
PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #163 The Gobby Granny, the Fabians and the Fight for Sanity
Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com I kicked off this week’s show with a proper ramble through the little things that make life feel human — seaside walks, Halloween versus Bonfire Night, odd memories of bargain-bin fireworks, my son’s impressive new phone camera setup, a surprisingly lovely chat with a listener I met out walking, and even a bit about finally getting stuck into cleaning the house. We also had a laugh about acupuncture, old-fashioned nursing, architecture, and the strange comforts of poetry, before the evening took a much more serious turn. My main guest was Debi Evans, the "Gobby Granny", and we got into a wide-ranging conversation about the Fabian Society, Labour politics, the London School of Economics, the NHS, Palantir, surveillance, AI note-taking in healthcare, mass immigration, propaganda, and the importance of rebuilding real-world community. In the final hour Monica Schaefer joined us from Canada, where we spoke about time-zone absurdities, prison letters from Alfred Schaefer, bats and storks as little signs of hope, poetry, memory, and why beauty, truth and human connection still matter in an increasingly synthetic world. Paul English Live: https://paulenglishlive.com/ Food For Thought Radio (FFT Radio): https://www.fftradio.com/ Fabian Society: https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/ Fabian Window at LSE: https://www.lse.ac.uk/supporting-lse/our-supporters/benefactors London School of Economics and Political Science: https://www.lse.ac.uk/ Truth and Justice for Germans Society: https://truthandjusticeforgermans.com/ Debi Evans Uncaptured (Substack): https://substack.com/@debievansmatron LSB Films (Patreon): https://www.patreon.com/LSBFilms Duke of Wellington, Shoreham-by-Sea: https://www.thewelly.co.uk/ GoPro: https://gopro.com/en/us/ NHS App: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/ NHS Federated Data Platform update: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/federated-data-platform-update/ Palantir UK: https://www.palantir.com/uk/ Spartacus Educational: https://www.spartacus-educational.com/ Roger Scruton Oikos: https://roger-scruton.com/ Liz Truss / Bank Job (Free Speech Press author page): https://freespeechpress.co.uk/liz-truss/ Free Speech Press: https://freespeechpress.co.uk/ The Artilect War by Hugo de Garis: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Artilect_War.html?id=wwgdzgEACAAJ The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven If— by Rudyard Kipling: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if--- Rumble: https://rumble.com/
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