56 episodes

Tim Blair and Nick Cater deliver the antidote to stupid in a weekly roundup of global political and cultural nonsense.
Warning: This show contains irony. Not suitable for listeners of a mirthless disposition.˜
Check out other episodes: www.radiobcc.com
We'd love your feedback: nick@radiobcc.com

Six O'Clock Swill Nick Cater

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    • 4.7 • 43 Ratings

Tim Blair and Nick Cater deliver the antidote to stupid in a weekly roundup of global political and cultural nonsense.
Warning: This show contains irony. Not suitable for listeners of a mirthless disposition.˜
Check out other episodes: www.radiobcc.com
We'd love your feedback: nick@radiobcc.com

    While my Qatar gently weeps

    While my Qatar gently weeps

    Incisive commentary on the the world's premier virtue signalling competition otherwise known as the soccer World Cup. Teams from around the world get together to show their disgust at their hosts, Qatar, and protest at the use of slave labour to build stadiums by playing in them.
    In motoring news, we review the world's worst electric car. Plus breaking news from the Victorian state election.
    The Six O'Clock Swill is hosted by Nick Cater and Tim Blair.

    • 40 min
    Where woke goes to die

    Where woke goes to die

    The red wave breaks on the cold hard rock of reality in the US mid-term elections but Florida Governor Ron De Santis stirs Republican hearts be declaring victory over Woke.
    Nick Cater and Tim Blair are joined by Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen in Washington DC to discuss the implications for the next Presidential election.
    Plus, a failed socialist prime minister from Portugal lectures the world about climate change and advice on how to throw a fully-vaxed bio-friendly party for kids.
    Nick Cater is executive director of the Menzies Research Centre in Sydney. Tim Blair is the nation's premier blogger and raconteur.

    • 47 min
    Cop that

    Cop that

    The Swill team set their clocks to five minutes to midnight as world leaders gather in Egypt for Cop 27, the world's premier climate talkfest.
    Plus, a preview of the US midterm election.
    With Nick Cater and Tim Blair

    • 40 min
    Much ado about Twitter

    Much ado about Twitter

    Nick Cater and Tim Blair present the Six O’Clock Swill, a rock of stability on which to hook an anchor in the tempestuous times through which we live.
    Nick and Tim are joined by wordsmith Kel Richards, the man Google calls when it can't find the answer
    Today's conversation ranges from the questionable productivity of Twitter employees to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese collision with reality in the Federal budget.
    Plus why Barry Humphries was right about Melbourne and the doom spiral that is life in the 2020s

    • 40 min
    Big Tech's war with conservatives

    Big Tech's war with conservatives

    Big Tech has been priming its algorithms in a bid to cancel every conservative on the planet, but they've yet to lay a glove on the Six O'Clock Swill.
    Nick Cater and Tim Blair take to the air from a rebel outpost in defiance of the do-gooders, frightbats and thought police who demand total obedience to their godless creed.
    email: nick@theswill.com.au

    • 37 min
    Arthur or Martha

    Arthur or Martha

    Nick Cater is joined byTim Blair, Blogger to the entire glorious Empire of Charles upon which the sun never sets.
    It has been a week of inconsolable grief for The Australian Republic Movement, whose members are stunned and shocked by the warmth to which the Australian people have welcomed Charles the Third, King of the United Kingdom, Australia and 13 other dominions, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith.
    It seems that the death of the queen has not delivered them the inheritance of a republic they thought was their due.
    Simon Benson gives an insider’s perspective on plague management talking about his book Plagued: Australia’s Two years of Hell co-authored with Geoff Chambers.
    And we cross to breaking news from Martha’s Vineyard where the Sanctuary Islanders have reacted with outrage to the arrival of the troubled and teeming masses yearning thoughtful delivered to their door step by Florida Governor Ron De Santis.
    Email us at nick@theswill.com.au

    • 52 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

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Wicked Analysis

Happily skewering all things Left. Unmissable.

TurtleofWA ,

Brilliant

The finest centre-right podcast in Australia.

shaquana flame ,

Poor form

Brilliant show, always loved it until the misinformed comments about blind people. Before you make such comments, how about checking with the blind community regarding their perception of colour? And also remember, the vast majority of people in the vision community can see a small amount, or have lost their site later in life.

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