed it.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2017/04/28/thinking-about-troy-and-homer/

The attempt to restore pre-1914 capitalism was an error.  Only the rich have gained.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2017/11/22/feed-the-rich-economics/

And more fully at https://labouraffairsmagazine.com/problems-magazine-past-issues/the-mixed-economy-won-the-cold-war/.

Or a PDF: Problems 31 – Feed-the-Rich Economics.  https://labouraffairsmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/problems-31-feed-the-rich-economics.pdf 

As a Baby Boomer, I point out that it was those who became rich who did the damage.

And we did greatly weaken White Racism and Male Chauvinism, even if some of us took time to meet modern standards.  Those standards would not be mainstream without us.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2018/09/15/baby-boomers-and-old-time-racism/

I was very skeptical.  If the Russian state wished to kill him, were there not much easier ways to do so?

AS a spoof to make Russia look bad it made much more sense.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2018/03/21/nerve-gas-attack-on-sergei-skripal/

All human systems interfere with freedom, if you take a straightforward definition of ‘freedom’ as being ‘things that someone somewhere might want to do.

What it usually means is my freedoms, and probably also the freedom that I think others are entitled to.

There is also usually an acceptance that some normal freedoms may need to be curbed for various emergencies.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2019/04/16/april-2019-freedom-misunderstood-by-liberals/

The errors of the New Right briefly explained, with links to articles giving more details.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2015/05/15/globalisation-money-and-gun-power/

Why the existence of muons prove that we don't invent the world.  That it has an objective existence independent of us.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gwydionwilliams.com/2018/01/21/human-reality-very-unlike-physics/