PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #107 · From Lemmings to Mary Whitehouse: Telling Our Story, Not Theirs

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PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #107 · paulenglishlive.com


It’s a crisp, autumnal Episode 107 and I’m back in the shed studio—with a joss stick on the go, shorts defiantly on, and conkers thudding off the roof—catching up with Eric, Paul and a lively live chat while we simulcast on Rumble and YouTube. We meander through the week’s moods: from media narratives and political theatre (digital ID, labels and language) to how we tell our own stories, community resilience, mesh communications, and the banking roots beneath so many headlines. Along the way we swap memories of leaf‑kicking childhoods, Mary Whitehouse, Eurotrash, lemmings lore, Formby and Potter, plus a cracking Danish blues cut for good measure. We touch on sobering moments—a listener health update, the weight of violent news, and history’s lessons—countered by practical steps: local organising, neighbourly food runs, and simple tech like Meshtastic. I revisit the Wörgl stamp‑scrip story, the perils of financial surveillance as voiced by Andrew Bailey, and why reclaiming our culture means telling better stories than the ones being sold to us. It’s a bar‑meet of a show: reflective, occasionally raucous, and firmly focused on keeping hearts warm and heads clear.

• 'Rumble': https://rumble.com
• 'YouTube': https://www.youtube.com
• 'Jitsi Meet': https://meet.jit.si
• 'Mary Whitehouse' (biography): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse
• 'David Sullivan' (publisher/football owner): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sullivan_(businessman)
• 'David Dimbleby': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dimbleby
• 'BBC Question Time': https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1q9
• 'Nigel Farage' (official site): https://www.nigelfarage.com
• 'Keir Starmer' (UK Parliament profile): https://members.parliament.uk/member/4539/contact
• 'Bill Engvall' (official site): https://www.billengvall.com
• 'Linda Lovelace' (biography): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace
• 'Deep Throat' (1972 film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(film)
• 'E. Michael Jones — Libido Dominandi' (publisher page): https://fidelitypress.org/book/libido-dominandi
• 'Thomas Pellow' (historical figure): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pellow
• 'White Gold' by Giles Milton (publisher page): https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781429909831/whitegold
• 'Barbary corsairs' (overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
• 'Lemming' (species overview): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming
• 'White Wilderness' (1958 Disney film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(1958_film)
• 'Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado' (official): https://www.thorbjornrisager.com
• 'Royal Papworth Hospital' (NHS foundation trust): https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk
• 'Andrew Bailey' (Bank of England profile): https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/andrew-bailey/biography
• 'Financial Stability Board (FSB)' (official): https://www.fsb.org
• 'Bank for International Settlements (BIS)' (official): https://www.bis.org
• 'Wörgl experiment' (stamp scrip): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl
• 'Michael Unterguggenberger' (Wörgl mayor): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Unterguggenberger
• 'Dennis Potter' (writer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Potter
• 'The Singing Detective' (BBC serial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Detective
• 'Pennies from Heaven' (1978 serial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennies_from_Heaven_(British_TV_series)
• 'Lipstick on Your Collar' (1993 serial): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipstick_on_Your_Collar
• 'Nuts in May' (Mike Leigh): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts_in_May
• 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' (1987 film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planes,_Trains_and_Automobiles
• 'George Formby' (performer): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby
• 'Meshtastic' (open source mesh comms): https://meshtastic.org
• 'goTenna' (mesh devices): https://www.gotenna.com