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Michael Rainsborough on Britain’s state corruption and why inquiries never work. Plus: the BBC’s Net Zero U-turn.

In Episode 76 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Michael Rainsborough, Daily Sceptic contributor and Professor of Strategic Theory and Director of the Centre for Future Defence and National Security at Deakin University, Victoria, about British state corruption. Michael explains how our frequent public inquiries, in hock to misguided liberal proceduralism, hold no one to account for state failure. Instead, he argues the current national grooming gangs inquiry should follow the model of Hong Kong’s highly successful Independent Commission Against Corruption.

And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Ben Pile, journalist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the BBC’s activist ‘climate editor’ Justin Rowlatt and his brass neck U-turn on the cost of Net Zero.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

Four Sceptic guests on the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Britain and why the state can't address it.

In this special episode of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell brings together four different perspectives on the growing problem of Muslim sectarianism in Britain. Guy Dampier of the Prosperity Institute shows how Pakistani clan structures led to the grooming gangs; researcher Daniel Dieppe highlights how the London Borough of Tower Hamlets fell to Bangladeshi-Muslim electoral corruption; the Critic's Chris Bayliss looks at how state authorities responded to Birmingham's banning of Israeli football fans; and journalist David Shipley and Laurie discuss what the Labour Government's latest social cohesion plan shows about how it's approaching multiculturalism's pathologies.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

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Jack Hadfield on his time covering the frontlines of Britain’s anti-immigration protests. Plus: why hydrocarbons make the world go round.

In Episode 75 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to independent journalist Jack Hadfield, on the history and development of Britain’s grassroots anti-immigration protest movement, from football lads of the English Defence League, to the mass unrest after Southport and the Pink Ladies of Epping. Plus: the phoniness of ‘antifa’.

And Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on why the Iran oil crisis shows how the world can’t do without hydrocarbons; the dreary woke turn of the BBC and why we don’t have to love David Attenborough; and a bombshell finding in the Antarctic ice that shatters green myths about CO2 and global temperatures.

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Adam Wren on progress and pitfalls in the national grooming gang inquiry and David Turver on how to fix the energy crisis.

In Episode 74 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Adam Wren, campaigner and Director of Open Justice UK on progress and pitfalls in the Government’s national grooming gang inquiry and his podcast with survivor Fiona Goddard.

And David Turver, author of the Eigen Values substack, on the Labour Government’s hapless failure to deal with the Strait of Hormuz energy crisis and why Net Zero leaves us perilously exposed to global shocks.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

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Matt Goodwin on Britain’s demographic suicide and Eugyppius on Trump’s Iran blunder. Plus: the truth about the oil crisis.

In Episode 73 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Matthew Goodwin, broadcaster, author and Reform UK’s candidate for Gorton & Denton, on why Britain is facing a demographic crisis – and how to stop it.

Eugyppius, author of the substack Eugyppius: a plague chronical, on America’s war in Iran, the murky strategic thinking behind it and whether it will prove to be Trump’s greatest mistake.

And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Dr Tilak Doshi, the Daily Sceptic’s Energy Editor, on how Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz shows the vital importance of oil to the world economy – and exposes the fantasies of the green zealots.

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00:00 Intro  
00:01:21 Matt Goodwin on Suicide of a Nation  
00:04:03 Demographic Projections  
00:06:19 Silence on Demography  
00:11:40 Two Tier Multiculturalism  
00:15:12 War on British History  
00:18:35 Policy Solutions  
00:27:33 In Group Preference  
00:30:17 Reform as Vehicle  
00:33:42 Eugyppius on Trump's Iran War
00:39:45 Opportunistic War  
00:42:55 Strait of Hormuz Closure  
00:46:01 European Response  
00:48:48 Trump Betrayal  
00:55:41 Midterms and Oil Prices  
01:00:34 Tilak Doshi on Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters  
01:06:56 Comparison to 1970s  
01:13:36 North Sea Reserves  
01:19:57 Net Zero Fantasies