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We react to news of Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, being investigated for possessing child sexual abuse imagery in the Philippines, and the failure of the London Metropolitan Police to investigate him back in 2019. Plus, family legacies that cast shadows, managing inherited baggage, the contagiousness of class anxiety, Meghan’s homeware brand, the new £1000 fines for telephones on loud speaker on British public transport, how the UK police force have been ideologically captured, and where does the slur 'f*g' come from?

Comedian and actor Russell Brand's trial for three counts of rape and other sexual assaults against a total of six women began in London a fortnight ago. We discuss the allegations, the women's testimonies in court, and the tactics that Brand's defence team are using to defend him. Plus, whether Christianity and history of being simply a 'cad' are cover stories, Brand's time on the political left from 1999 to the 2010s, and what will happen if he's found guilty.

Gloria Steinem, a key figure of the feminist second-wave, died last month. We are joined by Australian academic and feminist philosopher Kate Phelan to discuss Steinem's work and whether she had a moderating, liberalising effect on the women’s movement. Plus, menstrual leave, hobosexuals, feminist revolution, porn as free speech, women becoming more radical as age, and Steinem’s CIA connections.

We discuss whether the defeat of transgenderism in the UK could be reversed? Specifically under our incoming new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is to the left of Keir Starmer. How are sexual politics going to fit in to Burnham’s Britain? Will the new Burnham regime embolden the possibility of euthanasia being passed on its second try? And why has the Labour Party never had a woman leader? Plus, the claim Andy Burnham is in effect the UK’s ‘first female prime minister’, the particularities of the feminised, deep-seated beta male sexism of the left, Starmer's mistreatment of gender critical MP Rosie Duffield, and the uniformity and ruthless conformity amongst women on the left in order to survive politically.

We discuss the recent outcome and wider context of the pivotal Australian legal case Tickle vs. Giggle. Its specifics involve a bloke joining a female-only app, but the case has all encompassing consequences for how single-sex law is interpreted and applied in Australia. With examples from court, such as Sall Grover, Giggle's creator, being fined $10,000 for laughing for 2-seconds and so breaking the tension of faux seriousness in such a ridiculous situation, the case represents so much of the dilemma transgenderism causes for women and institutions. Plus, how the American right came late to care about the trans issue, maternity rights as a break point, why Australia has an advantage over Canada in battling transgenderism, and the backlash to transgenderism as a contributing factor to the rise of populism.

The Labour Party is in termoil and Keir Starmer is hanging on for dear life as PM. We discuss who the next leader will be, the Mandelson scandal taking more scalps, Stella Creasy dancing while Rome burns, the parliamentary Labour party’s ‘chumocracy’ of former third sector wonks, and why Reform will win big on May 7th.

We discuss whether men should be entitled to their own single-sex spaces using the example of Men in Sheds, a club set up specifically for men that has recently been infiltrated by their wives and female partners. We also consider why exceptions to the rule should never guide policy, the reasons why women want to join men's clubs that cater to very male hobbies, and to what degree women have power over men.

We discuss why men who claim to be women by identifying as transgender are almost all exclusively perverts. Using Lacan’s concept of perversion and what perversity of mind entails we link fetishism, sexual offending, and the need for others to collude in ‘disavowing’ the rules of reality. ‘Transwomen’ are guided at all times by the knowledge they are men, so the idea they are a woman is not quite a delusion, but rather a perverse way of relating. This creates an integral need for others to affirm and validate that false claim as a source of collusion in their ‘disavowal’ as if the laws of reality somehow do not apply to them. Why is Lacan’s concept of the perverse useful? It offers a theoretical psychoanalytic perspective why ‘transwomen’ continually raise the stakes, push boundaries, and why an erotic charge accompanies it, as well as their incandescent rage when the other won’t pretend and agree they are women. It also explains why there’s such a higher than average rate of sexual offending for ‘transwomen’ and a confident belief that anyone at all would join in to pretend that men can be women.

Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman, was killed by euthanasia on March 26th in Barcelona. Her case gained worldwide prominence due to Noelia’s status as the first person granted to die of euthanasia in Spain due to mental health issues. We discuss the case, euthanasia’s knock on effects on other services, the UK’s defeat of proposed assisted suicide laws, and how euthanasia laws are an acceptance of institutional failure.  Plus,  Anna Khachiyan’s dehumanisation of Noelia in the final hours of her life, pre-Christian Europe’s relationship with death, the book Do Not Go Gentle, and why Noelia’s life need not have been one tragedy after another.

Transgenderism is in rapid decline across the UK and U.S., demonstrating it always was a social trend and without institutional backing would fold. We discuss how in contrast homosexuality is not a trend, is transhistorical, and not geographically contingent. Plus, Trans YouTubers views falling off a cliff, lesbians continuing to call themselves 'non-binary' to signal desires and expectations rather than adopt a Trans identity, detransitioners providing good warnings by example, and the legacy of the uptick in Trans due to Covid lockdowns.

We discuss the recent war on Iran launched by America and Israel, focusing on why regime change in the Middle East through interventionism has no precedent of success. Whatever happened to Trump's sentiment of America First? And what will the impact on our economies be? Plus, liberal democracy, chaos in the gulf states, and why so many feminists from a place of good intention support the war.

We discuss the Green Party's by-election victory in Manchester last week, how the Greens marry support for Islam with support for woke transgender politics, and why they’re likely to be the opposition government at the next General Election.  Plus, the new political reality of sectarian voting, the meaning of the niqab, the paradox of multicultural vulnerability, and the middle-class slowly disappearing as part of the economic third worldification of the UK.

We discuss the online live streaming phenom that is Clavicular and looksmaxxing as a feminisation of a masculine dynamic. Looksmaxxing's technologisation of the body is now firmly part of the transhumanist and posthumanist universe, as Peter Thiel's affinity with Clavicular (Braden Peters) indicates.  If Bryan Johnson's optimisation of the body is posthumanism in service of health in the face of death as the ultimate reality, looksmaxxing is its far unhealthier, destructive cousin.  To what extent is adopting the gaze of others as a barometer of worth actually helpful to Clav's young male fanbase of chads, chuds, incels, and moggers? And why has this new peculiar language sprung up around the subculture of looksmaxxing? Plus, classmaxxing, why romantic love is necessarily a bit embarrassing, live streaming as the video gamification of real life, and the role of autism and social inhibition in all of this.

Within the last fortnight two transgender males have committed mass shootings and family annihilation. We discuss the harms caused to families by transgenderism, the need to bring back the category of the ‘pervert’, and why transgenderism necessarily indicates an unstable personality. Today, transgenderism within the family has the same culture and dynamic domestic violence once did, where it is considered a ‘private matter’ that authorities and institutions should overlook the harms of. Plus, Trans widows, family members absorbing violence, transgender boundary crossing as more like trespass, fetishism in public as sexual harassment, the issue of consent at chemsex parties, transgenderism attaching to the gay rights movement in a bid for cover, and matter of consent to witnessing sexual displays in public.

The release of roughly half of the Epstein files last week is causing enormous political turmoil both within and beyond the United States. We discuss the fallout and how the files show who the ‘deplorables’ really are and how our world elite who position themselves as humanitarians are anything but. This episode also includes some myth debunking, the distinction between Satanism and Luciferianism, Epstein’s relationship to transgenderism, we contrast Keir Starmer’s mistreatment of Rosie Duffield MP to his lauding and promotion of 'Prince of Darkness' Peter Mandelson, and we give our explanation as to why so many rich and powerful individuals were willing to put such dubious things down in writing via email.