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The Sceptic

The Daily Sceptic

Welcome to The Sceptic, the Daily Sceptic’s weekly podcast. Host Laurie Wastell interviews the authors of some of the website’s most talked about recent pieces. Please subscribe, and remember: question everything; stay sane; live free. Produced by Richard Eldred.

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01:04:50

Lucy Letby: Miscarriage of Justice? – with Peter...

The Sceptic ·

2025/02/14

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Peter Hitchens, columnist at the Mail on Sunday and author of books including The Abolition of Britain, on the bombshell expert findings about Lucy Letby and why her case must now be heard again. Barrister Adam King, on his client with the Free Speech Union, former Royal Marine Jamie Michael, being found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred – and what it says about the Government’s

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37:54

Bonfire of the Globalist Pieties – with Andrew Orlowski

The Sceptic ·

2025/02/07

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Andrew Orlowski, business columnist at the Telegraph and writer for publications including the Critic, Spiked and UnHerd.Host Laurie Wastell and Andrew discuss Andrew’s work writing on business and technology, AI and whether it’s all it’s cracked up to be, the strengths of British innovation and why we fail to commercialise it, why the Left sneers at business, how Net Zero and mass low-skilled immigration are damaging our productivity and the

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44:58

David Starkey on Southport, Grooming Gangs and...

The Sceptic ·

2025/01/27

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Professor David Starkey CBE, the eminent and acerbic historian, author and broadcaster.In a wide-ranging conversation, host Laurie Wastell and Professor Starkey discuss the grooming gangs scandal, why Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter represents the end of the long 20th Century, Trump’s second term, free speech, state censorship and the “noble lie” of multiculturalism, the parallels between communism and liberalism and why Keir Starmer’s response

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01:03:10

The State Failed the Southport Victims

The Sceptic ·

2025/01/24

Welcome to Episode 27 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:David Shipley, writer on prison reform for publications including the Spectator, on the Government’s failings over the Southport attack and the serious questions for Keir Starmer and the Government about why we were kept in the dark about it. Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute (formerly the Legatum Institute) and writer for publications including the

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01:05:20

How “Islamophobia” Protects the Grooming Gangs

The Sceptic ·

2025/01/17

Welcome to Episode 26 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Digital Communications Director at the Free Speech Union, on how Labour’s “Islamophobia” definition has stifled discussion of the Pakistani-Muslim rape-gangs scandal – and what that means for local inquiries. David Turver, author of the Eigen Values Substack, on how we narrowly avoided blackouts during the cold snap last week, and what that says about the parlous

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01:04:39

The Horror of the Grooming Gangs

The Sceptic ·

2025/01/10

Welcome to episode 25 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Dr. Mike Jones, political scientist and migration expert, on the shameful history of Britain’s grooming gangs scandal. Poppy Coburn, Assistant Comment Editor at the Telegraph, on how activist so-called experts have waged a campaign to deny the racial element to the grooming gangs abuse. And for our premium subscribers, journalist and Sceptic regular Ben Pile, on the dodgy politics of

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28:18

Southport: Arrested for Peaceful Protest

The Sceptic ·

2025/01/03

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic.Two-tier policing. Two-tier justice. Two-tier Keir. Well, we’ve spoken about all of those things on the Sceptic, especially how they’ve been in evidence in the Government response to the disorder up and down the country after the Southport murders. Much of this was in towns in the Midlands and the North, but it was in London, outside Downing Street, just two days after the attack, that my next guest was part of a peaceful protest against knife crime –

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01:11:24

The Banter Police Are Coming

The Sceptic ·

2024/12/19

Welcome to episode 24 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Toby Young, the Daily Sceptic’s Editor-in-Chief and boss of the Free Speech Union, on a year of free-speech travesties – and the battles to come in the year ahead. Sam Bidwell, Director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, on the judge who declined to jail the woman who milkshaked Nigel Farage – and what this says about our justice system. And for our premium

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01:08:37

Keir Starmer’s Political Prisoners

The Sceptic ·

2024/12/13

Welcome to episode 23 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:David Shipley, a writer on prison reform for publications including the Spectator, on the two-tier justice in the Government’s heavy crackdown following the Southport killings. Nick Arlett, one of the Tooting Four, a group of anti-ULEZ campaigners who were arrested for peacefully protesting against the road tax and who’ve now been convicted of harassing the London mayor, Sadiq Khan – a

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01:04:43

Sam Bidwell: The Tories’ Immigration Disaster

The Sceptic ·

2024/12/06

Welcome to episode 22 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Sam Bidwell, writer and commentator and the Director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, on the social and economic disaster of the latest immigration numbers – and how best to reverse it. Fleur Meston, co-host of the Bombshells podcast and campaigner against assisted suicide, on the passage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its second reading. And

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28:08

David Frost: Repeal the Hate-Speech Laws

The Sceptic ·

2024/11/29

Welcome to episode 21 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:David Frost, lead Brexit negotiator under Boris Johnson, Conservative peer and Telegraph columnist, on how to restore free speech in Britain, the grim reality of Starmerism and what Kemi Badenoch must do as Tory leader. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Nick Dixon, comedian and broadcaster, on that mad woke Jaguar advert, the Trump win and what they both mean for the

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01:03:01

Matt Ridley on the Farmer’s Revolt

The Sceptic ·

2024/11/22

Welcome to episode 20 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:I speak to Matt Ridley, the acclaimed science writer and peer in the House of Lords, on the farmers’ revolt over inheritance tax changes that rocked Westminster this week. Writer and former parliamentary researcher James McSweeney, for a deep dive into Britain’s political class and why it gets so much so wrong – especially on Net Zero. And for our premium subscribers, I’m joined by Connie

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01:11:40

Douglas Carswell: “America just got SERIOUS”

The Sceptic ·

2024/11/15

Welcome to episode 19 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Douglas Carswell, former UKIP MP and now the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, on what Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory means for America – and Britain. Will Jones, Editor of the Daily Sceptic, on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Eugyppius, the pseudonymous commentator and author of Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the

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01:08:27

Labour’s Anti-Growth Budget

The Sceptic ·

2024/11/07

Welcome to episode 18 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:William Atkinson, Assistant Editor at Conservative Home, on Kemi Badenoch’s victory in the Tory leadership election and her prospects as leader. Jon Moynihan, Conservative peer, venture capitalist and author of Return to Growth, on Rachel Reeves’s tax-bonanza budget and why it’s taking us in the wrong direction. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Harry

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41:56

C.J. Hopkins: Germany Persecutes Political Satirist

The Sceptic ·

2024/11/01

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with C.J. Hopkins, playwright, novelist and political satirist.C.J. Hopkins has long written about authoritarianism lurking in Western societies. Now, as if to prove him right, he’s being persecuted by the German authorities for doing just that. In 2022, he criticised German government Covid measures by tweeting an image of a Swastika on a Covid mask – the cover of his book, The New Normal Reich. This was enough to see him dragged through the German

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33:29

James Esses: How I Fought the Trans Mob and Won

The Sceptic ·

2024/10/24

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with James Esses, writer, campaigner and co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists.Back in 2021, James was a hard-working part-time master’s student in psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute in London. In his spare time, he was also raising concerns online about the impact that transgender ideology – and the so-called gender-affirming approach to care – was having on vulnerable children. He never imagined that doing so would lead to him being kicked off his

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45:31

David Starkey: Tony Blair Destroyed the Old Britain

The Sceptic ·

2024/10/17

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor David Starkey, the renowned and pugnacious historian, author and broadcaster. Host Laurie Wastell speaks to Professor Starkey about New Labour’s constitutional revolution; why Margaret was mistaken to view Tony Blair as her heir; the problem with “human rights” and the ECHR; the disaster of devolution; why the Southport rioters were right to be angry; when Sir Keir Starmer called for him to be jailed; his prognosis for the Labour

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58:05

One Year After the Pogrom – with Brendan O’Neill

The Sceptic ·

2024/10/10

Welcome to episode 17 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Brendan O’Neill, Chief Political Writer at Spiked, on the anniversary of the October 7th pogrom against Israel – and his powerful new book on how the West failed this moral test. Jess Gill, student and political commentator, on how mass immigration has made London less safe for women like her. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to lecturer and journalist Ralph Schoellhammer,

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01:06:16

Who Funds the Left-Wing Blob? – With Charlotte Gill

The Sceptic ·

2024/10/03

Welcome to episode 16 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Charlotte Gill, journalist, author of the Woke Waste substack and the Daily Sceptic’s newest columnist, on the Labour MPs involved in the Left-wing activist group, Hope Not Hate. Freddie Attenborough, Director of Digital Communications at the Free Speech Union, on the Irish Government’s U-turn on its draconian hate-speech bill. David Turver, Daily Sceptic regular and

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51:44

Labour’s Islamic Blasphemy Law – with Andrew Doyle

The Sceptic ·

2024/09/26

Welcome to episode 15 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Andrew Doyle, comedian, broadcaster and author of Free Speech and Why It Matters and The New Puritans, on how Labour’s plans for an “Islamophobia” definition could bring a blasphemy law to Britain. Eugyppius, the pseudonymous commentator and author of the Substack, Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on Germany’s recent state elections and how the rise of the AfD is

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