Latest Sayer Podcast Episodes
Alex Jones documentary banned from social media
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 15, 2022 15:51 - 26 minutesFlorence Read meets with documentary filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How the West brought economic disaster on itself
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 11, 2022 14:51 - 38 minutesFreddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What Boris Johnson's resignation really means
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - July 08, 2022 11:20 - 45 minutesAfter the resignation of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and with a leadership election looming, UnHerd convened some regular contributors for an emergency roundtable. Has the populist experiment run its course in the UK, or is it only just beginning? Joining Freddie Sayers to see beyond ...
Martin Kulldorff: Lessons from Sweden for the next pandemic
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 24, 2022 15:07 - 1 hourWhen the COVID-19 pandemic began and most of the world went into lockdown, Scandinavia bucked the status-quo by keeping their society almost completely open. At the time, there was a sense that Sweden, Denmark and Norway would pay a dire price for their decision. But looking back now, with all t...
Crypto CEO: My stand against woke workers
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 21, 2022 16:40 - 35 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Jesse Powell. Jesse Powell is the CEO of Kraken, one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in the world. He has been in the headlines this week for publishing a decidedly libertarian memo about his company's working culture that challenged any workers claiming offence o...
Aris Roussinos: Inside the nationalist militia on Ukraine’s frontline
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 17, 2022 16:12 - 36 minutesFreddie Sayers speaks to UnHerd’s Aris Roussinos, reporting from the frontline of the war in Ukraine. Read the article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Silkie Carlo: Chinese CCTV is watching you
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 13, 2022 16:29 - 21 minutesFlorence Read meets Silkie Carlo. There are six million security cameras in use in the UK, one for every 11 people, and the majority are Chinese surveillance systems. London, where UnHerd has its offices, is the most surveilled city outside of China, and has more cameras per person than Beijing...
Ilya Shapiro: Georgetown diversicrats forced me out of my job
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 09, 2022 13:56 - 29 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Ilya Shapiro. Ilya Shapiro was due to start his new job as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown's Law Centre for the Constitution. But this week, he quit. All because of a single Tweet. Freddie Sayers invited Shapiro to the studio to understand how censorsh...
Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - June 06, 2022 15:40 - 48 minutesFreddie Sayers sits down to discuss the pandemic response with Biologist, Bret Weinstein. Before the pandemic, evolutionary biologist and former Evergreen professor Bret Weinstein was lauded by both sides of the political divide for his insights into the crisis on American campuses. As a member...
Rejected from a London university for being Russian
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 30, 2022 16:14 - 13 minutesUnHerd's Florence Read meets Elena Ledneva. Elena Ledneva, a woman living with her husband and young child in the UK, applied for a Master's course in hospitality at the University of West London. Elena had years of experience in running events, including welcoming international delegates to th...
WHO epidemiologist: The truth about monkeypox
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 27, 2022 15:40 - 22 minutesFreddie Sayers meets David Heymann. Will monkeypox be the next pandemic after COVID? To try to find an answer, Freddie Sayers invited Professor David Heymann to the UnHerd studio. Currently based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Heymann is one of the world’s most...
World expert Dr. Pavel Podvig: How likely is a nuclear war?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 20, 2022 15:52 - 25 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Pavel Podvig. Since the invasion of Ukraine, the outcome that nobody has wanted to contemplate is that of Russian nuclear escalation. Threats that “mirror moves” would be made by the Kremlin if NATO expanded, as we heard in last week’s interview with UN representative for R...
Prof. Michael Sandel: Why the elites don’t deserve their status
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 16, 2022 14:36 - 45 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Michael Sandel. Do we deserve what we have? Are the elites any better than the rest of us? Do the right people get to run the world? One political philosopher who attempts to tackle these big questions is Professor Michael Sandel. A Harvard professor since the 1980s and w...
Kremlin Spokesman: "There is no war in Ukraine"
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 12, 2022 14:22 - 42 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Dmitriy Polyanskiy. First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy joins Freddie Sayers to discuss the nuclear threat against NATO members and possible conclusions to the conflict in Ukraine. Read the Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Curtis Yarvin: Why America should become a monarchy
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 08, 2022 14:00 - 1 hourFormer computer programmer and political theorist Curtis Yarvin is considered by many to be a dangerous thinker. He has been named in the New York Times and Vanity Fair as a founding member of the burgeoning 'New Right' and caused a stir on Tucker Carlson. His theories of power seem to have ma...
Danish professor: mRNA vaccine study sends 'danger signals'
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - May 03, 2022 15:36 - 35 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Professor Christine Stabell Benn. A new Danish study reveals disparities in all-cause mortality between mRNA and adenovirus vaccines. The results raise some difficult questions about the unexpected effects of the most popular COVID vaccines. Freddie Sayers speaks to the stu...
Douglas Murray: The gullible Right has fallen for Putin
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 25, 2022 16:33 - 1 hourFreddie Sayers discusses the backlash against Western values with Douglas Murray When Douglas Murray was writing his new book The War on the West, Putin had not yet launched an actual war on the edge of Europe. Now, two months after the invasion of Ukraine, has the battle of ideas he writes abo...
Michael Tracey: When does anti-war become pro-Putin?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 19, 2022 14:18 - 48 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Michael Tracey. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western media has been overwhelmed with support for Zelensky's resistance and condemnation of Putin's invasion. Intervention from the US and Europe has now extended to supplying arms and sanctioning Russia. Some are dem...
Sergej Sumlenny: "Get ready for the break up of Russia"
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 11, 2022 14:10 - 32 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Sergej Sumlenny. As the war in Ukraine has become more entrenched, there has been much discussion of the small Eastern European states which might be annexed into the Russian Federation. One political scientist and journalist has taken a different view. Sergej Sumlenny is ...
Inside China's Zero Covid Camp
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 07, 2022 15:41 - 17 minutesThe biggest city in China is in complete lockdown, with no end date in sight. Cases are rising and the 26 million residents of Shanghai are not permitted to leave their homes at all — not even to buy groceries or walk the dog. Footage has emerged of eerily deserted streets, but reliable informat...
Yanis Varoufakis: It's mad to think Ukraine can win
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 05, 2022 16:12 - 38 minutesCommentators on the war in Ukraine seem to have come to a consensus: public figures have a moral responsibility not to challenge anything other than the Russian narrative. This rejection of balance in favour of propaganda poses a problem for political thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, who has be...
Yanis Varoufakis; It's mad to think Ukraine can win
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - April 05, 2022 16:12 - 38 minutesCommentators on the war in Ukraine seem to have come to a consensus: public figures have a moral responsibility not to challenge anything other than the Russian narrative. This rejection of balance in favour of propaganda poses a problem for political thinkers like Yanis Varoufakis, who has be...
Sajid Javid: Zero Covid has been a disaster
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 31, 2022 16:16 - 27 minutesHealth Secretary Sajid Javid came into the UnHerd studio to talk to Freddie Sayers and look back at lessons learned from the Covid era. Read the full post here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin's war rescue liberalism?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 24, 2022 10:55 - 42 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Francis Fukuyama. Francis Fukuyama is a political scientist and public intellectual, most famous for his 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man which has helped to define how we understand contemporary history. His new book is called Liberalism and its Discontents. ...
Bill Roggio: Who is really winning the war in Ukraine?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 21, 2022 17:37 - 33 minutesGetting an accurate picture of who is winning the war in Ukraine has become increasingly difficult in the information age. Log onto Twitter and there are images of burnt out Russian tanks being towed away by Ukrainian farmers and hostage-style videos featuring Russians POWs expressing regret ove...
Samo Burja: Russia Sanctions Will Divide Civilisation
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 17, 2022 15:38 - 36 minutesFreddie Sayers meets with Samo Burja. With Western powers increasingly united against Russia, we seem to be witnessing the end of the unipolar world. Financially, culturally and spiritually we have never been so bifurcated. Could this be the end of civilisation as we know it? To find a way thr...
The truth about Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 15, 2022 14:56 - 17 minutesWhen Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine it was under the guise of ‘denazifying’ the country. But are there really any Nazis in Ukraine? Or is this just a story spun by the Kremlin? Aris Roussinos joins Freddie Sayers to unpick this contentious topic and seek some insight into Ukraine’s far-R...
Investigating Aleksandr Dugin and the "soul of Russia"
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 10, 2022 16:25 - 32 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Marlene Laruelle. Aleksandr Dugin, the ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher and erstwhile organiser of the National Bolshevik Party, has been referred to as ‘Putin’s brain’. Professor Marlene Laruelle, the world’s leading expert on Dugin, says his influence is no longer di...
Leonid Ragozin: How I got Russia wrong
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 08, 2022 14:56 - 33 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Leonid Ragozin. Leonid Ragozin was reporting in Siberia when Putin began to send troops to the Ukrainian border at Belarus. Despite the menacing signs, he was quick to voice his skepticism about Russia’s intentions to invade. But when tanks rolled into Ukraine over a week a...
Justin Bronk: Is the Russian war machine broken?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers - March 02, 2022 16:19 - 18 minutesFreddie Sayers meets Justin Bronk. It has been a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and one of many unanswered questions is why Russia has yet to launch the vast majority of its combat aircraft, despite having an advantage over the comparatively small Ukrainian air force. Could Putin be...
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