How the Equality Act has morphed from anti-discrimination law into a vast tool of social engineering, and whether the Met Office’s recent temperature records really are the ‘hottest evah’.

In Episode 85 of the Sceptic, host Ellie Hodges speaks to Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Director of Don’t Divide Us and co-author of the new report Some More Equal Than Others: The Case Against the Equality Act, on how the 2010 Act has morphed from anti-discrimination law into a vast tool of social engineering, its corrosive effects on workplaces and free speech and why it should be repealed.

And for our premium subscribers, Ellie speaks to Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, on the latest so-called record-breaking heatwave, whether the Met Office’s temperature records are really the ‘hottest evah’ and why the data is nowhere near robust enough to justify the madness of Net Zero.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro

01:21 Alka Sehgal Cuthbert on the Equality Act

03:44 Should the Equality Act Be Repealed?

06:15 Existing Laws Before the Act

08:28 Public Sector Equality Duty & Positive Action

13:27 Protected Characteristics

15:44 The Granger Test & Protecting Beliefs

18:28 Appetite to Reform the Act?

19:48 Chris Morrison on the Hottest Summer Evah?

29:34 How Does It Compare to 1976?

35:51 Is the Data Robust?