The Leighton Smith Podcast

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, Bill Gertz is the national security correspondent for the Washington times. He guested on the April 8 podcast .Gertz’s latest book was ‘Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.
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The big finale for 2020.
We engage in a very interesting discussion with Dr Oliver Hartwich from the New Zealand Initiative.
We talk citizenship, the Emissions Trading Scheme, China, education, and other matters.
Christian Smith gives us an update from a bleak London lockdown.
As usual, the Mailroom with Mrs Producer ..and a surprise guest to round out 2020.
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Australian author and academic Clive Hamilton guests on podcast 94.
His recent book “Hidden Hand”, exposes how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world.
He believes that New Zealand is in more danger than Australia.
Hamilton might be a man of the Left, but he is not in denial of reality.
Leighton has further commentary on the CCP, and where the country is being coaxed in regard to free speech versus hate speech. It’s not healthy.
And a big mailroom this week.
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This week we talk with Michael Kelly, Professor Emeritus of Engineering,  from the University of Cambridge.  We discuss climate mitigation and why NZ is making a big mistake. It is a stunning listen.
We give the happenings of the week the once over, and enter the mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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This week I talk with Britain’s most quoted sociologist, Frank Furedi. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, and a prolific author. His twenty five books are diverse in content; education, borders, democracy, progressivism and paranoid parenting. We cover it all.
And power systems engineer Bryan Leyland is on the podcast again. We discuss emission free electricity - the dream and the reality.
And, once again, Mrs Producer joins me with the mailbox.
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Education has been a political playground for decades. And so it continues. We talk with Briar Lipson from The New Zealand Initiative , whose report “Education Delusion” has brought conflicting reaction. Have we gone wrong, and if so, where?
Do we think Trump is still alive for a second term? Never bet against him is the answer to that.
And, finally, we venture into the mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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Whatever happened to Rodney Hide? This week I have an in-depth discussion with economist, scientist and ex politician Hide. It has made me realise how the political talent pool has shrunk.
Unsurprisingly, there is  also comment around the American election result.
And the mailroom with Mrs Producer.
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In our second podcast of the week, we look into the US election. 
The mainstream pollsters blew it again with their predictions. While not perfect, the Democracy Institute/Sunday Express poll was in tune with the outcome of the American Election.
Patrick Basham runs the results, such as they are.
And I’ve included some great commentary from Victor Davis Hanson and Jonathon Turley.
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There are going to be two Leighton Smith Podcasts this week. The first is available today, prior to the U.S. election, and the second on Thursday, where we analyse the results and the path from hereon in.
We have lots of analysis with Patrick Basham from Democracy Institute, and scrutinise their outlier poll. They used the same methodology in 2016: they accurately picked the winner.
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Semi-retired investment banker Jonathon Urlich returns with a global economic update. We discuss the U.S., China, Eurozone and New Zealand.
Then we have an hour with Salvatore Babones.  He is Professor of Political Sociology, Author of “The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts, and he is brilliant.
Mrs Producer is in the mailroom.
And next week, to accommodate the U.S. Presidential election, there will be two podcasts: Monday and Thursday.
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