Ragged Talks

Part Three - A Different Kind Of Revolution By Ciaran Healy:

Insultingly brief recap of lecture 1+2 in the series (seriously, you’re going to have to catch up on the website’s podcast if you missed the previous ones and want to make any sense of this).
The shattering of globalised revolutionary impulse, and the long death of ideology-based unity.
The problem with capitalism, communism and every shade inbetween.
The competition to believe more extremely undermines all movements.
A great and secret movement, the largest in history.
A different kind of movement, bound together by a new humanity, not by ideology.
Sanity, not extremism, as it’s ideological characteristic. Not about utopia, but reducing fragility, inequality and ruin, while developing a new way to express humanity freely and without censorship or limit, and let the politics fall where they may.

And How Accents Work’ By Lauren Hall-Lew:

How accents are documented and analysed
How an accent cues an aspect of a person’s identity
The key findings from linguistic studies of accents of English
An uncharted area of accent and identity: politics
What politicians’ accents can tell us about their politics
What politicians’ accents can tell us about ourselves