UnHerd
Maya Forstater: Legal judgement on trans is a landmark
- Title
- Maya Forstater: Legal judgement on trans is a landmark
- Runtime
- 28:17
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Maya Forstater.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/maya-forstater-todays-judgment-on-trans-is-a-landmark/
For the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/maya-forstater
When Maya Forstater first started expressing “gender critical” views in late 2018 (ie that biological sex is real and important), she was a researcher at a progressive think tank called the Centre for Global Development. Her views caught the attention of the bosses in Washington DC — and one dismissal, one tribunal verdict and an appeal judgement later, she now finds herself part of the history of gender laws in this country.
Today’s successful appeal establishes Ms Forstater’s views in law as a “philosophical belief” that must be protected from discrimination. This means that corporations, schools, government agencies or any other organisation cannot discriminate against people holding the ...
- Title
- Amy Chua: Yale students tried to cancel me for imaginary dinner parties
- Runtime
- 5:19
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks to Amy Chua.
Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0j93zjLyMc&t=1579s
#yale #cancelled #tigermom
- Title
- Ex press chief: The media was *not* racist towards Meghan Markle
- Runtime
- 34:55
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Ian Murray.
When 49.1 million viewers tuned in to watch the Harry and Meghan interview on Oprah, the drama that unfolded left many victims — not all famous or royal — in their wake. One such casualty was Ian Murray, the head of the Society of Editors, who came out to defend the British press against the claim made by the Duke of Sussex that the industry was racist. According to a statement put out by Murray, such an “attack” was “not acceptable” without any evidence. Following the statement came a now-infamous interview with Victoria Derbyshire, in which Murray got into a heated row with the interviewer over whether certain headlines could be construed as racist.
In spite of a second statement issued by the Society of Editors, the damage was already done: over 160 journalists of colour and the editors of the Guardian, Financial Times and HuffPost wrote an open letter describing the SoE’s initial statement as “laughable” p...
- Title
- Peter Singer: Despite everything, I'm still a cosmopolitan
- Runtime
- 41:15
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Peter Singer.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/peter-singer-despite-everything-im-still-a-cosmopolitan/
Any decent list of the most influential living philosophers will include Peter Singer. For nearly 50 years, the Australian ethicist has been at the forefront of progressive politics — his ideas about animal rights and effective altruism have shaped those debates ever since the 80s and his brand of utilitarian progressive thought continues to dominate.
More controversially, his writing against the sanctity of life and in favour of the morality of ending the lives of highly disabled infants have angered the Conservative Right as much as the disability lobby on the Left. He has been “cancelled” before the term even existed, with invitations to speak retracted multiple times over the years.
Now he is co-Editor of a new “Journal of Controversial Ideas” which seeks to provide anonymity a...
- Title
- Parent: Why I pulled my daughter out of antiracist school
- Runtime
- 30:20
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Andrew Gutmann.
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/andrew-gutmann
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/parent-why-i-pulled-my-daughter-out-of-antiracist-school/
Brearley is one of the most prestigious private schools in America. Based in the Upper East side of Manhattan, where the children of plutocrats and power brokers attend, the $54,000 a year all-girls school ranks among the likes of Spence, Chapin and Groton.
It is also one of the most difficult schools to get into, but one parent made headlines by taking his daughter out. Writing an open letter, Mr Gutmann complained that the antiracist policies of Brearley were "misguided, divisive, counterproductive and cancerous" and attacked it for "insisting on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution".
<...
- Title
- How the Covid lab leak theory was shut down
- Runtime
- 3:42
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Nicholas Wade speaks to Freddie Sayers about whether there were vested interests trying to shut down the Covid-19 lab-leak theory.
#Covid19 #lableak #peterdaszak
- Title
- Nicholas Wade: the case for the Covid lab-leak theory
- Runtime
- 33:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Nicholas Wade.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/nicholas-wade-the-case-for-the-covid-lab-leak-theory/
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/
former-new-york-times-writer-the-lab-leak-theory-is-most-pla
The so-called lab-leak hypothesis for the origins of Covid-19 has been gaining more and more traction in recent months. Once dismissed as a crankish fringe theory, it has slowly been entering into mainstream scientific discussion. Just this week, America’s CDC Director said that it was ‘possible’ that Covid could have leaked from a lab as ‘significant circumstantial evidence’ emerges.
One analyst who has made a significant contribution to the debate is Nicholas Wade, a former reporter at the New York Times, who recently self-published a piece detailing how the lab-leak theory isn’t just a possibility, it is (in his view) the most l...
- Title
- Fired Apple employee: a reckoning is underway
- Runtime
- 17:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Antonio García Martínez.
Last week, tech giant Apple made headlines for the summary dismissal of one of its employees. Following a petition signed by over 2,000 Apple employees, the company decided to fire Antonio García Martínez, a senior ads engineer who had only just started, over comments he made in his 2016 book Chaos Monkeys. According to the petitioners, García Martínez had a “history of publishing overtly racist and sexist remarks” which “directly oppose Apple’s commitment to Inclusion & Diversity”.
The quote from the book that is regularly cited, out of context, as proof of García Martínez's apparent sexism is below:
"Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign inva...
- Title
- Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis: The EU is broken
- Runtime
- 52:44
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis join Freddie Sayers.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-is-broken/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/douglas-murray-and-yanis-varoufakis-the-eu-has-failed
The EU has had a difficult pandemic. A slow procurement of vaccines, followed by a botched rollout, and blame-shifting by its leaders has drawn together critics from all politics stripes. Two of unlikely bedfellows from very different political traditions, Douglas Murray and Yanis Varoufakis, joined Freddie Sayers for a discussion about the bloc at an UnHerd members event.
Murray's feelings about the EU are well-known, having long been a critic of the bloc and writing a best-selling book on the subject. Varoufakis, meanwhile, has been on more of a journey. Once a staunch proponent of the 'Remain and Reform' position of the EU, the form...
- Title
- Tiger Mom Amy Chua: we are losing the American identity
- Runtime
- 39:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Amy Chua.
Article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/amy-chua-americans-are-now-fearful-of-asians/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/episodes/amy-chua-americans-are-now-fearful-of-asians
As the country’s ‘model-minority’, Asian-Americans have experienced different forms of discrimination compared to other ethnic groups, but the recent spate of Asian-American violence and rise in anti-China rhetoric has thrown this tension into sharper focus.
There is perhaps no public intellectual better equipped to give an insight into these issues than Amy Chua, a Law Professor at Yale and author of five books, including the famous book ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’, which advocated strict Chinese-style parenting. Chua is the child of two ethnically Chinese parents, who emigrated from the Philippines to the US when she was a baby. She has written extensively about h...
- Title
- Mayor Ben Houchen: why Tories are winning the North
- Runtime
- 28:10
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/mayor-ben-houchen
Freddie Sayers meets Teesside's newly re-elected Conservative mayor, Ben Houchen.
There's a stereotype of England's North-Eastern cities as left-behind, backward-facing, clinging to a long-gone industrial past. Some Labour politicians have even tried to play up to this image too, but it could not, says Teesside's newly re-elected mayor Ben Houchen, be further from the truth. According to Houchen, who won 73% of the Teeside vote in last week's by-election, voters in Hartlepool and Teesside aren't nostalgic, they are looking to the future. He plans to turn Teesside into the Silicon Valley of the UK.
#RedWall #BorisJohnson #Conservatives
- Title
- Philosopher Matthew B. Crawford: Science has become corrupted
- Runtime
- 41:06
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Matthew B. Crawford.
Read the full article: https://unherd.com/2021/05/how-science-has-been-corrupted/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/matthew-b-crawford-how-science-turned-political
‘Following the science’ is a phrase that we have heard a lot of this year, but what does it actually mean? Over the past year, science has shifted from a mode of inquiry to a form of authority that you are not allowed to question in fear of being labelled ‘anti-science’. To understand how and why this has occurred, we spoke to philosopher and writer Matthew B. Crawford, who has a full-length piece in UnHerd on this very subject.
Follow UnHerd on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/
// TIMECODES //
00:24 - 01:43 - Intro
01:43 - 04:41 - Political legitimacy in a p...
- Title
- Covid & QAnon at Camelot | Edgelands Ep.1
- Runtime
- 19:45
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- UnHerd's Aris Roussinos meets John Mappin.
Tintagel in Cornwall, the legendary birthplace of King Arthur, has always been a mystical place. Perched on the edge of Atlantic cliffs, it is where new age beliefs meld with Britain's Celtic past.
It is also the home of John Mappin, who's been described as the mouthpiece of Britain's QAnon movement and as a prominent associate of American conservatism’s wilder fringes. Aris Roussinos spent the weekend with Mappin at his home, Camelot castle, to find out how (or if) these American beliefs have penetrated into deep England.
// Timecodes //
00:41 - Introduction
01:37 - Meeting John Mappin
01:56 - Myth making and backing Donald Trump
06:11 - Saving the planet and creating destiny
08:17 - Flying the QAnon flag
10:44 - Did Covid bring down Trump?
14:09 - Questioning QAnon
15:27 - Clarifying conspiracies
19:00 - Saying goodbye
- Title
- John McWhorter: white people should stand up to antiracist ideologues
- Runtime
- 35:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets John McWhorter.
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/john-mcwhorter
When John McWhorter, professor of Linguistics and American Studies at Columbia, described 'antiracism' as America's 'new flawed religion' in 2015, few could have imagined just how prescient that description would prove to be. Just last week, the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi thanked George Floyd for "sacrificing his life for justice" while CEOs, celebrities, and other politicians all made versions of the same promise: the work was not done.
McWhorter does not count himself as a follower of this new religion. In fact, the professor has become one of its fiercest critics, tirelessly deconstructing the latest example of 'woke craziness' to illustrate its incoherence. We therefore thought that it was essential to get John's opinion on the Derek Chauvin verdict and his thoughts on race relations in America m...
- Title
- Bret Weinstein: Democrats are riding the BLM wave
- Runtime
- 3:30
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks to Bret Weinstein about Joe Biden's comments about the Chauvin trial.
Visit https://UnHerd.com/members to join our next event!
#BLM #GeorgeFloyd #JoeBiden
- Title
- Priests speak out: the moral case against vaccine passports
- Runtime
- 23:05
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/church-leaders-vaccine-passports-would-be-un-christian/
Listen to the podcast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/church-leaders-vaccine-passports-are-un-christian
Over the weekend, a group of over 1,200 church leaders from a range of denominations sent an open letter to the Prime Minister. It warned that vaccine passports raised serious ethical concerns and risked creating a ‘surveillance state’ that would ‘bring about the end of liberal democracy as we know it’.
We spoke to two of the original signatories — Rev Dr. William Philip, of the Tron church in Glasgow, and Rev Dr. Jamie Franklin, curator of St. George in the Meadow in Nottingham. In this interview, both offered a scathing assessment of the concept of vaccine passports and explained why they could not support it.
// Timecodes //
00:21 - 01:11 - Intro
01:11 - 02:35 - Why wr...
- Title
- Johan Giesecke one year on: did Sweden succeed?
- Runtime
- 40:43
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- One year ago, an interview with Professor Johan Giesecke of Sweden began to go viral on YouTube. It was early in the pandemic, and he was the most senior voice (as a former state epidemiologist of Sweden, Chief Scientist at the European Centre of Disease Control and advisor to the Director General of the WHO) to come out forcefully against lockdowns.
He promised to come back in a year to review the evidence — and with typical Swedish punctuality, here he is.
What he got wrong, what he got right, and much besides. Don't miss.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/2021/04/did-sweden-get-covid-wrong/
Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/did-sweden-get-covid-wrong
// Timecodes //
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Revisiting last time
02:08 - What I got wrong
09:03 - Vaccines
10:55 - Fatality rates
13:13 - IFR
16:05 - Lockdown strategy
...
- Title
- Bridget Phetasy: I can't believe we're having this conversation
- Runtime
- 40:39
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets YouTuber Bridget Phetasy
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/bridget-phetasy-i-cant-believe-were-having-this-conversation/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/bridget-phetasy-the-power-of-big-tech-is-chilling
// Timecodes //
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - California
05:14 - Vaccine passports
10:48 - Covid and minorities
12:48 - Liberal thinking
14:09 - Cancel culture
16:03 - Big tech censorship
30:24 - Is sex going to be cancelled?
34:50 - On being politically homeless
38:08 - Bridget Phetasy: politician?
40:05 - Final thoughts
Around the world, California is romanticised as a glamorous haven of luxury and sunshine. But the reality, as we have been finding out, is quite different: rubbish stacked in the streets, a homelessness crisis, and an exodus of disillusioned residents. One of these ...
- Title
- Winston Churchill's grandson: Prince Philip didn't like bloody fools
- Runtime
- 15:35
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/sir-nicholas-soames-the-values-of-philips-generation-are-now
There are few families in Britain closer to the royal family than the family of wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill. His grandson, Sir Nicholas Soames, knew Prince Philip very well over a 60-year period and shared his thoughts on his passing in a special edition of LockdownTV.
“Prince Philip was never really given the kind of credit that he was due, in my view. This is a man who gave up a glittering naval career to be the Queen’s consort… He provided for the Queen an absolute rock of security and stability and above all confidence. He had a very, very difficult childhood indeed — it worked both ways, I think she gave him great confidence. It was a marriage of 73 years… the Queen has lost a greatly loved husband who was the beating heart of her family. It’s a strange day, a day of reflection, and I ...
- Title
- Dave Rubin: why the 'Intellectual Dark Web' split up
- Runtime
- 43:08
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/dave-rubin-the-next-governor-of-california
The group of thinkers now known as the “Intellectual Dark Web” — Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Bret and Eric Weinstein, Ben Shapiro — were convened in Dave Rubin's garage and on his YouTube channel, The Rubin Report. And yet he has always suffered the accusation that he wasn’t a 'real' intellectual.
“What I thought and believe now that I am good at is that I can sit with these people and take a lot of that stuff and distil it into something that the average person can understand enough of. I love that space,” he tells me in a wide-ranging and philosophical discussion on LockdownTV.
He sees the old IDW gang as divided now along a crucial ideological split. There are those who believe the tools of liberalism can still be deployed to persuade the Woke Left to change their mind (he includes Bari Weiss, Sam Harri...
- Title
- Dave Rubin: the next Governor of California?
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Watch the full interview: https://youtu.be/bFC29RlH0L0
Freddie Sayers spoke to the YouTube star about a potential run...
At one moment during our fascinating conversation (interview out tomorrow 4pm UK time), I had a sudden realisation that YouTube star and interviewer Dave Rubin was sounding like a man with political ambitions. So I asked him outright. Does his answer add up to a declaration of intent?
#DaveRubin #USPolitics #California
- Title
- Vermont Professor: I stand by my anti-whiteness video
- Runtime
- 33:56
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Aaron Kindsvatter, professor of counselling at the University of Vermont.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/vermont-professor-i-stand-by-my-anti-whiteness-video/
Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/college-professor-i-wont-back-down-over-anti-whiteness-video
Over the past year, the culture wars have been raging and one of the places where they have been fought most fiercely is on American college campuses. Efforts to 'decolonise the curriculum' and censor professors and students found to be deviating from progressive orthodoxy on identity issues have intensified, particularly on liberal college campuses.
Last week, another target was found, this time at the University of Vermont. Claiming to see an ideology of 'anti-whiteness' spreading around the School of Education, Professor Aaron Kindsvatter published a video denouncing the anti-racist agenda f...
- Title
- Tim Pool on Big Tech's woke authoritarianism
- Runtime
- 41:29
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/tim-pool-on-joe-biden-occupy-and-big-tech/
Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/tim-pool-on-joe-biden-occupy-and-big-tech
Online Lefty, liberal journalist, Right-wing podcaster and alt-Right adjacent. These are just some of the labels applied to Tim Pool, a YouTuber and citizen journalist who first rose to prominence in his coverage of the Occupy Movement nearly 10 years ago. That he's been called all these different names is something of a badge of honour for Pool, whose heterodox opinions have led to criticism from all corners of the political spectrum.
Though he would broadly categorise himself as a Left-libertarian, he is no friend of the Democrat Party, describing it as the 'War Machine Party' and even voted for Trump in 2020. We were interested to learn more about Tim's rationale behind this move, which also seemed to reflect a broader realign...
- Title
- Hacked and sanctioned by the Chinese: Tom Tugendhat MP speaks out
- Runtime
- 15:30
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Tom Tugendhat MP is Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and one of the five British MPs placed on a sanctions list yesterday by the Chinese Communist Party. He spoke to Freddie Sayers about what it means.
Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/episodes/tom-tugendhat-the-chinese-government-sent-letters-to-my-home
Read the accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/tom-tugendhat-the-chinese-government-sent-letters-to-my-home/
// Key Quotes //
*On the impact of sanctions on him personally*
It doesn’t affect me at all, really, because I have no interests in China, either personal or professional. So for me, it’s not significant. But what this is, is an attempt to intimidate British business people, intimidate British politicians and, by the way, intimidate many other people around the world. This is an attempt to bully and I hope it will be seen ...
- Title
- Spermageddon: are humans going extinct?
- Runtime
- 29:00
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Prof Shanna Swan of Mount Sinai, New York.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/spermageddon-are-humans-going-extinct/
Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/spermageddon-are-humans-going-extinct
Is the human race in danger of extinction? That's the jaw-dropping claim made in Professor Shanna Swan's new book 'Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race'. According to the book, sperm counts have dropped almost 60% since 1973 and suggests that they could reach zero by 2045, which would mean no more reproduction and no more babies.
Our Science Editor Tom Chivers wasn't overly convinced by the thesis, but we wanted to hear Dr Swan out. She argues that chemicals such as "Pthalates", to be found in everything from ATM receipts to Tupperware plastic,...
- Title
- Debate: are vaccine passports a necessary evil?
- Runtime
- 37:08
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/debate-are-vaccine-passports-necessary/
Listen to the podcast here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/debate-are-vaccine-passports-necessary
Are vaccine passports the fastest way back to normality or do they bring us a step closer towards a dystopian checkpoint state?
On today's LockdownTV, Freddie Sayers heard from both sides of the debate. Making the case for vaccine passports was Kirsty Innes, Head of Digital Government for the Tony Blair Institute, whose recent paper called for the implementation of what she called 'digital health passports'. Innes argues that, by using a QR code on people's phones that shows a tick or cross indicator, passports would make it easier to "manage the risk" of the virus in certain settings (pubs, stadiums, care homes etc).
This, according to Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties group, is "alarming". Sh...
- Title
- Paul Kingsnorth: science doesn't have all the answers
- Runtime
- 50:07
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/?post_type=thepost&p=76196&preview=true
Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/paul-kingsnorth-science-can-never-replace-the-mythic
Paul Kingsnorth doesn't fit neatly into Left or Right — which is only one of the reasons we consider him one of the more interesting thinkers of our time. He has been talking and writing about nature for over 25 years, and during that period he has developed his own self-reliant, localised form of environmentalism.
Formerly a climate activist, Paul grew disaffected with the movement when he came to the realisation that "economic monster" that enveloped the world was too great to fight against. Instead, he channelled his energies into writing books, essays, novels and poetry, all of which have been hugely influential in the way we view our relationship with the modern world and its maladies.
In his own life, he has tried to "secede fr...
- Title
- Lord Sumption: Mass civil disobedience has begun
- Runtime
- 51:09
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Jonathan Sumption.
Read the full article: https://unherd.com/2021/03/lord-sumption-civil-disobedience-has-begun/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/lord-sumption-mass-civil-disobedience-has-begun
Jonathan Sumption was once the epitome of the Establishment — a brilliant barrister who represented the Government in the Hutton enquiry, Supreme Court Justice, supporter of the Remain campaign and esteemed historian of the Hundred Years’ War. But then Covid happened.
Over the past year, his unabashed criticism of lockdown policies has turned him into something of a renegade. It is development that mystifies him; as he sees it, his views have always been mainstream liberal, and it is the world around that has changed.
In the course of our conversation, the retired judge doesn’t hold back. He asserts that it is becoming morally acceptable to ignore Covid...
- Title
- Headmaster: I refuse to make pupils wear masks in class
- Runtime
- 17:25
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- David Perks is the founder and headteacher at the East London Science School, built on the principle of offering a strong foundation in science and maths and encouraging critical thinking.
When they come back on March 8th, he will not be following government guidance and requiring his pupils to wear facemasks in class.
Thanks to David for sharing his experience — we’ll be watching to see what other schools choose to do.
- Title
- Rapper Loki: Class, not identity, should drive politics
- Runtime
- 32:22
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/rapper-loki-class-not-identity-should-drive-politics/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/rapper-loki-class-not-identity-should-drive-politics
Class is a subject that, no matter how much we advance as a society, we seem unable to stop talking about — especially in the UK. Glasgow rapper Darren McGarvey, otherwise known as Loki, has been thinking a lot about it for a new documentary series on the BBC. Over the years, Loki has developed a reputation for scathing social commentaries through his music and writing; three years ago he published a book, Poverty Safari, detailing the rapper's working class upbringing in Scotland and winning the Orwell Prize in the process.
Thanks to Loki for sharing his thoughts on the corrosive effects of identity politics on society, his family's struggles with addiction and alcoholism, and the phoniness of woke cap...
- Title
- Politicians of Left and Right join forces to challenge lockdowns
- Runtime
- 26:09
- Date posted
- 5 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/david-blunkett-and-charles-walker-join-forces-to-oppose-lockdowns/
Podcast link here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/lord-david-blunkett-and-sir-charles-walker-lockdown-must-end
One of the main features of the UK lockdowns has been the near-uniform consensus around them. As each one has gone by, cross-party support for lockdowns has only strengthened while fewer voices have been willing to offer anything in the way of dissent. Two notable exceptions, however, come from the British parliamentary system: Lord David Blunkett, a famous figure of the New Labour movement and former Home Secretary, and Sir Charles Walker, a prominent Conservative Party backbencher and vice chairman of the 1922 Committee, the all-important backbencher group that decides the leader of the party.
Coming from two very different political backgrounds, these unlikely bedfellows have joined forces to ...
- Title
- Claire Lehmann: Facebook has made a bad miscalculation
- Runtime
- 17:06
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/claire-lehmann-australia-is-the-canary-in-the-facebook-coal-mine/
Podcast link: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/claire-lehmann-australia-is-the-canary-in-the-facebook-coal-
Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a difficult decision to make. Incoming legislation in Australia meant that social media platforms like his were going to be forced to pay news providers to new content. How was he going to respond? Quite aggressively, it would seem. Not only did he instantly pull all news content from Facebook Australia, but he did so overnight — without any warning — before the law even came into effect.
So where does this leave news providers and online sites Down Under? Earlier today, Freddie Sayers spoke to Quillette’s founding editor Claire Lehmann, who joined us from Sydney, to give us a clearer understanding of what this means for publications like hers.<...
- Title
- Government scientist speaks out: we want the old normal back
- Runtime
- 28:03
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article: https://unherd.com/thepost/government-scientist-dystopian-talk-of-new-normal-scares-me/
Podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/mike-tildesley
When is life going to go back to normal? That’s the question on everyone’s lips and one that Government ministers have — so far— been reluctant to answer. It was hoped that the advent of a vaccine would lead to a loosening of restrictions, but as things stand the country will be in full lockdown for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile there is a growing campaign among some parts of the ZeroCovid campaign for keeping certain restrictions in place permanently.
One scientist who stands firmly against this proposal is Dr Michael Tildesley, an epidemiologist from the University of Warwick. Dr Tildesley is a formal advisor to the Government, on SPI-M or the “scientific pandemic influenza group on modelling”, which feeds into SAGE, the government scientific ...
- Title
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: virtue signalling on immigration, BLM and MeToo is dangerous
- Runtime
- 43:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/ayaan-hirsi-ali-covid-has-changed-the-immigration-debate-forever/
Podcast link: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/ayaan-hirsi-ali-virtue-signalling-about-immigration-hurts-wo
It is hard to think of a more sensitive topic than the connection between sexual violence against women and the surge in immigration from Muslim countries into Europe since 2015. But then, it is hard to think of a more credible person to address it than Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who herself began life in Somalia and ended up claiming asylum in the Netherlands to escape a forced marriage.
#immigration #covid-19 #borders
- Title
- Extinction Rebellion founder: why right wingers should be radical environmentalists
- Runtime
- 30:34
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/?post_type=thepost&p=55866&preview=true
Podcast link: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/roger-hallam-the-conservative-case-for-extinction-rebelllion.
As the Conservative government prepares to host the COP26 climate summit, famous environmental campaigner and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, has a message he wants people to hear: his movement is not just for woke students and the radical Left.
In an eye-opening interview, he tells Freddie Sayers about the importance of the nation-state, social conservatism, local community, and how he wants church leaders and ex-police officers in his movement. His pitch, in short, is that philosophical conservatives should not be afraid to embrace radical environmentalism.
#ExtinctionRebellion #COP26 #Environment
- Title
- Teachers speak out: school closures are a disaster
- Runtime
- 37:18
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/special-report-is-closing-schools-immoral/
Podcast link here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/teachers-speak-out-is-closing-schools-immoral
For much of the past year, across Europe and the wider world, schools have been closed. Was this a morally justifiable policy?
We spoke to teachers and one former teacher, now MP, to find out: what is the reality on the ground? What is the impact on children’s lives? At the end of it do we think it was the right decision? Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress of the Michaela Community School in northwest London. Miriam Cates MP, Conservative MP and former science teacher and Alex Gutentag, a public school teacher from Oakland in California.
Each of them comes to a different conclusion but they agree on one thing: the impact on children of such an extended period of school closures is very grave.
Many thanks t...
- Title
- Sacked Eton teacher: I stand by my patriarchy lecture
- Runtime
- 35:36
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Will Knowland to discuss his sacking from Eton College.
Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/sacked-eton-teacher-i-stand-by-my-patriarchy-lecture/
Podcast link here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/sacked-eton-teacher-i-stand-by-my-lecture
Watch The Patriarchy Paradox here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTHgMxQEoPI
When teacher Will Knowland was sacked by Eton for refusing to take down a lecture from his YouTube account, his departure sparked furious debate. The provocative lecture, ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’, argued that the idea of a repressive patriarchy throughout history is a myth, that men have had it harder than women, and that traditional gender roles are not social constructions but due to innate biological differences.
To its critics, the video was deemed offensive and sexist for espousing such a retrograde view of masculinity. But to Knowland and...
- Title
- Adam Wagner: are lockdowns a threat to human rights?
- Runtime
- 34:42
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompany article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/adam-wagner-are-lockdowns-a-threat-to-human-rights/
Podcast link here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/adam-wagner-are-lockdowns-against-human-rights
Human rights lawyer Adam Wagner meets Freddie Sayers.
Adam Wagner is one of the UK’s highest-profile legal experts on human rights, citing Shami Chakrabati as one of his main influences in the field. He strongly distances himself from “covid deniers” whose attempt to minimise the threat of the virus he describes as “dangerous nonsense”, and expressed dismay at Lord Sumption’s insensitive phrasing about the value of lives on television yesterday. In other words, he’s about as far from an ideological Right-winger as you’ll find in the British media.
So it was especially sobering to hear him set out some of the things he is worried about from a legal and human rights perspective since the pandemic star...
- Title
- Andrew Sullivan: I was right about Donald Trump
- Runtime
- 49:02
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks to writer and commentator Andrew Sullivan to help understand what's going on in America.
Accompany article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/andrew-sullivan-i-was-right-about-trump/
Podcast link here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/andrew-sullivan-i-was-right-about-trump
The images from the 6th January riots at the US Capitol will be with us for years — shocking, unnerving, and ultimately tragic for the five people who died. But was it “armed insurrection” or a failure of policing? How close did the President come to directly inciting violence? What is a wise way for Democrats to respond?
To help understand this significant moment, and what these final astonishing weeks of the Trump administration mean for the US and for the world, I spoke to writer and commentator Andrew Sullivan. He lives just a few blocks away from the Capitol and from the first moments of our interview you can see...
- Title
- Jonathan Haidt: the political chaos isn't over yet
- Runtime
- 43:24
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/jonathan-haidt-have-left-and-right-changed-beyond-recognition/
Podcast here: https://open.acast.com/public/streams/5fad6d24bc034454b53fe011/episodes/5ff5bd02d11a3c56e442dc7f.mp3
Freddie Sayers meets American social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt to discuss how the Right and Left positions have evolved over the past few years.
(1) Harm/care,
(2) Fairness/reciprocity,
(3) In-group/loyalty,
(4) Authority/respect,
(5) Purity/sanctity.
Those are the five moral ‘foundations’ on which, according to moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt, liberals and conservatives divide. In his bestseller 2012 book ‘The Righteous Mind’, the NYU professor made the argument that liberals tend to value the first two foundations over the others, harm and fairness, while conservatives value the others just as much.
But have the past f...
- Title
- Glenn Greenwald: Big Tech is censoring Covid debate
- Runtime
- 36:16
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Glenn Greenwald to discuss tech censorship during the pandemic.
Read article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/tech-censorship-how-paranoid-should-we-be/
Listen to the podcast version on:
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/glenn-greenwald-tech-censorship-of-covid-discussion-is-dange
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/glenn-greenwald-tech-censorship-covid-discussion-is/id1540134798?i=1000503695626
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bSXn9vjqrB4hfWLaZ2Pyr?si=jxuNhLrrQ_iKYBsbzbckWA
Recently, in the comments underneath our LockdownTV YouTube videos, people have been saying that our videos are being ‘downrated’ on YouTube search. Type in Aella, or Michael Levitt, for example, and videos come above ours in the search results that are much older, viewed much fewer times, and come from channels that have much smaller followings. I hate the idea of being conspir...
- Title
- Christmas special with Tom Holland
- Runtime
- 30:52
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Tom Holland, historian and author of bestselling book Dominion about the impact of Christianity on Western civilisation, sits down with Freddie Sayers for our Christmas special to talk about Christmas, and whether it is still a Christian festival even if it’s been cancelled.
Listen to the podcast version on:
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/episodes/tom-holland-is-it-christian-to-cancel-christmas
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tom-holland-is-it-christian-to-cancel-christmas/id1540134798?i=1000503314886
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/18YRLvpTYd2tOfOva6kNwv?si=-vnNuTrpSAqplTUuYWeO4g
Anxiety about Christmas being “cancelled” has been a staple in tabloid newspapers for decades — but according to Tom Holland, it’s been around a lot longer than that.
“Anxiety about that is in itself a very Christian tradition,” he told me in our LockdownTV Christmas Special (...
- Title
- Swedish Professor: we are headed for disaster
- Runtime
- 42:10
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers speaks with Fredrik Elgh, a Professor of Virology at Umeå University in Northern Sweden and a clinical physician.
Listen to the podcast version of the interview on:
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/episodes/swedish-professor-we-are-headed-for-disaster
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/swedish-professor-we-are-headed-for-disaster/id1540134798?i=1000502813386
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UcCFBucoLcA4XtG7Ounkt?si=dD49cBeERyGmsnQYNRS4vA
Accompanying article:
The world of Swedish epidemiology is small. Fredrik Elgh is a Professor of Virology at Umeå University in Northern Sweden and a clinical physician, but earlier in his career, heading up a department at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Stockholm, a certain Anders Tegnell was in his staff, and Johan Giesecke was another department head. From our 45-minute conversation, I think we ...
- Title
- OnlyFans star Aella on the ethics of pornography
- Runtime
- 48:42
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Aella.
Read the article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/meet-aella-the-intellectual-porn-star/
Listen to the podcast version: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/meet-aella-the-intellectual-porn-star
OnlyFans, the self-publishing pornography app, has taken off during the course of 2020 with an average of 200,000 new users signing up each day. The platform allows creators to release photos and videos to paying subscribers; while the content published is entirely the choice of the creator, the most common genre is pornography.
Freddie Sayers spoke to Aella, one of OnlyFans most successful and best-known creators, to discuss the morality of pornography and the reality of modern sex work.
Follow UnHerd on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/
#OnlyFans #Pornography #Aella
- Title
- New virus strain means containing Covid-19 is impossible
- Runtime
- 31:10
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets David Engelthaler, co-director of the T-Gen Research Institute and former state epidemiologist of Arizona.
Accompany article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/genomics-expert-new-covid-mutation-was-harder-to-control/
Listen to the podcast version of the interview on:
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/genomics-expert-does-covid-mutation-explain-asia-exception/id1540134798?i=1000501947094
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/david-engelthaler
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/260Hzdh3yTA1aAiqdW9Ri3?si=-fzys0NnTPCTR9XaCAv-3w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A13ZOVT9rEh2EvcsikrdPIq
The New York Times recently reported that, in the early months of the pandemic, a particular genetic strain of Covid-19 known as D14G was shown to be more prevalent in Italy than any Asian countries. This may have helped explain why the disease spread so fast in that country, and elsewhere in ...
- Title
- Cambridge tutor: don't force me to 'respect' your views
- Runtime
- 21:38
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Freddie Sayers meets Dr Arif Ahmed of Cambridge University.
For article and key quotes see here:
https://unherd.com/thepost/tutor-speaks-out-on-cambridge-free-speech-battle/
Over recent years, we’ve learned to pay attention to the intellectual trends and taboos on university campuses — they have a way of spilling out into mainstream corporate and political life.
Which is why the vote among the 7,000 faculty at Cambridge on a new ‘free speech policy’ matters. The results will be announced tomorrow at 5pm and will be an indication of the willingness to resist the increasing threats to free speech and academic enquiry around politically sensitive topics.
Cambridge has been in the news all year in this regard —rescinding the invitation of a visiting fellowship to Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, removing academic Noah Carl after his controversial study into race and intelligence, and subjecting a college porter to a camp...
- Title
- Hong Kong dissident: 100,000 could move to Britain next year
- Runtime
- 28:01
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Arguably the most famous Hong Kong dissident alive today, Nathan Law has become one of the most recognisable faces of the pro-democracy movement in his homeland. Having been at the forefront of protests against the controversial Hong Kong national security law over the summer, the democracy activist was subsequently forced to flee Hong Kong over fears for his safety. The departure proved timely: just this week three of his fellow activists (including Joshua Wong) were arrested and sentenced to 10-13 months in prison.
Nathan now lives in the UK, which took the unprecedented step earlier this year of offering residency to any holder of a British National overseas passport in Hong Kong. Up to three million Hongkongers are eligible for this residency, and according to Nathan, as many as 100,000 people could arrive in the first year. That is a substantial figure, and one that will present Boris Johnson’s government with a potentially difficult question on how to accommodate ...
- Title
- Suzanne Moore: driven out of the Guardian by the trans row
- Runtime
- 44:51
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Suzanne Moore is one of the most famous columnists at the Guardian newspaper — or at least she was until she finally left last week, accused by colleagues of being a 'transphobe'.
For the first time, she talks about her experience to Freddie Sayers — what it felt like to be rounded on how she felt couldn't stay.
It's a sobering story of an attempt to shut down freedom of speech at one of the world's biggest newspapers.
Don't miss her full essay on UnHerd: https://unherd.com/2020/11/why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/
Listen to the podcast version of the interview on:
iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suzanne-moore-why-i-had-to-leave-the-guardian/id1540134798?i=1000500138699
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6xXNXUGRUJ9teA0DmDfSQn?si=WWYccHCVSjCve2EvK4IB8Q
Acast: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-with-freddie-sayers/episodes/suzanne-moore
#SusanneMoore #TheGuardian #FreeSpeech
- Title
- Controversial mask study Professor: masks are still worthwhile
- Runtime
- 18:27
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- The Danish ‘randomised control trial’ study into the protective effects of facemasks caused the predictable furore when it was published this week. Comparing a sample of 3000 people who were wearing masks and 3000 people who were not, 42 of the mask-wearers became infected with Covid-19 and 53 of the non-mask-wearers: a small, non-statistically-significant difference.
The self-appointed Defenders of Science were quick to move into attack mode. Oxford’s Trish Greenhalgh said it was not necessarily “high quality science” and made some technical objections to the study; science-activists like Vincent Rajkumar, Editor-in-Chief of the Blood Cancer Journal, announced: “Ignore the Danish study. Masks work. Wear a mask… Speaking as someone who has led 10 RCTs and knows when to ignore one”; a former CDC director lambasted the study in the same journal that published it.
To make it worse, there were rumours that the study had been squashed or censored, r...
- Title
- Prof Tim Spector: hopes of a vaccine will lead to more lockdowns
- Runtime
- 30:20
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- One of the most interesting sources of data for the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the ZOE app — downloaded by over 4.3 million people, who input symptoms and test results every day.
Its founder is Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist from KCL, and the app is now funded by the Government and Number Ten receives daily data from it. He received an OBE for services to fighting the pandemic earlier this year.
The ZOE app made headlines recently for demonstrating quite conclusively that the number of daily infections was already levelling off and even coming down in some areas of England at the end of October, prior to the second national lockdown. It painted a very different picture from the apocalyptic scenarios described in the Prime Minister’s briefing.
Professor Spector was refreshingly outspoken when I interviewed him yesterday. He said:
- Had the Government followed data from the ZOE app they would not have -gone into a...
