The 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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Episodes

Thursday Jul 11, 2024

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.
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Produced by Richard Eldred. 
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

How Work Went Woke

Wednesday Jul 03, 2024

Wednesday Jul 03, 2024

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.
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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.

Starmerism versus Democracy

Thursday Jun 27, 2024

Thursday Jun 27, 2024

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.
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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.

Europeans Revolt Against Net Zero

Wednesday Jun 26, 2024

Wednesday Jun 26, 2024

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.
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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.

Labour’s Net Zero Delusions

Thursday Jun 20, 2024

Thursday Jun 20, 2024

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.
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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.

Thursday Jun 06, 2024

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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