Heart Yoga Radio

QUESTIONING QUESTIONING

This short podcast offers some preliminary reflections on questioning and curiosity. [Free. 13 minutes.]

EL-SALVADOR TAKES HISTORIC STEP - INTERESTING TIMES 37

In this podcast we examine El Salvador's recent decision to make Bitcoin legal tender. [Free. 28 minutes.]

LAO TZU 38

This podcast deals with Chapter 53 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. We draw out resonances between this chapter and our current state of affairs and explain Lao Tzu's contemplative communism. [Free. 17 minutes.]

TORY DESTRUCTIVE NIHILISM - INTERESTING TIMES 36

In this podcast, we attempt to identify the covert thinking behind the Tory Party's implementation of post-Brexit arrangements. We arrive at the conclusion that a nihilistically destructive agenda that can only benefit the global oligarchs is being forced through despite the fact that its supporting neoliberal cock-and-bull story is now running out of momentum. We find some grounds for optimism in  the fact that the government's wish to greenwash itself in direct contradiction to its attempt to install techno-feudalism in the UK, as well as signs of progressive consolidation. [Free. 34 minutes.]

LAO TZU 37

In this podcast we discuss Chapter 51 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. This chapter deals with Lao Tzu's vast vision of the cosmos and its origins. We suggest that this vision is acquired through a particular meditation which we recommend as both useful to us collectively in our current situation and as a beautiful and sublime good in its own right for individuals. [Free. 15 minutes.]

CUMMINGS SPILLS THE BEANS - INTERESTING TIMES 35

This podcast gives our immediate reaction to Dominic Cummings' answers to question put to him by the Commons Committee on Health and Science. [Free. 26 minutes.]

ON PALESTINE - INTERESTING TIMES 34

This podcast deals with the current bombardment of Gaza, placing it in the context of history and geopolitics and identifies certain questions that have to be addressed if peace is to be attained and maintained. [Free. 41 minutes.]

JERSEY & FISH - INTERESTING TIMES 33

This brief podcast tells the story of French fishermen being denied access to Jersey's waters as a result of Brexit and the ensuing French government threat to cut off Jersey's electricity supply and the intervention of the Royal Navy. I draw out some wider ramifications of this farcical tragi-comedy. [Free. 18 minutes.]

DEMOCRACY FOR SALE - BOOK REVIEW

In this podcast, I review Peter Georghegan's recent book Democracy for Sale. This book deals with our kleptocratic politics and is well written, rigorously referenced and consequently very useful as an aid to our understanding of our situation. [Free. 29 minutes.]

CURTAINS FOR JOHNSON? - INTERESTING TIMES 32

In this podcast we ask if the current suspicions of corruption surrounding Johnson and the Tories will have any bite. We consider how changes of personnel in government  leave underlying structures and systems intact and ponder the nature of news cycles. [Free. 32 minutes.]