Episode 108 - Mark Seddon (ft. Mark Seddon)

In RP108, Jack (@gapesology) and Geraint (@wariotifo) are joined by Mark Seddon, current media adviser to the President of the United Nations General Assembly and - in no particular order - former speechwriter for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, former editor of Tribune magazine, aide to a pre-chancellor Gordon Brown, UN & Diplomatic Correspondent for Al Jazeera, longtime representative of the left on Labour's NEC, and (unsuccesful) Labour parliamentary candidate. Mark is a stalwart of the left, and was the first (according to Wikipedia!) journalist to break news of the UK's collusion with the US in illegal extraordinary rendition of prisoners on the island of Diego Garcia in the UK-owned Chagos Islands, whose independence Mark has long campaigned for. We talk about this, as well as a range of other subjects from - of course - Mark's decades-long adversary Mighty Mike Gapes ("a hack"), to torture-colluding banana dipshit David Miliband ("robotic"), Tony Blair ("a pathological aversion to public ownership") and virtually any major figure in recent Labour history you care to name. He also lays out how much better we are to appear on than Have I Got News For You. We loved talking to Mark, and we hope you get as much out of listening as we did interviewing him.