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Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode #91
In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about:
Rishi Sunak’s D-Day disaster and whether the Conservative election campaign is now holed below the waterline
The ultra-woke Lib Dem manifesto, which reads as though it’s been written by junior staff members of the Guardian
Keir Starmer’s unbelievably wooden, robotic performance in the two-way, ITV debate
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The hostile reception given to Nigel Farage in the seven-way, BBC debate
The European election results and whether it’s accurate to describe populist parties like Marine le Pen’s National Rally and Giorgia Meloni as “Hard Right”, “Radical Right” or “Extreme Right”
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of “front holes” and “bonus holes” as an alternative term for a Cervix
And in the Based Department, the Welsh boys football club that has abolished girls’ football and the animal rights protestors who stuck a speech bubble attacking the RSPCA on Jonathan Yeo’s ghastly ‘red’ portrait of King Charles
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Comments
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@Adrian
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Enjoyable and well made content as always. The audio works this week as well!
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@Adrian
moments ago...
Thoughts on what was discussed at the start, if Nick and Toby are interested: agree with Toby 100% that the podcast should come out sooner rather than later. It's a bit disappointing that it seems to be take longer and and longer
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@Adrian
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to get the podcast out each week. It would be nice to at least have it for my morning commute on Wednesdays...
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@Adrian
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I agree with Nick though that the new 'Sceptic' podcast is a bit odd. When the WS first started it had Will's part on the key news items of the DS over the past week; that suddenly disappeared. I think people want to support Nick and Toby, but £5/£10 here and there for these different podcasts soon add up and end up costing a lot more than netflix. Why not bring all under the same banner?
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@Adrian
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Ps apologies for the multiple comments. If you press enter, the comment is posted and the 'delete' option didn't work. I wanted to have just one big comment, but I guess I rolled with it in the end...
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@Nigel Sherratt
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'Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.'
Theodore Dalrymple, Frontpage Magazine (August 31, 2005)
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@A Person
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I do feel that £5 for this and £5 for that doesn't feel quite right to me. I initially understood the £5 a month would get us the podcasts under one banner. But now it feels like every podcast, from Nick's, to the Sceptic, the Weekly Sceptic, all require basically separate subscriptions, which feels a bit much to me. Anyway just my views.
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@Jon Yates
moments ago...
Rather than pay for all of them, cancel them all and listen to audiobooks.
JW
@John Whale
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Maybe do a third podcast and call it the Sceptic Daily.
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@Ben Bellak
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Lots of rather unfair comments: this podcast is excellent, The Sceptic is very different but still very good, The Current Thing is also great! £5 is probably less than Adrian spends on his morning commute and covers six hours of content which is better value than a film or a football match. Keep the podcasts coming; I, at least, am happy to pay £5 a month for each and Unherd and Spiked!
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@Adrian
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Not trying to be unkind at all. I think the WS is great. Not sure why the price compared to my morning commuting cost is relevant...surely the better comparison is eg the Telegraph newspaper subscriptions, Amazon prime, Netflix, Spotify etc etc. And I'm not sure that £15 for the three compares too favourably, and it grates a bit how it's been somewhat a boiling the frog approach to get to this point
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@Kirsty Cruickshank
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"The shushing Nazi" - crying with laughter, you two are hilarious! Labour are going to be bayshit crazy; I'm genuinely worried about them hitting the final nail in the coffin of Britain as we knew it.