TNE Podcast

Jonny Woodrow is a writer, commentator and podcaster who discusses the role of comedy speaking truth to power. And, for the early part of our conversation on this podcast, we discuss this - but then go off on something of a tangent (or several). But it’s interesting nonetheless. Incidentally, Jonny mentions ‘Abi’ in the early part of the podcast - he’s referring to Abi Roberts . Jonny tends to sta...

Many of us were made very angry when a BBC hit-piece was published about Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu last week. Written by Marco Silva of the BBC’s “Verify” team the piece vilified Jusper - a small-holding Kenyan farmer - for having the temerity to challenge climate alarmism that has become the BBC’s stock-in-trade.  Silva then created a thread on Twitter to spread more climate alarmism. The arti...

Bob Moran is a satirical cartoonist who shot to fame across the world when the Covid tyranny began. As the lead cartoonist on the Telegraph (and then as a freelancer) he articulated better than we could our outrage about government overreach, vaccine coercion and the assault on freedom, particularly the freedom of children.  As we enter the hustings period in the lead-up to a UK general election I...

Keith Tordoff’s wife keeps asking him why he’s involved in politics - when he could be enjoying other things less stressful and less challenging. In this interview he provides the answer. He wants to break the party-political stranglehold of his community. You soon get the message that Keith is a proud Yorkshireman. He’s been working in the community for decades and he wants to apply his knowledge...

I interviewed David Kurten a few months back. But now he’s focused on a general election campaign and is fielding candidates in over 40 constituencies. The Heritage Party is a small party and depends on donations from grassroots supporters rather than Hedge Fund owners or former Tory grandees. So fielding so many candidates in so many constituencies in such short order is no easy task. In this int...

Abi McGuire was fed-up with the bickering and back-biting in parish and district councils in her constituency. So she did something about it and stood for election - and was elected alongside 2 other independent candidates. Her next task was to free-up the death grip that party representatives had around council business. So she, with other independent councillors, started to focus minds on gettin...

MiriAF has developed quite a fan-base in the fragmented ‘freedom movement’. Of course, it’s not really a movement as such. Given the nature of those with a more free-thinking approach to everything, the ‘movement’ keeps splintering - and there are many lone wolves. However, Miri’s unashamed conspiracy theorising has been revelatory for many of us since she ‘emerged’ out of the Covid tyranny. Some...

Nudging is everywhere these days. Marketers use nudging and other psychological techniques to influence our purchasing decisions. But rather more pernicious is the use of fear or guilt campaigns to nudge us to do things that the government wants us to do, for no good reason - or for reasons that are entirely spurious. Such techniques used to be the stuff of authoritarian societies and the Soviet-e...

In this interview I chat with Efrat Fenigson after the publication of her article in Bitcoin Magazine on the ‘digitisation of money’. I start by asking her about how she came to write the piece - inspired by a conversation featured here on TNE a few weeks ago (between Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb). Efrat also touches on the social media storm that she met when she criticised the Israeli governmen...

I appeared on TNT Radio a couple of days ago to discuss a variety of topical issues…the escalation of the war in Ukraine, conspiracy theories and nuclear energy. These days, of course, issues and topics like this are all interconnected in some manner. On Ukraine, for example, some commentators have been suggesting that that there could be some nefarious involvement in the Crocus Stadium attack and...

I was delighted to be invited to join Sonia Poulton on TNT Radio for her first 2 hour morning programme yesterday. We discussed the fact that this week marks the 4th anniversary of the first UK lockdown of the pseudo-pandemic. But it also marks the start of ‘the new era’ of massive government overreach, systemic suppression of freedom of speech, and the capture of mainstream national political par...

I appeared on TNT Radio on Friday with Rick Munn and Natalie Cheale to discuss the rocketing price of bitcoin. It was a short piece, and I had much more to say. But it shows that people - and the media - are waking up to the fact that bitcoin represents a safe harbour away from fiat currencies. There’s growing appreciation that central banks are rapidly losing credibility and control - as US debt...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing David Kurten for this site. We covered a lot of ground. But on February 12th David started his own show on TNT Radio . The TNT team asked me if I would appear as a guest on David’s second show on February 13th. This was just a few days after the airing of Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview. We discussed the current geopolitical situation in Ukraine,...

Yesterday I appeared on Sonia Poulton’s show on TNT Radio. My bit appears here (in video format). Let me explain the context. Last week there was something of a furore about Google’s new “AI” tool called Gemini. This allows people (for a fee) to generate images and also receive text generation help based on just a few prompts i.e. it’s Google’s version of Chat GPT and AI-based image generators, ro...

Welcome to my latest podcast. In this edition, recorded on January 31st, 2024, I interview Aaron Day - a Fellow of the Brownstone Institute.  In his book,  "The Final Countdown: Crypto, Gold, Silver, and the People's Last Stand Against Tyranny by Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)," author and 2024 Presidential Candidate, Aaron Day , discusses why CBDCs represent a global tyrannical crisis in...

A few days ago I was asked to attend and speak on a Twitter space. The subject of discussion was whether Laura Dodsworth, and others, were right in labelling this cartoon by Bob Moran as anti-semitic. Laura went a step further and referred the artwork to the Met Police. I made clear that Bob’s cartoon made a very obvious point - that the three ‘leaders’ portrayed in the cartoon were engaged (or co...

David Kurten is the founder and Leader of the Heritage Party - one of the ‘challenger’ parties aiming to topple the two-party duopoly in the upcoming general election. In this interview I ask David about the origins of the Heritage Party, his political ambitions and his reactions to some recent geo-political developments at home and abroad. I asked him, for example, about the news coming from the...

I was delighted to be asked to join Sonia Poulton on her first morning programme on TNT Radio yesterday . TNT is an Australian based radio station that broadcasts round the clock on the web - and via a live YouTube stream. Yesterday, Sonia’s guests included Bob Moran, the cartoonist (formerly of The Telegraph, now proudly independent) and myself. My segment starts at around 37:30 mins in. Just a n...

It’s January. Time for memes and depression and reflections on the year that has just ended. The incentive for this piece came from a meme. And a cat meme at that. Well, perhaps it didn’t. Perhaps it was a number of things. In the middle of last year I had to move my Mum out of her home of 40 years and put her in an “independent living” flat.  She had fallen at the doorstep of her house when I was...

Hugh McCarthy is a former Head Teacher and government advisor on education and curriculum development. He was one of the few senior teachers, or former teachers, in the UK to speak out against school closures during the Covid lockdown period. He was also heavily censored by social media and mainstream media for taking a stand - despite his vast experience as an educationalist in Northern Ireland (...

A Bitter Pill It’s risky these days getting a big job in government or the establishment. By definition, anyone who is able to jump through the various hoops required by the selection panels have to be time-served sycophants.  The origins of the word - sycophant - are debated by etymologists. According to one etymology site, the first use of the word sycophant in the English language implied that...

When lockdown happened in March 2020 I quickly started looking around for like-minded people who were as perplexed as I about the loss of freedom and Western democratic values.  Several groups emerged in rapid order and I joined, or supported as many as I could. In the early days some notable voices - like Lord Sumption, the Law-Lord, and Luke Johnson, the businessman and journalist - were granted...

A few years ago I decided to visit a big trade show in Dusseldorf called Medica. For quite some time I’d worked in information technology - often helping to get early stage technology companies funded. But I’d heard there were rich pickings for consultants, like me, to broker investment deals in the healthcare space. So I went to Dusseldorf to schmooze about.  But it didn’t take long to realise th...

Chris Sky’s infamous interview that he gave early in lockdown was something of a rallying call for Covid dissenters. The video was prescient. Chris detailed the planned coercion tactics that would be adopted by the Canadian authorities. As it turned out, similar tactics were adopted by most of the so-called Western democracies. The video was Chris’ launchpad into activism. His addresses to the ass...

When Nick Hudson - Panda Founder and Chairman - was in London a few weeks ago, I had the chance to interview him in front of a studio audience. Nick was in hot demand over the week or so he was in London, and undertook many media interviews and recorded several podcasts. But our conversation focused on Nick’s desire to see a return to ‘open science’ - the process whereby received wisdom (or “the s...