The Leighton Smith Podcast

Brendan O’Neill, editor at Spiked-online.com ponders the future of western civilisation on podcast 100.
We talk Marxism (as he was once a Marxist), technocracy, Covid-19, democracy, racism and more. Even the Royals get a mention. This is an interview not to be missed.
There is much comment on other matters. And, finally, the Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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Guesting on podcast 99 is Penny Tucker. You may be unfamiliar with her but don’t be put off, so was I.
Having met quite by chance, I knew I wanted to interview her.
An ex-diplomat, she carved out a very successful career in Washington DC.  We talk everything from U.S. politics to raising kids.  She is opinionated, knowledgeable, and a Kiwi.And, of course, we look at the mail.
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On this week's podcast:
Podcast 98 sees the much requested return of historian Michael Bassett. Several controversial matters are under discussion; the new history syllabus, local councils and race based wards.
Then we speak with NZ meteorologist John Maunder. After a career spanning much of the world, he reflects on the state of the science, or the abuse of it.
And, as usual, the Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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On podcast 97, we dissect the Climate Commission report on emission reduction with Matt Burgess, Senior Economist at The New Zealand Initiative. He takes a blowtorch to it actually, and rightly so.
Then, we take a look at the new technologies of freedom. And how they will remove government control of our lives. We talk with  Professor Sinclair Davidson from the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub.
And, of course, The Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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Welcome to 2021 and the third season of the Leighton Smith Podcast.
Guesting on podcast 96 is Paul Kengor Ph.D, Professor of Political Science and bestselling author. It is a riveting interview. Kengor is prolific in matters Marxist.
Leighton has things to say about phonics and the media.
And, even during the summer holiday, mail rolled in. We have some of it in the Mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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Leighton Smith is currently on his summer break, so we're going back and highlighting some of the best guests from the podcast this year.
On this week's Best Of: Antony P Mueller is a German economist, teaching in Brazil. We talked technocracy, pandemics, climate change and the great reset.
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Leighton Smith is currently on his summer break, so we're going back and highlighting some of the best guests from the podcast this year.
On this week's Best Of: Aynsley Kellow was a discovery. NZ-born and educated, he is Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Tasmania. He has written widely on scientific matters.
What initially caught Leighton's attention was an article, COVID-19: The Failure of Official Science. He is blessed with a sceptical mind.
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Leighton Smith is currently on his summer break, so we're going back and highlighting some of the best guests from the podcast this year.
On this week's Best Of, we revisit Leighton's long anticipated interview with history professor Geoffrey Parker.  A prolific author and collector of many awards, Parker published “Global Crisis: War, Climate  Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century” in 2013, which he says it took him almost a century to write!
While he and Leighton had some disagreements, this was a ‘diplomatic’ discussion - and enjoyable, as reflected in its length. It is the longest of the podcasts so far. 
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Leighton Smith is currently on his summer break, so we're going back and highlighting some of the best guests from the podcast this year.
On this week's Best Of, we revisit our chat with former Finance Minister Steven Joyce back in April during the heart of lockdown. The fact it rated the most listened to podcast of the year speaks for itself.
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Leighton Smith is currently on his summer break, so we're going back and highlighting some of the best guests from the podcast this year.
On this week's Best Of, Todd Huizinga, who served as US diplomat for 20 years, is the author of “The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe. We had a most interesting discussion around the pending changes in Washington D.C.
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