Nicholas Gruen on Immigration, Corruption in Academia and Citizens' Assemblies

It's season 2 | episode 2 and we hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with former banker turned comedian Eshaan Akbar (@eshaanakbar). In this episode we discuss him growing up practicing Islam, his insight and perspective on Islam as a former follower, identity politics and more. 0:31 Liberal Islam 33:12 Religion of Peace 49:52 Illiberal Identity Politics Eshaan's show, Prophet Like It's Hot, is on at Soho Theatre 11-13 Feb: https://sohotheatre.com/shows/eshaan-akbar-prophet-like-its-hot/ http://www.eshaanakbar.com/ Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KEB7Z3N52LB5C&source=url Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Feb 20191h 3min

It's the first episode of Season 2 and it's great to back. We're kicking things off with a returning guest. Andrew Doyle, stand-up comedian, Spiked Magazine columnist and Jonathan Pie co-writer discusses woke comedy, what makes someone left wing, identity politics, free speech and Brexit (just a bit) with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KEB7Z3N52LB5C&source=url Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Jan 20191h 1min

One week until Season 2! Thanks for your patience, we're excited to get started and spark some conversations with our listeners. In the meantime we've been reflecting on some fascinating conversations from Season 1 about technology and social media. The following fantastic guests feature in this episode (with time stamps): 00.57 Dr Linda Papadopoulos 15.31 Rory Sutherland 26.00 Dr Pippa Malmgren Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=caGqe03cYmIRHfqisleIS3gyA-cTsCvTzfkKrEsf376WU76uIOIw9gxRMltLWxDqahloCm&fromUL=true&country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Jan 201939min

We've pulled together some our favourite conversations with our fantastic guests from Season 1 - this time around racism. We have really enjoyed looking back through our episodes but we're happy to announce that Season 2 will launch next week! The following fantastic guests feature in this episode (with time stamps): 00.53 Nicholas Gruen 09.05 Munira Mirza 20.00 Remi Adekoya 30.29 Brendan O'Neill Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=caGqe03cYmIRHfqisleIS3gyA-cTsCvTzfkKrEsf376WU76uIOIw9gxRMltLWxDqahloCm&fromUL=true&country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Jan 201945min

Well Brexit hasn't had much airtime in 2018 so we thought we'd redress the balance in this last episode of the year. We've picked out some of our favourite bits of conversation from Season 1 on the subject. Brand new episodes coming in just a couple of weeks! The following fantastic guests feature in this episode: - Matt Goodwin - Ella Whelan - Eric Kaufmann - Geoff Norcott Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

31 Dec 201829min

We've hand picked our favourite bits of fascinating conversation from Season 1 on the subject of the gender pay gap. The following fantastic guests feature in this episode: - Dr Diana Fleischman - Andrew Doyle - Kate Andrews - Dr Joanna Williams Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

24 Dec 201827min

Season 2 is fast approaching. In the meantime, we've curated some of our favourite bits of conversation around a given subject from the recent first season. It's great for us at this time of year to look back at how the look and sound of the show has steadily improved in 6 months. Bring on 2019! In light of recent events we are focusing on Free Speech this week. On this subject we've picked out conversations with: - Brendan O'Neill - Peter Tatchell - Claire Fox - Geoff Norcott - Tom Slater Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

17 Dec 201830min

Munira Mirza, former Deputy Mayor of London for Education and Culture, discusses multiculturalism, identity politics, the myths of institutional racism and white privilege, racial disparities, offence culture, Brexit, liberalism, the European Union, polarisation, and a lot more with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Check out Munira's interview with the BBC: https://youtu.be/o8IXWuXXEZs Read the AllInBritain blog: https://allinbritain.org/ Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Dec 20181h 1min