Latest Toby young Podcast Episodes
A Day in London, A Night at the Opera
London Calling - June 13, 2022 19:37 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, James and Toby discuss the use eco-warriors make of ‘fact-checks’ to try to discredit their opponents and the inevitable delay to the deportation flights to Rwanda. On the Royal front, Prince Charles complains that Boris doesn’t treat him with the respect he deserve...
Vegans, Vaginas and a Greased Piglet
London Calling - June 06, 2022 18:43 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsNote: This week’s episode of London Calling, was recorded several hours before the Conservative Party’s vote of confidence in Boris Johnson’s premiership. Update: Johnson survives, 211-148. Percentage-wise that is much worse than the vote that signaled the beginning of the end for Theresa May in ...
Tea and Chimpanzees
London Calling - May 31, 2022 00:09 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, Toby and James discuss whether Boris will survive a vote of no confidence, wonder if it would make any difference if he was replaced by another Conservative leader, marvel at the Government’s theft of Jeremy Corbyn’s policies, and pie-in-the-face climate debate with...
Life's a Riot
London Calling - May 23, 2022 20:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, James and Toby try their best to avoid arguing and stick to topics they agree on, including the inevitability of widespread social unrest in the near future, and their complete indifference to Davos (although James does highlight Michael Senger’s Substack...
Life’s a Riot
London Calling - May 23, 2022 20:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, James and Toby try their best to avoid arguing and stick to topics they agree on, including the inevitability of widespread social unrest in the near future, and their complete indifference to Davos (although James does highlight Michael Senger’s Sub...
Delingpole Hears a WHO
London Calling - May 16, 2022 20:45 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsAfter lamenting about the rising and eye-watering expense of summer holidays, James and Toby take off the gloves and duke it out over two red-hot topics: First up, Putin’s muted reaction to the prospect of Finland and Sweden joining NATO and whether or not that gives the lie to the claim that Put...
Beergate and Other Drinking Games
London Calling - May 09, 2022 20:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, James and Toby discuss the QPR’s failure to reach the Championship play-offs, last week’s local election results (“Boring,” snorts James), Sinn Fein’s success in Northern Ireland and what that means for the future of the United Kingdom. Then there’s Keir Starmer’s a...
Any Way You Pronounce It
London Calling - May 02, 2022 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week’s we have a Bank Holiday edition of London Calling which begins with James and Toby showing an amazing lack of understanding of the US holiday calendar but more than make up for it with a review of the weekend’s Delingpod Live event at London’s Emmanuel Centre. In the news there’s the c...
A Touch of Musk, A Ton of Macron
London Calling - April 25, 2022 20:40 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week James and Toby discuss the news of Elon Musk’s apparently imminent takeover of Twitter and what that means for fans of free speech. We look back at Sunday’s big story, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, muse over the integrity of the French Presidential election and whether Marine Le P...
Out of Your Easter Bonnet
London Calling - April 19, 2022 01:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this special Easter weekend version of London Calling, James and Toby tackle the Church of England, from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s unwelcome intervention in the immigration debate to their refusal to ordain Calvin Robinson. Then it’s on to that other religion, football, with QPR’s games o...
The Index of Undesirable Persons
London Calling - April 11, 2022 19:52 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsA plethora of topics on this week’s episode of London Calling: environmental protests, Boris’s double U-turn on banning conversion therapy, the non-dom (that’s “non-domiciled,” for our American listeners) status of the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the horrors of the latest CCP lockdow...
Sing Along if You Know the Words
London Calling - April 05, 2022 00:07 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, the topics under discussion are James’s recent trip to Bulgaria, Elon Musk’s purchase of close to 10% of Twitter, the ‘Respect my sex if you want my X’ campaign, and the Fixed Penalty Notice slapped on Boris’s “head of ethics” for attending a party in Downing Street...
A Real Slap in the Face
London Calling - March 28, 2022 21:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, James and Toby discuss the Oscars, pointing out that Army of the Dead winning ‘fan favourite’ was the real low point, not Will Smith slapping Chris Rock and the worry about President Biden inadvertently triggering a nuclear war by going off script and saying Putin c...
Necessary Outrage
London Calling - March 22, 2022 00:21 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, James and Toby discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s unwillingness to thank the British government for securing her release at a cost of £400 million to the British taxpayer and how Boris’s comparison of the crisis in Ukraine to Brexit upset more than a few people. In...
Online Safety Edition
London Calling - March 16, 2022 21:03 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week, James and Toby talk about the Delingpoles recent holiday in Costa Rica (he loved the wildlife, but not the masks) and then it’s on to the events of the week: The £400m release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori from Iran, Elon Musk’s proposal to wrestle Vladimir Putin fo...
Toucan Play This Game
London Calling - March 07, 2022 19:39 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, Toby has to guess where James is on holiday – and he does – and James praises the British Airways staff for not once telling him to put on a mask during the 12-hour flight. For the most part they cannot agree on anything this week, whether it’s about the war in Ukra...
Hot for War
London Calling - February 28, 2022 22:48 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, James and Toby engage in a bit of throat-clearing about James’s meeting with Jason Miller, CEO of Gettr, then get to the main event – Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – which they disagree about. James is sceptical about the fact that so much of the MSM is “ho...
The Man in the Street
London Calling - February 21, 2022 19:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis week Toby Young talks to the man in the street. Our man James Delingpole is literally on the streets of London – complete with the occasional car horn, siren and gusts of wind – but the show must go on. Toby wraps up his trip with tales of Mexico and then, staying in North America, they take...
Down Mexico Way
London Calling - February 16, 2022 20:54 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThe US Navy’s recruiting slogan used to be, “It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure!” Sometimes that applies to this podcast, too. This week Toby comes to us from Mexico City and James from rural England where broadband is non-existent and hard drives go to die. After taping on Monday, James’ com...
Ottawa or Bust
London Calling - February 07, 2022 21:26 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsJump up in the cab, good buddies, look’s like we got ourselves a convoy… James and Toby discuss the Freedom Convoy, which has restored their faith in Canadians and then touch on the Jimmy Carr joke imbroglio. Carr, who has made a living telling tasteless jokes (and avoiding taxes, but that’s anot...
The London Calling Experience
London Calling - January 31, 2022 21:53 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThe last time we heard from our intrepid duo, Toby and James were making plans to go shooting together. It seems they fought off all temptation to take aim at one another because they’re back – hail, hearty and full of game. There is, of course, the continuing sagas of our times: Partygate, who’s...
In For a Penny, In For a Pound
London Calling - January 24, 2022 22:33 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling is very sobering – literally. Before James and Toby talk about who’s to blame for the crisis in Ukraine, Toby’s Dry January turned very wet over the weekend. Then they take on Putin, Biden, NATO and Ukraine and why they can’t bring themselves to spell Kiev...
Is it Over?
London Calling - January 17, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s London Calling, James and Toby argue about whether the global pandemic is over (Toby thinks it is, while James thinks it’s a false dawn) and discuss the Johnny-come-latelies who claim to have been lockdown sceptics all along. They compare them to repentant Communists after the fall...
Ball In Your Court
London Calling - January 10, 2022 21:17 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsGuess who has Covid – again? One half of our intrepid duo, that’s who. After that personal update its off to the Madness Down Under and Men’s Tennis #1 Novak Djockovic’s battle with the immigration authorities over his vaccine status and his spot in the Australian Open. On the UK domestic front t...
The New Year's Honours
London Calling - January 03, 2022 19:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby collects his 50 quid and then he and James debate whether 2022 will be the year we return to normal or “The Great Reset” will continue apace. What lies ahead in politics? What’s the line of succession in Scotland, what does the conviction of Ghislain...
The New Year’s Honours
London Calling - January 03, 2022 19:20 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIn this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby collects his 50 quid and then he and James debate whether 2022 will be the year we return to normal or “The Great Reset” will continue apace. What lies ahead in politics? What’s the line of succession in Scotland, what does the conviction of Ghi...
Happy Twixmas
London Calling - December 27, 2021 19:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsIt’s our last show of 2021, in the 52nd week of another Covid year. And it’s a real Twixmas special! Toby and James discuss Boris’s postponement of D-Day, being ridiculed by their families over Christmas, their best Christmas gifts of 2021 and Toby’s public shaming on Twitter last week. And for a...
Omicron: No Way Home
London Calling - December 20, 2021 22:06 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsTo begin the week James sketches out his worst case scenario: Delingpole v. the NHS. In the review of the week we start with the good news: the landmark free speech victory won by former constable Harry Miller (aided by the Free Speech Union) in the Court of Appeals. Then on to Omicron; Monday af...
Rush
London Calling - December 13, 2021 21:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsAs Boris talks the status of “Plan B,” James and Toby talk the status of “The Bet.” The other big question is centered around the PM’s ability to remain in Number 10. Two years ago the Tories were celebrating securing an 80-seat majority and now the House is in rebellion and a by-election is sche...
Omicron Party!
London Calling - December 06, 2021 20:20 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 261 ratingsThis afternoon in the House, Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced that community transmission of the new Omicron variant has taken hold in England. So far, this version seems to be relatively mild, which leads us to wonder why, instead of trying to suppress infection from Omicron, why aren’t we...
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