Latest Sayer Podcast Episodes
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: From New Atheist to Christian convert
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 22, 2023 16:10 - 36 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with former New Atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali to discuss why she now considers herself to be Christian. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How RFK Jr. could decide the 2024 election
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 17, 2023 16:10 - 27 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets pollster Joe Bedell to discuss the 2024 US election, Trump, and RFK Jr. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nick Bostrom: How AI will lead to tyranny
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 10, 2023 17:00 - 43 minutesUnHerd's Flo Read meets Nick Bostrom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why does the Left support Palestine?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - November 03, 2023 15:58 - 1 hourUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with professional troublemaker James Lindsay and Novara Media's Aaron Bastani to discuss the modern and historical relationship between the political Left and support of Palestine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Israeli Ambassador on the War on Gaza
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 27, 2023 18:00 - 28 minutesUnHerd’s Freddie Sayers meets Tzipi Hotovely, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jonathan Sumption: War, Lockdowns and Lessons from the Past
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 21, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourFormer Supreme Court judge, and celebrated historian of The Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss continental entanglements past and present, and the disrupted civil and international order we face today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
Kathleen Stock: Inside Britain’s new trans clinics
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 19, 2023 14:13 - 40 minutesSince its closure was announced last July, Gids — the Gender Identity Development Service at the world-renowned Tavistock and Portman Trust — has become synonymous with mismanagement and medical scandal.It was supposed to be a haven for young people experiencing gender-related distress. Instead, ...
Yascha Mounk: Israel to America - escaping the identity trap
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hourWhatever happened to universalism? Academic and author of The Identity Trap, Yascha Mounk, explores how a relatively obscure and marginal set of ideas about identity have come to dominate our social, cultural and political life – and makes the case for universal, humanist values. Hosted on Acas...
Special Investigation: How scientific is the ZOE app?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 11, 2023 17:05 - 33 minutesProfessor Tim Spector was one of the “winners” of the Covid era: his ZOE symptom tracker app accrued millions of users during the pandemic Now he has pivoted back to his true passion, gut health, and taken many of his followers with him. Endorsed by celebrities such as Davina McCall and Carrie ...
John Gray: Thoughts after liberalism
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 08, 2023 15:01 - 1 hourUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with philosopher John Gray at the UnHerd Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Yanis Varoufakis: Welcome to the age of technofeudalism
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 05, 2023 15:33 - 36 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with former Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matthew Crawford: The global war on motorists
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - October 03, 2023 15:17 - 32 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Matthew Crawford in San Francisco. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michael Wolff: How Donald Trump beat Rupert Murdoch
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 29, 2023 17:35 - 24 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with journalist and author Michael Wolff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Climate scientist: I designed my research to sound catastrophic
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 25, 2023 15:12 - 34 minutesPatrick Brown tells Freddie Sayers why he designed his research to sound catastrophic. Read the post here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Russell Brand divide: Could both sides be right?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 19, 2023 16:45 - 26 minutesUnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sits down with Mary Harrington to discuss the Russell Brand investigation and accusations. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gad Saad: Postmodernism is making you miserable
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 01, 2023 16:45 - 45 minutesUnHerd's Florence Read sits down with Gad Saad to talk about why the Western world is so depressed. How can we be happy? This question has preoccupied thinkers from Aristotle to the present day, in various disciplines encompassing philosophy, science and religion. In his latest book, The Saad T...
Gad Saad: Postmodernism is making us miserable
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - September 01, 2023 16:45 - 45 minutesUnHerd's Florence Read sits down with Gad Saad to talk about why the Western world is so depressed. How can we be happy? This question has preoccupied thinkers from Aristotle to the present day, in various disciplines encompassing philosophy, science and religion. In his latest book, The Saad T...
Wolfgang Münchau: Germany is in trouble
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 25, 2023 14:31 - 36 minutesFreddie Sayers sits down with Wolfgang Münchau , former co-editor of FT Deutschland, and founder and co-director of the Eurointelligence blog, to talk about Germany, the new sick man of Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Special Report: Inside Tony Blair Inc
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 06, 2023 21:31 - 39 minutesAt the end of every week, Tony Blair receives his “box” to review over the weekend. It is no longer the tatty, old red briefcase of a Prime Minister, but a virtual one accessible from his laptop wherever he is in the world. Yet, the process remains much the same as when he was in Downing Street. ...
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy: Debanked for being Russian
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - August 02, 2023 15:14 - 24 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Countess Alexandra Tolstoy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Edward Luttwak: Biden and Putin are ready to do a deal
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 18, 2023 14:58 - 47 minutesUS President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are ready to do a deal, according to the historian, military strategist and advisor to the US government Edward Luttwak. The comments were made in a discussion this week with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers, during which Luttwak argued th...
Professor Ashok Swain: The strange disappearance of the anti-war movement
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 12, 2023 16:32 - 30 minutesJoining UnHerd to talk about why so few voices in public life and the media have spoken out against the shipment of cluster bombs, and about the recession of anti-war sentiment more widely, is the academic and writer Ashok Swain. A professor of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University in...
Tom Holland: Lessons from the Roman Empire
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 07, 2023 16:14 - 1 hourAt its peak, the Roman Empire was perhaps the greatest civilisation in history. But like so many cultures before and after it, it declined and finally ended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lee Fang: Did Pfizer sponsor vaccine mandates?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 07, 2023 11:42 - 34 minutesThe pharmaceutical company Pfizer financed groups lobbying for Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the investigative reporter Lee Fang has claimed. Speaking to UnHerd’s Florence Read, Fang discussed a recent report he wrote in which he uncovered the Chicago Urban League’s acceptance of a special $100,000 ...
Retired US General: Why I think Putin will go nuclear
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 28, 2023 15:06 - 35 minutesKevin Ryan, a retired brigadier general from the US army, explains the possibilities of the Russian Army deploying nuclear weapons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Olympian Sharron Davies: Female Athletes are being Blackmailed
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 21, 2023 15:20 - 25 minutesUnHerd's Florence Read sits down with ex-Olympian swimmer Sharron Davies to discuss her new book 'Unfair Play, and the fraught issue of trans participation in sport. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Paul Kingsnorth: How to Resist the Machine
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 11, 2023 15:00 - 1 hourHow can normal people resist the increasingly technocratic and soulless nature of human life? Freddie Sayers sits down with writer Paul Kingsnorth at the UnHerd Club to find out. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Prof. Richard Dawkins: I'm a Romantic Soul
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 06, 2023 13:55 - 53 minutesUnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Richard Dawkins to discuss God, vaccines and his poetic spirit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ukrainian MP: Why Victory is the Only Option
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 01, 2023 15:12 - 36 minutesFreddie Sayers talks to Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun about the road to victory in Ukraine and its potential costs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ukrainian MP: Why victory is the only option
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 01, 2023 15:12 - 36 minutesUkrainian MP Inna Sovsun joins UnHerd live from Kyiv to explain her perspective on the war, and why victory is the only option. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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