The Sceptic

Rob Bates on the great student visa scam, the trouble with Labour’s immigration reforms and the desperate smears of Hope Not Hate.

In Episode 70 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Rob Bates, Research Director at the Centre for Migration Control, on Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms and whether they go far enough, the scandal of migrants using student visas to claim asylum and what Reform should do next on migration policy. Plus: Hope Not Hate’s bizarre attempt to smear Laurie in its ‘State of Hate’ report.

 

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

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Fred de Fossard on how the Equality Act fosters discrimination against white males, and Tilak Doshi on Germany’s chemicals industry bloodbath.

In Episode 69 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute, on the scourge of Labour’s Equality Act 2010, why Reform is right to repeal it and whether Restore Britain is a threat to Farage.

And Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, on how Net Zero is sending Germany’s chemicals industry down the drain, and why sceptics are the real climate scientists.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

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Andrew Orlowski on AI and why it’s overhyped, and Ben Pile on the green zealots’ failed temperature predictions.

In Episode 68 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Andrew Orlowski, Telegraph Business and Technology Columnist, on why AI is a bubble waiting to burst and why we won’t be seeing datacentres in space.

And Ben Pile, journalist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the green delusions of the Telegraph’s resident solar evangelist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, and why Tony Blair is criticising Ed Miliband over Net Zero.

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The downfall of Mandelson and McSweeney, the scourge of Westminster ‘comms’ brain and why Blue Labour was always fake.

In Episode 67 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Felix Hardinge, a writer and cultural critic who works in financial services.

Laurie and Felix discuss the defenestration of Peter Mandelson and what his elevation to US ambassador in the first place says about Keir Starmer; his departed chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and whether his ‘Blue Labour’ politics really existed; why Starmer’s crackdown on the riots is what killed it off; why the PM is so uniquely hated – and why the Right would be worse off if he resigned; plus The Thick of It and how it convinced a generation of politicos that politics is really just media management, and why what the country really needs is ‘reheated Thatcherism’.

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On this Special Episode of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Kathryn Porter, energy consultant, commentator and the founder of Watt-Logic, on the suicidal delusions of our green elites’ electrification crusade.

As we are told to use electricity more and more and gas less and less, while relying ever more heavily on costly and intermittent renewables, will the grid be able to cope?  

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Produced by Richard Eldred. Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.