my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he began life in the bogside in derry.. as we will hear, he is now her out to people from the green party, to the readers of the daily telegraph, the countryside alliance, to surfers against sewage circle. welcome to political thinking. yet or thank you for having me. now, you have been described, i saw, for having me. now, you have been described, isaw, as for having me. now, you have been described, i saw, as a stroppy former punk rocker who will not take no for an answer. you plead guilty?
injustices in northern ireland. fine injustices in northern ireland. one ofthe injustices in northern ireland. one of the defining injustices in northern ireland. one of the defining events of the period the lead what we now call, euphemistically, the troubles. i am ten ears euphemistically, the troubles. i am ten years old euphemistically, the troubles. i am ten years old at euphemistically, the troubles. i am ten years old at this euphemistically, the troubles. i n ten years old at this much walking down the middle of the main road between belfast and dublin waiting very enthu5ia5tically, i have to say, what a later would discover wa5 say, what a later would discover was commonly referred to as an anarchist flag. you are ten years old, it is a doubt, it is fantastic. you flag. you are ten years old, it is a doubt, it is fantastic. doubt, it is fantastic. you say you are comfortable doubt, it is fantastic. you say you are comfortable talking doubt, it is fantastic. you
time, even right up to the buildup of the case itself on the euphemistically on the courthouse steps it can happen but we have not heard any word of that, and the expectation will be that this case, which could last five to six weeks will kick off tomorrow, and we could see taking the stand some of fox news s biggest names including sean hannity and tucker carlson as well as the 92-year-old chairman of fox corporation, rupert murdoch, jose lisa, how what s at stake in this case the stakes for fox are enormous, jose, as you know. dominion s damages claim has been $1.6 billion. they re also seeking as our colleague katie phang has noted on twitter, punitive damages, which are damages that essentially punish a party for misconduct so the stakes could not be bigger here for fox. lisa, dominion has filed other defamation suits against other entities such as news max, the one american news network,
and at that time, shirley chisholm, who is a representative from new york, give her remarks in which he said 64% of americans, a turning to a recent poll, are in support of abortion rights or wanted to be legal, don t want the government to interfere. interestingly, then the onus on the legislative work was lifted by roe in january of 1973. suddenly, neither political party had to do the work of figuring out how to legislate these rights or this access, because the supreme court had decided in a row. and during the roe years, pulling turned up over and over again 50% divided. this country irrevocably divided and the democrats, who became the party supporting what was called choice, euphemistically, abortion rights, treated it very gingerly, as if it was electric. like, if they got too close to it, it was a sharply dividing issue. and it was really only in the past ten years that a new generation of pollsters began to ask questions differently, to ask first, are you personally, you know
the legislative work was lifted by roe in january of 1973. suddenly, neither political party had to do the work of figuring out how to legislate these rights or this access, because the supreme court had decided in a row. and during the roe years, pulling turned up over and over again 50% divided. this country irrevocably divided and the democrats, who became the party supporting what was called choice, euphemistically, abortion rights, treated it very gingerly, as if it was electric. like, if they got too close to it, it was a sharply dividing issue. and it was really only in the past ten years that a new generation of pollsters began to ask questions differently, to ask first, are you personally, you know, opposed to abortion? then second, do you think that the government should make decisions about its availability or its legality? when you ask the questions that way, for the past ten years, we ve known that somewhere between 60 and 75% of remains don t believe government should be