Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray. John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat of superpower conflict as existential threats to the liberal, technocratic order. Amid this chaos, Rishi Sunak — former Goldman Sachs banker — has become Britain’s new prime minister. Has the technocratic ...
Oct 26, 2022•43 min
Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 22, 2022•46 min
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 17, 2022•41 min
Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 12, 2022•49 min
Freddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove. Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s the big idea? …do Conservatives have a philosophy? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of COVID policy were increasingly censored on social media. Now, Bhattacharya is taking his case to the courts to prove collusion...
Sep 30, 2022•31 min
Freddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer. The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the minority of countries that have not seen a recent Rightward populist uprising. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down with Ralph Schoellhammer, Assistant Professor of Economics at Webster University, Vienna. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 26, 2022•49 min
Florence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton. Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was the work of Peter Seaton, an Australian street artist known for large-scale graffiti. The title he gave the work was ‘Peace before Pieces’. He describes it as a ‘meditation on the dehumanisation of war’. He joined UnHerd in the studio to answer the question: is pro-peace art the next victim of trib...
Sep 22, 2022•23 min
Freddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 16, 2022•42 min
Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 14, 2022•31 min
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Florence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 15, 2022•26 min
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
