In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Liz Truss's PopCon event, the U.K.'s broken asylum system and the Premier League's Stadium Stasi spying on fans for wrongthink.
New Labour's Equality Act embedded identity politics into our public institutions and paved the way for the ideological capture of our schools, civil service and NHS, says Tory MP Miriam Cates. It needs an overhaul.
Dr David McGrogan considers the civil war erupting in the Conservative Party between national and liberal conservatism and says the former is bound to triumph because the latter is a contradiction in terms.
Politicians claim to be cutting the asylum backlog, but what they don't tell you is they are approving 76% of applications – more than double the EU average – and failing to deport most of the rest, says David Craig.
Tony Blair has emerged as something of a Net Zero sceptic, suggesting the U.K. focus on finance and tech to fund the global energy transition rather than cutting emissions.
National identity cards are, as everyone should know, a terrible idea. But modern Digital ID, based on crypto block chain technology and protective of privacy, is a very different animal.
Law Professor David McGrogan is puzzled by Alastair Campbell’s moral grandstanding over Lineker, given his role in compiling the 'Dodgy Dossier' and his attacks on a BBC journalist when he was Tony Blair's comms chief.
Tony Blair has called on the Government to introduce a national digital ID card and, frighteningly, a poll shows that more than half of Brits supported such an invasive and high-risk surveillance project.
The Government has announced its plans to create digital identities for accessing public services but “without creating ID cards” (see how they did that?).
Tony Blair has come up with some breathtakingly unoriginal proposals for 'future-proofing’ education – scrap exams and teach 'creativity’! It's same snake oil that education reformers have been selling for 150 years.
