In Episode 24 of the Sceptic: Toby Young on Labour’s Banter Police, Sam Bidwell on Two-Tier Tan Ikram and Niall Gooch on Our Woke Institutions

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 Institute, on the judge who declined to jail the woman who milkshaked Nigel Farage – and what this says about our justice system.
  • And for our premium subscribers, I’m joined by Niall Gooch, public servant and writer for the Spectator, the Critic and UnHerd, on what it means for conservatives when they can no longer trust their country’s institutions.

Donate to the Daily Sceptic to access our premium content. Follow Laurie on X. Read Laurie’s article on Tan Ikram here. Follow Toby on X. Read more about the Worker Protection Bill here. Follow Sam on X. Read Niall’s article here. Follow Niall on X. Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

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