The Banter Police Are Coming

Welcome to episode 24 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:

Toby Young, the Daily Sceptic’s Editor-in-Chief and boss of the Free Speech Union, on a year of free-speech travesties – and the battles to come in the year ahead.

Sam Bidwell, Director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute, on the judge who declined to jail the woman who milkshaked Nigel Farage – and what this says about our justice system.

And for our premium subscribers, I’m joined by Niall Gooch, public servant and writer for the Spectator, the Critic and UnHerd, on what it means for conservatives when they can no longer trust their country’s institutions.

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Read Laurie’s article on Tan Ikram here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/16/nigel-farage-milkshake-attacker-spared-jail-by-the-same-judge-who-imprisoned-a-police-officer-for-a-whatsapp-message/

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Read more about the Worker Protection Bill here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/13/pubs-will-have-to-employ-banter-bouncers-under-labours-plans-to-protect-workers-from-overhearing-offensive-conversations/

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Read Niall’s article here: https://thecritic.co.uk/conservatives-can-no-longer-trust-institutions/

Follow him on X:https://x.com/niall_gooch

Produced by Richard Eldred.
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro
01:54 Toby Young on a year of free-speech travesties
44:23 Sam Bidwell on two-tier justice
01:08:11 Niall Gooch on the UK’s untrustworthy institutions