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Special guest Rhona discusses working in Calais's migrant camps, protesting outside the Home Office, and seeing refugees climb under vans in the hopes of making it to England.

And can we even do anything to help?

*Special note. Immediately after recording this, four refugees died crossing the channel. Rhona later confirmed she knew of the family involved, including the two children who drowned.*

 

How to help

Helping refugees in the UK: https://care4calais.org/get-involved/supporting-refugees-in-the-uk/ 

Attending protests: http://www.standuptoracism.org.uk/

Emailing MP to demand safe passage: https://www.jcwi.org.uk/safe-and-legal-routes-now 

 

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Civil War. Famine. Cholera. The Yemeni Civil War has been running for 6 years, and the casualties just keep rising. There is no end in sight.

But why is there a war? Who's involved? And why do people keep posting about it on instagram?

Will explains Yemen's brutal conflict here, in this latest 'Slightly More Informed' episode.

Bellingcat Investigations: https://yemen.bellingcat.com/investigations

The Mike Lewis Research Paper on UK involvment in the Saudi Airforce: https://www.mikelewisresearch.com/RSAFfinal.pdf

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A deeper dive into the region of Xinjiang and the Uighur people - it didn't fit into the last episode but deserves to be covered.

Peter discusses the world's second power at length, examining why it's becoming so powerful, how strong it really is, and the unexpected importance of energy.

This time Will covers anarchism in a serious, succinct and well-researched new episode for our occasional 'Slightly More Informed' series. Here he explains how we misunderstand the ideology of anarchism, and that true anarchists are more likely to be found in soup kitchens than riots.

In particular, he discusses why societies should be anarchist instead of democratic capitalist; how anarchist societies would work; and what does anarchism looks like in day-to-day life. No longer will you think of anarchists as molotov-throwing radicals who want to tear down the system.

As always, enjoy.

 

Recommended further reading:

'On Anarchism' - Noam Chomsky

'The Conquest of Bread' - Peter Kropotkin

A transcript of this episode can be found at our blog here.

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In one of the most interesting and chaotic Poorly Informed debates since the early days, Peter, Will, Max and Theo have a classic Prime Ministers' ranking fight.

After Thatcher's economic liberalisation in the 1980s, Prime Ministers would never govern the same way again. So we decided to look at the four longest-serving post-1979 PMs: Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and David Cameron/Nick Clegg.

There's also some illegal currency exchange on air, and Theo makes a £200 bet that he's hoping Will's forgotten about.

Enjoy.

 

(And take the debate further at https://thepoorlyinformedblog.blogspot.com/, where we've written a short guide to every post-war Prime Minister!)

 

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Looking for something light-hearted? Want an a fresh view of the world? Need to take your mind off China? 

Unlucky.

After Season Two's uploads were suspended in September - our editors went on a bender at uni - we thought the shutdown was a perfect time to dig out the unpublished episodes.

Here, the team look at whether democracy is dying, covering the US, India, and China, with monster tangents and about five minutes of high-quality debate near the end.

Enjoy.

 

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Struggling with Brexit? We've got you covered. Sit back and relax with Theo's informal, simple guide to the past six months.

Here we go over Theresa May's resignation, Parliament's prorogation, Lady Hale's supreme court ruling, Johnson's Brexit deal, the EU's missed deadline and the start of the first December election for 45 years!

This is the third part in a series which, worryingly, doesn't look like it can end soon. 

Enjoy.

 

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The Poorly Informed Podcast is back. We're better* and bigger** than ever before, with fresh new content, some cracking debates and a great new theme tune (excellently produced by James Roberts). You listened to Season 1 almost 2,000 times, and we want to keep building upon that growth. Thank you for taking the time to tune in.

For our first episode, the Right Honourable Sir John Redwood (MP for Wokingham) is the star guest. An MP for 32 years, he has seen 7 Prime Ministers occupy No.10, and has become a leading figure in the anti-EU 'European Research Group'. We're quite impressed he was willing to talk to us. The topic he chose? 'The end of austerity'.

(The conversation with Mr Redwood starts at 4 minutes, but we recommend you listen to the extended introduction.)

Enjoy.

 

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*highly debatable

**a complete lie

Back by slightly irritable demand, Theo covers everything Brexit since the Government's record-breaking defeat in January! There's a lot to cover in twenty minutes, so this is a focus on explaining the key events and what they mean.

He also discusses the European Elections and what each party stands for, plus answers a few of your questions.

Enjoy.