The Sceptic

Mar 06 2025 40 ep. 54 mins 105
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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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Trump, Zelensky and the Delusions of Europe

Mar 06 2025 50 mins  
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 Donal

The Rebirth of the Right? – With Ben Sixsmith

Mar 04 2025 30 mins  
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; J

Germany is Shifting Rightwards

Feb 27 2025 67 mins  
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

Guy Dampier: The Truth About the Grooming Gangs

Feb 20 2025 36 mins  
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

Lucy Letby: Miscarriage of Justice? – with Peter Hitchens

Feb 13 2025 64 mins  
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

Bonfire of the Globalist Pieties – with Andrew Orlowski

Feb 06 2025 37 mins  
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 commercialis

David Starkey on Southport, Grooming Gangs and Multiculturalism

Jan 26 2025 44 mins  
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 censorsh

The State Failed the Southport Victims

Jan 23 2025 63 mins  
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, Direct

How “Islamophobia” Protects the Grooming Gangs

Jan 16 2025 65 mins  
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

The Horror of the Grooming Gangs

Jan 09 2025 64 mins  
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 gro