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Sounding Board

A weekly podcast discussing all things free trade, free speech & free markets.

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Thought Experiment: Privatising the Public Sector

Thought Experiment: Privatising the Public Sector

What if everything the government does was privatised? Not the law making, but all of the other functions and agencies a... Read more

23 Oct 2019

1hr 2mins

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The Left Right Game 2

The Left Right Game 2

After Andrew surprised Nic a few episodes ago with The Left Right Game, Nic has been thinking and planning a way of gett... Read more

1 Sep 2019

35mins

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Proroguing Parliament: What does it really mean for Brexit?

Proroguing Parliament: What does it really mean for Brexit?

As predicted, Boris Johnson has decided to end the current parliamentary session (the longest in modern times), and trig... Read more

28 Aug 2019

50mins

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Bit of a chat: driving whisky, ruining Monopoly and the Chuka Umunna Award

Bit of a chat: driving whisky, ruining Monopoly and the Chuka Umunna Award

In this edition, we have a longer chat than usual, but try to get in all the smaller topics that we feel were too short ... Read more

7 Aug 2019

1hr 18mins

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Negative Rights And Moral Relativism

Negative Rights And Moral Relativism

This week, we’re interested in rights. Specifically, the difference between negative & positive rights and what they... Read more

20 Jul 2019

23mins

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Are Teaching Unions Keeping Schools Closed?

Are Teaching Unions Keeping Schools Closed?

In our first Sounding Board Short, we travel to a nearby park and chat about Nic’s article on hectordrummond.com about t... Read more

16 May 2020

17mins

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Ferguson’s Fall, Imperfect Polling and Messy Modelling

Ferguson’s Fall, Imperfect Polling and Messy Modelling

As Neil Ferguson is revealed to have broken the lockdown that his infamous computer model insisted we must institute, we... Read more

8 May 2020

1hr 36mins

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Left Vs Right And Ideological Centrism

Left Vs Right And Ideological Centrism

Even though we’re still in lockdown, we’ve started talking about some of our favourite subjects again.  This time it’s o... Read more

30 Apr 2020

51mins

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CDC Infectious Tests, Rushed UK Law and Stagnant NHS

CDC Infectious Tests, Rushed UK Law and Stagnant NHS

As the CDC accidentally infect those they are testing for SARS-CoV-2, the UK Government amends its initial regulations g... Read more

24 Apr 2020

35mins

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Regulation: Changing attitudes and Unintended Consequences

Regulation: Changing attitudes and Unintended Consequences

In the first of our lockdown editions, we focus on regulation. Are we seeing a change in attitudes towards regulation? A... Read more

13 Apr 2020

57mins

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Covid-19 State Expansion, Everyone’s a Right Winger and Panic Buying Baileys

Covid-19 State Expansion, Everyone’s a Right Winger and Panic Buying Baileys

Our last recording before the lockdown, we explore Commander Sunak’s budget-busting spending pledges in reaction to the ... Read more

5 Apr 2020

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Difficult Questions for Libertarianism

Difficult Questions for Libertarianism

Libertarianism isn’t an endpoint for how society should operate. It’s a beginning. How a libertarian society should oper... Read more

12 Mar 2020

42mins

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Changing One Thing About the State & The Dominance of the Left

Changing One Thing About the State & The Dominance of the Left

What would it be? Not abolish the state entirely, but make one change to it and the way it works. Would it be simple and... Read more

6 Mar 2020

1hr 2mins

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Cherán, Mexico – How One Town Expelled The State

Cherán, Mexico – How One Town Expelled The State

In 2011 the residents of a small municipality in Mexico rose up against politicians, the police and illegal loggers asso... Read more

20 Dec 2019

42mins

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The Leftwards Drift of UK Politics

The Leftwards Drift of UK Politics

In this episode we analyse the manifestos of all major UK parties. And the Greens. Andrew reached for the short straw th... Read more

2 Dec 2019

1hr 9mins

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The Left Right Game

The Left Right Game

This week, I surprise Nic with a new jape: The Left Right Game! I had the idea to state a number of different, collectiv... Read more

13 Jul 2019

28mins

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What’s Up With Communism?

What’s Up With Communism?

This week another book on communism was published. We know what you’re thinking. This time, it’s going to be different… ... Read more

14 Jun 2019

59mins

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The Castor Semenya Controversy: Is it time for competition in competitions?

The Castor Semenya Controversy: Is it time for competition in competitions?

This week, we discuss Castor Semenya and the controversy surrounding intersex & transgender athletes. We talk about ... Read more

18 May 2019

24mins

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Revealed vs Stated (Including Falsified) Preferences

Revealed vs Stated (Including Falsified) Preferences

This week we discuss the difference between stated and revealed preferences. How do economists and politicians use prefe... Read more

29 Mar 2019

54mins

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Withdrawal Agreement Principles and the Politics of Opposition

Withdrawal Agreement Principles and the Politics of Opposition

It was inevitable, wasn’t it? With so much going on about Brexit, we felt we couldn’t avoid it again. We do however, try... Read more

19 Dec 2018

48mins

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