This week, Nic wants to steel man vaccines. Let’s be honest. We struggle with this one! Is it possible to steel man the arguments for vaccinating the entire population (including people who have had it and are now immune) without steel manning authoritarianism? We certainly give it the old college try along with making a...
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This episode Andrew wants to talk about something close to his heart: Gaming. More specifically, he wants to talk about gamers, as they have been in and out of the media for the past few years. We start by talking about games themselves and what they entail, to give you an idea of the type...
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This week, we’re back talking about the only game in town: the ‘rona. We discuss the ridiculous behaviour of a new phenomenon: “leapers” and relay information about how well the new vaccine centre around the corner from Sounding Board HQ is doing. Spoiler: not very. We also discuss covid centrism, as well as applying it...
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Andrew is calling for a General Election, but do we really want Keith in charge? Is there a better model of healthcare for the Covid age? Are neo-liberals just itching to tame but not eliminate state intervention? And have people outsourced their morals to a higher power – the state. Please visit our website to...
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Speak to anyone on the evangelical left, and they’ll tell you that cancel culture doesn’t exist. They’ll maintain that cancel culture is merely just consequences. That people are simply being held to account for things that they are saying or doing. And by holding them to account, they’re only using free speech. But the question...
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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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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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Motorcar Musings
Over the past couple of months, Andrew has found that some of his best thoughts come when he’s driving. As he can’t very well text and drive, he’s been recording them on his phone. With a couple of months of recordings now accumulated, he decided to play them to Nic in order for them to...
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