Mid-Atlantic - conversations about US, UK and world politics

Today we are joined by love bomb Doug Levy in The San Fransisco Bay Area and the future Home Secretary Emma Burnell in London. In a week that has seen Britain record its highest temperature on record, we the president can call all Mexicans rapists and Baltimore a synonym for black America “infested? when will republicans call him on racism? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Today we are joined by pimp daddy Doug Levy in The San Fransisco Bay Area and the future celebrity love island contestant Emma Burnell in London. In a week that has seen the English win the cricket world up in the most dramatic game in history, we ask if we can send Donald Trump back to where he came from? Donald Trump, tweeted on Sunday that a group of progressive women of colour critics, three o...

Today we are joined by author Doug Levy in The San Fransisco Bay Area and Journalist and pundit Emma Burnell in London. In a week that has seen the US woman's football team knock out the plucky English in the semi finals of the World Cup we ask should we pay attention to the campaign of Kamala Harris. Download the new MidAtlantic Flick app Mid Atlantic Podcast https://flickchat.page.link/hznoEjvFy...

Today I'm joined by Pundit and Emma Burnell in London and writer Doug Levy in San Fransisco. In a week that has seen The number of rough sleepers in London reaching a record high after an increase of nearly one fifth in a year as ask can trump do it again in 2020? On Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump "officially" kicked off his presidential re-election bid. his pitch to the American...

Download the new Mid Atlantic chat app https://flickchat.page.link/hznoEjvFy6EmesTN9 Saturday, June 29th 11 am – 7 pm The Centre for Social Innovation, New York https://www.intelligentspeechconference.com/shop/ Saturday, June 29, 2019 for an event that will bring together many of internet’s best podcasters for a day of live podcast recordings, open tables, Q and As and seminars at The Centre for S...

Today we joined by writer Doug Levy in the North Bay of San Fransisco and pundit Emma Burnell in London. In a week in that has seen the Brexit Party and Lib Dems SURGE in the UK Euro polls we ask, why men are again trying to control womens bodies in America? The supreme court, which now has a conservative majority, to overturn the 1973 ruling legalising abortion but the Supreme Court did block a n...

Today we joined by author and constitutional law scholar Cory Bretschieder in Rhode Island and Journalist and pundit Emma Burnell in London. In a week in a leading investor said that The UK increasingly resembles an “emerging market” and risks a currency crash should it leave the EU without a deal we ask what happened this week with the car crash that is Brexit? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Today I'm joined by Journalist and pundit Emma Burnell in London to look at the deepening crisis in the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we have a changing of the guard joined by author and constitutional law scholar Cory Bretschieder in Rhode Island and Journalist and pundit Emma Burnell in London. In a week that has seen the Cleveland Browns announce their intention to win the super bowl by signing Odell Beckham Junior, and the UK government admitting that Spotify music, Netflix could be blocked to British citizens on holid...

1. The Oath. Washington second inaugural. The idea that the office is not the person. Washington asks to be subject to "constitutional punishment," The idea that the president is not about the law. The notion that a president must go beyond courts to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution. 2. Adams attack on the oath. Signs the alien and sedition act. Shuts down criticism of the pres...

Today we are joined by writer and thinker Nathaniel Popkin Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and historian to look at attitudes to wealth and poverty in the US and the Democratic party's new found enthusiasm for talking about it. Presidential campaigns are not usually about poverty. Poverty is something that candidates pay lip service too but little more. Things are normally termed around helping...

Democrats in Washington have spent two years trying to thwart President Trump. After the president's defeat over the government shutdown will Pelosi’s speakership, signal the end of Trump's spell over the American people and its politics? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we are joined by my favourite senior political editor at Salon Amanda Marcotte in New York as Alice Thwaite is looking after her poorly Dad. We wish him a speedy recovery. In a week that has seen President Trump address the nation and then 2 days later say he'll 'probably, almost definitely' declare a national emergency, we ask Does Elizabeth Warren have what it takes to win the Democratic p...

Today we speak to Maximillian Alvarez is a dual-PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, a columnist for The Baffler magazine, and host of the podcast Working People and his brother Zachary Alvarez who is a writer and economist from the University of Chicago. The GM layoffs now (as part of a 30-year process of de-industrialization) show that labor's concessionary bargaining model of negotiatin...

Today we are joined by writer and foodie Doug Levy in San Fransisco and by the voice of the north Mike Holden in Preston, England. In a week that has seen The British PM cling on to office by her fingertips we question why immigration is so important a topic on both sides of the Atlantic. Fear of immigrants and Immigration was the not so secret sauce that led to Trump's Presidential victory and th...

Today we are joined by my favourite senior political editor at Salon, Amanda Marcotte in New York and by writer Alice Twaite in Kent in England. On the day that Theresa May is fighting to convince her cabinet that her Brexit deal is the best one for Britain, we ask after the midterms just who will run to be the Democratic nominee for 2020? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

In a week that has seen Lewis Hamilton win yet another F1 world championship, we ask what is the world coming to when the president of the United States can call himself a nationalist? Last week, Trump declared himself a "nationalist" at a campaign rally in Houston. "You know, they have a word. It sort of became old-fashioned. It's called a 'nationalist.' " You know what I am? I'm a nationalist, O...

Nicki Arnold-Swindle talks to Roifield about running for the 36th Alabama state district. Nicki talks about healthcare, defunding public schools and the working class voting against their own economic interests in the deep south. Donate to her campaign here http://www.votenicki.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NOBODY HATES TRUMP MORE THAN TRUMP: AN INTERVENTION is perhaps the only genuinely original thing you have read yet about Donald Trump. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump,” and above all as a dagge...

Today we are joined by the eloquent Brexit naysayer Femi Oluwole and liberal US sage Doug Levi In a week that has seen the man-boy that is the president of the United States call a woman a horse face, we ask where is the moral leadership at the heart of the US administration? “I think we have to find out what happened first,” Trump said isn't that right Saudi Arabia should be guilty before proven...

Today we are joined by our friend the writer in Philly Nathaniel Popkin and by writer and wag Mic Wright in Norwich. As rape allegations surface against Ronaldo we look at the man who was once part of 100 Kegs or Bust fraternity and his attempt to became one of the most powerful men in America and the whirlwind of allegations against him. With Trump mocking Christine Blasey Ford at Mississippi ral...

When the history books are written about Britain in the early 21st century this will be the period where the raw soul of the country will be remarked upon. We have always been able to hide behind a Whiggish view of history that progress was and is inevitable and that we are an ordered and people. Brexit has but a lie to that fallacy. The idea of this show was to look at the Irish perspective of Br...

Venezuela Teetering on the Brink According to the United Nations, approximately 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled their country over the last several years. Extreme shortages of food and medicine, coupled with hyper-inflation that could approach one million percent, are pushing Venezuelans to flee to neighbouring Ecuador, Colombia, and elsewhere. There are no real prospects for positive chang...

Today I’m joined by Alice Twaite of the Echo Chamber club in Kent and Amanda Marcotte of Salon in Brooklyn New York. In a week that has seen the Austrian EU Presidency propose a special Brexit Summit in November, we ask just what does the Kavanaugh’s me too movement say about sexual politics and power in America today? Kavanaugh’s Supreme court confirmation, seemed certain, was cast in doubt after...

Today we are joined by our friend the writer in Philly Nathaniel Popkin, and by writer and wag Mic Wright in Norwich. In a week that has seen the release of Bob Woodward's book 'Fear' on the Trump White House, we look at two feuds either side of the Atlantic? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.