London Calling
276 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 262 ratingsJames Delingpole and Toby Young discuss and explain British and European politics and culture for their American audience.
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Where Were We?
October 09, 2023 21:54 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBNow, where were we? Oh, yes. Time to catch up with old (and we mean old!) friends. Toby has a health scare and James is having more than a few regrets about missed opportunities and the loss of weekly get togethers. But, of course, if there was always one thing we all could agree one it was good books and criticising the telly. This month we take on the BBC's self examination in The Reckoning which has Steve Coogan playing disgraced BBC presenter and notorious pedophile Jimmy Savile, Isaac ...
Just One of Those Things
August 14, 2023 20:40 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBIn 1935 Cole Porter penned a tune called "Just One of Those Things" about a love affair "too hot not to cool down." And so it goes. What started out as a podcast critiquing Game Of Thrones relaunched as London Calling on Nov. 6, 2015. We've been around for five Prime Ministers, three US Presidents, two Monarchs, Brexit and a worldwide pandemic. Our intrepid duo has broadcast from 11 different countries from three different continents with barely a week off. And now we're taking a break. Thi...
Getting Old
August 07, 2023 19:13 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBEveryone is a little miserable this week, fueled by the rainy summer England has had this year. Or maybe because we're all getting a little bit older. James "celebrated" #58 this past weekend and Toby isn't looking forward to #60 due this October. Toby tells James about having lunch with Sean Langan, who’s just back from the Donbas where he’s been making a documentary about the Ukrainian war seen through the eyes of Russian conscripts. James pulls Toby up about last week’s episode, in which...
The Fab 2
July 31, 2023 19:49 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBThis week James and Toby open the discussion with James’ recent gig in Dorset and the division in towns like Bridport and Totnes between the woke and the awake, particularly over traffic calming measures like LTNs, Ulez schemes and 15-minute cities. They go on to talk about Yuval Harari’s calling for ‘conspiracy theorists’ to be banned from the internet and Toby ask James to respond to Harari’s claim that many conspiracy theories, particularly those that blame the world’s problems on an elit...
Pull a Whitey
July 24, 2023 20:56 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBIt's hot in the Mediterranean and James and Toby discuss the recent forest fires in Greece and whether climate change or arsonists are to blame. This triggers an argument (From these two? Really?) about whether there are enough honest journalists left to expose such wrongdoing and that, in turn, leads to a heated discussion about whether the journalist Ross Clark is a genuine climate contrarian because concedes that the world has got a little bit warmer in the past 150 years. We then segue i...
A Question of Degree
July 17, 2023 18:46 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB"The best laid plans of mice and men," said Rabbie Burns, "often go awry." And so it is as Toby tells James about how his travel plans have gone over the past fortnight, even though he’s in Majorca with his wife and four children. Better to be on holiday in Spain than to be in England with a hacked Twitter account. James' Twitter profile (and his followers) have been hijacked by a crypto currency scammer. They then discuss the weird ‘crossover’ podcast in which Nick Dixon, Toby’s other podc...
It's In Our DNA
July 10, 2023 18:41 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBToby is in Ibiza and James is in a funk as the diet he's on fails to really kick in and that leads to a discussion on DNA, genetically altered mosquitos, Bill Gates, lost friends and cocaine. Yep, it's quite the journey. On a serious note the lads take on the immigration crisis taking place all across Europe and especially the riots that have rocked France. In Culture Corner we begin with Wimbledon and the crowd's treatment of Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, who was booed off the court after ...
Revolutionary Thoughts on Free Speech
July 03, 2023 20:43 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAfter the usual chit-chat about the week gone by, Toby and James have a substantive talk about the limits of free speech and what constitutes "crossing the line." It's all spurred on by the revelation last week that former UKIP party boss - and now GBNews personality - Nigel Farage has been "de-banked." In Culture Corner the spotlight falls on the new Idris Elba series, Hijack (AppleTV+) and Toby recalls the life an Englishman in America on the Fourth of July. Opening sound this week is Far...
Titanic (or Olympic) Sized Episode
June 26, 2023 21:17 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThis week Toby tells James about his event-filled diary last week, the climax of which was bumping into Boris Johnson at a party and explaining to him why Tobes was so disappointed by his decision to tell us all to stay in our homes three years ago; a close second was attending a one-day conference on Friday chaired by the American journalist Michael Shellenberger about how to fight back against the censorship-industrial complex. Then it's on to the implosion of the Titan submersible. One o...
Scofflaws and Sceptics
June 19, 2023 21:45 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBJames began the week attending a "speed awareness" course, having been nicked going a wee bit too fast on the way to an appointment. Early on in the programme James thinks that he has finally... FINALLY... brought Toby over to Team James, only to have his hopes dashed later in the show. Yes, mummy and daddy have a bit a tiff this week that temporarily devolves into a cable news panel show, but we do our best to get it back on the rails so we can bring you the ever popular Culture Corner. Tob...
Reversals of Fortune
June 12, 2023 20:18 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBLess than three years ago they were flying high and now they've been subjected to major setbacks. And, no, we're not talking about our intrepid duo. In the last week former President Donald Trump has been put under federal indictment, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been run out of Parliament and former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been placed under arrest. Rumors have circulated that this episode sees our hosts coming together in agreement over several major issues in...
Town Mouse and Country Mouse
June 05, 2023 21:02 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBWe begin this week with James and Toby debating a truly burning issue - Is it better to live in the city or live in the country? After some time in the country this past week, Toby isn't sure the Youngs would last very long living the Delipngpole life. In the news we talk about independent journalists detained for questioning by counterterror police, The Telegraph story about stifling lockdown dissent, and the Philip Schofield affair. (For our American listeners think a grayer and gayer vers...
The Never Ending Culture Corner
May 29, 2023 20:01 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBUsually Culture Corner comes at the end of the programme but this week it sorts of flows through the entire show. We talk the bank holiday in the UK (It's Memorial Day in the USA), grocery stores, eye glass frames and proper English pronunciations. Somehow James and Toby come around to Ron DiSantis announcing for President plus the Target and Bud Light boycotts but that just leads us to John Carpenter movies and pictures about the war in Vietnam. In Culture Corner proper, James turns against...
The Last Great Moment in British History
May 15, 2023 19:15 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBEverybody dance now! We're gonna make you sweat as Toby and James bust a few moves and take to the dance floor. After the terpsichorean trip down memory lane they talk Donald Trump's CNN town hall and, closer to home, Rev. Calvin Robinson's GBNews monologue on Ukraine (available here) and author Ian Rons' criticism of it in the pages of The Daily Sceptic. That leads to a wider discussion about journalistic ethics. This week in Culture Corner, James endorses Silo (AppleTV+) and Sanctuary (Net...
Coronation Street
May 08, 2023 22:38 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBOh, to be in England now that Spring is here! When republicans and royalists are in full bloom! James and Toby clash on the official coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. Another chapter in our long Island story or just a distraction? Say, who's in charge around here. We wrap up James' trip abroad (ewwww, leaches!) and mourn, lament and bury the Queen's Park Rangers season. All that and Culture Corner, too. This week's opening sound is King Charles reading off cue cards for his oath.
May Day! May Day!
May 01, 2023 18:59 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBWhat better way to observe May Day than to discuss another US bank failure? But before we get to the collapse of First Republic (Is this another case of "Get Woke, Go Broke" and what does it means for the future of ESG and "Stakeholder Capitalism?"), we talk about James’ adventures in the Far East, including a trip to a Muslim Thai restaurant in Malaysia where he had the best cup of tea he’s ever had. Toby recounts his own adventures in the Far North - no, not that one - we're talking about ...
We Cover the Earth
April 25, 2023 15:59 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBTwo thirds of the earth is covered in water, the rest is covered by London Calling. But this week we've left London behind as James and Toby find themselves on opposite sides of the world – Toby in Canada, James in Hong Kong – and whether jet lag gets worse as you get older. James says Hong Kong may not be a democracy any longer, but then, neither is the UK, while Toby tells him how much he’s enjoying being in Canada, not least because there are plenty of conservatives in rural areas who hav...
Green Around the Gills
April 17, 2023 20:49 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBThis week James has a good walk in Shropshire spoiled by the "bird-blending, bat-chomping eco-crucifixes" and Toby debates animal "rights" around the dinner table because of the deaths of three horses at this past weekend's Grand National. ("Save the Sheep!") That leads us to the name change of the Brecon Beacons National Park, the scandal at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the shocking suicide of a 19-year old Greenpeace activist from Walthamstow who became inconsolable by the pros...
A God-Sized Hole
April 10, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour - 66.2 MBThis week James and Toby contemplate the spiritual - from the game of "sermon bingo" James and his family played when they went to church this Sunday (betting on which progressive talking points the vicar would include in the service) to Justin Welby’s pledge to set aside £100 million for the Church of England’s reparations fund and that leads to the question as to why the Anglican Church was been captured by the woke cult (James thinks it’s the work of the devil). Speaking of reparations, w...
Replacing Your Overton Window
April 03, 2023 20:55 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBThis week James buys a second-hand car while Toby has a mundane weekend and contemplates masculinity, which prompts a discussion on the release of Andrew Tate from jail and why he’s acquired cult status among adolescent males (in spite of being a less than stellar advert for masculinity) and James wishes that he were a more ‘manly man.’ Of course there's the Trump indictment and whether the former President uses the word ‘INDICATED’ deliberately to troll the libs; plus the Overton Window an...
Diagnosing Delingpole
March 27, 2023 19:48 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBThis week, James and Toby discuss James’s profound sense of loss now that the hunting season is over and Toby’s concern that James’s pessimism about the future is making him mentally ill. Among the news items covered: Whether Bill Gates really is an evil mastermind, the inevitability of ’15 minute’ cities, the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s damning new report on wind power, Humza Yousef becoming the new leader of the SNP and the mobbing of Kellie-Jay Keen in New Zealand. In Culture Corn...
All the Baubles
March 20, 2023 21:47 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBThe lads are depressed. For James it’s the end of the hunting season, for Toby it’s QPR (11-19-18, 19th in the league table) and his football hopes are dashed in more ways than one. After a mutual therapy session it’s on to the news of the week: Donald Trump is facing Stormy seas in NY as a DA thinks he has a case to arrest the former President, YouTube silences a speech by Andrew Bridgen... Source
Match of the Week
March 13, 2023 20:42 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBToby and James begin the week talking about James’s health (not good), Toby’s failure to make it across London using public transport (which James thinks is all part of the plan to keep us locked in our homes), and the Gary Lineker scandal (which James thinks was cooked up to distract people from the Great Reset and other, equally important things taking place under our noses). In other news we... Source
Springing a Leak
March 07, 2023 16:39 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBOn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James start by talking about James’ health (he has a cold), then segue into discussing what James says is the best hunting experience of his life. Toby then tells James about his week (hangover and all), which included appearing on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s debut show on GBNews and attending the third anniversary party of the Free Speech Union. Source
James Mozart and Toby Beethoven
February 27, 2023 20:59 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss last Saturday’s live recording of The Delingpod, in which James interviewed Neil Oliver in front of a paying audience of 900; Toby worries about whether his live recording of The Weekly Sceptic on 1st April in the same venue (the Emmanuel Centre) will be as popular. It has been some time since Mummy and Daddy had a fight, no? Source
James and the Giant Hunt
February 20, 2023 20:52 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBWe’re all over the politically correct spectrum this week. On one hand, James had his epic hunting adventure last weekend, while on the other hand, Toby is struggling to adjust to his new role as “Mr. Mom” now that an empowered Caroline has left for a two week holiday in Barbados. Meanwhile, there’s a lot on the censorship front as we take on the list of media that the UK Government’s “anti... Source
We're Not Saying It's Aliens But…
February 13, 2023 21:38 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’ rock star status among the readers of TCW Defending Freedom, the shooting down of three “UFOs” over North American airspace and whether that’s a nice way to treat visitors from another galaxy, the spat between Mark Steyn and GBNews, Seymour Hersh’s allegations about US involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines... Source
Runnin’ With the Devil
February 06, 2023 21:43 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBAs is our Monday ritual, Toby and James discuss their weekend exploits (James went hunting, Toby watched a musical based on Come Dine With Me) before getting on to the news of the day: Robert Kennedy Jr’s lawsuit against the Trusted Media Initiative, Sam Smith’s feeble attempts to imitate Mick Jagger at the Grammy Awards, the appearance of former Isis bride Shamima Begum on the cover of the Times’... Source
Spied On Like Us
January 30, 2023 21:23 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis week James and Toby discuss how different the last three years would have been if James, and not Chris Whitty, had been the Chief Medical Officer and the fact that during the pandemic it seems Toby was spied upon by the 77th Brigade, a unit of the British Army, as revealed in a new report from Big Brother Watch. In other news we cover the tax affairs of the now ex-Chairman of the Conservative... Source
What Would YOU Do?
January 23, 2023 22:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBAn interesting mix this week (and sometimes with just TOO much information) as James and Toby discuss whether 2022 saw higher-than average mortality in Britain and elsewhere and, if it did, whether the mRNA vaccines are responsible; Charles III’s forthcoming coronation (which the King intends to dedicate to refugees and NHS workers); the prostitution boom in Davos; and most disturbingly... Source
The Doctor is In
January 16, 2023 21:28 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBOne is back from the hunt and the other is preparing to go. Our intrepid duo talk about Toby’s shooting trip last weekend and James’ upcoming hunt meet in which a benefactor is going to provide him with – not just one – but two horses. Now we’re cooking with gas. Or are we? They also take on the sudden attack on gas boilers, Chris Skidmore’s (MP – Kingswood/South Gloucestershire) ‘review’ of net... Source
Doing Harry and Meghan
January 09, 2023 23:29 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBSince we last met Toby made another trip to Iceland, this time to give a talk at the inaugural meeting of a new free speech society. The post trip discussion on Icelandic cuisine, well, that’s a different story. The news of the week prompts a question, “Do we need a New Enlightenment to tackle the hijacking of science by woke leftists?” Plus we tackle the Duke of Sussex’s extraordinarily misjudged... Source
Family Christmas and Other Disasters
January 02, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBWe gave the boys the week off last week and told them to go enjoy themselves. Our bad. As we catch up with Toby and James after the holidays, they share their Christmas disaster stories – James got vertigo playing on a roundabout with his three year-old granddaughter, while Toby stayed in the Airbnb-from-hell in Cardiff. For 2023 they discuss the pros and cons of Veganuary and/or Dry January (one... Source
Size is Everything
December 19, 2022 21:19 - 1 hour - 66 MBWe’re putting a bow on the 2022 run of London Calling as James and Toby compare the respective sizes of their Christmas trees, the parties and dinners they’ve been to in the run-up to the holidays, and their favourite Christmas movies. In the news we cover Jeremy Clarkson’s Game of Thrones fantasy about Meghan Markle, whether climate activists believe in their own rhetoric or are just using global... Source
The Odd Couple
December 12, 2022 22:02 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBJames takes enough time off from gathering wood to burn in his Rayburn cast iron stove (so he and his family won’t freeze to death when the World Economic Forum cuts off the power this winter) to let Toby read out an extract from ‘An Odd Couple For Our Odd Times’, a glowing article about our little show in The National Review (which, unfortunately is behind their paywall) and they both agree with... Source
Panic at the Christoteque
December 05, 2022 21:53 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBTopics this week include Toby and James include James’ sell-out gig at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green, Toby’s four after-dinner speaking gigs in the past seven days (including one for the Totnes Young Conservatives) the unseemly haste with which poor Lady Hussy was thrown under a bus after asking Ngozi Fulani where she was from at a Buckingham Palace reception, and Ice Cube becomes... Source
Men of a Certain Age
November 28, 2022 18:46 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBA cold has Toby feeling less than stellar this week, so he and James have an age old discussion about men – and old age. Vitamin regimens, detoxification and general bouts of hypochondria lead off the show before we really get down, as Texans would say, to brass tacks. Namely, are the protests happening across Communist China just a blip on the radar or is this real trouble for Xi? And do we have... Source
Metro Porn
November 22, 2022 19:27 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis week James and Toby compare notes about meeting fans of the podcast and discuss all the things that have happened in the past week that suggest James just may be correct in his assessment about who’s really running the world (the Autumn Statement, the signing of a climate reparations agreement at COP27 and Rishi Sunak’s betrayal of Brexit.) We congratulate Elon Musk on reinstating Donald... Source
Cryptomaniacs
November 14, 2022 21:49 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBLou Pearlman… Bernie Madoff… and now, Sam Bankman-Fried. “SBF” joins a long list of Ponzi scheme artists in modern times and Toby and James open the show with the collapse of FTX and the fall from grace of its 30 year-old founder. Toby’s just back from Hungary, a nation that he says provides a glimpse of what Britain might look like if our side had won the culture war, why the British Government... Source
A Rantalogue Through Venice
November 07, 2022 21:49 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBIn this week’s London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’s trip to Venice, which is mercifully free of Covid theatre, whether traveling overseas is being made deliberately more difficult as part of the Great Reset or it’s just a consequence of staff shortages at airports. Glancing at items currently in the news we assess the risk that Rishi Sunak will agree to pay ‘reparations’ to countries... Source
Hammers and Spares
October 31, 2022 18:25 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBIn this week’s episode Toby and James discuss the deep state’s determination to destroy Home Secretary Suella Braverman (MP for Fareham) and the finalization of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, including his Tweet about the the conspiracy theory surrounding the Nancy Pelosi ‘home invader.’ In other news we talk about the victory of Lula over Bolsonaro in the Brazilian Presidential election... Source
Year of the Three PMs
October 24, 2022 20:05 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBNow that the drama about who is to be the next Prime Minister has been settled, in the most undramatic fashion with an uncontested race for the Tory Leadership, the high drama remains on London Calling… Will Toby capitulate and join Team James in the WEF Globalist Conspiracy wing of the podcast? Oh, wait. Can we even use the word “globalist?” Or has that been designated as the next anti-Semitic... Source
Rhymes with Hunt
October 17, 2022 18:15 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBTime marches on and so James wishes Toby a happy birthday (today, Oct. 17) but they both worry about the approaching Big Six-O. And while one might assume than a man of Toby’s “advanced” years would be through with cycling, he relates to James the tale of his recent accident (which pleases James because he doesn’t like cyclists to begin with). Speaking of time, when Liz Truss became PM it was... Source
Mercury's Rising, Reversed Ferrets & Armageddon
October 10, 2022 19:51 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBThis week James and Toby discuss if James is suffering from mercury poisoning, whether Tobes is, at the least, partly responsible for PayPal’s recent difficulties, and the ongoing trials and tribulations of the new Prime Minister. In other news we ask if Michael Gove is a sadist, congratulate John Cleese on his announcement that he’s joining GB News and, of course, ponder Toby’s conspicuous... Source
Hit First, Hit Hard, Hit Often
October 03, 2022 20:44 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBHalf of our intrepid duo comes to us this week from Birmingham, the site of the 2022 Conservative Party Conference as the PM and the Chancellor retreat from the higher-end tax cuts. Its a pugilistic edition of London Calling as James and Toby pick a fight and debate the proper strategy to win one. In Culture Corner, James takes on The Old Man (FX/Hulu in the US, Disney+ in the UK) while Toby... Source
I'm Not Your Pal
September 26, 2022 19:33 - 55 minutes - 51 MBUpdate: At 5:30pm BST (12:30 EDT) this evening, PayPal notified Toby that it has restored all three of the accounts it cancelled a couple of weeks ago – the accounts for the Daily Sceptic, the Free Speech Union and his personal account. In all three cases, the email read as follows: We have continued to review the information provided in connection with your account and we take seriously the input... Source
Eternal Rest
September 19, 2022 23:06 - 55 minutes - 76 MBOn the day we laid our late Sovereign, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to her eternal rest, we reflect on the last ten days of mourning. And so we have entered the Era of Charles III and with it, cricket riots in Leicester. The rest of the world churns on and we discuss Ron DeSantis’s transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Toby’s dinner with Jordan Peterson, the trans teacher at a Canadian... Source
God Save the King
September 12, 2022 19:09 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MBOf course the lead story this week is the death of Her Majesty the Queen. James is showing a bit of a republican streak at the beginning of the reign of Charles III and he’s not the only one. Toby and the Free Speech Union are defending quite a few as tolerance of opposing views slowly fades away across the land. Looking elsewhere they celebrate the election of Pierre Poilievre as leader of the... Source
Kiss This Ring
September 06, 2022 04:17 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBIf it’s Tuesday it must be a day for the kissing of hands. Boris and Liz go to Balmoral and out goes one Prime Minister and in comes another. Toby and James disagree about whether Liz Truss is her own woman or controlled by the WEF and You-Know-Who. For laughs the guys discuss the Chris Rock-Dave Chappelle gig which Toby took in on Sunday night and James enters the 21st Century of internet... Source
The Last Temptation of Delingpole and Young
August 30, 2022 19:43 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBA London Calling Tuesday can only mean one thing – Toby got a last-minute grouse shooting invitation – for Monday. As the Johnson Premiership comes to a close this week (The final results of the race between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are to be announced next Monday), we discuss the possibility that Tobes could end up in the House of Lords, which leads to a discussion of James’ new book about “God... Source