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The Left Right Game: Covid19 Edition

May 27, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:43:28

It’s been a while coming, but this week sees the return of an old favourite: The Left Right game.

After a brief chat about Dominic Cummings and the latest, supposed lockdown breaking by an official, Nic launches into the latest Left Right game, this time with a Covid19 twist.

If you’re new to the podcast, this is where one of us reads out a selection of policies, individuals, institutions, or indeed anything. The other then has to say whether they’re left or right (and justify his position). Sound easy? It’s harder than you think…

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The Left’s Lost Love, Brexit and the Covid Flat Curvers

May 20, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:33:29

In this outdoor, socially intimate edition, Andrew asks whether the Left have lost their traditional hard working ethos in favour of the politics of envy, Nic finally finds something he thinks Boris is doing right – Brexit, and can we come up with a better term for lockdown scepticism?

From our local country park, and now available again on YouTube and your favourite podcast app.

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Why don’t the left get memes?

May 19, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 00:23:12

In another Sounding Board Short, we talk about Andrew’s meme on teaching unions that went started some hilarious twitter encounters, and the latest nonsense from local authorities advising schools not to open.

Why don’t those on the left actually get memes?

Did this one in particular hit a nerve with teachers?

When will schools actually open, and will they be an environment parents will want to send their children back to?

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Are Teaching Unions Keeping Schools Closed?

May 16, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 00:17:53

In our first Sounding Board Short, we travel to a nearby park and chat about Nic’s article on hectordrummond.com about the difficult decisions ahead in deciding when it’s time to send the children back to school.

We learn about the over zealous teaching unions and the local authority taking crazy steps to essentially stop schools from opening in any practical sense.

And won’t somebody think of the children? We talk about mental well-being and whether the guidance brought in will have a damaging effect on young minds.

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Revised Regulations, Shameful Schools and Manipulating Models

May 13, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 01:23:13
In this edition, we talk about the new, revised regulations that have just come into force during the current covid-19 lockdown.
We talk about the effects of the lockdown so far, and indeed the social distancing guidance that occurred beforehand. What are the chances of you succumbing to sars-cov-19 right now? Are you more at risk from some horrific trouser related accident?
We discuss how schools are interpreting the regulations, and indeed the guidance, which already goes further than the regulations itself.
Finally, we take a second look at Neil Ferguson’s computer model and ask ourselves what it tells us about the people who programmed it.
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Ferguson’s Fall, Imperfect Polling and Messy Modelling

May 8, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 01:36:52

As Neil Ferguson is revealed to have broken the lockdown that his infamous computer model insisted we must institute, we talk about poetic justice, elitism and whether Professor Ferguson should ever have been trusted based on his catastrophic track record.

We also take a look at the computer code behind the Imperial College model and why it should never, ever have been given the time of day.

Andrew observes different responses to the Ferguson’s fall from grace from the political left and right, whilst wondering if Carol Cadwalladr is actually a creation of Andrew Doyle and Nic asks whether Universal Basic Income could work for healthcare.

Finally, we ask why do the polls show such support for the lockdown and for not relaxing it? Nic has a theory but do you agree?

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Left Vs Right And Ideological Centrism

April 30, 2020 Nic Elliott Podcasts 0:51:40
Even though we’re still in lockdown, we’ve started talking about some of our favourite subjects again.  This time it’s our observations of the political left and right.
Are their criticisms of each other similar?  Or are there differences in the way they try and take each other down.
And what about the centrists again – are they the moderate, evidence following bunch they like to make out, are they as ideological as the rest of them, or are they actually the most stuck in their ways?
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Are Today’s Socialists Any Different?

April 28, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:33:19

In this episode, Andrew asks whether today’s socialists, who try very hard to distance themselves from the socialists of the past, are really any different?

What are today’s socialists promising that yesterday’s didn’t promise in the past? And are their methods any different? If not, why should we expect any different outcomes?

Nic then asks if we can apply the same logic to centrists.  To do this, we discuss the different types of centrists, and ask whether you can have a hard and a soft centrist, and what distinguishes them.

We also talk about how the private sector is far better at adapting to changes in demand than the public sector and how the current Covid19 crisis has shown government run institutions to be very slow to react.

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CDC Infectious Tests, Rushed UK Law and Stagnant NHS

April 24, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 00:35:11

As the CDC accidentally infect those they are testing for SARS-CoV-2, the UK Government amends its initial regulations governing the lockdown, but as well as closing some loopholes, opens some new ones.

We discuss whether this kind of law making can ever work, and whether centralised health provision by the state produces anything other than problems.

Will the NHS ever introduce modern methods of healing such as the use of Oxygen, as used in the private sector?

Was the rush to build new ventilators really necessary now that some clever medical thinking is improving how sufferers breathe?

Will either of us actually take a government sanctioned vaccine when one becomes available, or should we just take our chances?

And is there a danger that while stuck in our homes, we might get stuck in other, more awkward places?

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Our NHS – Operation Human Shield

April 22, 2020 Andrew Elliott Podcasts 1:04:53

In another Lockdown edition, we talk about Boris’s message to the public on leaving the hospital, and how he’s positioning himself as not just the ultimate centrist, but the ultimate NHS Tory.

Just how much of GDP will be taken up by the NHS in the future?

Will the government’s handling of the pandemic mean that Labour are a shoe in at the next election? Or are any new labour leaders just filling a vacancy and nothing more.

Can Operation: Human Shield last long enough to allow some new ventilators to be approved by the UK’s cumbersome regulatory regime?

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