Podcast appearances and mentions of steve davies

Steve Davies's new book, The Great Realignment, argues that the key political divide of the past century — markets versus state control — is being displaced by a new aligning issue: nationalism, sovereignty, and collective identity versus cosmopolitanism and globalism. Cato's Ryan Bourne talks with Davies about why today's biggest political fights seem less about tax and spending and more about borders, culture, and who governs, how these non-economic conflicts still have deep economic roots, and what this new alignment persisting would mean for libertarians and economic policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The political map we grew up with is obsolete. What comes next could be far more turbulent than anything we've seen so far. Historian Stephen Davies, author of The Great Realignment, joins CapX editor Marc Sidwell to make the case that the upheavals of recent years – Brexit, Trump, the rise of Reform – are not aberrations to be waited out, but symptoms of something far more structural: a once-in-a-century shift in the organising principle of politics itself. For a hundred years, the central divide was economic. Now, he argues, it is existential – a clash between rooted national identity and open cosmopolitanism that is scrambling every alliance, every assumption, and every party's electoral map.The term "populism", Davies contends, is not merely inaccurate but dangerous – a label that allows established institutions to patronise and persistently underestimate the movements they most need to understand. And to those who believe economic recovery will drain the energy from nationalist politics: he is unsparing. The voters driving the realignment are not, at root, angry about stagnation. They are angry about identity. Those are not the same thing, and no growth strategy will make them so.The show looks at where free marketeers fit in a world reorganised around culture rather than capitalism – and Davies' answer is bracing. The nationalist right's actual agenda, he argues, is functionally incompatible with limited government. Mass deportations, reindustrialisation, reshored supply chains: none of it can be delivered without a very large state indeed.And then comes the prediction that may prove most provocative of all: that the Brexit divide in British politics will flip – with the nationalist right eventually embracing a Europeanist identity defined in civilisational terms, and the cosmopolitan left recoiling from what that Europe would actually become.Stay informed with CapX's unmissable daily briefings from the heart of Westminster. Go to capx.co to subscribe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Davies discusses the major themes of his new book ‘The Great Realignment: Why the New Right Wing Politics is Here to Stay,' which analyzes the political upheaval since the mid-2000s. He explains how traditional left vs. right economic issues have been replaced by a new alignment based on nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism, driven by deep structural changes in the global economy and political landscape. Davies also touches on topics like digital IDs, the future of climate change policies, open borders, and the impact of emerging geopolitical shifts.00:00 Introduction to Steve Davies and His New Book01:32 The Great Realignment: Political Upheaval Explained03:17 The Collapse of Traditional Major Parties04:54 The Permanent Nature of New Right Politics05:35 Understanding Political Realignment09:40 The Shift from Economics to Globalization vs. Cosmopolitanism15:48 Material Causes Behind Political Changes16:44 Impact of Global Investment and Migration19:46 The Role of Meritocracy and Cultural Splits21:39 Climate Change in the New Political Divide27:09 Alternative Solutions to Global Problems29:41 The Future of the United Nations31:08 Global Power Shifts and the Decline of the UN33:49 The Looming Debt Crisis34:59 The Impact of Aging Populations on National Budgets37:12 Potential Solutions to the Debt Problem38:07 The Future of the US Dollar and Global Finance40:21 Public Spending and Corruption42:39 The Threat of Digital Dystopia47:14 Open Borders and Immigration Policies58:48 Final Thoughts on Future Political Landscapeshttps://x.com/SteveDavies365========Slides, summaries, references, and transcripts of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

Guest host Steve is joined by Alex Irani, Steve Davies and Euan Aitchinson to discuss the 2-2 draw with Newport and the 4-1 win at Tranmere. The women's team were in action for the last time in 2025.We were joined by James Beckett who discusses the upcoming £10 game with Bristol Rovers. Charlie, the Rovers fan gives us an update from their perspective.We end with a reminder to get involved in our consultation over the proposed mural - if you haven't yet filled it in please do so here - responsepage.aspx Remember there is new Christmas merch for the podcast, click below to see the full range, including the new designs ready for the festive period! - If you would prefer names changing or a different colour shirt please reach out and we should be able to accommodate!https://the-railwaymen-podcast.teemill.com/You can also help the running of the podcast at https://buymeacoffee.com/therailwaymen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of Reaganism, Dan Rothschild, director of the Civics, Education, and Opportunity at RRI sits down with Steve Davies, Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs to discuss his upcoming book, "The Great Realignment: Why the New Right Is Here to Stay." Dan and Steve explore the evolving ideological alignment underway in the United States and across the globe. Steve argues that the split today is no longer governed by economic philosophy as it was from 1800s-2000s but is rooted in a new understanding of one's national identity.

The long-term row between independent production companies and those that sit within holding companies has resurfaced in recent weeks over best practice when it comes to bidding and being selected for work. Production craft festival Ciclope ended its sponsorship contracts with holding companies, which began an online debate between the Advertising Producers Association and the IPA on LinkedIn. The APA's chief executive Steve Davies suggested a forum to establish best practice in bidding, while the IPA's head of production, Eliot Liss, said “There is no need for an industry forum of the type the APA are suggesting”. He added “we don't accept there is an issue with transparency or propriety in how IPA members are providing their production services to clients.” In this episode, Campaign's editorial team dig deeper into the debate, what has been leading up to it and question whether independent and in-house production companies can co-exist alongside each other.Tech editor Lucy Shelley hosts the episode with Campaign's editor Maisie McCabe, creativity and culture editor Gurjit Degun and deputy creativity and culture editor Charlotte Rawlings. Further reading:APA: Brands 'won't be content' with IPA rejection of forum for production company biddingIPA rejects APA's call for best practice forum for production company biddingAPA launches initiative to bring brands and production companies togetherAPA report finds agencies withhold production partners information from brandsIPA ‘takes exception to the erroneous idea of gatekeeping' in APA reportIPA, APA and ISBA launch Production Pitch Process InitiativeDoes Rattling Stick's low-cost arm signal trouble in the production sector?Lights, camera, action: how production companies are fighting back Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, I sit down with Steve Davies, a pioneering figure in placemaking and urban development. As Principal of Place Solutions Group, Affiliate at Market Cities (PPS), and President of The Placemaking Fund, Steve has spent decades shaping public spaces worldwide.We reflect on his journey in Project for Public Spaces (PPS)—what challenges he faced, how the placemaking movement evolved, and the biggest shifts in how cities approach public space today.We also discuss:How to measure a successful public placeKey leadership skills for impactful placemakingThe future of placemaking—emerging trends and innovationsSteve's current projects and what's next for him in 2025Plus, we explore how PPS has evolved over the years and what lessons can be learned for the future.Tune in for an insightful discussion with one of the field's leading voices!

In this episode, host Matt Bufton interviews historian Steve Davies about the political realignment happening across the Western world. Steve explains how traditional divisions in politics, such as socialism versus capitalism, have been replaced by a new axis centered on nationalism versus globalism. He critiques both "national collectivism" and "technocratic liberal progressivism" while discussing the implications for classical liberalism. The conversation also touches on the influence of leaders like Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, and Emmanuel Macron, and explores what the future holds for liberal ideas in a shifting political landscape. References "The Great Realignment: Understanding Politics Today" by Steve Davies (Cato Institute) https://www.cato-unbound.org/2018/12/10/stephen-davies/great-realignment-understanding-politics-today/ Steve Davies' talk at the IEA's THINK event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVMnQ4-_cQ "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich Hayek https://www.amazon.ca/Road-Serfdom-Friedrich-Hayek/dp/0226320553 "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" by Joseph A. Schumpeter https://www.amazon.ca/Capitalism-Socialism-Democracy-Joseph-Schumpeter/dp/0061330086 "The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution" by Francis Fukuyama https://www.amazon.ca/Origins-Political-Order-Prehuman-Revolution/dp/0374227349 "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes https://www.amazon.ca/Leviathan-Thomas-Hobbes/dp/0140431950 "The Constitution of Liberty" by Friedrich Hayek https://www.amazon.ca/Constitution-Liberty-Friedrich-Hayek/dp/0226320847 Thanks to our patrons, including Kris Rondolo, Amy Willis, and Christopher McDonald. To support the podcast, visit https://patreon.com/curioustask.  

It's fair to say that Meghan Markle has copped some pretty negative press and staff feedback in her time. But her former bodyguard, Steve Davies, has come to her defence.  For more, Steve Davies reports.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John is not assigning blame, Alison is someone, and Liz is bludgeoning. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on X or on Mastodon or on Bluesky or on Instagram) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Sexual assault (Neil Gaiman allegations, at 39:28 to 42:02). Letters of comment Niall Harrison On our Hugo win/recusing Andy on Mastodon Chris Garcia Meg MacDonald Perianne Lurie Renay Sandra Bond's poem On info desk and maps Alan Fleming Doug Faunt Peter Sullivan On communications Chris Garcia Duncan MacGregor on Mastodon On WSFS Business Meeting June Young (email, 9 September) Chris Garcia (email, 29 August) Martin Freeman circa 2001 Post from Nicholas Whyte on consultative vote DC on Mastodon Duncan MacGregor on Mastodon Raj on Mastodon Our brand is now WSFS Commentators and people like it? Laurie Burchell On Worldcon attendance numbers Tero on Mastodon aoanla on Mastodon Miscellaneous Hugo finalists: Raj on Mastodon Programme: aoanla on Mastodon Back to Our Futures We also heard from: Ali Baker Brooks, Angela Rosin, Catherine Pickersgill, Curt Phillips, Damien Warman, Dave Coxon, España Sheriff, Farah Mendlesohn, Fiona Moore, Fran Dowd, Gav Reads, Iain Clark, Jonathan Baddeley, Julie Faith McMurray, Karen Schaffer, Leigh Edmonds, Lilian Edwards, Malcolm Hutchison, Mike Scott, Neil Ottenstein, Phil Dyson, Roseanna Pendlebury, Trish Neil Gaiman File 770 Genre Grapevine Elise Matthesen on Dreamwidth The Guardian Theremina on Patreon Future Worldcons Seattle 2025 Seattle is having a Poetry Hugo Seattle has announced a judged film festival LAcon V looks good Good guests “The LA in 2026 bid received 452 out of 531 votes cast.” Tel Aviv in 2027 Brisbane in 2028 The latest episode of FANAC History Zoom is “The secret history of Plokta”, with Steve Davies, Sue Mason, Alison Scott, and Mike Scott Picks John: Alien: Romulus Alison: KAOS Liz: Control Credits Cover art: “We got a lot of letters” by Alison Scott Alt text: A famous photograph of Margaret Hamilton standing beside printed outputs of the code that took the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, overlaid with the words “Octothorpe 119” and “Our Listeners Write In”. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

Exploring the Benefits of a Four-Day Work Week Working one day less a week and experiencing better productivity and profit?  Does it sound good, or does it sound like a pipe dream?  Shortening the working week motivates staff to ‘get the job done' and seems to reduce ‘sick' days.  In this episode, we discuss the shorter working week adopted by various businesses in the collision repair industry. The episode features in-depth conversations with Steve Davies from Northside Smash Repairs in Queensland, Kate Presnell from Kate Presnell Bodyworks in Tasmania, and Russ Hill from Mackenzie's Truck Repair in Queensland.  Each guest shares their experiences and insights into implementing a four-day work week, the preparation involved, the key benefits, and its impact on business efficiency and employee work-life balance. Listeners will also hear about the challenges faced, solutions found, and the overall positive feedback from staff and customers alike. In this episode How setting KPIs is essential to achieve the shorter week How the decision must be unanimous Why productivity increases Why once you introduce it you can never go back Other benefits outside of just having a longer weekend Work-Life Balance and Recruitment Benefits Summary In this discussion, industry experts from Queensland and Tasmania share their experience with adopting a four-day work week in the collision repair business. Steve Davies from Northside Smash Repairs, Kate Presnell from Kate Presnell Bodyworks, and Russ Hill from Mackenzie's Truck Repair explore the benefits and challenges of the change.  They emphasize improved work-life balance, better employee satisfaction and productivity, and reduced sick days. The conversation highlights vital preparation steps, the importance of unanimous team support, and the potential for the four-day week as a recruitment tool. Each participant also offers personal insights into how this change has positively impacted their business and lifestyle. Useful Links Steve Davies: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-davies-995481136/ Kate Presnell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-presnell-1385a229/ Russ Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russ-hill-b1030571/ Do you have something unique you want to share with us? Contact Paint & Panel editor Sam Street at: samstreet@yaffa.com.au Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au to sign up for our weekly E-newsletter Go to www.paintandpanel.com.au/podcast to catch up on past shows and access show notes from every episode.

Join us for the recent Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) panel discussion "The Future of the Right". Chaired by Reem Ibrahim, Communications Officer, this event brings together The Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA, Jack Rankin MP, Dr Steve Davies, Paul Reynolds, and Bartek Staniszewski to explore the critical issues facing the political right and following the Conservative's recent landslide defeat. Our panelists delve into a wide range of topics, including the future of the Conservative Party, the meaning of freedom in modern politics, economic challenges facing the UK, and the evolving definition of right-wing ideology. They discuss the impact of recent election results, the need for a new generation of conservative thinkers, and the balance between free-market principles and state intervention. The conversation also touches on controversial subjects such as immigration, housing policy, and the sustainability of the welfare state. This thought-provoking discussion offers unique insights into the challenges and opportunities facing conservative politics. Whether you're a political enthusiast, a concerned citizen, or simply curious about the future of the right, this event provides a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the issues that will shape our political landscape for years to come. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from some of the most influential thinkers in conservative politics as they chart a course for the future of the right. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit insider.iea.org.uk/subscribe

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Dave Davis is joined by Dutch football experts Steve Davies and Michael Statham for an insight into Arne Slot including: - Stats and Style Analysis - ⁠Slot Personality and Stepping Into the Klopp Void - ⁠The Comparisons to Klopp - ⁠CV Analysis To Date Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Chicago newspaper establishes an undercover bar to catch officials in the act of corruption. And a hardcore soccer fan from the crowd is put to the test in a game what happens next made him a legend. STORIES Night At The Mirage A Chicago newspaper establishes an undercover bar to catch officials in the act of corruption. They soon acquire a cast of characters looking for more than just a drink. Snap presents, “Night at The Mirage.” The story of the famous undercover Chicago Sun bar, as told by two reporters posing as bartenders. Produced by Joe Rosenburg and Anna Sussman, original score by Leon Morimoto The Legend Of Steve Davies In one of soccer's most legendary fairy tales, manager Harry Redknapp once plucked a hardcore fan from the crowd and put him to the test for West Ham United. What happens next made the fan a legend. Thank you, Steve Davies, for sharing your story with the Snap. A special thanks to Jeff for bringing us that story. Produced by Davey Kim Artwork by Teo Ducot Snap Classic – Season 15 Episode 12

“We're already starting to see dramatic habitat and water quality improvement across that Kissimmee valley.”The Everglades, North America's largest and most vital wetland, is a place of extraordinary beauty but is facing enormous problems. The immense ‘river of grass' has been desperately disfigured, principally by ill-considered hydrological engineering and heavily subsidised industrial sugar production.In this episode Ben Goldsmith is joined by Steve Davies, lead scientist of The Everglades Foundation, which is leading efforts to restore the Everglades to health. Now the vast sheet of water is beginning to flow south once again, in the way that it should, and wildlife is resurgent.Floridians have come to understand that the Everglades underpin everything they have and everything they do, from fresh water to flood defence to the sandy beaches on which Florida's tourism industry depends. Finally, under the guidance of Steve and his colleagues, the state is stepping up and restoration is underway.Ben Goldsmith is a British financier and rewilding enthusiast. Join him as he speaks to environmentalists from all over the world who are working to help restore habitats and wildlife to some of the most nature depleted parts of our planet.This episode is sponsored by Vivobarefoot. All Vivobarefoot footwear is designed to bring you closer to nature by enabling you to be as close to barefoot as possible. They promote your foot's natural strength and movement, allowing you to feel the ground beneath your feet.You can enjoy 15% off all Vivobarefoot products using the code VIVOREWILDING15, valid until 30 April 2024.VivoBarefoot Vivobarefoot brings you closer to nature, allowing you to feel the ground beneath your feet.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

The boys are joined by Swansea's Road warrior Boxer Steve Davies and talk not thinking like a Journeyman boxer, being offered Bare Knuckle fights, Ice baths and Diabetic biscuits giving you the shits. The lads discuss Chris Sanigar, dodgy Boxing decisions, Saudi Arabian money, Conor Benne's lack of power, Tyson Fury's cut and fighting on an hours notice plus much more…@ambitioniscritcal1997 on Instagram @TheAiCPodcast on Twitter

Have you ever experienced a man apologizing for an all-male panel at a conference? Five years ago while attending my first Australian Pipelines and Gas (APGA) Conference in Darwin I saw APGA CEO Steve Davies do just that. Steve was so proud of the fact that he had convinced many of the industry's top leaders to come to Darwin for a senior leader panel, and then it sank in - no woman. And Steve said that on stage - I'm embarrassed that there isn't a woman on this panel and we, as an industry, can do better.Steve's courageous statement created the spark for my work with APGA to develop the Women's Leadership Development Program modeled after a similar program at the American Gas Association. Our first cohort sold out in 24hrs, and as Steve says, ". . . women in the industry were crying out for something that was targeted at them and their experience in the industry." Our purpose - to retain women in the pipeline industry and provide them with the skills they need to continue to advance their careers.Seven cohorts and 175 women later the outcomes of the program make my heart sing. One participant told me that after 10 years of a stalled career she's had two promotions in two years, and 90% of the participants report an increase in confidence. Steve also comments in the podcast that the program has inspired member companies to pay more attention to and place greater value on inclusion.

We could have talked to Steve Davies (@blazercollector) for hours! Not only does he have a spectacular collection of Blazer memorabilia from the beginning of the franchise, he has an incredibly thoughtful approach to archiving the history of our beloved team. Tune in to learn more about how he got started, how things have changed, and hear stories of more than 50 years of being a Blazer fan with a passion for preserving history. 1:00 Icebreaker 4:45 Get to know Steve Davies 27:50 Front offices don't always think like us. They are looking at the future, not always paying attention to preserving the past. 48:00 Making friends, finding family in Rip City. 54:00 Why context of items is so important to a living collection. 59:00 Takes: Love on your team, Memorial Coliseum is the better venue, appreciation for players who never actually played with the Blazers. Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. Kind of like Twitter but it's not. There are different channels with different topics and you can join in where you want, and ignore the stuff you don't want to see. Give it a try! You can also still find us on Twitter: @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding The cutest intro/outro music by Eric Peterson (@shoozumoops)

In this episode we talk to those involved in the 51st Final of this competition.  They are, in order that they appear in the episode:Steve Davies, workforce administrator, South West Wales Zack Gidlow , Chair of cricket at Colwyn Bay Cricket Club and first team playerMike Haydn, Chair of Swansea Cricket ClubNeil Perrett, Chair, Usk Cricket ClubBrad Wadlan, Captain, Swansea Cricket ClubSion Morris, Colwyn Bay Cricket ClubYou can find a written report on the final here:https://cricketwales.org.uk/news/senior-open-welsh-cup-final-2023-colwyn-bay-cc-v-swansea-ccYou can find some great stats about the Welsh Cup here:https://nwsport.co.uk/2023/09/03/all-hail-colwyn-bay-2023-cricket-welsh-cup-winners/We would like to add our congratulations to the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club2023 Welsh Cup Winners !

On this Authentic Media Snap Shot of our F-35 series, author, aviation journalist, and host of the 10 Percent True podcast, Steve Davies interviews John ‘Press' Wheeler on the requirements of the F-35. Press discusses the various elements that make an aircraft stealthy, not invisible, and how sensor fusion gives the pilot the information needed to ensure maximum situational awareness during a given mission.In the full episode Press provides a tutorial on the progression of the aircraft from low-rate initial production, initial operational capability, full operational capability and finally full rate production, with all the requirements in between. You can listen to the rest of this episode and more with a FREE 3-Day Trial of Authentic Media Aviation on Apple PodcastsThe full episode is also Available on Spotify and Acast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

Wealth management strategy refers to the comprehensive approach and set of tactics employed to effectively manage an individual's or family's wealth. It involves various aspects such as financial planning, investment management, risk management, tax planning, estate planning, and philanthropy. In today's episode, Steve Davies, an accomplished wealth manager, shares his insights on wealth management and the importance of aligning financial goals with life's purpose. [00:36] - About Steve Davies Steve is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Javelin Wealth Management. He is a commentator on CNBC, CNA and Bloomberg TV. His other interests include rowing, boating, scuba diving, water-skiing, hiking, travel and investing in startup businesses. Steve has recently finished a 950-kilometer walk across Spain. Simon is a five-star Amazon author. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

Steve Davies Joined the junior leaders and was sent to Shorncliffe in Kent. He passed out there having completed his initial training, and was sent to Winchester to complete his training.He joined his battalion- 3rd Royal Green Jackets in Berlin and began his life in West Germany. During this time he's guarded Rudolf Hess and enjoyed the lifestyle.He was posted to Caterham in Surrey and undertook ceremonial duties at Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London. Steve was medically discharged from the army after developing pneumonia which affected his breathing.After leaving the military Steve travelled the world and ran his own business. He finally returned to the UK.Steve maintained his passion for the military, albeit quietly. His life changed when he attended a family members wedding. It was during this he saw the grave of a young rifleman.The Rifleman had died 6 weeks before armistice, his grave was in a state of disrepair. Steve took it upon himself to tidy the area around the grave. This was the catalyst to his passion for restoring graves.Steve then undertook formal training in headstone restoration to ensure he could continue his great work.He attended a war cemetery in Dover which was within a civilian cemetery and as he left, he saw a grave which appeared to belong to a recipient of the Military Cross. However, it was the grave of colour Sgt Mcweeny, he was with the 44th Regt which became the Royal Anglians and had won the VC.Steve tidied up this grave and now looks after 57 VC graves in the Southeast. One of his restorations was the grave of the Rear Admiral Lucas Davies who is buried in Merryworth. He was the first gazetted recipient of the VC.The oldest grave he restored is from 1667 where 3 children had been laid to rest. The Most distinguished was Major General Sir Wilbraham Oakes Leonard VC who is buried in Brighton.The Remembrance trust are great supporters of Steve and as a result he has rubbed shoulders with the Princesses Royal.Listen to his great story! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Steve Davies, VP, performance packaging of NatureWorks joins us on Good Garbage this week, and we were so lucky to have him on the show. He'll cover a number of topics with Ved, including stories of visiting the landfill (it was called a dump back then), his journey to NatureWorks, and everything they're accomplishing with PLA. Enjoy the conversation. Never miss an episode by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter! Don't forget to turn on notifications and leave us a review! Good Garbage Episode 34 Presented by Pakka

Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon has called for Ticket tout legislation to be updated, describing the re-selling tickets at inflated value as 'immoral and completely wrong'. It's reported that nobody has been prosecuted for the practice despite the passing of the Sale of Tickets Act two years ago. Dr. Steve Davies, Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs joined Ciara on the show this morning.

Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon has called for Ticket tout legislation to be updated, describing the re-selling tickets at inflated value as 'immoral and completely wrong'. It's reported that nobody has been prosecuted for the practice despite the passing of the Sale of Tickets Act two years ago. Dr. Steve Davies, Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs joined Ciara on the show this morning.

Welcome back to The UK Flooring Podcast! In this episode, we sit down with Steve Davies, the National Training Manager at Uzin Utz, who is a true veteran of the flooring industry.Highlights:From the Tools to College Lecturer:Steve shares his fascinating journey from starting out as a flooring professional working with tools to becoming a college lecturer, where he discovered his passion for training others in the trade.Training the Next Generation of Flooring Fitters:Discover Steve's unique approach to training and mentoring the next generation of flooring fitters. He shares valuable insights into the techniques and strategies he uses to equip newcomers with the necessary skills and knowledge.Getting Attendees to Turn Up for Training:One of the challenges of conducting training sessions is ensuring attendance. Steve provides some helpful tips and tricks to encourage trainees to be actively engaged and eager to participate in training programs.Overcoming Industry Challenges:The flooring industry has its own set of challenges, and Steve sheds light on some of the most common hurdles people face in the field. He also offers advice on how to tackle these challenges effectively.The Best Advice Steve Ever Received:Throughout his career, Steve has received valuable advice from mentors and peers. He shares the best piece of advice he ever received, which has guided him both professionally and personally.Favorite Products to Work With:As a seasoned flooring expert, Steve reveals his favourite products to work with. Whether it's for durability, ease of installation, or stunning aesthetics, he provides recommendations that flooring professionals and DIY enthusiasts will find valuable.Conclusion:We hope you enjoyed this insightful episode with Steve Davies, where we explored his journey from a flooring professional to a renowned trainer. Don't forget to visit our website at https://theukflooringpodcast.co.uk/ for more episodes and updates!Stay tuned for our next episode, where we'll dive into the latest trends in flooring design and innovation.Remember to subscribe and leave us a review on your favourite podcast platform.Connect with us on social media @UKFlooringPodcast to join the conversation and suggest future topics and guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join myself and my husband Kenny as we sit down for a captivating conversation with radio legend Steve Davies! In his first-ever podcast recording, Steve shares his exciting stories from his time as a morning radio show host, his love for family, fishing, and his passion for crafting the perfect cocktail. You'll be captivated by the importance of attention to detail, whether it's in radio broadcasting or making a delicious drink. We also dive into his thoughts on terrestrial radio, interviewing famous personalities like Tiny Tim and Debbie Gibson, and his appreciation for bluegrass music. Plus, Steve shares the best restaurant he has ever been to. You won't want to miss this! Lastly, we discuss the creative freedom that radio hosts have, the importance of playing hits, and how Steve had to be mindful of the community when he first started at Lebanon Broadcasting. We also reflect on the differences between podcasting and radio, and how Howard Stern set the tone for shock jocks on the air. Don't miss this episode filled with laughter, wisdom, and unforgettable stories from Steve Davies' incredible life and career!

In this episode of the Air Combat Sim Podcast, the team interviews with Steve Davies and Metal2Mesh about the F-15E. The team discusses the upcoming F-15E module and Baltic Dragon's training materials as well. Show Notes:Steve Davies 10 Percent True PodcastSteve Davies Books on AmazonMetal2Mesh ImagesBaltic Dragon's YouTube ChannelCasmo's ChannelTricker's Channel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the "Authentic" podcast, host Scott "Roger" Chafian interviews author Steve Davies about his book "Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs". They discuss Steve's background as an aviation journalist, his motivation for writing the book, and the process of connecting with people and melding their stories into a cohesive narrative. They also delve into the challenges of researching a historical book, the importance of exploitation programs in understanding foreign aircraft, and the unsung heroes of military operations, the maintainers. Finally, they discuss their upcoming collaboration on a new podcast series about the F-35 fighter jet.Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authentic-media-military-aviation-podcast/id1684159585 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'll be the first to admit, I am not a natural on the tennis court, but after chatting to Steve Davies, Founder of Active Away holidays, I may be tempted to pick up a racket and have another go at Padel, which I am assured is going to be the next big thing in the UK.Have a listen and find out more about the 'resting' holidays which also include plenty of mingling and of course,  lessons from the experts. With 85% repeat business it's no wonder all the Google reviews are good! For more information on Steve and his team, check out the breaks at ActiveAway - you don't need a partner either! 

This week on Nexus, we look at Prince Harry's candid memoir Spare. It has fast become the best-selling non-fiction title in the UK. While the Royal Family has mostly maintained a dignified silence about its salacious revelations, many of the media have not. The Prince, once a favourite of the tabloids and the public alike, now ranks as one of the least popular royals. And that's only going to get worse. Alongside claims many dismiss as whining, Prince Harry revealed he had killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The Taliban say this is an admission of a war crime, while the media say it puts more British lives at risk. Helping us get to the bottom of these revelations is an expert panel including an Afghan government advisor, Meghan Markle's former bodyguard and Philip Ingram, a former British army colonel and two Royal experts. But amidst the silence of the Royal Family, there has been a lot of outrage in the national press as many criticise his constant complaining as indulgent as millions of ordinary Britons endure an unprecedented cost of living crisis. We speak to Meghan Markle's former bodyguard Steve Davies and ask whether the revelations, for example plans of Buckingham Palace and 25 Taliban killed will endanger Prince Harry, Meghan and the rest of the Royal Family.

In the skies over Cairo, an unlit military transport plane makes a wary descent in to the city's international airport. Under cover of darkness, it's loaded with a precious consignment - an artefact that the USA has gone to great lengths to procure. Not a cursed relic, or a crystal skull - but a cutting-edge Russian fighter jet. In Part Two, CIA Officer Jim Fees' daughter, Paula, and aviation expert Steve Davies guide Sophia di Martino through the final stages of a daring desert heist - and explain the true significance of this exceptional Cold War coup. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

In the skies over Cairo, an unlit military transport plane makes a wary descent in to the city's international airport. Under cover of darkness, it's loaded with a precious consignment - an artefact that the USA has gone to great lengths to procure. Not a cursed relic, or a crystal skull - but a cutting-edge Russian fighter jet. In Part One, Sophia Di Martino flies cargo-class with the CIA's Jim Fees - the officer who stole a MiG-23 from under the nose of the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. To tell his story, we've enlisted Jim's only daughter, alongside historian and aviation expert Steve Davies. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

Welcome to the forty-fifth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! The Air Force created a super-secret squadron located in the Nellis Air Force Base Range Complex, The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron called "The Red Eagles." Rob Zettel is one of the world's subject matter experts on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures from his experience flying the F-5E Tiger II with the 26th Aggressors in The Philippines and Russian Mig-21 Fishbed and MiG-23 Flogger fighters with the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles. Z-Man discusses his experiences flying F-4 Phantoms and being an Aggressor pilot with the famous Red Eagles. Two books are available on the 4477th TES, the first called  America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Constant Peg written by one of the founders Colonel Gail Peck. The second book is Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs by Steve Davies. Prints of the MiG-21 and MiG-23 Rob flew with the Red Eagles are available from Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. These four, six, or eight-foot-long prints can be framed or peeled off and stuck to any flat surface. Prints of the 26th Aggressor Squadron F-5E Tiger II painted in Russian GRAPE and SNAKE paint schemes are also available from Wall Pilot. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show. Please share episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast with your friends and family. This and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast can be found on my website. Next week we talk to a US Navy SH-3 Sea King pilot and learn how the Sikorsky Sea King came about and some of the incredible missions the Sea King was equipped to perform... including carrying nuclear weapons! Thanks for listening and we will talk to you next week on the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast. 

Welcome to the forty-fifth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! The Air Force created a super-secret squadron located in the Nellis Air Force Base Range Complex, The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron called "The Red Eagles." Rob Zettel is one of the world's subject matter experts on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures from his experience flying the F-5E Tiger II with the 26th Aggressors in The Philippines and Russian Mig-21 Fishbed and MiG-23 Flogger fighters with the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles. Z-Man discusses his experiences flying F-4 Phantoms and being an Aggressor pilot with the famous Red Eagles. Two books are available on the 4477th TES, the first called America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Constant Peg written by one of the founders Colonel Gail Peck. The second book is Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs by Steve Davies. Prints of the MiG-21 and MiG-23 Rob flew with the Red Eagles are available from Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. These four, six, or eight-foot-long prints can be framed or peeled off and stuck to any flat surface. Prints of the 26th Aggressor Squadron F-5E Tiger II painted in Russian GRAPE and SNAKE paint schemes are also available from Wall Pilot. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show. Please share episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast with your friends and family. This and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast can be found on my website. Next week we talk to a US Navy SH-3 Sea King pilot and learn how the Sikorsky Sea King came about and some of the incredible missions the Sea King was equipped to perform... including carrying nuclear weapons! Thanks for listening and we will talk to you next week on the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast.

Welcome to the forty-fifth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! The Air Force created a super-secret squadron located in the Nellis Air Force Base Range Complex, The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron called "The Red Eagles." Rob Zettel is one of the world's subject matter experts on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures from his experience flying the F-5E Tiger II with the 26th Aggressors in The Philippines and Russian Mig-21 Fishbed and MiG-23 Flogger fighters with the 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles. Z-Man discusses his experiences flying F-4 Phantoms and being an Aggressor pilot with the famous Red Eagles. Two books are available on the 4477th TES, the first called  America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Constant Peg written by one of the founders Colonel Gail Peck. The second book is Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs by Steve Davies. Prints of the MiG-21 and MiG-23 Rob flew with the Red Eagles are available from Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. These four, six, or eight-foot-long prints can be framed or peeled off and stuck to any flat surface. Prints of the 26th Aggressor Squadron F-5E Tiger II painted in Russian GRAPE and SNAKE paint schemes are also available from Wall Pilot. Thanks for downloading and listening to the show. Please share episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast with your friends and family. This and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast can be found on my website. Next week we talk to a US Navy SH-3 Sea King pilot and learn how the Sikorsky Sea King came about and some of the incredible missions the Sea King was equipped to perform... including carrying nuclear weapons! Thanks for listening and we will talk to you next week on the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast. 

What if the Roman Empire had experienced an Industrial Revolution? That's the compelling hook of Helen Dale's two-part novel, Kingdom of the Wicked: Rules and Order. Drawing on economics and legal history, Helen's story follows the arrest and trial of charismatic holy man Yeshua Ben Yusuf in the first century — but one with television, flying machines, cars, and genetic modification.In this episode of Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I dive into the fascinating world-building of Kingdom of the Wicked with Helen. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.James Pethokoukis: Your Kingdom of the Wicked books raise such an interesting question: What would have happened if Jesus had emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? What led you to ask this question and to pursue that answer through these books?Helen Dale: There is an essay in the back of book one, which is basically a set of notes about what I brought to the book when I was thinking. And that has been published elsewhere by the Cato Institute. I go into these questions. But the main one, the one that really occurred to me, was that I thought, what would happen if Jesus emerged in a modern society now, rather than the historic society he emerged in? I didn't think it would turn into something hippy-dippy like Jesus of Montreal. I thought it would turn into Waco or to the Peoples Temple.And that wasn't necessarily a function of the leader of the group being a bad person. Clearly Jim Jones was a very bad person, but the Waco story is actually much more complex and much messier and involves a militarized police force and tanks attacking the buildings and all of this kind of thing. But whatever happened with it, it was going to go badly and it was going to end in violence and there would be a showdown and a confrontation. And it would also take on, I thought — I didn't say this in the essay, but I thought at the time — it would take on a very American cast, because that is the way new religious movements tend to blow up or collapse in the United States.And so I was thinking this idea, through my head, “I would like to do a retelling of the Jesus story, but how do I do it? So it doesn't become naff and doesn't work?” And so what I decided to do was rather than bring Jesus forward and put him now, I would put us back to the time of Jesus — but take our technology and our knowledge, but always mediated by the fact that Roman civilization was different from modern civilization. Not in the sense of, you know, human beings have changed, all that kind of thing. We're all still the same primates that we have been for a couple of hundred thousand years or even longer. But in the sense that their underlying moral values and beliefs about the way the world should work were different, which I thought would have technological effects. The big technological effect in Kingdom of the Wicked is they're much better at the biosciences and the animal sciences. They're much weaker at communications. Our society has put all its effort into [communication]. Their society is much more likely to put it into medicine.To give you an idea: the use of opioids to relieve the pain of childbirth is Roman. And it was rediscovered by James Young Simpson at The University of Edinburgh. And he very famously used the formula of one of the Roman medical writers. So I made a very deliberate decision: This is a society that has not pursued technological advancement in the same way as us. It's also why their motor vehicles look like the Soviet-era ones with rotary engines. It's why their big aircraft are kind of like Antonovs, the big Ukrainian aircraft that we've all been reading about since the war has started in Ukraine. So, in some respects, there are bits of their culture that look more Soviet, or at least Britain in the 1950s. You know, sort of Clement Attlee's quite centralized, postwar settlement: health service, public good, kind of Soviet-style. Soft Soviet; it's not the nasty Stalinist sort, but like late-Soviet, so kind of Brezhnev and the last part of Khrushchev. A few people did say that. They were like, “Your military parades, they look like the Soviet Union.” Yes. That was deliberate. The effort has gone to medicine.It's an amazing bit of world-building. I was sort of astonished by the depth and the scale of it. Is this a genre that you had an interest in previously? Are there other works that you took inspiration from?There's a particular writer of speculative fiction I admire greatly. His name is S.M. Stirling, and he wrote a series of books. I haven't read every book he wrote, but he wrote a series of books called the Draka series. And it's speculative fiction. Once again, based on a point of departure where the colonists who finished up in South Africa finished up using the resources of South Africa, but for a range of reasons he sets out very carefully in his books, they avoid the resource curse, the classic economist's resource curse. And so certainly in terms of a popular writer, he was the one that I read and thought, “If I can do this as well as him, I will be very pleased.”I probably didn't read as much science fiction as most people would in high school, unless it was a literary author like Margaret Atwood or George Orwell. I just find bad writing rebarbative, and a lot of science fiction struggles with bad writing. So this is the problem, of course, that Douglas Adams famously identified. And one of the reasons why he wrote the Hitchhiker's books was to show that you could combine science fiction with good writing.In all good works of speculative fiction of the alt-history variant, there's an interesting jumping-off point. I would imagine you had a real “Eureka!” moment when you figured out what your jumping-off point would be to make this all plausible. Tell me about that.Well, yes. I did. Once I realized that points of departure hugely mattered, I then went and read people like Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle. The point of departure for him is the assassination of Roosevelt. I went and read SS-GB [by] Len Deighton, a great British spycraft writer but also a writer of speculative fiction. And in that case, Britain loses the Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, the putative land invasion of the UK, is successful. And I really started to think about this and I'm going, "Okay, how are you going to do this point of departure? And how are you going to deal with certain economic issues?"I'm not an economist, but I used to practice in corporate finance so I've got the sort of numerical appreciation for economics. I can read an economics paper that's very math heavy because that's my skill based on working in corporate finance. And I knew, from corporate finance and from corporate law, that there are certain things that you just can't do, you can't achieve in terms of economic progress, unless you abolish slavery, basically. Very, very basic stuff like human labor power never loses its comparative advantage if you have just a market flooded with slaves. So you can have lots of good science technology, and an excellent legal system like the Romans did. And they reached that point economists talk about of takeoff, and it just never happens. Just, they miss. It doesn't quite happen.And in a number of civilizations, this has happened. It's happened with the Song dynasty in China. Steve Davies has written a lot about the Song dynasty, and they went through the same thing. They just get to that takeoff point and then just … fizzled out. And in China, it was to do with serfdom, basically. These are things that are very destructive to economic progress. So you have to come up with a society that decides that slavery is really shitty. And the only way to do that is for them to get hooked on the idea of using a substitute for human labor power. And that means I have to push technological innovation back to the middle republic.So what I've done for my point of departure is at the Siege of Syracuse [in 213-212 B.C.]. I have Archimedes surviving instead of being killed. He was actually doing mathematical doodles outside his classroom, according to the various records of Roman writers, and he was killed by some rampaging Roman soldier. And basically Marcellus, the general, had been told to capture Archimedes and all his students and all their kids. So you can see Operation Paperclip in the Roman mind. You can see the thinking: “Oh no, we want this fellow to be our DARPA guy.” That's just a brilliant leap. I love that.And that is the beginning of the point of departure. So you have the Romans hauling all these clever Greek scientists and their families off and taking them to Rome and basically doing a Roman version of DARPA. You know, Operation Paperclip, DARPA. You know, “Do all the science, and have complete freedom to do all the…” — because the Romans would've let them do it. I mean, this is the thing. The Romans are your classic “cashed up bogans,” as Australians call it. They had lots of money. They were willing to throw money at things like this and then really run with it.You really needed both. As you write at one point, you needed to create a kind of a “machine culture.” You sort of needed the science and innovation, but also the getting rid of slavery part of it. They really both work hand in hand.Yes. These two have to go together. I got commissioned to write a few articles in the British press, where I didn't get to mention the name of Kingdom of the Wicked or any of my novels or research for this, but where people were trying to argue that the British Empire made an enormous amount of money out of slavery. And then, as a subsidiary argument, trying to argue that that led to industrialization in the UK. … [So] I wrote a number of articles in the press just like going through why this was actually impossible. And I didn't use any fancy economic terminology or anything like that. There's just no point in it. But just explaining that, “No, no, no. This doesn't work like that. You might get individually wealthy people, like Crassus, who made a lot of his money from slavery.” (Although he also made a lot from insurance because he set up private fire brigades. That was one of the things that Crassus did: insurance premiums, because that's a Roman law invention, the concept of insurance.) And you get one of the Islamic leaders in Mali, King Musa. Same thing, slaves. And people try to argue that the entirety of their country's wealth depended on slavery. But what you get is you get individually very wealthy people, but you don't get any propagation of the wealth through the wider society, which is what industrialization produced in Britain and the Netherlands and then in Germany and then in America and elsewhere.So, yes, I had to work in the machine culture with the abolition of slavery. And the machines had to come first. If I did the abolition of slavery first, there was nothing there to feed it. One of the things that helped Britain was Somerset's case (and in Scotland, Knight and Wedderburn) saying, “The air of the air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe.” You know, that kind of thinking. But that was what I realized: It was the slavery issue. I couldn't solve the slavery issue unless I took the technological development back earlier than the period when the Roman Republic was flooded with slaves.The George Mason University economist Mark Koyama said if you had taken Adam Smith and brought him back to Rome, a lot of it would've seemed very recognizable, like a commercial, trading society. So I would assume that element was also pretty important in that world-building. You had something to work with there.Yes. I'd read some Stoic stuff because I did a classics degree, so of course that means you have to be able to read in Latin. But I'd never really taken that much of an interest in it. My interest tended to be in the literature: Virgil and Apuleius and the people who wrote novels. And then the interest in law, I always had an advantage, particularly as a Scots lawyer because Scotland is a mixed system, that I could read all the Roman sources that they were drawing on in the original. It made me a better practitioner. But my first introduction to thinking seriously about stoicism and how it relates to commerce and thinking that commerce can actually be a good and honorable thing to do is actually in Adam Smith. Not in The Wealth of Nations, but in Moral Sentiments, where Adam Smith actually goes through and quotes a lot of the Roman Stoic writers — Musonius Rufus and Epictetus and people like that — where they talk about how it's possible to have something that's quite base, which is being greedy and wanting to have a lot of money, but realizing that in order to get your lot of money or to do really well for yourself, you actually have to be quite a decent person and not a s**t.And there were certain things that the Romans had applied this thinking to, like the samian with that beautiful red ceramic that you see, and it's uniform all through the Roman Empire because they were manufacturing it on a factory basis. And when you come across the factories, they look like these long, narrow buildings with high, well-lit windows. And you're just sort of sitting there going, “My goodness, somebody dumped Manchester in Italy.” This kind of thing. And so my introduction to that kind of Stoic thinking was actually via Adam Smith. And then I went back and read the material in the original and realized where Adam Smith was getting those arguments from. And that's when I thought, “Ah, right. Okay, now I've got my abolitionists.”This is, in large part, a book about law. So you had to create a believable legal system that did not exist, unlike, perhaps, the commercial nature of Rome. So how did you begin to work this from the ground up?All the substantive law used in the book is Roman, written by actual Roman jurists. But to be fair, this is not hard to do. This is a proper legal system. There are only two great law-giving civilizations in human history. The Romans were one of them; the English were the other. And so what I had to do was take substantive Roman law, use my knowledge of practicing in a mixed system that did resemble the ancient Roman system — so I used Scotland, where I'd lived and worked — and then [put] elements back into it that existed in antiquity that still exists in, say, France but are very foreign, particularly to common lawyers.I had lawyer friends who read both novels because obviously it appeals. “You have a courtroom drama?” A courtroom drama appeals to lawyers. These are the kind of books, particularly if it's written by another lawyer. So you do things like get the laws of evidence right and stuff like that. I know there are lawyers who cannot watch The Wire, for example, because it gets the laws of evidence (in the US, in this case) wrong. And they just finish up throwing shoes at the television because they get really annoyed about getting it wrong.What I did was I took great care to get the laws of evidence right, and to make sure that I didn't use common law rules of evidence. For example, the Romans didn't have a rule against hearsay. So you'll notice that there's all this hearsay in the trial. But you'll also notice a mechanism. Pilate's very good at sorting out what's just gossip and what is likely to have substantive truth to it. So that's a classic borrowing from Roman law, because they didn't have the rule against hearsay. That's a common law rule. I also use corroboration a lot. Corroboration is very important in Roman law, and it's also very important in Scots law. And it's basically a two-witness rule.And I did things, once again, to show the sort of cultural differences between the two great legal systems. Cornelius, the Roman equivalent of the principal crown prosecutor. Cornelius is that character, and he's obsessed with getting a confession. Obsessed. And that is deeply Roman. The Roman lawyers going back to antiquity called a confession the “Queen of Proofs.” And of course, if confessions are just the most wonderful thing, then it's just so tempting to beat the snot out of the accused and get your bloody confession. Job done. The topic of the Industrial Revolution has been a frequent one in my writings and podcasts. And one big difference between our Industrial Revolution and the one you posit in the book is that there was a lot of competition in Europe. You had a lot of countries, and there was an incentive to permit disruptive innovation — where in the past, the proponents of the status quo had the advantage. But at some point countries realized, “Oh, both for commerce and military reasons, we need to become more technologically advanced. So we're going to allow inventors and entrepreneurs to come up with new ideas, even if it does alter that status quo.” But that's not the case with Rome. It was a powerful empire that I don't think really had any competitors, both in the real world and in your book.That and the chattel slavery is probably why it didn't finish up having an industrial revolution. And it's one of the reasons why I had to locate the innovation, it had to be in the military first, because the military was so intensely respected in Roman society. If you'd have got the Roman military leadership coming up with, say, gunpowder or explosives or that kind of thing, the response from everybody else would've been, “Good. We win. This is a good thing.” It had to come from the military, which is why you get that slightly Soviet look to it. There is a reason for that. The society is more prosperous because it's a free-market society. The Romans were a free-market society. All their laws were all sort of trade oriented, like English law. So that's one of those things where the two societies were just really similar. But in terms of technological innovation, I had to locate it in the army. It had to be the armed forces first.In your world, are there entrepreneurs? What does the business world look like?Well, I do try to show you people who are very commercially minded and very economically oriented. You've got the character of Pilate, the real historical figure, who is a traditional Tory lawyer, who has come up through all the traditional Toryism and his family's on the land and so on and so forth. So he's a Tory. But Linnaeus, who he went to law school with, who is the defense counsel for the Jesus character, Yeshua Ben Yusuf, is a Whig. And his mother was a freed slave, and his family are in business in commerce. They haven't bought the land.A lot of these books finished up on the cutting room floor, the world-building. And there is a piece that was published in a book called Shapers of Worlds: Volume II, which is a science-fiction anthology edited by a Canadian science-fiction author called Ed Willett. And one of the pieces that finished up on the cutting room floor and went into Shapers of Worlds is a description of Linnaeus's family background, which unfortunately was removed. You get Pilate's, but you don't get Linnaeus's. And Linnaeus's family background, his dad's the factory owner. The factory making cloth. I was annoyed with my publisher when they said, “This piece has to go,” and I did one of those snotty, foot-stamping, awful things. And so I was delighted when this Canadian publisher came to me and said, “Oh, can we have a piece of your writing for a science-fiction anthology?” And I thought, “Oh good. I get to publish the Linnaeus's dad story in Shapers of Worlds.”And I actually based Linnaeus's dad — the angel as he's referred to, Angelus, in the Kingdom of the Wicked books, and his personality is brought out very strongly — I actually based him on John Rylands. Manchester's John Rylands, the man who gave his name to the Rylands Library in Manchester. He was meant to be the portrait of the entrepreneurial, Manchester industrialist. And to this day, authors always have regrets, you don't always get to win the argument with your publisher or your editor, I am sorry that that background, that world-building was taken out of Kingdom of the Wicked and finished up having to be published elsewhere in an anthology. Because it provided that entrepreneurial story that you're talking about: the factory owner who is the self-made man, who endows libraries and technical schools, and trains apprentices, and has that sort of innovative quality that is described so beautifully in Matt Ridley's book, How Innovation Works, which is full of people like that. And this book as well, I've just bought: I've just bought Arts and Minds, which is about the Royal Society of Arts. So this is one of those authorial regrets: that the entrepreneur character wasn't properly fleshed out in the two published books, Kingdom of the Wicked book one and book two. And you have to get Shapers of Worlds if you want to find out about Linnaeus's industrialist dad.Is this a world you'd want to live in?Not for me, no. I mean, I'm a classically trained lawyer. So classics first, then law. And I made it a society that works. You know, I don't write dystopias. I have a great deal of admiration for Margaret Atwood and George Orwell, who are the two greatest writers of dystopias, in my view, in contemporary, and not just contemporary fiction, probably going back over a couple of hundred years. Those two have really got it, when it comes to this vision of horror. You know, the boot stamping on the human face forever. I greatly admire their skill, but those are not the books I write. So the society I wrote about in Kingdom of the Wicked is a society that works.But one of the things I deliberately did with the Yeshua Ben Yusuf character and what were his early Christian followers, and the reason I've taken so much time to flesh them out as real characters and believable people [is] because the values that Christianity has given to the West were often absent in the Roman world. They just didn't think that way. They thought about things differently. Now some of those Christian values were pretty horrible. It's fairly clear that the Romans were right about homosexuality and abortion, and the Christians were wrong. That kind of thing. That's where they were more liberal. But, you will have noticed, I don't turn the book into Gattaca. I try to keep this in the background because obviously someone else has written Gattaca. It's an excellent film. It's very thought provoking. I didn't want to do that again. It's kept in the background, but it is obvious — you don't even really need to read between the lines — that this is a society that engages in eugenics. You notice that all the Roman families have three children or two children, and there's always a mix of sexes. You never have all boys or all girls. You know what they're doing. They're doing sex-selective abortions, like upper-class Indians and Chinese people do now. You've now dealt with the problem of not enough girls among those posh people, but they still want a mixture of the two. You notice that the Romans have got irritatingly perfect teeth and their health is all very good. And people mock Cyler, one of the characters, because his teeth haven't been fixed. He's got what in Britain get called NHS teeth. He hasn't got straightened teeth, because he genuinely comes from a really, really poor background. I have put that in there deliberately to foil those values off each other, to try to show what a world would look like where there are certain values that will just never come to the fore.And as you mentioned, industry: how those values also might influence which areas technology might focus on, which I think is a great point.I did that quite deliberately. There is a scene in the first book in Kingdom of the Wicked where Linnaeus — who's the Whig, the nice Whig, the lovely Whig who believes in civil rights and justice and starts sounding awfully Martin Luther King-ish at various points, and that kind of thing; he's the most likable form of progressive, Stoic Roman ideas — and when he encounters a child that the parents have kept alive, a disabled child, which in his society would just be put down at birth like Peter Singer, they have Peter Singer laws, he's horrified. And he doesn't even know if it's human.I actually wrote a piece about this couple of years ago for Law & Liberty, for Liberty Fund. I did find that people wanted to live in this sort of society. And I just sort of thought, “Hmm, there are a lot more people out there who clearly agree with things like eugenics, Peter Singer laws, a society that has absolutely no welfare state. None.” There are people who clearly find that kind of society attractive. And also the authoritarianism, the Soviet-style veneration of the military. A lot of people clearly quite like that. And clearly like that it's a very orderly society where there are lots of rules and everybody knows where they stand. But even when the state is really, really very powerful.I deliberately put a scene in there, for example, where Pilate's expectorating about compulsory vaccinations — because he's a Roman and he thinks compulsory vaccinations save lives and he doesn't give a s**t about your bodily integrity. I did try to leave lots of Easter eggs, to use a gaming expression, in there to make it clear that this is a society that's a bit Gattaca-ish. I did that for a reason.I don't know if there's a sequel in mind, but do you think that this world eventually sort of Christianizes? And if this is what the world looks like 2000 years ago, what would that world look like today?I haven't thought of the answer to the first one. I must admit. I don't really know the answer to that. But in the second one, I did discuss this in quite a bit of detail with my then partner. And she said, “I honestly think that with that sort of aggressiveness and militarism, they will finish up conquering the planet. And then it'll start looking like a not-nice version of Star Trek. It won't be the Federation. It will be much more likely to be Khan and the Klingons and they'll start looking really, really Klingon basically.” That was her comment at the time.Like a more militaristic version of Star Trek.Yeah. But sort of very militarized and not the Prime Directive or any of that. Obviously Star Trek is very much an American conception of Americans in space. My Romans in space would look much more like the Centauri out of Babylon 5 or the Klingons in Star Trek. They would be much more aggressive and they'd be a lot more ambiguous…I don't know how much of a Star Trek fan you are, but of course there's the mirror universe, which kind of looks like that. We have the evil Kirk and the evil Spock. There's still advance, but there's like a Praetorian Guard for the captain and…All of that. Yes. I hadn't really thought about the first question, but the second question I thought, “Yeah, if this persists into the future, imagining a hypothetical future, then I think you are going to be dealing with people who are really, really quite scary.”Apparently you're not working on a sequel to this book, but what are you working on? Another book?Yes. I'm actually being pursued at the moment by a British publisher, who I won't drop into it because otherwise, if I say the name, then I will never, never be forgiven. And then they will insist on me writing a book. I'm never going to be the world's most super productive novelist. I think that I may finish up in my life writing maybe another two. I look at Stephen King. That man writes a door stopper of a book every time he sits down to have a hot meal. Incredible. How does he do it? I'm not that person.Helen, thank you so much for coming on the podcast.Thank you very much for having me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

The post-war consensus. This is something that many of us take for granted as first, having existed and secondly, what drove the statism of pre-Thatcherite governments. However, Dr Steve Davies, IEA Head of Education, thinks otherwise. In this fascinating lecture, Steve describes the history of free market conservatism before Thatcher. Dr Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the IEA. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. A historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984. He has authored several books, including Empiricism and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and was co-editor with Nigel Ashford of The Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Routledge, 1991).   This lecture originally featured as a video on the IEA's YouTube Channel. Watch here.   FOLLOW US: TWITTER - https://twitter.com/iealondon  INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/ieauk/  FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/ieauk  WEBSITE - https://iea.org.uk/ 

Chris Powell loves cricket. A handy leg-spinner growing up, he played Minor Counties cricket as well as for Gloucestershire's second XI and, after completing a masters degree in sports science, returned to the club where he now works as a physio. Chris is also gay and, having come out to colleagues at the club in 2017, is now joining us for his first-ever podcast interview to chat about his story. This is a brilliant conversation with a top guest who made a real splash when he shared his story on Gloucestershire's website as part of LGBT+ History Month – and we're delighted to have him on the podcast today. We talk about Chris' career; his love of sport; his journey with his own sexuality; sharing his story, both with the club and with the wider public; being inspired by Steve Davies; where cricket stands at the moment when it comes to inclusivity; learning Spanish – and how it feels to be hit by a ball in nets! This is a top chat with a brilliant guest, and we really think you're going to like it. WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST? @MSK_Medic @Gloscricket WANT TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THE PODCAST? @jack_murley jack.murley@bbc.co.uk

Alex speaks with Steve Davies about the meaning of "Global Catastrophic Risk", and what it can reveal about how restructuring our understanding of big gambles can help us combat the threats of pandemics, climate change, and even technological singularity. 

Two years since the last Farthest From had taken place, December 2021 finally saw the return of the much loved event and Generation Skywalker were in town to capture everything that went on.    Now, a month after the event, the team look back at what was an amazing return to the vintage Star Wars collecting gathering.     Not only do we get the thoughts and memories of the Generation Skywalker team, but we bring back a host of interviews recorded at the event. David Tree, Steve Davies, Rob Marsh, Peter Lee, Chris Mann, Mark Newbold, Marc Hockley, Wayne Totty, Jason Smith, Jon Aves, Lee Bullock, Drew Tegg, Darren Hayman, Andrew Norton and Andrew Karnecki all stop by to discuss their experience of the weekend.

Robert Garrett, President and CEO Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Art Thomas, Chairman GSVCC, President Meck-Tech and Diversified Construction Inc., with their reaction to the latest US and PA jobless numbers, and the Chamber's latest activities, events and meetings. He'll be fresh off Friday morning's Transportation Committee meeting and we'll get the latest news. Steve Davies, Pennsylvania State Director (volunteer) for the Convention of States Project, on the current status of the Convention of States effort, and specifically the Pennsylvania effort. He'll talk about the work to try to right our republic, and restore some rational US government. Open phones.  Mark thinks our Republic will survive. John…we'll ask em.'

In this episode, economists Don Boudreaux, Steve Davies, Douglas Irwin, and Arvind Panagariya reflect on the legacy of Britain's Corn Laws 175 years after their repeal on June 25, 1846. They discuss the effects of the Corn Laws, the circumstances leading to the laws' repeal, the ensuing rise of free trade both in Britain and globally, and much more. Boudreaux is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Davies is the head of education at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Douglas is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Panagariya is a professor of economics and the Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University.Resources:The Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity by Steve DaviesClashing Over Commerce by Doug IrwinFree Trade and Prosperity by Arvind PanagariyaFor more helpful links and resources from this conversation, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

Alex Aragona speaks with Steve Davies as he explores what he thinks life after the pandemic will look like, including our relationship with the welfare state.

#FilmGodsPodcast #trending Ep40. #trending with Steve Davies / APA https://www.a-p-a.net/ ----more---- New format, quick chat with an industry pro about what is happening in the industry right now, how it's affecting the industry and what people are doing because of it. ----more---- Enjoy, subscribe and share. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-film-gods/id1500760776   Big love x   Isusko ----more---- #podcast #filmcrew #filminterview #filmgods #filmstudent www.thetimescheduler.com

Ian Broudie has not only written timeless classics in his career, but has played a pivotal role in the embryonic stages of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Zutons & The Coral.  Ian takes a deep dive into analysing songwriting processes, discusses 'You'll Never Walk Alone' influenced writing 'Three Lions', details how Chris Sharrock and Zak Starkey's drum style differ and tells us what his new record is going to sound like... This is probably one of our fav episodes ever to have recorded, thank you to Ian, Jim Sharrock & Riley for making this happen.  Thank you to Dave Woolford for the edit, Andy Phelan and Alex Soikans for YouTube & website help.  This one's for you, Steve Davies.

Chris from The StageLeft Podcast reveals the process behind collaborating with former StageLeft guests Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney's Wings), Shane Keister (Elvis Presley) & Stuart Masters for the new album 'Last Wilderness' in a guest appearance on Curveballs with Nick Field. Chris also explains some of the inner workings of The StageLeft Podcast, the values of thigh-slapping, writing about The Chilcot Report and finally reveals the true reason why bandmate Steve Davies moved to India. "The only album to have been recorded in Los Angeles, Nashville and Romford." lastwilderness.bandcamp.com www.thestageleftpodcast.com @thestageleftpod facebook.com/thestageleftpodcast #music #podcast #musicpodcast

Steve Davies is the Chief Executive of the A.P.A - the Advertising Producers Association based in London. In this insightful discussion, we talk challenges and opportunities for production companies in a tech-savvy era, and what really makes a high-quality video.

This episode shares some fascinating ideas about how to understand culture, identity and civilization. The historian Steve Davies argues that rather than being at the end of a long story of "western civilization", we are at the beginning of something radically new, unplanned and totally alien to the historical cultures of both the "West" and everywhere else before circa 1800. I've summarised these ideas in the podcast, but I also recommend that you watch the thought-provoking lecture by Steve Davies.   Show Notes: Stephen Davies on Western Civilisation The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley