This time on #SWYSI, we are joined by Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative and author of the New York Times best-seller "The Benedict Option", one of the most discussed religious books of the last decade. Rod's newest book is called: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Not-Lie...) In this book, Dreher draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers. "For years,...
Mar 31, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Should hate crimes be treated differently or more severely than other crimes? The shocking murder of Sarah Everard has focussed national attention on violence against women. But should mysogyny be a specific hate crime? The charges brought against the suspect in the Sarah Everard case are for murder and kidnap. Is that sufficient? Or should the murder and kidnap of a woman be treated differently from the murder and kidnap of a man? If misogyny were a hate crime, what would it cover? Whistling an...
Mar 26, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rod Liddle returns to #SWYSI for a varied discussion with Peter Whittle covering such issues as Lockdown, BLM, the BBC, Trans rights, Feminism & Misogyny, free speech and the culture wars in general. --------------- 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 subscribe on itunes or Sound...
Mar 22, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the UK Census taking place in 2021, we are going to find out exactly how much Britain has changed over the past decade. What is the effect of demographics on the cultural, political and social makeup of modern Britain and what impact will this have on local communities and the nation as a whole? With the US & Canada set to cease being white majority nations in 2030 and the UK set to cease being a white majority nation at the end of the century, what implications will this have? And why is t...
Mar 22, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Doyle, author, satirist and creator of the social media sensation "Titania McGrath", returns to the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book: "Free Speech And Why It Matters". (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Free-Speech-... ) Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should b...
Mar 17, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Having recently declared his candidacy for May's London Mayoral elections, Laurence Fox joins Peter Whittle on the "So What You're Saying Is..." sofa for his first sit down media interview. #SWYSI --------------- 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 subscribe on itunes or Soundclo...
Mar 17, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #NCFCounterCulture we discuss The Duke & Duchess of Sussex's interview with Oprah Winfrey. What consequences might the interview hold for The Monarchy & the Royal Family. How damaging was the interview for the Monarchy? How should the Monarchy respond? What are the wider implications? Should Britain even have a Monarchy? Our panel: * Angela Levin, biographer of Prince Harry (whom Angela spent a year with) * Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, royal commentator; co-editor "Burke's World Orders of K...
Mar 11, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #NCFCounterCulture: are the current culture wars a phenomenon unique to Western Europe and the Anglosphere or is there a comparable battle taking place in Central and Eastern Europe? Given the loss of freedom these former communist states experienced, how are they dealing with issues of cancel culture and free speech restrictions? Are there any lessons we can draw from this? Would increased knowledge of the oppression and horrors of life in communist regimes help to stem the growth...
Mar 08, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #SWYSI, we examine the continuing scandal of muslim grooming gangs. Our guest is Maggie Oliver, the detective-turned-whistleblower who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 in order to expose the now infamous Rochdale Grooming Scandal. Maggie's relationship with the victims of child rape continues to this day, still fighting for justice for survivors of sexual abuse. This has now led to The Maggie Oliver Foundation being set up with the focus on helping survivors t...
Mar 01, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast A recent report from OFCOM suggested that comedy was an endangered species on the BBC. Over the past decade the BBC's comedy output has declined by 40%. What does this mean for the future of comedy? And, indeed, given the degree to which comedy has been affected by issues of free speech and woke attitudes, what consequences do these have for comedy? The #NCFCounterCulture panel: * Simon Evans (BBC Live At The Apollo; Michael McIntyre's Road Show; Rado 4 News Quiz, etc.) * Abi Roberts, stand-up ...
Mar 01, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Approx. 5 billion people can access the Internet and 25% of Internet searches are for pornography. If one was to watch the entire content of a site such as Porn Hub, it would take 173 years. The vast majority of adults have watched porn, but in recent years one of the fastest-growing groups who regularly consume it are minors, including very young children. Is porn now accepted as mainstream? Is the age of moral panic over porn over? How much do we know about the consequences of watching increas...
Feb 22, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Known for his appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience, Rubin Report and, most recently, Jordan Peterson's podcast, Prof. Gad Saad is a world-renowned Canadian evolutionary psychologist at Montreal's Concordia University. He also hosts ‘The Saad Truth’ YouTube channel. In this episode of "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI), Prof. Saad discusses his best-selling new book, "The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense". This fascinating work exposes how an epidemic of idea ...
Feb 22, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on "So What You're Saying Is...", Peter Whittle is joined by long-time Fleet Street journalist Mike Graham, better known today as one of the most popular broadcasters on the Talk Radio channel. Mike discusses his long and varied career in journalism and the changes that he has witnessed over the decades, both in the UK and the USA. He also comments on the current condition of the mainstream media and new digital competitors and what this potentially bodes for the future. --------------...
Feb 16, 2021•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on "So What You're Saying is...", Peter Whittle is joined by Helen Pluckrose, co-author of the best-selling "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholars Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity" and a leading figure in the fight back against Critical Race Theory and Critical Social Justice. Helen is the founder of 'Counterweight', the newly launched "Citizens Advice" service for "culture war casualties". to quote from their website: "Following the death of George Floyd and the BLM p...
Feb 16, 2021•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report & author of "Don't Burn This Book", returns to "So What You're Saying Is..." to discuss identity politics in the West and what lies ahead for America under a woke Biden presidency. In Biden's first few weeks in office we have seen cabinet appointments and executive orders steeped in identity politics, such as insisting that womens' sport be open to trans competitors. Dave Rubin talks about the state of Trumpism in the USA and whether Trump or a similar figure...
Feb 08, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Universities should, almost by definition, be "safe spaces" for free speech, open discourse and wide-ranging debate on all manner of subjects. Yet over the past couple of decades this cherished status has been steadily eroded, with university campuses now more known for deplatforming and cancelling those who hold views deemed unacceptable by vocal woke students and faculty. Joining Peter Whittle on the #NCFCounterCulture sofa to discuss this are: * Prof. Jeremy Black MBE, retired professor of h...
Feb 08, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on "So What You're Saying Is..." Peter Whittle is joined by Andy Ngo, an American journalist best known for covering the extremist Antifa ("Anti-fascist") movement. While the term "Antifa" has become well known in recent years, most people know little about this far-left movement of anarchists, communists and other radicals. When Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporti...
Feb 02, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Following the encouraging statement on the protection of statues by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, the "Save Our Statues" team reunite on the #NCFCounterCulture sofa to discuss recent developments in the onslaught on our cultural heritage. Panel: * Richard Bingley * Robert Poll * Emma Webb --------------- 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 s...
Feb 02, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on #NCFCounterCulture we discuss the extraordinary power of Big Tech & the social media giants and the implications this has for free speech and political balance. Joining Peter Whittle are: * Konstantin Kisin, comedian, commentator and co-host of the Triggernometry podcast * Tom Slater, writer & deputy editor at Spiked Online * Bradley Strotten, student commentator --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe ...
Jan 27, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on "So What You're Saying Is...", Peter Whittle chats with Jonathan Myles-Lea, Britain's pre-eminent painter of country houses and a champion of traditional Britain, its arts, culture & heritage. A favourite of HRH The Prince of Wales, Jonathan is the only artist to have had a painting featured as the cover of Country Life magazine. Jonathan is a long-time opponent of identity politics and the "Long March" through the cultural institutions. He believes the radical woke agenda that guid...
Jan 26, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Britain doesn’t feel very free at the moment. And that’s bad news for Britain, certainly, but also for the world. Because – uniquely – British identity and our long heritage is rooted in the ideal of individual liberty. But what does this mean in the age of Covid? In the first of a new documentary series from the New Culture Forum, author and journalist Marc Sidwell takes on this very question. Featuring interviews with the likes of Sir Graham Brady, Baroness Claire Fox, Dan Hannan and Harry Mil...
Jan 16, 2021•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on "So What You're Saying Is....", Peter Whittle is joined once again by Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online and a columnist for various national and international publications. A lockdown sceptic, Brendan believes the tier system is horrendously damaging. He also finds the phrase "the new normal" unbelievably scary, believing it should worry us all. When people assume almost total control of our lives to the extent that they tell us when we can leave our house, who we can hug at ...
Dec 21, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is "The Great Reset"? An initiative of the World Economic Forum, the WEF describes it as follows: "There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative." But what does this really mean and how might it affect nations and people? What is the intention of the Great Reset and why is it so controversial? Is there mo...
Dec 18, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the earliest stages of Covid-19, Peter Hitchens was one of the few public voices who was opposed to the lockdown and the tactics that were being employed. As time has proved him correct, he regrets but is not surprised that he has not been afforded greater media exposure during this crisis. He thinks it absurd that there has been so little proper criticism or opposition to the government's measures and that journalists are so placid in their questioning of ministers. Most of these meausres ar...
Dec 13, 2020•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #NCFCounterCulture we provide an update on the "Save Our Statues" campaign, which was launched during the summer of Black Lives Matter attacks on historic British statues. Topics discussed include various official "audits" of collections in order to identify individuals with alleged links to slavery and the slave trade, however tenuous or risible these might be. These range from the Welsh Government's survey of historic statues to the British Library's review of figures including ...
Dec 11, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI), journalist & broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer joins Peter Whittle to discuss the lockdown & the Government's response to Covid, the curtailment of civil liberties, media bias, free speech, the Met Police investigation into David Starkey & Darren Grimes, the proposed expansion of hate speech laws to private residences, and Boris Johnson's weak leadership on all these issues. --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subs...
Dec 07, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's "So What You're Saying is..." #SWYSI, Peter Whittle has a wide-ranging discussion with The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe, covering everything from Brexit & Nigel Farage's Reform Party to the culture wars & the Law Commission's terrifying proposal to expand anti-hate speech laws to private residences. Brexit: Ms. Widdecombe's fear since 2016 has been a "half Brexit", with the UK officially out of the EU, but remaining tied and bound by its rules without any representation. Now, with the Br...
Nov 29, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast What impact will the defeat of Donald Trump & the resignation of Dominic Cummings have in the so-called "culture wars"? Both individuals were seen as the torchbearers for their nations' conservative pushback and the attempt to reverse the Left's "long march through the institutions". Does the election of Joe Biden in the USA and the growing influence in the Conservative Party of progressive figures such as Boris Johnson's wife, Carrie Symonds, mean that the right has lost the culture wars for th...
Nov 29, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, these are particularly turbulent times to be a man. Increasing numbers of men are finding themselves anchorless, uprooted from the conventions and certainties of their forefathers. Today masculinity itself has come under attack, relentlessly maligned in the media. Now, more than ever, the long and perilous journey from infant to old age is fraught with strange c...
Nov 13, 2020•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's #SWYSI, Peter Whittle is joined by Paul Embery a firefighter, trade union activist, pro-Brexit campaigner. columnist and 'Blue Labour' thinker from Dagengham. Paul may be followed on Twitter: @PaulEmbery --------------- 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 subscribe ...
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