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May 29, 2024 Absolute Shower
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 89
This week:
-In a General Election special, Nick and Toby talk about:
-Why Rishi Sunak called a summer election, surprising everyone, including his Cabinet
-Whether a ‘Presidential’ election, with the focus on the Prime Minister rather than the Conservative Party’s record in government, is Rishi’s best hope of limiting the damage
-Why the Conservatives have rejected a ‘Devil Eyes’ election strategy and decided to emphasise Keir Starmer’s weak leadership skills instead
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Nigel Farage’s controversial exchange with Trevor Phillips about British Muslims and the BBC describing his Dover speech as ‘inflammatory’
-The relaunch of Loaded and whether it’s actually a bit feminist
-And the 70 year-old in a Suffolk village who chased some young hooligans down the street after they damaged her back gate (no pun intended)
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57min
May 22, 2024 Ofcommunists
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 88
This week:
-Nick and Toby talk about Ofcom’s attack on GB News, why it’s unfair and what’s behind it
-We’re all gutted about the death of the President of Iran, obviously, but why did Britain’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN stand to observe a minute’s silence for he “Butcher of Tehran”?
-Everyone thought Geert Wilders wouldn't be able to form a government, but he’s built an unbelievably sensible coalition with a robust, Right-wing programme
-And a brief canter through the stories we would have covered last week if Nick hadn’t been ill, courtesy of Toby
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Donald Trump threatening to stand for a third term
-The growing support for Trump among African-Americans and Hispanics
-And Trump’s threat to send ‘kill teams’ to take out the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels
-And in the Based Department, Toby nominates JK Rowling, Esther McVey and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for refusing to rename the ‘Hitler Beatle’
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1h 11min
May 08, 2024 Khant Win
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 87
This week:
-Nick and Toby discuss Sadiq Khan’s victory in the London mayoral election and puzzle over why the Tories didn’t make more of an effort
-Could Labour’s losses to pro-Palestinian, Muslim candidates be replicated in the general election, or will Keir Starmer give in to the Muslim Vote’s 18 demands?
-Do the local election results point towards a hung parliament, as Rishi Sunak claims?
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Nick Fuentes being allowed back on X
-Nigel Farage hinting he’s not looking to revive his political career in Britain
-And in the Based Department, Toby nominates Deta Hardman, the 64 year-old darts player who refused to compete against a biological man in the women’s quarter-finals of the Denmark Open.
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1h 12min
April 30, 2024 Humza Useless
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 86
This week:
-Nick and Toby discuss the short and disastrous career of ‘Humza the Brief’, puzzling over why he wanted to lead a country he regarded as ‘structurally racist’?
-A Conservative MP defects to Labour, prompting more demands for Rishi Sunak to fall on his sword
-The Irish Government takes a leaf out of our book and tries to pass a law so its senior judges can’t block efforts to deport asylum seekers to a country the Irish High Court has designated as ‘unsafe’ – in this case, the UK
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-The BBC more or less refusing to recruit white British males to its trainee scheme, prompting Toby and Nick to think about starting a podcast advising this despised minority how to start their own businesses
-A new poll finds that more GB News viewers intend to vote Labour than Conservative, giving the lie to the smear that it’s a ‘far Right’ channel
-And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Jacob Rees-Mogg for being unfazed by a mob of pro-Palestinian protestors and Toby nominates himself for forcing the BBC to remove the episode of Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg in which Chris Packham libelled the Daily Sceptic
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This week’s sponsors: Thor Holt
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1h 26min
April 24, 2024 Dross of St George
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 85
This week:
-Nick and Toby wish their viewers and listeners happy St George's Day – or, as Nick puts it, happy wankers-posting-about-how-St-George-was-really-Turkish Day
-Are we heading for a summer election, given the passing of the Rwanda Bill and the increase in defence spending?
-Mark Menzies is the latest in a string of gay Tory MPs to be caught up in an embarrassing sex scandal. What is it about Cameron's A-listers?
-The Met has got itself into a pickle over refusing to let Gideon Falter cross the road during a pro-Palestinian protest because he's "openly Jewish". Should Mark Rowley resign?
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Should we criticise HIGNFY for only making fun of Gender Woo Woo when it became safe to do so, or celebrate the fact that the tide has turned?
-16 year-old anorexic girls may be eligible with suicide help under Scotland's Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill
-And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Camilla Tominey for telling Femi to go f*** himself
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This week’s sponsors: Thor Holt
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1h 15min
April 17, 2024 Bully Boys in Brussels
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 84
This week:
-Nick and Toby talk to their culture war correspondents on the frontline in Brussels to get the lowdown on the NatCon siege
-Iran launches a drone attack on Israel and suddenly all the pro-Palestinian peaceniks stop banging on about a ceasefire and become pro-Iranian warmongers
-The Cass Review turns the tide against the trans nonsense and previous cult leaders, like Stonewall’s Ruth Hunt, pretend they never really believed in Gender Woo in the first place
-Reform UK throws another prospective parliamentary candidate under the bus, only to discover that this one is already dead
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Trump faces his first criminal trial and Nick and Toby argue about whether this is another example of progressive lawfare or just holding a lawbreaker to account
-And in the Based Department, Toby nominates Katharine Birbalsingh for seeing off a troublemaking Muslim student in the High Court
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This week’s sponsors: Thor Holt
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1h 22min
April 10, 2024 Wraggs to Snitches
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 83 (recorded live at the Hippodrome)
This week:
-Will Wragg is praised for being 'brave' by Jeremy Hunt after sending intimate photos to a spear phisher and then, when blackmailed, handing over fellow MPs' phone numbers
-The Tories issue a poster with the dubious claim that the UK is the second most powerful country in the world and prove this by including photos of an American jet and a Swiss ship
-Angela Rayner is caught telling porkies to avoid capital gains tax and David Lammy's attempts to defend her make things exponentially worse
-Toby is described in the Telegraph as a "Right-wing hate figure" in a surprisingly positive article
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-The Rock announces he won't be endorsing either Presidential candidate because he's too famous and doesn't want to influence the result
-No Labels folds its tent, thereby giving Biden a much-needed boost
-And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Angela Rayner's cushion for proving she was lying about the house she sold being her primary residence.  
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1h 20min
April 03, 2024 J.K. Trolling
Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 82!
This week:
-JK Rowling dares Humza Yousaf and his goons in Police Scotland to arrest her for the crime of 'misgendering'.
-A devastating new poll has the Conservatives winning just 98 seats -- and Rishi's might not be one of them!
-Team GB says to the Football Association: "You think you've desecrated a British flag? Hold my beer."
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Just 38% of American voters think Biden will remain alive long enough to see out a second term.
-Matthew Parris says the quiet part about euthanasia out loud.
-And in the Based Department, Nick and Toby praise the President of Guyana for putting a sanctimonious BBC interviewer in his place on the subject of Net Zero.  
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Thor Holt
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1h 29min
March 26, 2024 St George is Cross
Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 81!
This week:
-Nike comes out with a wildly unpopular ‘playful update’ of the England flag
-Beau Dade of Lotus Eaters is dropped by Reform UK, following a hit-piece from Hope Not Hate
-The Khan Review is released, and Toby explains all
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:
-Candace Owens getting fired from the Daily Wire
-Owen Jones quitting the Labour Party  
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1h 16min
March 19, 2024 Gone Soon-ak?
Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic, episode 80!
This week:
-How much longer can Rishi Sunak survive after his worst week since becoming PM and with Penny Mordaunt on manoeuvres?
-Vaughan Gething, the new Welsh First Minister, becomes the first black politician to lead a European country, but his record as Health Minister during the pandemic was appalling
-Scotland rolls out its new Hate Crime law and whatever can go wrong, does go wrong, including locating a hate crime reporting centre in a Glaswegian sex shop, recruiting a dodgy Islamist to explain how awful 'Islamophobia' is and activating the new law on April Fool’s Day
-GB News found guilty of breaking Ofcom’s broadcasting rules. Is the regulator gearing up to withdrawing the channel's broadcasting licence to please its new Labour overlords?
-Hope Not Hate's new 'State of Hate' report identifies three GB News reporters as dangerous purveyors of far Right hate
-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke!
Premium content this week includes:
-The latest sightings of the Princess of Wales and why she doesn't scotch all the rumours about her health and her marriage by posing for an official photo?
-The Donald Trump 'bloodbath' hoax
-Elon Musk's interview with Don Lemon
-Our nominations for the most ‘Based’ acts of the week, in the ‘Based Department’ 
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01189-145300
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1h 24min

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