London Calling

London Calling episodes:

• 10.09.2023

  Where Were We?

  Now, where were we?Oh, yes. Time to catch up with old (and we mean old!) friends. Toby has a health scare and James is having more than a few regrets about missed opportunities and the loss of weekly get togethers.But,...

  
• 08.14.2023

  Just One of Those Things

  In 1935 Cole Porter penned a tune called "Just One of Those Things" about a love affair "too hot not to cool down." And so it goes.What started out as a podcast critiquing Game Of Thrones relaunched as London Calling...

  
• 08.07.2023

  Getting Old

  Everyone is a little miserable this week, fueled by the rainy summer England has had this year.Or maybe because we're all getting a little bit older. James "celebrated" #58 this past weekend and Toby isn't looking forward to #60 due...

  
• 07.31.2023

  The Fab 2

  This week James and Toby open the discussion with James’ recent gig in Dorset and the division in towns like Bridport and Totnes between the woke and the awake, particularly over traffic calming measures like LTNs, Ulez schemes and 15-minute...

  
• 07.24.2023

  Pull a Whitey

  It's hot in the Mediterranean and James and Toby discuss the recent forest fires in Greece and whether climate change or arsonists are to blame. This triggers an argument (From these two? Really?) about whether there are enough honest journalists...

  
• 07.17.2023

  A Question of Degree

  "The best laid plans of mice and men," said Rabbie Burns, "often go awry." And so it is as Toby tells James about how his travel plans have gone over the past fortnight, even though he’s in Majorca with his...

  
• 07.10.2023

  It's In Our DNA

  Toby is in Ibiza and James is in a funk as the diet he's on fails to really kick in and that leads to a discussion on DNA, genetically altered mosquitos, Bill Gates, lost friends and cocaine. Yep, it's quite...

  
• 07.03.2023

  Revolutionary Thoughts on Free Speech

  After the usual chit-chat about the week gone by, Toby and James have a substantive talk about the limits of free speech and what constitutes "crossing the line." It's all spurred on by the revelation last week that former UKIP...

  
• 06.26.2023

  Titanic (or Olympic) Sized Episode

  This week Toby tells James about his event-filled diary last week, the climax of which was bumping into Boris Johnson at a party and explaining to him why Tobes was so disappointed by his decision to tell us all to...

  
• 06.19.2023

  Scofflaws and Sceptics

  James began the week attending a "speed awareness" course, having been nicked going a wee bit too fast on the way to an appointment. Early on in the programme James thinks that he has finally... FINALLY... brought Toby over to...

  
• 06.12.2023

  Reversals of Fortune

  Less than three years ago they were flying high and now they've been subjected to major setbacks. And, no, we're not talking about our intrepid duo. In the last week former President Donald Trump has been put under federal indictment,...

  
• 06.05.2023

  Town Mouse and Country Mouse

  We begin this week with James and Toby debating a truly burning issue - Is it better to live in the city or live in the country? After some time in the country this past week, Toby isn't sure the...

  
• 05.29.2023

  The Never Ending Culture Corner

  Usually Culture Corner comes at the end of the programme but this week it sorts of flows through the entire show. We talk the bank holiday in the UK (It's Memorial Day in the USA), grocery stores, eye glass frames...

  
• 05.22.2023

  Team James v Team Toby

  This week’s episode begins on a sceptical note, namely the lads talking about the live recording of Toby's "other" podcast (The Weekly Sceptic) at the Emmanuel Centre on Saturday evening. When James organised a live recording of The Delingpod at...

  
• 05.15.2023

  The Last Great Moment in British History

  Everybody dance now! We're gonna make you sweat as Toby and James bust a few moves and take to the dance floor. After the terpsichorean trip down memory lane they talk Donald Trump's CNN town hall and, closer to home,...

  
• 05.08.2023

  Coronation Street

  Oh, to be in England now that Spring is here! When republicans and royalists are in full bloom! James and Toby clash on the official coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Another chapter in our long Island story or...

  
• 05.01.2023

  May Day! May Day!

  What better way to observe May Day than to discuss another US bank failure? But before we get to the collapse of First Republic (Is this another case of "Get Woke, Go Broke" and what does it means for the...

  
• 04.25.2023

  We Cover the Earth

  Two thirds of the earth is covered in water, the rest is covered by London Calling. But this week we've left London behind as James and Toby find themselves on opposite sides of the world – Toby in Canada, James...

  
• 04.17.2023

  Green Around the Gills

  This week James has a good walk in Shropshire spoiled by the "bird-blending, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes" and Toby debates animal "rights" around the dinner table because of the deaths of three horses at this past weekend's Grand National. ("Save the Sheep!")That...

  
• 04.10.2023

  A God-Sized Hole

  This week James and Toby contemplate the spiritual - from the game of "sermon bingo" James and his family played when they went to church this Sunday (betting on which progressive talking points the vicar would include in the service)...

  
• 04.03.2023

  Replacing Your Overton Window

  This week James buys a second-hand car while Toby has a mundane weekend and contemplates masculinity, which prompts a discussion on the release of Andrew Tate from jail and why he’s acquired cult status among adolescent males (in spite of...

  
• 03.27.2023

  Diagnosing Delingpole

  This week, James and Toby discuss James’s profound sense of loss now that the hunting season is over and Toby’s concern that James’s pessimism about the future is making him mentally ill.Among the news items covered: Whether Bill Gates really...

  
• 03.20.2023

  All the Baubles

  The lads are depressed. For James it’s the end of the hunting season, for Toby it’s QPR (11-19-18, 19th in the league table) and his football hopes are dashed in more ways than one. After a mutual therapy session it’s...

  
• 03.13.2023

  Match of the Week

  Toby and James begin the week talking about James’s health (not good), Toby’s failure to make it across London using public transport (which James thinks is all part of the plan to keep us locked in our homes), and the...

  
• 03.07.2023

  Springing a Leak

  On this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James start by talking about James’ health (he has a cold), then segue into discussing what James says is the best hunting experience of his life. Toby then tells James about...

  
• 02.27.2023

  James Mozart and Toby Beethoven

  In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss last Saturday’s live recording of The Delingpod, in which James interviewed Neil Oliver in front of a paying audience of 900; Toby worries about whether his live recording of...

  
• 02.20.2023

  James and the Giant Hunt

  We’re all over the politically correct spectrum this week. On one hand, James had his epic hunting adventure last weekend, while on the other hand, Toby is struggling to adjust to his new role as “Mr. Mom” now that an...

  
• 02.13.2023

  We're Not Saying It's Aliens But…

  In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’ rock star status among the readers of TCW Defending Freedom, the shooting down of three “UFOs” over North American airspace and whether that’s a nice way to treat...

  
• 02.06.2023

  Runnin’ With the Devil

  As is our Monday ritual, Toby and James discuss their weekend exploits (James went hunting, Toby watched a musical based on Come Dine With Me) before getting on to the news of the day: Robert Kennedy Jr’s lawsuit against the...

  
• 01.30.2023

  Spied On Like Us

  This week James and Toby discuss how different the last three years would have been if James, and not Chris Whitty, had been the Chief Medical Officer and the fact that during the pandemic it seems Toby was spied upon...

  
• 01.23.2023

  What Would YOU Do?

  An interesting mix this week (and sometimes with just TOO much information) as James and Toby discuss whether 2022 saw higher-than average mortality in Britain and elsewhere and, if it did, whether the mRNA vaccines are responsible; Charles III’s forthcoming...

  
• 01.16.2023

  The Doctor is In

  One is back from the hunt and the other is preparing to go. Our intrepid duo talk about Toby’s shooting trip last weekend and James’ upcoming hunt meet in which a benefactor is going to provide him with – not...

  
• 01.09.2023

  Doing Harry and Meghan

  Since we last met Toby made another trip to Iceland, this time to give a talk at the inaugural meeting of a new free speech society. The post trip discussion on Icelandic cuisine, well, that’s a different story. The news...

  
• 01.02.2023

  Family Christmas and Other Disasters

  We gave the boys the week off last week and told them to go enjoy themselves. Our bad. As we catch up with Toby and James after the holidays, they share their Christmas disaster stories – James got vertigo playing...

  
• 12.19.2022

  Size is Everything

  We’re putting a bow on the 2022 run of London Calling as James and Toby compare the respective sizes of their Christmas trees, the parties and dinners they’ve been to in the run-up to the holidays, and their favourite Christmas...

  
• 12.12.2022

  The Odd Couple

  James takes enough time off from gathering wood to burn in his Rayburn cast iron stove (so he and his family won’t freeze to death when the World Economic Forum cuts off the power this winter) to let Toby read...

  
• 12.05.2022

  Panic at the Christoteque

  Topics this week include Toby and James include James’ sell-out gig at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green, Toby’s four after-dinner speaking gigs in the past seven days (including one for the Totnes Young Conservatives) the unseemly haste with...

  
• 11.28.2022

  Men of a Certain Age

  A cold has Toby feeling less than stellar this week, so he and James have an age old discussion about men – and old age. Vitamin regimens, detoxification and general bouts of hypochondria lead off the show before we really...

  
• 11.22.2022

  Metro Porn

  This week James and Toby compare notes about meeting fans of the podcast and discuss all the things that have happened in the past week that suggest James just may be correct in his assessment about who’s really running the...

  
• 11.14.2022

  Cryptomaniacs

  Lou Pearlman… Bernie Madoff… and now, Sam Bankman-Fried. “SBF” joins a long list of Ponzi scheme artists in modern times and Toby and James open the show with the collapse of FTX and the fall from grace of its 30...

  
• 11.07.2022

  A Rantalogue Through Venice

  In this week’s London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’s trip to Venice, which is mercifully free of Covid theatre, whether traveling overseas is being made deliberately more difficult as part of the Great Reset or it’s just a consequence...

  
• 10.31.2022

  Hammers and Spares

  In this week’s episode Toby and James discuss the deep state’s determination to destroy Home Secretary Suella Braverman (MP for Fareham) and the finalization of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, including his Tweet about the the conspiracy theory surrounding the...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Old Man With A Hose

  This week our congenial hosts talk about Toby’s narrow escape from a volcanic eruption in Iceland. But more importantly, how's a journalist expected to take a family holiday without an expense account? Toby also frets about his obsession with watering the...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Business in the Front, Party in the Back

  We start with the least controversial opinions to begin this week's show, namely, the return of the mullet is not a good idea. After dispensing with that we hit the news from the last week: the FBI raids Mar-a-Lago, Salman Rushdie is...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Grousing and Retiring

  This week James and Toby talk about Anthony Fauci’s retirement – is he stepping down to maximise his chances of winning a Nobel Prize? – the fact that neither of them have received any invitations to go grouse shooting this...

  
• 10.27.2022

  The Last Temptation of Delingpole and Young

  A London Calling Tuesday can only mean one thing - Toby got a last-minute grouse shooting invitation - for Monday. As the Johnson Premiership comes to a close this week (The final results of the race between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Kiss This Ring

  If it's Tuesday it must be a day for the kissing of hands. Boris and Liz go to Balmoral and out goes one Prime Minister and in comes another. Toby and James disagree about whether Liz Truss is her own...

  
• 10.27.2022

  God Save the King

  Of course the lead story this week is the death of Her Majesty the Queen. James is showing a bit of a republican streak at the beginning of the reign of Charles III and he's not the only one. Toby...

  
• 10.27.2022

  Eternal Rest

  On the day we laid our late Sovereign, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to her eternal rest, we reflect on the last ten days of mourning. And so we have entered the Era of Charles III and with it, cricket...

  
• 10.27.2022

  I'm Not Your Pal

  This week Toby and James discuss Toby’s three-front war with PayPal, both personal, and with the accounts of the Free Speech Union and The Daily Sceptic. Out in the wider world we touch on the victory of Meloni in the recent Italian elections, Chancellor of the...