Joyless Starmer’s Nanny State

Welcome to episode 12 of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests:

Ben Sixsmith, Online Editor at the Critic and author of the Zone substack, on Keir Starmer’s miserabilist plan to ban smoking outside pubs;

Len Shackleton, Professor of Economics at Buckingham University and a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, on the bizarre equal-pay ruling against Next that spells disaster for British business;

Reverend Doctor Bernard Randall, on how he’s been persecuted by the Church of England for delivering an LGBTQ-sceptical sermon in line with Christian doctrine – and how he’s fighting back;

And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Alan Halsall, a leading volunteer in the Vote Leave campaign, on how his life was made a misery by the Electoral Commission because he campaigned for Brexit.

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Read Ben’s article on smoking here: https://thecritic.co.uk/the-sad-side-of-smokefree/

Read Len’s articles here:
https://capx.co/next-equal-pay-judgement-is-no-win-for-workers/
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/28/desnz-has-net-zero-competence/

Donate to support Reverend Randall’s legal appeal here:
http://Christianconcern.com/Bernard

Read Alan Halsall’s article on the Daily Sceptic here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/15/who-do-organisations-committed-to-anti-racism-keep-being-found-guilty-of-racial-discrimination-clue-the-victims-are-white-men/

And get your copy of his book, Last Man Standing: Memoirs from the front line of Brexit, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Man-Standing-Memoirs-Referendum-ebook/dp/B0DBV4553N

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

00:00 Intro
02:08 Ben Sixsmith on Keir Starmer’s plan to ban smoking outside pubs
21:47 Len Shackleton on the equal-pay ruling that spells disaster for British business
41:12 Rev. Bernard Randall on how he’s been persecuted by the CofE