Best current social, political, cultural commentator, who's yours?

[cheddar]

Troubled times and much talk from many commentators, who's your favoured guy or gal and why?

Edited by cheddar on Thursday 16th July 06:21

[StevieBee]

Yep - lot of time for Majid Nawaz.

Might not be that popular round here but I do find James O'Brien quite compelling - not all the time but when he's good, he's very good.

But in my mind the best is someone who's name I don't know. The cartoonist who draws 'The Male Online' in VIZ.

[DuckDuck]

I find Mallen Baker on youtube very good ..... He does alot of research on the particular subject .. tries to be objective. Thought provoking usually.

Edited by DuckDuck on Thursday 16th July 10:58

[cheddar]

Although primarily a clinical psychologist I highly rate Jordan Peterson.

[Ratski83]

Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph

Absolutely nails it every time.

[MikeT66]

I find Majid Nawaz always thought-provoking and balanced. Brilliant.

From the other side of 'the pond' Noam Chomsky is a superb critic of modern America.

[GT03ROB]

Richard Littlejohn

[AC43]

I like listening to podcasts as I find mainstream media output very shouty and polarised and the pieces tend to be very short.

Nick Robinson's Political Thinking gives long, insightful interviews with a wide range of politicos.

As does Chopper's Politics by Chris Hope.

For Corona-specific stuff, The New Scientist Weekly is good as is CNN's Coronavirus; Fact or Fiction.

There are also some good Ted Interviews eg with Bill Gates.

[Drezza]

Mike Graham on Talk Radio seems fairly level headed... James O'Brien! disgusting little man that just patronises anyone who dares disagree with his views.

Jordan Peterson is great too, he made Diane Abbott look a fool on question time (granted, that wouldn't be hard). Laurence fox is also decent.

Noticed Andrew Neil has been cancelled by the BBC, I wonder why...

[bitchstewie]

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I'd go with that along with James O'Brien and Iain Dale who I think is excellent.

[biggbn]

Why its you guys on here!! Balanced, non judgemental, thoughtful, incisive. This is where I get my politics fix!!

[Unknown_User]

No-one else comes close!

[S13_Alan]

Douglas Murray wins for me.

[Dr Jekyll]

Thomas Sowell.
Kate Andrews.

[Roderick Spode]

Another vote for Douglas Murray. The late Sir Roger Scruton was very clued up as well.

[oakdale]

Maajid Nawaz is excellent for balanced and thoroughly researched commentaries, he is refreshingly different to most mainstream commentators who are usually clueless and biased.

Edited by oakdale on Friday 17th July 16:13

[s2art]

Douglas Murray, Jordan Peterson and Andrew Neil.

[bitchstewie]

anonymous said:

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O'Brien has his moments where I'm similar but on balance he's still on the "love" side of the Marmite test.

[crankedup]

I enjoy listening to Owen Jones, his passion is strong bringing forward his politics. Also Andrew Neil
the only incisive political interrogator for television and radio, imo.

[mikees]

Matthew Goodwin pol sci prof

Talks sense. Uni of Kent I think . His book on national populism is very good