The Current Thing

By Nick DixonSociety & Culture News Politics

The Current Thing episodes

October 04, 2024 Andrew Doyle - Art vs Politics
Welcome to another episode of The Current Thing, this week with GB News presenter, bestselling author, and all round legend nickdixon.net
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1 hr 32 min
September 26, 2024 How Long Can Starmer Survive? - with Paul Cox
Welcome to another episode of The Current Thing, this week with our old friend Paul Cox.

We discuss
-Nigel Farage’s recent comments on English culture and mass deportations
-The Labour conference, and Keir Starmer’s plan to bring back the sausages
-Labour freebies and hypocrisy
-The ongoing nightmare for Labour that is the Winter Fuel Payment policy
-The future of the Tories vs Reform
And loads more!
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1 hr 9 min
September 18, 2024 Simon Evans - What Next for America?
GB News presenter and one of Britain's greatest comedians Simon Evans returns to talk about:
-The latest assassination attempt on Trump
-Whether they are really 'eating the dogs', and does it matter?
-Huw Edwards avoiding jail
-Keir Starmer's clothes scandal
-The Lib Dem who got PTSD due to Brexit
-The UK's version of Jussie Smollett
and loads more!
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1 hr 9 min
September 16, 2024 Ed Dutton - Woke People are Dying Out PREVIEW
This is a short preview of Nick's brand new interview with Ed Dutton, discussing Ed's extremely non-controversial new book, Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism.
For the full episode go to www.nickdixon.net
In this funny and informative episode we talk about:
-Ed's theory that woke people are selecting themselves into extinction
-How Keir Starmer’s childhood explains his current behaviour
-Why Japan doesn’t have wokeness
-Why society will become more religious
-What the collapse of society will look like, and when it will happen
And loads more!
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9 min
September 12, 2024 Who Won the Trump / Harris Debate? - with Will Kingston
Nick's guest today is proper journo Will Kingston, host of The Spectator podcast Fire at Will.

Nick and Will discuss:
-Who won the Trump / Harris debate?
-Are they really ‘eating the dogs’?
-The outrage around Tucker Carlson’s interview on Churchill’s legacy
-Why Starmer is letting out dangerous prisoners
-Labour’s strange and cruel winter fuel payment policy
-Diane Abbott’s less than dream date with Jeremy Corbyn
And loads more!
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1 hr 11 min
September 05, 2024 Oasis Enters the Culture War - with Paul Cox
Welcome to the second episode of the new look topical version of The Current Thing, this time with Paul Cox!

We talk about:
-Starmer forgetting he is prime minister FIVE TIMES in the House of Commons
-Labour’s attack on Oasis over ticket prices, and where Oasis stand in the culture war
-Who will win the Tory leadership contest?
-Jeremy Corbyn’s new ‘Independent Alliance’
-The University of Nottingham removes the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’
And loads more!
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1 hr 42 min
August 29, 2024 Starmergeddon - with Leo Kearse
The Current Thing will now be a weekly topical show, hosted by Nick with a rotation of awesome guests. In addition, we will still do the in depth guest interviews.

For this topical episode, Leo Kearse returns to talk about:
-Starmer's incredibly grim speech
-Civil Service corruption
-Notting Hill carnival chaos
-The Nando's waitress on the wrong side of two-tier policing
-The arrest of Telegram's CEO
-Mark Zuckerberg's revelations about Democrat censorship and coercion
-RFK Jr endorsing Trump
And loads more!
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1 hr 18 min
August 16, 2024 UK Riots - with Jamie Franklin
The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin returns to talk to Nick about the UK riots, and two-tier Keir Starmer persecuting the British working class.
This is a crossover episode with Jamie's podcast, Irreverand, so please enjoy this almost two hour chunk of quality podcasting.
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1 hr 47 min
July 29, 2024 Steven Edginton - 'I Almost Went to Prison'
Journalist Steven Edginton joins us to discuss:
-How he almost went to prison due to an investigation by counter terrorism police
-Corruption and bias in the government and Civil Service
-His insider knowledge of DEI practices in the workplace
-What he has learned from covering politics on the ground in America
-His thoughts on the assassination attempt against Trump
And loads more!
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47 min
July 22, 2024 Lord Frost - Why the Tories Failed
Conservative peer and former chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost returns to the show to discuss:
-What went wrong for the Tories in the recent election
-What the future of the Conservative Party looks like
-Who he favours as next Tory leader
-His views on Nigel Farage and Reform UK
-What the country will look like under Labour
-How he was 'blocked' from standing as a Tory MP
-His thoughts on Trump and the dangers politicians face
And lots more!
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47 min