Political Duck Podcast: Recent Episodes
Political Duck Podcast
The official podcast of the York Politics Society. Join Sam and Christian as they discuss current political issues, featuring guests, awards and the occasional duck.
This is the last episode of the dynamic duo of Mac and Ralph. They must leave the pod to finish a rousing year of academia with a bang, or at least a passing grade. To finish their tenure, they discuss how the gangs in Haiti amassed power and imposed themselves into governance. They also talk podcast analytics and tangential anecdotes.
Special thanks to some of our regular listeners,
Mac and Ralph
Mac and Ralph discuss the Myanmar military junta, how people are resisting, and how it all involves a cyber-slavery crypto complex
This week Ethan and Joseph have a look at the last couple weeks in UK Politics. The pod covers the recent and upcoming by-elections, Lindsay Hoyle, Lee Anderson and our political stock picks for the week.
Mac covers three stories about groups of people in Egypt, Mexico, and Thailand who work to help people in need.
To kick off the new semester, Mac and Ralph discuss two topics that cycled through UK news over the winter break: the single-sex space debate and the Houthis in Yemen.
Be advised this episode may include material that listeners find troubling in relation to transphobia.
Image: collection of news headlines that talk about trans people or the Houthis
We answer YOUR questions to celebrate the end of the year! Covering deep topics like capitalist consumerism to mind-blowing revelations about whether twinkified President Snow would have had a podcast. Happy Holidays from the whole Political Duck Team!
This week Ethan and Joe take a look at what's happened recently in British Politics. They take a look at the recent Elgin Marbles debate, Sunak's Conservative Home poll, Boris Johnson's Covid inquiry date, and Starmer's invocation of Margaret Thatcher in The Telegraph
Mac and Ralph go in-depth on several IDP (internally displaced people) conflicts to analyze how refugee crises can form.
picture: "Congolese residential area next to a COMMUS quarry" by Junior Kannah from AFP
This week we, under a new all star cast, take a look at last week in UK Politics and give a more in-depth look at what this may mean in the future for British politics. We talk about David Cameron, the wider reshuffle, Suella Braverman, and Labour's Gaza rebellion.
We take a look at the asylum seeker barges in the UK, make fun of David Cameron, and include some insight on policy in Germany and the US!
This episode takes a look at some elections with overtime. Starting with the House of Representatives drama in the US, going into the history of the Liberia and its presidential election, and ending with the Argentine presidential election.
The episode maps the history of conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia as an exploration into their relationship and as context for the announcement about the dissolution of Nagorno-Karabakh
This summer a lot went down in the world, but this episode focuses on two regime changes in west Africa and a multitude of the CCP's antics.
The current conflict has years of history leading up to it, including colonialism, the deposition of a dictator, and the 2011 civil war. Even though the state is constantly changing, this episode goes right up to a ceasefire called 20 hours before recording.
On this episode we discuss some formidable traditions in the world of British politics from the religious to the down right stupid.
On this episode Hugh and Mac discuss the serious to the stupid whilst exploring the world of political phenomena.
This week Sam, Grace and Sofia discuss the high and primarily lows of Truss' 44 days in office
Sam and Christian explain the complexities of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Disclaimer:
Since recording the podcast, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was released by the Iranian government after the UK Government paid the initial debt bill asked by the Iranian Government.
This week we are joined by Hannah Boyle as we take a deep dive into the 'work event' scandal facing Boris Johnson, putting it into a wider perspective and assessing its impact on both him and British politics in general.
This week we attempt to make some sense out of the Ukraine crisis, looking at who's involved, what are their aims and why?
This week we are joined by Neo to discuss all things Germany! In particular we are looking at the rise to power of Scholz and what it means for Germany, is it simply the continuation of Markle or something completely different?
Join Sam and Christian as the look back at the year that was 2021 including the annual awards show the quackies!
This week we look at on what has nearly been a whole year of the Biden presidency, looking at the highs, the lows and giving a score out of ten!
In this special collaboration with Nouse the political duck looks at the COP26 breaking down what happened, what more needs to happen and what the impact is for us as young people.
In our first tie in with the excellent Politics Society talks join Sam and Christian as they talk all things Brazil with special guest Joao Nunes.
This week Sam is joined by the new host of the Political Duck Christian! Together they discuss the budget looking at the good, the bad and the Michael Gove of it all. Combined as always with a prestigious award and a few ducks.
In this weeks episode we are going by YGA's Joe Mawer who takes a deep dive into the Afghanistan. As well as asking the key question of what the duck is going on and giving out the political duck award we look at not just the nation's impact of the West but also it's regional impact demonstrating how it shapes Asian politics in general and the many different players there.
In this episode, Lucy and Sam take an in depth look into the pandemic. If we are really nearing it's end they ask what it's long term impacts will be looking at such issues as state power, trust and the occasional duck
In this episode, Lucy and Sam chat about the Football tournament and the political ideas that have emerged throughout.
In this episode, Adam and Lucy welcome guest Joe Waters, the Departmental Officer of the York Politics Society, to discuss the idea of the Green New Deal.
In this episode, Adam and Lucy discuss the state of French Presidential politics, a year out from the 2022 French Presidential Election.