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Podcast 2
'Res ipsa loquitur' is a Latin legal term that means 'the facts speak for themselves'. Bickershaw is a village in Wigan that is an example of how people in forgotten towns are treated differently here in Greater Manchester.
The population here is simply the victim of public sector incompetence at the highest level, with primary school kids going to school less than 200 yards from an estimated 30,000-tonne pile of household waste.
If the person who owns the land (King Charles) is a self-confessed environmentalist and the MP (Andy Burnham) is the Prime Minister and former mayor of Greater Manchester…how has this been allowed to happen?
Talking to Nick Buckley is important as he has set the bar for any independent with 50,000 votes in 2024.
What we like about Nick is that if you ask him a question, he will always give you an answer.
Echo chambers are the biggest threat to a stable society, as people get trapped choosing their own news. Confirmation bias, encouraged by paid celebrity endorsements, is then the rocket fuel for a narrow-minded perspective of the world.
Acceptance of the concept of ignorance and being courteous to people that you disagree with is the best way to avoid violence.
The most significant shift in culture since the Covid lockdown days is that over 50% of adults now have a hybrid working situation where they work part of the week at home.
It's here to stay, but there now needs to be a cost-benefit analysis on the overall impact on the population of Greater Manchester.
Is there a housing crisis in Greater Manchester or is it that people are just choosing to live on their own?
Exploring the problem of Greater Manchester’s transport system and thrashing out a few potential solutions.
If we dont support independent journalism the big stories get suppressed and their is no one holding anyone to account.
Three examples of how badly we do business here in Manchester.
Should the police be checked by a political party-elected mayor or should the process be independent to build public confidence?
Economic confidence….without it there is no economy!
At the moment, thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in Greater Manchester are struggling to cope with the lack of confidence, which is having a long-term effect on investment.
Is it time to invest in young people by cancelling student debt?
A lesson from philosophy where the Turk takes no interest in current affairs and just ‘digs his own garden’. Are most people now Turks and is this the biggest problem that we now have?