The Sceptic | Episode 61: Britain’s Weird Utilitarian Cult, the Tories vs the Blob and Green Rent-Seeking
In Episode 61 of the Sceptic, host Laurie Wastell speaks to Andrew Orlowski, business and technology columnist at the Telegraph, on Britain’s weird utilitarian cult, the ‘Mansards’, and why they’re everywhere.
Jack Rankin, Conservative MP for Windsor, on where the Tories went wrong in their 14 years in power and whether they can recover. Plus: why he’s referred ‘Hope not Hate’ to the Charity Commission.
And for our premium subscribers, Laurie speaks to Ben Pile, journalist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the scourge of the rent-seeking Green Blob, and the worrying campaign to bring back lockdown measures because of the flu.
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Jack Rankin was eminently sensible until he was required to perform Reform debunking. Suggesting that a Reform Government with 350 MPs might lose 140 of them because Farage has “tall poppy syndrome” was actually comical. Obviously he ducked the question of why we should now trust Tories who have suddenly seen the light and promise to reverse their previous destructive policies!
Laurie, you rightly raised ‘demographics’ with Jack Rankin. But you failed to raise that under the Conservatives DIY (pills-by-post) abortion was brought in which now means that 1 in 3 of the (mostly indigenous) population are now succumbing to being aborted (before that the figure was 1 in 5). This truly is an elephant in the room and I would argue the most devastating legacy of the Covid reaction. It’s not on any of the MSM’s radar, but it ought to be on The Sceptics, as the DS goes where the rest of the media doesn’t. And it’s existential (and the rule could easily be overturned by a future Conservative government).
Thanks for the suggestion. Sadly we can’t always cover everything, though we did cover pills-by-post in Episode 42: https://staging.dailysceptic.org/2025/06/27/the-sceptic-episode-42-fleur-meston-on-parliaments-week-of-death-alka-seghal-cuthbert-on-equality-act-tyranny-and-andrew-gilligan-on-islamophobia/