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Welcome to The Sceptic, the Daily Sceptic’s weekly podcast. Host Laurie Wastell interviews the authors of some of the website’s most talked about recent pieces. Please subscribe, and remember: question everything; stay sane; live free. Produced by Richard Eldred.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 1h 4min
Suicide of a Nation? | Matt Goodwin The Sceptic Ep.73
Matt Goodwin on Britain’s demographic suicide and Eugyppius on Trump’s Iran blunder. Plus: the truth about the oil crisis.
In Episode 73 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Matthew Goodwin, broadcaster, author and Reform UK’s candidate for Gorton & Denton, on why Britain is facing a demographic crisis – and how to stop it.
Eugyppius, author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronical, on America’s war in Iran, the murky strategic thinking behind it and whether it will prove to be Trump’s greatest mistake.
And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, on how Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz shows the vital importance of oil to the world economy – and exposes the fantasies of the green zealots.
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00:00 Intro
00:01:21 Matt Goodwin on Suicide of a Nation
00:04:03 Demographic Projections
00:06:19 Silence on Demography
00:11:40 Two Tier Multiculturalism
00:15:12 War on British History
00:18:35 Policy Solutions
00:27:33 In Group Preference
00:30:17 Reform as Vehicle
00:33:42 Eugyppius on Trump's Iran War
00:39:45 Opportunistic War
00:42:55 Strait of Hormuz Closure
00:46:01 European Response
00:48:48 Trump Betrayal
00:55:41 Midterms and Oil Prices
01:00:34 Tilak Doshi on Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters
01:06:56 Comparison to 1970s
01:13:36 North Sea Reserves
01:19:57 Net Zero Fantasies

Mar 20, 2026 • 52min
The Fall of Tower Hamlets | The Sceptic Ep.72
The forgotten story of how Tower Hamlets was taken over by Bangladeshi-Muslim clan politics. Plus: Ben Pile on Paul Ehrlich’s legacy of lies.
In Episode 72 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Daniel Dieppe, researcher and political commentator, on the shocking forgotten story of how Tower Hamlets fell victim to Bangladeshi-Muslim clan politics.
And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Ben Pile, journalist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the death of biologist and climate alarmist Paul Ehrlich at the age of 93, and his legacy of lies.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 52min
The Death Throes of Multicultural Britain | The Sceptic Ep.71
David Shipley on how Labour just admitted that multiculturalism is dead. Plus: Chris Morrison on killer carbon pipelines.
In Episode 71 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell and journalist David Shipley discuss the Labour Government’s bizarre, draconian and at times comical new social cohesion strategy, “Protecting What Matters” – and the grim truth it reveals about multicultural Britain.
And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on the Government’s mad plans to build carbon capture pipelines that could end up suffocating us in our beds.
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00:00 Intro
00:01:30 David Shipley on Labour's Cohesion Report
00:04:17 English Ethnicity
00:06:31 Integration Emergency
00:07:16 Southport Fallout
00:10:05 Tinderbox Reality
00:13:03 Online Censorship
00:17:35 Modern Patriotism
00:25:23 Call to Action
00:28:41 Two-Way Integration
00:32:47 Hidden Extremism
00:37:36 Anti-Muslim Definition
00:40:40 Hate Crime Pledge
00:43:36 Report Verdict
00:44:40 Chris Morrison on Killer Carbon Pipelines
00:47:07 Asphyxiation Risk
00:49:03 Past Leaks
00:53:13 Safety Concerns
00:55:47 Pointless Cost
01:00:18 Net Zero Fantasy
01:04:18 CO2 Pollutant
01:08:32 Climate Politics
01:13:53 Human CO2 Share

Mar 6, 2026 • 21min
The Great Asylum Scam | Rob Bates – The Sceptic Ep.70
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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Feb 27, 2026 • 40min
The Inequality Act | Fred de Fossard – The Sceptic Ep.69
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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Feb 20, 2026 • 34min
Bursting the AI Bubble | Andrew Orlowski – The Sceptic Ep.68
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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Feb 13, 2026 • 40min
The Great ‘Comms’ Con | Felix Hardinge – The Sceptic Ep.67
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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Feb 6, 2026 • 26min
The Electrification Delusion – Kathryn Porter | Sceptic Special Episode
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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Jan 30, 2026 • 36min
The Reform Revolution | Tom Jones – The Sceptic Ep.66
Tom Jones on Reform, the Tories and the future of the Right, and Tilak Doshi on Trump’s America vs the global blue team.
In Episode 66 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Tom Jones, Deputy Online Editor at the Critic and Conservative councillor, about what the string of Right-wing Tory defections to Reform means for the future of the British Right.
And Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, on the Trump administration’s battles against the EU’s censorship agenda and Net Zero ideology worldwide – and within the liberal-globalist establishment at home.
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Jan 23, 2026 • 33min
The Stakeholder State | David Frost – The Sceptic Ep.65
David Frost on the never-ending scourge of New Labour’s “stakeholder” revolution – and why Britain must reclaim free-market thinking.
In Episode 65 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to David Frost. David Frost, Lord Frost of Allenton, is a former diplomat and was the chief Brexit negotiator under Boris Johnson. He is a columnist at the Daily Telegraph and is now a non-aligned peer and the Director-General of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
Laurie and David discuss David’s plans at the IEA and why the case for free-market thinking is more important than ever; the “Stakeholder State” and why it stops governments from doing anything; why it didn’t come about by accident but rather was built by New Labour; why those complaining about “division” and “populism” really just hate democracy; why the claim that free markets are bad for “communities” is nonsense; the tyranny of “independent” experts; why consensus isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and why sometimes, the best thing is for the state to just get out of way.
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