In this week’s bumper episode of London Calling, James Delingpole and I discuss James’s recent gig in Dorset and the division in towns like Bridport and Totnes between the ‘woke’ and the ‘awake’, particularly over traffic calming measures; they go on to talk about Yuval Harari’s recent suggestion on the Lex Friedman podcast that ‘conspiracy theorists’ should be banned from the internet and I ask James to respond to Harari’s claim that some conspiracy theories, particularly those that blame the world’s problems on an elite cabal of billionaires and their acolytes, sound a lot like the Protocols of the Elders of the Zion; we then talk about James’s theory that Paul McCartney was replaced by the fake Paul when he supposedly died in 1966, with me expressing some scepticism; next we discuss Ron DeSantis’s fading hopes of becoming the Republican Presidential nominee, which I think is a shame, and whether the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Trump (which James still believes); and that leads to a longer, shoutier argument about whether James’s conspiracy theory about the ‘death jab’ being manufactured by the ‘cabal’ to decimate the global population turned out to be true, with James maintaining it has and me arguing it hasn’t; finally, in Culture Corner, I heap praise on They Cloned Tyrone, a new sci-fi conspiracy thriller on Netflix, and Lioness, the new Taylor Sheridan series on Paramount+, while James enthuses about Kohrra, an Indian police procedural on Netflix.
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