Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Jon, Ed & Mark are joined by Flora Page KC, a leading barrister who represented wrongly accused subpostmasters in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal to talk about the future of juries - the beating heart of the UK criminal justice system, that the Government seems hellbent on destroying, deliberately. A challenge beyond politics, the right to a trial by a diverse group of your peers is an eight hundred year old tradition going back to Magna Carta, and provides the last defence against State-led authoritarianism and tyranny.

An essential listen for anyone who cares about justice, we explore why axing juries won't cut the scandalous 80,000 cases court backlog, whether Labour MPs who are lawyers and supporting the legislation should be charged with professional malpractice and why the absence of a 'sunset clause' in the legislation reveals the Government's true malintent.

Listen and get involved! thejuryalliance.uk

1. Write to your MP: https://www.criminalbar.com/resources/news/the-right-to-trial-by-jury/ 2. Not only a right, but a duty:  https://www.thejusticegap.com/not-only-a-right-but-a-duty-a-history-of-perverse-verdicts/
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Deliberately killing the environment at an ecosystem level should really be a crime against humanity, as well as against nature.

And in the future it might well be, and that will be thanks to leaders like Jojo who heads up ‘Stop Ecocide International’ and is pioneering a revolution in the law internationally.

Join us for the usual uplifting and inspiring conversation as we explore the legal origins of ecocide and where next.

Also includes the normal irresponsible humour and hijinks.

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Joined by ‘Uncertainty experts’ Katherine Templar-Lewis & Sam Conniff the boys dig into one of the root causes of all our terrible decision-making - our inability to tolerate uncertainty. We will literally do almost anything to avoid it! So join us for one of the most powerful episodes we’ve ever recorded and get better at embracing the unknown in order to thrive differently!

https://www.uncertaintyexperts.com/

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Doubling the number of ‘Marks’ in the podcast (again) the boys discuss declining male fertility, why markets still value fossil fuels we can’t burn (and why your investments are probably still in them), and why the oil industry is like the terrible computer printer company that just wants to sell you more ink, forever! Seriously important systemic stuff, plus the usual banter….

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Jon and the Futurenauts slide sideways into their festive final show of 2025 with pioneering space bubble greenhouse gardener and optimistic curmudgeon Sir Tim Smit and some suitably seasonal silliness to end the year

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