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In today’s podcast in our Taken for a Ride miniseries celebrating the unique work of property entrepreneur Don Riley, we speak with Steve Norris, the former transport secretary who forced the treasury to invest in the extension (and incidentally) got Crossrail approved in 1995. Steve contributed to the book and doesn’t hold back in his criticisms of the Treasury there and he does the same in the interview.
He began in industry and then began a dual career as a politician in the 1970s, eventually serving as an MP in Margaret Thatcher's government. He was transport minister in John Major’s cabinet from 1992-1997. In 1997, he stepped down from politics to return to his business career.
Today he chairs and advises a number of different companies and charities and leads a small but highly skilled team of people specialising in complex property, infrastructure and transportation projects. He also runs a business that builds more affordable homes for people in and around his adopted city, London.
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Welcome back to the third podcast celebrating the second edition of Don Riley’s Taken for a Ride – Trains, Taxpayers and the Treasury. Today we are speaking with Dave Wetzel, a committed socialist and environmental campaigner. Whilst he had diametrically opposed political views to Don, they were friends and campaigned together to change government policy.
Dave was the first vice chair of Transport for London working with Ken Livingstone to spearhead a mesmerising number of improvements to London’s transport, especially buses. In this interview we look at how he and others worked to improve communities through better transport and how we could have much better cities and lower taxes if we focused on the value added by well thought out public transport investments.
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Welcome back to the Shepheard-Walwyn podcast. Today we continue our exploration of the second edition of Don Riley’s classic work Taken for a Ride with a conversation with the legendary Fred Harrison. Fred worked with Don and supported his research into land value uplift and helped Don write the first edition of Taken for a Ride. In this interview he talks about Don’s research and the specific reasons why any landowner needs to understand the impact of public investments on their properties.
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Welcome back to the Shepheard Walwyn Podcast. Today we begin a series to celebrate and explore the work of Don Riley. We have revised and fully updated Don’s classic work, Taken for a Ride – Trains, Taxpayers and the Treasury.
Don was an entrepreneur and landlord in Southwark, London who benefitted massively from a new underground extension, the Jubilee Line Extension in the 1990s. He was able to document through research and through his bank balance just how profitable that public investment was. As a committed entrepreneur he was incensed that he was benefitted from a taxpayer investment. Instead of quietly counting his profits he wrote a book about the corruption that he saw in the economy.
The book has been revised by Fred Harrison, the economist who supported Don writing the original book, Dave Wetzel, former Vice Chair of Transport for London and me. We also have a fascinating contribution from Steve Norris, the transport minister who pushed through Treasury approval for what has become the most profitable and impactful public transport investment London has seen since the War.
In this interview, I interview Phil Anderson, author of The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking. Phil was friends with Don and spent time understanding his approach to investing and the work he did that you can benefit from in Taken for a Ride. Here are the time stamps.
0:00 Welcome and background to Taken for a Ride.
2:00 What did Don do to make his own money? What did he do when he saw his profits coming from the taxpayer?
8:00 Whilst public investment, private profit is wrong, you should understand what makes a good investment to maximise your own returns as a property owner.
10:40 Other reasons for buying the book to deepen your understanding of the corruption in the system.
13:20 Call to action- call your political representative to lobby to get this changed.
14:00 Thanks and close.
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Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast. In today’s episode, we welcome back one of our favourite authors, Edi Bilimoria. Since we last spoke to Edi, his book “Unfolding Consciousness” has won book awards. He’s appeared on many podcasts, launched a reader series with Dr Alex Gomez-Marin, long term collaborator with Ian McGilchrist, launched the eBook version of his incredible work and is about to launch a series with the Theosophical Society of America (spaces still available). We talk about all these topics and jump straight in with a conversation about free will and whether we are “Determined” as the latest bestseller from Robert Sapolsky asserts.
Time stamps are as follows:
0-1.30 Welcome and introduction – have there been any particular questions that most resonated with readers and listeners?
1.30 More scientists are opening up to a spiritual or esoteric perspective.
3.00 Why will free will and determinism always be discussed if we think in dichotomies?
5.30 Collaborating with Dr Alex Gomez-Marin of the Pari Centre.
7.40 Answering questions without words and musicians in the flow.
11.00 Aramaic scriptures and the two types of breath.
12.00 What was the intention with the series with Alex?
15.00 How and why does Edi stay so open to other people’s questions?
17.20 What is the value of external accolades? Royal assent for Edi’s work?
19.30 What does “Know Thyself” really mean?
21.00 What is the collaboration with the Theosophical Society of America?
25.00 Professor Lorna Dawson, one of the country’s top scientists, still in awe of her chosen field - soil!
27.20 The launch of the eBooks.
28.30 Creating a unified view of science, religion, and philosophy.
31.00 Close
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Welcome to the second part of our interview with Phil Allan to celebrate the second edition of The New School of Economics.
0-0-2 Introduction to Phil Allan.
2 Why do we have so much unfairness in the system?
6- Why is unfairness not inevitable?
10 The original Physiocrats were 18th century economists. What were their key ideas?
14 Who are the New Physiocrats? What are their links to Henry George?
19.30 How do your views differ from the prevailing neoclassical view of economics?
21 What makes a prosperous economy?
26 How can you move from rent seeking economics to ways to promote production?
28 How government monopolies spread even to marriage!
31.30 Lessons from Thailand and other countries.
37.30 How do we implement your ideas to transform economic systems?
43 Closing thoughts for the listeners.
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Welcome to the Shepheard-Walwyn Podcast. Today we are speaking with Phil Allen author of the revised edition of critically acclaimed, The New School of Economics. Here’s a summary of what we talk about.
0-2 Intro and Welcome
2 What personal and or professional experience led to your writing this book?
6 How did your experience of the 2008-9 crash affect your research focus?
10 Where can following your own interest lead you?
12 What have you been working on since the first edition of the book?
16 How has living and working in different countries shaped your perspective?
18 What do you hope readers will get from the book?
19:30 Do you feel more inspired or more challenged today compared to the first launch?
21:30 What’s your focus today?
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My guest today is Akhil Patel, author of a fantastic new book The Secret Wealth Advantage- How you can profit from the economy’s hidden cycle. Now regular listeners and friends of Shepheard-Walwyn will recognise Akhil as the director of Property Share Market Economics along with Phil Anderson. Here they teach subscribers how to remember the future and to profit from the real economic order. Akhil has professional experience both in the UK civil service and in international development and business. And he's worked on a range of issues from reviewing large infrastructure deals to helping establish a UK International Climate Fund. Akhil has two master's degrees both in finance and public policy, and also a first-class honours degree in classics from Oxford.
In this interview, we talk about how the book came about, his inspirations from the Shepheard-Walwyn authors and also what readers can take from the book to improve their investing success. Here are the time stamps.
1.45 What prompted you to write the book?
5.30 How did you get interested in alternative views of economics?
8.40 What’s your take on the cycle?
11.00 What are the chances that economies like UK and Australia don’t have a boom the way Japan did in the last cycle?
17.00 Who is the book aimed at?
1930 How can our readers make the most of the next few years and prepare effectively for the crash?
23.00 How can you stay safe in crazy times?
26.00 What are you working on now?
27.50 Where can our readers learn more?
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In today’s podcast we speak with Marika Henriques, therapist and author of The Hidden Girl – the Journey of a Soul. An amazing combination of art and prose with some poetry, Marika tells her amazing journey of recovery from having to hide from the Nazis as a child in Hungary during the occupation, to being forced to leave her home in 1956 with the Communist takeover where she had to make her way overland to England which has been her home ever since.
Once settled, she trained to be a Jungian therapist. The Hidden Girl tells the story of her remarkable journey of recovery. It’s both a beautiful and insightful book and this was a particularly heart-warming conversation. Here’s what we covered:
0.0 Welcome and introduction.
2.00 What prompted you to write the book and how long did it take?
9.00 What drew you to become a healer?
11.30 What makes this different from other books about the Holocaust?
13.00 How a false cancer diagnosis led her to start her recovery journey through art.
19.30 Healing happens through creativity. Connecting with your spiritual self.
22.30 How the books create space for us to make our own way home.
24.30. Even if there’s no cure, there can be healing.
29.00 How Marika finds ways to be grateful for her journey and how she can now help others through her book.
32.00 Wrap up and close.
35.00 Summary of the Marika’s insights.
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Welcome to the final instalment of our dialogue with Edi Bilimoria, author of the stunning 1200 page work Unfolding Consciousness. This is the second part of our dialogue exploring Book three entitled - Gazing through the Telescope – Man is the Measure of All Things.
As with all the conversations in this series, we have done our best to make this audio friendly. However, I encourage you to watch this on Youtube if you can or at least check out the diagrams in the video when you have listened.
0.00 Welcome and introduction
1.30 Introduction to the final half of book three including how consciousness unfolds from the divine to the human.
5.30 Why is Newton’s alchemy research integral to his “scientific” research?
9.00 Holy Science, real truth v relative truth.
17.30 Schrodinger’s mind-sensation problem and how it can help us.
21.00 The violin and the violinist.
26.45 Why focusing on how the brain generates consciousness is the wrong focus.
32.00 How do we awaken our latent faculties and powers of consciousness?
36.15 Deepening our conversation on vitalism.
43.00 The potential dangers of using or relying on psychedelics to achieve spiritual insight.
52.00 Some thoughts on intuition and it’s real role in scientific discovery.
60.00 Why is consciousness an element – that is, irreducible? And why must we have a greater moral and spiritual compass when conducting scientific research?
105.30 Holding the balance between intellect and devotion.
110 Some final thoughts on destiny, meaning and purpose and the unfolding of consciousness.
114 Summary and close.
Thank you for listening to this Edi Bilimoria series. I hope as an Shepheard Walwyn podcast listener you’ll agree that as a publisher we are committed to encouraging different voices and perspectives. For example, Phil Anderson and Fred Harrison on economic cycles, John Butler on spiritual practice. We think Edi’s work as I hope you’ve experienced in this series has the potential to change the dialogue in so many areas, most significantly perhaps, in the interaction between science and spirituality and a reappraisal and reintroduction of our ancient wisdom traditions into our discourse on how to add meaning to our existence.
If you have listened to this series of conversations with Edi then I hope you feel ready to make the investment in his magnus opus. It’s taken 6 months to complete these recordings. I think I am on the third or fourth reading of each of the books and they still feel like I am reading them for the first time as there’s so much new wisdom to consider on each successive reading. My conviction is that even if you much more awareness with the perennial philosophy you’ll have a similar experience.
So for the last time with Edi at least thank you for listening to the Shepheard Walwyn podcast. Be sure to connect with us at shepheardwalwyn.com and join our mailing list for updates and special offers. And if you feel it’s appropriate give us a like wherever you get your podcasts and on YT too.
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