In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are the double standards of woke willy-waving, Eddie Izzard gatecrashing all-women shortlists and our new pint-size PM.
In this week’s London Calling we discuss whether Rishi’s coronation is a WEF coup, the oddity of Just Stop Oil attacking a man who agrees with them about everything, and whether the world ‘globalist’ is anti-Semitic.
Rishi Sunak’s installation as Prime Minister is not the result of a globalist plot masterminded by the WEF. If there’s an invisible hand at work, it’s that of the financial markets.
New PM Rishi Sunak was the lockdown Chancellor. But he has also boasted he cut short an overseas trip to stop lockdown last December. Can he be trusted to stick to a sceptical line on the new public health orthodoxy?
Arguments about how ‘conservative’ the leadership candidates are is pointless since no one really knows what ’conservatism’ means and looking back to Bolingbroke, Burke or Oakeshott doesn’t really help.
Even if you dislike Boris because of his support for lockdowns, vaccine passports and Net Zero, he would be a better PM than Keir Starmer and Labour will be more likely to win the next election if the Tories choose Rishi.
Publications like the Times and Nature are still publishing pieces pushing the case for lockdowns using discredited claims and fantasy modelling. We are not out of the woods yet. The lockdown fanatics have gone nowhere.
As it becomes increasingly obvious the lockdown policy was a colossal error, those responsible are reacting in two ways: claiming they always knew it was a mistake or doubling down.
The back-pedalling race has begun. Now that we have a new Prime Minister in the UK, let’s see who else joins the contest – who will be inspired to go next. The list is a long one.
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
