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Since we last met Toby made another trip to Iceland, this time to give a talk at the inaugural meeting of a new free speech society. The post trip discussion on Icelandic cuisine, well, that’s a different story.
The news of the week prompts a question, “Do we need a New Enlightenment to tackle the hijacking of science by woke leftists?” Plus we tackle the Duke of Sussex’s extraordinarily misjudged admission that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, whether the arrest of Andrew Tate is an elaborate psy op, and the riot in the Brazilian capital and what that is likely to be blamed on.
In Culture Corner, The English, Season 2 of Slow Horses, Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov, 1859) and Hell’s March by Taylor Anderson.
This week’s opening sound is Ben McBean, formerly of the Royal Marines, talking with SkyNews on the Duke of Sussex’s relationship with the UK Armed Forces.
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I’m surprised Toby didn’t sample the whale.
Or the rotten shark (apparently an acquired taste – they call it fermented to make it sound slightly less gross.)
Or the sheep’s head (warning: do NOT Google image search this.)
These are staples in the diet of a people who have spent much of the last millennium in a state of famine.
The Icelandic horses however do look delicious. Yum!
* Photos from actual Iceland in 2019
Hard pass. On that and the horse anybody rode in on.
Who is this man?
Excellent segment on Harry and Meghan. I especially liked the dramatic readings. Can’t wait for the movie version of Spare. I understand the working title is The Bonfire of Inanities.
Looks like Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit).
Toby does an American accent! Not to be missed.
It’s Bobby Fischer in 1972.
Interesting.
Hereford beef? Yes!
Hereford ice cream, if it included Just Rachel Damson Sloe Gin, equally, yes!
Hereford puffin, shark, whale, horse, skyr? What on earth are the Icelanders thinking?