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Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 99. Sadly this is our final episode. Thanks so much for all the support over the last couple of years. Please email [email protected] for refunds or any other queries. Donate to the Daily Sceptic www.dailysceptic.org/donate/ Join the Free Speech Union www.freespeechunion.org/join/ Listen to Nick’s podcast 'The Current Thing' here or wherev

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic episode 98 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The Olympic opening ceremony and why the world’s biggest religion was mocked, in spite of artistic director Thomas Jolly wanting to make it ‘inclusive’. Why Suella Braverman isn’t standing in the Conservative leadership election and whether Kemi is the Tories’ best hope (Toby thinks so). The viol

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic episode 97 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The strangeness of Biden’s announcement that he wouldn’t be seeking re-election and the inevitable conspiracy theories that it’s given rise to. Was Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race a palace coup? How much did he really know about it? Why the gap between the announcement and his endorse

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 96 This week Nick and Toby talk about: Where they were when Trump was shot (in the ear). The tsunami of bad takes about the attempt to assassinate the former President, from the Denver Post headline -- "Gunman Dies in Attack" -- to David Baddiel half-jokingly suggesting Trump conspired to have himself shot. Was the abject failure of the Secret

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 95 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The General Election result, in which Labour won a landslide in spite of just 20% of the electorate voting for them The ‘Portillo Moments’ on the night in which Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Miriam Cates lost their seats The five seats won by pro-Palestinian candidates wh

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 94 This week Nick and Toby talk about: The final week of the General Election campaign, in which Nigel Farage lost a step and Rishi Sunak finally brought his A game Whether to believe the eve-of-election MRP polls showing the Conservatives neck-and-neck with the Lib Dems on around 60 seats If the actor in Channel 4’s ‘exposé’ of Reform i

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 93 This week Nick and Toby talk about: Nigel Farage provoking a ‘Matrix attack’ by claiming Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked. The Conservatives' imploding election campaign and whether Reform really are pulling ahead. Whether Keir Starmer wants to ‘reform’ the constitution because he wants to permanently embed radical progress

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 92 This week: Nick and Toby talk about: Reform’s ‘Contract’, as well as the Labour and Conservative manifestos The next Conservative leadership election, which will be a 16-way contest, according to Tom Newton Dunn Keir Starmer’s visit to Czechoslovakia at the age of 23 to join a work cap Tony Blair’s embrace of his inner TERF and Gor

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 performan

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 90! In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about: -Nigel Farage's decision to stand in Clacton and become the leader of Reform -The many reasons Farage's shock announcement is bad news for Rishi Sunak, including the risk that he'll now have to contend with the Reform leader in a televised debate -Whether Reform can replace the Tor