Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 89 This week:  -In a General Election special, Nick and Toby talk about:  -Why Rishi Sunak called a summer election, surprising everyone, including his Cabinet -Whether a ‘Presidential’ election, with the focus on the Prime Minister rather than the Conservative Party’s record in government, is Rishi’s best hope of limiting the damage -Why the Conservatives have rejected a ‘Devil Eyes’ election strategy and decided to emphasise Keir Starmer’s weak leadership skills instead -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Nigel Farage’s controversial exchange with Trevor Phillips about British Muslims and the BBC describing his Dover speech as ‘inflammatory’ -The relaunch of Loaded and whether it’s actually a bit feminist -And the 70 year-old in a Suffolk village who chased some young hooligans down the street after they damaged her back gate (no pun intended) 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  To connect with Thor Holt call him on +44-7906-321593 or 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 88 This week:  -Nick and Toby  talk about Ofcom’s attack on GB News, why it’s unfair and what’s behind it -We’re all gutted about the death of the President of Iran, obviously, but why did Britain’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN stand to observe a minute’s silence for he “Butcher of Tehran”? -Everyone thought Geert Wilders wouldn't be able to form a government, but he’s built an unbelievably sensible coalition with a robust, Right-wing programme -And a brief canter through the stories we would have covered last week if Nick hadn’t been ill, courtesy of Toby -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Donald Trump threatening to stand for a third term -The growing support for Trump among African-Americans and Hispanics -And Trump’s threat to send ‘kill teams’ to take out the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels -And in the Based Department, Toby nominates JK Rowling, Esther McVey and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for refusing to rename the ‘Hitler Beatle’ 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  To connect with Thor Holt go to GrowthPresenter.com or 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 87 This week:  -Nick and Toby discuss Sadiq Khan’s victory in the London mayoral election and puzzle over why the Tories didn’t make more of an effort  -Could Labour’s losses to pro-Palestinian, Muslim candidates be replicated in the general election, or will Keir Starmer give in to the Muslim Vote’s 18 demands? -Do the local election results point towards a hung parliament, as Rishi Sunak claims? -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Nick Fuentes being allowed back on X -Nigel Farage hinting he’s not looking to revive his political career in Britain -And in the Based Department, Toby nominates Deta Hardman, the 64 year-old darts player who refused to compete against a biological man in the women’s quarter-finals of the Denmark Open. 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  To connect with Thor Holt 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 86 This week:  -Nick and Toby discuss the short and disastrous career of ‘Humza the Brief’, puzzling over why he wanted to lead a country he regarded as ‘structurally racist’? -A Conservative MP defects to Labour, prompting more demands for Rishi Sunak to fall on his sword  -The Irish Government takes a leaf out of our book and tries to pass a law so its senior judges can’t block efforts to deport asylum seekers to a country the Irish High Court has designated as ‘unsafe’ – in this case, the UK -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -The BBC more or less refusing to recruit white British males to its trainee scheme, prompting Toby and Nick to think about starting a podcast advising this despised minority how to start their own businesses -A new poll finds that more GB News viewers intend to vote Labour than Conservative, giving the lie to the smear that it’s a ‘far Right’ channel -And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Jacob Rees-Mogg for being unfazed by a mob of pro-Palestinian protestors and Toby nominates himself for forcing the BBC to remove the episode of Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg in which Chris Packham libelled the Daily Sceptic 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  To connect with Thor Holt 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 85 This week:  -Nick and Toby wish their viewers and listeners happy St George's Day – or, as Nick puts it, happy wankers-posting-about-how-St-George-was-really-Turkish Day -Are we heading for a summer election, given the passing of the Rwanda Bill and the increase in defence spending? -Mark Menzies is the latest in a string of gay Tory MPs to be caught up in an embarrassing sex scandal. What is it about Cameron's A-listers? -The Met has got itself into a pickle over refusing to let Gideon Falter cross the road during a pro-Palestinian protest because he's "openly Jewish". Should Mark Rowley resign? -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Should we criticise HIGNFY for only making fun of Gender Woo Woo when it became safe to do so, or celebrate the fact that the tide has turned? -16 year-old anorexic girls may be eligible with suicide help under Scotland's Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill -And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Camilla Tominey for telling Femi to go f*** himself 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  To connect with Thor Holt 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 84 This week:  -Nick and Toby talk to their culture war correspondents on the frontline in Brussels to get the lowdown on the NatCon siege -Iran launches a drone attack on Israel and suddenly all the pro-Palestinian peaceniks stop banging on about a ceasefire and become pro-Iranian warmongers -The Cass Review turns the tide against the trans nonsense and previous cult leaders, like Stonewall’s Ruth Hunt, pretend they never really believed in Gender Woo in the first place -Reform UK throws another prospective parliamentary candidate under the bus, only to discover that this one is already dead -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Trump faces his first criminal trial and Nick and Toby argue about whether this is another example of progressive lawfare or just holding a lawbreaker to account -And in the Based Department, Toby nominates Katharine Birbalsingh for seeing off a troublemaking Muslim student in the High Court 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  To connect with Thor Holt 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 83 (recorded live at the Hippodrome) This week:  -Will Wragg is praised for being 'brave' by Jeremy Hunt after sending intimate photos to a spear phisher and then, when blackmailed, handing over fellow MPs' phone numbers -The Tories issue a poster with the dubious claim that the UK is the second most powerful country in the world and prove this by including photos of an American jet and a Swiss ship -Angela Rayner is caught telling porkies to avoid capital gains tax and David Lammy's attempts to defend her make things exponentially worse -Toby is described in the Telegraph as a "Right-wing hate figure" in a surprisingly positive article -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -The Rock announces he won't be endorsing either Presidential candidate because he's too famous and doesn't want to influence the result -No Labels folds its tent, thereby giving Biden a much-needed boost -And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Angela Rayner's cushion for proving she was lying about the house she sold being her primary residence. 
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Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 82! This week: -JK Rowling dares Humza Yousaf and his goons in Police Scotland to arrest her for the crime of 'misgendering'. -A devastating new poll has the Conservatives winning just 98 seats -- and Rishi's might not be one of them! -Team GB says to the Football Association: "You think you've desecrated a British flag? Hold my beer."  -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: -Just 38% of American voters think Biden will remain alive long enough to see out a second term. -Matthew Parris says the quiet part about euthanasia out loud. -And in the Based Department, Nick and Toby praise the President of Guyana for putting a sanctimonious BBC interviewer in his place on the subject of Net Zero. 
 Go to www.basedmedia.org to sign up as a premium subscriber for as little as £5 a month! Buy tickets to The Weekly Sceptic Live: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-weekly-sceptic-live-tickets-861636396657?aff=oddtdtcreator This week’s sponsor: Thor Holt 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 81! This week: -Nike comes out with a wildly unpopular ‘playful update’ of the England flag  -Beau Dade of Lotus Eaters is dropped by Reform UK, following a hit-piece from Hope Not Hate  -The Khan Review is released, and Toby explains all  -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: -Candace Owens getting fired from the Daily Wire -Owen Jones quitting the Labour Party 
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Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic, episode 80! This week: -How much longer can Rishi Sunak survive after his worst week since becoming PM and with Penny Mordaunt on manoeuvres? -Vaughan Gething, the new Welsh First Minister, becomes the first black politician to lead a European country, but his record as Health Minister during the pandemic was appalling -Scotland rolls out its new Hate Crime law and whatever can go wrong, does go wrong, including locating a hate crime reporting centre in a Glaswegian sex shop, recruiting a dodgy Islamist to explain how awful 'Islamophobia' is and activating the new law on April Fool’s Day -GB News found guilty of breaking Ofcom’s broadcasting rules. Is the regulator gearing up to withdrawing the channel's broadcasting licence to please its new Labour overlords? -Hope Not Hate's new 'State of Hate' report identifies three GB News reporters as dangerous purveyors of far Right hate -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke! Premium content this week includes: -The latest sightings of the Princess of Wales and why she doesn't scotch all the rumours about her health and her marriage by posing for an official photo? -The Donald Trump 'bloodbath' hoax -Elon Musk's interview with Don Lemon -Our nominations for the most ‘Based’ acts of the week, in the ‘Based Department’
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