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Dr Charles Cornish-Dale, also known as Raw Egg Nationalist, is an anthropologist, political commentator and men’s health writer and whose work has appeared in publications including the American Mind and the Spectator. He’s also the author of several books, the most recent of which is The Last Men: Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity which is out later this summer. In this special episode of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell and Charles discuss The Last Men, why testosterone has been declining and why declining sperm counts could mean the end of humanity, how the modern world is making us sick, why we’re having so few babies, why chemicals in the water really are turning the frogs gay – and people transgender – and how the material and spiritual elements of these modern problems overlap. In the premium section Charles explains how we can stay healthy in spite of modern chemicals, why mass immigration isn’t a good solution to declining birthrates, how the Right is becoming more radical and why the English are an ethnic group. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Charles on X. Subscribe to his Substack. The Last Men: Liberalism and the Death of Masculinity is out later this summer, and his other books, including the Raw Egg Nationalism Cookbook and The Eggs Benedict Option, can be found on Amazon here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

William Yarwood on Labour’s welfare farce, Niall Gooch on Catholicism vs the Lib Dems and Dr Tilak Doshi on Trump’s crusade against politicised science. In Episode 43 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: William Yarwood, Campaigns Manager at the Taxpayer's Alliance, on Labour's welfare farce and what it means for the deficit. Niall Gooch, writer and public servant, on the Catholic Lib Dem MP denied holy communion for voting in favour of assisted suicide, the Christian revival and English ethnicity. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor, on Trump's fightback against politicised climate science and the rise and rise of King Coal. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow William on X. Use the Taxpayers’ Alliance’s Benefits Dashboard here. Follow Niall on X. Follow Tilak on X. Read his latest article on the Daily Sceptic here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Fleur Meston on 9-month abortion and assisted suicide, Dr Alka Seghal Cuthbert on the tyranny of the Equality Act and Andrew Gilligan on ‘Islamophobia’ and the rape gangs inquiry. In Episode 42 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Fleur Meston, writer and campaigner, on Parliament’s decriminalisation of abortion up to nine months and the legalisation of assisted suicide. Dr Alka Seghal Cuthbert, Director of Don't Divide Us, on the tyranny of the Equality Act and why it needs to be repealed. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Andrew Gilligan, senior fellow at Policy Exchange, on how Angela Rayner's plans for an Islamophobia definition threaten to stifle the national rape gangs inquiry. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Fleur on X. Follow Alka on X. Read her report on the Equality Act here. Follow Andrew on X. Read Policy Exchange’s report on Labour’s ‘Islamophobia’ definition here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

David Shipley on the rape gangs inquiry, Tom Jones on the meaning of the Ballymena riots and Ben Pile on the mad alarmism around dimming the sun. In Episode 41 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: David Shipley, writer on prisons, crime and justice, on Baroness Casey's bombshell grooming gangs rapid audit and plus the Muslim lobby in the Home Office. Tom Jones, writer and Conservative councillor, on what the Ballymena riots in Northern Ireland say about the fractious state of multicultural Britain. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to journalist and Daily Sceptic regular Ben Pile, on the alarmism around dimming the sun, the mad crusade for solar panels in Britain and why the public has stopped buying the green fanatics’ narrative. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow David on X. Read David’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Tom on X. Follow Ben on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Rob Bates on how to stop Britain becoming majority-minority, Tilak Doshi on Trump vs the Green Blob and Mario Trabucco on George Osborne’s Elgin Marbles betrayal. In Episode 40 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Rob Bates, founder and Research Director of the Centre for Migration Control, on the alarming projections that the white British are on course to be a minority in Britain within 40 years – and what can be done about it. Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, on Trump’s war on America's Green Blob, Keir Starmer’s surrender to EU carbon rules and Ed Miliband's Net Zero disinformation. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Dr Mario Trabucco della Toretta, classical archaeologist and historian, on the reports that George Osborne, Director of the British Museum, is set to surrender the Elgin Marbles to Greece – and why that would be a colossal mistake. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow the Centre for Migration Control on X. Follow Tilak on X. Read Tilak’s latest articles on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Mario on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Michael Reiners on multiculturalism vs free speech, Charlotte Gill on Commie Academy and more and Tim Samuels on ‘White Men Can’t Work’. In Episode 39 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Michael Reiners, barrister and writer, on Britain's new blasphemy law, and how multiculturalism is closely linked with our free speech woes. Charlotte Gill, Daily Sceptic columnist and author of the Woke Waste substack, who exposes Sadiq Khan's connections with LBC, whether BBC Question Time has audience plants and who really funds Full Fact. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Tim Samuels, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker, on his hit new documentary about the damage caused by DEI initiatives – White Men Can’t Work. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Michael on X. Follow Charlotte on X. Read Charlotte’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Tim on X. Watch White Men Can’t Work here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Chris Bayliss on the scandal of Commonwealth voting, Sarah Phillimore on the bar’s scrapped EDI plans and Eugyppius on Germany and South Africa. In Episode 38 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Chris Bayliss, independent consultant and writer, on the police response to the Liverpool car incident this week – and the scandal of Commonwealth votes in UK elections. Sarah Phillimore, barrister and gender-critical campaigner, on how the Bar Standards Board has been forced to scrap its nightmarish diversity guidelines for lawyers. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Eugyppius, the Sceptic’s Germany correspondent and author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on Germany’s authoritarian attempts to ban the AfD, the pensioner jailed for a three-word slogan and the truth behind claims of “white genocide” in South Africa. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Chris on X Follow Sarah on X Follow Eugyppius on X. Read his latest article on the Daily Sceptic here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Lord Frost on Starmer’s surrender to the EU, James Price on Britain’s dysfunctional state and David Shipley on Lucy Connolly’s failed appeal. In Episode 37 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: David Frost, Lord Frost of Allenton, former chief Brexit negotiator, Conservative Peer and Telegraph columnist, on Keir Starmer’s Brexit betrayal – and whether the Tory Party is on its last legs. James Price, political commentator and former senior Special Adviser, on everything that's wrong with the sclerotic British state – and how to fix it. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to David Shipley, writer on prisons and justice, on Lucy Connolly's cruelly rejected appeal over her draconian 31-month sentence for a tweet. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Lord Frost on X. Follow James on X. Follow David on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 36 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Karl Williams, Research Director at the Centre for Policy Studies, and the author of the recent CPS report ‘Here to Stay? Estimating the Scale and Cost of Long-Term Migration’, on why Keir Starmer’s immigration announcement is not as radical as it seems. Dan Hitchens, Senior Editor at First Things, on what's at stake in the crunch third reading of the assisted suicide Bill. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Tom Jones, writer and Conservative councillor, on Reform’s surge at the local elections, and what they will and won't be able to do with their newly held councils. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Karl on X. Read his latest Centre for Policy Studies report, ‘Here To Stay? Estimating the Scale and Cost of Long-Term Migration’ here. Follow Dan on X. Follow Tom on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 35 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Andrew Doyle, comedian, broadcaster, and author, on Labour minister Lucy Powell's outrageous dismissal of the grooming gangs scandal as a “dog whistle” – and what it says about her party. Plus a preview of his new book, The End of Woke. Andrew Orlowski, business columnist at the Telegraph, who joins Laurie in the studio to discuss the problems with the UK-India trade deal, why Reform councils are right to take on Net Zero and much more. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Canadian filmmaker Dean Rainey, on his new documentary on the plight of a Canadian man who suffered a debilitating vaccine injury, Why Can’t We Talk About This? Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Andrew Doyle on X. Read his article on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Andrew Orlowski on X. Daily Sceptic readers can watch Why Can’t We Talk About This with an exclusive discount: 1) Use code Sceptic50 for 50% off video stream rental or purchase on Vimeo. OR 2) Use code Sceptic50 for $5 off a DVD purchase by following this link. Visit Rainey’s website here. Donate to Mike’s GoFundMe here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

In this Special Episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Doug Stokes, Professor of International Security and Strategy at Exeter University, Senior Advisor at the Prosperity Institute and author of books including Against Decolonisation: Campus Culture Wars and the Decline of the West. Doug and Laurie discuss whether peace is on the cards in Ukraine, the effect of the war on Russia’s geopolitical position, whether MAGA is right to lament America’s position as global superintendent, the future of NATO and what the war means for Europe and Trump’s trade war and whether it will spell the end of dollar hegemony. And in the premium section they discuss the long-term possibility of detente with Russia, whether the need to re-arm will mean the end of the Net Zero here in Britain and the roots of the free-speech crisis in Britain's universities. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Doug on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

In this Special Episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Dr Mario Trabucco della Toretta, classical archaeologist and writer. In this extended interview, Laurie and Mario discuss the British Museum and why it’s the best in the world, its magnificent collection and where it came from, why the ‘decolonise’ lobby is so wrong to claim it’s all ‘looted’, the truth about the Elgin Marbles, why the arguments for repatriating them don’t stack up, what’s behind the anti-Westernism of the ‘decolonisers’ and how we can fight back. NOTE: Premium subscribers will notice that this is an extract from the premium section of Episode 34. We’re sorry that there is no new episode today. This is due to circumstances beyond our control. The Sceptic will return next week as usual. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Mario on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

In this Special Episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Ben Cobley, commentator and author of The Tribe: The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity and The Progress Trap: The Modern Left and the False Authority of History, out next month. They discuss Ben’s concept of the “system of diversity” we find ourselves living in our multicultural society, Laurie’s research on hate crime and why that’s a prime example of it, why it’s so unforgiving, the concept of ‘community leaders’ and whether they are authentic, and ‘Islamophobia’ and the unholy fusion of ultraconservative Islam with Left-wing sociology. In the premium section, they discuss why Labour is so afraid of a national grooming gangs inquiry, why the wheels are coming off for Jess Phillips, how to recover from our two-tier society and Ben’s new book on the falsehoods of progressivism. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content Follow Laurie on X Follow Ben on X Pre-order The Progress Trap here Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 34 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute, on Trump’s tariffs on how Britain should respond to them. Sam Bidwell, Director of Research at the Adam Smith Institute, on the UK MPs campaigning for an airport in Mirpur, Pakistan and what this says about the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Britain. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Dr Mario Trabucco della Toretta, classical archaeologist and writer, on the wonders of the British Museum – and what the ‘decolonise’ crowd gets so wrong about the Elgin Marbles. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Fred on X. Follow Sam on X. Follow Mario on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Is Net Zero dead? In this Sceptic short, host Laurie Wastell is joined by Dr Tilak Doshi, economist, former contributor to Forbes and now the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, to discuss how Donald Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” energy revolution is upending the global green agenda, why the climate censorship regime is collapsing and whether the writing is on the wall for Ed Miliband. NOTE: Premium subscribers will notice that this is an extract from the premium section of Episode 30. We’re sorry that there is no new episode today. This is due to circumstances beyond our control. The Sceptic will return next week as usual. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Tilak’s piece on the Daily Sceptic. And follow him on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 33 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Guy Dampier, Senior Researcher on Nationhood at the Prosperity Institute, on what Britain can learn from Donald Trump on how to solve the problem of illegal immigration. William Yarwood, Media Campaign Manager at the Taxpayers’ Alliance, on the great Motability scandal. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to David Shipley, writer on prisons and justice, on Adolescence, the skewed focus of Prevent and the twee tyranny of Paddington Bear. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Guy on X. Follow William on X. Follow David on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton from 2010-2017, first for the Conservative Party and then for UKIP, and President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on how the global green agenda is falling apart – and why blowhards like Gavin Barwell are so enraged at the Daily Sceptic for leading the way. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Steven Tucker, journalist and author of books including Hitler and Stalin’s Misuse of Science, on the ghoulish decision to make Rotherham the 2025 ‘Children’s Capital of Culture’ – and what it says about our deranged cultural elites. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Douglas on X. Read Chris’s articles on the Daily Sceptic here and here. Follow Chris on X. Read Steven’s articles on the Daily Sceptic here and here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 31 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: I speak to Thomas Fazi, columnist at UnHerd and Compact magazine, on how the EU's propaganda network of leftist NGOs is manufacturing consent for its globalist agenda. David Shipley, writer on prisons and justice, on the outrageous two-tier sentencing guidelines being introduced by the Sentencing Council – and why it’s a democratic outrage. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by former Metropolitan Police officer Paul Birch, on his experiences in the police, the trouble with “community policing” and how the thin blue line went woke. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Thomas on X. And read his report, ‘The EU’s Propaganda Machine: How the EU funds NGOs to promote itself’, here. Follow David on X. Subscribe to Paul’s Substack here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with South African businessman Rob Hersov. Speaking at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference, host Laurie Wastell and Rob discuss the history and decline of post-apartheid South Africa, the corruption of the ruling ANC, its chilling “expropriation without compensation” laws, the impact of Trump and Musk’s attention to South Africa, why its policy of “Black Economic Empowerment” is like DEI on steroids, the far-Left parties who chant “Kill the Boer”, and why Western liberal media refuses to admit what a basket case South Africa has become. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Rob on X. Subscribe to Rob on YouTube. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 30 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Tom Jones, Conservative councillor and writer for publications including the Critic and UnHerd, on Ukraine, the bust-up in the Oval Office and the parlous state of Europe's armed forces. Michael Wolff, author of several books on team Trump, on what really makes the Donald tick. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Dr Tilak Doshi, economist, former contributor to Forbes and now the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Tom on X and check out his substack. Follow Michael on X. Read Tilak’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. And follow him on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic. Host Laurie Wastell catches up with Ben at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference. They discuss the conference and the state of the Right internationally; Kemi Badenoch and “muscular liberalism”; free speech, the grooming gangs and Britain’s international reputation; JD Vance’s Munich speech; how Trump’s domestic agenda is showing the world’s conservatives how to get things done and much more. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Ben on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 29 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Eugyppius, pseudonymous commentator and author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the election in Germany and JD Vance’s bombshell Munich speech. Professor Eric Kaufmann, Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham and the author of books including Whiteshift (2018) and Taboo (2024), on a recent controversy over whether Rishi Sunak is English – and whether the Trump administration can reverse woke culture. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by Chris Bayliss, independent consultant and writer for publications including the Critic, on what’s behind the shocking recent wave of migrant terror attacks across Europe. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Eugyppius on X. Read Eugyppius’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Eric on X. Read his article on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Chris on X. Read Chris’s article here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Last month the grooming gangs scandal broke into the political conversation in Britain in a way it never had before – so much so that after days of headlines, the Labour Government was forced to launch five inquiries into affected areas like Oldham. While many think this still doesn’t go far enough, it’s clear the conversation has changed. Instrumental in that change has been the landmark GB News documentary Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Shame, and its research which found that group-based on-street child grooming had blighted more than 50 towns and cities across the UK. In this Special Episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to one of the duo behind that documentary, Guy Dampier, Senior Researcher at the Prosperity Institute and a writer for publications including the Telegraph, about his experiences making it and what he learnt about the communities where this scandal took place. NOTE: Due to technical issues, this week’s other two interviews, recorded at this week’s ARC Conference, will be arriving next week. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Guy on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Peter Hitchens, columnist at the Mail on Sunday and author of books including The Abolition of Britain, on the bombshell expert findings about Lucy Letby and why her case must now be heard again. Barrister Adam King, on his client with the Free Speech Union, former Royal Marine Jamie Michael, being found not guilty of stirring up racial hatred – and what it says about the Government’s post-Southport crackdown. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to pseudonymous commentator Eugyppius, author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the chaos in German politics after the fall of the German establishment parties’ cordon sanitaire against the AfD. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Peter on X. Follow Adam on X. Join the Free Speech Union here. Read Eugyppius’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Eugyppius on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Andrew Orlowski, business columnist at the Telegraph and writer for publications including the Critic, Spiked and UnHerd. Host Laurie Wastell and Andrew discuss Andrew’s work writing on business and technology, AI and whether it’s all it’s cracked up to be, the strengths of British innovation and why we fail to commercialise it, why the Left sneers at business, how Net Zero and mass low-skilled immigration are damaging our productivity and the rent-seeking of Amazon and Big Tech. In the premium section, they discuss why the policy-making class needs more engineers, whether the Conservative Party has a future, the impact of Trump 2.0 and Elon Musk’s coming war with Ofcom. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Andrew on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic, with Professor David Starkey CBE, the eminent and acerbic historian, author and broadcaster. In a wide-ranging conversation, host Laurie Wastell and Professor Starkey discuss the grooming gangs scandal, why Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter represents the end of the long 20th Century, Trump’s second term, free speech, state censorship and the “noble lie” of multiculturalism, the parallels between communism and liberalism and why Keir Starmer’s response to the Southport massacre has been “contemptible beyond contempt”. In the premium section, they discuss English individualism and why it gave birth to the modern world, the challenge of imported ethnic tribalism, national identity in an age of immigration and what is to be done. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Professor Starkey on X. Subscribe to his YouTube Channel. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 27 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: David Shipley, writer on prison reform for publications including the Spectator, on the Government’s failings over the Southport attack and the serious questions for Keir Starmer and the Government about why we were kept in the dark about it. Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute (formerly the Legatum Institute) and writer for publications including the Critic, on how the inauguration of Donald Trump is set to blow a hole in woke capitalism – and whether Britain can ever follow suit. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by author and historian Ed West, on why the fallout of the grooming gangs scandal could make it Britain’s Chernobyl. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read David on the Southport riots here. Follow David on X. Read Fred’s report on Woke Capitalism here. Follow Fred on X. Subscribe to Ed’s Wrong Side of History substack here. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to Episode 26 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Digital Communications Director at the Free Speech Union, on how Labour’s “Islamophobia” definition has stifled discussion of the Pakistani-Muslim rape-gangs scandal – and what that means for local inquiries. David Turver, author of the Eigen Values Substack, on how we narrowly avoided blackouts during the cold snap last week, and what that says about the parlous state of Britain’s energy grid. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined by freelance investigative journalist Charlotte Gill, author of the Woke Waste Substack, on the shady Left-wing funding networks and foreign billionaires influencing our politics. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Freddie’s article here. Follow the Free Speech Union on X. Read David’s articles on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow David on X. Read Charlotte’s latest on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow her on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 25 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Dr. Mike Jones, political scientist and migration expert, on the shameful history of Britain’s grooming gangs scandal. Poppy Coburn, Assistant Comment Editor at the Telegraph, on how activist so-called experts have waged a campaign to deny the racial element to the grooming gangs abuse. And for our premium subscribers, journalist and Sceptic regular Ben Pile, on the dodgy politics of Environmental and Social Governance – ESG – and why a major green finance initiative just collapsed. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Mike on the omerta over Rotherham here. Follow Mike on X. Read Poppy on grooming gang deniers here. Follow Poppy on X. Read Ben’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Follow Ben on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this Special Episode of the Sceptic. Two-tier policing. Two-tier justice. Two-tier Keir. Well, we’ve spoken about all of those things on the Sceptic, especially how they’ve been in evidence in the Government response to the disorder up and down the country after the Southport murders. Much of this was in towns in the Midlands and the North, but it was in London, outside Downing Street, just two days after the attack, that my next guest was part of a peaceful protest against knife crime – when he, along with dozens of others, was arrested, placed in a prison cell and held for nearly 24 hours. Never charged – for there was nothing to charge him with – he’s now suing the Metropolitan Police for false imprisonment and assault. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Subscribe to the Daily Sceptic YouTube Channel. Watch Alex on YouTube here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 24 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Toby Young, the Daily Sceptic’s Editor-in-Chief and boss of the Free Speech Union, on a year of free-speech travesties – and the battles to come in the year ahead. Sam Bidwell, Director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, on the judge who declined to jail the woman who milkshaked Nigel Farage – and what this says about our justice system. And for our premium subscribers, I’m joined by Niall Gooch, public servant and writer for the Spectator, the Critic and UnHerd, on what it means for conservatives when they can no longer trust their country’s institutions. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Laurie’s article on Tan Ikram here. Follow Toby on X. Read more about the Worker Protection Bill here. Follow Sam on X. Read Niall’s article here. Follow Niall on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 23 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: David Shipley, a writer on prison reform for publications including the Spectator, on the two-tier justice in the Government’s heavy crackdown following the Southport killings. Nick Arlett, one of the Tooting Four, a group of anti-ULEZ campaigners who were arrested for peacefully protesting against the road tax and who’ve now been convicted of harassing the London mayor, Sadiq Khan – a charge they’re now going to appeal. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to David Turver, author of the Eigen Values substack, for a deep dive into the eye-watering cost of Net Zero subsidies. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read David Shipley’s article on the Daily Sceptic. Follow David on X. Read Nick’s article here. Donate to the Tooting Four’s appeal fundraiser here. And follow Nick on X here. Read David Turver’s article here. Follow David on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 22 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Sam Bidwell, writer and commentator and the Director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, on the social and economic disaster of the latest immigration numbers – and how best to reverse it. Fleur Meston, co-host of the Bombshells podcast and campaigner against assisted suicide, on the passage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its second reading. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Madeline Grant, parliamentary sketchwriter at the Telegraph, on her favourite parliamentarian to sketch, whether Starmer’s Army is up to snuff, and her bizarre dispute with a Labour MP over her coverage of the assisted dying debate. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Sam on X. Read his article on Indefinite Leave to Remain here. Follow Fleur on X. Follow Madeline on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 21 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: David Frost, lead Brexit negotiator under Boris Johnson, Conservative peer and Telegraph columnist, on how to restore free speech in Britain, the grim reality of Starmerism and what Kemi Badenoch must do as Tory leader. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Nick Dixon, comedian and broadcaster, on that mad woke Jaguar advert, the Trump win and what they both mean for the culture war. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow David on X. Read his article on Starmerism here. Read Nick’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. And follow Nick on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 20 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: I speak to Matt Ridley, the acclaimed science writer and peer in the House of Lords, on the farmers’ revolt over inheritance tax changes that rocked Westminster this week. Writer and former parliamentary researcher James McSweeney, for a deep dive into Britain’s political class and why it gets so much so wrong – especially on Net Zero. And for our premium subscribers, I’m joined by Connie Shaw, an outspoken gender-critical student at Leeds University, who earlier this year experienced what trans activists say is myth – a man in the women’s bathroom. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Matt on X Read James’s article here. And follow him on X. Read Connie’s article on Leeds University here. Follow Connie on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 19 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Douglas Carswell, former UKIP MP and now the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, on what Donald Trump’s U.S. election victory means for America – and Britain. Will Jones, Editor of the Daily Sceptic, on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. Eugyppius, the pseudonymous commentator and author of Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the collapse of the German Government. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie is joined in the studio by Michael Murphy, writer for the Daily Telegraph, who gives us an exclusive inside look at his new documentary with Outpost Studios: Guardians of Israel. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow Douglas on X. Read eugyppius’s article here. Read Will’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Subscribe to Outpost Studios and watch Michael’s documentary here. Watch Chuck Norris’s video here: https://ChuckDefense.com/Daily Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 18 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: William Atkinson, Assistant Editor at Conservative Home, on Kemi Badenoch’s victory in the Tory leadership election and her prospects as leader. Jon Moynihan, Conservative peer, venture capitalist and author of Return to Growth, on Rachel Reeves’s tax-bonanza budget and why it’s taking us in the wrong direction. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Harry Miller, former police officer and founder of Fair Cop, who gives us his frank assessment of the Chris Kaba case and why unfounded witch hunts against officers are so damaging for police morale. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Follow William on X. Get your copy of Jon Moynihan’s book, Return to Growth: Volume One: How to Fix the Economy, here. Follow Harry on X. Watch Chuck Norris’s video here: https://ChuckDefense.com/Daily Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with C.J. Hopkins, playwright, novelist and political satirist. C.J. Hopkins has long written about authoritarianism lurking in Western societies. Now, as if to prove him right, he’s being persecuted by the German authorities for doing just that. In 2022, he criticised German government Covid measures by tweeting an image of a Swastika on a Covid mask – the cover of his book, The New Normal Reich. This was enough to see him dragged through the German courts in a Kafkaesque witch hunt that is still ongoing today. He’s currently crowdfunding an appeal at Germany’s highest court – and should he lose, he faces prison. C.J. joins Laurie on this episode to tell his story, offering a chilling insight into the censorious state tyranny gripping Germany – and the West. Follow C.J. on X. Order his books here. Donate to his legal defence fund here. And find him on Substack. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with James Esses, writer, campaigner and co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists. Back in 2021, James was a hard-working part-time master’s student in psychotherapy at the Metanoia Institute in London. In his spare time, he was also raising concerns online about the impact that transgender ideology – and the so-called gender-affirming approach to care – was having on vulnerable children. He never imagined that doing so would lead to him being kicked off his course without so much as an appeal. Three years later, he’s taken his college and the U.K. Council for Psychotherapy to court for that – and won. James joins Laurie on this episode to tell his story. They also speak about his research into how our institutions have been infiltrated by trans ideology; the impact of the Cass Review; the threat trans ideology still poses to kids; and why it’s up to adults to protect them; and much more. Follow James on X. And find him on Substack. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor David Starkey, the renowned and pugnacious historian, author and broadcaster. Host Laurie Wastell speaks to Professor Starkey about New Labour’s constitutional revolution; why Margaret was mistaken to view Tony Blair as her heir; the problem with “human rights” and the ECHR; the disaster of devolution; why the Southport rioters were right to be angry; when Sir Keir Starmer called for him to be jailed; his prognosis for the Labour Government; the need for a post-Blair restoration; why David Lammy is a national embarrassment; and why the facts of life are conservative. Find David Starkey on YouTube here. And order his books here. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our donor-only content. Follow Laurie on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 17 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Brendan O’Neill, Chief Political Writer at Spiked, on the anniversary of the October 7th pogrom against Israel – and his powerful new book on how the West failed this moral test. Jess Gill, student and political commentator, on how mass immigration has made London less safe for women like her. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to lecturer and journalist Ralph Schoellhammer, on the success of the populist-Right Freedom Party in Austria’s recent elections. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Get your copy of Brendan’s book here. Follow Jess on X here. Follow Ralph on X here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 16 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Charlotte Gill, journalist, author of the Woke Waste substack and the Daily Sceptic’s newest columnist, on the Labour MPs involved in the Left-wing activist group, Hope Not Hate. Freddie Attenborough, Director of Digital Communications at the Free Speech Union, on the Irish Government’s U-turn on its draconian hate-speech bill. David Turver, Daily Sceptic regular and author of the Eigen Values substack, on Ed Miliband’s green cronyism. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to freelance writer and confidence mentor Joanna Gray, on the difficulties of navigating the culture war – and how we can disagree with the woke warriors in our lives without starting a flaming row. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Charlotte’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Read Freddie’s article here. Read David’s articles here, here and here. And read Joanna’s article here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Welcome to episode 15 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Andrew Doyle, comedian, broadcaster and author of Free Speech and Why It Matters and The New Puritans, on how Labour’s plans for an “Islamophobia” definition could bring a blasphemy law to Britain. Eugyppius, the pseudonymous commentator and author of the Substack, Eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on Germany’s recent state elections and how the rise of the AfD is upending the politics of migration in Europe. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to journalist and Daily Sceptic regular Ben Pile, on David Lammy’s recent claim that Britain’s biggest foreign policy threat is climate change – and the Foreign Secretary’s bizarre endorsement of ethnic cleansing in Azerbaijan. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Andrew’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Read Eugyppius’s articles here and here. And read Ben Pile’s articles here and here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 lessons from lockdown, Labour’s plans to abolish hereditary peers and his take on the Conservative leadership contest. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to evangelical journalist Julian Mann, on how Christians are being persecuted around the world – and how the woke Western media is turning a blind eye. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X. Follow Ava on X. Read or watch Daniel’s speech to the House of Lords here, on the Daily Sceptic. And read Julian’s article here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 Northumbria and author of the Uncibal Substack, on Sir Keir Starmer’s liberal authoritarianism – and why it can only get worse. And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Daily Sceptic’s Editor, Will Jones, on the cynical campaign to silence our sceptical journalism by self-appointed American news reliability index, Newsguard. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Sarah’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Read Steven’s articles here and here. Read David’s articles here and here. And read Will’s article on here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 he’s been persecuted by the Church of England for delivering an LGBTQ-sceptical sermon in line with Christian doctrine – and how he’s fighting back; And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Alan Halsall, a leading volunteer in the Vote Leave campaign, on how his life was made a misery by the Electoral Commission because he campaigned for Brexit. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Read Ben’s article on smoking here. Read Len’s articles here and here. Donate to support Reverend Randall’s legal appeal here. Read Alan Halsall’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. And get your copy of his book, Last Man Standing: Memoirs from the front line of Brexit, here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 just pure gaslighting; David Turver, author of the Eigen Values substack, on how Britain’s Government of Net Zero-fanatic humanities graduates are running the economy into the ground; And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to C.J. Strachan, the Daily Sceptic’s resident HR expert and the founder of Fair Job, on the shocking anti-white employment discrimination at Thames Valley Police. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Andy’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. Read David’s articles here and here. And read C.J. Strachan’s article here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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. Laurie speaks to Nigel about what’s driving the decolonisers, both as a social movement and as an ideology; their unacknowledged Eurocentrism; the importance of patient, reasoned argument in the face of woke dogmatism; the influence of Christianity on the decolonise movement; whether a liberal-humanitarian defence of the British Empire can successfully counter the woke decolonial narrative, and the merits of a purely self-interested appraisal of colonialism; his views on how to improve the culture in our universities; and the difference the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act (now halted by the Labour Government) would have made to campus cancel culture. Watch Nigel’s full Modern Dissent lecture here. Get your copy of Colonialism: a Moral Reckoning Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Produced by Richard Eldred.

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, Laurie speaks to J. Sorel, the pseudonymous Daily Sceptic columnist, on what we’ve learnt from Labour’s first few weeks in office and the tyranny of the 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 Claire’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/01/on-southport-why-censorship-is-the-enemy/ Read James’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/09/how-seriously-should-we-take-labours-new-britain/ And read J. Sorel’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/25/the-conservative-party-fought-against-the-blob-and-lost/ Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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 pseudonymous commentator and author of the Substack, eugyppius: a plague chronicle, on the palace coup against Joe Biden, the coronation of Kamala Harris and whether the U.S. corporate media is drinking its own Kool-Aid. Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content: www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Follow Laurie on X: https://x.com/L_Wastell Read Toby’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/29/bridget-phillipson-has-shown-the-tories-how-to-win-the-culture-war/ Read Andrew’s article here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/18/dont-fall-for-the-governments-latest-heat-pump-con/ And read eugyppius’s articles here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/22/joe-biden-out-in-apparent-palace-coup/ https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/15/a-failure-of-secret-service-security-so-astounding-the-conspiracy-theories-write-themselves/ Produced by Richard Eldred Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio