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Shallow Dive
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A podcast discussing politics and policy, presented by Alex Waygood and Murray Jones. Music used in this podcast is by the freesound.org user Sub-d, and is licensed under a Creative Commons 0 license freesound.org/people/Sub-d/.
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March 11, 2020
CORONAVIRUS PANIC EPISODE
<p>It could be put off no longer: we finally talk about coronavirus (and other things...)</p> <p>---</p> <p><strong>The UK is attempting a </strong><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/keep-calm-and-wash-your-hands-britain-s-strategy-to-beat-virus"><u><strong>novel and controversial strategy</strong></u></a><strong> to combat the coronavirus, putting behavioural science front and centre</strong></p> <p><strong>The US has </strong><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-testing-numbers/607714/"><u><strong>not been testing enough people</strong></u></a><strong>, so nobody knows how big its outbreak is.</strong></p> <p><strong>Andrew Cuomo </strong><a href="https://qz.com/1815496/ny-forces-prisoners-to-make-hand-sanitizer-to-fight-coronavirus/"><u><strong>has been criticised</strong></u></a><strong> for using prison labour to produce hand sanitiser cheaply for residents of New York State.</strong></p> <p><strong>Will we have a global recession?</strong><a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/2/28/21153492/coronavirus-recession-china-stock-market-economy"><u><strong> Nobody really knows</strong></u></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>One thing’s for sure: the stock market </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/09/global-stock-markets-post-biggest-falls-since-2008-financial-crisis"><u><strong>isn’t doing well</strong></u></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>There are </strong><a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/9/21167391/coronavirus-economy-stimulus-recession"><u><strong>various options</strong></u></a><strong> to deal with the economic fallout.</strong></p> <p><strong>Coronavirus has had </strong><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9209ece2-62d7-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68"><u><strong>a dramatic impact</strong></u></a><strong> on small businesses in Rome.</strong></p> <p><strong>OPEC </strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/05/investing/opec-oil-prices-coronavirus/index.html"><u><strong>wanted to slash</strong></u></a><strong> oil production, but Russia </strong><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/10/business/russia-us-shale-oil-putin-opec/index.html"><u><strong>wasn’t having it</strong></u></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><strong>Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince </strong><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40354415"><u><strong>Mohammed bin Salman</strong></u></a><strong> has launched </strong><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/latest-saudi-crackdown-500-words-200309071343433.html"><u><strong>yet another crackdown</strong></u></a><strong> against </strong><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/leading-royals-targeted-saudi-arabia-sweeping-crackdown-200310140851178.html"><u><strong>senior royals</strong></u></a><strong> in a bid to consolidate power.</strong></p> <p><strong>Guyana elections are disputed </strong><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/observers-question-guyana-vote-urge-granger-claim-victory-200306171132051.html"><u><strong>as huge oil kitty awaits next President</strong></u></a></p> <p><strong>Two men were </strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/world/asia/afghanistan-president-inauguration-ghani-abdullah-.html?referringSource=articleShare"><u><strong>sworn in as president of Afghanistan</strong></u></a><strong>, simultaneously.</strong></p> <p><strong>Canada is pushing forward with the criminalisation of gay conversion therapy - </strong><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51773586"><u><strong>here’s how.</strong></u></a></p> <p><strong>Lebanon has </strong><a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/03/08/for-the-first-time-lebanon-defaults-on-its-debts"><u><strong>defaulted on its debts</strong></u></a><strong> for the first time.</strong></p> <p><strong>Links not working on your podcast app? Head here: </strong><a href="https://alexwaygood.com/2020/03/11/shallow-dive-7/">https://alexwaygood.com/2020/03/11/shallow-dive-7/</a></p>
March 5, 2020
#6: Refugees, Mali & Old Man Joe
<p>Turkey is encouraging refugees to head to Greece and the EU aren’t happy. Meanwhile climate change is only going to make the problem worse, on a global scale. Also British troops are heading to Mali.</p> <p><br></p> <p>--</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ce21d7ba-5a4b-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20">Turkey turns a blind eye as refugees head for border</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The EU’s morality is facing a severe test when it comes to refugees. <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/05/refugees-turkey-europes-morality-is-dying-at-the-greek-border/">Greece aren’t helping.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>It’s all part of a geopolitical <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/europe/europe-migrants-turkey-greece.html">balancing act</a> regarding Turkey's intervention in Syria, on the opposite side to Russia.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Turkey-US relations have been strained by the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45841276">case of an evangelical pastor</a> and Turkey's buying of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/world/europe/turkey-russia-missiles.html">Russian weapons</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The EU and Turkey <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35854413">agreed a deal</a> in 2016, but Turkey says the EU <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/turkey-eu-imperilled-refugee-deal-200302085719576.html">hasn't held up its side</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Accession talks for Turkey to join the EU have been <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/turkeys-eu-membership/">stalled for years</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The climate crisis will intensify the <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-climate-crisis-migration-and-refugees/">migrant crisis </a>over the next few decades<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-climate-crisis-migration-and-refugees/">.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>The US judiciary has ruled against the ‘Remain in Mexico’ strategy but allowed it continue, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/remain-in-mexico-asylum-seekers-at-border-see-hopes-raised-then-dashed">for now.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Here’s what it could mean for the 60,000 migrants in terrible conditions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/migrants-court-remain-in-mexico-mpp-injunction.html">at the border.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>British troops are back on the front line, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/01/british-troops-back-front-line-against-jihadists-war-terror/">fighting troops in Mali.</a> Here's <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/01/battle-sahel-new-frontline-war-terror/">what's at stake</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>France <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/french-government-to-force-through-pension-changes-bypassing-parliament">bypassed the national assembly</a> to get through controversial pension reforms.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Australian news is <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-australian-associated-press-the-countrys-main-wire-service-is-going-out-of-business/">changing forever.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Trump tells Colombia to keep using <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51722456">potentially carcinogenic herbicide</a> to destroy coca plants.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Peace with the Taliban isn’t <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51735315">so peaceful.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Authoritarian uses crisis to punish vulnerable minority – <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/03/orban-uses-coronavirus-as-excuse-to-suspend-asylum-rights-in-hungary">in Hungary. </a></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1235622308401876994">SUPER TUESDAY WASN’T SO SUPER</a> FOR WARREN</p> <p><br></p> <p>Links not working on your podcast app? View the showpage here: <a href="https://alexwaygood.com/2020/03/06/shallow-dive-6-refugees-mali-old-man-joe/">https://alexwaygood.com/2020/03/06/shallow-dive-6-refugees-mali-old-man-joe/</a></p>
February 27, 2020
#5: India, NIMBYs, bedbugs and Biden
<p>India is struck with ethnic violence , France is overrun with bedbugs, and we ask: are local councils preventing action on climate change?</p> <p><br></p> <p>---</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>32 people <a href="www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-51612461">died</a> in Delhi as mobs attacked majority-Muslim areas of the city, following protests around a <a href="www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/what-is-citizenship-amendment-bill-2016-1372701-2018-10-22">new law</a> discriminating against Muslims.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-50820412">How the protests escalated</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The law reformed<a href="www.fairobserver.com/region/central_south_asia/refugees-rights-india-south-asian-world-news-headlines-97021/"> India’s refugee policy</a>, long one of the world’s harshest.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The law <a href="www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/nrc-and-the-citizenship-bill-are-the-greatest-threat-to-indian-democracy-today/cid/1695315">is accused</a> of delegitimising Muslim citizenship in India.</p> <p><br></p> <p>India has also suffered a <a href="www.npr.org/2019/08/19/752292498/spate-of-lynchings-target-minorities-especially-muslims-in-india?t=1582809461462">spate of attacks</a> against Muslims in the countryside.</p> <p><br></p> <p>WhatsApp has played a <a href="www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-44856910">crucial role</a> in spreading conspiracy theories that fuel the lynch mobs.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Kashmir, a majority-Muslim area of India, has <a href="www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/no-email-no-whatsapp-no-internet-this-is-now-normal-life-in">been under lockdown</a> for many months.</p> <p><br></p> <p>India has also been expanding a <a href="www.indiatoday.in/india/story/assam-final-nrc-list-out-over-19-lakh-people-excluded-1593769-2019-08-31">National Register of Citizens</a> over the last few years.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Trump had a confusing visit to India. <a href="www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/27/trumps-india-trip-didnt-produce-trade-deal-heres-what-did-result/">Here’s what they got out of it.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>India is <a href="foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/02/spooked-by-beijing-india-embraces-closer-u-s-ties/">increasingly worried</a> about China’s growing influence in the region.</p> <p><br></p> <p>South Sudan has a <a href="www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/south-sudan-rival-leaders-form-coalition-government-200222121043672.html">new government</a>.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Thailand’s opposition party <a href="www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/thai-court-dissolves-main-opposition-party-illegal-loan-200221085248199.html">was dissolved</a> by the Constitutional Court. (It has a <a href="www.iconnectblog.com/2019/06/the-ties-that-bind-thailands-constitutional-court-the-military-junta/">history</a>.)</p> <p><br></p> <p>The Egyptian government is <a href="www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/02/20/the-egyptian-government-is-sending-jews-mixed-signals">welcoming back Jews</a> who were previously forced to flee.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="www.qz.com/1804760/a-neofascist-party-could-place-second-in-slovakias-election/">Slovakia goes to the polls</a>. A neofascist party is expected to surge.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Cameroon's main opposition leader <a href="www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/cameroon-maurice-kamto-long-awaited-return-200227084506223.html">returned to the country</a> for the first time since his imprisonment.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-bedbug-hotline-insects-infestation-a9352696.html">France has a bedbug problem.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="www.nypost.com/2020/02/25/biden-says-he-worked-on-2016-climate-accord-with-leader-who-died-in-1997/">Joe Biden had another gaffe.</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Links not working? Head here www.alexwaygood.com/2020/02/28/shallow-dive-5-india-nimbys-bedbugs-biden/</p>
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