UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

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 increasi...

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...

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 w...

Freddie Sayers in the studio with Ian Skelly Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers meets Clint Ehrlich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.

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...

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.

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 ty...

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 Bel...

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...

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. UnHe...

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.

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.

Florence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.