The Current Thing – Details, episodes & analysis

The Current Thing will now be a weekly topical show, hosted by Nick with a rotation of awesome guests. In addition, we will still do the in depth guest interviews. For this topical episode, Leo Kearse returns to talk about: -Starmer's incredibly grim speech -Civil Service corruption -Notting Hill carnival chaos -The Nando's waitress on the wrong side of two-tier policing -The arrest of Telegram's CEO -Mark Zuckerberg's revelations about Democrat censorship and coercion -RFK Jr endorsing Trump And loads more!

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The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin returns to talk to Nick about the UK riots, and two-tier Keir Starmer persecuting the British working class.  This is a crossover episode with Jamie's podcast, Irreverand, so please enjoy this almost two hour chunk of quality podcasting. 

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Fascinating conversation with the brilliant Dr Ashley Frawley. Topics discussed include: -Why Ashley is still a Marxist -How our neoliberal/postliberal culture went wrong -Why the family is essential in finding meaning -Where woke comes from  -Whether there’ll be a new ‘current thing’ after woke   -Why people fall for fads like gender ideology  -The reason people struggle to accept their own freedom  -Why conspiracy theories are good in moderation  And loads more! 

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Highly acclaimed author and commentator Lionel Shriver discusses her new novel, 'Mania'. Topics include: -Why she choose IQ as the topic of her new book  -Why the left are ‘obsessed with sameness’ -Where ideological ‘manias’ come from and what the next hysteria will be  -The flawed thinking behind ‘social justice’  -The literary influences on her writing  -Why some people conform with social fads and others do not  -The inherent contradictions of woke -Losing friends due to the culture war -Her views on euthanasia -Who she will vote for in the US election And loads more! 

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Deputy leader of Reform UK Ben Habib joins Nick to discuss:  -Why Reform UK allowed leftist activists to cancel its candidates -How to tackle immigration  -Why woke and DEI have got to stop -How to fix the UK's economy -His views on Net Zero  -Why voting Reform is not just a vote for Labour  -Whether Reform UK is actually a conservative party -How close Britain is to becoming a third world country  -Why he got into politics  -The 'seismic event' he believes can happen if Reform keep polling well  And loads more!

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Carl Benjamin AKA Sargon returns to the podcast for a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion on: -Whether it could become illegal to be a conservative -Why liberalism leads to communism -Whether woke will be 'put away' or not -The ironic flaws of diversity casting -Whether things like the Cass Review will change anything in the culture war -Why Labour might actually be better than the Tories -Why feminists hate women  -Whether Trump can effect real change if he wins again  -How the media destroys the democratic process -Why he is still an atheist  And loads more!

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GB News presenter and comedian Mark Dolan drops by our new studio to chat with Nick about: -The future of GB News  -How Covid woke him up  -How to fix the immigration problem -Whether he has changed his mind on Brexit -How to win the culture war  -His thoughts on Liz Truss's time as PM -Why he is still optimistic about Britain -The state of comedy in a woke world -How he keeps a positive mindset -Why he always insures his white goods... And loads more! Mark's X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrmarkdolan Mark's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mark-dolan-way/id1669065671

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The Rev Dr Jamie Franklin returns for his best episode yet! Nick and Jamie discuss:

-Richard Dawkins' comments on 'cultural Christianity' -Pascal's wager -What Toby Young and David Starkey get wrong about Christianity -Whether Christianity leads to wokeness -The failures of liberalism -The flaws in the atheist argument for the beginning of the universe -The questionable foundations of the 'New Atheism' movement -Whether Michael Jackson was innocent   And loads more! 

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This week Nick and The Radical English Gentleman (AKA Woke Zoomer Rory) discuss: -The William Wragg sext scandal -Angela Rayner's lies about her house -How the Tories keep conservative candidates out of the party -Rishi's Adidas Sambas -Reform UK dropping more candidates, and whether Farage will return -The death of British aid workers in Gaza, and whether Boris Johnson is a warmonger -Richard Dawkins' comments on regretting the decline of Christianity And loads more!

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Hope you had a great Easter. We had a very short Easter break, hence this coming out a day late. But it is a great discussion with based genius filmmaker and friend of the podcast, Alexander McCarron. We discuss: -Sunak's disastrous poll numbers, and what it all means -How authoritarian / effective a Labour government will be -Whether we are stuck in an 'inverse Greta' doomer bubble -Scotland's new hate crime law -What Reform UK get wrong And loads more!

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