Prof David Betz on whether the Dover protests could be the start of something much bigger; is the West making the Ukraine war more dangerous and what do the numbers really tell us about Britain’s latest heatwaves?
In Episode 95 of the Sceptic, guest host Ellie Hodges talks to Prof David Betz of King’s College London about the protests in Dover and Portsmouth and the growing fury over mass migration. They get into ‘system disruption’, the radical Left’s influence, the Government’s likely response, Reform’s fading momentum, parallels with Germany and the risk that Britain’s economic fragility could fuel serious civil unrest.
Ellie then talks to former Conservative MP and defence tech entrepreneur Brooks Newmark about the war in Ukraine. They discuss NATO expansion, whether the West helped provoke the conflict, the danger of escalation, Russia’s hybrid warfare and whether Britain and Europe are actually ready for a wider war.
And for premium subscribers, meteorologist William M. Briggs takes a gander at Britain’s heatwaves and the alarmist claims surrounding them, from temperature records and ‘excess deaths’ to climate models, dodgy statistics and the assumptions lurking underneath it all.
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Produced by Richard Eldred.
Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.
00:00 Intro
01:42 David Betz on the Dover Protests
04:12 Danny Tommo and Tommy Robinson
07:22 Leaderless Protest
10:51 System Disruption
12:58 Situationist Tactics
16:43 How Should the Government Respond?
21:39 Reform vs AfD
26:50 Economic Shock and Legitimacy
29:28 Russia, Ukraine and Britain
34:11 What’s Changed?
36:25 Brooks Newmark on the Ukraine War
36:49 NATO Expansion
39:00 Russia, Security and Ukraine
41:11 Long-Range Weapons and Escalation
44:24 Russia’s Hybrid War
46:39 European Defence
49:21 NATO and Britain’s Readiness
52:33 Negotiating With Russia
54:30 Risk of a Wider War
57:25 William Briggs on What the Heatwave Data Shows
59:40 Weather and Climate Claims
01:00:53 Climate Certainty
01:01:08 The Limits of Climate Models
01:02:24 Models, Homogenisation and Deaths
01:05:13 The Climate Research Industry
01:07:32 Climate Catastrophe
