The lads are depressed. For James it's the end of the hunting season, for Toby it's QPR (11-19-18, 19th in the league table) and his football hopes are dashed in more ways than one. After a mutual therapy session it's on to the news of the week: Donald Trump is facing Stormy seas in NY as a DA thinks he has a case to arrest the former President, YouTube silences a speech by Andrew Bridgen (Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire) in the House and mum and dad have a little tiff over Bill Gates. (No, really.) Then it's on to Culture Corner, as James backpedaled a bit on The Playlist, Toby ditches Ted Lasso and both of them cringe at the fake version of masculinity as it's presented in Yellowstone. Opening sound this week is part of Andrew Bridgen's forbidden speech in the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Toby and James begin the week talking about James’s health (not good), Toby’s failure to make it across London using public transport (which James thinks is all part of the plan to keep us locked in our homes), and the Gary Lineker scandal (which James thinks was cooked up to distract people from the Great Reset and other, equally important things taking place under our noses). In other news we cover the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, the Free Speech Union’s recent victory on non-crime hate incidents and, in Culture Corner, Finding Michael (Disney+), Fleischman is in Trouble, Welcome to Wrexham (Disney+ in the UK, Hulu+ in the US) and QPR’s first win in 13 games. This week's opening sound is Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, talking to SkyNews about L'Affaire Lineker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James start by talking about James’ health (he has a cold), then segue into discussing what James says is the best hunting experience of his life. Toby then tells James about his week (hangover and all), which included appearing on Jacob Rees-Mogg’s debut show on GBNews and attending the third anniversary party of the Free Speech Union. They then get on to the past week’s big story - the Lockdown Files - the more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages belonging to former Health Secretary Matt Hancock that were leaked to the Telegraph by the journalist Isabel Oakeshott. It inevitably leads to a heated argument about whether they prove Toby right that the past three years have just been one almighty cock-up, or corroborate James’ suspicions that the lockdowns and the vaccine rollout are part of some diabolical conspiracy. In Culture Corner, they discuss the season 3 opener of The Mandalorian (Disney+), Drive to Survive, Fleischman is in Trouble (Disney+ in the UK, Hulu in the US) and The Playlist (Netflix) which James highly recommends. Opening sound this week is Andrew Pierce of The Daily Mail and Kevin Maguire of The Daily Mirror discussing the Lockdown Files on Good Morning Britain (ITV). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss last Saturday’s live recording of The Delingpod, in which James interviewed Neil Oliver in front of a paying audience of 900; Toby worries about whether his live recording of The Weekly Sceptic on 1st April in the same venue (the Emmanuel Centre) will be as popular. It has been some time since Mummy and Daddy had a fight, no? This week they argue about who is doing more to preserve our liberties, with James maintaining democratic institutions are now wholly-owned by the billionaire class and all the usual methods for holding the powerful to account are broken, and Toby arguing the system still works, but is in need of rejuvenation. James cites the lack of discussion about vaccine injuries as an example of how captured the mainstream media is, while Toby cites the recent discussion in the New York Times of the Cochrane mask study, as well as the lab leak hypothesis, as evidence the picture is more nuanced. In Culture Corner, they discuss cultural tourism, the ‘updating’ of the novels of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming, Oblomov, Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard, season five of Drive to Survive (Netflix) and season three of Happy Valley (BBC One, US debut in May 2023). Opening sound this week is Sky News Australia reporting on the Wuhan lab leak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're all over the politically correct spectrum this week. On one hand, James had his epic hunting adventure last weekend, while on the other hand, Toby is struggling to adjust to his new role as "Mr. Mom" now that an empowered Caroline has left for a two week holiday in Barbados. Meanwhile, there's a lot on the censorship front as we take on the list of media that the UK Government’s "anti-extremism unit" thinks could turn you into a far right terrorist, the appalling rewrite of Roald Dahl’s children’s books by Puffin, and the weaponisation of ‘disinformation’ by the Global Disinformation Index to try to demonetise right-of-centre news publishing sites. We also note the protest against 15-minute cities in Oxford. In Culture Corner, James took a trip to Bath to see a Genesis cover band, the vertiginous decline of Marvel Studios and the joys of Clarkson’s Farm. Opening sound this week is Peter Hitchens on Michael Graham's TalkTV programme on the Dahl rewrite, via YouTube. To hear more about James' weekend he was also on the first-ever "On Hunting" podcast.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s episode of London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’ rock star status among the readers of TCW Defending Freedom, the shooting down of three "UFOs" over North American airspace and whether that’s a nice way to treat visitors from another galaxy, the spat between Mark Steyn and GBNews, Seymour Hersh’s allegations about US involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, and finally the Super Bowl and how it’s only a matter of time before every American identity group demands its own national anthem. In Culture Corner, why John Cleese shouldn’t make another series of Fawlty Towers, another year on Clarkson's Farm (Amazon Prime), the pros and cons of You People and All Quiet on the Western Front (both Netflix), the delights of spy thriller Kleo, and the stage adaptation of Best of Enemies, which James really enjoyed in spite of the diversity casting. Opening sound this week is Mark Steyn commenting on the end of his relationship with GBNews, courtesy of Mark Steyn's Twitter feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As is our Monday ritual, Toby and James discuss their weekend exploits (James went hunting, Toby watched a musical based on Come Dine With Me) before getting on to the news of the day: Robert Kennedy Jr’s lawsuit against the Trusted Media Initiative, Sam Smith’s feeble attempts to imitate Mick Jagger at the Grammy Awards, the appearance of former Isis bride Shamima Begum on the cover of the Times’ Saturday magazine and why the progressive elite believe in redemption for people like her but not those who’ve been cancelled by woke outrage mobs, Prince Harry’s ungentlemanly conduct towards Sasha Walpole. In Culture Corner we talk about the now infamous episode 3 of The Last of Us, season 4 of Fauda, The Fabelmans and Elmore Leonard’s Pronto, which Toby is currently listening to. Opening sound is of RFK, Jr on FNC's Tucker Carlson Tonight talking about the Trusted Media Initiative. The link to the King Alfred School fund raiser is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week James and Toby discuss how different the last three years would have been if James, and not Chris Whitty, had been the Chief Medical Officer and the fact that during the pandemic it seems Toby was spied upon by the 77th Brigade, a unit of the British Army, as revealed in a new report from Big Brother Watch. In other news we cover the tax affairs of the now ex-Chairman of the Conservative Party Nadhim Zahawi (MP for Stratford-on-Avon) and the iniquity of the forthcoming teachers’ strike. In Culture Corner, James gives a thumbs up to Season 4 of Fauda (Netflix), Kleo (Netflix), Sharpe’s Siege and The Way We Live Now. This week's opening sound is MP Michael Gove commenting on the sacking of Zahawi courtesy of Channel 4 News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An interesting mix this week (and sometimes with just TOO much information) as James and Toby discuss whether 2022 saw higher-than average mortality in Britain and elsewhere and, if it did, whether the mRNA vaccines are responsible; Charles III’s forthcoming coronation (which the King intends to dedicate to refugees and NHS workers); the prostitution boom in Davos; and most disturbingly, what James would do if faced with a choice between having sex with Klaus Schwab or getting vaccinated. Finally, Toby takes up the Free Speech Union’s petition to save Jeremy Clarkson, which currently has over 40,000 signatures. In Culture Corner it's The Last of Us (HBO Max, Sky Atlantic's NOW), Echo 3 (AppleTV+), Peacemaker (HBO Max, Sky Atlantic's NOW), the tennis documentary Break Point (Netflix) and "Flashman," which Toby is currently reading. Opening sound this week is former US Secretary of State John Kerry summarising Davos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One is back from the hunt and the other is preparing to go. Our intrepid duo talk about Toby’s shooting trip last weekend and James’ upcoming hunt meet in which a benefactor is going to provide him with - not just one - but two horses. Now we're cooking with gas. Or are we? They also take on the sudden attack on gas boilers, Chris Skidmore's (MP - Kingswood/South Gloucestershire) ‘review’ of net-Zero and why some formerly sound Conservative MPs are becoming woke (with the exception of Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire). What's up with Dr Aseem Malhotra’s truthbombing of the BBC? Is it whether the regime has decided to finally acknowledge the harms caused by the mRNA vaccines or was such an admission the plan all along? And, of course, the forthcoming elite jamboree at Davos. In Culture Corner, we review Kaleidoscope (Netflix), Echo 3 (Apple TV+), The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix) and A Man Called Otto (Sony Pictures). Oh, and you'll want to stick around until the very end. This week's opening sound is Dr. Malhotra on BBC News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Since we last met Toby made another trip to Iceland, this time to give a talk at the inaugural meeting of a new free speech society. The post trip discussion on Icelandic cuisine, well, that's a different story. The news of the week prompts a question, "Do we need a New Enlightenment to tackle the hijacking of science by woke leftists?" Plus we tackle the Duke of Sussex’s extraordinarily misjudged admission that he killed 25 Taliban fighters, whether the arrest of Andrew Tate is an elaborate psy op, and the riot in the Brazilian capital and what that is likely to be blamed on. In Culture Corner, The English, Season 2 of Slow Horses, Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov, 1859) and Hell’s March by Taylor Anderson. This week's opening sound is Ben McBean, formerly of the Royal Marines, talking with SkyNews on the Duke of Sussex's relationship with the UK Armed Forces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We gave the boys the week off last week and told them to go enjoy themselves. Our bad. As we catch up with Toby and James after the holidays, they share their Christmas disaster stories - James got vertigo playing on a roundabout with his three year-old granddaughter, while Toby stayed in the Airbnb-from-hell in Cardiff. For 2023 they discuss the pros and cons of Veganuary and/or Dry January (one is enough for Toby); complain about the horrors of Sadiq Kahn’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display and the *ahem* vocal stylings of Sam Ryder on BBC1; express their condolences to the good people of Scarborough, whose beachfront fireworks display was cancelled when a Walrus turned up on the beach; the first 'non-binary" vicar in the Church of England and then get in their usual ten cents about how ghastly Harry and Meghan are. Then, in Culture Corner, they talk about The Glass Onion (Netflix), The Swimmers (Netflix), Avatar 2 and the Christmas special of The Detectorists (BBC iPlayer.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're putting a bow on the 2022 run of London Calling as James and Toby compare the respective sizes of their Christmas trees, the parties and dinners they’ve been to in the run-up to the holidays, and their favourite Christmas movies. In the news we cover Jeremy Clarkson’s Game of Thrones fantasy about Meghan Markle, whether climate activists believe in their own rhetoric or are just using global warming as an excuse to take away our liberty, and then we put on turbans, fire up the crystal ball and try to divine what 2023 has in store for us. In Culture Corner, the critical reception for Avatar: The Way of Water, whether James Cameron is ‘woke’ or ‘awake’, the unsatisfying last episode of Tokyo Vice, the gripping Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix) and The English, a slightly odd series on the BBC starring Emily Blunt (available on Amazon Prime in the US) which Toby intends to persevere with between Christmas and New Year. And finally, how they both intend to spend Boxing Day (hunting for James, football for Toby). We'll see you all on January 2, 2023 and thanks for spending time with us every week. Opening sound this week is part of Cory Bernardi's introduction of James on SkyNews Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James takes enough time off from gathering wood to burn in his Rayburn cast iron stove (so he and his family won’t freeze to death when the World Economic Forum cuts off the power this winter) to let Toby read out an extract from ‘An Odd Couple For Our Odd Times’, a glowing article about our little show in The National Review (which, unfortunately is behind their paywall) and they both agree with the author that the debate between #TeamToby and #TeamJames is “the most relevant ongoing conversation on planet Earth.” Toby then tells James about a new report from the Conservative Way Forward group documenting the enormous sums the British Government spends on politically motivated campaigns every year; they briefly discuss Harry and Meghan’s Netflix documentary series, focusing on Harry’s slightly Plebeian accent. In Culture Corner, Toby urges people to stick with Andor, the only good Star Wars TV spin-off and sings the praises of the action scenes in Gangs of London, while James enthuses about his latest discover, Hot Skull, a Turkish series about a world plunged into chaos by a pandemic; and, finally, Toby confesses to having given up on Barry Lyndon and started listening to Hell’s March, the second book in Taylor Anderson’s Artilleryman series. Opening sound this week is Piers Morgan on Sky Australia reviewing Harry & Meghan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics this week include Toby and James include James’ sell-out gig at the Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green, Toby’s four after-dinner speaking gigs in the past seven days (including one for the Totnes Young Conservatives) the unseemly haste with which poor Lady Hussy was thrown under a bus after asking Ngozi Fulani where she was from at a Buckingham Palace reception, and Ice Cube becomes James’ favourite rapper because he turned down an offer of $9 million to star in a film after the producers insisted he get vaccinated. In Culture Corner, season two of Slow Horses (Apple TV+), Tokyo Vice (HBO Max) and Barry Lyndon. Opening sound this week is Ngozi Fulani talking to the BBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A cold has Toby feeling less than stellar this week, so he and James have an age old discussion about men - and old age. Vitamin regimens, detoxification and general bouts of hypochondria lead off the show before we really get down, as Texans would say, to brass tacks. Namely are the protests happening across Communist China just a blip on the radar or is this real trouble for Xi? And do we have a right to still feel superior about it? Then we tackle the distasteful Balenciaga "BDSM Teddy Bear" ads and the reactions that has provoked, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock's performance on I'm a Celebrity... and Jonathan Van-Tam’s forthcoming role in Call The Midwife. In Culture Corner Toby reviews Tokyo Vice (HBO Max), James likes Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse (Netflix) and off the bookshelf Toby is taking in Barry Lyndon and James is enjoying Trollope’s The Way We Live Now.  Opening sound this week is SkyNews correspondent Helen-Ann Smith eyewitness account of protests in Shanghai via YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week James and Toby compare notes about meeting fans of the podcast and discuss all the things that have happened in the past week that suggest James just may be correct in his assessment about who’s really running the world (the Autumn Statement, the signing of a climate reparations agreement at COP27 and Rishi Sunak’s betrayal of Brexit.) We congratulate Elon Musk on reinstating Donald Trump and revel in the meltdown it has caused among Twitter’s blue tick population, particularly Sadiq Khan, which somehow leads us down the Elizabeth Line on the London Metro System. We also debate whether James, not Toby, is ‘controlled opposition.’ No. Really. In Culture Corner, Toby takes on Season Two of The White Lotus (HBO), while James watches Sylvester Stallone's new series Tulsa King (Paramount+), and they touch on Deep State (available in the US on EPIX and in the UK on Disney+), Andor (Disney+), Gangs of London and two shows James has only just caught up with, Ted Lasso and SAS: Rogue Heroes. Opening sound this week is the PM trying to reassure us on his belief in Brexit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lou Pearlman... Bernie Madoff... and now, Sam Bankman-Fried. "SBF" joins a long list of Ponzi scheme artists in modern times and Toby and James open the show with the collapse of FTX and the fall from grace of its 30 year-old founder. Toby’s just back from Hungary, a nation that he says provides a glimpse of what Britain might look like if our side had won the culture war, why the British Government has no right to ask the taxpayer for even more money (given it’s profligacy in the past two-and-a-half years) and, in Culture Corner, we put a bow on SAS: Rogue Heroes, The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself, Sharpe’s Enemy and Dostoevsky’s The Devils (also known as Demons or The Possessed). Or do we? Opening sound this week: Larry David's prophetic FTX advert produced for Super Bowl LVI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s London Calling, Toby and James discuss James’s trip to Venice, which is mercifully free of Covid theatre, whether traveling overseas is being made deliberately more difficult as part of the Great Reset or it’s just a consequence of staff shortages at airports. Glancing at items currently in the news we assess the risk that Rishi Sunak will agree to pay ‘reparations’ to countries supposedly harmed by global warming because Britain was the first country in the world to industrialise and the significance of America'smid-term elections (Toby thinks a ‘red wave’ of Republican victories will be significant, not least because Trump will almost certainly declare in the immediate aftermath, whereas James doesn’t) In Culture Corner, the disappointing first episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, hold-overs from previous podcasts, Sharpe’s Enemy and Rich Man, Poor Man. Opening sound this week: The PM speaks at COP27. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s episode Toby and James discuss the deep state’s determination to destroy Home Secretary Suella Braverman (MP for Fareham) and the finalization of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, including his Tweet about the the conspiracy theory surrounding the Nancy Pelosi ‘home invader.' In other news we talk about the victory of Lula over Bolsonaro in the Brazilian Presidential election (Spoiler alert: Someone may think it was stolen) and Russia’s alleged hack of Liz Truss’ phone. A spate of Royal news comes up with King Charles hosting an environmental mini-summit because he cannot go to Cop27, Prince Harry names his autobiography ‘Spare’, and The Crown’s decision to dramatise Tampon-gate. (It's as tasteless as it sounds.) In Culture Corner we're watching SAS Rogue Heroes (UK: BBC One & iPlayer, US: EPIX starting Nov. 13), Gangs of London (UK: Sky. US: AMC - Graphic trailer warning) and The Bastard Son and the Devil Himself (Netflix). On the bookshelf James grabs for Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor while Toby goes back to 1974 for Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald. Opening sound is via NBC Bay Area/YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices