Explore every episode of the podcast UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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| Katja Hoyer & Thomas Fazi: Political earthquake in East Germany | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:34:07 | |
Is a Right-Left horseshoe coming to Europe? Katja Hoyer and Thomas Fazi join Freddie Sayers to unpack this weekend’s populist surge in East Germany. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Freddie Sayers and Emily Jashinsky: What’s Kamala up to? | 23 Aug 2024 | 00:23:13 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Emily Jashinsky discuss Kamala Harris' speech at the DNC... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Louis-Vincent Gave: Has populism been thwarted in France? | 08 Jul 2024 | 00:32:28 | |
UnHerd's Florence Read talks to Louis-Vincent Gave about the shock surge in support for the left-wing coalition. Is this the end of populism in France or just the beginning? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Chris Miller: Get ready for the chip wars | 13 Mar 2023 | 00:30:32 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Chris Miller, economic historian and author of Chip War. Read the article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| David Sacks: Is the Silicon Valley Bank deal another bailout? | 13 Mar 2023 | 00:45:40 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by PayPal co-founder David Sacks to examine the fallout from the collapse of SVB Bank. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Mary Harrington: Feminism against progress | 10 Mar 2023 | 01:01:32 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with UnHerd contributor Mary Harrington to discuss her new book, Feminism Against Progress. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Isabel Oakeshott: The lesson of the Lockdown Files | 08 Mar 2023 | 00:31:57 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who wrote the minute by minute lockdown discussions. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Marianne Williamson: America needs a philosopher king | 03 Mar 2023 | 00:39:23 | |
Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Fiona Hill: Absolute victory over Russia is not possible | 21 Feb 2023 | 00:48:36 | |
Fiona Hill has been closely involved in matters to do with Russia and Ukraine advising American administrations for many years. We discuss NATO's "open door", negotiation with Putin, what would be different if Trump was still in office and much more. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jeffrey Sachs: Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline? | 15 Feb 2023 | 00:43:40 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Jeffrey Sachs to debate who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Louis-Vincent Gave: China cancels lockdowns... where's the disaster? | 13 Feb 2023 | 00:33:07 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Louis-Vincent Gave discuss the current COVID situation in China. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Military analyst: Is the Ukraine war headed for stalemate? | 02 Feb 2023 | 00:36:41 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michael Kofman. Michael Kofman is the Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow of the Center for a New American Security. He joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to give an update on the situation on the ground in Ukraine and debate the risks and benefits of pursuing an ‘all-out’ victory against Russia. The military analyst on the risks and rewards of Western intervention Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Peter Hitchens: The Covid censors are moving on to Ukraine | 30 Jan 2023 | 00:22:33 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to journalist Peter Hitchens about a disturbing new Big Brother Watch report into UK government spying and censorship. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Labour's shallow victory | 05 Jul 2024 | 00:38:36 | |
This morning, British headlines were about the Labour Party's landslide victory in the UK general election. But take a closer look at the numbers, and there's another story under the surface. UnHerd's Political Editor, Tom McTague, joins Freddie Sayers to dive into the data. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Matthew B. Crawford: The perpetual state of emergency | 17 Jan 2023 | 00:31:23 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers chats with American philosopher Matthew B. Crawford in the UnHerd studio. Check out Matthew's Substack here Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The scientific case against facemasks | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:27:47 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Dr. Margery Smelkinson and Dr. Leslie Bienen to discuss the efficacy of facemasks. Read the full Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| David Sacks: The tech reset has only just begun | 06 Jan 2023 | 00:43:23 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks. Read the full post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society | 03 Jan 2023 | 00:37:20 | |
UnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:41:03 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ | 16 Dec 2022 | 00:40:00 | |
Freddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West | 09 Dec 2022 | 00:47:15 | |
UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West. In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode. What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won't save us | 05 Dec 2022 | 00:29:16 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette | 29 Nov 2022 | 01:17:18 | |
Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ex-Ambassador speaks out: How Qatar funds extremism in the West | 23 Nov 2022 | 00:47:49 | |
Qatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of tournament stadiums. Less talked about, but something much closer to home, is Qatar’s hand in promoting Islamist ideas in Western countries. A new report by think tank Policy Exchange investigates this very issue, and has come to some quite extraordinary conclusions. The lead author of the study, Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador with a 35-year diplomatic career in the Middle East, joined Freddie Sayers in the studio to explain. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Niall Ferguson: Are we the Soviets now? | 02 Jul 2024 | 01:11:12 | |
With public calls to remove the sitting US President, a UK election set to unseat its government and the rightward swing in Europe, it’s all change on the Western front. Best-selling historian Sir Niall Ferguson joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers for a wide-lens tour of populism and its discontents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:30:58 | |
Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks. When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a realist line on the conflict. In fact, a friend of Musk’s, David Sacks, wrote an article in which he alleged the West had entered into “Woke War III”. Over the course of the war, the woke Left and the neoconservative Right have been marching in lockstep, and using “woke cancellation tactics” to suppress any dissenting opinions. Sacks, a multimillionaire venture capitalist and host of the hit podcast ‘All-In’ expands on his thinking in UnHerdTV’s latest interview, recorded 26th October 2022. Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism | 28 Oct 2022 | 01:18:18 | |
Freddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview. Watch Part I: https://youtu.be/BvWczz1q0jU Read the accompanying Part I article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats | 26 Oct 2022 | 00:42:49 | |
Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray. John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat of superpower conflict as existential threats to the liberal, technocratic order. Amid this chaos, Rishi Sunak — former Goldman Sachs banker — has become Britain’s new prime minister. Has the technocratic order of the 2010s returned? Or has the modern world moved beyond its reach? Read the full article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ivar Arpi: Why did Sweden turn Right-wing? | 22 Oct 2022 | 00:45:32 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Canada's euthanasia laws killed my brother | 17 Oct 2022 | 00:41:10 | |
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Investigating the Florida vaccine study | 12 Oct 2022 | 00:48:31 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Michael Gove: Do Conservatives have a philosophy? | 06 Oct 2022 | 01:09:59 | |
Freddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove. Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s the big idea? …do Conservatives have a philosophy? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci | 30 Sep 2022 | 00:30:50 | |
Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of COVID policy were increasingly censored on social media. Now, Bhattacharya is taking his case to the courts to prove collusion between the Biden administration and Big Tech to silence skeptics like the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration. Talking to UnHerd's Freddie Sayers, he lays out the evidence that social media companies were instructed to quell scientific views which opposed government lockdown measures. Who was responsible for this infringement? According to the legal case, the conspiracy extends to the highest levels of power in Washington, and primarily at fault is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, Anthony Fauci. Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Will the hard Right sweep Europe? | 26 Sep 2022 | 00:48:39 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer. The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the minority of countries that have not seen a recent Rightward populist uprising. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down with Ralph Schoellhammer, Assistant Professor of Economics at Webster University, Vienna. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Cancelled for pro-peace street art | 22 Sep 2022 | 00:22:58 | |
Florence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton. Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was the work of Peter Seaton, an Australian street artist known for large-scale graffiti. The title he gave the work was ‘Peace before Pieces’. He describes it as a ‘meditation on the dehumanisation of war’. He joined UnHerd in the studio to answer the question: is pro-peace art the next victim of tribal thinking? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Peter Hitchens, Rod Liddle, Matt Goodwin, Flo Read, Rowenna Davis: the Alternative Election Hustings | 29 Jun 2024 | 01:26:09 | |
Who should you vote for on the 4th of July? A week ahead of the general election, UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Tom McTague host an alternative hustings to size up the competition. Our all-star cast includes Peter Hitchens arguing for the Tories (even though he wants to destroy them), Rod Liddle for the SDP, Rowenna Davis for Labour, Matt Goodwin for Reform and UnHerd's Florence Read for the Greens, plus more special guests to be announced soon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Charles III paradox: Anti-establishment King | 16 Sep 2022 | 00:41:42 | |
Freddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine | 14 Sep 2022 | 00:31:19 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The great excess deaths mystery | 07 Sep 2022 | 00:37:12 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by Stuart McDonald to discuss the curious case of the UK's excess deaths. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Thomas Fazi: Civil disobedience is coming | 01 Sep 2022 | 00:52:12 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Thomas Fazi. Faced with post-pandemic economic collapse, war in Ukraine and an unprecedented energy crisis, citizens of the UK and Europe are voicing their discontent. Via anti-government campaigns like ‘Don’t Pay’ and ‘Enough is Enough’, people previously unmotivated by radical politics are becoming more and more rebellious. As a challenging winter approaches, is Europe about to see a mass movement of civil disobedience? Writer and activist Thomas Fazi thinks so. He joined Freddie Sayers in the UnHerd studio to discuss citizen uprisings and how he would cure the West’s poly-crises. Read the Post here Read Thomas Fazi’s article on the rise in civil disobedience here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire | 26 Aug 2022 | 00:45:27 | |
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to economic historian Prof. Wolfgang Streeck about the crisis in Germany and its implications for the future of Europe. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Lionel Shriver: We need to talk about Ezra Miller | 22 Aug 2022 | 00:42:19 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Lionel Shriver. When Lionel Shriver’s story of a troubled teenager, We Need to Talk About Kevin, was adapted for screen in 2011 it launched the career of young actor Ezra Miller. In 2012 Miller came out as queer, saying “I don’t identify as a man, I don’t identify as a woman, I barely identify as a human.” And in the ensuing years, outlandish and expressive clothing came to typify the actor, who became somewhat of a standard bearer for queer identity. But recently, Miller’s life has taken a strange turn. Throughout 2022 a string of bizarre allegations have hit the headlines, and last month the actor was arrested twice for assault and then only a few weeks ago for felony burglary. What went wrong for the promising young actor? Miller’s troubles may just be another predictable story about the price of early fame, but it could also speak to something more troubling about contemporary culture. Shriver’s award winning novel asks how society and parenting shapes the minds of young people. It seems prescient now. Have our permissive mores and hyper-liberal culture driven young people to distraction? Shriver joined Freddie Sayers to discuss these questions. Read The Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| His wife's plea: The case for Julian Assange | 08 Aug 2022 | 00:55:48 | |
Freddie Sayers meets Stella Moris, lawyer and wife of Julian Assange. The case of Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder who published huge troves of sensitive government documents and classified military logs, has been going on for over a decade. During that time Assange has been under house arrest, hidden from extradition inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London and since 2019 has been held in Belmarsh prison. During that time, he has married and had two children with a lawyer called Stella Moris. Moris first met Assange as a young lawyer working on his case, but is now a campaigner for his acquittal and an activist for press freedom. Will Assange be remembered as a pioneer of the free internet or as one of its victims? With his extradition case looming, UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers met Stella Moris to hear her case for her husband, Julian Assange. Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Slavoj Žižek: We are addicted to chaos | 04 Aug 2022 | 00:59:34 | |
Florence Read meets Slavoj Žižek. In his new book 'Surplus Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed', psychoanalyst and Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Western decadence has reached a point of no return. When it comes to the simultaneous crises of climate change, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, he asserts, only a cooperative global effort will steer us away from catastrophe. But have the culture wars weakened the West too much to regain order in disordered times? Slavoj Žižek joined UnHerd's Florence Read, live from his home in Slovenia, to discuss the cure for chaos. Read The Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| David Fuller: What happened to Jordan Peterson? | 01 Aug 2022 | 00:47:10 | |
Freddie Sayers meets David Fuller. Followers of the clinical psychologist and now world-famous member of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’, Jordan Peterson, have noted a radical change in his video style in recent weeks. For David Fuller, founder of Rebel Wisdom, these videos ‘signalled a watershed moment’ for Peterson, from truth-seeker and mediator between Left and Right to a blinkered tribalist. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down in the studio with Fuller to dig a little deeper into his reservations about Jordan Peterson and alternative media’s part in this story. Read the Post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Aella meets Louise Perry: Was the sexual revolution a mistake? | 28 Jul 2022 | 00:59:39 | |
Was the sexual revolution a mistake? Did unfettered freedom help or harm women? Florence Read is joined by OnlyFans star Aella and the author of 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution', Louise Perry, to find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Emily Jashinsky: Will the Democrats ditch Joe Biden? | 28 Jun 2024 | 00:30:46 | |
Emily Jashinsky, UnHerd’s DC Correspondent, joins Freddie Sayers to give a blow-by-blow of last night’s Trump v. Biden debate and a closer look at the media reaction as it happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Lord Frost: Liz Truss is the change candidate | 22 Jul 2022 | 00:41:46 | |
Boris Johnson's former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has put his support behind Liz Truss. He sat down with Freddie Sayers to explain that decision, and whether today's Conservatives add up to a philosophy of government... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Alex Jones documentary banned from social media | 15 Jul 2022 | 00:26:11 | |
Florence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How the West brought economic disaster on itself | 11 Jul 2022 | 00:38:10 | |
Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||