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Peter Oborne - ‘Trump’s Board of Peace is a Board of War'
31/1/2026 | 44 mins.
In the Orwellian world we now live in, gaslighting is now standard. When Donald Trump creates a Board of Peace, we know that where it says one thing, the opposite is the truth.
On Free State today Peter Oborne joins us to talk about how we reached this point in the Middle East.
Peter’s new book Complicit looks at Britain’s role in sustaining the genocide in Gaza and why there might be consequences.
He explains why the U.K. is moving from democracy to oligarchy. He also tells Dion about a book he has just finished on cricket.
You can order his book here - COMPLICIT: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza | Peter Oborne | OR Books.
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Allianz’s National Football League, Trump’s World Cup and the silencing of sporting integrity
29/1/2026 | 52 mins.
When the president of the German football club St Pauli said it was "clearly time to at least discuss a boycott" of the World Cup in the US this summer, he was quickly reminded of his station. "He hasn't been with us long," the president of the German football federation said. The idea of a boycott was completely "misguided" he said.But why? On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at why the World cup could be boycotted and, more importantly, why it won't.When FIFA created a peace prize, did they think about what would happen if they entered the peace business? Did they reflect that people might seriously ask them to consider peace, especially in a country which is going to war on everyone including its own people? They also look at Allianz's ongoing sponsorship of the National Football League and wonder why the protests have been so muted? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ICE Cold in America: The Execution of Alex Pretti
27/1/2026 | 48 mins.
“We have all seen the video and our eyes don’t lie,” a friend of Alex Pretti said in the aftermath of Pretti’s murder.
He was speaking as Donald Trump’s administration advanced a lie, undeterred by what people had seen in the video which dismantled the story spun by ICE and their protectors.
On Free State today, Joe and Dion look at the rise of authoritarianism in America and what comes next.
As ICE rampage as the Black and Tans once did in Ireland, they also look at the money that is going to ICE and who has benefited.
As people in Minnesota protest, what is the end goal for Trump and his goons? When people take to the streets will Trump step back or is this a deliberate step towards an American dictatorship.
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
24/1/2026 | 42 mins.
What would it mean to be free of financial insecurity? Why does money scare us so much?
On Free State today money expert Eoin McGee talks about how we can achieve financial freedom and faces one of his greatest challenges: Dion’s attitude to money.
In doing so, he talks about things far more profound than money. What do we really want from life and Dion explains why your wedding day is not the best day of your life.
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Trump backs down on Greenland and is Tony Blair the world’s worst person?
22/1/2026 | 46 mins.
When Donald Trump backed down on Greenland, he tried to make it sound like a victory.
But what caused him to cave? Western leaders have tried to placate Trump and continued this approach at Davos until Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney laid out the truth about the world today.
‘The strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must,’ he said quoting Thucydides.
This is the reality of the world and somebody naming it shook Trump.
On Free State today we look at where he goes next and how Tony Blair remains part of the Gaza Peace Board.
We look at Blair’s journey to the heart of power and wealth. Dion and Joe disagree on what drove him to this. Joe outlines how Blair moved closer to Israel during his time in power and why he has always sided with the strong while the weak suffer what they must.
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Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life. Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author. They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They will never try to sell you a penis scented candle. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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