As the Prime Minister announces the changes to guidance and regulations effective from 1June 2020, we look at the stupidity of the first set of regulations, and how adding a 6 person limit could make it worse for people, not better. Gardens become legal places to congregate, but don’t think about going indoors for a...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 –...
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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...
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House Arrest Ends, More Liberties Infringed
As the 3rd amendment to the Coronavirus Restrictions regulations are dumped unceremoniously on the statute books with no scrutiny whatsoever, we look at just how absurd they are, and whether they are an easing of the lockdown or not. With regulations now moving from public to private spaces, and definitions emerging of just what “a...
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