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Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world. Due to popular demand here is a podcast version of our YouTube — available to watch, for free here or by searching ‘LockdownTV’. Enjoy! And don't forget to rate, like a ...
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WHO epidemiologist: The truth about monkeypox
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Freddie Sayers meets David Heymann. Will monkeypox be the next pandemic after COVID? To try to find an answer, Freddie Sayers invited Professor David Heymann to the UnHerd studio. Currently based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Heymann is one of the world’s most senior infectious disease epidemiologists. For 22 year…
In today's article, Dominic Sandbrook writes about miserable snobs and how they have always cast a shadow over celebrations in an essay for UnHerd titled Can Jubilees survive without empire?By UnHerd
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World expert Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?
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Freddie Sayers meets Pavel Podvig. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the outcome that nobody has wanted to contemplate is that of Russian nuclear escalation. Threats that “mirror moves” would be made by the Kremlin if NATO expanded, as we heard in last week’s interview with UN representative for Russia Dmitry Polyanskiy, suggest that a strike might no…
In today's article, Bari Weiss writes about how we have become numb to the horror of mass shootings in an opinion piece for UnHerd titled How America went berserk.By UnHerd
In today's article, Mary Harrington writes about the inhumanity of urban architecture in an essay for UnHerd titled How cities killed desire.By UnHerd
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Why Russia fears the Azov battalion by David Patrikarakos
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In David Patrikarakos' latest dispatch from the front line of the war in Ukraine he spends time with the much feared Azov battalion in his essay for UnHerd titled Why Russia fears the Azov battalion.By UnHerd
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The betrayal of Ireland’s borderlands by Jacob Furedi
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In today's article, Jacob Furedi writes from Northern Ireland to examine the current political situation at the border in an article for UnHerd titled The betrayal of Ireland’s borderlands.By UnHerd
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Covid was liberalism’s endgame by Matthew Crawford
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In today's weekend essay, Matthew Crawford explores how liberal individualism has an innate tendency towards authoritarianism in an article for UnHerd titled Covid was liberalism’s endgame.By UnHerd
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The narcissism of America’s race politics by Tomiwa Owolade
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In today's essay, Tomiwa Owolade writes how the realities of black British lives were eclipsed by BLM in an essay for UnHerd titled The narcissism of America’s race politics.By UnHerd
In today's piece, Jessa Crispin writes how for men's rights activists, actress Amber Herd is the embodiment of women who lie in an article for UnHerd titled Amber Heard’s toxic femininity.By UnHerd
In today's analysis essay, Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about the Democrats who want to create another George Floyd moment in an essay for UnHerd titled Buffalo and the myth of racist America.By UnHerd
In today's essay, Aris Roussinos writes about Putin and liberals and how both are willing to sacrifice the nation state in an essay for UnHerd titled What Putin and liberals share.By UnHerd
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Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status
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Freddie Sayers meets Michael Sandel. Do we deserve what we have? Are the elites any better than the rest of us? Do the right people get to run the world? One political philosopher who attempts to tackle these big questions is Professor Michael Sandel. A Harvard professor since the 1980s and world famous author of many bestselling books, including '…
In today's spotlight piece, Tom Newlands writes about pit villages and how young men had their heads turned by drink and drugs in an essay for UnHerd titled Young men had their heads turned by drink and drugs.By UnHerd
In today's weekend essay, Dominic Sandbrook writes about the hidden melodrama lurking behind the petty spectacle of the 'Wagatha Christie' court case in an essay for UnHerd titled The mystery of Wagatha Christie.By UnHerd
Today, Giles Fraser writes about bishops and how they are presiding over a climate of fear in an essay for UnHerd titled The Church has weaponised safeguarding.By UnHerd
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Kremlin Spokesman: "There is no war in Ukraine"
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Freddie Sayers meets Dmitriy Polyanskiy. First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy joins Freddie Sayers to discuss the nuclear threat against NATO members and possible conclusions to the conflict in Ukraine. Read the Post article here: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.…
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How the Democrats became the party of the rich
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Today, Matthew Thomas explains how the working class doesn't feature in its gentrified agenda in an essay for UnHerd titled How the Democrats became the party of the richBy UnHerd
Today, David Patrikarakos takes listeners inside the hell experienced by residents of the Ukrainian city in an exclusive dispatch for UnHerd titled The demolition of Kharkiv.By UnHerd
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The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board
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Today, Ayaan Hirsi Ali explores the dangers of using censorship as a political tool in her article The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board for UnHerd.By UnHerd
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Curtis Yarvin: Why America should become a monarchy
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Former computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson. His theories of power seem to have made their way from the fringe blogosphere into the mainst…
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Danish professor: mRNA vaccine study sends 'danger signals'
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Freddie Sayers meets Professor Christine Stabell Benn. A new Danish study reveals disparities in all-cause mortality between mRNA and adenovirus vaccines. The results raise some difficult questions about the unexpected effects of the most popular COVID vaccines. Freddie Sayers speaks to the study's author Prof. Christine Stabell-Benn, from the Univ…
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Douglas Murray: The gullible Right has fallen for Putin
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Freddie Sayers discusses the backlash against Western values with Douglas Murray When Douglas Murray was writing his new book The War on the West, Putin had not yet launched an actual war on the edge of Europe. Now, two months after the invasion of Ukraine, has the battle of ideas he writes about been put into perspective? Freddie Sayers speaks to …
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Michael Tracey: When does anti-war become pro-Putin?
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Freddie Sayers meets Michael Tracey. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western media has been overwhelmed with support for Zelensky's resistance and condemnation of Putin's invasion. Intervention from the US and Europe has now extended to supplying arms and sanctioning Russia. Some are demanding this support goes even further, suggesting 'no f…
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Sergej Sumlenny: "Get ready for the break up of Russia"
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Freddie Sayers meets Sergej Sumlenny. As the war in Ukraine has become more entrenched, there has been much discussion of the small Eastern European states which might be annexed into the Russian Federation. One political scientist and journalist has taken a different view. Sergej Sumlenny is Russian-born, but lives in Berlin. On Twitter he predict…
The biggest city in China is in complete lockdown, with no end date in sight. Cases are rising and the 26 million residents of Shanghai are not permitted to leave their homes at all — not even to buy groceries or walk the dog. Footage has emerged of eerily deserted streets, but reliable information about what is really going on inside the strictest…
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Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win
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Commentators on the war in Ukraine seem to have come to a consensus: public figures have a moral responsibility not to challenge anything other than the Russian narrative. This rejection of balance in favour of propaganda poses a problem for political thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, who has been accused of 'Westsplaining' and being a Putin apologis…
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Sajid Javid: Zero Covid has been a disaster
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Health Secretary Sajid Javid came into the UnHerd studio to talk to Freddie Sayers and look back at lessons learned from the Covid era. Read the full post here: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin's war rescue liberalism?
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Freddie Sayers meets Francis Fukuyama. Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and public intellectual, most famous for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man which has helped to define how we understand contemporary history. His new book is called Liberalism and its Discontents. Freddie Sayers spoke to Dr. Fukuyama about the war in Uk…
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Bill Roggio: Who is really winning the war in Ukraine?
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Getting an accurate picture of who is winning the war in Ukraine has become increasingly difficult in the information age. Log onto Twitter and there are images of burnt out Russian tanks being towed away by Ukrainian farmers and hostage-style videos featuring Russians POWs expressing regret over the invasion; meanwhile, Western news outlets are li…
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Samo Burja: Russia Sanctions Will Divide Civilisation
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Freddie Sayers meets with Samo Burja. With Western powers increasingly united against Russia, we seem to be witnessing the end of the unipolar world. Financially, culturally and spiritually we have never been so bifurcated. Could this be the end of civilisation as we know it? To find a way through the big issues at stake, Freddie Sayers sat down wi…
When Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine it was under the guise of ‘denazifying’ the country. But are there really any Nazis in Ukraine? Or is this just a story spun by the Kremlin? Aris Roussinos joins Freddie Sayers to unpick this contentious topic and seek some insight into Ukraine’s far-Right factions. Read the article here: See acast.com/pr…
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Investigating Aleksandr Dugin and the "soul of Russia"
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Freddie Sayers meets Marlene Laruelle. Aleksandr Dugin, the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and erstwhile organiser of the National Bolshevik Party, has been referred to as ‘Putin’s brain’. Professor Marlene Laruelle, the world’s leading expert on Dugin, says his influence is no longer direct. Dugin stated mission is to preserve the "Russian …
Freddie Sayers meets Leonid Ragozin. Leonid Ragozin was reporting in Siberia when Putin began to send troops to the Ukrainian border at Belarus. Despite the menacing signs, he was quick to voice his skepticism about Russia’s intentions to invade. But when tanks rolled into Ukraine over a week ago, Ragozin was left, like many, wondering: why had he …
