Rational Standard Podcast

In this episode, we talk to former Hong Kong Students for Liberty head  Lo Ming Hin. We discuss the history of Hong Kong, why rent is such a  problem and what exactly is going on behind the recent protests. Lo Ming Hin is the founder of Hong Kong  Students for liberty and previously worked at Hong Kong's free-market  think tank The Lion Rock Institute.

In this episode, we talk with Chief Whip of the Democratic Alliance  caucus in the National Assembly John Steenhuisen. We discuss a variety  of issues included how SOEs are taking up bigger and bigger chunks of  the budget, how the chaos in parliament has had both benefits and  drawbacks and how the DA and can improve in their next election.

This episode features host Nicholas Babaya, Christiaan van Huysteen,  Nicholas Woode-Smith and Christiaan Hugo. In this discussion, we talk  about what the year 2019 holds holds for South Africa, air our thoughts  on the upcoming election and debate about who we'll vote for.

In this episode, we speak with attorney and member of the Johannesburg  Bar Mark Oppenheimer. We speak about the implication of international  law on South Africa and its government's will to expropriate property,  the schools of thought behind the constitution to a few possible legal  objections to expropriation without compensation.

In this episode, we talk with game farmer and professional hunter  Eardley Rudman about the state of game farming in South Africa, why  hunting makes economic sense for conservation and the problems with  animal rights activists influencing policies on the international trade  of trophies.

In this episode, we talk to YouTuber Conscious Caracal. We discuss the  state of a South Africa media, why the DA desperately needs a  course-correction and what lies ahead in the upcoming  election.

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Nicholas Woode-Smith and Nicholas Babaya discuss a range of current  affairs, politics and economics in the first episode of Diagonal Views, a  current affairs segment of the Rational Standard Podcast.

In this episode we talk with Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament  Michael Cardo. We talk about liberalism and why it's still at the core  the DA's ideology - even if there is a wide range of interpretations of  that liberalism - as well as the land issue in South Africa and where  the DA stands.

On this episode, we talk with Christopher Wilson, a former journalist at  The Rebel Media. We talk about the political situation in Canada, what  the prospects are for the next election for the Conservative Party and  Liberals as well discussing a few issues regarding South Africa.

In this episode, we talk to Marius Roodt. Marius works at the Institute  of Race Relations. He is probably best known as being the author the  infamous "Shelley Garland" article publish by HuffPostSA. On the show,  he gives us an inside view of why he did it and what went down.