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.

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.

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.

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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

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.

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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.

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The Swill team raise a glass to Queen Elizabeth the Second and toast her heir and successor King Charles the Third.

Nick Cater takes his customary break from has day running the country’s leanest think tank to host the show alongside Tim Blair, the blogger to the nation. Which nation would that be? Why, the greatest nation of earth of course - long reigned over by the world’s most fabulous Queen, until Friday passed away surrounded by her family at Balmoral.

With special guest Kel Richards, a master of what was formally known as the Queen's English, but now should be rightfully ascribed to the King.

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Australian Prime Minister calls on US basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal to explain the biggest change to his country's Constitution for 65 years as President Joe Biden calls upon his press secretary once again to explain what the heck he's talking about.

Plus more snags for electric batteries, the solar waste mountain and a French eco feminist calls out barbecues as a toxic masculine institution.

The Six O'Clock Swill is presented by Nick Cater and Tim Blair.

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