What’s The (True) Story? Oasis Tickets Insider, Smoking, Obesity, Gambling & the Nanny State

Wright on the Nail

Topics:

• Keir Starmer’s smoking ban
• The history of smoking regulation in the UK

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• Tackling obesity in the UK
• The broken food system
• Ultra Processed food
• The Ozempic weight loss drug

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• Companies breaking gambling laws
• Immoral advertising
• Gambling addiction and how to tackle it

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• The Oasis ticketing fiasco: what really happened and will it happen again?

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• Is John as confident that Kamala Harris will win as he was last time?
• Our unhealthy obsession with polling both sides of the Atlantic.

In this week’s episode Chris Wright is joined by:
Nick Blackburn to help us shine some light on the mass chaos around Oasis’s new tour tickets. A former director at Ticketmaster, chartered accountant in the music industry, having worked for Chrysalis and Decca records. He is also the founder of See Tickets, the international ticketing services company based in Nottingham, England.
Green Party Peer, Natalie Bennett who led the party in the years up to and through the 2015 general election. She released a book this year entitled ‘Change Everything’ which proposes complete reform to how British society and the economy works, especially in relation to food and the environment. We hear her thoughts as Chris and panel discuss the government’s proposed outdoor smoking ban, and the wider topic of government intervention in our lives, including in tackling obesity.
Jean-Monnet Professor of European Integration at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, John O’Brennan. Following on from the health issues of smoking and obesity, John’s recent research work encompasses a focus on the societal impact of gambling in Ireland and Europe, a subject he speaks about today.
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