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UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.Due to popular demand here is a podcast version of our YouTube — available to watch, for free here or by searching ‘LockdownTV’.Enjoy! And don"t forget to rate, like and

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37:12

The great excess deaths mystery

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/09/07

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by Stuart McDonald to discuss the curious case of the UK's excess deaths.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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52:12

Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/09/01

Freddie Sayers meets Thomas Fazi.Faced with post-pandemic economic collapse, war in Ukraine and an unprecedented energy crisis, citizens of the UK and Europe are voicing their discontent. Via anti-government campaigns like ‘Don’t Pay’ and ‘Enough is Enough’, people previously unmotivated by radical politics are becoming more and more rebellious.As a challenging winter approaches, is Europe about to see a mass movement of civil disobedience?Writer and activist Thomas Fazi thinks so. He joined Freddie

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45:27

Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/08/26

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to economic historian Prof. Wolfgang Streeck about the crisis in Germany and its implications for the future of Europe.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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42:19

Lionel Shriver: We need to talk about Ezra Miller

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/08/22

Freddie Sayers meets Lionel Shriver.When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller.In 2012 Miller came out as queer, saying “I don’t identify as a man, I don’t identify as a woman, I barely identify as a human.” And in the ensuing years, outlandish and expressive clothing came to typify the actor, who became somewhat of a standard bearer for queer identity.But recently, Miller’s life

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55:48

His wife's plea: The case for Julian Assange

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/08/08

Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange.The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house arrest, hidden from extradition inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019 has been held in Belmarsh prison. During that time, he has married and had two children with a lawyer called Stella Moris

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59:34

Slavoj Žižek: We are addicted to chaos

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/08/04

Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek.In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined

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47:10

David Fuller: What happened to Jordan Peterson?

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/08/01

Freddie Sayers meets David Fuller.Followers of the clinical psychologist and now world-famous member of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, Jordan Peterson, have noted a radical change in his video style in recent weeks. For David Fuller, founder of Rebel Wisdom, these videos ‘signalled a watershed moment’ for Peterson, from truth-seeker and mediator between Left and Right to a blinkered tribalist. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down in the studio with Fuller to dig a little deeper into his reservations

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59:39

Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a...

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/07/28

Was the sexual revolution a mistake? Did unfettered freedom help or harm women? Florence Read is joined by OnlyFans star Aella and the author of 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution', Louise Perry, to find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:46

Lord Frost: Liz Truss is the change candidate

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/07/22

Boris Johnson's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has put his support behind Liz Truss. He sat down with Freddie Sayers to explain that decision, and whether today's Conservatives add up to a philosophy of government... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:11

Alex Jones documentary banned from social media

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/07/15

Florence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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38:10

How the West brought economic disaster on itself

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/07/11

Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis.Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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45:35

What Boris Johnson's resignation really means

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/07/08

After the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and with a leadership election looming, UnHerd convened some regular contributors for an emergency roundtable.Has the populist experiment run its course in the UK, or is it only just beginning?Joining Freddie Sayers to see beyond the Westminster speculation and get to grips with this historical moment were non-affiliated life peer of the House of Lords Baroness Claire Fox and UnHerd writers Will Lloyd and Aris Roussinos.Read the Post

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Martin Kulldorff: Lessons from Sweden for the next...

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/24

When the COVID-19 pandemic began and most of the world went into lockdown, Scandinavia bucked the status-quo by keeping their society almost completely open. At the time, there was a sense that Sweden, Denmark and Norway would pay a dire price for their decision. But looking back now, with all the data on Covid deaths at hand, it seems that their pandemic policy was a success. Why did rest of the world get it so wrong?Freddie Sayers sat down with Swedish biostatistician and co-author of the Great

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35:35

Crypto CEO: My stand against woke workers

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/21

Freddie Sayers meets Jesse Powell.Jesse Powell is the CEO of Kraken, one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in the world.He has been in the headlines this week for publishing a decidedly libertarian memo about his company's working culture that challenged any workers claiming offence on topics such as pronoun policies or racial diversity targets to find work elsewhere.Kraken's list of values includes the right to bear arms, bodily autonomy on vaccines and a moratorium on enquiring about or

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36:45

Aris Roussinos: Inside the nationalist militia on...

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/17

Freddie Sayers speaks to UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos, reporting from the frontline of the war in Ukraine.Read the article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:56

Silkie Carlo: Chinese CCTV is watching you

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/13

Florence Read meets Silkie Carlo.There are six million security cameras in use in the UK, one for every 11 people, and the majority are Chinese surveillance systems. London, where UnHerd has its offices, is the most surveilled city outside of China, and has more cameras per person than Beijing. So it has to be asked, are we being watched?That is one claim made by a new report from Big Brother Watch on surveillance cameras made by Chinese companies. Silkie Carlo, one of the editors of the report, and

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29:27

Ilya Shapiro: Georgetown diversicrats forced me out...

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/09

Freddie Sayers meets Ilya Shapiro.Ilya Shapiro was due to start his new job as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown's Law Centre for the Constitution. But this week, he quit. All because of a single Tweet.Freddie Sayers invited Shapiro to the studio to understand how censorship under the guise of 'diversity and inclusion' at Georgetown had played a part in his resignation.Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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48:13

Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/06/06

Freddie Sayers sits down to discuss the pandemic response with Biologist, Bret Weinstein.Before the pandemic, evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen professor Bret Weinstein was lauded by both sides of the political divide for his insights into the crisis on American campuses. As a member of the so-called 'intellectual dark web', Weinstein was expanding his audience and being profiled by legacy media like the New York Times. Then the pandemic began and his heterodox perspective suddenly fell

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13:53

Rejected from a London university for being Russian

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/05/30

UnHerd's Florence Read meets Elena Ledneva.Elena Ledneva, a woman living with her husband and young child in the UK, applied for a Master's course in hospitality at the University of West London. Elena had years of experience in running events, including welcoming international delegates to the Sochi Winter Olympics, so on paper, she would seem to be the ideal candidate. But last week she was rejected due to 'the situation in Ukraine'. Was she really rejected for being Russian? Elena joined Florence

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22:09

WHO epidemiologist: The truth about monkeypox

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers ·

2022/05/27

Freddie Sayers meets David Heymann.Will monkeypox be the next pandemic after COVID? To try to find an answer, Freddie Sayers invited Professor David Heymann to the UnHerd studio. Currently based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Heymann is one of the world’s most senior infectious disease epidemiologists. For 22 years he worked at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, as chief of the AIDS research programme and Assistant Director for Health Security. Before that he

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