The Sceptic

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, on the trans-activist psychotherapists refusing to accept the findings of the Cass Review; And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Dr Gary Sidley, co-founder of the Smile Free campaign, on the technocratic tyranny of “nudge”. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Purchase your copy of Ross Clark’s book, Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Not-Zero-Irrational-Target-Impoverish-ebook/dp/B0B5W4F157 Read Tony’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/17/there-can-be-only-one-winner-now/ Read Carole’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/10/will-labour-protect-gender-confused-children-from-the-trans-ideologues-the-signs-arent-looking-good/ And read Gary’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/26/how-government-psychological-manipulation-of-the-public-became-normal/ Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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; what people get wrong about woke; its origins in the West’s Christian heritage; its impact on the immigration debate; why Conservative politicians won’t talk about demographics; why younger generations are woker, why that’s a problem, and the ‘Zoomer Right’ phenomenon; the culture war under a Labour government and how to fight back; and the need for a counter-narrative to woke.   Get your copy of Taboo: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taboo-Making-Produced-Cultural-Revolution/dp/1800752660 Sign up for Eric’s 15-week open online course on woke at the University of Buckingham: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/occasional/woke/ Visit Eric’s research centre at Buckingham: www.heterodoxcentre.com Visit Eric’s website: www.sneps.net Follow Eric on X: https://x.com/epkaufm And find him on substack: https://erickaufmann.substack.com Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 subscribers, Laurie speaks to the Daily Sceptic’s editor-in-chief Toby Young, on his trip down under to spearhead a global movement for free speech. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 journalist and Daily Sceptic regular Ben Pile, on how the BBC is trying to smear a Kenyan farmer as a shill for big oil and the menace of the Green Blob. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Read CJ Strachan’s articles on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/14/how-edi-took-over-the-workplace/ https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/30/how-edi-took-over-the-workplace-part-two/ and find out more about his Fair Job initiative here: http://www.fairjob.co.uk/ Read Andy’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/27/keir-starmer-wont-just-enact-a-radical-progressive-agenda-hell-change-the-constitution-to-make-it-irreversible/ And read Ben Pile’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/23/why-is-bbc-verify-smearing-a-kenyan-subsistence-farmer-as-a-climate-change-denier-in-the-pay-of-big-oil/ Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 Alex Kriel, the founder of thinkingcoalition.org, on the elephant in the room in the General Election campaign: lockdowns.  And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to pseudonymous commentator Eugyppius, author of the influential Substack, eugyppius: a plague chronicle, who gives us a deep-dive into German politics and the right-wing wave sweeping Europe. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Read J Sorel’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/21/starmerism-means-the-wholesale-transfer-of-power-from-parliament-to-civil-servants-judges-and-quangocrats/   Read David’s article on Marianna Spring here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/21/springtime-for-tyrants/  Read Alex’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/18/nhs-waiting-lists-dont-mention-lockdown/  And Eugyppius’s articles here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/17/after-months-of-freaking-out-about-the-right-the-german-government-inches-towards-collapse-as-the-social-democrats-realise-theyre-wildly-unpopular/  https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/17/after-months-of-freaking-out-about-the-right-the-german-government-inches-towards-collapse-as-the-social-democrats-realise-theyre-wildly-unpopular/  Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 founder of UsForThem, about the infected blood scandal and its lessons for the Covid vaccines. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our donor-only content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Molly Kingsley’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Read Charlotte Gil’s article here. Read Dr. Noah Carl’s article here. And read Ben Pile’s article here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 the entire Internet. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Daily Sceptic regular Steven Tucker, on the paranoid woke inquisition’s attempts to find racism everywhere, from tabloid coverage of the England team to gardening. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Read David’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/10/labours-claim-that-net-zero-2030-will-cut-energy-bills-doesnt-add-up/ Read Chris’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/09/met-offices-risible-claim-of-warmest-may-points-to-massive-urban-heat-corruptions-in-database/ Read Freddie’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/06/free-speech-prevailed-says-elon-musk-as-australia-drops-bid-to-censor-internet-globally/ And Steven’s articles here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/13/euro-2024-special-why-is-printing-images-of-black-footballers-after-they-have-lost-now-suddenly-racist/ https://dailysceptic.org/2024/06/12/the-race-politics-of-gardening/ Produced by Richard Eldred.  Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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.