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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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01:04:01

Trump, the Tariffs and Britain

The Sceptic ·

2025/04/10

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute, on Trump’s tariffs on how Britain should respond to them. Sam Bidwell, Director of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, on the UK MPs campaigning for an airport in Mirpur, Pakistan and what this says about the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Britain. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Dr Mario

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30:05

The Green Agenda is Collapsing

The Sceptic ·

2025/04/04

Is Net Zero dead? In this Sceptic short, host Laurie Wastell is joined by Dr Tilak Doshi, economist, former contributor to Forbes and now the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, to discuss how Donald Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” energy revolution is upending the global green agenda, why the climate censorship regime is collapsing and whether the writing is on the wall for Ed Miliband.NOTE: Premium subscribers will notice that this is an extract from the premium section of Episode 30. We’re sorry that

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01:11:07

Guy Dampier: How to End Illegal Migration

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/28

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Guy Dampier, Senior Researcher on Nationhood at the Prosperity Institute, on what Britain can learn from Donald Trump on how to solve the problem of illegal immigration. William Yarwood, Media Campaign Manager at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, on the great Motability scandal. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to David Shipley, writer on prisons and justice, on Adolescence, the

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01:07:53

Douglas Carswell: How to Save Britain

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/21

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton from 2010-2017, first for the Conservative Party and then for UKIP, and President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on how the global green agenda is falling apart – and why blowhards like Gavin Barwell are so enraged at the Daily Sceptic for leading the way. And for our premium

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01:00:00

The EU’s Propaganda Machine – With Thomas Fazi

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/14

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: I speak to Thomas Fazi, columnist at UnHerd and Compact magazine, on how the EU's propaganda network of leftist NGOs is manufacturing consent for its globalist agenda. David Shipley, writer on prisons and justice, on the outrageous two-tier sentencing guidelines being introduced by the Sentencing Council – and why it’s a democratic outrage. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is

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31:56

The Descent of South Africa – with Rob Hersov

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/10

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with South African businessman Rob Hersov. Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference, host Laurie Wastell and Rob discuss the history and decline of post-apartheid South Africa, the corruption of the ruling ANC, its chilling “expropriation without compensation” laws, the impact of Trump and Musk’s attention to South Africa, why its policy of “Black Economic Empowerment” is like DEI on steroids, the far-Left parties who chant

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50:51

Trump, Zelensky and the Delusions of Europe

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/07

Welcome to Episode 30 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Tom Jones, Conservative councillor and writer for publications including the Critic and UnHerd, on Ukraine, the bust-up in the Oval Office and the parlous state of Europe's armed forces. Michael Wolff, author of several books on team Trump, on what really makes the Donald tick. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Dr Tilak Doshi, economist, former contributor to Forbes and

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30:23

The Rebirth of the Right? – With Ben Sixsmith

The Sceptic ·

2025/03/04

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic.Host Laurie Wastell catches up with Ben at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference. They discuss the conference and the state of the Right internationally; Kemi Badenoch and “muscular liberalism”; free speech, the grooming gangs and Britain’s international reputation; JD Vance’s Munich speech; how Trump’s domestic agenda is showing the world’s conservatives how to get things done and much

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01:07:32

Germany is Shifting Rightwards

The Sceptic ·

2025/02/28

Welcome to Episode 29 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Eugyppius, pseudonymous commentator and author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the election in Germany and JD Vance’s bombshell Munich speech. Professor Eric Kaufmann, Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham and the author of books including Whiteshift (2018) and Taboo (2024), on a recent controversy over whether Rishi Sunak is

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36:33

Guy Dampier: The Truth About the Grooming Gangs

The Sceptic ·

2025/02/21

Last month the grooming gangs scandal broke into the political conversation in Britain in a way it never had before – so much so that after days of headlines, the Labour Government was forced to launch five inquiries into affected areas like Oldham. While many think this still doesn’t go far enough, it’s clear the conversation has changed. Instrumental in that change has been the landmark GB News documentary Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame, and its research which found that group-based on-street

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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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