To put the recent protests over the war in Gaza into their historical context, The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton is joined by the renowned historian and author of The English and Their History, Robert Tombs, in the latest Off Script podcast. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/hk-p08GE2-0 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is Putin’s war a continuation of the Russian civil war? What lessons has the Russian leader learned from Stalin? How has the war in Ukraine impacted historians? To discuss these topics and more, The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton is joined by the historian Antony Beevor. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/DFW5V4IB_PA | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio Hosted on Acast. ...
Mar 01, 2024•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast How has GB News changed British politics? Is woke capitalism a threat to the West? To discuss, Steven Edginton is joined by Mark Stoleson, the CEO of Legatum, a powerful investment firm with interests in GB News and other major projects. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/B1O_sFO1uPE | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Feb 16, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast As opinion polls suggest the Conservatives face electoral oblivion, could we witness a repeat of a 1997 landslide, or even 1906? To discuss, Steven Edginton is joined by the historian and Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/GLG6xjfOZ-Q | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is Net Zero destroying our energy capacity? Are we in an energy cold war? To discuss, The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton is joined by the economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Heritage Foundation who has served in every Republican administration since Ronald Reagan. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/tB6HxgxVsaE | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | Hosted on Aca...
Jan 05, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Kevin Roberts is the president of The Heritage Foundation, one of America's most influential conservative think tanks. The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton sits down with him to discuss the state of American conservatism, President Biden and the Blob for the latest Off Script podcast. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/BWST_E8z1eA| Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| Se...
Dec 15, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Kenney is the former Premier of Alberta and a Canadian conservative politician. He sits down with Steven Edginton to discuss the state of his country, including Canada’s radical new euthanasia laws. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/Cv2AcBqap8s| Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ...
Dec 08, 2023•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Shellenberger is an environmentalist, author, and advocate for pragmatic solutions to climate change. He joins Steven Edginton to talk about the ‘religion’ of climate change. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/tqcDyHdbYd4 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
Nov 24, 2023•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dennis Prager is a conservative thinker, commentator and one of America’s most successful political entrepreneurs, most well known for establishing PragerU, one of the largest conservative online platforms. Steven Edginton is joined by Mr Prager to discuss threats to Western civilisation. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/OudTXT_9CzY| Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| S...
Nov 17, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast With people being arrested for posting offensive memes, and with crack downs on so-called disinformation, does free speech exist in Britain? To discuss, Steven Edginton is joined by the equality and human rights barrister from the Bad Law Project Anna Loutfi. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/344S8oLazbI| Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| See Privacy Policy at https://a...
Oct 27, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast After 13 years of Tory rule, illegal and legal migration has soared, the national debt has surpassed 100% of our GDP, the tax burden is the highest since the Second World War and, according to some, Britain is seemingly governed by a party indistinguishable from that of its Left-wing opposition. To discuss his party’s record in government, Steven Edginton is joined by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg MP. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/THtPrGj69Do| Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment te...
Oct 19, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast As Poland votes in a referendum on illegal migration, and in a general election on Sunday Steven Edginton is joined by the Polish Minister for Culture Piotr Glinski. They discuss the surge of migration into Europe, and the future of Poland in the European Union. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/0Ht84EMEKUI | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio| See Privacy Policy at https...
Oct 13, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Has liberalism led to happiness? Why is depression on the rise? To discuss these questions Steven Edginton is joined by James Orr, a Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge and the UK Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, which was behind the National Conservatism conference held in London earlier this year. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/HVdaC9JKpWs Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free acce...
Sep 29, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast For many, Poland represents the future of Europe. Its economy is growing, its military is strong, and it has maintained its traditional values despite the West’s ongoing cultural revolution. To discuss challenges facing Poland, including its difficult relationship with the EU, Steven Edginton is joined by Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Poland’s Secretary of State for Europe and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/IWvUP4d2HaY | Read more from The Telegrap...
Sep 16, 2023•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast 'Justin Trudeau has never said a true word' In this bonus episode of Off Script, Steven Edginton continues his conversation with Dr Jordan Peterson, to discuss his home country of Canada, which the professor believes has been taken over by Left-wing authoritarians. Watch Steven's documentary, Canada's woke nightmare: A warning to the West: https://youtu.be/Qt2AuVQKpq0 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free ac...
Sep 01, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast In recent weeks videos have gone viral showing mobs of people raiding shops in Oxford street. In places across the country, many low-level crimes have become effectively legal. To discuss how life in Britain has changed in recent decades Steven Edginton is joined by the conservative writer, critic and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/7zbkMRI4Fxs | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30...
Aug 18, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Holland, the popular historian who co-hosts the world-famous The Rest Is History podcast, sits down with The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton to discuss his new book on Rome, woke history and why British history is so popular among international audiences. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/4sddOblC6gs | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See ...
Jul 28, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Jordan Peterson discusses how to win the culture war, with insights from Soviet and Nazi dissidents who stood up against tyranny and compares their struggles with clampdowns on free speech today. He sits down with The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton in a wide ranging discussion from why Britain was a miracle for the world to if he is addicted to Twitter. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Teleg...
Jul 14, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast As governments and media companies continue to crack down on so-called “disinformation”, is free speech under threat? To discuss the implications of anti-disinformation units, Steven Edginton is joined by the American independent journalist Michael Shellenberger. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and ...
Jun 09, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast "2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die.” This was the opening line of a famous essay written in 2016 by Michael Anton, who served as a national security official under President Trump. Anton joins Steven Edginton to discuss what has changed since the infamous Flight 93 Election of 2016. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privac...
Jun 02, 2023•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Where does Joe Biden rank among the US presidents? And when was the last 'great' American president? To discuss Steven Edginton is joined by the presidential historian Alvin Felzenberg. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . H...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is the coronation going to plan? Are Britons still interested in the monarchy? And will King Charles’ reign be overshadowed by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex? To discuss, Steven Edginton is joined by the esteemed historian and journalist Simon Heffer. Simon hosts a new three-part podcast series about Charles III: Being the King. Listen here: https://podfollow.com/being-the-king See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
May 05, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week Joe Biden launched his 2024 Presidential campaign. To discuss Biden’s chances, and the fallout from Tucker Carlson leaving Fox News, Steven Edginton joined by the American historian Victor Davis Hanson. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...
Apr 28, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast As new census data shows Britain’s demographics changing at historic rates, what does a future Britain look like? Is the world over or underpopulated? And how does fertility impact global power struggles? To answer these questions Steven Edginton is joined by the leading demographer Paul Morland. Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privacy Policy at ht...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast As riots erupt across France over plans to increase the retirement age what does this mean for Macron’s Presidency? Is this just another French protest or something more significant? To discuss Steven Edginton is joined by the journalist and commentator Anne Elisabeth Moutet. Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMCS83R0Kso | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.tel...
Apr 03, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast After winning a significant majority in 2019 the Conservatives look to be heading to a catastrophic defeat in the next election. To discuss the grand realignment in British politics and how the Tories squandered it, Steven Edginton is joined by the academic Matthew Goodwin. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/7QzNxRoq1A8 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.u...
Mar 17, 2023•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast On the 24th of February 2022 Russian troops rolled into Ukraine and began one of the bloodiest wars Europe has seen in decades. Almost one year on from the invasion Steven Edginton is joined by Colonel Richard Kemp, who served in the British army from 1977 until 2006, to discuss what happened and what could happen next. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/o5uJHqlJ7S0 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ fr...
Feb 17, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast As the West grapples with a movement to decolonise museums, universities and public squares, Steven Edginton is joined by Professor Nigel Biggar to discuss the morality of the British Empire. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/EFb184JFVOk | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...
Feb 14, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the Conservative Party twenty points behind Labour in the opinion polls, can Rishi Sunak save the Tories from destruction? Is it even desirable for the party to survive? To answer these questions and more Steven Edginton joined by the Conservative peer and former Chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/_s0YgFACTfs | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | Enjoy one whole year for just £59 wit...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast As Prince Harry continues his attacks on the Royal Family, The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton sits down with the historian Simon Heffer to discuss the Prince’s accusations, the coronation of King Charles and whether the Conservative Party deserves to die. Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/-NPtKtELA94 | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | See Pr...
Jan 06, 2023•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
