Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 99. Sadly this is our final episode. Thanks so much for all the support over the last couple of years. Please email site@basedmedia.org for refunds or any other queries. Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast 'The Current Thing' here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack here: www.nickdixon.net Support Nick by buying him a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon To get Nick’s special offer email ndsubstack@gmail.com or DM him via nickdixon.net Quote ‘Sceptic migrant’ to get 3 months for free, or buy the yearly subscription for £50 then quote ‘Sceptic refugee’ to get a Zoom call with Nick thrown in.  Nick's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@nick_dixon Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info THANK YOU AND GOODBYE.

Dive into lively debates about the Olympic opening ceremony, where artistry clashed with controversial religious depictions. Explore political landscapes, from Suella Braverman's absence in leadership races to the intricacies of identity politics and youth voting trends post-Brexit. The discussion heats up with a critical look at police conduct during a Manchester Airport incident. Plus, ponder free speech dilemmas surrounding Tommy Robinson and critique a Tory candidate's campaign blunder. It's a rollercoaster of current events!

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic episode 97 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The strangeness of Biden’s announcement that he wouldn’t be seeking re-election and the inevitable conspiracy theories that it’s given rise to. Was Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race a palace coup? How much did he really know about it? Why the gap between the announcement and his endorsement of Kamala harris? Can the Democrats ever pose as the guardians of democracy again, given that it’s now obvious the elected President hasn’t been in charge and the process of selecting his successor has been so undemocratic? Does Kamala have a hope of beating Trump? Does she have anything going for her? She’s younger than Trump, but can the Dems really make age an issue in the election, given that Biden was the candidate until five minutes ago? Why is Kamala such a poor public speaker? Is it because she’s such an awful boss she can’t persuade anyone decent to work for her? Have the Democrats foisted themselves with a Presidential candidate who was a diversity hire? Will this be another nail in the coffin of DEI? And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: Kim Cheatle’s resignation as Secret Service Director after a monstering in Congress and whether she could have avoided that humiliation by resigning the day after the failed assassination attempt. The Leeds riots and whether they are an indictment of mass immigration, as Nigel Farage and others claimed. Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick decries the punishment of a seven year-old girl for writing “All Lives Matter” and Toby weeps at the demonisation of the Prince Albert Memorial. And in the Based Department, the clear winner is the judge who handed out stiff jail sentences to Roger Hallam and his Just Stop Oil comrades. This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt To connect with Thor, message him on linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ or go to GrowthPresenter.com To purchase tickets to the Weekly Sceptic Live, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weekly-sceptic-live-tickets-943483162537?aff=oddtdtcreator To advertise to The Weekly Sceptic’s large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack: www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 96 This week Nick and Toby talk about: Where they were when Trump was shot (in the ear). The tsunami of bad takes about the attempt to assassinate the former President, from the Denver Post headline -- "Gunman Dies in Attack" -- to David Baddiel half-jokingly suggesting Trump conspired to have himself shot. Was the abject failure of the Secret Service to protect Trump a cock-up or a conspiracy? Toby thinks cock-up, Nick isn't so sure. The fact that Biden has also benefitted from the failed assassination attempt in the that is has snuffed out the coup to replace him and made replacing him less attractive since Trump's victory is now nailed on. And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: Trump picking JD Vance as his running mate, which both Toby and Nick think is smart. England's loss in the Euro finals and Gareth Southgate's resignation as manager.  Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick decries the Science Museum's decision to stop being funded by a Norwegian energy company and Toby rails against the Key's advice to teachers to liken the British Empire to Nazi Germany. A new section devoted to the most egregious examples of anarcho-tyranny in the past week. And in the Based Department, the clear winner is Donald Trump -- what could be more based than reacting like he did to being shot at -- and the runner up is Health Secretary Wes Streeting for making his predecessor's temporary ban on puberty blockers permanent. This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt To connect with Thor, message him on linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ or go to GrowthPresenter.com To purchase tickets to the Weekly Sceptic Live, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weekly-sceptic-live-tickets-943483162537?aff=oddtdtcreator To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 95 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The General Election result, in which Labour won a landslide in spite of just 20% of the electorate voting for them The ‘Portillo Moments’ on the night in which Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Miriam Cates lost their seats The five seats won by pro-Palestinian candidates who are far more toxic than the five Reform MPs, but got a free pass from the media during the election campaign The runners and riders in the Tory leadership election and whether Robert Jenrick is enough of an outsider to qualify as a  ‘dark horse’ And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: The French election result in which the National Rally polled the most votes, but ended up coming third Why the Dems will have to choose Michelle Obama as the candidate if they defenestrate Biden because they can’t pick a white man in preference to Kamala Harris  Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick worries about getting into trouble if he tells any of his female co-workers they look ‘nice’ in light of the employment tribunal deciding that’s sexual harassment And in the Based Department, the clear winner is Noel Gallagher for telling virtue-signalling musicians at Glastonbury: “Play your f***ing tunes and get off.” This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt To connect with Thor, WhatsApp him on +44 7906 321593 or ping him on linkedin.com/in/thorholt To purchase tickets to the Weekly Sceptic Live, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/weekly-sceptic-live-tickets-943483162537?aff=oddtdtcreator To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 94 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The final week of the General Election campaign, in which Nigel Farage lost a step and Rishi Sunak finally brought his A game Whether to believe the eve-of-election MRP polls showing the Conservatives neck-and-neck with the Lib Dems on around 60 seats If the actor in Channel 4’s ‘exposé’ of Reform in Clacton was a genuine activist or a paid shill Kemi Badenoch’s spat with David Tennant and whether she was playing the race card when she said it was a bad look for a rich white guy to criticise the only black woman in the Cabinet And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: A rant against the two Garys – Gary Neville and Gary Lineker Marine Le Pen giving Emmanuel Macron a bloody nose in the French parliamentary elections The US Presidential election debate and the terrible price Biden’s team have paid for pretending the attacks on Biden for being too old to do the job were just ‘misinformation’ Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which this week has a clear winner – the Glastonbury Festival-goers who passed around Banksy’s inflatable dinghy, complete with inflatable migrants And in the Based Department, the guy who won $175,000 in compensation from the police after he was arrested for giving an officer the finger and... tractors! This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt To connect with Thor, WhatsApp him on +44 7906 321593 or ping him on linkedin.com/in/thorholt To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 93 This week Nick and Toby talk about:   Nigel Farage provoking a ‘Matrix attack’ by claiming Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked.   The Conservatives' imploding election campaign and whether Reform really are pulling ahead.   Whether Keir Starmer wants to ‘reform’ the constitution because he wants to permanently embed radical progressive policies or just preserve the power of the professional managerial class.   And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes:   The real reason behind Starmer's claim he would never ‘go private’, i.e., his wife works for the NHS so he and his family would get special treatment.   The Supreme Court decision that effectively puts an end to Britain’s oil and gas industry.   Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of whether we live in a ‘patriarchy’, as per Taylor Swift, or a ‘matriarchy’.   And in the Based Department, J.K Rowling, Javier Milei and the ‘hawk tuah’ girl   This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt To connect with Thor, WhatsApp him on +44 7906 321593 or ping him on linkedin.com/in/thorholt   To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com   You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org   Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/   Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/   Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905   Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net   Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon   Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions.   Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.   Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 92 This week: Nick and Toby talk about: Reform’s ‘Contract’, as well as the Labour and Conservative manifestos The next Conservative leadership election, which will be a 16-way contest, according to Tom Newton Dunn Keir Starmer’s visit to Czechoslovakia at the age of 23 to join a work cap Tony Blair’s embrace of his inner TERF and Gordon Brown’s blueprint for a deep state coup And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: The reaction of all three main party leaders to Jude Bellingham scoring the winner in England’s opening game of the Euros The possibility that a star chamber of Democratic grandees will stage an intervention to force the ailing Joe Biden to stand aside Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of ‘plus size inclusivity training’ And in the Based Department, the England fans who sang ‘10 German Bombers’ in spite of being asked not to by the German police and James May, who pointed out that Pride celebrations are becoming a teensy-weensy bit authoritarian Go to Based to sign up as a premium subscriber for as little as £5 a month! This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt For a free consultation with Thor, go to GrowthPresenter.com To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode #91 In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about: Rishi Sunak’s D-Day disaster and whether the Conservative election campaign is now holed below the waterline The ultra-woke Lib Dem manifesto, which reads as though it’s been written by junior staff members of the Guardian Keir Starmer’s unbelievably wooden, robotic performance in the two-way, ITV debate And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: The hostile reception given to Nigel Farage in the seven-way, BBC debate The European election results and whether it’s accurate to describe populist parties like Marine le Pen’s National Rally and Giorgia Meloni as “Hard Right”, “Radical Right” or “Extreme Right” Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of “front holes” and “bonus holes” as an alternative term for a Cervix And in the Based Department, the Welsh boys football club that has abolished girls’ football and the animal rights protestors who stuck a speech bubble attacking the RSPCA on Jonathan Yeo’s ghastly ‘red’ portrait of King Charles Go to Based to sign up as a premium subscriber for as little as £5 a month! This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt For a free consultation chat with Thor, go to www.GrowthPresenter.com To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing – https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905 Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio. Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 90! In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about:  -Nigel Farage's decision to stand in Clacton and become the leader of Reform -The many reasons Farage's shock announcement is bad news for Rishi Sunak, including the risk that he'll now have to contend with the Reform leader in a televised debate -Whether Reform can replace the Tories as the leading party of the Right by 2029 -They then look across the pond to discuss Trump's conviction and ask what it is, exactly, he's been found guilty of?   And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -A bumper week for 'far Right' smears, what with Tommy Robinson's protest march, the knife attack by an Islamist at an anti-Muslim rally in Germany, and Jess Phillips's attempt to cancel Liz Truss for appearing on Lotus Eaters -Peak woke, or, rather, Peak Pride, as they must learn to call it this month -What Toby intends to say to Owen Jones if they're ever on Question Time together -And in the Based Department the bar-owner in Idaho who's declared June to be 'Heterosexual Awareness Month'   Go to www.basedmedia.org to sign up as a premium subscriber for as little as £5 a month!   This week’s sponsors: Thor Holt  For a free consultation chat with Thor, go to GrowthPresenter.com To advertise to our large and loyal audience, drop Toby a line on theweeklysceptic@gmail.com       You can listen to or watch the podcast at: www.basedmedia.org     Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/     Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/     Listen to Nick’s podcast – The Current Thing –  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-current-thing/id1671573905     Subscribe to Nick’s Substack www.nickdixon.net   Help Nick keep both of his podcasts going by buying him a coffee  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickdixon     Produced by Lambeth Walk Productions.   Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.      Music by Tinderella www.tinderella.info