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Grades are being leveled, a woman gets a years wages for cutting her finger on a wine glass, and Gary questions the need for health and safety  standards whilst Michael records in the middle of a road.

Gary sits down with Bev Jackson, one of the founding members of the LGB Alliance. They discuss the aims of the LGB Alliance and how it came to be, gender theory, Stonewall, and the abuse people like J. K. Rowling get for speaking out on this issue.

It's been a bad week for Irish media on various fronts, Orwell faces cancellation for failing to speak positively of the USSR after WW2, and the wonderful history of the Molotov bread basket.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Teachers-Take-Katharine-Birbalsingh/dp/191290621X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1594383295&refinements=p_27%3AKatharine+Birbalsingh&s=books&sr=1-1

Michael sits down with the journalist, author, and broadcaster Peter Hitchens. They discuss the fall of the USSR; revolutionary politics; how the current political climate compares to earlier revolutions; why Britain should have stayed out of World War 1; and if there's any hope left for conservatives.

https://www.ichingonline.net/

Michael talks to Professor Deirdre McCloskey, of the University of Illinois at Chicago. They discuss the idea that the West became the richest and more powerful region of the world because of slavery and colonialism.

The heartwarming tale of Sun Qian, a women who rediscovered her deep love for the Chinese Government whilst being tortured in a Chinese jail; two new reports say China is committing genocide, we explain why that doesn't matter and why nothing will be done, and Reddit becomes a racist website.

FG somehow convinced FF to take over the country just before everything has the highest chance of falling to pieces, and FF even took Health and Housing, so let's talk about that.

Michael sits down with author and assistant editor of UnHerd, Ed West, to discuss what it's like being on the wrong side of history.

In order to have a peaceful show Gary and Michael move from their unusual controversial topic selection to discuss race, religion, and that new sexual assault survey that's got everyone in a tizzy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjD4PHojNBU

If you enjoyed listening to Colin you can find some of his articles below: https://quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-rowling-is-right-sex-is-real-and-it-is-not-a-spectrum/ https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089

https://twitter.com/meganrabundis/status/1272735796949213184 - Full video of the shooting.

00:00 - Ming's fish trouble 7:15 - Household assistants 18:15 - According to the Irish Times de Valera wanted Ireland to rejoin the British Empire 41:55 - The BBC a tale of two protests 1:15:37 - Niall Collins has some more thoughts on the Jews https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/statues-are-not-a-neutral-narration-of-complex-events-1.4277548 https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-t...

https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1271075607955288064 - Letter to Priti Patel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84YPbucaxA - Lenny Bruce "How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRqDc41IFQ - Lenny Bruce "Are there any niggers here tonight?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igYL5w0ZVc8 - BrassEye - Culture and Race

Things have now gotten bad enough that people have stopped quoting Yeats.

https://babylonbee.com/news/unity-at-last-kkk-and-rich-liberal-join-in-celebration-as-black-neighborhood-burns https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8398095/BBC-blasted-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-largely-peaceful-headline-despite-27-officers-injured.html https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1707753042 - Murray Hill Riot

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/there-is-no-conflict-between-human-rights-and-public-health-measures-1.4217915 https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ICCL-Investigation-Abortion-Safe-Zones.pdf https://www.gotoquiz.com/political_compass_english_civil_war_edition - It's just nice to see the Levellers included

https://apnews.com/3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae

We had planned to have a wonderful discussion of a women walking her dog in a park but we've had to adjust the programming as America seems to have caught fire.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ - the full text of the executive order.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/explainer-did-the-taoiseach-ignore-public-health-rules-by-going-on-a-picnic-1.4263129 https://gript.ie/chinese-recommendation-brazil/ https://indianliterature.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/overcoat_by_nicolai_gogol.pdf - A translation of Gogol's short story 'The Overcoat', considered one of the finest pieces of Russian literature ever published, fo...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/23/india-china-border-skirmishes/ - Foreign Policy on Ladakh https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/china-s-tactical-play-in-ladakh-isn-t-just-about-the-boundary-analysis/story-aJy8XQDURYzT6nN70GsxzK.html https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/100-tents-machinery-for-bunkers-china-bolsters-its-presence-in-ladakh-india-maintains-aggressive-posturing/596150

https://www.education.ie/en/Circulars-and-Forms/Active-Circulars/cl0037_2020.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS--6mzw3eo - the best cover of Eleanor Rigby ever recorded.