London Calling

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 just one – but two horses. Now we’re cooking with gas. Or are we? They also take on the sudden attack on gas boilers, Chris Skidmore’s (MP – Kingswood/South Gloucestershire) ‘review’ of net... Source

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 of the week prompts a question, “Do we need a New Enlightenment to tackle the hijacking of science by woke leftists?” Plus we tackle the Duke of Sussex’s extraordinarily misjudged... Source

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 on a roundabout with his three year-old granddaughter, while Toby stayed in the Airbnb-from-hell in Cardiff. For 2023 they discuss the pros and cons of Veganuary and/or Dry January (one... Source

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 movies. In the news we cover Jeremy Clarkson’s Game of Thrones fantasy about Meghan Markle, whether climate activists believe in their own rhetoric or are just using global... Source

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 out an extract from ‘An Odd Couple For Our Odd Times’, a glowing article about our little show in The National Review (which, unfortunately is behind their paywall) and they both agree with... Source

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 which poor Lady Hussy was thrown under a bus after asking Ngozi Fulani where she was from at a Buckingham Palace reception, and Ice Cube becomes... Source

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 get down, as Texans would say, to brass tacks. Namely, are the protests happening across Communist China just a blip on the radar or is this real trouble for Xi? And do we have... Source

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 world (the Autumn Statement, the signing of a climate reparations agreement at COP27 and Rishi Sunak’s betrayal of Brexit.) We congratulate Elon Musk on reinstating Donald... Source

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 year-old founder. Toby’s just back from Hungary, a nation that he says provides a glimpse of what Britain might look like if our side had won the culture war, why the British Government... Source

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 of staff shortages at airports. Glancing at items currently in the news we assess the risk that Rishi Sunak will agree to pay ‘reparations’ to countries... Source