Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic – episode 26…
The boys discuss Jacob Rees-Mogg’s GB News debut, Rishi’s Northern Ireland deal and the prominent Brexiteers’ reaction to it. Nick and Toby discuss the ‘desecration’ of the Quran by pupils at a Wakefield school and whether, because of multiculturalism, Britain now has unofficial blasphemy laws.
Shamima Begum makes a return to the news and Nick and Toby discuss people’s varying reactions (as well as their own) to her wishing to return. Scott Adams has been completely cancelled and the boys go into detail regarding whether it was justified, whether Adams is on the spectrum (and then, of course, inevitably they discuss whether they themselves are on the spectrum).
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Nick is joined by Will Jones to catch up on the week’s most interesting stories as featured in the Daily Sceptic.
Nick and Toby compete in a slightly shortened version of Peak Woke.
And finally – Dr. Peterson kindly returns again to help solve our readers’ pressing problems.
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Excellent as always especially the agony aunt section with Dr Jordan Peterson!
Regarding James Bond and all the other attempted re-writes, there are two points you didn’t mention. First the point of all these attacks of white male-led franchises is not to make them politically correct, but to destroy them. If the next Bond film does badly at the box office with all the wokery thrust upon it and no more Bond films are made as a result, then job done. Secondly changing the words and making the books unreadable will have the same effect – plus who amongst the woke don’t like to desecrate a bit of culture? They can’t get enough of it.
Just listened to the podcast and thought Dr Peterson very clever this week. Thanks.
Great podcast, thank you. Increasingly I find myself in team Nick…
Loving the Peterson slot, absolutely brilliant Nick.
Toby’s over-intellectualised analysis of Scott Adams’ cancellation was pretty painful to endure, and – not for the first time – betrayed an ignorance of that on which he was supposed to be commenting. I say ‘not for the first time’, because it reminded me of Toby’s tin-eared criticism of Matt Taibi’s – clearly defined – decision to publish the Twitter files on Substack rather than having them buried by the corporate media Toby believed he should have approached. By his own admission, it would appear he really is that naive.
I’ve watched coffee with Scott Adams for many years – although dropped him for a year when he became somewhat insufferable. Three things are clear about Scott: he loves trolling his own audience (he would say ‘challenging’), he has desperately wanted to be cancelled ever since cancelling became a thing, and he has the ‘f*ck-off money’ to do it.
That he finally got his chance and seized it with both hands surprises none of us who have been fellow ‘sippers’. As Toby droned on about how Scott had lost the plot, or made a horrible error for one supposedly gifted in the art of communication, or persuasion, I started to feel a bit embarrassed for him.
Nick – who seemed more familiar with Adams – really should have shut him up as, for all his many talents and achievements, when Toby is wrong on something, my God it’s painful to listen to…