The jam-packed, multi-topic January edition of the ICBW podcast is now available for download or streaming.  Part 1 reviews the predictions for 2024, before covering two issues that have received considerable attention on social media: "grooming gangs" in Britain and drone sightings in the US.  Part 2 touches on the fall of the Syrian government and the H1-B visa issue; part 3 considers the possibility that the federal bureaucracy and the criminal justice system in the US have "gone rogue"; and finally, part 4 uses the topic of "climate change" as a jumping-off point for a debate on how, if at all, academic research can be freed from politicized, dissent-stifling top-down control.  As always, listeners are invited to participate in the discussion via comments on this post.