This week I talk about:

• Why I have had a break in podcasts

• Watching the UK become a ‘command society’

• Democratic audit and hysteria

• How Fear Works by Frank Furedi (book)

• Hysteria and public consent

• Peter Hitchens contra mundum

• Aldous Huxley on propaganda and hysteria

• Vigilance in moments of social weakness

• The hatred of dissent

• Fake dissent and the mainstream media

• A wee song to end off on