THE LIBERTARIAN LISTENER (30 September 2020)
Hosted by CHRIS WILKINSON
With JASON SALVESEN and ED POUCHER-SAUNDERS (Co-hosts of The Libertarian Listener)
Music by MADEON
#libertarianism #libertarian #liberty #freedom #podcast
A UK political podcast reviewing the week’s major news stories, current affairs and events whilst providing original insights, public opinions and perspectives from the nation’s freedom lovers and liberty seekers.
Chris Wilkinson and Ed Poucher-Saunders discuss new COVID-19 restrictions, inconsistent government guidelines, the ‘rule of six’ law, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, weddings, funerals, christenings, pubs and restaurants, 10pm curfew, growing anti-lockdown consensus, government tyranny, voluntary self-isolation, NHS track and trace app, coronavirus fines, threat of a second lockdown, public health concerns, Parliament bar exemption scandal, urban and rural health disparity, struggling businesses, the hospitality sector, village pubs as community centres, drinking culture, national heritage, pub closures, increased social contact after pubs close, overriding licensing laws, Licensing Act 2003, enforced pub closures, struggling small businesses, ‘following the science’, ONS death statistics, the leading cause of death in the England and Wales being Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and ischaemic heart disease, statistical manipulation, the illusion of a pandemic, control freak mentality, low coronavirus death rates, invisible illnesses, mental health issues, mainstream media, the medical establishment, the National Health Service, COVID-19 as a comorbidity, the Hippocratic Oath, United Kingdom press freedom, broadcasting regulators, Ofcom revoking broadcasting licences, FCC, Russia Today and RT UK, 1997 snowdrop campaign, British firearms legislation, state-media relations, cultural authoritarianism, lack of constitutional restrictions, the United States constitution, parliamentary sovereignty, a second wave of coronavirus, the possibility of a third wave of COVID-19, Professor Mark Woolhouse, SAGE advisory committee, lockdown scenario modelling, public trust in the state, lockdown deferring coronavirus cases, stay at home guidance, slowing virus transmission rates, constitutional limits on government power, media monopolies, tightening press regulation, the BBC, Sky, compliance culture, social conformity, government interventionism, experts versus politicians, the precautionary principle, protecting societal interests, the coming economic depression, proportional crisis response, Wuhan lockdown, Communist China, state destruction of liberty and freedom, creeping totalitarianism, a written constitution, biased political policing, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Trafalgar Square anti-lockdown protests, Black Lives Matter marches, social distancing rules, the NHS as a religion, supporting pro-liberty causes, East German Stasi informants, good citizens, snitching on neighbours, surveillance society breeding complicity with the state, believing propaganda, Tory collectivism, UK local lockdowns, lockdown fatigue and awakening libertarians.
Jason Salvesen presents views on the scientific debate and media censorship of Hydroxychloroquine, President Donald Trump, therapeutics, anti-malarial drugs, the politicisation of medicine and science, The Lancet Journal, research misconduct, Surgisphere, the World Health Organisation, data analytics, Vitamin D and vaccination research.
Dedicated to libertarianism, this channel aims to inform, enlighten and inspire individuals to pursue a different political course with values of freedom and liberty at its heart. Challenging the orthodox and redundant state-centric views of mainstream political parties, The Libertarian Listener seeks to present interviews, coverage of news and current affairs, economic insight and political analysis from the perspective of open-minded, freedom-seeking, liberty-loving individuals.
Libertarianism is an egalitarian ideology that renounces state apparatus and authority, instead promoting the freedom of the individual as the most effective forger of our own destinies. Within this comes notions of personal responsibility and property ownership, with liberty and freedom ending where another’s begins. It is based on the timeless works of classical liberal political figures such as John Locke, Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill.
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