Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes

Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport last week released the Government's Online Safety Bill, all 200-odd pages of it. Why is a bill designed to protect children and the vulnerable from online harms potentially utterly ruinous for freedom of expression online? Darren Grimes is joined by Victoria Hewson, Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, who has pored through all 225 pages of this bill to tell us why she's seriously concerned by its contents and the predicted consequences of its contents.

Reform UK leader Richard Tice speaks to Darren Grimes about his new campaign for a referendum on the UK Government's policy of net zero by 2050, 'Vote Power, Not Poverty', a cross-party, grassroots campaign made up of activists from different parties. 

Popular YouTube content creator Arielle Scarcella speaks to Darren Grimes from Florida about the recent row over the so-called 'Don't Say Gay' Bill making its way into law in the state. 

American conservative commentator Sarah Elliott gives her take on the weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida, during which former President Trump and Florida's governor Ron DeSantis gave keynote speeches. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Darren Grimes and Harry Miller on a landmark judgement from the Court of Appeal that finds the recording of non-crime hate incidents as unlawful interference with freedom of expression. This is the news and why it matters.

Darren Grimes chats to talkRADIO host Mike Graham about media bias, Covid craziness and Boris Johnson's Number 10's party controversy.

Political commentator and journalist Suzanne Evans chats to Darren Grimes about government refusal to reject an Angela Merkel-style mandatory vaccine law, how Suzanne struggled during lockdown, the consequences of our Covid-focus and asks the question: do we need constitutional reform to secure better politicians?

Post-COP 26, the climate conference in Glasgow, Alex Esptein, author of 'Fossil Future', chats to Darren Grimes about what the conference actually achieved, the green cult, what anti-human green activists truly desire, why we need fossil fuels, an increase in interest from the UK in this debate and tackles a few climate change myths.

Since the murder of Sir David Amess, the MP, Islamic fundamentalism has been the elephant in the room. Laudable speeches have been made on the issue of combatting online abuse of MPs since then, but the issue of radicalisation and extremism has barely been discussed. Why is this? How do we have that conversation? What should be done about the threat of radical Islam? Joining Darren Grimes to discuss is the Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society, Dr Alan Mendoza. 

Elliott Abrams served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump. Elliott discusses the Taliban Agreement with Darren Grimes, why he didn't back it and why President Biden cannot blame President Trump or the Afghan military, his view on the West's responsibilities when it comes to Afghan refugees, the security implications of large-scale movements and what will happen next in American foreign policy and in Afghanistan.

Darren Grimes discusses with Colonel Richard Kemp the speed at which the Taliban have taken Afghanistan, an unrepentant US President arguing that the US was never in Afghanistan for nation-building, a UK parliament that's due to discuss this very issue with Downing Street recalling it and all as we witness shocking scenes in which Afghan people cling on, grasp onto the side of planes, deciding that dicing with death is better than staying in Afghanistan under the Taliban. The pair take you through all of the veteran's predictions for what will happen next.

Dr Kristian Niemietz explains his wide-ranging survey on next-generation socialism: is Britain guaranteed to adopt Marx as its creed? Download the report: https://iea.org.uk/publications/left-turn-aheadsurveying-attitudes-of-young-people-towards-capitalism-and-socialism/ Follow Kristian on Twitter: http://twitter.com/K_Niemietz ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes Follow Darren on Instagram: http://Instagram.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Locals: http://darrengrimes.locals.com

Spectator columnist and lifelong Liberal Democrat Nick Tyrone chats to Darren Grimes about the shock overturning of the Conservative Party's majority in the leafy seat of Chesham and Amersham, what does it mean, if anything for the future of British politics? 

With a daily slew of whackery & wokery making the news, Darren Grimes argues that it's easy to feel despondent about the state of the UK. That's why he was delighted to read this common-sense manifesto by Tory backbenchers! The exceptional Tom Hunt MP & Gareth Bacon MP discuss it with Darren.Read the manifesto: https://www.thecommonsensegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Common-Sense.pdfFollow Tom Hunt MP: https://twitter.com/tomhunt1988Follow Gareth Bacon MP: https://twitter.com/GarethBaconMPTo make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned

Darren Grimes's Daily Digest on Richard Dawkins, Demi Lovato and China's new app for reporting those with 'mistaken' views.

Equalities Minister Liz Truss MP has said that she is pressing ahead with the Government’s commitment to ban conversion therapy in order to "protect LGBT people from these abhorrent practices."There’s a real concern that this would prohibit evidence-based therapy for children experiencing gender dysphoria, cases of which have exploded over the last decade.A petition has been created by healthcare professionals calling on the government not to criminalise therapy for vulnerable children.Here to explain why he supports the petition is James Esses, a psychotherapist in training who is working towards a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy.James sees regular clients for long-term psychotherapy and, crucially for his conversation with Darren Grimes today, has selflessly volunteered as a counsellor for the past five years, where he has provided weekly counselling to children and young people.

2020 is considered to be pretty insane to many of us across the political spectrum, violent protests and riots with looting, burning and worse erupted after the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and American cities were transformed, from here in the UK, those of us scrolling through our social media feeds would’ve been forgiven for thinking some of the scenes we witness were in the third world, not the world’s most influential and free nation-state. One radical group dominated that battlefield: Antifa. Self-described anti-fascists that deploy aggressive and violent tactics that have destroyed businesses and livelihoods under their banner. Will they stop now that Joe Biden is in the White House and their favourite bogeyman: Donald J. Trump, has gone?  My guest today understands Antifa better than most. During the summer of 2019, Andy Ngo was brutally beaten by the group members whilst on journalistic assignment at a rally in Portland in the US. His new book ‘Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan To Destroy Democracy’, Antifa is trying to stop being sold in bookshops, has been propelled to the top spot for weeks before its February 2nd release date. A rarity, as the Washington Examiner says, for books not penned by long-time authors and presidents.

Dr Philip Kiszely is a cultural historian. He is the author of Hollywood through Private Eyes: The Screen Adaptation of the ‘Hard-Boiled’ Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era (2006) and founding co-editor of international peer-reviewed journal Punk & Post-Punk. He has written for a variety of publications, including the Journal of British Cinema and Television and the Journal of Popular Television. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes Follow Darren on Instagram: http://Instagram.com/darrengrimes_

Darren Grimes' guest today has a new book out next month, ‘Free Speech and Why It Matters’, which will be published on February 25th. The book comes at a time when the democratically elected President of the US can be kicked off of social media platforms, when banks that used to provide loans to his businesses shut off access to their capital and the new social media Twitter alternative, Parler, loses access to its hosting platform via Amazon Web Services. All of these things suggest there's a real problem when it comes to the new, de facto public square. In realising that we have a problem my guest argues that a new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. So where should they be drawn and how do we go about doing it? 

That guest is of course Andrew Doyle, the writer, comedian and good friend of Twitter legend Titania McGrath. 00:00 - Welcome from Darren Grimes 02:15 - Why we need a book on the importance of free speech 06:35 - Andrew Doyle's religious upbringing 09:45 - How religious are today's social justice movements? 14:51 - Why Andrew reads his Twitter replies 21:40 - The 'gaslighting' around Parler and 'far-right' accusations 33:08 - How do free speech advocates tackle 'disinformation' 37:55 - Does Andrew Doyle still identify as 'Left wing'? 40:44 - Being obsessed with identity politics isn't 'Left wing' 53:27 - Will Titania McGrath place us in the gulags soon? 57:57 - Why we all need to fix the bravery deficit 01:05:34 - Closing remarks Buy Andrew's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Free-Speech-Why-Matters/dp/034913538X Follow Andrew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes Follow Darren on Instagram: http://Instagram.com/darrengrimes_

Betraying the Nobel delves into the surprising and often corrupt history of the prize and examines what the committee hopes to obtain by its choices. The author of the book, Unni Turrettini and Darren Grimes discuss the book, how to reform the prize to how its founder intended it to operate and ask: should President Donald J. Trump win the prize by meeting the conditions of it? Buy the book: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Betraying-the-Nobel/Unni-Turrettini/9781643135649 Female followers may be interested in a free course offered by Unni: https://UnniTurrettini.simplero.com/page/186320-list-signup-with-video Follow Unni on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnniTurrettinni ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

James Bartholomew is a journalist, author and Director of the Museum of Communist Terror: which aims to keep alive knowledge of the deaths and terror under 20th century Communist regimes. James discusses the project, why we've forgotten the horrors of the 20th century under fascism but not communism, as well as the bias in history education evident today. To find out more about the Museum, click here: https://www.museumofcommunistterror.com/ Follow James on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/JGBartholomew ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Kate Hoey, Baroness Hoey, on the repercussions of the Irish Protocol for Northern Ireland and the Conservative and Unionist Party's betrayal in signing up to it. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Professor Robert Tombs of Cambridge University, author of 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe', takes Darren Grimes through his views on why the British chose Brexit, what historians will say about the vote and about the EU in years to come, what history tells us about Scottish independence and why the British underestimate their power and influence. 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe': https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Sovereign-Isle-Britain-Europe/dp/0241480388/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1610642013&refinements=p_27%3ARobert+Tombs&s=books&sr=1-1 ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Julian Jessop is a professional economist with over thirty years of experience gained in the public sector, the City and consultancy, including stints at HM Treasury, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and Capital Economics. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulianHJessop Check out Julian's blog: http://julianhjessop.com ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

What will the legacy of President Donald J. Trump be? Has Trump changed the Republican Party? Is there anything in the argument that Trump wasn’t fighting on a level playing field in the 2020 election? What should we make of big tech’s censorship of the democratically elected leader of the free world and, finally, what should we make of the hypocrisy of those who kept silent, or even endorsed violent protest last year, suddenly arguing that America now finds itself in the throes of fascism? Darren Grimes explores those questions with Sarah Elliott, the Chair of Republicans Overseas UK. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Sarah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahBSmithVA ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

talkRADIO, the fastest growing radio station in the United Kingdom, which hosts popular commentators like Julia Hartley-Brewer, Mike Graham and Dan Wootton, have had their YouTube channel removed. Reports suggests it's because they offered a platform to journalists and experts who questioned the efficacy of the UK’s lockdown strategy.  Victoria Hewson, Head of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of Economic Affairs, explains how, far from government intervention being the solution, it is government that is much to blame for the suppression of dissenting voices and opinions via no-platforming of alternative outlets on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Victoria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissVHewson ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Mark Almond a British author, columnist and formerly a lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford on censorship, Cold War with China and Brexit. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mpalmond ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby ruled that “free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another,”, adding, according to The Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey: “Freedom only to be speak inoffensively is not worth having.” Bryn Harris, Chief Legal Counsel to the Free Speech Union, explains to Darren Grimes what the implications are for free speech in the UK after this landmark ruling. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Bryn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrynHarris6 ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Peter Hitchens on the myth of the silent majority, how a motorcycle accident fundamentally changed his outlook on life, Scotland's drugs crisis, learning to disagree better through his atheist brother Christopher, pious political movements, why not even Liz Truss can save the Conservative Party by banning Unconscious Bias Training and, finally, the Hitchens Predictions for 2021. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned Conversations with Darren Grimes is also available as a podcast on all good podcast platforms: https://audioboom.com/channels/5028757 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes (https://audioboom.com/posts/7756383-peter-hitchens-the-silent-majority-never-existed/edit)

The Spectator’s Rory Sutherland on the ridiculousness of Blair’s push for university degrees now used as “luxury goods signalling”, what Zoom means for society, doing your bit by drinking outdoors, why he switched from Remain to Brexit, why ITV is more in touch with the British people, the BBC’s funding model and why the one-time Brexiteer favourite, Sky News, should fear Andrew Neil’s news positive news channel GB News. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Rory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RorySutherland ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Dr Zareer Masani has an Oxford history doctorate and is the author of four historical books, including a widely acclaimed biography of the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He spent two decades as a current affairs producer for the BBC and remains a freelance broadcaster on BBC Radio. Darren Grimes asks Dr Masani to give his opinion on Sadiq Khan's new statue-toppling commission, his former employer the BBC, how to teach British history and what the British Empire gave the world. ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Zareer on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZareerMasani ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

The co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, goes head-to-head with environmentalism sceptic, Ben Pile. In the first Reasoned Debate, Darren Grimes has the two opposing sides discuss what place there is for democracy in environmentalism, the next generation and their concerns around the 'climate crisis', does the idea of the collapse of civilisation and/or the extinction of humanity *really* emerge from 'science', and, finally, is as a green agenda that has been captured in its totality by our cultural, political, educational and corporate elites really a rebellion? ****** To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Roger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21 Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/clim8resistance ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Yoram Hazony, the author of The Virtue Of Nationalism and host of the NatConTalk podcast on why Brexit is crucial, not just for the UK, but for many other democratic nations. Why America First doesn't die with the Trump presidency. Why he's skeptical of multilateral organisations and utopian New World Order liberal imperialism that emerged post the fall of the Berlin wall. And why conservatives shouldn't despair in a world of cancel culture chaos. Episode Topics: 02:24: How The UK & Israel Are Similar 04:48: Why Brexit Matters 07:33: Liberal Imperialism Through Multilateral Organisations 11:42: Why Competitive Diverse Nations Are A Good Thing 19:54: Why Nationalism Is Virtuous 26:14: Why Trump Losing Isn't The End Of MAGA 30:31: In Defence Of The Hebrew Bible  38:43: How Imperialist Worldview Distorts View Of Israel/Palestine Conflict 47:01: Why Conservatives Ought To Be Optimistic In 2020 To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Yoram on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YHazony  ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Matthew Lesh of the Adam Smith Institute on why the Government should introduce a United Kingdom Free Speech Act modelled on the First Amendment of the USA. Existing laws, as applied, Matthew argues, have created categories of “speech crimes” for offensive but otherwise benign political speech. There is mounting evidence that existing law is capable of being applied, and is actually applied, in an overbroad fashion which was not contemplated by its drafters.  e.g. the treatment of Darren Grimes in June of this year. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Matthew on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewLesh ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Reasoned's Darren Grimes brings you the news, views and opinion of the week. This week's show features a look at the fall from grace of our cultural elites in believing everything award-winning 'journalist' Carole Cadwalladr has said, after being exposed in court by Brexit campaigner Arron Banks! Darren will also be discussing a UK Free Speech Act with the Adam Smith Institute's Matthew Lesh, OfCom's BBC findings and Question Time's plummeting ratings, as well as the liberal hypocrisy over foreign aid spending.

Thirty years on from her resignation, Margaret Thatcher is back in the press thanks to Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of her in the Netflix smash hit, The Crown. But just how accurate is it? What were the similarities between Her Majesty The Queen and Margaret Thatcher? What were the disagreements? Is The Crown guilty of blatant historical inaccuracies and how does Darren Grimes's guest, with his unique insight as a former adviser, rate the series and portrayal of Lady T? John O'Sullivan, CBE is the Author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister, the National Review’s Editor at Large and, crucially for our conversation today, a former Adviser to Lady Margaret Thatcher. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow John on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnOSullivanNR ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

Thirty years on from Margaret Thatcher's resignation from Number 10 Downing Street, Gillian Anderson's portrayal of the Iron Lady in the Netflix smash hit, The Crown, has placed her back into the global conversation.  Economist and Director of the Adam Smith Institute, Dr Eamonn Butler, explains how, whilst Margaret Thatcher's medicine might well have been tough for the patient, Margaret Thatcher did indeed save the United Kingdom from almost terminal decline under socialism. To make sure you never miss a single Reasoned video, click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX469QlvW5gdPCMek-d-kuQ?sub_confirmation=1 Reasoned is fan-funded through monthly and one-time donations: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fund-and-grow-reasoned ****** Follow Eamonn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EamonnButler ****** Follow Reasoned on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ReasonedUK Follow Reasoned on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ReasonedUK Follow Darren on Twitter: https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_ Follow Darren on Facebook: https://twitter.com/thedarrengrimes

The Director of the Adam Smith Institute and renowned economist, Dr Eamonn Butler, on how the Chancellor can set Britain free to go for growth!

Boris Johnson has decided that his government shall worship at the altar of green, putting in place a petrol car ban by 2030 and a ten point green industrial strategy. Is this a mistake? Best-selling author Matt Ridley thinks so. Whilst, as Matt admits, both working class voters and the more affluent have concerns for the environment, he reckons that is likely to change if Boris Johnson’s green agenda starts to hit his new voters in the pocket.  Will those without a middle class safety net, who could face finding it difficult to purchase cheap meat, holidays, vans and energy in the future, be quite miffed about losing these gifts of modern progress?

Award-winning author and political commentator Helen Dale takes Darren Grimes through her views on cancel culture, big tech, solving the migrant crisis, Dominic Cummings and the ongoing political realignment. 

Michael Shellenberger and Christopher Barnard on why it's immoral and irresponsible for vested interests to terrifying our children over the end of the earth, why nuclear energy will solve most of our climate-based issues and how to sell capitalism as our saviour to the next generation.  Michael Shellenberger is a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment”; the winner of the 2008 Green Book Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Centre for Science Writings and an invited expert reviewer of the next Assessment Report for the Invergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He’s also the author of the new book I have here: Apocalypse never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. Christopher Barnard is the Policy Director of the American Conservation Coalition and the founder of the British Conservation Alliance which is dedicated to empowering the next generation to engage with the principles of pro-market environmentalism and conservation.

The Free Speech Union launched in February this year and boy, oh boy, I think it’s safe to say that even back then it’s hard to imagine just how necessary the Union would become in the fightback against a daily deluge of censorship, police intervention and general madness. Darren Grimes argues that with each passing day it becomes clear that it’s not just figures, like himself, on the conservative right, that are the victims of witch hunts and in need of a union to defend them, but increasingly figures on the Left too. What can be done? What can we do about biased big tech? About non-crime 'hate'? Darren and Toby discuss the issues.

In June 2020, barrister Sarah Phillimore noticed that an anonymous Twitter account was boasting that she now had a 'record for life' of  her 'hate' as her tweets on Twitter were now recorded by the police as 'hate incidents' under what was then the 'Hate Crimes Operational Guidance'. According to this guidance, the police must record what anyone tells them about being a victim of 'hate' - you can even make a report on behalf of someone else that you think is victim! The police aren't allowed to question the motives or the rationality of the person reporting. 'Hate' is given a very wide definition, to include 'dislike' and 'unfriendliness'. This is the stuff of a Stasi-like police state, with informants and a society that turns against each other, Sarah is asking you for your support to challenge the guidance on police reporting of 'non-crime hate incidents', check out her case on CrowdJustice.

Tom Hunt MP was told by Suffolk Constabulary it had “received five complaints” over comments he made about criminals – and that officers were under an obligation to record them. According to the Telegraph, the police in England and Wales have investigated and recorded 120,000 ‘non-crime hate incidents’ in the past five years. That’s more than 65 people a day being interviewed for such heinous crimes like liking a tweet that offends the wokerati. Once that’s on your record, it shows up on an enhanced DBS check, which means you might not be able to get a job as a teacher or a carer. The MP is now raising awareness, as is Darren Grimes, to try and seek reform of the reporting of these 'non-crimes' on the records of Brits up and down the country Tom argues that for this to continue will have a "chilling effect" upon debate and speech. He also argues that, far from fearing Nigel Farage and Laurence Fox, the Conservative Party should collaborate with the pair on culture war issues.

Julia Hartley-Brewer is a journalist, broadcaster, after-dinner speaker and awards host, whose fantastically succesful talkRADIO Breakfast Show has proven how influential the airwaves and speech radio can be in shifting the dial and provoking debate – Julia's views on lockdown are no exception – listen to the interview to find out what made Julia change her mind as someone who originally backed the Government. The pair also discuss Julia's vote for Sadiq Khan in 2016, why feminists need to reenter the battlefield against radical activists who seek to render the term woman meaningless, what the french commitment to enlightenment values says about them during a slew of barbaric terrorist attacks and why the UK should simply say no to those who wish to paint our nation as a racist backwater.

Dennis Prager is a radio show host, a New York Times best-selling author, a columnist, an orchestra conductor and, crucially for Darren Grimes' introduction to the man, Dennis is the founder of PragerU. PragerU is the fantastically successful YouTube channel that has amassed billions of views and has had such an impact that not only did Darren launch Reasoned UK inspired by PragerU, but big tech seems absolutely desperate to shadow ban, restrict and outright censor its conservative content. The pair discuss everything from the lack of a moral compass in the Left, how to solve the problem of big tech censoring conservative content, the God-shaped hole that is evidenced across the secular West, how we can stop the bravery deficit by remembering the courage of our ancestors and why there's no such thing as being 'totally safe'.

Chairman of the Brexit Party, which has made an application to the Electoral Commission to change its name to Reform UK, Richard Tice, speaks to Reasoned's Darren Grimes about the move. Tice argues that Reform UK believe that Brexit wasn't the only reform our country needs, they've a long list, the first priority is to oppose the Government on lockdown, which the party argues is having a profound impact on businesses, livelihoods, the mental health of the nation and much else. Tice says Reform UK will argue for a pro-Britain recovery.

Laurence Fox chats with Reasoned's Darren Grimes about The Reclaim Party, his on-air scrap with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, big tech censorship, saying no to activist education in our schools and workplaces, charity and forgiveness and how the Reclaim Party will aim to be at the forefront of the battle in standing up for reclaiming the UK's cultural inheritance against those who simply do not wish our nation well.

GOP expert Sarah Elliott, of Republicans Overseas UK, offers her take to Darren Grimes on why we ought to look beyond the polls at the Shy Trump voter after months of rioting wreaking havoc throughout the United States; what the UK-US relationship would look like under a Biden Presidency; big tech’s assault on anti-Biden press reporting and why she’s so passionate about the case for Donald J Trump.

Darren Grimes is joined by the former leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies MS, the Member for South Wales Central. Darren discusses with Andrew why he's opposed to what are the toughest coronavirus restrictions in Europe. The Labour-led Welsh government reckon this is a temporary 17-day “fire break” lockdown, Andrew isn't convinced.

Reasoned's Darren Grimes is joined by Mark Reckless, a former MP and MS for South Wales East and the Abolish The Assembly Party, as well as a lawyer and economist. Mark hit the news over the weekend as it was announced he’s left the Brexit Party, concluding that that Party has reached its goal of leaving the EU, he’s now seeking to give a voice to those opposed to devolution in Wales. Why is this? Why would Wales vote to abolish its parliament and roll back the ever-encroaching tide of devolution? Darren explores.