It is Thursday the 19th of March, 2026.

In your listening to Skeptics with the K, the podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking.

Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society,

a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So I've got bad news and I've got good news. Okay. Okay. The bad news, especially for the left-leaning members of the audience, of which there are many,

is that today I'm going to be critical of a certain Mr. Corbid. Okay. That's bad news for us as well

in our inbox, isn't it? Depends which Mr. Corbyn it is. There were, too, neither above

above criticism. Criticism of Corbyn generally does not go over very well with people.

Tends to attract some flack. However, the good news is that it's Pierce Corbyn.

There we go. And no one gets annoyed when you criticise Pierce Corbyn. Except Pierce Corbyn.

Are there any good peers? Yeah, Morgan, Corbyn. It's not, no. You could say Brosnan, but he was a pierce, not a peers? Yeah, it makes a difference. Fletcher Dervish. It makes a difference in the sense that it's a different name, yeah. Well, it's a different spelling of the same name. No, it's not. It is. Pierce and peers are two different names. Pronounced completely differently. I don't think they're even pronounced that. I couldn't tell which one you were doing when there. It reminds me there's like Susan and Susanna, different names. They're different names. They're derived from exactly the same roots. But there still are different names. But then from the same route. It reminds me if there's a Barbara in Liverpool that I'm sure you're both familiar with called hares and sirs. No? It's up kind of like bootlander town. But it's called hares and sirs, which in Scouse is heirs and sears. So it kind of rhymes. Oh, okay. But if you speak English correctly, it doesn't work at all. When you said the first one, I thought you were meaning like Germans. So it's like... Oh, hares and sirs. Yeah, like hairs and sirs. So we serve like gentlemen from both England and Germany, but not the French. There's no messieurs in there. Large rabbits.

Yeah.

Anyway, for overseas listeners,

Piers Corbyn is the COVID-denying,

vaccine denying, anti-5G climate change denying conspiracy theorist,

who occasionally gets himself in the newspapers,

a task that he has found a fraction easier over recent years

after his brother Jeremy spent five years as leader of the Labour Party

and leader of the opposition, which means that Pierce Corbyn's antics

were a useful way to attack Jeremy.

Yes.

And something that came up in the press quite a lot.

Which it makes sense because other than that,

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