Paul English Live

PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #146 · From Monster Mash to Mass Migration

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com [http://radiosoapbox.com] I opened this week’s live show with the usual mix of chaos and comedy, including a wrong jingle, a heatwave moan, and a surprisingly gripping update on the mystery of my radio-shed internet woes. After a visit from Virgin Media, a new router, a replaced splitter and a dash to Currys, the gremlins appear to have been banished at last. From there we veered into social platforms, censorship, Telegram, Gab, BitChute, Treechat, and the creeping pressure of age-verification and control online, with Eric adding tales of DIY, electric bikes, SIM-powered internet and his usual perfectly improper mechanical wisdom. Later, Kizzi joined me for a gloriously free-ranging conversation that moved from music, bikes, maps, old family life and nostalgia into much heavier territory: migration, identity, tolerance, government overreach, scripture, race, history and who exactly gets to define culture, nationhood and belonging. We also talked about her Shine & Rise gathering in Bosham, Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein artwork, Monster Mash, independent music from John Fairhurst, and the broader question of how ordinary people push back locally when institutions seem rotten from top to bottom. In short: a very English evening of laughter, provocation, argument, memory, music and live-wire radio. * Paul English Live: https://paulenglishlive.com/ [https://paulenglishlive.com/] * Food For Thought Radio: https://fftradio.com/ [https://fftradio.com/] * Gab: https://gab.ai/ [https://gab.ai/] * BitChute: https://support.bitchute.com/what-is-bitchute [https://support.bitchute.com/what-is-bitchute] * Treechat: https://treechat.ai/ [https://treechat.ai/] * Shine & Rise Mini Festival: https://www.greendoor.uk.com/service-page/shine-rise-mini-festival [https://www.greendoor.uk.com/service-page/shine-rise-mini-festival] * Green Door Centre, Bosham: https://www.greendoor.uk.com/ [https://www.greendoor.uk.com/] * Bernie Wrightson: https://www.berniewrightson.com/ [https://www.berniewrightson.com/] * Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein gallery: https://www.berniewrightson.com/galleries/frankenstein/ [https://www.berniewrightson.com/galleries/frankenstein/] * John Fairhurst: https://johnfairhurst.com/ [https://johnfairhurst.com/] * Mog Fry: https://www.mogfry.co.uk/ [https://www.mogfry.co.uk/] * Spotify: https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/ [https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/] * Monster Mash on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2DSidTcc9WkEqpxntTQ6jm [https://open.spotify.com/track/2DSidTcc9WkEqpxntTQ6jm]

PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #145 · Summertime fun

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com [http://radiosoapbox.com] In between the heatwave moaning, collapsing streams and general studio mayhem, Eric and I managed to cover a surprising amount of ground: British hot-weather absurdities, avocado-and-cocoa remedies, Marmite and coffee percolators, and the theatrical nonsense of modern political farewells. From there we drifted into a proper discussion about rights, entitlement, duty, free speech and the way language gets policed until people start censoring themselves before anyone else has to. In the third hour I was joined by Monica Schaefer, and we got into far weightier territory: the state of Canada, censorship law, political prisoners, manipulated tolerance, the war on clear moral judgement, and the wider cultural attack on family, nationhood and truth itself. We also talked about the corruption of institutions, the failure of the courts, and why so much of modern public life now feels like organised inversion. Messy technically, yes — but conversation-wise, one of the livelier and more wide-ranging shows we’ve had in a while. * Paul English Live: https://paulenglishlive.com/ [https://paulenglishlive.com/] * Food For Thought Radio: https://fftradio.com/ [https://fftradio.com/] * WBN324 Talk Radio: https://thecosm.wixsite.com/wbn324-talk-radio [https://thecosm.wixsite.com/wbn324-talk-radio] * Free Speech Monika / Support Alfred Schaefer: https://freespeechmonika.com/support-alfred-schaefer/ [https://freespeechmonika.com/support-alfred-schaefer/] * Restore Britain: https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/ [https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/] * Bank of England: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/ [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/] * BBC Help: https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us/articles/39094101623955-What-devices-are-supported-for-BBC-com [https://help.bbc.com/hc/en-us/articles/39094101623955-What-devices-are-supported-for-BBC-com] * Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/accessibility/ [https://tavistockandportman.nhs.uk/accessibility/] * Chatham House: https://www.chathamhouse.org/ [https://www.chathamhouse.org/] * Talk: https://talk.tv/play/talkradio/catchup/20241206-21610 [https://talk.tv/play/talkradio/catchup/20241206-21610] * Marc Andreessen at Andreessen Horowitz: https://a16z.com/understanding-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-concepts-of-innovation-disruption/ [https://a16z.com/understanding-one-of-the-most-misunderstood-concepts-of-innovation-disruption/] * Netscape Navigator (Britannica): https://www.britannica.com/technology/Netscape-Navigator [https://www.britannica.com/technology/Netscape-Navigator] * Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Letters-and-Papers-from-Prison/Dietrich-Bonhoeffer/9781451650532 [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Letters-and-Papers-from-Prison/Dietrich-Bonhoeffer/9781451650532] * The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445 [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445] * Marmite UK: https://www.marmite.co.uk/home.html [https://www.marmite.co.uk/home.html] * ALDI UK: https://www.aldi.co.uk/ [https://www.aldi.co.uk/] * Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ [https://www.amazon.co.uk/] * eBay UK: https://www.ebay.co.uk/ [https://www.ebay.co.uk/] * Oxfam GB: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/ [https://www.oxfam.org.uk/] * Rumble: https://corp.rumble.com/ [https://corp.rumble.com/] * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] * Telegram: https://telegram.org/ [https://telegram.org/]

PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #144 · Wi‑Fi 6/7 in Schools: What Parents Need to Know (with Andy from Wake TF Up)

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com [http://radiosoapbox.com] Tonight I opened episode 144 with a bit of housekeeping and humour, before welcoming Eric Von Essex and our guest Andy from Wake TF Up. We chatted about summer silliness, Scottish fans’ legendary thirst, and why our Thursday shows may now run two hours. Then we got serious: Andy laid out urgent concerns about Wi‑Fi 6/7 roll‑outs in UK schools, EMF exposure, and the increasing use of children’s biometrics. He explained his parent action pack of letters designed to force transparency and halt activations until proper safety evidence is produced. We also touched on censorship on X, the media’s selective hearing, and wider patterns of institutional capture affecting health, energy and education. In the second half, we compared lived experience with official narratives on public health, EMF, and energy policy, including the real‑world costs of wind power and the way insurance markets treat EMF risk. There was lively back‑and‑forth on personal mitigation (including nicotine anecdotes), the importance of lawful pushback, and why parents and grandparents must get proactive at school level. I closed with where to find Andy’s materials and an invitation to keep the conversation going in our community spaces. * 'World Health Organization (EMF Project)': https://www.who.int/health-topics/electromagnetic-fields [https://www.who.int/health-topics/electromagnetic-fields] * 'Lloyd’s of London': https://www.lloyds.com [https://www.lloyds.com] * 'UK Department for Education': https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education [https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education] * 'NHS (National Health Service)': https://www.nhs.uk [https://www.nhs.uk] * 'Wi‑Fi Alliance: Wi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax)': https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-6 [https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-6] * 'Wi‑Fi Alliance: Wi‑Fi 7 (802.11be)': https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-7 [https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-7] * 'YouTube': https://www.youtube.com [https://www.youtube.com] * 'Rumble': https://rumble.com [https://rumble.com] * 'X (formerly Twitter)': https://x.com [https://x.com]

PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #143 · Iain Clifford: How Money Is Really Made (and What We Can Do About It)

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com [http://radiosoapbox.com] A lively, occasionally bumpy (blame the gremlins) first hour with finance whistle‑blower Iain Clifford set the tone as we unpacked his four‑decade journey from wealth management and a joint venture with Bank of Scotland/HBOS to blowing the lid on how modern banking really works. We dug into credit creation “ex nihilo”, why regulators so often serve the banks rather than the public, and how House Joint Resolution 192 (June 5, 1933), the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 and today’s DTCC/Cede & Co. plumbing shape the world most people never see. Iain outlined his Republic of Old Souls/ROS Media work and teased his new weekly FFT Radio programme, promising plain‑English breakdowns of signatures, “persons”, nominees and practical routes to lawfully redirect tax flows. Hour two switched gears with Eric in the studio: weather moans gave way to food systems, Dutch agri‑tech, Clarkson’s Farm and Rotterdam’s Floating Farm; plus a spirited riff on everyday bureaucracy versus local ingenuity. We closed on first principles: rebuild community, support farmers, grow food, and keep conversations like this wide open—here every Thursday night, and with Iain back at midday Fridays on FFT Radio from next week. * 'Food For Thought Radio' (FFT Radio): https://fftradio.com/ [https://fftradio.com/] * 'Paul English Live' (show hub): https://paulenglishlive.com/ [https://paulenglishlive.com/] * Iain Clifford – official site: https://iainclifford.com/ [https://iainclifford.com/] * ROS Media Platform (Republic of Old Souls): https://rosmediaplatform.com/ [https://rosmediaplatform.com/] * Unity News Network (UNN): https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/ [https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/] * Bank of England – Money creation in the modern economy (2014, Quarterly Bulletin): https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-bulletin/2014/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy.pdf] * Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago – Modern Money Mechanics (booklet): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modern_Money_Mechanics.pdf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Modern_Money_Mechanics.pdf] * House Joint Resolution 192 (Gold Clause Resolution), June 5, 1933 – Statutes at Large: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-48/pdf/STATUTE-48-Pg113.pdf [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-48/pdf/STATUTE-48-Pg113.pdf] * Bills of Exchange Act 1882 (UK) – original text: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/61/enacted [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/45-46/61/enacted] * Professor Richard Werner – official site and publications on bank credit creation: https://professorwerner.org/ [https://professorwerner.org/] * Werner (2014) – Can banks individually create money out of nothing? (overview on official site): https://professorwerner.org/pubs/can-banks-individually-create-money-out-of-nothing-the-theories-and-the-empirical-evidence/ [https://professorwerner.org/pubs/can-banks-individually-create-money-out-of-nothing-the-theories-and-the-empirical-evidence/] * DTCC – About the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation: https://www.dtcc.com/about [https://www.dtcc.com/about] * DTCC Issuer Services – how issuers work with DTC (Cede & Co. nominee explained): https://www.dtcc.com/asset-services/issuer-services/how-issuers-work-with-dtc [https://www.dtcc.com/asset-services/issuer-services/how-issuers-work-with-dtc] * Lloyds Banking Group – Update on historic failures at HBOS Reading: https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/investors/shareholder-information/hbos-reading-update-on-historic-failures.html [https://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/investors/shareholder-information/hbos-reading-update-on-historic-failures.html] * Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – official site: https://obr.uk/ [https://obr.uk/] * Floating Farm, Rotterdam – official site: https://floatingfarm.nl/ [https://floatingfarm.nl/] * Clarkson’s Farm – Prime Video series page: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Clarksons-Farm/0P2RXB2S0FS814M66QRNQ1PPGR [https://www.primevideo.com/detail/Clarksons-Farm/0P2RXB2S0FS814M66QRNQ1PPGR] * Hilaire Belloc – Economics for Helen (public‑domain text at Project Gutenberg): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75629 [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75629]

PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #142 · Eric, Kizzi and Roger

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com [http://radiosoapbox.com] I level with you right up front: the first two hours are fine, but the final hour suffers from gremlins. We wrestle with a brand‑new studio setup, triage a mess of routing issues, and keep the show rolling regardless. Once we’re stable, Eric Von Essex drops in for our usual ramble: the week’s wobbly English weather, battle‑scarred classic cars, and why small technical wins feel huge. Hour two welcomes Kizzy (Karen Dodd), who charts her journey founding The Freedom Network in 2020, the ups and painful downs of local organising, and why she’s focusing her energy on community, intuition and practical uplift. We talk parallel media, music from independent creators, and her Shine & Rise mini‑gathering centred on frequency, intention and doing the work within—plus why laughing at the powers that be is sometimes the sanest response. We also range across policing, community self‑help, and who trains the trainers; the growth of local patrol models; and the importance of asking sharper questions without getting baited into stupidity. Along the way we compare notes on tools (Restream, StreamYard), platforms (Rumble/YouTube via Radio Soapbox), and projects like Food Finders Hub and FFT Radio’s expanding schedule. Hour three connects to Roger Sales in Ecuador—beautiful place, brutal latency—so we’ll bring him back soon for a proper, clean run. Thanks for bearing with the hiccups; once the lines stop crackling, it’s a lively night out at the virtual pub. * 'Paul English Live' (show hub): https://paulenglishlive.com [https://paulenglishlive.com] * 'Food For Thought Radio' (station site): https://fftradio.com [https://fftradio.com] * 'Radio Soapbox' (live links hub): https://radiosoapbox.com [https://radiosoapbox.com] * 'Food Finders Hub' (local food directory): https://foodfindershub.com [https://foodfindershub.com] * 'Restream' (multistreaming tool): https://restream.io [https://restream.io] * 'StreamYard' (browser studio): https://streamyard.com [https://streamyard.com] * 'A Stand in the Park' (about page): https://www.astandinthepark.org/about/ [https://www.astandinthepark.org/about/] * 'Shomrim London' (community safety patrol): https://www.shomrimlondon.org/ [https://www.shomrimlondon.org/] * 'Patriotic Alternative' (official site): https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/ [https://www.patrioticalternative.org.uk/] * 'Chatham House' (Royal Institute of International Affairs): https://www.chathamhouse.org/ [https://www.chathamhouse.org/] * 'Bank of England' (official site): https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/ [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/] * 'The Light Paper' (official site): https://thelightpaper.co.uk [https://thelightpaper.co.uk] * 'My Dinner with André' (film page): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/ [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/]