UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats Oct 26, 2022

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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?

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Ivar Arpi: Why did Sweden turn Right-wing? Oct 22, 2022

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Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi.

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Canada's euthanasia laws killed my brother Oct 17, 2022

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UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019.

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Investigating the Florida vaccine study Oct 12, 2022

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Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg.

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Michael Gove: Do Conservatives have a philosophy? Oct 06, 2022

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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?

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Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci Sep 30, 2022

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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.

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Will the hard Right sweep Europe? Sep 26, 2022

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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.

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Cancelled for pro-peace street art Sep 22, 2022

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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?

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The Charles III paradox: Anti-establishment King Sep 16, 2022

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Freddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly

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Clint Ehrlich: What I got wrong about Ukraine Sep 14, 2022

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Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich

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