Ethically Questionable

This week on Ethically Questionable News, Jamila and Jenn pause to talk about the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday following weeks of press scrutiny, and what it says about the responsibility we all carry (media and public alike) for the negativity we aim at real people, from Meghan Markle to public figures closer to home.Then it's onto some good news: a new Queen Mary University of London study tracking children's lung development in London versus Luton since 2018 has found that London kids' lungs, once measurably smaller due to pollution, have caught up to their Luton counterparts since ULEZ was introduced. Jenn and Jamila break down what ULEZ actually does, why Sadiq Khan took heat for implementing it with "no proof," and why this study changes that. They also get into the pushback ULEZ still faces, the affordability options people overlook, and how cities from Milan to Tokyo to New York are tackling emissions in their own ways.A story about clean air, common sense, and holding both the press and ourselves accountable for the impact we have on others.For more check us out on: https://www.instagram.com/ethicallyquestionable/Electrified by Polestar

Big Oil just posted $93 billion in profits in three months while the rest of us pay more to fill up our cars. Jamila and Jenn dig into the Guardian investigation showing eight major oil companies nearly doubled their earnings during the Iran conflict, why "the market" means we all pay more even when a country produces its own oil, and the surprising twist: even Trump thinks Exxon and Chevron are making too much money. Then, Shein's tariff reckoning a $99 million loss just as it heads into its Hong Kong IPO and what it means for the future of ultra-fast fashion. Plus: France's influencer ad ban, the EU's new parcel tax, a very expensive White House ballroom, and a dust tornado in Greenwich Park that nobody knew how to react to.

This week, Jamila and Jenn tear into OpenAI's very first influencer trip, a "digital detox" weekend at a luxury eco-farm upstate, complete with workshops on using ChatGPT more, because nothing says reconnect with nature like a company whose data centers are draining it. They debate whether OpenAI is uniquely tone-deaf or just doing what every tech giant does at Cannes Lions, and why Anthropic still gets the benefit of the doubt (one good podcast interview will do that). Then the conversation turns local: a new data center approved in Jamila's own London borough of Ealing boasts the world's largest solar panel wall, which, once you do the math, will power the facility for a grand total of three hours a year, while residents brace for flickering lights and low water pressure. All of it lands in the middle of London's third drought in five years, a crisis the UK still has no public playbook for. Grab your hose pipe ban and settle in.

Ethically Questionable: Joe Roberts WalkerJamila's back from a summer break with Mejuicer founder Joe Roberts Walker, whose circular ginger-shot subscription business supplies offices, festivals, and film sets (Netflix, The Crown) across London. Riding in the Polestar, they dig into six years of building a business reputation: why treating reputation like compounding capital beats chasing viral moments, why "virtue signaling" got an unfairly bad rap, and the customer-service instinct to hit refund rather than argue. Joe opens up about early-career regrets managing his own staff, why he turns away arms-fair clients on principle, and his frustration with governments pushing individual sustainability guilt while big polluters coast on PR. It closes with a rapid-fire Ethical or Questionable on daily LinkedIn posting and working with reputationally shaky clients.

Meta's AI glasses are being called "pervert glasses" for a reason. Jamila and Jenn break down the covert filming, the "Hey Meta" data pipeline, the content reviewers, and why wrapping all of it in a Kylie Jenner collab makes it worse, not better.Electrified by PolestarFollow us below for more:Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ethicallyquestionable/TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@ethicallyquestionablepodYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@EthicallyQuestionablePod

This week on EQ News we cover 2 stories both about the US Secretary of War (gag) Pete Hegseth. With a new investment in testosterone for US troops, and divestment in Women's Leadership... what other conclusions can we really come to? Pete Hegseth is a weirdo misogynist and we really gotta vote the folks who put him in power out ya'll...

We're off this week guys so dropping one of our most listened to episodes in the feed for you with ByRotation Founder Eshita Kabra-Davies on building out the wardrobe of your dreams without f*cking up the planet.

In a world where your options for political leadership are a man often confused for a walking trash can or Count Binface who will the people of Clacton-on-Sea vote for?