{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast","title":"Hostage Nation Part 2 - Anything we can do, we can afford - with Jamie Driscoll of Majority","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4656,"description":"From the Hostage Nation paper: \n\" The first and most fundamental duty of a civilised state is the safety of its people. \nNot just safety from overseas adversaries, or crime in the street. Economic security. A bill you can pay without going overdrawn. A house you can afford before your children have children of their own. A job that lasts long enough to plan around. \nBritain guarantees none of these. Not for want of money, or land, or people who know how to build. Our nation has all of that. \nFor forty years we have outsourced that security to the global marketplace. We locked ourselves in a room and posted the key to a trading desk in New York. British government policy subservient to global winds.  \nThey call it living within our means. We call it Hostage Nation.\"\nThis is the second part of our conversation with Jamie Driscoll, former Mayor of Newcastle city region, founder of Majority and now Green Council for his old Monument ward. He's also one of the authors of the Hostage Nation paper quoted above that lays out how we can shift our current economy from one that's in hock to the Vigilante Bond Markets  to one that supports people and planet. \nJamie's website \nMajority \nHostage Nation\n—About Accidental Gods—\n\nWe offer three strands all rooted in the same soil, drawing from the same river: Accidental Gods, Dreaming Awake and the Thrutopia Writing Masterclass \nOur next Open Gathering offered as part of our Accidental Gods Programme is 'DREAMING YOUR DEATH AWAKE' which will run on Sunday 1st November 2026 from 16:00 - 20:00 GMT (NOTE THE TIME! - We'll be out of summertime then)  - details are here. You don't have to be a member of Accidental Gods to come along, but if you are, all Gatherings are half price.\n\nIf you'd like to join us at Accidental Gods, this is the membership where we endeavour to help you to connect fully with the living web of life.\nIf you'd like to train more deeply in the contemporary shamanic work at Dreaming Awake, you'll find us here.\nIf...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2fOWMRnTk9Jq1cMNEdZ2P6L9hSacKWpQNA4zTc1F1F4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNjRl/ZmU1NTg1MWQ2NmFl/MzkzZGIzNjlhYTU4/OTM0NS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}