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 that it 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.

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 And premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which includes: 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!

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.

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’

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 87 This week:  -Nick and Toby discuss Sadiq Khan’s victory in the London mayoral election and puzzle over why the Tories didn’t make more of an effort  -Could Labour’s losses to pro-Palestinian, Muslim candidates be replicated in the general election, or will Keir Starmer give in to the Muslim Vote’s 18 demands? -Do the local election results point towards a hung parliament, as Rishi Sunak claims? -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -Nick Fuentes being allowed back on X -Nigel Farage hinting he’s not looking to revive his political career in Britain -And in the Based Department, Toby nominates Deta Hardman, the 64 year-old darts player who refused to compete against a biological man in the women’s quarter-finals of the Denmark Open.

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 86 This week: Nick and Toby discuss the short and disastrous career of ‘Humza the Brief’, puzzling over why he wanted to lead a country he regarded as ‘structurally racist’?; A Conservative MP defects to Labour, prompting more demands for Rishi Sunak to fall on his sword; The Irish Government takes a leaf out of our book and tries to pass a law so its senior judges can’t block efforts to deport asylum seekers to a country the Irish High Court has designated as ‘unsafe’ – in this case, the UK; Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke.

This week:

• Nick and Toby wish their viewers and listeners happy St George’s Day – or, as Nick puts it, happy wankers-posting-about-how-St-George-was-really-Turkish Day
• Are we heading for a summer election, given the passing of the Rwanda Bill and the increase in defence spending?
• Mark Menzies is the latest in a string of gay Tory MPs to be caught up in an embarrassing sex scandal. What is it about Cameron’s A-listers?
• The Met has got itself into a pickle over refusing to let Gideon Falter cross the road during a pro-Palestinian protest because he’s “openly Jewish”. Should Mark Rowley resign?
• Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: Should we criticise HIGNFY for only making fun of Gender Woo Woo when it became safe to do so, or celebrate the fact that the tide has turned? / 16 year-old anorexic girls may be eligible with suicide help under Scotland’s Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill / And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Camilla Tominey for telling Femi to go f*** himself

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 84 This week: Nick and Toby talk to their culture war correspondents on the frontline in Brussels to get the lowdown on the NatCon siege; Iran launches a drone attack on Israel and suddenly all the pro-Palestinian peaceniks stop banging on about a ceasefire and become pro-Iranian warmongers; The Cass Review turns the tide against the trans nonsense and previous cult leaders, like Stonewall’s Ruth Hunt, pretend they never really believed in Gender Woo in the first place; Reform UK throws another prospective parliamentary candidate under the bus, only to discover that this one is already dead; Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke!

Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic episode 83 (recorded live at the Hippodrome) This week:  -Will Wragg is praised for being ‘brave’ by Jeremy Hunt after sending intimate photos to a spear phisher and then, when blackmailed, handing over fellow MPs’ phone numbers -The Tories issue a poster with the dubious claim that the UK is the second most powerful country in the world and prove this by including photos of an American jet and a Swiss ship -Angela Rayner is caught telling porkies to avoid capital gains tax and David Lammy’s attempts to defend her make things exponentially worse -Toby is described in the Telegraph as a “Right-wing hate figure” in a surprisingly positive article -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes:  -The Rock announces he won’t be endorsing either Presidential candidate because he’s too famous and doesn’t want to influence the result -No Labels folds its tent, thereby giving Biden a much-needed boost -And in the Based Department, Nick nominates Angela Rayner’s cushion for proving she was lying about the house she sold being her primary residence. 
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Welcome to The Weekly Sceptic, episode 82! This week: -JK Rowling dares Humza Yousaf and his goons in Police Scotland to arrest her for the crime of ‘misgendering’. -A devastating new poll has the Conservatives winning just 98 seats — and Rishi’s might not be one of them! -Team GB says to the Football Association: “You think you’ve desecrated a British flag? Hold my beer.”  -Plus everyone’s favourite section, Peak Woke, and premium content on www.basedmedia.org, which this week includes: -Just 38% of American voters think Biden will remain alive long enough to see out a second term. -Matthew Parris says the quiet part about euthanasia out loud. -And in the Based Department, Nick and Toby praise the President of Guyana for putting a sanctimonious BBC interviewer in his place on the subject of Net Zero.