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School vs Education

October 9, 2024 Andrew Elliott 1:31:06

We start this week with a history of education and schooling, and how Prussia pioneered methods used on children to grow the next generation of workforce.

Andrew surprises with his desire to be Kamala’s campaign manager, and we get back to our Sounding Board roots as we talk Trump, the 2024 Selection, VP candidates and the future of both US parties.

Another old favourite, the NHS is discussed, and how bad behaviour (killing and maiming people) is rewarded with more and more money (your money).

And we end on an interesting notion from James Corbett (corbettreport.com) on whether we should not only reject the “They”‘s agendas and declarations and pacts, but come up with our own. Our own personal declarations of independence.

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Changing Minds and Reclarifying Positions

August 14, 2023 Andrew Elliott 01:11:04

This episode, Andrew starts by changing his position on the bible, from what it was a couple of weeks ago, due to our last podcast.

Nic and Andrew then begin to reclarify all the things that they have changed their minds on over the past few years, from vaccines to myocarditis to the deep state.

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A History Of Violence

September 27, 2022 Andrew Elliott 01:53:29

Have you wondered how government became the way it is? In this episode, I take a look at the history of the state. How states came into being and how they morphed into the totalitarian juggernauts they are today.

We also answer a question about voluntaryism from one of our listeners and talk a little about delicious rocks.

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What Will You Tolerate?

September 13, 2022 Andrew Elliott 01:51:12

You probably think the government does some good things. It’s why you vote.

You might think that at least some regulation is needed to prevent sub standard goods entering the market place. Possibly you think that the state is the only mechanism for courts, the police and… roads.

Perhaps you think the safety net of the NHS and income support can only be provided by government.

If so, just what are you willing to tolerate?

How many bad things can the government do before you say no?

How many lives have to be destroyed by lockdowns?

How many wars need to be started?

How many children need to be starved to death in Yemen?

I ask again. What will you tolerate?

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Bonus Episode – The Tyranny Of The Majority

December 13, 2021 Andrew Elliott 00:06:02

This is an audio recording of a blog post I wrote in February of last year, but is still relevant. You can find it here, on our website: If we’re going to argue about the tyranny of the majority, I will win.

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Has Politics Changed Forever

September 7, 2021 Andrew Elliott 01:17:55

Has politics as we know it been suspended indefinitely “due to covid”?

If that was the end of an era, then what is the next political landscape going to look like?

We get back to talking politics again, and whether we really are living in a monopolitical world.

We address the continued presence of woke agendas, the disappearance of Keith Starmer, and just what might happen next if governments push Central Bank Digital Currencies.

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The What’s Worse Game

July 2, 2021 Andrew Elliott 00:45:08

After a brief hiatus while Nic recovered from surgery, we’re back with a new game of Andrew’s devising.

The What’s Worse Game.

In this new game, Andrew gives Nic two deliberately awful options and asks him to say which one is worse.

Sometimes personal, often extreme, Nic reacts to each and tries to justify why he’s right.

But does it reveal an aspect where libertarians and voluntaryists find they end up defending a least worst position without always advocating for the end of the state?

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Changing One Thing About the State & The Dominance of the Left

March 6, 2020 Andrew Elliott 01:02:02

What would it be? Not abolish the state entirely, but make one change to it and the way it works.

Would it be simple and maybe cliché and just privatise the NHS, or would you want to abolish state education?

How about the way we pay tax? Or how we deal with private property?

These are just some of the examples we talk about this week, as we get into some “what if” scenarios about our pet project of trying to shrink the size of government.

The discussion then turns to whether or not the political left have dominance over the right. Why do right wingers cede ground to the left all the time, and is it just a one way street?

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The Differences Between The Left and The Right

January 22, 2020 Nic Elliott

There are some fairly fundamental characteristics of being left wing and right wing.  But do people actually know the differences, or would they mis-categorise a lot of the traits of both?

We discuss whether Andrew’s succinct definitions of the left and the right hold water and then go on to attempt to describe the traits of both left wingers and right wingers and whether they overlap.

Regulation and nationalisation quickly become topics of conversation, along with the use of evidence and intention.   But are we missing how class and power are just as important in these definitions?

Find out in the latest edition of Sounding Board.

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A La Cartism, Boris and the next UK General Election

November 14, 2019 Andrew Elliott 00:50:00

Has Boris found the magic centrist formula for winning the election with his championing of both the free market and the public sector? Or will the Conservatives desire to spend, spend, spend, cause them to look like Labour Lite?

After writing this blog post before there was a general election set, has anything changed?

We review Boris’s first campaign video and discuss whether this is all very smart politics, or if by shifting the Overton window ever statewards without making practical and moral cases for shrinking the state and getting out of our lives, it’s only a matter of time before a Communist gets into power.

Blog Post in the intro – https://soundingboard.com/boriss-a-la-cartism-is-exactly-what-the-public-will-vote-for/

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