Support for Gary Lineker, Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill and the Mexican President thinks he has spotted a mystical creature...
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A Recap
Let’s Get Litical is a political and philosophical podcast streaming in most places you go to to catch up with your fave podcasts. The podcast belongs to the wonderful Helen Femi Williams and is run by her alongside a very small team! We have Hannah as Producer, Yelz our wonderful audio guy and me (Shannon) who helps with the socials and is now doing the newsletter! Also credits to Scott for designing our profile icon!
I’ve been running the socials for a bit now on Insta and LinkedIn, but we felt that a newsletter would be a far better way to reach out and share the info we want to share. So! Here we are!
Each podcast episode is split into parts. We have ‘It’s Lit’. A section dedicated to some ‘lit’ news in the past week or that has suddenly re-entered the zeitgeist and deserves a mention. We then have ‘Unfortunate News’. This section is how it sounds and is dedicated to a bit of sad, frustrating, or downright outrageous news. And then we finally have the ‘Things We Won’t Care About Next Week’ section. This section is far more lighthearted and briefly covers what I think of as a bit of random news that has occurred during the week. Whilst the section title makes it sound like the topic is completely pointless, it’s usually fairly interesting, humorous or poignant in some form!
And each week this is exactly what this newsletter will cover! Alongside any important celebrations or days that deserve some recognition. We try to cover topics that not so many people are discussing and the stories come from all across the globe. Bear in mind that whilst I try to use a variety of online resources, each and every source I use had it’s own motivations and bias!
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It’s Lit!
The updates on how artificial intelligence is helping to identify and detect breast cancer!
Support from all areas has come in for Gary Lineker who has been removed as a BBC presenter for expressing his shock and horror at the UK Governments refugee policy. (Both good and bad news here, but I think the amount of support he has received is worthy of a small celebration!)
Unfortunate News…
Things We Won’t Care About Next Week!
Canadians are now legally free to give the middle finger to each other…woo!
The Mexican president has shared a picture of a mysterious woodland creature…
So this week, I actually found a really interesting article I thought I’d share instead of a video. It’s all about the prison system and alternatives that would improve society!