Brexit: A Brutal Defeat for Boris, Green Shoots, A Growing Threat to Journalism

Brexit: A Brutal Defeat for Boris, Green Shoots, A Growing Threat to Journalism

Boris Johnson faces an uncertain future and narrowing options after yesterday’s brutal supreme court ruling that his prorogation of parliament was unlawful. London editor Denis Staunton talks to Pat Leahy about the prospects facing the under-fire British prime minister.Also today: Green Party councillor Hazel Chu and our own Cliff Taylor join Pat to discuss the carbon tax, green washing and the Green Party’s ambitions for the next general election.Plus: In an op-ed on press freedom by New York Times publisher A G Sulzberger this week, we learned of the story of how the paper’s Cairo bureau chief, Irishman Declan Walsh, had to be spirited out of Egypt by Irish diplomats because of a threat of arrest after Trump administration officials refused to intervene. Declan talks to Pat about how that came about and what the episode says about the US government’s role in protecting journalists working abroad.

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Zuckerberg in Dublin, A Green Consensus, The Carbon Tax – with Eamon Ryan

Zuckerberg in Dublin, A Green Consensus, The Carbon Tax – with Eamon Ryan

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made a flying visit to Dublin this week, during which time he met with politicians including Green Party leader Eamon Ryan on the issue of fake news. On today’...

3 Apr 201939min

Brexit Day Blues - with Ronan McCrea

Brexit Day Blues - with Ronan McCrea

It was meant to be the day when "church bells were rung, coins struck, stamps issued and bonfires lit to send beacons of freedom from hilltop to hilltop", to paraphrase Boris Johnson. Instead, UK PM T...

29 Mar 201930min

Indicative Vote Day, or 'Strictly Come Brexit' - with Denis Staunton

Indicative Vote Day, or 'Strictly Come Brexit' - with Denis Staunton

First: Later today in the UK House of Commons, 'indicative votes' - designed to show how much support different Brexit options enjoy - will be held, upending the normal, natural state of government-le...

27 Mar 201945min

US Politics: The 2020 Democratic Candidates - with Suzanne Lynch

US Politics: The 2020 Democratic Candidates - with Suzanne Lynch

Taking a break from the chaos of Brexit, we turn to a rather chaotic and already crowded field of candidates for the Democratic Party nomination to take on President Trump in next year's US presidenti...

21 Mar 201931min

Brexit: What is The EU's Strategy? / Councillors & Gambling Machines

Brexit: What is The EU's Strategy? / Councillors & Gambling Machines

First: Patrick Smyth in Brussels joins Hugh and Pat to talk about the thinking behind the EU's stance on a potential Brexit delay. Then: Jennifer Bray on why councillors in Donegal, using one of their...

20 Mar 201939min

David Runciman on Democracy's 21st Century Problems

David Runciman on Democracy's 21st Century Problems

Western democracies are beset by a variety of problems: fractured legislative bodies, the rise of the far right, the erosion of norms and the dangers posed by technology. But we shouldn't confuse thos...

15 Mar 201941min

Politics Fails Utterly in Westminster - with Fintan O'Toole & Lisa O'Carroll

Politics Fails Utterly in Westminster - with Fintan O'Toole & Lisa O'Carroll

Prime Minister Theresa May has failed spectacularly in her bid to pass a Brexit deal through the House of Commons. The Guardian's Brexit correspondent Lisa O'Carroll on the fallout in Westminster, the...

13 Mar 201937min

Poll: Northern Ireland Is United in Opposition to A Hard Brexit

Poll: Northern Ireland Is United in Opposition to A Hard Brexit

The second set of results from the Irish Times / Ipsos MRBI poll reveals attitudes to Brexit and Irish unity across the island of Ireland, north and south. Among the most significant findings: respond...

7 Mar 201929min

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