UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun joins UnHerd live from Kyiv to explain her perspective on the war, and why victory is the only option. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After being exiled from her teaching position at the University of Sussex, philosopher Kathleen Stock has become one of Britain's most radical voices of reason, celebrated for her incisive cultural theory. She joined us for an evening of conversation about the Western crisis of meaning and how to read the myths we tell ourselves, with UnHerd's Freddie Sayers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Edward Blum joins us to discuss affirmative action on the grounds of race, particularly with regard to the elite University and Colleges where it is currently a major part of the admission process.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers is joined by former French Ambassador Gérard Araud to dive into the topic of whether the Western world is coming to an end and if we are seeing the appearance of a world of great powers.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Florence Read meets Jaron Lanier to discuss the development of Artificial Intelligence, where it is going, what we can expect and if it's humans or the machines which are the problem. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie introduces UnHerd's brand new podcast, These Times. These Times is the history of today’s politics with Tom McTague and Helen ThompsonEach week Tom and Helen explore the great forces and ideas that led us to where we are right now. It’s a politics podcast for those who want a deeper, historical understanding of the news, to understand what has really shaped our world and why.Subscribe today searching 'These Times' in your preferred podcast app, or click here for a direct link to the show on all main podcast providers: https://unherd.com/these-times-with-tom-mctague-and-helen-thompson/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie sayers in conversation with Robert F Kennedy Jr discussing vaccines, the domination of the democratic governments by corporate power, NATO, the CIA and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

From the left-brain right-brain divide to the metaphysics of magic, Dr Iain McGilchrist addresses the profound questions of living well. The esteemed thinker was in conversation with Freddie Sayers at the UnHerd Club on 20th April 2023.Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What the governments and media are saying in public is quite different to what they may be saying in private. Anatol Lieven, former war correspondent joins us to discuss the question of Crimea and how different the discussions in private are compared to what we hear in the public eye.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets former CIA Analyst Martin Gurri to discuss Jack Teixeira and the Pentagon leaks.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Faith, Hope & Carnage: Join legendary musician and bestselling writer Nick Cave as he discusses his new book and beyond with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is disinformation a little more than a buzzword? Is it part of a far bigger movement? Freddie Sayers is joined by Jacob Siegel to discuss disinformation and America's new censorship complex. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Elbridge Colby, former advisor to President Trump and author of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets historian Quinn Slobodian to discuss capitalist extremism, states run by corporations and a future without democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Flo Read meets Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb.Read the article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Flo Read meets philosopher Susan Neiman to discuss the meaning of the word 'woke' and why we use it. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If offence is against the rules, what hope is there for radical writing? Join world-famous author Lionel Shriver to discuss the decline of in-your-face fiction and the sinister rise of sensitivity readers.Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Matt Stoller to discuss the case against the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Chris Miller, economic historian and author of Chip War.Read the article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by PayPal co-founder David Sacks to examine the fallout from the collapse of SVB Bank.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with UnHerd contributor Mary Harrington to discuss her new book, Feminism Against Progress.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who wrote the minute by minute lockdown discussions.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fiona Hill has been closely involved in matters to do with Russia and Ukraine advising American administrations for many years. We discuss NATO's "open door", negotiation with Putin, what would be different if Trump was still in office and much more. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Jeffrey Sachs to debate who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Louis-Vincent Gave discuss the current COVID situation in China.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michael Kofman.Michael Kofman is the Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow of the Center for a New American Security. He joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to give an update on the situation on the ground in Ukraine and debate the risks and benefits of pursuing an ‘all-out’ victory against Russia.The military analyst on the risks and rewards of Western intervention Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to journalist Peter Hitchens about a disturbing new Big Brother Watch report into UK government spying and censorship.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers chats with American philosopher Matthew B. Crawford in the UnHerd studio.Check out Matthew's Substack hereRead the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Dr. Margery Smelkinson and Dr. Leslie Bienen to discuss the efficacy of facemasks.Read the full Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks.Read the full post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West.In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode.What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper?Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations.Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Qatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of tournament stadiums. Less talked about, but something much closer to home, is Qatar’s hand in promoting Islamist ideas in Western countries. A new report by think tank Policy Exchange investigates this very issue, and has come to some quite extraordinary conclusions. The lead author of the study, Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador with a 35-year diplomatic career in the Middle East, joined Freddie Sayers in the studio to explain.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks.When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a realist line on the conflict.In fact, a friend of Musk’s, David Sacks, wrote an article in which he alleged the West had entered into “Woke War III”. Over the course of the war, the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using “woke cancellation tactics” to suppress any dissenting opinions.Sacks, a multimillionaire venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast ‘All-In’ expands on his thinking in UnHerdTV’s latest interview, recorded 26th October 2022.Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview.Watch Part I: https://youtu.be/BvWczz1q0jURead the accompanying Part I article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray.John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat of superpower conflict as existential threats to the liberal, technocratic order.Amid this chaos, Rishi Sunak — former Goldman Sachs banker — has become Britain’s new prime minister. Has the technocratic order of the 2010s returned? Or has the modern world moved beyond its reach? Read the full article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019.Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove.Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s the big idea? …do Conservatives have a philosophy?Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government.In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of COVID policy were increasingly censored on social media. Now, Bhattacharya is taking his case to the courts to prove collusion between the Biden administration and Big Tech to silence skeptics like the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration. Talking to UnHerd's Freddie Sayers, he lays out the evidence that social media companies were instructed to quell scientific views which opposed government lockdown measures. Who was responsible for this infringement? According to the legal case, the conspiracy extends to the highest levels of power in Washington, and primarily at fault is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci.Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer.The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the minority of countries that have not seen a recent Rightward populist uprising.UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down with Ralph Schoellhammer, Assistant Professor of Economics at Webster University, Vienna.Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Florence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton.Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was the work of Peter Seaton, an Australian street artist known for large-scale graffiti. The title he gave the work was ‘Peace before Pieces’. He describes it as a ‘meditation on the dehumanisation of war’.He joined UnHerd in the studio to answer the question: is pro-peace art the next victim of tribal thinking? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.