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Bonus Episode – COVID-19 Restrictions: Fascist Policies using Socialist Logic

December 1, 2021 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:08:37

This is an audio recording of a recent article I wrote of the same name: COVID-19 Restrictions: Fascist Policies using Socialist Logic

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Do People Really Understand Fascism?

August 6, 2021 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:39:43

Everyone is taught, quite rightly, that Fascism is bad. But do they really know what it is, other than to name the atrocities of WW2 and the Holocaust?

We look at the differences in how the education system and the media have protrayed both Fascism and Communism in the past, and whether there really is an appreciation for the terms left and right wing any more.

As usual we dig into the definitions, and analyse individual aspects of the state in detail, such as the monetary system and state regulation of industries.

After all is said and done, was the end of the 20th century a huge missed opportunity to banish authoritationism forever through education?

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The Left Right Game: Covid19 Edition

May 27, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:43:28

It’s been a while coming, but this week sees the return of an old favourite: The Left Right game.

After a brief chat about Dominic Cummings and the latest, supposed lockdown breaking by an official, Nic launches into the latest Left Right game, this time with a Covid19 twist.

If you’re new to the podcast, this is where one of us reads out a selection of policies, individuals, institutions, or indeed anything. The other then has to say whether they’re left or right (and justify his position). Sound easy? It’s harder than you think…

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The Left’s Lost Love, Brexit and the Covid Flat Curvers

May 20, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:33:29

In this outdoor, socially intimate edition, Andrew asks whether the Left have lost their traditional hard working ethos in favour of the politics of envy, Nic finally finds something he thinks Boris is doing right – Brexit, and can we come up with a better term for lockdown scepticism?

From our local country park, and now available again on YouTube and your favourite podcast app.

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Why don’t the left get memes?

May 19, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 00:23:12

In another Sounding Board Short, we talk about Andrew’s meme on teaching unions that went started some hilarious twitter encounters, and the latest nonsense from local authorities advising schools not to open.

Why don’t those on the left actually get memes?

Did this one in particular hit a nerve with teachers?

When will schools actually open, and will they be an environment parents will want to send their children back to?

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Left Vs Right And Ideological Centrism

April 30, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 0:51:40
Even though we’re still in lockdown, we’ve started talking about some of our favourite subjects again.  This time it’s our observations of the political left and right.
Are their criticisms of each other similar?  Or are there differences in the way they try and take each other down.
And what about the centrists again – are they the moderate, evidence following bunch they like to make out, are they as ideological as the rest of them, or are they actually the most stuck in their ways?
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Changing One Thing About the State & The Dominance of the Left

March 6, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 01:02:02

What would it be? Not abolish the state entirely, but make one change to it and the way it works.

Would it be simple and maybe cliché and just privatise the NHS, or would you want to abolish state education?

How about the way we pay tax? Or how we deal with private property?

These are just some of the examples we talk about this week, as we get into some “what if” scenarios about our pet project of trying to shrink the size of government.

The discussion then turns to whether or not the political left have dominance over the right. Why do right wingers cede ground to the left all the time, and is it just a one way street?

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Rigged Elections and Whether the Right is a Threat

February 20, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 01:01:06
On this our 50th edition, Andrew puts to Nic a thought experiment where a general election is rigged in order to get freedom lovers in power.
Would that be a good thing?  What are the moral implications?  Should outcomes matter more than methods?
This leads us onto whether the political right are a threat any more and whether we should only be afraid of the left taking control of the levers of government.
Finally, what of the terms “far left” and “far right”?  Are they used appropriately in the legacy media and corporate press?
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The Differences Between The Left and The Right

January 22, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 
There are some fairly fundamental characteristics of being left wing and right wing.  But do people actually know the differences, or would they mis-categorise a lot of the traits of both?
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We discuss whether Andrew’s succinct definitions of the left and the right hold water and then go on to attempt to describe the traits of both left wingers and right wingers and whether they overlap.
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Regulation and nationalisation quickly become topics of conversation, along with the use of evidence and intention.   But are we missing how class and power are just as important in these definitions?
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Find out in the latest edition of Sounding Board.
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The Left Right Game 2

September 1, 2019 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:35:46

After Andrew surprised Nic a few episodes ago with The Left Right Game, Nic has been thinking and planning a way of getting his own back, and taking the game a step further.

In this edition, we look at whether certain organisations and people are more “Left” or “Right” wing (or a bit of both), rather than just looking at government policies, like we did the first time.

Will you agree with our determinations? How right wing or left wing are you based on our definitions? Does it change how you think about the political spectrum?

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