{"podcast":{"title":"a nation of taxpayers","slug":"a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204","podcast_index_feed_id":7054204,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/550832/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/550832","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/3/2/9/132907728aeacb5727a2322813b393ee/A_Nation_of_Taxpayers_Drafts.png","author":"Duncan Barkes","episode_count":85,"summary":"A podcast from the Taxpayers' Alliance. Talking politics and highlighting waste in all forms of government and the public sector. Presented by Duncan Barkes with guests from the Taxpayers' Alliance and from across the world of politics. On X, follow the TaxPayers' Alliance @the_tpa More links and info here: https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-06-04T20:19:01.372063+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204"},"episode":{"title":"ESG Is Strangling Our Military & Your Pension","slug":"esg-is-strangling-our-military-your-pension","published_at":"2026-04-23T10:29:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204/esg-is-strangling-our-military-your-pension","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204","url":"https://9864e3c1-9946-4d80-ad28-f460414cc97b.libsyn.com/esg-is-strangling-our-military-your-pension","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/9864e3c1-9946-4d80-ad28-f460414cc97b/Season_2_-_Epsiode_14_-_James_Graham_FINAL.mp3?dest-id=4754152","summary":"Is ESG quietly draining your pension and pushing up your bills? In this episode of A Nation of Taxpayers, Duncan Barkes is joined by Jonathan Eida of the TaxPayers' Alliance and James Graham of the Prosperity Institute to expose how Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rules have shifted finance away from returns and towards political agendas. From weaker investment in Britain's defence and energy sectors to lower returns for savers, James Graham goes through the findings in his paper 'The Death of the Fiduciary Duty' and explains why ESG could be one of the biggest financial scandals of the last two decades and what must be done to stop it. Read James's full paper here","meta_description":"Is ESG quietly draining your pension and pushing up your bills? In this episode of A Nation of Taxpayers, Duncan Barkes is joined by Jonathan Eida of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1827,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204/episodes/esg-is-strangling-our-military-your-pension/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-nation-of-taxpayers-7054204/esg-is-strangling-our-military-your-pension.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}