Cancelled climate dissenter Professor Norman Fenton speaks out In this special episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to fearless, peerless climate sceptic Professor Norman Fenton, about his life and times and the professional consequences he has suffered for speaking truth to power about Covid and climate science. Professor Fenton is a mathematicia…

Pension funds are supposed to invest your money wisely so they can provide a return when you retire. So why are so many of them obsessed with controversial political causes like Net Zero? In this special episode of the Sceptic, James Graham, Senior Researcher on Financial Freedoms at the Prosperity Institute, exposes the scourge of Environmental an…

US free-speech activist Preston Byrne on Ofcom’s ill-fated imperialism, J. Sorel on one year of two-tier Keir and Chris Morrison on phoney green jobs. In Episode 46 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Preston Byrne, lawyer and transatlantic free speech activist, on the UK Government’s global censorship empire and why…

Independent journalist Jack Hadfield on the anti-asylum protests, Alan Miller on the tyranny of digital ID, and James Graham on why your pension is funding Net Zero. In Episode 45 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Independent journalist Jack Hadfield on what he’s seen while reporting live from the protests against …

Solicitor Michael Phillips on the Muslims influencing migration policy, the Prosperity Institute’s Amar Johal on legislative reform and Ben Pile on the UN’s green censorship. In Episode 44 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Michael Phillips, solicitor advocate who works with Christian Concern, about a Christian woma…

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 o…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 spe…

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 …

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 Starme…

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 rad…

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. …

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 Ukrain…

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’…

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 societ…

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 Mirpu…

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 writin…

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,…

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 gl…

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-t…

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 im…

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 Tru…

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…

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…

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. Instrume…

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 t…

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…

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 ter…

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 abou…

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. Da…

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 de…

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 Nor…

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 Ins…

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 c…

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 …

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 premi…

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…

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 res…

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…

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 …

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 t…

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…

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 …

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 Digi…

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 pseu…

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 vie…

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 …