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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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59:18

“Police Came to My Home Over My ‘Right-Wing Views’”

The Sceptic ·

2024/09/19

Welcome to episode 14 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Ava, a 19 year-old charity volunteer from Liverpool, who tells the shocking story of how she was visited at her home by counterterror police – despite them telling her she hadn’t committed a crime – then questioned over her political views and warned to “bite her tongue” before posting online. Daniel Hannan, journalist, Conservative Peer and former MEP, on why we are failing to learn the

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01:09:56

Does Britain Have a Two-Tier Legal System?

The Sceptic ·

2024/09/12

Welcome to episode 13 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Sarah Phillimore, barrister and gender-critical campaigner, on how the barristers’ regulator is pushing to make lawyers embrace woke ideology; Steven Tucker, regular Daily Sceptic contributor and author of Hitler and Stalin’s Misuse of Science, on lefty academics’ mad plans to “decolonise” exams. David McGrogan, Associate Professor of Law at the University of

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01:05:26

Joyless Starmer’s Nanny State

The Sceptic ·

2024/09/05

Welcome to episode 12 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic and author of the Zone substack, on Keir Starmer’s miserabilist plan to ban smoking outside pubs; Len Shackleton, Professor of Economics at Buckingham University and a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, on the bizarre equal-pay ruling against Next that spells disaster for British business; Reverend Doctor Bernard Randall, on how

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01:04:08

The Truth About Immigration Into Britain

The Sceptic ·

2024/08/29

Welcome to episode 11 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Communications Officer at the Free Speech Union, on the Labour Government’s chilling social-media crackdown in the wake of the Southport riots; Andy Collingwood, writer and co-host of the Multipolarity Podcast, on the truth about Britain’s immigration history and why the Left’s claim that Britain has always been a nation of immigrants is

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19:54

Nigel Biggar: Fighting Back Against “Decolonisation”

The Sceptic ·

2024/08/15

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic, with Professor Nigel Biggar. Nigel Biggar is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and the author of Colonialism: a Moral Reckoning. Nigel recently delivered the second lecture of Modern Dissent, a London lecture series challenging established ideas run by the Sceptic’s host, Laurie Wastell. The title of that lecture was “Deconstructing Decolonisation” and that’s the jumping off point for today’s episode

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56:52

Britain’s Civil Unrest and the Crisis of...

The Sceptic ·

2024/08/08

Welcome to episode ten of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Claire Fox, the cross-bench peer and founder of the Academy of Ideas, on the fallout of the Southport attack and the crisis of multicultural Britain; Dr. James Alexander, Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University, Turkey, on Labour’s devolution agenda and the real meaning behind its radical ‘New Britain’ document; And for our premium subscribers,

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47:31

Labour’s War on Free Speech

The Sceptic ·

2024/08/01

Welcome to episode nine of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Toby Young, Daily Sceptic Editor-in-Chief and the founder of the Free Speech Union, on Labour’s outrageous attack on free speech in universities; Our special guest this week Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Watch, on the Government’s heat pump con and why it threatens our whole energy grid; And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to eugyppius, the

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49:11

Is Lucy Letby Innocent?

The Sceptic ·

2024/07/25

Welcome to episode eight of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Dr David Livermore, microbiologist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the growing concerns about the Lucy Letby verdict, and how the Daily Sceptic led the world in raising them; Dr Angus Dalgleish, emeritus professor of oncology at the University of London and co-signatory of the Great Barrington Declaration, on how the first report of the Covid Inquiry has blown up the

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01:00:45

Ed Miliband’s Oil and Gas Lunacy – with Ross Clark

The Sceptic ·

2024/07/18

Welcome to episode seven of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:Special guest Ross Clark, Spectator columnist and author of Not Zero, on why Ed Miliband’s crusade against oil and gas could put Britain’s economy 6 feet under; Tony Morrison, who writes on US politics for the Daily Sceptic, on the shocking assassination attempt against President Trump and what it means for America; Dr Carole Sherwood, founder of Save Mental Health,

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42:21

Eric Kaufmann: Western Politics and the Race Taboo

The Sceptic ·

2024/07/16

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor Eric Kaufmann, on his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution. Eric is Head of the Institute of Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham, a member of the advisory board of the Free Speech Union and a senior fellow at Policy Exchange. Host Laurie Wastell speaks to Eric about the thesis of this book, that what we know today as wokeism stems from the emergence of the race taboo in the 60s;

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45:24

Why the Conservatives Failed – with Lord Frost

The Sceptic ·

2024/07/10

Welcome to episode six of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:Frank Haviland, editor at the New Conservative and author of The Frank Report substack, on Labour’s shallow election victory and the grim rise of Muslim sectarianism; Special guest David Frost, the Conservative peer and former chief Brexit negotiator, for a deep-dive into what the Tories’ calamitous defeat means for the future of the party and British politics; And for our premium

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45:54

How Work Went Woke

The Sceptic ·

2024/07/03

Welcome to episode five of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: CJ Strachan, Daily Sceptic regular and the founder of the Fair Job initiative, on how “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” took over the workplace – and how he’s fighting back; Andy Collingwood, writer and co-host of the Multipolarity podcast, who gives us a deep dive into the Labour Party’s radical social agenda; And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to

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01:03:55

Starmerism versus Democracy

The Sceptic ·

2024/06/26

Welcome to episode four of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:The mysterious and ever-incisive Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel, on Keir Starmer’s technocratic plan to end parliamentary democracy; David McGrogan, associate law professor at Northumbria University, on a recent Supreme Court ruling that puts the future of UK oil and gas in question and the “tyrannical tendency” of BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring; And

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58:57

Europeans Revolt Against Net Zero

The Sceptic ·

2024/06/26

[REUPLOAD]Welcome to episode two of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Ben Pile for a deep dive into the recent European elections and what it means for the EU’s Net Zero crusade Journalist Charlotte Gill on the madness of taxpayer-funded woke waste Dr. Noah Carl, Editor at Aporia, on the Lancet’s worrying embrace of gender ideology And for those donating £5 a month or more to the Daily Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Molly

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01:04:45

3. Labour’s Net Zero Delusions

The Sceptic ·

2024/06/19

Welcome to episode three of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:David Turver, author of the Eigen Values substack, on the elites’ Net Zero delusions and Labour’s ‘GB Energy’ plan; the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, Chris Morrison, on how the Met Office is gaslighting us about the weather; and Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Research and Communications Officer at the Free Speech Union, on the Australian Government’s bid to censor

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46:24

Europeans Revolt Against Net Zero, Taxpayer-Funded...

The Sceptic ·

2024/06/12

Welcome to episode two of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Ben Pile for a deep dive into the recent European elections and what it means for the EU’s Net Zero crusade Journalist Charlotte Gill on the madness of taxpayer-funded woke waste Dr. Noah Carl, Editor at Aporia, on the Lancet’s worrying embrace of gender ideology And for those donating £5 a month or more to the Daily Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Molly Kingsley, the

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01:01:24

The Sceptic Ep. 1 – The Good News About the Climate,...

The Sceptic ·

2024/06/05

Welcome to episode one of the Sceptic! On the show this week: Toby Young explains how the Sceptic will look going forwards. Our environment editor Chris Morrison on why the mainstream media so often overlooks good news about the climate. Norwegian journalist Kathrine Jebsen-Moore on why she feels ashamed at Norway’s recent decision to recognise Palestine as a state. And Dr David McGrogan on the problems with human rights law.

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