This week I talk about:

• The title of this podcast

• The old school hip hop attitude

• A cultural battering ram

• Safe and risk-free art today

• Eurovision and narcissism

• The enemies of the true liberal

• Robust humanism

• Don’t try it on with me

• I am the counterculture

This week I talk about:

• Fake freedom rhetoric

• Liberty and the individual

• What it means to be human

• Shady pc tactics

• Free speech and online harm

• Bohemia and creative environments

• Raif Badawi and western values

This week I talk about:

• The real meaning of liberalism

• How liberalism has been distorted

• Universal rights vs identity politics

• Pluralism vs multiculturalism

• Defining the human being

• Agency, choice and value

• Edinburgh and the New Town

This week I talk about:

• Why Dave Rubin matters

• Being politically exiled

• Good consensus vs dangerous consensus

• Nuance in political discussion

• Freedom vs Justice

• Identity politics vs free thinking

• Spiritual individuality vs conservative individualism
  

• This week I talk about:

• Protest vs shrill moaning

• Counterculture and dissent

• Paglia’s theory of culture

• Sexual personae and nature

• Misrepresenting dissenting view

• I Am The Counterculture

This week I talk about:

Humanism vs paternalism

Morality as a ‘trojan horse’

Jordan Peterson on trans pronouns

Individuality and liberty

Dissent and first principles

Ideology vs free thinking

Many reason for criticism PC culture

This week I talk about:

• Political correctness and sexuality

• Workplace sexual banter

• Bonding through dirty jokes and innuendo

• Female agency and saying no

• The line between roughness and violence

• Third wave and second wave feminism

• Healthy sexual relations between genders

This week I talk about:

Progressive paternalism

Leonardo da Vinci’s genius

What it means to be a Renaissance Man

How Renaissance Humanism is the antidote to ideology

Free Speech and hypocrisy

The right wing double standard

You shoulda killed me last year

This week I talk about:

• The oppressor/oppressed paradigm

• George Orwell and freedom

• Churchill and independent thinking

• Human potential and the soul

• George Monbiot and the left

• Pleasure and enslavement

This week I talk about:

• The collapse of values

• Liberal dissent vs destructive culture wars

• Romanticism and the role of the artist

• Dionysus and Apollo

• Pete Seeger’s conservative socialism

• Careerism vs ambition

• Fake bohemianism