GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Patrick Chalmers was born in Fife, central Scotland in 1966, spending most of his first two decades in Moray, further North. He studied engineering and French at Bath University and journalism at London’s City University before starting as a freelance reporter in Brussels. In 1994, he joined Reuters, where he spent 11 years on postings in London, Kuala Lumpur and reporting assignments elsewhere. His topics included global climate change, world trade and various financial crashes and their impacts. Slowly, he learned something of the political threads joining them all. Grown disillusioned with the lack of balance at Reuters, he secured redundancy and moved to SW France. From there he wrote Fraudcast News, in 2012, a confessional critique of politics and journalism. Since then, his work has included freelancing for The Correspondent, among others. In 2017 he co-founded All Hands On, an independent filmmaker looking at people practising radically better politics for everyone. He’s currently focused on how everyday individuals can learn the necessary skills to practise politics themselves, even in war zones such as Israel-Palestine.
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Helen Patton leads the Patton Foundation in the USA and is organizing a significant D-Day event related to General Patton. https://thepattonfoundation.org