Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport last week released the Government's Online Safety Bill, all 200-odd pages of it. Why is a bill designed to protect children and the vulnerable from online harms potentially utterly ruinous for freedom of expression online? Darren Grimes is joined by Victoria Hewson, Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, who has pored through all 225 pages of this bill to tell us why she's seriously...

Reform UK leader Richard Tice speaks to Darren Grimes about his new campaign for a referendum on the UK Government's policy of net zero by 2050, 'Vote Power, Not Poverty', a cross-party, grassroots campaign made up of activists from different parties. 

Popular YouTube content creator Arielle Scarcella speaks to Darren Grimes from Florida about the recent row over the so-called 'Don't Say Gay' Bill making its way into law in the state. 

American conservative commentator Sarah Elliott gives her take on the weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, during which former President Trump and Florida's governor Ron DeSantis gave keynote speeches. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations:...

Darren Grimes and Harry Miller on a landmark judgement from the Court of Appeal that finds the recording of non-crime hate incidents as unlawful interference with freedom of expression. This is the news and why it matters.

Darren Grimes chats to talkRADIO host Mike Graham about media bias, Covid craziness and Boris Johnson's Number 10's party controversy.

Political commentator and journalist Suzanne Evans chats to Darren Grimes about government refusal to reject an Angela Merkel-style mandatory vaccine law, how Suzanne struggled during lockdown, the consequences of our Covid-focus and asks the question: do we need constitutional reform to secure better politicians?

Post-COP 26, the climate conference in Glasgow, Alex Esptein, author of 'Fossil Future', chats to Darren Grimes about what the conference actually achieved, the green cult, what anti-human green activists truly desire, why we need fossil fuels, an increase in interest from the UK in this debate and tackles a few climate change myths.

Since the murder of Sir David Amess, the MP, Islamic fundamentalism has been the elephant in the room. Laudable speeches have been made on the issue of combatting online abuse of MPs since then, but the issue of radicalisation and extremism has barely been discussed. Why is this? How do we have that conversation? What should be done about the threat of radical Islam? Joining Darren Grimes to discuss is the Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society, Dr Alan Mendoza. 

Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump. Elliott discusses the Taliban Agreement with Darren Grimes, why he didn't back it and why President Biden cannot blame President Trump or the Afghan military, his view on the West's...

Darren Grimes discusses with Colonel Richard Kemp the speed at which the Taliban have taken Afghanistan, an unrepentant US President arguing that the US was never in Afghanistan for nation-building, a UK parliament that's due to discuss this very issue with Downing Street recalling it and all as we witness shocking scenes in which Afghan people cling on, grasp onto the side of planes, deciding that dicing with death is better than staying in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The pair take you...

Dr Kristian Niemietz explains his wide-ranging survey on next-generation socialism: is Britain guaranteed to adopt Marx as its creed? Download the report: https://iea.org.uk/publications/left-turn-aheadsurveying-attitudes-of-young-people-towards-capitalism-and-socialism/ Follow Kristian on Twitter: http://twitter.com/K_Niemietz ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe:...

Spectator columnist and lifelong Liberal Democrat Nick Tyrone chats to Darren Grimes about the shock overturning of the Conservative Party's majority in the leafy seat of Chesham and Amersham, what does it mean, if anything for the future of British politics? 

With a daily slew of whackery & wokery making the news, Darren Grimes argues that it's easy to feel despondent about the state of the UK. That's why he was delighted to read this common-sense manifesto by Tory backbenchers! The exceptional Tom Hunt MP & Gareth Bacon MP discuss it with Darren.Read the manifesto: https://www.thecommonsensegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Common-Sense.pdfFollow Tom Hunt MP: https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988Follow Gareth Bacon MP:...

Darren Grimes's Daily Digest on Richard Dawkins, Demi Lovato and China's new app for reporting those with 'mistaken' views.

Equalities Minister Liz Truss MP has said that she is pressing ahead with the Government’s commitment to ban conversion therapy in order to "protect LGBT people from these abhorrent practices."There’s a real concern that this would prohibit evidence-based therapy for children experiencing gender dysphoria, cases of which have exploded over the last decade.A petition has been created by healthcare professionals calling on the government not to criminalise therapy for vulnerable children.Here...

2020 is considered to be pretty insane to many of us across the political spectrum, violent protests and riots with looting, burning and worse erupted after the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and American cities were transformed, from here in the UK, those of us scrolling through our social media feeds would’ve been forgiven for thinking some of the scenes we witness were in the third world, not the world’s most influential and free nation-state. One radical group dominated that...

Dr Philip Kiszely is a cultural historian. He is the author of Hollywood through Private Eyes: The Screen Adaptation of the ‘Hard-Boiled’ Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era (2006) and founding co-editor of international peer-reviewed journal Punk & Post-Punk. He has written for a variety of publications, including the Journal of British Cinema and Television and the Journal of Popular Television. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe:...

Darren Grimes' guest today has a new book out next month, ‘Free Speech and Why It Matters’, which will be published on February 25th. The book comes at a time when the democratically elected President of the US can be kicked off of social media platforms, when banks that used to provide loans to his businesses shut off access to their capital and the new social media Twitter alternative, Parler, loses access to its hosting platform via Amazon Web Services. All of these things suggest...

Betraying the Nobel delves into the surprising and often corrupt history of the prize and examines what the committee hopes to obtain by its choices. The author of the book, Unni Turrettini and Darren Grimes discuss the book, how to reform the prize to how its founder intended it to operate and ask: should President Donald J. Trump win the prize by meeting the conditions of it? Buy the book: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Betraying-the-Nobel/Unni-Turrettini/9781643135649 Female...

James Bartholomew is a journalist, author and Director of the Museum of Communist Terror: which aims to keep alive knowledge of the deaths and terror under 20th century Communist regimes. James discusses the project, why we've forgotten the horrors of the 20th century under fascism but not communism, as well as the bias in history education evident today. To find out more about the Museum, click here: https://www.museumofcommunistterror.com/ Follow James on Twitter here:...

Kate Hoey, Baroness Hoey, on the repercussions of the Irish Protocol for Northern Ireland and the Conservative and Unionist Party's betrayal in signing up to it. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded...

Professor Robert Tombs of Cambridge University, author of 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe', takes Darren Grimes through his views on why the British chose Brexit, what historians will say about the vote and about the EU in years to come, what history tells us about Scottish independence and why the British underestimate their power and influence. 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe':...

Julian Jessop is a professional economist with over thirty years of experience gained in the public sector, the City and consultancy, including stints at HM Treasury, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and Capital Economics. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations:...