In this season of festivity and joy, it’s time for the Sounding Board Christmas message. Will it be a message of hope for the future? Will we be encouraging others to “stay safe” and keep away from Granny? Don’t be silly. In this special Christmas edition of Sounding Board Nic keeps it very simple, and...
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The government found just the excuse it needed – a new strain of the coronavirus – to lockdown in all but name and cancel Christmas for a huge swathe of rhe country. We talk about the rules of Tier 4 and how it was announced, and whether there needs to be a new scientific discipline...
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As England heads toward a return to the Lockdown tiering system and out of the 4 week November national Lockdown, we discuss how meaningless the numbers are that have driven us this far. How exactly to do you count false positives with the now ubiquitous PCR test for SARS-CoV-2? Does the recent Chinese study really...
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After a brief hiatus (circuit break?) due to work commitments, we’re back, and we’re raring to go. This time, we talk about the recent US Election. We discuss the results and whether they appear, on the face of it, to be slightly dodgy. We then discuss the corporate press (legacy media), fact checkers and the...
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After receiving our first ever gift from a listener of a bottle of scotch, Andrew explains how whisky is made and what makes a good one. We then talk about free speech and whether it’s ever right to have any restrictions on it. The Darren Grimes incident of the last week shows just how far...
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This week, Nic notices that there has been a noticeable change in the political landscape, with the two main parties finally diverging over lockdown policy. But is this a good thing or not? Certainly when all political parties agree then alarm bells should ring, but if one goes even further, even more authoritarian, will that...
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Is fear the latest virtue that must be signalled? As we discuss Trump’s recovery and Andrew’s wife experience with the NHS, we ask whether it’s now trendy to show just how fearful you are. We also talk about social media censorship, and whether you’d end up with even more liars, as all the proof they...
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Some actual infections have finally occurred in Nic’s office, and of course, everyone is fine, but wouldn’t it have been better for this to happen in the summer months rather than trying to suppress until the changing of the seasons when all the other bugs appear again? Trump also tests positive, along with his wife...
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The biggest encroachment on civil liberties has taken place in 2020, and under a Conservative government. How did this happen without any scrutiny? Democracy was one of the first things to be suspended, so how can it be used to check the power of those at the top? Do opposition parties ever oppose when it...
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Elliott’s Law
This episode, we discuss Elliott’s Law, which Andrew has just created: a) In politics, respect only flows one way: in the direction of statism. People more statist than you are always “misguided”, people less statist are always “dangerous”. There’s this idea that a little (or a lot) more state than what you prefer, is always...
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