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Jesse Powell: My stand against woke workers
- Title
- Jesse Powell: My stand against woke workers
- Runtime
- 35:29
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Jesse Powell.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/stand-against-woke-workers/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/crypto-ceo-my-stand-against-woke-workers
Jesse Powell is the CEO of Kraken, one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in the world.
He has been in the headlines this week for publishing a decidedly libertarian memo about his company's working culture that challenged any workers claiming offence on topics such as pronoun policies or racial diversity targets to find work elsewhere.
Kraken's list of values includes the right to bear arms, bodily autonomy on vaccines and a moratorium on enquiring about or advertising gender pronouns in the workplace, amongst other 'anti-woke' measures.
He spoke exclusively to Freddie Sayers from San Francisco.
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- Title
- Aris Roussinos: Inside the nationalist militia on Ukraine’s frontline
- Runtime
- 36:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks to UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos, reporting from the frontline of the war in Ukraine.
Read the article here: https://unherd.com/2022/06/on-the-frontline-with-the-right-sector-militia/
Listen to the podcast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/aris-roussinos-inside-the-nationalist-militia
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 00:24 - Introduction
00:24 - 01:51 - Aris Roussinos outlines his time on the front line of the Russia-Ukraine War
01:51 - 05:38 - Why has Russia changed its strategy in this war?
05:38 - 09:08 - Are Western armaments making a difference in the conflict?
09:08 - 12:44 - Aris explains Ukraine’s Right Sector and a typical miss...
- Title
- Silkie Carlo: Chinese CCTV is watching you
- Runtime
- 21:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Florence Read meets Silkie Carlo.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/silkie-carlo-chinese-cctv/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/silkie-carlo-chinese-cctv-is-watching-you
There are six million security cameras in use in the UK, one for every 11 people, and the majority are Chinese surveillance systems. London, where UnHerd has its offices, is the most surveilled city outside of China, and has more cameras per person than Beijing. So it has to be asked, are we being watched?
That is one claim made by a new report from Big Brother Watch on surveillance cameras made by Chinese companies. Silkie Carlo, one of the editors of the report, and the director of Big Brother Watch, joined Florence Read to investigate.
Read Big Brother Watch's report: https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Whos-Watching-You_The-dominance-of-Chinese-state-owned...
- Title
- Ex-Georgetown Professor: How today's thought police really operate
- Runtime
- 29:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Ilya Shapiro.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/ilya-shapiro/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/ilya-shapiro-georgetown-diversicrats-forced-me-out-of-my-job
Ilya Shapiro was due to start his new job as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown's Law Centre for the Constitution. But this week, he quit. All because of a single Tweet.
Freddie Sayers invited Shapiro to the studio to understand how censorship under the guise of 'diversity and inclusion' at Georgetown had played a part in his resignation.
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 01:21 - Introduction
01:21 - 06:24...
- Title
- Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid
- Runtime
- 48:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers sits down to discuss the pandemic response with biologist Bret Weinstein.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/bret-weinstein-i-will-be/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/bret-weinstein-i-will-be-vindicated-over-covid
Before the pandemic, evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen professor Bret Weinstein was lauded by both sides of the political divide for his insights into the crisis on American campuses. As a member of the so-called 'intellectual dark web', Weinstein was expanding his audience and being profiled by legacy media like the New York Times.
Then the pandemic began and his heterodox perspective suddenly fell out of favour, even with many of his erstwhile allies.
Advocating for alternative treatments for Covid, questioning the efficacy of the global vaccine programme and challenging narratives of the pandemic came at a cost...
- Title
- Jubilee Special: Freddie Sayers meets the ultra-royalists
- Runtime
- 15:17
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- It is the day before the Jubilee and outside Buckingham Palace is full of people in uniforms shouting instructions and making preparations. There are Union flags hanging all the way down the Mall and St James's Park is filling up with Portaloos. Close to the palace itself, a small group of ultra-royalists have pitched tents in the rain to make sure they get front row seats for the coming days' parades. UnHerd wanted to find out what motivated the intensity of their love for the Queen — so Freddie Sayers went down there to find out.
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/meet-the-ultra-royalists/
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 00:37 - Introduction
00:37 - 01:52 - Freddie Sayers mee...
- Title
- Rejected from a London university for being Russian
- Runtime
- 13:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- UnHerd's Florence Read meets Elena Ledneva.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/rejected-from-a-london/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/rejected-from-a-london-university-for-being-russian
Elena Ledneva, a woman living with her husband and young child in the UK, applied for a Master's course in hospitality at the University of West London. Elena had years of experience in running events, including welcoming international delegates to the Sochi Winter Olympics, so on paper, she would seem to be the ideal candidate. But last week she was rejected due to 'the situation in Ukraine'. Was she really rejected for being Russian?
Elena joined Florence Read to share her story.
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- Title
- WHO epidemiologist: The truth about monkeypox
- Runtime
- 22:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets David Heymann.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/prof-david-heymann-is-monkeypox-the-new-covid/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/who-epidemiologist-truth-about-monkeypox
Will monkeypox be the next pandemic after COVID? To try to find an answer, Freddie Sayers invited Professor David Heymann to the UnHerd studio. Currently based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Heymann is one of the world’s most senior infectious disease epidemiologists. For 22 years he worked at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, as chief of the AIDS research programme and Assistant Director for Health Security. Before that he was in Africa for 13 years investigating the spread of monkeypox.
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- Title
- Weapons expert Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?
- Runtime
- 25:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets weapons expert Dr. Pavel Podvig.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/dr-pavel-podvig/
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Since the invasion of Ukraine, the outcome that nobody has wanted to contemplate is that of Russian nuclear escalation. Threats that “mirror moves” would be made by the Kremlin if NATO expanded, as we heard in last week’s interview with UN representative for Russia Dmitry Polyanskiy, suggest that a strike might not be out of the question. With Finland and Sweden seeking to join NATO, is nuclear war more likely now that it was three months ago? By trying to push Vladimir Putin to the brink, is the West actually increasing the chance of a nuclear incident? What actually is the sequence of events that would lead to nuclear conflict?
To help us think through this diff...
- Title
- Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status
- Runtime
- 45:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Michael Sandel.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/michael-sandel/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/prof-michael-sandel-why-the-elites-dont-deserve-their-status
Do we deserve what we have? Are the elites any better than the rest of us? Do the right people get to run the world?
One political philosopher who attempts to tackle these big questions is Professor Michael Sandel. A Harvard professor since the 1980s and world famous author of many bestselling books, including 'What Money Can't Buy', and most recently, 'The Tyranny of Merit', Sandel has made the case for overhauling Western neoliberalism. The alternative society Sandel suggests is more forgiving of failure and confers cultural status onto building community rather than capital.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Freddie Sayers, Sandel explores how elite institutions f...
- Title
- Kremlin Spokesman: "There is no war in Ukraine"
- Runtime
- 41:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Dmitriy Polyanskiy.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/putin-spokesman/
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First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy joins Freddie Sayers to discuss the nuclear threat against NATO members and possible conclusions to the conflict in Ukraine.
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 00:42 - Introduction
00:42 - 02:11 - Does the Russian government believe they haven’t invaded Ukraine?
02:11 - 04:33 - If the focus was solely on Donbass. Why is there military activity in other parts of Ukraine?
- Title
- Curtis Yarvin: Why America should become a monarchy
- Runtime
- 1:03:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Curtis Yarvin.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/curtis-yarvin/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/curtis-yarvin-why-america-should-become-a-monarchy
Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson.
His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainstream media. Now, people are trying to make sense of some of what Yarvin wants for the Western nations he criticises and where his thinking might go next.
One particularly bold claim made by Yarvin is that America would be better run as a monarchy, rather than a democracy. To dig deeper into this esoteric political philosophy, Freddie Sayers invi...
- Title
- Danish professor: mRNA vaccine study sends 'danger signals'
- Runtime
- 35:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Professor Christine Stabell-Benn.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/thepost/study-into-mrna/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/danish-professor-mrna-vaccine-study-sends-danger-signals
A new Danish study reveals disparities in all-cause mortality between mRNA and adenovirus vaccines. The results raise some difficult questions about the unexpected effects of the most popular COVID vaccines. Freddie Sayers speaks to the study's author Prof. Christine Stabell-Benn, from the University of Southern Denmark, to find out more.
Read the full study by Prof. Stabell-Benn: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4072489
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- Title
- Professor Matthew Goodwin: Cancel culture is a gift to populists
- Runtime
- 3:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Political scientist Matthew Goodwin argues that today’s volatile political environment has spawned new issues for populists to campaign on.
At UnHerd's 'Has Putin killed off populism?' live event, the University of Kent lecturer told Freddie Sayers that populist leaders “don’t need immigration anymore” because growing concerns over cancel culture and free speech. These issues, he added, “cut across Left and Right,” making them a potent electoral weapon.
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- Title
- Anne-Elisabeth Moutet: Left and Right are dead
- Runtime
- 4:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- French analyst Anne-Elisabeth Moutet believes that the old Left-Right duopoly is now dead in France.
In an UnHerd panel discussion on whether Putin has killed populism, Moutet argued that the French are becoming more — not less — populist, as evidenced by the ‘windshield wiper’ vote from Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Round One to Marine Le Pen in Round Two.
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- Title
- Aaron Bastani: The anti-war Left is terrified
- Runtime
- 4:31
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Left-wing writer and commentator Aaron Bastani has described Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a “stake through the heart” of anti-war activism on the Left. The Novara Media editor told Freddie Sayers that across Europe, Left-wing figures are “terrified” of saying that they’re anti-war because of the feared backlash. Bastani added at the UnHerd panel on whether Putin has killed populism that he thought that this was “not necessarily a bad thing” since it would push the Left towards workplace organising and labour rights.
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- Title
- Douglas Murray: The gullible Right has fallen for Putin
- Runtime
- 1:00:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers discusses the backlash against Western values with Douglas Murray.
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/douglas-murray-the-gullible-right-has-fallen-for-putin/
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When Douglas Murray was writing his new book The War on the West, Putin had not yet launched an actual war on the edge of Europe. Now, two months after the invasion of Ukraine, has the battle of ideas he writes about been put into perspective? Freddie Sayers speaks to Douglas Murray about the factions of the Right who have been fooled by Putin’s ‘woke West’ propaganda and why the war in Ukraine is not the wake-up call we might have expected.
Thanks to Douglas for returning to the channel. His new book, The War on the West, is out now.
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- Title
- Michael Tracey: When does anti-war become pro-Putin?
- Runtime
- 48:03
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Michael Tracey.
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/michael-tracey-when-does-anti-war-become-pro-putin/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/michael-tracey-when-does-anti-war-become-pro-putin
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western media has been overwhelmed with support for Zelensky's resistance and condemnation of Putin's invasion. Intervention from the US and Europe has now extended to supplying arms and sanctioning Russia. Some are demanding this support goes even further, suggesting 'no fly zones' or boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Journalist, Substacker and Twitter provocateur Michael Tracey takes a very different view. Despite initially condemning the invasion in February, he has since committed his time to exposing what he calls the 'proxy warmongering’ of Western powers. Michael Tracey joins Freddie Sayers in the UnHerd ...
- Title
- Sergej Sumlenny: "Get ready for the break up of Russia"
- Runtime
- 32:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Sergej Sumlenny.
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/how-the-war-could-lead-to-the-break-up-of-russia/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/sergej-sumlenny-get-ready-for-the-break-up-of-russia
As the war in Ukraine has become more entrenched, there has been much discussion of the small Eastern European states which might be annexed into the Russian Federation.
One political scientist and journalist has taken a different view. Sergej Sumlenny is Russian-born, but lives in Berlin. On Twitter he predicted that rather than expanding, Russia was due to dramatically contract. Might he be right? In principle, Sumlenny argues, Russia's many ethnic states are perfectly poised for secession, some with long histories of agitation and others with a newfound resentment of Moscow in light of the war.
To understand how this split could play ...
- Title
- Inside China's Zero Covid Camp
- Runtime
- 17:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets COVID camp resident Jane Polubotko
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/inside-shanghais-zero-covid-camp/
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The biggest city in China is in complete lockdown, with no end date in sight. Cases are rising and the 26 million residents of Shanghai are not permitted to leave their homes at all — not even to buy groceries or walk the dog. Footage has emerged of eerily deserted streets, but reliable information about what is really going on inside the strictest “Zero Covid” regime in the world is hard to come by, owing to the Chinese Communist Party’s control of the media.
Now for the first time, UnHerd can reveal the reality of life inside the vast mandatory quarantine facility in Shanghai, erected within the Expo conference centre, to which infected individuals are sent.
- Title
- Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win
- Runtime
- 38:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Yanis Varoufakis.
Read the supporting article: https://unherd.com/2022/04/ukraine-cannot-win-this-war/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/yanis-varoufakis-its-mad-to-think-ukraine-can-win
Commentators on the war in Ukraine seem to have come to a consensus: public figures have a moral responsibility not to challenge anything other than the Russian narrative. This rejection of balance in favour of propaganda poses a problem for political thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, who has been accused of 'Westsplaining' and being a Putin apologist in the last week alone.
To give this controversial conversation a chance, Varoufakis joined Freddie Sayers for a wide-ranging discussion about Western pressure on Russia and finding a space for debate in what feels like a binary moment.
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- Title
- UK Health Secretary: Zero Covid has been a disaster
- Runtime
- 27:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Health Secretary Sajid Javid came into the UnHerd studio to talk to Freddie Sayers and look back at lessons learned from the Covid era.
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/sajid-javid-zero-covid-has-been-a-disaster-
Read the full article: https://unherd.com/thepost/sajid-javid-zero-covid-has-been-a-disaster/
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 00:35 - Introduction
00:35 - 02:18 - Why Is Britain ending free Covid testing despite surging cases?
02:18 - 04:00 - Why is the UK in a better position relative to other European countries?
04:00 - 07:55 - Does Sajid Javid think lockdowns were worth it?
07:55 - 09:07 - Was it a mistake ...
- Title
- Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin's war rescue liberalism?
- Runtime
- 42:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Francis Fukuyama.
Read the full article here: https://unherd.com/2022/03/this-war-can-save-liberalism/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/francis-fukuyama-can-putins-war-rescue-liberalism
Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and public intellectual, most famous for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man which has helped to define how we understand contemporary history. His new book is called Liberalism and its Discontents.
Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr. Fukuyama about the war in Ukraine, current trends in Western democracy, and how liberalism can better understand aspects of the human condition it has historically neglected.
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- Title
- Bill Roggio: Who is really winning the war in Ukraine?
- Runtime
- 33:18
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Bill Roggio.
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/bill-roggio-who-is-really-winning-the-war-in-ukraine
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/bill-roggio-who-is-really-winning-the-war-in-ukraine/
Getting an accurate picture of who is winning the war in Ukraine has become increasingly difficult in the information age. Log onto Twitter and there are images of burnt out Russian tanks being towed away by Ukrainian farmers and hostage-style videos featuring Russians POWs expressing regret over the invasion; meanwhile, Western news outlets are littered with tales of doughty Ukrainian protesters sending the Russian enemy into retreat and Kyivans discovering a newfound unity in the face of war.
But is this a fair depiction of what’s really occurring on the ground? Freddie Sayers sat down with Bill Roggio, a leading military analyst at the Foundation for...
- Title
- Samo Burja: Sanctions will divide civilisation
- Runtime
- 36:35
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Samo Burja.
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/samo-burja-russia-sanctions-will-divide-civilisation
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/samo-burja-sanctions-will-divide-civilisation/
With Western powers increasingly united against Russia, we seem to be witnessing the end of the unipolar world. Financially, culturally and spiritually we have never been so bifurcated. Could this be the end of civilisation as we know it?
To find a way through the big issues at stake, Freddie Sayers sat down with Samo Burja, a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis.
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// TIMECODES //
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- Title
- The truth about Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
- Runtime
- 17:44
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- When Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine it was under the guise of ‘denazifying’ the country. But are there really any Nazis in Ukraine? Or is this just a story spun by the Kremlin? Aris Roussinos joins Freddie Sayers to unpick this contentious topic and seek some insight into Ukraine’s far-Right factions.
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/the-truth-about-neo-nazis-in-ukraine
Read the full article: https://unherd.com/2022/03/the-truth-about-ukraines-nazi-militias/
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// Timecodes //
00:00 - 00:40 - Introduction
00:40 - 02:18 - Does Ukraine have a Nazi problem?
02:18 - 09:39 - The Azov movement & Ukraine’s Far Right
...
- Title
- Investigating Aleksandr Dugin and the "soul of Russia"
- Runtime
- 33:30
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Marlene Laruelle.
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/investigating-aleksandr-dugin-and-the-soul-of-russia
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/investigating-aleksandr-dugin/
Aleksandr Dugin, the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and erstwhile organiser of the National Bolshevik Party, has been referred to as ‘Putin’s brain’. Professor Marlene Laruelle, the world’s leading expert on Dugin, says his influence is no longer direct. Dugin stated mission is to preserve the "Russian soul" and expand the Eurasian empire in defiance of the West. Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and increasingly isolated global position feels like some of these visions have become a dark reality. Freddie Sayers sat down with Laruelle to seek a deeper understanding of the oft-quoted concept of the "Russian soul", what Dugin wants and how Putin might be able to h...
- Title
- Leonid Ragozin: How I got Russia wrong
- Runtime
- 33:13
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Leonid Ragozin.
Read the article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/leonid-ragozin/
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Leonid Ragozin was reporting in Siberia when Putin began to send troops to the Ukrainian border at Belarus. Despite the menacing signs, he was quick to voice his skepticism about Russia’s intentions to invade. But when tanks rolled into Ukraine over a week ago, Ragozin was left, like many, wondering: why had he got it so wrong?
To try to answer this question Freddie Sayers met Ragozin to discuss Putin’s mysterious motivations and what the possible outcomes are for the war in Ukraine.
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- Title
- Military Deep Dive: Is the Russian war machine broken?
- Runtime
- 19:10
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Justin Bronk.
Read the full article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/russian-army/
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It has been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and one of many unanswered questions is why Russia has yet to launch the vast majority of its combat aircraft, despite having an advantage over the comparatively small Ukrainian air force. Could Putin be holding back the full might of his army for tactical or political reasons? Or is this failure to launch a symptom of poor planning by the Kremlin?
To seek out some technical expertise on this topic, Freddie Sayers spoke to Justin Bronk, Research Fellow for Military Airpower at the Royal United Services Institute.
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- Title
- Andreas Umland: The real nuclear threat is not from weapons
- Runtime
- 28:16
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Andreas Umland.
Read the full article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/andreas-umland-the-real-nuclear-threat-is-not-from-weapons/
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This week we are being inundated with information about what is going on in Ukraine. And the challenge just to get above the noise and find out what exactly is going on and where it might go next. To dig into some of these questions, Freddie Sayers sat down with Dr. Andreas Umland, an analyst for the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European studies and expert in contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics.
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- Title
- San Francisco parents: How we took back control of our schools
- Runtime
- 25:37
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Florence Read meets Siva, Autumn, and Ann.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/2022/02/anti-racism-betrays-asian-students/
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Public schools in San Francisco sent their students home for 18 months during the COVID pandemic, the longest school closure in the country. While children were falling behind at home, the city’s elected school board was tasked with handling the re-opening. But, it seemed, they were too busy trying to pander to progressive demands to get children back in the classroom. A group of parents, angry with the extended shutdown and dithering meetings, launched a campaign to recall three members of the school board. Last week, they won. Florence Read sat down with three parents involved in the recall, Autumn, Siva and Ann, to discuss why COVID has been such a disaster for San Francisco's schools...
- Title
- Konstantin Kisin: Has the media got Ukraine wrong?
- Runtime
- 31:54
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Konstantin Kisin.
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/konstantin-kisin-who-should-we-trust-on-ukraine
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/konstantin-kisin-did-the-alternative-media-get-ukraine-wrong/
Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, pundits from mainstream and alternative media platforms across the political spectrum have been left eating humble pie. Predictions of Russia’s next move as troops built up on the border have ranged from blaming hawkish Americans for hyping up a non-existent threat, to claims that Putin was using the standoff to make himself an international talking point. Now that it is clear that Putin is done with talking and intends to take action, we are left wondering: who can we trust on Ukraine? To puzzle out this question, Freddie Sayers sat down for an emergency episode with Konstantin Kisin, host of...
- Title
- What the Moderna share price reveals about vaccines
- Runtime
- 24:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Louis-Vincent Gave.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/thepost/louis-gave-what-the-moderna-share-price-reveals-about-vaccines/
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Since the end of November 2021, Moderna's share price has been falling dramatically, from $368 to $147 at the time of writing. Why might this be? And what does it tell us about the vaccines more generally?
Freddie Sayers sat down with Louis Gave, a financial analyst and co-founder of Gavekal, a financial services firm based in Hong Kong. Gave noted that the markets had been ahead of politicians and even epidemiologists on the Omicron variant in terms of its lethality, but also evidently they had determined that vaccines were not the ‘silver bullet’ solution they were initially sold as. What may be taboo to say in political circles is more bluntly p...
- Title
- Glenn Loury: Reject race politics and embrace humanity
- Runtime
- 36:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Glenn Loury.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/2022/02/americas-racial-torment-must-end/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/glenn-loury-reject-race-politics-and-embrace-humanity
To get a handle on some of the race related news stories coming out of America, from Biden’s Supreme Court nomination to Joe Rogan’s cancellation, Freddie Sayers spoke to Glenn Loury, an economist and cultural critic. Loury was the first African American tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University and has set himself apart from his contemporaries by taking a sceptical view of the racialised rhetoric of American academia. In this wide-ranging conversation he discusses model minorities, Black Lives Matter and Whoopi Goldberg's alleged anti-semitism.
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- Title
- Ottawa Trucker: We’ll stay until EVERY Covid mandate is lifted
- Runtime
- 22:02
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Tim the Canadian trucker.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/thepost/ottawa-trucker-why-were-not-going-anywhere/
Press coverage of Ottawa's trucker convoy has been more focused on confederate flags and far Right factions than the truckers themselves. To get a view from the ground, UnHerd dispatched roving reporter Leila Mechoui to take us on a tour of the city centre. Beaming in from the cabin of his truck, Freddie Sayers spoke to Tim, an unvaccinated trucker-turned-protester. Tim told Freddie what first motivated him to join the convoy and why he still isn't moving.
Additional reporting by Leila Mechoui @leilamechoui.
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00:00 - 00:51 - Introd...
- Title
- UnHerd Live: Where does feminism go next?
- Runtime
- 1:08:50
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Featuring: Mary Harrington, Julie Bindel, Hadley Freeman and Sally Chatterton.
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/debate-where-does-feminism-go-next/
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It wasn’t long ago that feminism was a united movement resisting the patriarchal systems of old. Now, disputes between factions of feminists take up as much time as the fight for women’s liberation. To dig a little deeper into the points of schism and solidarity in fourth wave feminism, UnHerd invited activist and author Julie Bindel and columnists Hadley Freeman and Mary Harrington to an evening at the Art Workers’ Guild.
The panel, chaired by UnHerd Editor Sally Chatterton, discussed their alliances and conflicts on the subjects of gender identity, sex work, surrogacy, motherhood and sexuality. In our divided times, where does feminism go next?...
- Title
- Denmark's state modeller: Why we've ended ALL Covid laws
- Runtime
- 34:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Dr Camilla Holten-Møller, chair of the Expert Group for Mathematical Modelling at Denmark’s public health agency ‘Statens Serum Institut’.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/thepost/denmarks-state-modeller-why-weve-ended-all-covid-laws/
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Holten-Møller was in charge of producing the models before Christmas that informed Danish policy, and her group’s updated advice in January led to the cancellation of all Danish Covid restrictions (even as case numbers continue to climb to all-time highs). She joins UnHerd to discuss Denmark's radical new policy, data modelling and why Omicron might be the end of the pandemic.
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- Title
- The Edge of Europe: On patrol at the Poland-Belarus border
- Runtime
- 12:59
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- UnHerd reporter Aris Roussinos joins the Polish army to investigate the migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border.
Read Aris's latest essay here: https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-russia-could-invade-ukraine/
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 01:27 - Introduction - Europe’s Eastern frontier
01:27 - 02:09 - Aris Roussinos arrives at Poland’s border with Belarus
02:09 - 03:35 - X, a Polish border guard, explains the current situation at the border and how Belarus has been pushing migrants across
03:35 - 04:32 - X describes the violent clashes between migrants and the polish border guards
04:32 - 06:11 - Aris tours the Polish border guard’s camp
06:11 - 07:42 - The resources going in...
- Title
- Kate Clanchy: "My life's work has been taken away"
- Runtime
- 46:15
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Kate Clanchy.
Accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/kate-clanchy-my-lifes-work-has-been-taken-away/
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Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher, and editor. She has been a qualified and practicing teacher since she was 22. Her writing includes three prize-winning collections of poetry, the Costa First Novel Prize-shortlisted Meeting the English, and the Orwell Prize-winning memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.
Last summer her work came under sustained criticism for its purportedly insensitive depictions of her students. Picador, her publisher until last week, did not come to her defence. Instead her students, who feature in her memoir, and in collections of their wiring like England Poem from A School, that Clanchy edited, supported her alone.
Last Septe...
- Title
- Israeli vaccine chief: "We have made mistakes"
- Runtime
- 31:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- In a wide-ranging and forthright interview with Freddie Sayers, Professor Cyrille Cohen, head of Immunology at Bar Ilan University and a member of the advisory committee for vaccines for the Israeli Government said:
- The Green Pass / vaccine passport concept was no longer relevant in the Omicron era and should be phased out (he expected it to be in short order in Israel)
- He and his colleagues were surprised and disappointed that the vaccines did not prevent transmission, as they had originally hoped
- The biggest mistake of the pandemic in Israel was closing schools and education – he apologised for that
- Widespread infection is now an inevitable part of future immunity — otherwise known as herd immunity
- Omicron has accelerated the pandemic into the endemic phase, in which Covid will be “like flu”
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/israeli-vaccine-advisor-we-have-made-mist...
- Title
- Dr Steve James: I’d sacrifice my job over vaccine mandates
- Runtime
- 37:47
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets NHS consultant Dr Steve James.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/dr-steve-james-id-sacrifice-my-job-over-vaccine-mandates/
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nhs-doctor-im-willing-to-lose-my-job-over-vaccine-mandates
Dr Steve James is a critical care consultant at King’s College Hospital in London. When Health Secretary Sajid Javid visited last Friday, he asked the NHS staff about what they thought of the forthcoming mandates that will make Covid vaccination a condition of deployment for NHS staff. Dr James spoke out, saying why he was against the mandate and why he hadn’t taken the vaccine himself.
It made headlines across the UK media, in particular coming from a Cambridge-educated NHS frontline doctor. Dr James came in to the UnHerd studio to explain his position in more detail to Freddie Sayers.
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- Title
- 2021: Year in Review with Freddie Sayers, Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington
- Runtime
- 1:21:56
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers sits down with Aris Roussinos and Mary Harrington.
Read the article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/2021-year-in-review-with-aris-roussinos-and-mary-harrington/
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2021-year-in-review-with-aris-roussinos-and-mary-harrington
The year began with riots in Capitol Hill in Washington and the removal of Donald Trump from social media; in March Meghan and Harry gave their interview to Oprah from a Los Angeles mansion, and in April Prince Phillip passed away; Western troops departed Afghanistan, leaving chaotic scenes in the capital Kabul; Maya Forstater was judged by the courts to be legally entitled to her gender critical viewpoints — and Kathleen Stock was forced out of Sussex University; bitcoin became formal tender in its first nation state; and Covid dominated public policy for the second year running.
Freddie Sayers is joined by ...
- Title
- Why South Africans are refusing the vaccine
- Runtime
- 26:37
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers sits down with Brian Pottinger.
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/why-south-africans-are-refusing-the-vaccine/
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brian-pottinger-warrior-scientists-are-ruining-south-africa
As new data about the Omicron variant is interpreted (and perhaps predictably, misinterpreted) by experts worldwide, South Africa has become a coronavirus case-study under global surveillance. Last week, UnHerd spoke to Pieter Streicher about the data coming out of Gauteng, but there’s always more to a situation than the numbers.
To get a snapshot into the cultural and political reality on the ground, Freddie Sayers sat down with Brian Pottinger, former Editor of the South African Sunday Times. He joined UnHerd from his home on the KwaZulu North Coast.
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- Title
- Data deep dive: Is Omicron the end of the pandemic?
- Runtime
- 29:13
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers sits down with Pieter Streicher, who has been following the developments of the Omicron variant in his home country.
Read the accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/deep-data-dive-is-omicron-the-end-of-the-pandemic/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/south-africa-data-could-omicron-be-the-end-of-the-pandemic
Since its discovery in the Gauteng province of South Africa in November, a new Covid variant has set off a spiral of harsh restrictions, travel bans and questions about the efficacy of the existing two-dose vaccines. Dr Angelique Coetzee, the scientist who first raised the alarm in Gauteng, has repeatedly assured the public that early observation of symptoms suggests that Omicron could be milder than the Delta variant. Despite some reassuring signs on the ground, reaction to the new variant has been dramatic, with Boris Johnson warning of a ‘tidal wave’ of cases i...
- Title
- Inside Australia's Covid internment camp
- Runtime
- 20:15
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.
She’s just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences.
Read the full article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/inside-australias-covid-internment-camp/
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00:00 - 01:53 - Introductio...
- Title
- Paul Kingsnorth: Why I changed sides in the vaccine wars
- Runtime
- 34:37
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks to Paul Kingsnorth.
Read the article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/paul-kingsnorth-why-i-changed-sides-in-the-vaccine-wars/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/paul-kingsnorth-vaccine-segregation-crosses-the-rubicon
Paul Kingsnorth sees the vaccine wars as symptomatic of a bigger division between two fundamentally different world views: he calls them “thesis” and “antithesis.” When it comes to Covid, “thesis” is the establishment viewpoint: that lockdowns are needed to contain the virus, masks work, vaccines are safe, and people who question them are wrongheaded or worse. When Covid-19 first struck, Kingsnorth took the “thesis” viewpoint.
But over the last few months, his perspective changed. As he writes in today’s UnHerd, the crystallising moment arrived when he woke up to the news that the Austrian government had ‘interned an entire third...
- Title
- Who is Éric Zemmour?
- Runtime
- 32:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Éric Zemmour.
Éric Zemmour is a name you might not be familiar with, but on the other side of the channel he is a main topic of conversation. Over the last six months, the Right-wing intellectual has been steadily climbing the polls to become a favourite to challenge Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential election. So what’s fuelling this run?
As one of France’s better-known media personalities, Zemmour has launched a series of polemics against France’s Muslim population, the values of which he argues are incompatible with France. He has called for a ban on the flow of all immigrants, legal and illegal, and a focus on assimilating the existing population.
Though he is yet to officially declare a run for the presidency, the Right-wing polemicist visited London earlier this week to meet the capital’s sizeable French community. There, Freddie Sayers spoke to some of his supporters before speaking to Mr Zemmour ...
- Title
- Freddie Sayers investigates Austria's lockdown of the unvaccinated
- Runtime
- 28:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie visits the Austrian capital Vienna on the day that the world's first lockdown for the unvaccinated was introduced, looking for answers. How do ordinary people feel about a third of their population being put in partial house arrest? How does it feel for the people stuck at home? And how did a liberal democracy come to this in 2021?
Read the full article: https://unherd.com/2021/11/inside-the-austrian-lockdown/
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// TIMECODES //
00:00 - 1:03 - Introduction
1:03 - 4:46 - What Vienna's residents have to say about Austria's lockdown for the unvaccinated
- Title
- Bjorn Lomborg: 7 myths about climate change
- Runtime
- 10:33
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- The Danish academic challenges common misconceptions.
Listen to the podcast version of the full interview here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-is-not-the-end-of-the-world
As the COP26 summit meets over the next couple of weeks in Glasgow, we can all expect to be bombarded with disaster scenarios, replete with stories about our species’ imminent demise. Over the last couple of days, we have had Boris Johnson warning that it is “one minute to midnight” and Prince Charles claiming that this is “literally our last chance saloon”. And of course, Greta Thunberg has already made a few appearances of her own, accusing politicians of “pretending to take our future seriously” and saying that COP26 will “lead us nowhere”.
Bjorn Lomborg takes a different view. His latest book, ‘False Alarm: how climate change panic costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet’ sets o...
- Title
- Asra Nomani: The “Mama Bear” that took down the governor of Virginia
- Runtime
- 30:57
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Florence Read talks to Asra Nomani.
Read the article: https://unherd.com/thepost/asra-nomani-mama-bears-are-the-future-of-american-politics/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/asra-nomani-unherd
Education policy rarely tips the electoral scales. But following Glenn Youngkin's shock win in the Virginia governor's race, where education was the top priority for 35% of his supporters, focus has turned towards the American curriculum as a new political battleground.
A group of parents, or 'Mama and Papa Bears', have been particularly vocal in protesting the changes they have witnessed in Virginia schools since the start of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. Critical Race Theory, according to these concerned parents, is infiltrating the state system and being taught as fact to children as young as seven. To bring us closer to the views on the ground in Virginia, Florence Read spok...
