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David Betz on Dover, Danny Tommo and the Coming Civil War | The Sceptic Ep.95
1 hour Posted Sep 11, 2026 at 5:50 am.
Intro
David Betz on the Dover Protests
Danny Tommo and Tommy Robinson
Leaderless Protest
System Disruption
Situationist Tactics
How Should the Government Respond?
Reform vs AfD
Economic Shock and Legitimacy
Russia, Ukraine and Britain
What’s Changed?
Brooks Newmark on the Ukraine War
NATO Expansion
Russia, Security and Ukraine
Long-Range Weapons and Escalation
Russia’s Hybrid War
European Defence
NATO and Britain’s Readiness
Negotiating With Russia
Risk of a Wider War
William Briggs on What the Heatwave Data Shows
Weather and Climate Claims
Climate Certainty
The Limits of Climate Models
Models, Homogenisation and Deaths
The Climate Research Industry
Climate Catastrophe
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Show notes
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.