Why is everything poor quality and ugly?

Cuban-born Austrian economist Jorge Besada explains why human decisions matter more than numbers in economics, and why private property is the true foundation of both innovation and free speech, adding that it can break apart the evils of Zionism. He compares it with the Soviet Union as another flawed ideology built on coercion.

In this week's UK Column banter with Mike and Charles, we chat about leaving our cellphones in another room when we go to bed, and using analogue watches for the time and our alarms. We also ask why everything, from architecture to art to music, has become so poor quality, ugly and simplistic.

I recorded this in 2024, but it will always be relevant.Everything you were taught about this supposedly deadly virus from the early 20th century is nonsense. A lot of people did die, but not from a virus. So, if they didn't die from a virus, then what did they die from? What happened, as Michael Bryant explains, was a collection of war-related consequences.I mean, isn’t it a total coincidence that WW1 and the Spanish flu ended around the same time?📺 Here's the video version.

Forensic scientist David Klatzow returns to the podcast to unpack the Oscar Pistorius murder trial of 2013. Pistorius, the paraplegic Olympic sprinter known as "the Blade Runner", seemed to have it all, until he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013.David worked on the case and shares his insider's view of the trial, the evidence, and what he believes really happened that night.

Oliver Janich, once a mainstream journalist, questions official narratives on science, COVID-19, and the Bible. He offers a new reading of Yahweh and the Elohim: Yahweh is not the ultimate God but one of many interdimensional beings. He also re-examines Jesus, the Trinity, and Satan in the Old Testament.Put another way, he argues that the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the God of the New Testament, and that this was done on purpose to subvert Christianity.

British pop icons Right Said Fred have been on my podcast several times now. I could make the obvious dad jokes about them being too sexy for my show, but I'll leave the terrible one-liners to you (for now).Fred and Richard joined me once again to chat about the Covid years, the music industry, cancel culture, and that time they got beaten up in Russia.What a duo they are; the world needs more good men like them.

John Leake joined me on the podcast years ago, and he's back to discuss his new book on mental contagions.Since Covid, John has been tracking what he calls "mind viruses": irrational ideas that spread faster than any bug, and which the state knows exactly how to weaponise. Every crisis, real or manufactured, becomes a pretext for more power.His cure is old-fashioned: think for yourself, question the herd, and remember that conformity in a panic is how the con wins.

My second son was born last week, so I'm going to share a podcast episode from 2024 that touches on the subject of childbirth.Not only is it related, but it's something my wife and I researched during her first pregnancy.Hypnobirthing.The word sounds a bit "woo-woo", which is unfortunate, but it really just means staying in control of your mind during birth. The trouble is that childbirth has been captured by the medical industry over the last century, and fear has become the driving force behind what is an entirely natural process. No mammal goes to hospital in labour, so why do humans?Fear and money. Not the wellbeing of mother and baby.

Dr Anthony Levatino performed over 1,200 abortions until his conscience got the better of him. He stopped, and now speaks out against "pro-choice" propaganda, arguing that abortion is anti-human, immoral, and outright disgusting.I recorded this in 2024, but I'm sharing it again because my second child was born this week, and this topic cuts close to the bone.It isn't an easy conversation, and the video version is even more uncomfortable because he shows visuals.

In this week's UK Column banter with Charles (Mike is away), we discussed the case of Lindsay Clancy, who killed all three of her children yet claims she is not guilty. But we went further than the headlines, looking at the bigger picture and the system that enables this kind of sick behaviour, from the overmedicalisation of prescription drugs, to feminism, to a culture that dehumanises babies and destroys the family.It's a dark conversation.