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Joe Bye-den

Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic episode 97
This week Nick and Toby talk about:
The strangeness of Biden’s announcement that he wouldn’t be seeking re-election and the inevitable conspiracy theories that it’s given rise to.
Was Biden’s withdrawal from the Presidential race a palace coup? How much did he really know about it? Why the gap between the announcement and his endorsement of Kamala harris?
Can the Democrats ever pose as the guardians of democracy again, given that it’s now obvious the elected President hasn’t been in charge and the process of selecting his successor has been so undemocratic?
Does Kamala have a hope of beating Trump? Does she have anything going for her? She’s younger than Trump, but can the Dems really make age an issue in the election, given that Biden was the candidate until five minutes ago?
Why is Kamala such a poor public speaker? Is it because she’s such an awful boss she can’t persuade anyone decent to work for her?
Have the Democrats foisted themselves with a Presidential candidate who was a diversity hire? Will this be another nail in the coffin of DEI?
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Kim Cheatle’s resignation as Secret Service Director after a monstering in Congress and whether she could have avoided that humiliation by resigning the day after the failed assassination attempt.
The Leeds riots and whether they are an indictment of mass immigration, as Nigel Farage and others claimed.
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick decries the punishment of a seven year-old girl for writing “All Lives Matter” and Toby weeps at the demonisation of the Prince Albert Memorial.
And in the Based Department, the clear winner is the judge who handed out stiff jail sentences to Roger Hallam and his Just Stop Oil comrades.
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Fight Fight Fight

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 96
This week Nick and Toby talk about:
Where they were when Trump was shot (in the ear).
The tsunami of bad takes about the attempt to assassinate the former President, from the Denver Post headline -- "Gunman Dies in Attack" -- to David Baddiel half-jokingly suggesting Trump conspired to have himself shot.
Was the abject failure of the Secret Service to protect Trump a cock-up or a conspiracy? Toby thinks cock-up, Nick isn't so sure.
The fact that Biden has also benefitted from the failed assassination attempt in the that is has snuffed out the coup to replace him and made replacing him less attractive since Trump's victory is now nailed on.
And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes:
Trump picking JD Vance as his running mate, which both Toby and Nick think is smart.
England's loss in the Euro finals and Gareth Southgate's resignation as manager. 
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick decries the Science Museum's decision to stop being funded by a Norwegian energy company and Toby rails against the Key's advice to teachers to liken the British Empire to Nazi Germany.
A new section devoted to the most egregious examples of anarcho-tyranny in the past week.
And in the Based Department, the clear winner is Donald Trump -- what could be more based than reacting like he did to being shot at -- and the runner up is Health Secretary Wes Streeting for making his predecessor's temporary ban on puberty blockers permanent.
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Labour Blandslide

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 95
This week Nick and Toby talk about:
The General Election result, in which Labour won a landslide in spite of just 20% of the electorate voting for them
The ‘Portillo Moments’ on the night in which Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt and Miriam Cates lost their seats
The five seats won by pro-Palestinian candidates who are far more toxic than the five Reform MPs, but got a free pass from the media during the election campaign
The runners and riders in the Tory leadership election and whether Robert Jenrick is enough of an outsider to qualify as a  ‘dark horse’
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The French election result in which the National Rally polled the most votes, but ended up coming third
Why the Dems will have to choose Michelle Obama as the candidate if they defenestrate Biden because they can’t pick a white man in preference to Kamala Harris 
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, in which Nick worries about getting into trouble if he tells any of his female co-workers they look ‘nice’ in light of the employment tribunal deciding that’s sexual harassment
And in the Based Department, the clear winner is Noel Gallagher for telling virtue-signalling musicians at Glastonbury: “Play your f***ing tunes and get off.”
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Fear Starmer

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 94
This week Nick and Toby talk about:
The final week of the General Election campaign, in which Nigel Farage lost a step and Rishi Sunak finally brought his A game
Whether to believe the eve-of-election MRP polls showing the Conservatives neck-and-neck with the Lib Dems on around 60 seats
If the actor in Channel 4’s ‘exposé’ of Reform in Clacton was a genuine activist or a paid shill
Kemi Badenoch’s spat with David Tennant and whether she was playing the race card when she said it was a bad look for a rich white guy to criticise the only black woman in the Cabinet
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A rant against the two Garys – Gary Neville and Gary Lineker
Marine Le Pen giving Emmanuel Macron a bloody nose in the French parliamentary elections
The US Presidential election debate and the terrible price Biden’s team have paid for pretending the attacks on Biden for being too old to do the job were just ‘misinformation’
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which this week has a clear winner – the Glastonbury Festival-goers who passed around Banksy’s inflatable dinghy, complete with inflatable migrants
And in the Based Department, the guy who won $175,000 in compensation from the police after he was arrested for giving an officer the finger and... tractors!
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The Farage Barrage

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 93
This week Nick and Toby talk about:
 
Nigel Farage provoking a ‘Matrix attack’ by claiming Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked.
 
The Conservatives' imploding election campaign and whether Reform really are pulling ahead.
 
Whether Keir Starmer wants to ‘reform’ the constitution because he wants to permanently embed radical progressive policies or just preserve the power of the professional managerial class.
 
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The real reason behind Starmer's claim he would never ‘go private’, i.e., his wife works for the NHS so he and his family would get special treatment.
 
The Supreme Court decision that effectively puts an end to Britain’s oil and gas industry.
 
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of whether we live in a ‘patriarchy’, as per Taylor Swift, or a ‘matriarchy’.
 
And in the Based Department, J.K Rowling, Javier Milei and the ‘hawk tuah’ girl
 
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Tony Blair: TERF

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 92
This week:
Nick and Toby talk about:
Reform’s ‘Contract’, as well as the Labour and Conservative manifestos
The next Conservative leadership election, which will be a 16-way contest, according to Tom Newton Dunn
Keir Starmer’s visit to Czechoslovakia at the age of 23 to join a work cap
Tony Blair’s embrace of his inner TERF and Gordon Brown’s blueprint for a deep state coup
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The reaction of all three main party leaders to Jude Bellingham scoring the winner in England’s opening game of the Euros
The possibility that a star chamber of Democratic grandees will stage an intervention to force the ailing Joe Biden to stand aside
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of ‘plus size inclusivity training’
And in the Based Department, the England fans who sang ‘10 German Bombers’ in spite of being asked not to by the German police and James May, who pointed out that Pride celebrations are becoming a teensy-weensy bit authoritarian
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D-Day for Rishi

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode #91
In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about:
Rishi Sunak’s D-Day disaster and whether the Conservative election campaign is now holed below the waterline
The ultra-woke Lib Dem manifesto, which reads as though it’s been written by junior staff members of the Guardian
Keir Starmer’s unbelievably wooden, robotic performance in the two-way, ITV debate
And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes:
The hostile reception given to Nigel Farage in the seven-way, BBC debate
The European election results and whether it’s accurate to describe populist parties like Marine le Pen’s National Rally and Giorgia Meloni as “Hard Right”, “Radical Right” or “Extreme Right”
Everyone’s favourite section Peak Woke, which includes a discussion of “front holes” and “bonus holes” as an alternative term for a Cervix
And in the Based Department, the Welsh boys football club that has abolished girls’ football and the animal rights protestors who stuck a speech bubble attacking the RSPCA on Jonathan Yeo’s ghastly ‘red’ portrait of King Charles
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Guess Who's Back?

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 90!
In a week full of political news, Nick and Toby talk about: 
-Nigel Farage's decision to stand in Clacton and become the leader of Reform
-The many reasons Farage's shock announcement is bad news for Rishi Sunak, including the risk that he'll now have to contend with the Reform leader in a televised debate
-Whether Reform can replace the Tories as the leading party of the Right by 2029
-They then look across the pond to discuss Trump's conviction and ask what it is, exactly, he's been found guilty of?
 
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-A bumper week for 'far Right' smears, what with Tommy Robinson's protest march, the knife attack by an Islamist at an anti-Muslim rally in Germany, and Jess Phillips's attempt to cancel Liz Truss for appearing on Lotus Eaters
-Peak woke, or, rather, Peak Pride, as they must learn to call it this month -What Toby intends to say to Owen Jones if they're ever on Question Time together
-And in the Based Department the bar-owner in Idaho who's declared June to be 'Heterosexual Awareness Month'
 
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Absolute Shower

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 89
This week: 
-In a General Election special, Nick and Toby talk about: -Why Rishi Sunak called a summer election, surprising everyone, including his Cabinet-Whether a ‘Presidential’ election, with the focus on the Prime Minister rather than the Conservative Party’s record in government, is Rishi’s best hope of limiting the damage-Why the Conservatives have rejected a ‘Devil Eyes’ election strategy and decided to emphasise Keir Starmer’s weak leadership skills instead-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: -Nigel Farage’s controversial exchange with Trevor Phillips about British Muslims and the BBC describing his Dover speech as ‘inflammatory’-The relaunch of Loaded and whether it’s actually a bit feminist-And the 70 year-old in a Suffolk village who chased some young hooligans down the street after they damaged her back gate (no pun intended)
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Ofcommunists

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 88
This week: 
-Nick and Toby  talk about Ofcom’s attack on GB News, why it’s unfair and what’s behind it-We’re all gutted about the death of the President of Iran, obviously, but why did Britain’s Deputy Ambassador to the UN stand to observe a minute’s silence for he “Butcher of Tehran”?-Everyone thought Geert Wilders wouldn't be able to form a government, but he’s built an unbelievably sensible coalition with a robust, Right-wing programme-And a brief canter through the stories we would have covered last week if Nick hadn’t been ill, courtesy of Toby-Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: 
-Donald Trump threatening to stand for a third term-The growing support for Trump among African-Americans and Hispanics-And Trump’s threat to send ‘kill teams’ to take out the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels-And in the Based Department, Toby nominates JK Rowling, Esther McVey and the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for refusing to rename the ‘Hitler Beatle’
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