The Sceptic

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 and Social Governance, why your pension fund is costing you money by funding Net Zero, ...

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 Britain should have a First Amendment.

J. Sorel, writer and historian, on the legacy...

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 asylum hotels – first in Epping, now in Canary Wharf – and whether they’re about to s...

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 woman pressured to convert to Islam who was denied asylum by a Muslim Home Office officia...

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 out later this summer. 

In this special episode of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell an...

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 deficit.

Niall Gooch, writer and public servant, on the Catholic Lib Dem MP denied ho...

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 nine months and the legalisation of assisted suicide.

Dr Alka Seghal Cuthbert, Dir...

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 Muslim lobby in the Home Office.

Tom Jones, writer and Conservative councillor, on...

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 that the white British are on course to be a minority in Britain within 40 years – a...

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 speech woes.

Charlotte Gill, Daily Sceptic columnist and author of the Woke Waste substa...

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 scandal of Commonwealth votes in UK elections.

Sarah Phillimore, barrister and gend...

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 Starmer’s Brexit betrayal – and whether the Tory Party is on its last legs.

James Price, po...

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 radical as it seems.

Dan Hitchens, Senior Editor at First Things, on what's at stake in ...

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.

Andrew Orlowski, business columnist at the Telegraph, who joins Laurie in the studio ...

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 Ukraine, the effect of the war on Russia’s geopolitical position, whether MAGA is right to ...

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’, the truth about the Elgin Marbles, why the arguments for repatriating them don’t st...

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 society, Laurie’s research on hate crime and why that’s a prime example of it, why it’s so ...

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 Mirpur, Pakistan and what this says about the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Br...

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 writing is on the wall for Ed Miliband.

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