The Charles III paradox: Anti-establishment King
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Sep 16, 2022•42 min
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.
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Episodes
Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine
Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 14, 2022•31 min
The great excess deaths mystery
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by Stuart McDonald to discuss the curious case of the UK's excess deaths. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 07, 2022•37 min
Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming
Freddie Sayers meets Thomas Fazi. Faced with post-pandemic economic collapse, war in Ukraine and an unprecedented energy crisis, citizens of the UK and Europe are voicing their discontent. Via anti-government campaigns like ‘Don’t Pay’ and ‘Enough is Enough’, people previously unmotivated by radical politics are becoming more and more rebellious. As a challenging winter approaches, is Europe about to see a mass movement of civil disobedience? Writer and activist Thomas Fazi thinks so. He joined ...
Sep 01, 2022•52 min
Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to economic historian Prof. Wolfgang Streeck about the crisis in Germany and its implications for the future of Europe. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 26, 2022•45 min
Lionel Shriver: We need to talk about Ezra Miller
Freddie Sayers meets Lionel Shriver. When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller. In 2012 Miller came out as queer, saying “I don’t identify as a man, I don’t identify as a woman, I barely identify as a human.” And in the ensuing years, outlandish and expressive clothing came to typify the actor, who became somewhat of a standard bearer for queer identity. But recently, Miller’s ...
Aug 22, 2022•42 min
His wife's plea: The case for Julian Assange
Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange. The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house arrest, hidden from extradition inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019 has been held in Belmarsh prison. During that time, he has married and had two children with a lawyer called Stella Mori...
Aug 08, 2022•56 min
Slavoj Žižek: We are addicted to chaos
Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek. In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek j...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr
David Fuller: What happened to Jordan Peterson?
Freddie Sayers meets David Fuller. Followers of the clinical psychologist and now world-famous member of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, Jordan Peterson, have noted a radical change in his video style in recent weeks. For David Fuller, founder of Rebel Wisdom, these videos ‘signalled a watershed moment’ for Peterson, from truth-seeker and mediator between Left and Right to a blinkered tribalist. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down in the studio with Fuller to dig a little deeper into his reservations ...
Aug 01, 2022•47 min
Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a mistake?
Was the sexual revolution a mistake? Did unfettered freedom help or harm women? Florence Read is joined by OnlyFans star Aella and the author of 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution', Louise Perry, to find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 28, 2022•1 hr
Lord Frost: Liz Truss is the change candidate
Boris Johnson's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has put his support behind Liz Truss. He sat down with Freddie Sayers to explain that decision, and whether today's Conservatives add up to a philosophy of government... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 22, 2022•42 min
Alex Jones documentary banned from social media
Florence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 15, 2022•26 min
How the West brought economic disaster on itself
Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 11, 2022•38 min
What Boris Johnson's resignation really means
After the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and with a leadership election looming, UnHerd convened some regular contributors for an emergency roundtable. Has the populist experiment run its course in the UK, or is it only just beginning? Joining Freddie Sayers to see beyond the Westminster speculation and get to grips with this historical moment were non-affiliated life peer of the House of Lords Baroness Claire Fox and UnHerd writers Will Lloyd and Aris Roussinos. Read the Po...
Jul 08, 2022•46 min
Martin Kulldorff: Lessons from Sweden for the next pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic began and most of the world went into lockdown, Scandinavia bucked the status-quo by keeping their society almost completely open. At the time, there was a sense that Sweden, Denmark and Norway would pay a dire price for their decision. But looking back now, with all the data on Covid deaths at hand, it seems that their pandemic policy was a success. Why did rest of the world get it so wrong? Freddie Sayers sat down with Swedish biostatistician and co-author of the Gre...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Crypto CEO: My stand against woke workers
Freddie Sayers meets Jesse Powell. Jesse Powell is the CEO of Kraken, one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in the world. He has been in the headlines this week for publishing a decidedly libertarian memo about his company's working culture that challenged any workers claiming offence on topics such as pronoun policies or racial diversity targets to find work elsewhere. Kraken's list of values includes the right to bear arms, bodily autonomy on vaccines and a moratorium on enquiring about...
Jun 21, 2022•36 min
Aris Roussinos: Inside the nationalist militia on Ukraine’s frontline
Freddie Sayers speaks to UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos, reporting from the frontline of the war in Ukraine. Read the article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 17, 2022•37 min
Silkie Carlo: Chinese CCTV is watching you
Florence Read meets Silkie Carlo. There are six million security cameras in use in the UK, one for every 11 people, and the majority are Chinese surveillance systems. London, where UnHerd has its offices, is the most surveilled city outside of China, and has more cameras per person than Beijing. So it has to be asked, are we being watched? That is one claim made by a new report from Big Brother Watch on surveillance cameras made by Chinese companies. Silkie Carlo, one of the editors of the repor...
Jun 13, 2022•22 min
Ilya Shapiro: Georgetown diversicrats forced me out of my job
Freddie Sayers meets Ilya Shapiro. Ilya Shapiro was due to start his new job as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown's Law Centre for the Constitution. But this week, he quit. All because of a single Tweet. Freddie Sayers invited Shapiro to the studio to understand how censorship under the guise of 'diversity and inclusion' at Georgetown had played a part in his resignation. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 09, 2022•29 min
Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid
Freddie Sayers sits down to discuss the pandemic response with Biologist, Bret Weinstein. Before the pandemic, evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen professor Bret Weinstein was lauded by both sides of the political divide for his insights into the crisis on American campuses. As a member of the so-called 'intellectual dark web', Weinstein was expanding his audience and being profiled by legacy media like the New York Times. Then the pandemic began and his heterodox perspective suddenly fe...
Jun 06, 2022•48 min
Rejected from a London university for being Russian
UnHerd's Florence Read meets Elena Ledneva. Elena Ledneva, a woman living with her husband and young child in the UK, applied for a Master's course in hospitality at the University of West London. Elena had years of experience in running events, including welcoming international delegates to the Sochi Winter Olympics, so on paper, she would seem to be the ideal candidate. But last week she was rejected due to 'the situation in Ukraine'. Was she really rejected for being Russian? Elena joined Flo...
May 30, 2022•14 min
WHO epidemiologist: The truth about monkeypox
Freddie Sayers meets David Heymann. Will monkeypox be the next pandemic after COVID? To try to find an answer, Freddie Sayers invited Professor David Heymann to the UnHerd studio. Currently based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Heymann is one of the world’s most senior infectious disease epidemiologists. For 22 years he worked at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, as chief of the AIDS research programme and Assistant Director for Health Security. Before tha...
May 27, 2022•22 min
World expert Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?
Freddie Sayers meets Pavel Podvig. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the outcome that nobody has wanted to contemplate is that of Russian nuclear escalation. Threats that “mirror moves” would be made by the Kremlin if NATO expanded, as we heard in last week’s interview with UN representative for Russia Dmitry Polyanskiy , suggest that a strike might not be out of the question. With Finland and Sweden seeking to join NATO, is nuclear war more likely now that it was three months ago? By trying to pus...
May 20, 2022•26 min
Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status
Freddie Sayers meets Michael Sandel. Do we deserve what we have? Are the elites any better than the rest of us? Do the right people get to run the world? One political philosopher who attempts to tackle these big questions is Professor Michael Sandel. A Harvard professor since the 1980s and world famous author of many bestselling books, including 'What Money Can't Buy', and most recently, 'The Tyranny of Merit', Sandel has made the case for overhauling Western neoliberalism. The alternative soci...
May 16, 2022•45 min
Kremlin Spokesman: "There is no war in Ukraine"
Freddie Sayers meets Dmitriy Polyanskiy. First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy joins Freddie Sayers to discuss the nuclear threat against NATO members and possible conclusions to the conflict in Ukraine. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 12, 2022•42 min
Curtis Yarvin: Why America should become a monarchy
Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson . His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainstream media. Now, people are trying to make sense of some of what Yarvin wants for the Western nations he criticises and where his thinking might go n...
May 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Danish professor: mRNA vaccine study sends 'danger signals'
Freddie Sayers meets Professor Christine Stabell Benn. A new Danish study reveals disparities in all-cause mortality between mRNA and adenovirus vaccines. The results raise some difficult questions about the unexpected effects of the most popular COVID vaccines. Freddie Sayers speaks to the study's author Prof. Christine Stabell-Benn, from the University of Southern Denmark, to find out more. Read the full Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 03, 2022•35 min
Douglas Murray: The gullible Right has fallen for Putin
Freddie Sayers discusses the backlash against Western values with Douglas Murray When Douglas Murray was writing his new book The War on the West, Putin had not yet launched an actual war on the edge of Europe. Now, two months after the invasion of Ukraine, has the battle of ideas he writes about been put into perspective? Freddie Sayers speaks to Douglas Murray about the factions of the Right who have been fooled by Putin’s ‘woke West’ propaganda and why the war in Ukraine is not the wake-up ca...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Michael Tracey: When does anti-war become pro-Putin?
Freddie Sayers meets Michael Tracey. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western media has been overwhelmed with support for Zelensky's resistance and condemnation of Putin's invasion. Intervention from the US and Europe has now extended to supplying arms and sanctioning Russia. Some are demanding this support goes even further, suggesting 'no fly zones' or boots on the ground in Ukraine. Journalist, Substacker and Twitter provocateur Michael Tracey takes a very different view. Despite initia...
Apr 19, 2022•48 min
Sergej Sumlenny: "Get ready for the break up of Russia"
Freddie Sayers meets Sergej Sumlenny. As the war in Ukraine has become more entrenched, there has been much discussion of the small Eastern European states which might be annexed into the Russian Federation. One political scientist and journalist has taken a different view. Sergej Sumlenny is Russian-born, but lives in Berlin. On Twitter he predicted that rather than expanding, Russia was due to dramatically contract. Might he be right? In principle, Sumlenny argues, Russia's many ethnic states ...
Apr 11, 2022•32 min
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