Sinéad Redmond (left) and William Campbell

The Here’s How current affairs podcast tackles the thorny topic of identity politics.

Host William Campbell writes:

Hundreds of women signed a letter titled Cop on Comrades condemning an Irish Times article by novelist Frankie Gaffney’s and particularly condemning men who shared it online.

Frankie Gaffney’s piece had criticised aspects of identity politics as a waste of time and energy for activists on the left. The Here’s How podcast talks to one of the signatories, Sinead Redmond and asks if he had a point.

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Gino Kenny TD (left) and William Campbell

The third part of an investigation into “unproven medication being offered to Irish people suffering from serious illnesses” by the Here’s How Current affairs podcast.

Host William Campbell writes:

 I ask Gino Kenny why he and People Before Profit are promoting the idea that cannabis is a miracle cure for cancer and many other illnesses….

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Dr Mariano García de Palau (left) and William Campobell

In the second of a three-part investigation into the ‘sale of unproven medical treatments’, the Here’s How podcast talks to the clinic in Spain at the centre of the row over Vera Twomey’s confiscated medication and asks how qualified they are to offer the treatments they advertise.

Host William Campbell writes:

I interviewed Dr Mariano García de Palau of Barcelona;s Kalapa Clinic about his claims to treat a wide range of ailments with cannabis. As he mentioned, there are no clinical trials to validate most of these cures. I also interviewed Dr Robert O’Connor, Head of Research for the Irish Cancer Society….

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Last week: Cannabis Oil Or Snake Oil

In the first part of an investigation into people “selling unlicensed substances that they claim will treat or cure serious conditions”…

William Campbell (above), of the Here’s How current affairs podcast, writes:

This edition of the Here’s How podcast is the first in a series investigating quack cures, and profiteering from sick people. In this edition I expose a Dublin Shop falsely claiming that their €5,500 per litre oil can successfully treat autism…

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Here’s How podcast’s William Campbell (right) meets FIanna Fáil’s Derek Mooney (a ‘sheet and Slugger O’Toole columnist) over a large Brexit.

William writes:

Episode 61 of the Here’s How podcast asks former government advisor Derek Mooney whether the UK government has a brilliant secret plan that’s fooling us all, or whether they really have no clue what they are doing?

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From left: Bill Donohue and William Campbell

Here’s How, the current affairs podcast presented by journalist William Campbell faces down a Tuam unbeliever.

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Bil Donohue of the US-based Catholic League says that the Tuam babies story is a hoax dreamt up by anti-Catholic zealots. The Here’s How podcast challenges him with the facts…

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The excellent Here’s How current affairs podacast presented by journalist William Campbell (above) this week contains two stories on media FREEDOM.

William writes:

First I compare how RTÉ crime correspondent Paul Reynolds’ leak of the O’Higgins report contrasts with the actual document published two days later; and how RTÉ say Reynolds’ work has never been called into question.

….Secondly, I reports on EU moves to force websites like Broadsheet to pay a tax for links to online newspapers, and to pre-filter posted comments to meet the demands of old media.

FIGHT!

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From top: Smári McCarthy’ William Campbell

This may shiver your timbers.

Last Sunday’s Icelandic election saw the Pirate Party sharply increase their representation in the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament.

In the latest Here’s How current affairs podcast journalist William Campbell chats with newly-elected MP for the Pirate Party, the Irish-Icelandic writer and programmer Smári McCarthy. a founder member of the party that campaigns for freedom online and offline.

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