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Activist Menaka Shanmuganantha from Toronto talks with Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust. She provides a unique perspective on public and mental health debates using both lived experience and researched analysis. Inequality Bites is produced by The Equality Trust www.equalitytrust.org.uk distributed by The Real Agenda Network www.realagenda.org Music: Isatta Sheriff.

In this episode of Taxcast , recorded in October 2020, we go on a reparational justice journey and speak to the Council for World Mission about their  Legacies of Slavery project . Plus: austerity's out, public investment is now in?! We discuss the IMF's hypocritical turn around – now poorer countries need apologies and restitution… Featuring: Rev Dr Peter Cruchley,  Council for World Mission , Ec...

Matthew Taylor, writer, broadcaster and CEO of the RSA talks about his time as head of Tony Blair's Policy Unit, what's going on at the RSA and what the future holds for all Progressives. Matthew was one of a cabal of four back in the early 2000s who helped invent Compass. In a wide-ranging discussion, we cover It's Bloody Complicated  is a new podcast series that features thinkers, politicians, j...

Bjørn Ihler is a survivor of the attack on Utøya Island in July 2011 when a far-right extremist killed 69 people & injured many more. Now a writer, filmmaker and 'peace activist' , Bjørn talks to Marina Cantacuzino about the power of personal storytelling, The F Word podcast is produced by www.theforgivenessproject.com, which collects & shares stories from both victims/survivors & perpetrators of...

We welcome Extinction Rebellion to The Real Agenda Network. Kate Raworth, the most influential alternative economic thinker of the moment talks to Jessica & #MoneyRebellion's Will about Doughnut Economics, & how the concept could act as a compass for human progress this century. www.kateraworth.com/doughnut . Produced by Jessica Townsend & Bill Leuty for Extinction Rebellion, www.extinctionrebelli...

Does nonviolent civil disobedience get results?  Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion talks tactics with Tom Burgess & tells us more about the next stage of XR: Money Rebellion. She explains how the purpose of the economy should be to maximize well-being, not GDP & how the economic system causes the climate crisis, so effective action is required, if we are to change the political...

Stephanie Cassatly, a writer, teacher from Florida talks to Marina Cantacuzino, founder of The Forgiveness Project. When Stephanie was 18, her mother was shot & killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world & what it meant to feel safe. The Forgiveness Project collects & shares stories from those who have rebuilt their lives follow...

This week, Cleo Goodman joins us from Basic Income Conversation to break down the idea to its essential parts. We also hear from Jessie Golem, who was a basic income recipient during a major pilot in Canada. It's Bloody Complicated  is a new podcast series that features thinkers, politicians, journalists, & community activists from across the progressive spectrum, created by Compass www.compassonl...

In this episode of the Tax Justice Network's monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How a competition lawyer's eyes were opened to the dangers of letting companies get too big & form monopolies which act against our interests. We look at the revival of support & progress on financial transactions taxes in New York, some slow advances in the EU on multinationals publishing their accounts & the latest leaks...

Is the USA still angry? Gavin Esler, former BBC North America correspondent & Newsnight presenter talks exclusively to The Real Agenda's Tom Burgess about why Joe Biden's victory is so important for the world, but does he have a vision, will he deliver what Americans want or indeed can he? Is there cause for optimism? but what about the 71 million still wanted more Trump. The State We Are In is se...

Debbie Abrahams MP tells us what life is like inside parliament, how we can transform politics with compassion, and what listeners can do to change politics for good. This podcast is produced from Compassion in Politics, the think tank that works to bring more compassion into public life and is distributed by The Real Agenda Network of podcasts for progressive change. www.compassioninpolitics.com...

Activist & journalist Sophia Moreau talks with Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust about how she took an equal pay claim against her first employer when she found out she was being paid less than a male colleague for work of equal value. Inequality Bites is produced by The Equality Trust www.equalitytrust.org.uk distributed by The Real Agenda Network www.realagenda.org Music: Isatta Sheriff.

Award-winning film director Deeyah Khan talks about why she spent months of her life talking to white supremacists, Islamic extremists, and anti-abortionists, plus she gives some incredible insights into what drives them and what could reduce the levels of polarisation. This podcast is produced from Compassion in Politics, the think tank that works to bring more compassion into public life and is...

"Our government is out of step with voters". Jennifer Nadel, co-founder of Compassion in Politics, talks to Tom Burgess on The Real Agenda podcast about how polls show that after health, economic inequality is the top priority for voters but is not being addressed, how we need to put compassion at the heart of politics and why more MPs are signing up to conduct themselves in a more compassionate m...

Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the UK Women's Budget Group, talks with Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust about unequal pay, unpaid labour, the gender pay gap, and the uncertain future facing women as a result of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequality Bites is produced by The Equality Trust www.equalitytrust.org.uk distributed by The Real Agenda Network www.realagenda.org Music: Isatta S...

Prof Richard Wilkinson talks about inequality, status anxiety & mental health with Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust. Richard discusses The Inner Level, his 2018 book that was co-written with our last guest Prof Kate Pickett. From bullying to climate change via his school days, Richard explains why inequality has psychological effects & changes the way we think & behave. Inequality Bites is pro...

Alex Evans, founder of the Collective Psychology Project & author of The Myth Gap, joins us to discuss the role psychology can play in building a new politics, overcoming social divisions, & helping us all through this difficult and uncertain time. This podcast is produced from Compassion in Politics , the think tank that works to bring more compassion into public life, for The Real Agenda Network...

In the first of this new podcast series Inequality Bites, Professor Kate Pickett, co-author of the seminal book The Spirit Level , talks to Wanda Wyporska of The Equality Trust about the book's key findings more than a decade on. Kate and Wanda revisit the crucial link between inequality and health in the context of a pandemic that has proven that we're not "all in this together". Inequality Bites...

How could 18 million households could save on their tax bills? Today Andrew Dixon, a former Goldman Sachs executive & now founder of Fairer Share, a campaigning group proposing the Proportional Property Tax talks to Tom Burgess about replacing the outdated council tax & archaic stamp duty. Plus how an 87 year old vicar was posthumously awarded the Long Term achievement prize at the National Campai...

Has Britain lost its way? Gavin Esler, writer, former BBC Newsnight presenter talks to Tom Burgess about how constitutional reform is essential. He gives an exclusive first look into his 2021 book "How Britain Ends" & how to avoid it! Plus in other news: who thinks Britain should be reset, how council tax & stamp duty could be abolished (yes please) & how the legacy of the late Rev Paul Nicolson c...

Catch Up: Compass talks to Sue Goss, author of Open Tribe , about how we should think about society through the framework of gardening, & how this approach should inform our decision making & actions. Clement Attlee said, "Socialism, like the garden, is always changing. Each plant, & the garden itself, is in a state of becoming." Bloody Complicated is a new podcast series created by Compass which...

Baroness Ruth Hunt former CEO of Stonewall, editor of The Book of Queer Prophets, and co-founder of Deeds and Words talks with Matt Hawkins, co-founder of Compassion In Politics about the changing perceptions of LGBT+ rights, the often toxic nature of Twitter, & the policies she would introduce if she became a government minister. What Matters? is a podcast from Compassion in Politics , the think...

Should we raise or lower taxes, or just rebalance the tax system?  Robert Palmer Exec Dir of Tax Justice UK talks with Tom Burgess about a new report called Talking Tax. There is now more support for a range of taxes on wealth especially amongst Tory voters, will the chancellor listen? Plus what did Frances O'Grady   think was morally wrong and a Times columnist thought could put good businesses o...

Today we tell you about just some of the people you will be hearing in our new series of The Real Agenda , including: Jennifer Nadel, co founder of Compassion in Politics and former ITN Home Affairs editor, Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Gavin Esler, author and former BBC Newsnight presenter, Julian Richer, the entrepreneur and author, Robert Palmer from Tax Justice UK, And...

Catch Up: Compass talks to writer, political scientist and commentator Miatta Fahnbulleh. Miatta is a British economist and Chief Executive at the New Economics Foundation. She is also a key partner in our 350-strong coalition of civil society leaders demanding the Government to #BuildBackBetter, from unions to faith groups to NGOs. Our society can't afford for #BuildBackBetter to be a hollow prop...