The police have a duty to protect our right to protest while maintaining public safety. Too often they get the balance wrong.  Edward Maguire  is a professor of criminology ...

Prof Muntingh is the Director of the Dullah Omar Institute, a human rights organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.  He's been involved in criminal justice reform for three decades. We spoke about: Wins and f...

Professor Mark Osler used to push for heavy sentences for narcotics trafficking as a federal prosecutor. Now he helps prisoners petition for clemency.  How's that for a plot twist? In this episode we discuss:-  Whethe...

Prison is supposed to protect, deter,  and rehabilitate. But what if isn't a very effective way of doing those things? My guests offer two different visions of how the prison system could be re-imagined - including a glimpse of a Norwegian...

Prisons don't do what we want them to do. Should we ditch them? Or perhaps reimagine them? Cait speaks to abolitionist and criminologist David Scott about why he hopes for a world without prisons. Then she interviews Are Ho...

A conversation with Ronan Levy, industry pioneer and CEO of Field Trip Health,  a company that offers psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy. 

Drugs kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. The war on drugs hasn't solved the problem. Could legalisation be the answer? Featuring: Dr Keith Scott  - retired general practitioner and co-founder of the South Afr...

Drugs kill hundreds of thousands of people a year. The war on drugs hasn't solved the problem. Could legalisation be the answer? Featuring: Dr Keith Scott  - retired general practitioner and co-founder of the South Af...

The Prevent Duty is a legal obligation placed on authorities in the UK, including teachers, to identify and report signs of radicalisation. The goal is to stop people from being indoctrinated by terrorist ideologies. But activists argue that th...

The Prevent Duty: Countering Terror or Terrorising the Innocent?Featuring human rights scholar and counter-terrorism expert Professor Steven Greer and Professor John Holmwood, sociologist and co-chair of the People's Review of Prevent.&...

After the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in 2020, the call from protestors was to defund the police. Since then, media coverage of this debate has waned but the problem of police violence hasn't gone anywhere. Cait interviews reform...

Defund, Refund or Reform? The Unsolved Problem of Police Violence. Featuring cop turned conservative policy expert Arthur Rizer and Alex Vitale, one of the leading voices in the movement to defund the police. Available...

This episode comes from a discontinued podcast called Debatable.When the South African government banned all sale of alcohol during lockdown, there were reports of blissfully empty emergency wards.  Only 31% of South Afric...

This episode comes from a discontinued podcast called Debatable. The relationship between fat and health is often presented as linear but there are activists and medical professionals who argue that things are far more complex....