Welcome to episode 12 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:
- Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic and author of the Zone substack, on Keir Starmer’s miserabilist plan to ban smoking outside pubs;
- Len Shackleton, Professor of Economics at Buckingham University and a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, on the bizarre equal-pay ruling against Next that spells disaster for British business;
- Reverend Doctor Bernard Randall, on how he’s been persecuted by the Church of England for delivering an LGBTQ-sceptical sermon in line with Christian doctrine – and how he’s fighting back;
- And for those donating £5 a month or more to the Daily Sceptic, Laurie speaks to Alan Halsall, a leading volunteer in the Vote Leave campaign, on how his life was made a misery by the Electoral Commission because he campaigned for Brexit.
Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our donor-only content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Ben’s article here. Read Len’s articles here and here. Donate to support Reverend Randall’s legal appeal here. Read Alan Halsall’s article on the Daily Sceptic here. And get your copy of his book, Last Man Standing: Memoirs from the front line of Brexit, here. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.
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The idea of work of equal value is simply to enable women, who do less dangerous, and less physically demanding work (overall), to get the same money as men who do all the hard labour and take all the actual life threatening risk in society. It’s sex discrimination by females in their ongoing war against men. Women should not have the vote and not be allowed to be in positions of power.
Men should go on strike for 3 days. Everyone would soon realise how much society relies on men and their physical and mental prowess to make the world go around.
Are you for real?
The fact that bin ‘men’ are majority men is obviously evidence of systemic bias. We should only hire bin ‘women’ until there’s a fifty-fifty split…
…or blokes in dresses, as seemingly so many people are confused about the difference.
Note to Rev Randall: Vain is the help of man (Psalm lx.11).
One way to respond to this argument that those who voted to leave the EU didn’t know what they were doing is to say that neither did those who voted to remain. Ask them, for example, if they knew at the time what the Tripartite Agreement was.
Is the Labour Government going to ban the outdoor use of the chewing tobacco that some communities enjoy? After all, the NHS’s own advice is that the use of any sort of tobacco can be potentially harmful.
The outdoor use of this chewing tobacco has stained streets in some London boroughs red due to the expectorated residue. The borough councils have had to devote extra resources to clean this up.
Re the Brexit discission: Why the feck is the electoral commission even involved in deciding who, and how many, organisations can set themselves up to represent one or other side of a polticial debate???? If 10 organisations set themselves up, so what?
There are too many quangos meddling and restricting poltical debate and discussion unlessnits left wing, then it gets a free pass. All quangos are communist. Repeal them all.
He’s not miserable.
He is enjoying every minute of it.
Take a good long hard look at his face.
He is not the least bit bothered by it all.