David Betz on Dover, Danny Tommo and the Coming Civil War | The Sceptic Ep.95

Prof David Betz on whether the Dover protests could be the start of something much bigger; is the West making the Ukraine war more dangerous and what do the numbers really tell us about Britain’s latest heatwaves?

In Episode 95 of the Sceptic, guest host Ellie Hodges talks to Prof David Betz of King’s College London about the protests in Dover and Portsmouth and the growing fury over mass migration. They get into ‘system disruption’, the radical Left’s influence, the Government’s likely response, Reform’s fading momentum, parallels with Germany and the risk that Britain’s economic fragility could fuel serious civil unrest.

Ellie then talks to former Conservative MP and defence tech entrepreneur Brooks Newmark about the war in Ukraine. They discuss NATO expansion, whether the West helped provoke the conflict, the danger of escalation, Russia’s hybrid warfare and whether Britain and Europe are actually ready for a wider war.

And for premium subscribers, meteorologist William M. Briggs takes a gander at Britain’s heatwaves and the alarmist claims surrounding them, from temperature records and ‘excess deaths’ to climate models, dodgy statistics and the assumptions lurking underneath it all.

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Produced by Richard Eldred.

Filmed at the Westminster Podcast Studio.

00:00 Intro

01:42 David Betz on the Dover Protests

04:12 Danny Tommo and Tommy Robinson

07:22 Leaderless Protest

10:51 System Disruption

12:58 Situationist Tactics

16:43 How Should the Government Respond?

21:39 Reform vs AfD

26:50 Economic Shock and Legitimacy

29:28 Russia, Ukraine and Britain

34:11 What’s Changed?

36:25 Brooks Newmark on the Ukraine War

36:49 NATO Expansion

39:00 Russia, Security and Ukraine

41:11 Long-Range Weapons and Escalation

44:24 Russia’s Hybrid War

46:39 European Defence

49:21 NATO and Britain’s Readiness

52:33 Negotiating With Russia

54:30 Risk of a Wider War

57:25 William Briggs on What the Heatwave Data Shows

59:40 Weather and Climate Claims

01:00:53 Climate Certainty

01:01:08 The Limits of Climate Models

01:02:24 Models, Homogenisation and Deaths

01:05:13 The Climate Research Industry

01:07:32 Climate Catastrophe