Ex-cop Paul Birch on the gross failures of the Nowak arrest and Jack Hadfield on the protests. Plus: Blair’s shameless green U-turn.
In Episode 81 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Paul Birch, former Metropolitan Police officer and commentator, on the police’s gross failures over the arrest of Henry Nowak after he was stabbed – and exactly how anti-racist ideology warps day-to-day policing.
Jack Hadfield, independent journalist, on the fierce protests and political fallout over the Nowak outrage and whether there’s more to come.
And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Ben Pile, journalist and Daily Sceptic regular, on Tony Blair’s latest intervention criticising Net Zero, his baleful legacy and why our dimwitted political class, incredibly, still takes him seriously.
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Produced by Richard Eldred.
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.
00:00 Intro
00:02:24 Paul Birch on Henry Nowak Arrest
00:05:03 Why Was Henry Nowak Handcuffed?
00:09:20 Did Anti-Racism Training Shape the Response?
00:14:46 Individual Failures or Institutional Culture?
00:20:58 Poor Training and Woke Ideology
00:23:51 Will the IOPC Deliver Real Accountability?
00:28:59 What Real Police Reform Looks Like
00:34:00 Jack Hadfield on Southampton Protests
00:39:35 Disorder and Crowd Sentiment
00:43:54 Wider Protests This Summer?
00:46:53 Should Henry Nowak’s Murder Be Politicised?
00:51:24 Ben Pile on Blair’s Net Zero Intervention
00:55:44 Why Blair is Shameless
00:59:42 Ideological Roots of Failures
