Peter Hitchens returns to the #SWYSI sofa for a wide-ranging discussion covering Covid, #Partygate and the trials and tribulations of Boris Johnson, the Metropolitan Police, Putin's intentions regarding Ukraine and the state of conservatism in the UK. ---------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If y...
Feb 02, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kellie-Jay Keen (AKA Posie Parker) is a womens' rights campaigner and prominent critic of the trans rights movement (which she criticises because of the effect she believes it has on womens). She is the founder of "Standing for Women" and appears regularly in the news and media, most recently in a heated interview with James Max on Talk Radio which went viral. --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneat...
Jan 24, 2022•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast BBC Radio 4's legendary "Quote... Unquote" has entertained audiences since 1976. However, in December 2021, fans were dismayed to discover that the show was at an end. On this week's #SWYSI, Nigel Rees, the creator & host of "Quote... Unquote", explains the events that led him to cancel his own show. He explains how the BBC's diversity quotas for greater representation of women, ethnic minorities and disabled people began to affect the programme and how the BBC's political correctness required h...
Jan 17, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Africa's population growth in the last 50 years has been unprecedented. By mid-century, the continent will make up a quarter of the global population, compared to one-tenth in 1980. By the end of the century, the proportion could be as much as 40 per cent. This is a mega-trend that should not be ignored. Africa's youth is the most striking aspect of its demography. As the rest of the world ages, and the population of many countries starts to shrink, almost 60 per cent of Africa's population is y...
Jan 02, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast A day after his landmark court ruling, retired police officer and Fair Cop founder Harry Miller joins us to discuss his victory for free speech, which saw the Court of Appeal rule that the police's definition of a 'hate incident' is unlawful and had a 'chilling effect' on his freedom of expression after he was visited over trans tweets. This is a hugely significant moment in the fight to protect free speech and could hopefully spell an end to the sinister recording of "Non-Crime Hate Incidents"....
Dec 23, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #SWYSI, award-winning Australian writer and lawyer Helen Dale discusses all things Australia. Why does Australia appear so authoritarian these days? Is this a new phenomenon or is it rooted in Australia's history and culture? --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If you prefer Au...
Dec 13, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Peter Whittle guest hosts this week's episode of Widdecombe, Webb & Woberts (#NCFWWW), feat. the Rt. Hon. Anne Widdecombe and Abi Roberts. Topics discussed include: * Barbados ditching the Monarchy. Why did the Prince of Wales apologise for Britain's role in the slave trade given that Britain also led the world in abolishing slavery? * Is the shocking removal of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson's statue in New York yet more evidence of the self-destruction of The West? * Boycotting woke companie...
Dec 06, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On 30 November 2021 Neil Oliver delivered the New Culture Forum's 2021 Smith Lecture to a sold-out audience in central London. The title to his talk was "The Attack on Our History & Culture". In recent years we have seen a concerted effort to rewrite British history, denigrating its achievements, exaggerating its faults and casting its heroes as villains. From Churchill to Nelson, our most revered national figures have been unjustly defamed & their reputations traduced. From the abolition of sla...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Peter Whittle takes #SWYSI to Brighton to interview legendary columnist and author Julie Burchill, described by the Observer as "outrageously outspoken" and "usually offensive". Julie discusses her remarkable -- and remarkably controversial -- life and career, as well as her excellent new book: "Welcome to the Woke Trials: How #Identity Killed Progressive Politics". Julie's book may be ordered here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Woke... --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show,...
Nov 29, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #SWYSI we are joined by Matt (Lord) Ridley, the distinguished journalist and businessman best known for his articles and books on science, the environment and economics. In this episode he discusses his important new book: "Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19" To quote from the book's description: "Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safe...
Nov 22, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Prof. Frank Furedi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, joins Peter Whittle on the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book "100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialization". Born in Hungary, Prof. Furedi also reminisces about witnessing that country's famous anti-communist revolution of 1956. He also argues that contemporary Hungary & Poland are being demonised in the West and unjustly caricatured in ways he does not recognise. In terms of his new book, Prof. Fure...
Nov 19, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast A year after being fired by his own charity for criticizing Black Lives Matter, Nick Buckley MBE returns to the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book: Lessons In Courage: How I Fought Back Against Cancel Culture and Won. In Lessons in Courage, Buckley argues that in our febrile cultural climate we increasingly need people to be courageous and to do what is right, not what is convenient or acceptable to fashionable ideologues. Buckley sets out a series of lessons learned throughout his life, not ha...
Nov 12, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #SWYSI, we speak with Simon Webb, host of "History Debunked", a YouTube channel aimed at correcting the many falsehoods that are currently perpetuated about Britain's island story -- such as the modern phenomenon of portraying Britain as an ancient multicultural country. Simon Webb's "History Debunked": https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoryDebu... --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath th...
Nov 09, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's "Widdecombe, Webb & Woberts", our fearless threesome -- the Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe, Emma Webb & Abi Roberts -- discuss the Cop26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow, the worrying threat to free speech posed by the draft Online Safety Bill, the Old Vic cancelling former Monty Python Terry Gilliam & more woke lunacy from the art world (this time, Tate Britain's Hogarth exhibition). --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube ...
Nov 03, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast A few days ahead of the SDP conference, Social Democratic Party Leader William Clouston joins Peter Whittle on the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his party and its policies, including the similarities and differences between the modern SDP and the party of the 1980s. Issues discussed include social conservatism, identity politics & the culture wars, immigration, the importance of the nation state, social housing, religion and the possibility of aligning with other small parties. --------------- SUBSCRIB...
Nov 01, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Starkey returns to the #SWYSI sofa to tell us why he's just launched his own YouTube channel: "David Starkey Talks". (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6t5...) "David Starkey Talks" is an exciting new venture for the popular historian and broadcaster, known for his blockbuster television documentaries. Dr. Starkey will discuss a range of subjects relating to the history of Western civilisation, unfettered and unencumbered by the restraints of main stream media programming. The new channel ...
Oct 30, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is journalist Tim Stanley, author of the new book: Whatever Happened to Tradition: History, Belonging & The Future of the West. For Tim, the West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. As Tim explains to Peter Whittle, the central argument of his book is that we can only face the future with hope if we have a proper sense of tradition – political, social and ...
Oct 26, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a special episode of Widdecombe, Webb & Woberts LIVE, Ann Widdecombe pays tribute to her good friend Sir David Amess, who was horrifically murdered in a frenzied attack during a constituency surgery. She reflects on their friendship and his career as well as his murder; and discusses the nature of the media and political attention it has received in the days following. Other topics discussed include MP safety (should constituents be vetted prior to meeting their MP?), the Online Safety Bill (...
Oct 20, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #SWYSI, Peter Hitchens discusses the British police's historic transformation into a form unrecognisable from decades past. He agues that the British police were once unique in the world. They were an important conservative & very English institution which was set up in complete distinction from continental police forces. Parliament had seen European police forces become tools of oppression. They were armed & uniformed state police whose job was to enforce the will of the state -- a...
Oct 18, 2021•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is renowned historian & biographer Andrew Roberts, author of a critically-acclaimed new biography of King George III. Britain's longest-reigning king, George III has gone down in history as 'the cruellest tyrant of this age' (Thomas Paine, eighteenth century), 'a sovereign who inflicted more profound and enduring injuries upon this country than any other modern English king' (W.E.H. Lecky, nineteenth century), 'one of England's most disastrous kings' (J.H. Plumb, ...
Oct 18, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Award-winning Colin Brazier is one of the most respected figures in broadcast journalism. His accolades include an International Emmy (for his reporting on the European migrant crisis) as well as nominations for both a BAFTA and the Royal Television Society Award for Presenter of the Year. Prior to joining GB News, where his show "Brazier" now replaces "The Andrew Neil Show" on weekday evenings, Colin was at Sky News (1997-2021). He was the first British journalist to enter Southern Lebanon with...
Oct 18, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Elliott is Chairwoman of Republicans Overseas UK, the official body representing the US Republican Party in the UK. In this interview with former BBC journalist Robin Aitken (author of "Can We Trust the BBC?"), Mrs. Elliott discusses her first-hand experiences of BBC attitudes towards Trump and the Republicans. Mrs. Elliott states that the BBC were lazy in their coverage of Trump, simply following the New York Times and Washington Post talking points. Mainstream media wanted Trump ("the bi...
Sep 27, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #SWYSI, the Chairman of Migration Watch tells the stark truth about UK immigration, revealing that he does not trust the government. He argues that government policy will increase not reduce immigration. Indeed, rather than enabling British jobs for British people post Brexit, government policy has opened up the UK job market to 600 million people globally. In the past 20 years the foreign born population of the UK has doubled to 9 million. Net immigration of 300,000 per year alre...
Sep 27, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the latest episode of Widdecombe, Webb & Woberts Live, Ann Widdecombe, Emma Webb & Abi Roberts get to grips with: * Policing climate change extremists * Shamima Begum * Trans / Puberty Blockers for under 16s * And much more... --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If you prefer Audio you can...
Sep 24, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast James Bond is a globally recognised British institution. As iconic as Big Ben and HM The Queen. But how do today's Bond films compare with the original films in the franchise, or indeed with the original books? Would Ian Fleming recognise Daniel Craig's depiction of the secret service agent? Can Bond survive into an increasingly woke future? Who should play the next Bond? Joining us to discuss this we are delighted to have renowned historian and prolific author, Prof. Jeremy Black, author of the...
Sep 21, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #SWYSI we are joined by barrister & legal commentator Francis Hoar, author of "In Protection of Freedom of Speech", a report commissioned by Laurence Fox's "Reclaim Party" and which includes a foreword by former Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption. According to Mr. Hoar, a right to freedom of expression should be enshrined in UK law to counter the rising tide of “cancel culture” and other forms of woke-inspired censorship and discrimination. His report comes as the government propos...
Sep 13, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a special programme to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the USA, Peter Whittle speaks with the renowned American conservative historian, classicist and political commentator Prof. Victor Davis Hanson. Prof. Hanson's new book (now available for pre-order in advance of its October release) is "The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America": https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dying-Citize... -------------...
Sep 13, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is Alex Deane, a writer, consultant and political commentator who appears regularly on national and international news media. A former Conservative Party aide, Alex is a founding director of Big Brother Watch and a committee member of The Freedom Association. He joins Peter Whittle on the "So What You're Saying Is..." sofa to discuss his new book "Lessons from History: Hidden Heroes & Villains from the Past and what We Can Learn from Them". Alex's book is availabl...
Sep 13, 2021•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Former BBC journalist Robin Aitken (author of "Can We Trust the BBC?") interviews Lord (Charles) Moore, former editor of The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph & The Spectator and official biographer of Margaret Thatcher. In a wide-ranging discussion, Lord Moore discusses Mrs. Thatcher's attitude towards -- and attempts to reform -- the BBC, the BBC's failure to understand how or why the public could vote for Thatcher, Brexit or Donald Trump and the *British* Broadcasting Corporation's sneering & s...
Aug 23, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Former BBC journalist Robin Aitken (author of "Can We Trust the BBC?") interviews Rod Liddle, his former boss on BBC Radio 4's "Today" programme, about BBC bias and the left's gradual takeover of the national broadcaster -- once a conservative institution -- over several decades. In a wide-ranging discussion covering their experiences at the institution, the gradual erosion of BBC impartiality and the decline of trust in the organisation, Rod Liddle and Robin Aitken also consider whether reform ...
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