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“I’m a leftie liberal who is becoming concerned by the puritanical finger-wagging and unpersoning that is perpetrated by “my side” and so I’m largely on board with Spiked’s position on free-speech. However, I find it astonishing how the host and guests can rail against evidence-free thinking and dogma in relation to, say, the excesses of trans activism, yet apply no critical thinking whatsoever to the issue of leaving the EU. Brexit is still held sacrosanct, more or less as an article of faith, when it’s clear that at best, it was an exercise in magical thinking, cakeism and English exceptionalism that was doomed from its inception or at worst, it was a fraud on the public perpetrated by an elite posing as tribunes of the people.
Brendan and the guests are happy to deride “the laptop class” who have no idea about or understanding of the struggles of “genuine” working people when it came to eg: lockdowns, yet they shut their eyes to the huge burdens that Brexit has inflicted on ordinary small businesses who want to trade with Europe and the disastrous impact it has had on the economy as a whole.
Brendan and his guests all hold more or less the same opinions so, ironically for a publication which prizes robust debate, there is very little disagreement, and in many ways they’ve slipped into the same smug, supercilious, self-congratulatory consensus based groupthink they accuse liberals and wokeistas of. Most of the podcasts just seem to consist of Brendan asking long, loaded and very leading questions (or more accurately, presenting a series of homilies) where he sets out his views on an issue, before inviting his guest to agree with him and then give each other a big pat on the back for how clever and enlightened they both are.
Rather than sneering about and mocking those with whom Brendan disagrees, why not have them on the pod in order to defend their views? If nothing else, it would make a nice change from listening to nauseating love-ins with the likes of narcissistic blowhards such as Rob Liddle and Julia Hartley-Brewer.”
P. S. Doff via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
02/04/23
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