Episode Details

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com

It’s Thursday, 19 March, and we’re back live with an hour of weather chit‑chat, bike‑ride oddities and a spirited detour into politics, history and first principles. Eric Von Essex drops in with tales from Cheshunt to the Lee Valley (including National Nutter Day contenders), DIY fixes for foggy headlamps, and his very serious Fockem Poll—where Lassie and Skippy are neck‑and‑neck for “prime monster”. From there we pivot to the bigger stuff: what leadership should look like, a withering read‑aloud on Keir Starmer’s temperament, and why so many of us sense something missing in modern public life. In hour two, Steve James (Occult Academy) joins us for a deep, clear tour of natural law, moral relativism, and militarism—drawing on his own service experience to argue why authority without morality devours freedom. We range from Hastings and the Domesday Book to Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket,” Adam Curtis on public relations and desire, and how to reclaim agency without sliding into nihilism. It’s lively, occasionally daft, and firmly pointed at the same North Star: do no harm, take no nonsense, and build something better—locally, practically, together.

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