A long roundtable edition of Paul English Live with Paul B, Eric and Patrick joining the host for a roaming discussion of the August 2024 UK unrest, free speech, Starmer, localism, immigration, banking and the usefulness of old community structures. The episode mixes host commentary, listener chat, inserted political clips and several music breaks, then continues for an extended after-show once the WBN hour ends.
Hour one begins with the aftermath of the Southport-related unrest and the British state's response to online speech. English plays a clip of Stephen Parkinson warning about retweets, then the callers compare current politics with Bolshevism, communist regimes and American examples such as Tim Walz in Minnesota. The conversation then branches into local journalism, Richard D Hall, Taylor Swift, older actors, country-and-western language, listener comments about English tradition, and the host's experiment with streaming the show on YouTube.
The middle of the programme loosens into the show's familiar mixture of politics and local colour: a Sussex gathering with mead, the Long Man of Wilmington, Kurnow Connection, sauerkraut, Celtic and Maldon salt, then Paul B's label of "politicism" and English's competing "locationism". Louis Jordan's "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens" carries the show into the second hour.
Hour two and the after-show return to contested politics: Starmer and Sadiq Khan on Islamophobia, Robert Sepper on the origins of Islam, immigration and Schengen, Peter Hitchens on Starmer and Pavloism, and the Office for Budget Responsibility's tax figures. The final forty minutes move through LaRouche's Dope, Inc., Michael Hudson's Forgive Them Their Debts, the Bradbury pound, Bretton Woods and Bancor, then close with Benny Goodman, Andy Fairweather Low and a post-sign-off exchange about Radio Ranch on Radio Soapbox.
Peter Hughes: previous Paul English Live discussion of rapid response and court tactics.Rapid Response: court-support procedures discussed from the previous episode.Stephen Parkinson: clip on UK online speech offences and policing retweets.WBN324 talk radio: station carrying the broadcast.WBN324.ZIL: station access route named in the advert.Opera Browser: browser named in the WBN324.ZIL advert.Radio Soapbox: simulcast platform mentioned on air.Rumble: PaulEnglishLive channel and live chat platform.YouTube: experimental live stream for this episode.G. Edward Griffin interview with Yuri Bezmenov: cited for the useful-idiots framing.Richard D Hall: investigative broadcaster discussed by Eric and English.Frida: film about Frida Kahlo mentioned during the Trotsky discussion.Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing".Louis Jordan: "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens".Louis Jordan: "Saturday Night Fish Fry".Long Man of Wilmington: Sussex chalk figure mentioned during the host's weekend story.Kurnow Connection: Radio Soapbox programme on Cornwall.Celtic sea salt: product praised during the sauerkraut and salt discussion.Maldon salt: Essex sea salt discussed by Eric and the callers.Robert Sepper: tweet on the origins of Islam read aloud by the host.Christopher Hitchens: debate clip discussed by Billy Silver and the host.Peter Hitchens: interview clip on Keir Starmer and Pavloism.Peter Hitchens: book on the Church of England and wartime propaganda.Steve Bannon's War Room: Liz Truss clip recalled by the host.Office for Budget Responsibility: tax-burden figures read aloud by the host.Lyndon LaRouche: Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War Against the World.NPR interview with Nora Volkow: cited by Paul B during the drug-policy discussion.G. Edward Griffin: democracy and lynch-mob quotation cited by Eric.Michael Hudson: Forgive Them Their Debts.George Orwell / Eric Blair: BBC wartime recordings the panel wonders about finding.Sefton Delmer: suggested lead for the alleged BBC and Secret Services meeting.John Heinrich: Titanic books discussed by the panel.John Maynard Keynes: Bancor proposal at Bretton Woods.Andy Fairweather Low: "Wide-Eyed and Legless".Radio Ranch with Roger Sayles: programme promoted in the Global Voice sign-off.