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Fri, April 18, 2025
Victory to TERF Island
Andrew Doyle, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Supreme Court trans ruling, the British state’s enabling of Hashem Abedi and America under Trump. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Losing your hair is a choice. Take back control today with Manual. Fans of spiked can get 50 per cent off their first order here: http://manual.co/SPIKED
Thu, April 17, 2025
‘The madness is over’ | Helen Joyce on the Supreme Court trans ruling
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Helen Joyce. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Transwomen are not women and sex is biological. So says a landmark ruling on gender from the UK Supreme Court. Here, Helen Joyce – director of advocacy at Sex Matters – explains how the judgment kills off a raft of ‘trans inclusive’ policies, reasserts biological reality and protects women’s rights. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, April 11, 2025
Labour’s grooming-gangs cover-up
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the never-ending betrayal of grooming-gang victims, the woman jailed for a tweet and John Oliver’s tired trans propaganda. Get your ticket for Brendan O’Neill’s next live podcast, where he’ll be joined by the brilliant Julia Hartley-Brewer, on Tuesday 15 April at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Looking to give AG1 a shot? If you want to support your health seven mornings a week, start with AG1. Subscribe now and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 AND five free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription. Go to drinkAG1.com/spiked to get started today. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked
Wed, April 09, 2025
The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Bjorn Lomborg. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked European industry is in freefall, and Net Zero is to blame. Here, climate economist Bjorn Lomborg – author of Best Things First and False Alarm – explains how panic over climate change is doing far more damage than climate change itself. Swapping cheap and dependable fossil fuels for unreliable and expensive renewables costs our economies trillions, but for little environmental gain, Lomborg says. Plus, he tackles the myth of the ‘climate apocalypse’ and explains why there are more polar bears than ever. Get your ticket for Brendan O’Neill’s next live podcast, where he’ll be joined by the brilliant Julia Hartley-Brewer, on Tuesday 15 April at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, April 04, 2025
The Trump trade war
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss ‘Liberation Day’, Trump’s free-speech imperialism, banning Marine Le Pen and Keir Starmer’s perpetual Adolescence. Get your ticket for Brendan O’Neill’s next live podcast, where he’ll be joined by the brilliant Julia Hartley-Brewer, on Tuesday 15 April at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Tom will be speaking at the Free Speech Union event, ‘Policing the streets vs policing our tweets’, in Belfast on Friday 11 April. Get tickets: https://freespeechunion.org/event/belfast-speakeasy-policing-the-streets-vs-policing-our-tweets/ Looking to give AG1 a shot? If you want to support your health seven mornings a week, start with AG1. Subscribe now and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 AND five free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription. Go to drinkAG1.com/spiked to get started today. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked
Thu, April 03, 2025
Bridget Phetasy: Tariffs, tech and Trump Devotion Syndrome
Bridget Phetasy – writer, comedian and host of Dumpster Fire – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show . Bridget and Brendan discuss how the White House is embracing the politics of cruelty, how Trump’s cult of personality is making everyone insane, and the rise of the ‘woke right’. Get your ticket for Brendan’s next live podcast, where he’ll be joined by the brilliant Julia Hartley-Brewer, on Tuesday 15 April at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, March 28, 2025
How Rachel from Accounts put Britain in the red
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the catastrophic spring statement, the Gazan revolt against Hamas and the lawyer taking on the thoughtpolice. Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Tom will be speaking at the Free Speech Union event, ‘Policing the streets vs policing our tweets’, in Belfast on Friday 11 April. Get tickets: https://freespeechunion.org/event/belfast-speakeasy-policing-the-streets-vs-policing-our-tweets/ Looking to give AG1 a shot? If you want to support your health seven mornings a week, start with AG1. Subscribe now and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D AND five free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription. Go to drinkAG1.com/spiked to get started today.
Fri, March 21, 2025
The truth about 7 October
Claire Fox, Josh Howie and Tom Slater discuss the denial of Hamas’s barbarism, the culture war over Adolescence , the panic over Andrew Tate, and the Sullivan Review. Tom will be speaking at the Free Speech Union event, ‘Policing the streets vs policing our tweets’, in Belfast on Friday 11 April. Get tickets: https://freespeechunion.org/event/belfast-speakeasy-policing-the-streets-vs-policing-our-tweets/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/
Wed, March 19, 2025
Is Putin in control? | Mark Galeotti
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Mark Galeotti. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Vladimir Putin is often said to have a tsar-like grip on Russia. He is apparently so powerful that he even has Donald Trump in his pocket. Here, historian and Russia expert Mark Galeotti – author of Forged in War – explains why Putin actually faces far greater challenges than the West seems to realise, from the internal threats to his rule to the war’s rising costs and waning public support. Mark also discusses how the West betrayed Ukraine long before Trump’s arrival. Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, March 14, 2025
Farage, Lowe and the Very Online right
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Reform’s civil war, the outrageous banning of Calin Georgescu in Romania and Nicola Sturgeon’s toxic legacy. Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Surfshark VPN keeps your internet use private, secure and unrestricted. Use spiked 's link to get four months extra of Surfshark: https://surfshark.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked
Fri, March 07, 2025
Welcome to Trumpworld, with Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Donald Trump’s first six weeks, two-tier justice, asylum insanity and the memory-holing of lockdown. Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Surfshark VPN keeps your internet use private, secure and unrestricted: surfshark.com/spiked
Wed, March 05, 2025
‘Labour will ruin our best schools’ | Katharine Birbalsingh vs Bridget Phillipson
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Katharine Birbalsingh. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Labour is about to destroy England’s top-performing state schools. That’s the stark warning of Katharine Birbalsingh, head of the Michaela Community School, often dubbed ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’. Here, Birbalsingh recalls her clashes with Bridget Phillipson, the Labour education secretary. She explains why the government’s new schools bill will drive down academic standards, let bad behaviour slip and make it harder for kids to get into a decent state school. She also discusses the dangers of ‘decolonising’ the curriculum and why schools must cultivate a sense of national belonging. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, February 28, 2025
The German populist revolt
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the rise of the AfD, TERF Island’s battle with woke America and the petty authoritarianism of Britain’s thoughtpolice. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Take your personal data back with Incogni. Use code SPIKED at the link below and get 60 per cent off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/spiked
Fri, February 21, 2025
Is burning a Koran now a crime in Britain?
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s backdoor blasphemy laws, the betrayal of Ukraine and the depravity of Hamas. Celebrate 25 years of spiked . Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your personal data back with Incogni. Use code SPIKED at the link below and get 60 per cent off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/spiked Apply for spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns/
Wed, February 19, 2025
‘Germans are furious’ | Katja Hoyer on the fall of the elites and the rise of the AfD
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Katja Hoyer. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Germany’s ruling Social Democrats (SPD) are facing losses the party has not seen since the 19th century in this weekend’s federal elections, while the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is set to double its vote share. Here, historian and journalist Katja Hoyer explains how a failing economy, out-of-control migration and intrusive Net Zero policies have led to mass disaffection with the mainstream parties. She also discusses the growing class divide, the rise and fall of ‘left-conservatism’, and why JD Vance’s warnings about free speech resonated with East Germans. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, February 14, 2025
Britain’s border farce
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the judicial power-grab behind the Gazan resettlement ruling, why we must kill the assisted-dying bill and the health minister who thinks you can identify as a llama. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, February 14, 2025
The Munich attack: asylum, Islamism and the AfD
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked At least 30 people were injured in a suspected Islamist terror attack in Munich on Thursday, when an Afghan asylum seeker ploughed his car into a trade-union demonstration. Here, spiked’s Germany correspondent, Sabine Beppler-Spahl, joins Fraser Myers to discuss the suspect, the recent spate of Islamist attacks in Germany, and how rising public anger could boost the AfD in next week’s elections. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 to get a year’s membership of spiked for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, February 07, 2025
Labour’s Islamic blasphemy laws
Ella Whelan, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers discuss how Angela Rayner could silence criticism of Islam, why the UK is ripe for a Reform revolt and Trump’s ban on men in women’s sport. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Apply for spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Wed, February 05, 2025
‘I became a pariah in corporate America’ | Jennifer Sey
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Jennifer Sey. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Jennifer Sey – former US national-champion gymnast and brand president at Levi’s – was on her way to the top of the corporate ladder when her career was brutally cut short. For speaking out against Covid school closures, she was branded a heretic, smeared as a bigot, and Levi’s demanded her silence. Here, she gives her inside story of the great ‘awokening’ of corporate America, and explains why the cancel culture that forced her out may now finally be in retreat. Plus, she discusses her new venture, XX-XY Athletics, and its battle to keep men out of women’s sports.
Fri, January 31, 2025
The absurdity of Rachel Reeves’s “green growth”
Miriam Cates, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how Labour’s green agenda is destroying British industry, how we all became ‘extremists’ and the cruelty of assisted dying. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take control of your health with AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Apply for spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, January 24, 2025
The truth about Southport
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the crimes of Axel Rudakubana, how Trump tamed the ‘Resistance’ and why there’s no such thing as ‘green’ growth. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take control of your health with AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Mon, January 20, 2025
The hidden dangers of the Gaza hostage deal
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Jake Wallis Simons and Brendan O’Neill join Fraser Myers to discuss the return of the Israeli hostages, the barbarism of Hamas and the West’s abandonment of Israel. Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/
Fri, January 17, 2025
Why Keir Starmer is imploding
Graham Linehan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the unravelling of the Labour government, Trumpism vs trans, the crackdown on pub banter and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. Apply for spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Fri, January 17, 2025
Why Keir Starmer is imploding
Graham Linehan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the unravelling of the Labour government, Trumpism vs trans, the crackdown on pub banter and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
Sat, January 11, 2025
‘Trudeau acted like a tinpot dictator’
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Rupa Subramanya. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Rupa Subramanya, writer at the Free Press , talks to Fraser Myers about Justin Trudeau’s plummeting popularity, his authoritarian crackdown on dissent and why modern Canada is so dysfunctional.
Fri, January 10, 2025
Grooming gangs and the ‘far-right bandwagon’ slur
Emily Carver, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Musk vs Starmer, free speech on Facebook, the Charlie Hebdo anniversary, and Justin Trudeau’s woke tyranny. This episode is sponsored by Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/spiked Take control of your health with AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked
Thu, January 09, 2025
‘Grooming-gangs victims are outraged’
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Charlie Peters. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Charlie Peters, national reporter for GB News, talks to Fraser Myers about Keir Starmer’s refusal to hold a national grooming-gangs inquiry, how political correctness sanctioned widespread abuse and how victims are still being denied the justice they deserve.
Tue, January 07, 2025
An interview with Charlie Hebdo’s Gérard Biard
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Gérard Biard. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked On 7 January 2015, two Islamist terrorists, armed with Kalashnikovs, burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo . 12 people were murdered, eight of them writers and cartoonists at the left-wing, satirical newspaper. Charlie ’s supposed crime? It had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The massacre sparked outpourings of solidarity, but also a cowardly, censorious backlash. Many decried the killings, but decried Charlie ’s supposed ‘provocations’, too. 10 years on from the massacre, spiked went to Paris to meet with Gérard Biard, Charlie ’s editor-in-chief. We discussed the attack, the fight for free speech and the crucial importance of courage.
Fri, January 03, 2025
New Orleans and the scourge of Islamist terror
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss terror attacks in America, Jess Phillips’s grooming-gangs betrayal and Farage vs Badenoch.
Mon, December 30, 2024
‘The scale of censorship is insane’ | Greg Lukianoff on Britain’s speech police
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Greg Lukianoff. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Is the UK a free country any more? An estimated nine people per day are arrested for making offensive comments online. In fact, more people had their collars felt in Britain for speech crimes in 2015 and 2016 than were arrested in the US during the entirety of First Red Scare. Here, Greg Lukianoff – president of the US’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression – warns that laws against so-called hate speech, and the elite panic over ‘misinformation’, have given licence to the British state to trample on our liberties. He also discusses the Trumpian threat to free speech, the explosion of campus censorship in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and what it really means to ‘incite violence’. Please donate generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you give £50 or more, you can get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ (Mugs can only be sent to UK addresses, sadly.)
Mon, December 23, 2024
The Magdeburg attack: what we know so far
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Rakib Ehsan and Sabine Beppler-Spahl join Fraser Myers to discuss the deadly car attack on a German Christmas market, the misinformation surrounding the suspect’s motives, and how this deadly atrocity could fuel an insurgent AfD. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK postal addresses only.) Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/
Fri, December 20, 2024
2024: revenge of the deplorables
In this special end-of-year episode, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers are joined by Francis Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman to reflect on the highs and lows of 2024. They discuss Trump, Farage and the global populist surge; why woke is losing the culture war; how Southport exposed Keir Starmer’s authoritarianism; the triumph of Israel, the unravelling of Syria and the tragedy of Ukraine; and more. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK postal addresses only.) Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Treat yourself to Beckett’s Gin this Christmas. Viewers can get 20 per cent off all spirits, including Beckett’s brand new, limited-edition, single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked
Wed, December 18, 2024
Why Trump won the working class | Michael Lind
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Michael Lind. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked A month on from Trump’s seismic victory, Democrats are still in denial about the significance of their defeat. Party elites think slicker messaging alone can claw back lost support. Here, Michael Lind – author of Hell to Pay and The New Class War – explains why this is so delusional. Identitarianism, illegal immigration and green extremism made America ripe for a populist revolt. Lind also weighs in on the tensions in the MAGA movement and the farmers’ protests in Europe. Please donate generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you give £50 or more, you can get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ (Mugs can only be sent to UK addresses, sadly.)
Thu, December 12, 2024
Syria: has HTS changed?
Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the end of the Assad regime, the ‘hot assassin’, the trial of Daniel Penny and the rise of Reform. Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill online event with James Dreyfus, on Wednesday 18 December, 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK postal addresses only.) Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Treat yourself to Beckett’s Gin this Christmas. Viewers can get 20 per cent off all spirits, including Beckett’s brand new, limited-edition, single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked
Fri, December 06, 2024
Gregg Wallace and the dangers of trial by media
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the MasterChef scandal, the collapse of the French government and Keir Starmer’s botched reset. Please give generously to spiked’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK addresses only.) https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN. Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Wed, December 04, 2024
Why I fought on the frontline in Ukraine | Macer Gifford
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Macer Gifford. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked ‘To fight evil.’ That’s why Macer Gifford gave up his comfortable life as a City of London currency trader to fight as an international volunteer in two major conflicts – first in Syria, and then in Ukraine. In 2014, he joined the Kurds in their battle against ISIS. In 2022, he helped Ukrainians fend off Putin’s Russia. Here, Macer reveals the perils of 21st-century warfare, recalls the joy of liberating Kherson, and explains why Ukrainians are still willing to risk it all for their freedom. Please donate generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you give £50 or more, you can get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. Donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ (Sadly, the mug offer is for UK donors only.)
Thu, November 28, 2024
The horror of ‘assisted dying’
Jacob Reynolds from MCC Brussels, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the assisted-dying bill and the Labour MP demanding a blasphemy law. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you give £50 or more, you can get a free spiked mug, while stocks last (UK donors only). https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked Take control of your health with AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked
Thu, November 28, 2024
‘Death on demand’ | Danny Kruger on assisted dying
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Danny Kruger. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked There is no ‘safe’ way to legalise assisted dying, warns Conservative MP Danny Kruger on spiked today ahead of Friday’s House of Commons vote. Talking to Fraser Myers, he argues that a ‘right to die’ would force the NHS to offer ‘death on demand’. For all the talk of the ‘safeguards’ in the proposed bill, the experience of countries like Canada shows that mission creep is inevitable. There, assisted dying is routinely offered to those who don’t ask for it, and as a substitute for proper care. He urges his fellow MPs to reject this dangerous bill. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, November 22, 2024
The fury of Britain’s farmers
Fraser Myers is joined by Luke Gittos and Michael Murphy to discuss the farmers’ protests, non-crime hate incidents, the child abuser we can’t deport and Jaguar’s disastrous woke rebrand. Watch Michael Murphy's new documentary, 'Guardians of Israel', here: https://www.outpoststudios.net/p/guardians-of-israel-an-outpost-original This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period.
Tue, November 19, 2024
Debunking the lies about Israel | Natasha Hausdorff
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Natasha Hausdorff. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Israel is easily the most demonised nation on Earth. Despite the Jewish State being a liberal democracy, Western activists spend vastly more time raging against it than they do genuinely despotic regimes. We’re told Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, that it is going out of its way to kill civilians in its war against Hamas, that it is an ‘apartheid state’. But none of this bears any resemblance to reality. Here, barrister Natasha Hausdorff debunks the anti-Israel myths, which she says have become a kind of new blood libel. Order Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom , now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, November 15, 2024
Musk Derangement Syndrome
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the rage against Elon Musk, the X-odus, the Allison Pearson scandal and the tragedy of Gary Lineker. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period.
Thu, November 07, 2024
The deplorables strike back
In this US election special, Joel Kotkin, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss why Trump won, the revolt against identity politics and the irrepressible rise of populism. Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN . Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Wed, November 06, 2024
Why Trump won
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel, featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon, Zaid Jilani and Nick Gillespie. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Donald Trump has defied the odds – and the elites – to stage the political comeback of the century. Here, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Zaid Jilani and Nick Gillespie explain why Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was so stunning. They discuss Trump’s appeal to the working class, the complacency of the Democrats and why there’s no justification for the elite’s ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.
Fri, November 01, 2024
Who are the Democrats calling ‘garbage’?
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the US election, slavery reparations and the Southport revelations. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription. Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Fri, October 25, 2024
Chris Kaba and the shamelessness of the ‘anti-racists’
Ian Acheson, Paul Embery and Tom Slater discuss the attempt to turn Chris Kaba into Britain’s George Floyd, the death of rioter Peter Lynch, and the ‘Trump is Hitler’ smear. Check out Paul’s Substack: https://www.paulembery.com/ And Ian’s book, Screwed : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screwed-Britains-Prison-Crisis-Escape/dp/178590471X Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Wed, October 23, 2024
Why I loathe Kamala Harris | Lionel Shriver
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Lionel Shriver. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Kamala Harris has been hailed as the candidate of ‘joy’. But is there any substance beneath the supposedly feelgood vibes? Here, Lionel Shriver – author of Mania – tells spiked that there’s something fraudulent about Harris, who she says has never had an original idea nor held a consistent principle. Shriver also weighs in on the interminable ‘Trump is a fascist’ debate, the incompetence of Tim Walz and the dangers of a tight election result.
Tue, October 22, 2024
Live at the Battle of Ideas 2024
Graham Linehan, Kathleen Stock and Rakib Ehsan joined Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for this special live edition of the spiked podcast, hosted at the Battle of Ideas festival on Sunday 20 October. They discussed why Keir Starmer has turned out to be so rubbish as PM, the plan to legalise assisted suicide, whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick is the ailing Tories’ best bet for renewal, whether America will plump for Trump or Kamala, and the killing of Yahya Sinwar.
Thu, October 17, 2024
See us *live* this weekend
Join us for a live recording of the spiked podcast this weekend at the Battle of Ideas in Westminster. Alongside Tom Slater and Fraser Myers, this special edition of the pod will feature Kathleen Stock, Graham Linehan and Rakib Ehsan. Plus, you can put your questions to the panel. If you’re already coming to the Battle of Ideas, then be sure to join us on Sunday 20 October at 1.45pm in the Robert Runcie Room in Church House. If you’ve not got a ticket for the Battle of Ideas yet, then why not get one now? Regular spiked podcast viewers and listeners can get 20 per cent off their tickets at the checkout by using the code SPIKED24 or by clicking this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24
Fri, October 11, 2024
After 7 October: the crisis of civilisation
Toby Young, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the woke left’s sympathy for Hamas, why James Cleverly imploded and the bald man who sued for sex discrimination. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 and 20 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED24 or use this URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24 Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Wed, October 09, 2024
The truth about the Covid lab leak | Matt Ridley
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Matt Ridley. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked More than 28million were killed. The global economy was wrecked by two years of lockdown. Incalculable damage was done to health, education and liberty. The Covid-19 pandemic was the deadliest and most destructive disaster of our lifetimes, and yet there is still no official explanation for its cause. Here, Matt Ridley – co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – talks to spiked about why a lab leak is almost certainly to blame for the pandemic. He explains why it’s no coincidence that the virus emerged from Wuhan, China. And he reveals what top scientists like Anthony Fauci knew in 2020, but tried to keep suppressed.
Fri, October 04, 2024
The Jenrick delusion
Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Tory leadership contest, the deindustrialisation of Britain, Iran’s onslaught on Israel and the delusions of Tim Walz. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 and 20 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED24 or use this URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24 Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Fri, September 27, 2024
How Labour lost its halo
Zoe Strimpel, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s week from hell, the crimes of Hezbollah and the predators who identify as women. Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a year’s membership to spiked supporters : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/ And don’t miss the book launch on Tuesday 1 October. spiked supporters can claim their free tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/events See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 19 and 20 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED24 or use this URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24
Wed, September 25, 2024
The lies of the trans movement | Helen Joyce
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Helen Joyce. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Male rapists in women’s prisons. Kids given experimental, sterilising drugs. Gay boys and girls told they’re born in the wrong body and in need of medical correction. Here, Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, talks to spiked about the damage the trans movement is doing to society. She explains how it became taboo to tell the truth about biological sex. And how this is giving licence to rampant misogyny and homophobia, threatening hard-won rights.
Fri, September 20, 2024
The two-tier treatment of Huw Edwards
Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the crimes of Huw Edwards, the trans activist in a rape-crisis centre, the arrest of Bernadette Spofforth and the Hezbollah pagers. Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation, is out now and available to order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/ Join us for the book launch on Tuesday 1 October, where best-selling American author and spiked columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon will interview Brendan about the book and take questions from the audience on Zoom. It’s free, but exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get your ticket: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/events/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Don’t miss our upcoming live episode at the Battle of Ideas festival. Tom and Fraser will be joined by some very special guests in Westminster on Sunday 20 October. Fans of the podcast can get 20 per cent off. Just enter the promo code SPIKED24 at the checkout or use this URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2024-tickets-807629249827?discount=SPIKED24 Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN. Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, September 13, 2024
Cat ladies and dog eaters: the Very Online election
Tom Slater, Candice Holdsworth and Fraser Myers discuss the Trump-Harris debate, Keir Starmer’s prison break and the Taliban’s war on women. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Wed, September 11, 2024
Starmer’s woke authoritarianism | Jacob Rees-Mogg
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked An historic 175 Tories lost their seats at the last General Election. Jacob Rees-Mogg was one of them. Here, the former cabinet minister talks to spiked about why voters turned their backs on the Conservatives, and what he fears a Labour government will mean for Britain. Rees-Mogg slams Keir Starmer’s two-tier policing of riots and disorder and his zealous pursuit of Net Zero. The new PM is set to make Britain poorer, colder and less free, he argues.
Fri, September 06, 2024
Germany’s populist earthquake
Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the rise of the AfD and Brazil’s ban on X. Plus, Jake Wallis Simons joins from Israel to discuss Labour’s appeasement of Hamas. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN . Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 30, 2024
The global war on free speech online
Plus: the Solingen terror attack and the miserable puritanism of Keir Starmer.
Wed, August 28, 2024
Poverty, victimhood and luxury beliefs | Rob Henderson
This is the audio from a video interview we just published on our YouTube channel, with author Rob Henderson. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Defund the police. Abolish the family. Repent for your white privilege. The elites have been gripped by some strange ideas in recent years. But they are worse than naive or fanciful. While these opinions confer status on the rich people who spout them, they come at a high cost for the less fortunate. Best-selling author Rob Henderson has a term for this, ‘luxury beliefs’. Here, he talks to Fraser Myers about how his own troubled start in life opened his eyes to the delusions of the upper class.
Fri, August 23, 2024
The unbearable nothingness of Kamala Harris
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the emptiness of the Democrats, Britain’s broken borders and the crusade against ‘racist’ buildings. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 16, 2024
Musk, Trump and the rage against free speech
Benjamin Schwarz, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the liberal meltdown over the Trump-Musk livestream, the global crackdown on ‘fake news’ and the beatification of Kamala Harris. This episode is sponsored by AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 09, 2024
Riots, race and multiculturalism
Inaya Folarin Iman joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for this special episode of the spiked podcast , all about the riots roiling Britain. They discuss the disturbing rise of white identity politics, Keir Starmer’s crackdown on free speech and how multiculturalism has racialised society. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN . Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 02, 2024
How Southport exposed a broken Britain
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the tragedy in Southport and its aftermath, Kamala Harris’s cringe identity politics, the dark double life of Huw Edwards and the Olympic boxing scandal. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Wed, July 31, 2024
Starmer’s one-party state | David Starkey
This is the audio from a video interview we just published on our YouTube channel, with historian and broadcaster David Starkey. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked What does Keir Starmer actually want? The UK’s new Labour prime minister is usually described as moderate, pragmatic and non-ideological. Here, historian and broadcaster David Starkey argues that this is an illusion. Starmer, Starkey explains, is a fierce anti-democrat. He wants to transfer power from the UK’s elected parliament to unelected bodies, from the courts to the civil service to the quangos. His party will establish the supremacy of the ‘Blob’, all while cracking down hard on free speech. Our democracy and liberty are in peril.
Thu, July 25, 2024
Biden’s exit, Kamala’s rise and the gaslighting of America
Paul Embery, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss another wild week in American politics, the riots in Leeds and Dublin, and the BBC’s obsession with drag queens. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, July 19, 2024
How the Trump shooting shook the world
Triggernometry ’s Francis Foster joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the victim-blaming of Donald Trump, Gareth Southgate’s culture war and Labour’s ban on puberty blockers. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Tue, July 16, 2024
‘Trump saved us from civil war’ | Batya Ungar-Sargon
This is the audio from a video interview we just published on our YouTube channel, with spiked columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked The attempted assassination of Donald Trump brought American society to the brink. What now? Here, Batya Ungar-Sargon argues that Trump’s defiant response likely spared the US serious unrest, that the American left has become alarmingly relaxed about political violence, and that Trump’s programme could yet unite the nation.
Fri, July 12, 2024
The Starmer regime
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the warped priorities of the new Labour government, Joe Biden’s leadership crisis, the madness of the French left and the truth about Lucy Letby. Protect your privacy online with this episode’s sponsor, ExpressVPN . Sign up today and get an extra three months for free when you purchase a 12-month plan. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, July 05, 2024
The Starmer landslide
Tom Slater is joined by Inaya Folarin Iman and Ella Whelan for a spiked podcast election special. They discuss Labour’s strangely hollow victory, the Reform revolt, the poison of Islamic sectarianism and where it all went wrong for the Tories and the SNP. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 28, 2024
Keir Starmer’s woke dystopia
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the dangers of a Labour government, the insanity of the Green Party and David Tennant’s tirade against Kemi Badenoch. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Sat, June 22, 2024
A Tory wipeout?
Timandra Harkness – author of Technology is Not the Problem – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the Conservatives’ disastrous polling, the great smartphone panic and Just Stop Oil’s assault on Stonehenge. Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill’s next live Zoom podcast, in conversation with Melanie Phillips, on Wednesday 26 June, 8pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Take control of your health with AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Protect your privacy online with ExpressVPN. Sign up today and get an extra three months for free when you purchase a 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 14, 2024
The revolt against the EU elites
Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the populist uprising in the European Parliament elections, the lies of Hamas and Keir Starmer’s culture war. This episode is sponsored by Shopify: http://shopify.co.uk/spiked Take control of your health with AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill’s next live Zoom podcast, in conversation with Melanie Phillips, on Wednesday 26 June, 8pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 07, 2024
Will Nigel Farage destroy the Tories?
Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how the Reform UK leader is shaking up the General Election, the lawfare against Trump and the Islamist stabbing in Mannheim. Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill’s next live Zoom podcast, in conversation with Melanie Phillips, on Wednesday 26 June, 8pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, May 31, 2024
The None of the Above election
Matt Goodwin and Rakib Ehsan join Tom Slater for the latest episode of the spiked podcast . In this General Election special, they discuss Rishi Sunak’s ‘national service’ gimmick, Nigel Farage’s plan to make the election a referendum on immigration, Diane Abbott’s battle with Keir Starmer, and much more. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Get a 10 per cent discount on a ‘supporter’ membership package with our promo code SPIKED10: https://munkdebates.com/ Take control of your health with AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, May 24, 2024
Why Things Can Only Get Worse with Keir Starmer
Graham Linehan – the comedy writer behind Father Ted and The IT Crowd – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the UK General Election, the trans-activist takeover of a rape-crisis centre, the death of Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi the ICC’s outrageous arrest warrants. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Get a 10 per cent discount on a ‘supporter’ membership package with our promo code: SPIKED10 https://munkdebates.com/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, May 17, 2024
Is Donald Trump on his way to the White House?
Freddy Gray joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the lawfare against Trump, the victim-blaming of Robert Fico, Meghan Markle’s carnival of cringe and Gary Lineker’s Gaza gaffe. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Get a 10 per cent discount on a ‘supporter’ membership package with our promo code: SPIKED10 https://munkdebates.com/ Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 10, 2024
Islamic sectarianism is poisoning British politics
Paul Embery joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Tory defections, the local elections and the councillor who screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Get a 10 per cent discount on a ‘supporter’ membership package with the promo code: SPIKED10 https://munkdebates.com/ Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 03, 2024
How Sadiq Khan destroyed London
Jacob Reynolds joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the London mayoral race, the fall of Humza Yousaf, the bigoted brats of Columbia and the Irish migration crisis. Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 26, 2024
The Columbia protests and the scourge of elite anti-Semitism
GB News’ Charlie Peters joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the ‘Gaza solidarity’ encampments springing up on US campuses, the collapse of Scotland’s coalition of crackpots and Joe Lycett’s cancel-culture denialism. Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 19, 2024
The crackdown on NatCon Brussels
Toby Young joins Fraser Myers and Tom Slater to discuss the centrist authoritarianism taking over Europe, Rishi Sunak’s tyrannical smoking ban and the great awokening of NPR. Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 12, 2024
How the Cass Review exposed the trans cult
Ella Whelan joins Tom Slater and Lauren Smith to discuss the horrors of gender medicine, the Afghan flasher who was granted asylum and the Westminster honeytrap scandal. Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 05, 2024
Humza Yousaf: hate criminal?
Madeline Grant joins Tom Slater and Lauren Smith to discuss Scotland’s hate-crime farce, the West’s abandonment of Israel and the inhumanity of ‘assisted dying’. Find out more about spiked ’s internship programme here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/04/05/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, March 29, 2024
How Abdul Ezedi gamed the asylum system
Luke Gittos joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Britain’s broken borders, the Batley Grammar scandal and the Candace Owens controversy. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, March 22, 2024
The SNP’s sinister Hate Crime Act
Patrick Christys joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Scotland’s monstrous Hate Crime Act and the downfall of Ireland’s Leo Varadkar. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, March 15, 2024
Are we all ‘extremists’ now?
Julia Hartley-Brewer joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Michael Gove’s crackdown on extremism, the ban on puberty blockers and the people’s revolt in Ireland. Get your ticket for spiked ’s next live event – Brendan O’Neill in conversation with Matt Ridley – on Thursday 21 March at 7pm GMT: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, March 08, 2024
The trans experiment on children
Luke Gittos, Candice Holdsworth and Fraser Myers discuss the WPATH Files, the tyranny of economic experts and the revenge of Donald Trump. Get your ticket for spiked ’s next live event – Brendan O’Neill in conversation with Matt Ridley – on Thursday 21 March at 7pm GMT: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, March 01, 2024
The Islamist threat we can’t talk about
Andrew Doyle, Steven Edginton and Fraser Myers discuss how the charge of ‘Islamophobia’ silences debate, the trans cat killer and how the army went woke. Follow Andrew on Substack: https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/ Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, February 23, 2024
The Islamist assault on British democracy
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how parliament capitulated to Islamist intimidation, the trial of Julian Assange and Google’s woke AI. Sponsored by AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, February 16, 2024
Why anti-Semitism lives on in Labour
Benedict Spence, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Rochdale anti-Semitism scandal, the ‘paraglider girls’ and the problem with Parkrun. Sponsored by Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, February 09, 2024
After the acid attack
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how Abdul Ezedi gamed the UK asylum system, the shameful exploitation of the Brianna Ghey tragedy and the woke capture of Labour. Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, February 02, 2024
Why the farmers must win
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the European uprising against the green agenda, Nicola Sturgeon’s tartan tyranny and the right-wing paranoia over Taylor Swift. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, January 26, 2024
Is Gen Z ready for World War 3?
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the calls to bring back conscription, the Islamist assault on schools and the re-education of Jordan Peterson. Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, January 19, 2024
Why Trump is winning
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Trump’s landslide victory in Iowa, the anti-democrats of the World Economic Forum and the media’s capitulation to trans ideology. Sponsored by Shopify: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, January 12, 2024
Farmers, subpostmasters and trigger warnings
Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the farmers’ uprising in Germany, why the establishment ignored the plight of the subpostmasters for so long, and why Bond films are being slapped with trigger warnings. Sponsored by: AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, January 05, 2024
Claudine Gay and the DEI racket
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fall of Harvard’s plagiarist president, how Britain lost control of its borders and the sinister nothingness of Sir Keir Starmer. Sponsored by AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Donate to spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, December 22, 2023
The barbarism of the woke
Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from 7 October, the triumphs of ‘TERF Island’ and the populist fightback against Net Zero. Please dig deep for spiked this Christmas. Donate: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Get a mug: https://www.spiked-online.com/mug/ Get a book: https://www.spiked-online.com/signedbook/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, December 15, 2023
The man in a wig
Dennis Kavanagh, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the Tory MP accused of ‘misgendering’, the return of blasphemy laws to Europe and why greens hate Christmas. Please dig deep for spiked this Christmas. Donate: Donate - spiked Get a mug: https://www.spiked-online.com/mug/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, December 08, 2023
Why the Tories are toast
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Conservatives’ civil war over immigration, the madness of the Covid inquiry and the neofeudalism of COP28. Donate £50 or more to spiked this Christmas and get a free spiked mug: https://www.spiked-online.com/mug/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, December 01, 2023
The 7 October denialists
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the downplaying of Hamas’s crimes, the fallout from the Dublin riots and the witch-hunting of Rosie Duffield. Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, November 24, 2023
Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the political earthquakes in Argentina and the Netherlands, why Osama bin Laden is all over TikTok and the fightback for women’s sports. Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, November 17, 2023
David Cameron… really?
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the death of Tory populism, the tyranny of the Supreme Court and the two-tiered policing of protests. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, November 10, 2023
London’s hate marches
James Esses, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Armistice Day ‘pro-Palestine’ demo, ‘trans conversion therapy’ and the petulance of Just Stop Oil. Sign the Declaration for Biological Reality: https://declarationforbiologicalreality.org/ Work for spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, November 03, 2023
A ‘safe space’ for Jew hate?
Joanna Williams, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers discuss the explosion of anti-Semitism in universities, the Covid inquiry’s whitewashing of lockdown and the public revolt against woke capitalism. Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Sun, October 29, 2023
LIVE SHOW: Hatred, terror and free speech
Konstantin Kisin, Inaya Folarin Iman and Rakib Ehsan joined Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for this special live recording of the spiked podcast at the Battle of Ideas festival in London. They discussed how the Israel-Hamas conflict is tearing Britain apart, what Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has meant for free speech, and the dangers of banning ‘trans conversion therapy’. Plus, they took questions from the audience. Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, October 20, 2023
Hamas’s useful idiots
Jake Wallis Simons – editor of the Jewish Chronicle and author of Israelophobia – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the dangers of demonising Israel, the return of Islamist terror in Europe and Australia’s rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Get your tickets to see the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28 October. You can get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2023-tickets-647078107037?discount=SPIKED Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, October 13, 2023
Israel, Hamas and the return of the world’s oldest hatred
Ralph Schoellhammer, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the pogrom in Israel, the pointlessness of Keir Starmer and the idiocy of Net Zero. Get your tickets to see the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28 October. You can get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2023-tickets-647078107037?discount=SPIKED Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill’s next live Zoom podcast, in conversation with Graham Linehan, on Tuesday 17 October at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/03/zoom-event-graham-linehan-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, October 06, 2023
Sunak’s Tories: going up in smoke?
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss a listless Tory Party conference, the heinous murder of Elianne Andam, and a legal victory against CRT. Sponsored by ExpressVPN. Get three months for free with our special link. https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Get your tickets to see the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28 October. You can get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2023-tickets-647078107037?discount=SPIKED Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill’s next live Zoom podcast, in conversation with Graham Linehan, on Tuesday 17 October at 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/03/zoom-event-graham-linehan-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, September 29, 2023
The crusade against GB News
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from Laurence Fox’s sexist comments, the racism of multiculturalism, and the fall of Ibram X Kendi. Sponsored by Beckett’s Gin: spiked podcast listeners can get 20 per cent off all Beckett’s Gin products, including its London Dry Gin, Spirited Gin, Sloe Gin, Barrel-Aged Sloe Gin and the Gin Miniatures Variety Gift Set: https://beckettsgin.co.uk/spiked We’re hiring a new corporate fundraising and business development manager. Find out more about the role and how you can apply here: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Get your tickets to see the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28 October. You can get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2023-tickets-647078107037?discount=SPIKED Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, September 22, 2023
Russell Brand and the assault on the presumption of innocence
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Brand allegations, the madness of Net Zero, and how the medical establishment fell for trans ideology. Sponsored by Shopify: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked We’re doing a live show! Get your tickets to see The spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London on 28 October. Plus, you can get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED. See you there: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2023-tickets-647078107037?discount=SPIKED Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, September 15, 2023
Revenge of the Remoaners
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the return of the Brexit wars, Sunak’s cowardice on the trans debate and the race row in Peckham. Sponsored by Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked : https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, September 08, 2023
The steaming hypocrisy of Jordan Henderson
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the shallowness of virtue-signalling, the crackdown on climate ‘criminals’, and the cruel cancellation of Róisín Murphy. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, September 01, 2023
Sadiq Khan’s war on working-class Londoners
GB News’ Emily Carver, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss the mayor of London’s eco-tyranny, how the police went woke and the bizarre case of Kayla Lemieux. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, August 25, 2023
Lucy Letby and the evils of bureaucracy
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how NHS management protected Lucy Letby, Sadiq Khan’s junk science, why BDSM is not for four-year-olds, and the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Sponsored by Shopify: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Get your ticket for spiked ’s next online event. Brendan O’Neill will be in conversation with Michael Shellenberger on Tuesday 29 August at 7pm. Don’t miss it: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/09/event-michael-shellenberger-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Thu, August 17, 2023
The cancellation of Graham Linehan, with Andrew Doyle
Andrew Doyle, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss how wokeness is killing comedy, Germany’s crackdown on populism, and the autistic teenager who was arrested for saying a policewoman resembled her lesbian grandmother. Sponsored by Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Get your ticket for spiked’s next online event. Brendan O’Neill will be in conversation with Michael Shellenberger on Tuesday 29 August at 7pm. Don’t miss it: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/09/event-michael-shellenberger-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, August 11, 2023
Why we should leave the ECHR
Luke Gittos, Candice Holdsworth and Fraser Myers discuss the small-boats crisis, the madness of Mhairi Black and the myth of ‘global boiling’. Get your ticket for spiked ’s next live event – Brendan O’Neill in conversation with Michael Shellenberger – on Tuesday 29 August at 7pm: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/09/event-michael-shellenberger-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, August 04, 2023
The Trump witch hunt
Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the dodgy indictments against Donald Trump, Denmark’s ban on Koran-burning and Costa’s embrace of trans ideology. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, July 28, 2023
How Nigel Farage beat the banks
Triggernometry’s Francis Foster joins Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers to discuss the ‘debanking’ scandal, the drivers’ revolt against Net Zero and Labour’s flip-flopping on the trans debate. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Sat, July 22, 2023
The rise of heatwave hysteria
Laura Dodsworth, Luke Gittos and Tom Slater discuss climate alarmism, Farage vs Coutts, and the hypocrisy of Just Stop Oil. Order Free Your Mind , by Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Free-Your-Mind-manipulation-resist/dp/0008600945/ And while you’re at it, order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, July 14, 2023
Huw Edwards and the hypocrisy of the elites
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the ‘BBC presenter’ scandal, the emptiness of Keir Starmer and the violent misogyny of the trans movement. 🖊️ 📕 Donate £50 to get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, July 07, 2023
The banks’ war on free speech
Charlie Peters, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the ‘debanking’ of dissenters, the end of affirmative action, the victory of the LGB Alliance, and the breastfeeding dad. 🖊️ 📕 Donate £50 to get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, June 30, 2023
Why is Rishi Sunak so useless?
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the nothingness of this Tory government, the Wagner mutiny, and why wokeness just isn’t cricket. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, June 23, 2023
The crimes of Hunter Biden
Freddy Gray, Candice Holdsworth and Tom Slater discuss the hypocrisy of the Democrats, the girl who identifies as a cat, and the right to be offensive. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 or more to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, June 16, 2023
Boris, Trump and the revenge of the technocrats
Matthew Goodwin, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the ousting of Boris Johnson, the arraignment of Donald Trump and the arrest of Nicola Sturgeon. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 or more to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, June 09, 2023
The paranoia of Prince Harry
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Candice Holdsworth discuss Prince Harry’s war on the press, the crackdown on Covid dissidents, and the demonisation of JK Rowling Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, June 02, 2023
Kathleen Stock’s fight for free speech
Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the No Platforming of gender-critical feminists, the Phillip Schofield affair and the farce of the Covid inquiry. Get your tickets to the online launch event of Brendan O’Neill’s new spiked book, A Heretic’s Manifesto . Brendan will be interviewed by Andrew Doyle on Monday 5 June at 7pm. Find out more: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/18/event-brendan-oneills-book-launch/ Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 or more to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 26, 2023
The BBC’s Ministry of Truth
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Charlie Peters discuss the BBC’s obsession with disinformation, the relentless hysteria over Partygate, and immigration after Brexit. Plus, Chris Elston (aka Billboard Chris) explains his campaign against puberty blockers. Help keep spiked free, fearless and independent. Join our online donor community and enjoy a range of brilliant perks, including ad-free reading, exclusive events and signed books. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 19, 2023
The new truckers’ revolt
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Jacob Reynolds discuss the populist uprising against Net Zero, Ukraine’s fight for freedom, and Harry and Meghan’s ‘car chase’. Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 12, 2023
The coronation crackdown
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss the shameful arrest of anti-monarchy protesters, Keir Starmer’s culture-war gymnastics, and why the Archbishop of Canterbury should butt out of democratic politics. Find out more about spiked’s internship scheme here: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, May 05, 2023
Will King Charles be our last monarch?
Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss whether Britain is falling out of love with the royals, the great Bud Light boycott and George Osborne’s fag ban. Find out more about spiked’s internship scheme here: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 28, 2023
Joe Biden’s woke despotism
Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss Joe Biden’s re-election bid and Labour’s blind spot for anti-Semitism. Plus, Simon Evans explains how the late Barry Humphries pricked the pomposity of the elites. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Sean Collins: Joe Biden’s sinister disinformation campaign https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/25/joe-bidens-sinister-disinformation-campaign/ Brendan O’Neill: Diane Abbott and the derange left https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/23/diane-abbott-and-the-deranged-left/ Simon Evans: The glorious transgressions of Barry Humphries https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/24/the-glorious-transgressions-of-barry-humphries/
Fri, April 21, 2023
The SNP scandal we can’t talk about
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Luke Gittos discuss how contempt-of-court laws stymy debate, the tyranny of the ECHR, the uselessness of Jolyon Maugham, and the joylessness of Just Stop Oil. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Fri, April 14, 2023
Is Joe Biden anti-British?
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Candice Holdsworth discuss President Biden’s trip to Ireland, Elon Musk vs the BBC and Dylan Mulvaney’s insult to women. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Joe Biden’s woke conquest of Ireland https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/13/joe-bidens-woke-conquest-of-ireland/ Tom Slater: Elon Musk vs the BBC https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/12/elon-musk-vs-the-bbc/ Simon Evans: The making of Dylan Mulvaney https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/14/the-making-of-dylan-mulvaney/
Fri, April 07, 2023
The legal witch-hunting of Trump
Andrew Doyle, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the authoritarianism of the ‘Resistance’, the truth about grooming gangs and the meaning of woke. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Tom Slater: Why the Resistance is (still) so much worse than Trump https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/05/why-the-resistance-is-still-so-much-worse-than-trump/ Batya Ungar-Sargon: Trump’s great crime is to have stood up to the elites https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/05/trumps-great-crime-is-to-have-stood-up-to-the-elites/ Patrick O’Flynn: The shameless dishonesty over grooming gangs https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/03/the-shameless-dishonesty-over-grooming-gangs/
Fri, March 31, 2023
Why trans activism has turned violent
Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Fraser Myers discuss trans extremism from Auckland to Nashville, the idiocy of Humza Yousaf and the madness of Net Zero. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Listen to Brendan O’Neill’s interview with Kellie-Jay Keen from earlier this week: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/how-i-survived-the-trans-mob/ Related articles: Tom Slater: We must confront this woke misogyny https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/27/we-must-confront-this-woke-misogyny/ Jo Bartosch: The Sheilas will not be silenced https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/25/the-sheilas-will-not-be-silenced/ Fraser Myers: Humza Yousaf and the rottenness of the SNP https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/27/humza-yousaf-and-the-rottenness-of-the-snp/
Fri, March 24, 2023
Trump, Boris and populism on trial
The investigations into Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, lockdown three years on, and the gruesome case of Barbie Kardashian… Tom Slater, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry’s: www.harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: The lingering malady of Trump Derangement Syndrome https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/20/the-lingering-malady-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/ Fraser Myers: How lockdown exposed our illiberal elites https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/how-lockdown-exposed-our-illiberal-elites/ Jo Bartosch: Barbie Kardashian: the grisly reality of self-ID https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/22/barbie-kardashian-the-grisly-reality-of-self-id/
Fri, March 17, 2023
The Gary Lineker affair
The BBC’s impartiality crisis, the false accusations of Eleanor Williams, Jeremy Hunt’s budget and San Francisco’s mad plan for racial reparations… Paul Embery, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry’s: www.harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: So this is your free-speech martyr? Gary Lineker? https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/11/so-this-is-your-free-speech-martyr-gary-lineker/ Fraser Myers: Hunt is tinkering while Britain burns https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/hunt-is-tinkering-while-britain-burns/ Ella Whelan: Eleanor Williams: the perils of ‘believe all women’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/eleanor-williams-the-perils-of-believe-all-women/ Brendan O’Neill: Why slavery reparations are a terrible idea https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/17/why-slavery-reparations-are-a-terrible-idea/
Fri, March 10, 2023
Manchester Arena: why we *should* look back in anger
Salman Abedi, the Illegal Migration Bill, and Gary Lineker’s new low… Tom Slater, Luke Gittos and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: The lesson of Manchester? Technocracy is no match for evil https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/07/the-lesson-of-manchester-technocracy-is-no-match-for-evil/ Tim Black: We need democratic control over our borders https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/08/we-need-democratic-control-over-our-borders/ Simon Evans: Give it a rest, Gary https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/08/give-it-a-rest-gary/
Thu, March 02, 2023
The Wakefield blasphemy trial
The Koran controversy, the Windsor Framework and the Lockdown Files… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Tom Slater: When a Wakefield boy brought a Koran to school https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/27/when-a-wakefield-boy-brought-a-koran-to-school/ Brendan O’Neill: Sorry, but this does not restore British sovereignty https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/28/sorry-but-this-does-not-restore-british-sovereignty/ Fraser Myers: How Matt Hancock abandoned care homes to Covid https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/01/how-matt-hancock-abandoned-care-homes-to-covid/
Fri, February 24, 2023
How the Ukrainians shocked the world
The invasion of Ukraine, the rewriting of Roald Dahl and the cancellation of Kate Forbes… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Inaya Folarin Iman discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Ukraine: nationhood matters https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/24/ukraine-nationhood-matters/ Tom Slater: The rewriting of Roald Dahl should disturb us all https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/19/the-rewriting-of-roald-dahl-should-disturb-us-all/ Tom Slater: Kate Forbes’ opponents are the truly intolerant ones https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/21/kate-forbes-opponents-are-the-truly-intolerant-ones/
Fri, February 17, 2023
Good riddance to Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon’s downfall, the exploitation of Brianna Ghey and the dangers of the far-right slur… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Nicola Sturgeon’s woke authoritarianism https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/15/nicola-sturgeons-woke-authoritarianism/ Fraser Myers: Stop exploiting the Brianna Ghey tragedy https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/14/stop-exploiting-the-brianna-ghey-tragedy/ Fraser Myers: Knowsley: the price of silence https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/13/knowsley-the-price-of-silence/
Fri, February 10, 2023
The truth about Shamima Begum
Islamist extremism, Mark Drakeford’s gender reforms and Sadiq Khan’s war on the car… Fraser Myers, Ella Whelan and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Neil Davenport: The grotesque rehabilitation of Shamima Begum https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/09/the-grotesque-rehabilitation-of-shamima-begum/ Brendan O’Neill: An eye for a hurt feeling https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/07/an-eye-for-a-hurt-feeling/ Joanna Williams: Wales has learnt nothing from Sturgeon’s self-ID debacle https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/08/wales-has-learnt-nothing-from-sturgeons-self-id-debacle/ Ella Whelan: Sadiq Khan is taking Londoners for a ride https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/26/sadiq-khan-is-taking-londoners-for-a-ride/
Fri, February 03, 2023
The exploitation of Tyre Nichols
The Tyre Nichols killing, Rishi’s first 100 days and Sam Smith’s nonbinary nonsense… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Tyre Nichols: the bigotry of the ‘anti-racists’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/01/tyre-nichols-and-the-bigotry-of-the-anti-racists/ Laurie Wastell: Google, defender of the BLM narrative https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/02/03/google-defender-of-the-blm-narrative/ Brendan O’Neill: It’s time to call out the nonsense of nonbinary https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/16/its-time-to-call-out-the-nonsense-of-nonbinary/ Fraser Myers: No, Richard Madeley did not ‘misgender’ Sam Smith https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/30/no-richard-madeley-did-not-misgender-sam-smith/
Fri, January 27, 2023
Eff the WEF
Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan discuss the World Economic Forum, men in women’s prisons and Facebook’s unbanning of Donald Trump. Plus, Timandra Harkness explains the dangers of the UK’s Online Safety Bill. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Frank Furedi: Why Davos Man hates Brexit Britain https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/23/why-davos-man-hates-brexit-britain/ Tom Slater: Trans ideology has robbed us of our humanity https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/25/trans-ideology-has-robbed-us-of-our-humanity/ Brendan O’Neill: The Caesars of the Information Age https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/26/the-caesars-of-the-information-age/
Fri, January 20, 2023
The madness of Scotland’s gender bill
Nicola Sturgeon’s war on women, the cancellation of Jeremy Clarkson and the fall of Saint Jacinda. Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Simon Evans: The trans debate is beyond satire https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/19/the-trans-debate-is-beyond-satire/ Joanna Williams: Why Sturgeon’s gender bill had to be stopped https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/17/why-sturgeons-gender-bill-had-to-be-stopped/ Mick Hume: Why we should all worry if Jeremy Clarkson gets cancelled https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/18/why-we-should-all-worry-if-jeremy-clarkson-gets-cancelled/ Tom Slater: Good riddance to Saint Jacinda https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/19/good-riddance-to-saint-jacinda/
Fri, January 13, 2023
Spare us this self-pitying prince
Prince Harry, the Brazilian riots and trigger warnings on children’s books. Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Prince Harry and the snootiness of modern ‘anti-racism’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/10/prince-harry-and-the-snootiness-of-modern-anti-racism/ Brendan O’Neill: Prince Harry’s 400-page temper tantrum https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/11/prince-harrys-400-page-temper-tantrum/ Mick Hume: Harry’s princely crusade to tame the press https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/09/harrys-princely-crusade-to-tame-the-press/ Laurie Wastell: Now even Peter Pan has been given a trigger warning https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/11/now-even-peter-pan-has-been-given-a-trigger-warning/
Fri, January 06, 2023
The strange world of Andrew Tate
Outrage culture, the grooming-gangs scandal and the emptiness of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer. Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Simon Evans: Why there will be more Andrew Tates https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/03/why-there-will-be-more-andrew-tates/ Rakib Ehsan: Rotherham and moral rot of identity politics https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/05/rotherham-and-moral-rot-of-identity-politics/ Tom Slater: Our empty PM https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/04/our-empty-pm/ Fraser Myers: Starmer’s pitch to be chief beancounter https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/01/05/starmers-pitch-to-be-chief-beancounter/
Fri, December 23, 2022
The war, the culture war and the populist revival
In this special end-of-year episode, Tom and Fraser are joined by Simon Evans, Freddy Gray and Rakib Ehsan to look back at the key moments of 2022. Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters
Fri, December 16, 2022
A very European sleaze scandal
Joanna Williams joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss corruption in the EU, the winter strikes and the Orwellianism of the trans movement. Plus, Sabine Beppler-Spahl explains what’s really driving Germany’s ‘Reichsbürger’ movement. Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Frank Furedi: The EU is rotten to the core https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/13/the-eu-is-rotten-to-the-core/ Sabine Beppler-Spahl: The real threat to German democracy https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/12/the-real-threat-to-german-democracy/ Brendan O’Neill: The woke war on truth https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/14/the-woke-war-on-truth/
Fri, December 09, 2022
The truth about Harry and Meghan
Joanna Williams joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Harry and Meghan, the Twitter Files and the fall of Mermaids. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and get your free ticket to Brendan O’Neill’s upcoming live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Five times Meghan’s ‘truth’ collided with reality: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/08/five-times-meghans-truth-collided-with-reality/ Tom Slater: Will The Harry and Meghan Show get another season? https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/06/will-the-harry-and-meghan-show-get-another-season/ Tom Slater: The Twitter Files and the silence of the hacks https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-and-the-silence-of-the-hacks/ Joanna Williams: The fall of Mermaids cannot come soon enough https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/07/the-fall-of-mermaids-cannot-come-soon-enough/
Fri, December 02, 2022
A royal race row
Rakib Ehsan joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss microaggressions, China and trans Jesus. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and get your free ticket to Brendan O’Neill’s upcoming live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: The incredible courage of the Chinese protesters https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/29/the-incredible-courage-of-the-chinese-protesters/ Tim Black: Immigration and the myth of racist Britain https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/30/immigration-and-the-myth-of-racist-britain/ Rakib Ehsan: It’s not racist to ask where someone is from https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/12/01/its-not-racist-to-ask-where-someone-is-from/ Gareth Roberts: No, Jesus was not trans https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/30/no-jesus-was-not-trans/ Elizabeth Weiss: There’s no such thing as a nonbinary skeleton https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/10/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-nonbinary-skeleton/
Fri, November 25, 2022
What’s the point of Scottish independence?
Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Luke Gittos discuss the SNP’s victim complex and the latest from the Woke World Cup. Plus, Kevin Yuill lifts the lid on the grim rise of euthanasia in Canada. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and get your free ticket to Brendan O’Neill’s upcoming live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/play using code ‘SPIKED’ Related articles: Tim Black: The SNP: the world’s least convincing democrats https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/24/the-snp-the-worlds-least-convincing-democrats/ Kevin Yuill: Canada’s euthanasia laws are a moral outrage https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/17/canadas-euthanasia-laws-are-a-moral-outrage/ Mick Hume: A tale of two World Cups https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/22/a-tale-of-two-world-cups/
Fri, November 18, 2022
Can Donald Trump make a comeback?
Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Fraser Myers discuss the future of populism, the war in Ukraine, ‘Baby Eight Billion’ and Nicola Sturgeon’s trans crusade. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and get your free ticket to Brendan O’Neill’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://ExpressVPN.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Populism is bigger than Trump https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/16/populism-is-bigger-than-trump/ Tim Black: Do the Western media want World War 3? https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/16/do-the-western-media-want-world-war-3/ Rob Lyons: Why eight billion people is a human success story https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/14/eight-billion-people-a-human-success-story/ Neil Davenport: Children are collateral damage in the culture war https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/16/children-are-collateral-damage-in-the-culture-war/
Fri, November 11, 2022
Is Just Stop Oil a cult?
Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Fraser Myers discuss eco-extremism, the US Midterms, lockdown authoritarianism and Matt Hancock. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/play using code ‘SPIKED’ Related articles: Tom Slater: Environmentalism has become a creepy bourgeois cult https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/07/environmentalism-has-become-a-creepy-bourgeois-cult/ Joel Kotkin: A tale of two Americas https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/09/a-tale-of-two-americas/ Laurie Wastell: How selling mince pies landed a pensioner in prison https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/10/how-selling-mince-pies-landed-a-pensioner-in-prison/ Simon Evans: Is Matt Hancock even real? https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/02/is-matt-hancock-even-real/
Fri, November 04, 2022
Will Elon Musk set Twitter free?
Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Fraser Myers discuss Big Tech censorship, the English Channel crisis, the cancellation of Kanye West and the ungratefulness of Daniel Radcliffe. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://harrys.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/play using code ‘SPIKED’
Fri, October 28, 2022
Rishi Sunak and the racist backlash that wasn’t
James Heale – co-author of “Out of the Blue: The Inside Story of the Unexpected Rise and Rapid Fall of Liz Truss” – joins Tom and Fraser to discuss Sunak, Truss and Just Stop Oil. Order “Out of the Blue”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Blue-inside-story-explosive/dp/0008605785 Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, October 21, 2022
Liz Truss and the crumbling of the Tory Party
Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the PM’s resignation and the future of populism. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Sun, October 16, 2022
Live at the Battle of Ideas
This week’s spiked podcast was recorded live at the Battle of Ideas festival in London. Tom and Fraser were joined by Andrew Doyle, Paul Embery and Inaya Folarin Iman to discuss Liz Truss, Mermaids and Big Tech censorship. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressVPN.com/spiked
Fri, October 14, 2022
See the spiked podcast live
This week’s spiked podcast is going to be something really special. It will be our first-ever live edition. And we’ll be recording it at the Battle of Ideas festival in London, this Saturday at 12.15pm. The Battle of Ideas is Britain’s premier ideas festival, where free speech truly reigns. This weekend, in Church House in Westminster, hundreds of guest speakers and members of the public will gather to discuss all the burning issues of our time. Your favourite spiked writers will be appearing on panels across the weekend, but our live podcast on Saturday will be a particular treat. Joining Fraser Myers and Tom Slater on the pod will be special guests Andrew Doyle, Paul Embery and Inaya Folarin Iman. Plus, the audience will get a chance to ask questions. You really don’t want to miss this. If you don’t have a ticket yet for the Battle of Ideas, you can buy yours now at battleofideas.org.uk . If you’re a spiked supporter, you can get up to 25 per cent off day or weekend tickets – grab your promo code now via the spiked supporters hub. See you there!
Fri, October 07, 2022
The Tory meltdown
Inaya Folarin Iman joins Tom and Fraser to discuss Liz Truss, Iran and Elon Musk. Don’t miss next week’s live show with Lionel Shriver. spiked supporters can claim their free ticket now: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/03/zoom-event-lionel-shriver-and-brendan-oneill-live/ Get your ticket to see the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 15 October: battleofideas.org.uk Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Harry’s: https://www.harrys.com/spiked
Fri, September 30, 2022
The Italian revolt
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss Giorgia Meloni, Britain’s economic meltdown and the Labour Party conference. Donate £50 to spiked and get a free, signed copy of ‘How Woke Won’, plus a year’s free membership to spiked supporters: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, September 23, 2022
PayPal’s war on dissent
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss PayPal’s cancellation of the Free Speech Union. Plus: the violence in Leicester and the anti-hijab protests in Iran. Donate £50 to spiked and get a free, signed copy of ‘How Woke Won’, plus a year’s free membership to spiked supporters: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expresvpn.com/spiked
Fri, September 16, 2022
A royal assault on free speech
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss the clampdown on republican protesters. Plus: the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the madness of Mermaids. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Harry’s: https://www.harrys.com/spiked Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, September 09, 2022
The end of the second Elizabethan age
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the sorry state of republicanism and the future of the monarchy. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, September 02, 2022
Meghan, duchess of cringe
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss how Meghan Markle played the liberal elites, the latest on Big Tech’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and the weird media sympathy for Shamima Begum. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 26, 2022
A crisis made by our elites
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss the cost-of-living crisis, the cancellation of Andrew Tate and the madness of Emily Maitlis. Plus: Benjamin Teitelbaum on what Alexander Dugin really thinks. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, August 19, 2022
Salman Rushdie and the new ayatollahs
Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss the fallout from the Rushdie attack. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, August 12, 2022
The Trump raid and the unravelling of America
The Spectator’s Freddy Gray joins Tom and Fraser to discuss the Mar-a-Lago raid, Alex Jones and campus censorship. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, August 05, 2022
Britain’s woke Stasi
The spiked team discusses the rise of Britain’s thoughtpolice, Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip and Beyoncé’s act of self-censorship. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, July 29, 2022
How Stonewall crumbled
Trans ideology, the Tories and the ‘all white’ England team… special guest Luke Gittos joins Fraser and Ella to discuss. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, July 22, 2022
A climate of fear
The spiked team discusses heatwave hysteria, the Tory leadership race and Quidditch. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, July 15, 2022
How eco-lunacy crushed Sri Lanka
The revolt in Sri Lanka, the grooming-gangs scandal and the Tory leadership race… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, July 08, 2022
The end of Boris
From Brexit to lockdown to the war on woke… Tom, Ella and Fraser look back on the highs and lows of the Johnson era. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, July 01, 2022
Roe, Oslo and pronoun badges
GB News’ Inaya Folarin Iman joins Tom Slater and Ella Whelan to discuss the new fight for abortion rights, the terror attack everyone seems to have forgotten about, and the great awokening of high-street banks. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 24, 2022
Grooming gangs: the scandal that shames Britain
Rakib Ehsan joins Tom and Fraser to discuss the grooming-gangs scandal, the rail strikes, the Brexit anniversary, and the misogyny of trans activism. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: http://wondrium.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, June 17, 2022
The Rwanda policy and the assault on British democracy
Paul Embery and Luke Gittos join Tom Slater to discuss the Rwanda policy, the Grenfell anniversary, Keir Starmer’s boring leadership, and why Glastonbury is so white. Want to intern at spiked? Then apply now. The deadline is on Monday: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 10, 2022
The Lady of Heaven: censored for blasphemy
Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss Islamist intolerance, Boris Johnson’s flailing premiership, trans athletes and the woke meltdown at the Washington Post. Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked
Bonus · Thu, June 09, 2022
Debugger – Defending democracy from Big Tech
Big Tech makes big decisions over our lives: What products we see, how we feel about world events, what to censor – to some degree, even what medical decisions we make. Yet who controls Big Tech? The firms are so powerful and rich they really act as judge and jury now. Increasingly, they are accountable to no one. ‘Defending Democracy (and us!) from Big Tech’ is a three-episode docu-series from the Debugger Podcast exploring the depths of the problem… and the potential for solutions. Listen to Defending Democracy on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saving-democracy-part-1-too-big-to-sue/id1513813636?i=1000556683812 Listen to Defending Democracy on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/52tth0UkfXJ3VQxc94wDo8?si=fIDnE0rWQTuX-BcOkhpoGg&nd=1
Thu, June 02, 2022
Will Britain ever be a republic?
The Platinum Jubilee, woke policing and the Uvalde atrocity… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, May 27, 2022
Why Partygate never ends
Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss Partygate hysteria, Joe Biden’s bumbling warmongering, the demise of the disinformation unit, and racist babies. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, May 20, 2022
The great slump
Cost of living, NATO expansion, woke Hollywood and Wagatha Christie. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Order your copy of “How Woke Won” by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: http://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, May 13, 2022
The Brexit wars are back, with John Curtice
Britain’s leading pollster gives us his thoughts on the state of British politics. Plus, GB News’ Inaya Folarin Iman joins us to discuss Northern Ireland, Beergate and Elon Musk. Don’t miss this extra special episode. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/ Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Thu, May 05, 2022
After Roe: women’s liberation in a woke age
Roe v Wade, the UK local elections, the war in Ukraine and the attack on Dave Chappelle… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for spiked’s paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, April 29, 2022
Why they hate Elon Musk
Free speech, French populism and Angela Rayner’s legs… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, April 22, 2022
In Britain, being offensive is an offence
The Grenfell effigy, the Rwanda migration plan, and Wimbledon’s ban on Russian players… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, April 15, 2022
The shameful silence over Islamist terrorism
The murder of David Amess, Boris Johnson’s lockdown fine, Ukraine 50 days on, and the French elections… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters
Fri, April 08, 2022
Have we reached peak woke?
Boris vs gender ideology, the Hungarian elections and the Black Lives Matter mansion… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, April 01, 2022
Can a woman have a penis?
The rise of trans ideology, Joe Biden’s gaffe-prone diplomacy, Vladimir Putin’s culture war and Will Smith’s Oscars slap… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters
Fri, March 25, 2022
What is the point of Rishi Sunak?
The cost-of-living crisis, the anniversary of lockdown and how the Democrats have fallen for trans ideology… Fraser, Ella and special guest Luke Gittos discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, March 18, 2022
A new era of online censorship
The Online Safety Bill, the bravery of Russian dissidents and the never-ending rage against JK Rowling… Ella, Fraser and special guest Emma Webb discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, March 11, 2022
Why are we cancelling Tchaikovsky?
Refugees, the energy crisis and the Russophobic hysteria gripping the West… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, March 04, 2022
Ukraine’s last stand
The courage of the Ukrainian resistance, the madness of a No Fly Zone, and the bigotry of boycotting Russia… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters
Fri, February 25, 2022
Darkness descends on Ukraine
The Russian invasion, Covid curbs and the end of women’s sport… Fraser Myers, Ella Whelan and special guest Charlie Peters discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, February 18, 2022
Why the truckers must win
The Freedom Convoy, the Ukraine crisis, the EU’s culture war and woke activism in the classroom… with Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, February 11, 2022
Cancel culture comes for Jimmy Carr
Plus: the media’s beef with Joe Rogan and the latest from the truckers’ revolt. Featuring Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, February 04, 2022
Joe Rogan vs the thoughtpolice, with Konstantin Kisin
Free speech, Munira Mirza and Canada’s freedom convoy… Fraser Myers, Ella Whelan and special guest Konstantin Kisin discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, January 28, 2022
The West’s dangerous game in Ukraine
Russia, partygate and trigger warnings… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and special guest Charlie Peters discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, January 21, 2022
Joe Biden’s woke presidency, with Andrew Doyle
A year of President Joe Biden, Boris Johnson’s week from hell, the BBC licence fee, and the terror attack in Texas... Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and special guest Andrew Doyle discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, January 14, 2022
Is the party over for Boris?
The No10 garden party, freedom after Covid, the lab-leak theory and how wokeness became a parody of itself… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, January 07, 2022
Novak Djokovic and the war on the unvaccinated
Australia’s Covid hysteria, the Capitol riot, Big Tech censorship and Colston Four… Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, December 17, 2021
Covid, culture wars and COP – looking back on 2021
Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss another maddening year. Have we reached peak woke? Will COP go down in history as a flop? Will the pandemic ever end? The team discusses all this and more in this special extended episode. Please dig deep for spiked this Christmas and donate: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sponsored by: Wondrium https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, December 10, 2021
The week Boris crumbled
GB News’ Inaya Folarin Iman joins Fraser and Ella to discuss the Downing St Christmas party scandal, the Afghanistan catastrophe, and Hillary Clinton’s boundless entitlement. Please dig deep for spiked this Christmas and donate: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Get tickets for our event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/12/06/get-tickets-for-our-event-with-david-starkey-and-brendan-oneill/
Fri, December 03, 2021
Another cancelled Christmas?
Omicron restrictions, Chinese censorship and the woke war on Christmas – Charlie Peters joins Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan to discuss. Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, November 26, 2021
Europe’s new authoritarianism
Compulsory vaccination, the hounding of JK Rowling, the cricket racism scandal and the cancellation of an ISIS survivor… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Related articles: Fraser Myers: Austria is leading Europe down a dark path https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/24/austria-is-leading-europe-down-a-dark-path/ Tom Slater: JK Rowling: the making of a modern folk devil https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/23/jk-rowling-the-making-of-a-modern-folk-devil/ Tom Slater: Michael Vaughan: guilty until proven innocent https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/25/michael-vaughan-guilty-until-proven-innocent/ Paddy Hannam: Nadia Murad and the heartlessness of PC https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/24/nadia-murad-and-the-heartlessness-of-pc/
Fri, November 19, 2021
After Liverpool: the deafening silence over terrorism
The Liverpool bombing, the media’s culture war on Kyle Rittenhouse and more… Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Ella Whelan discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, November 12, 2021
Is it time to move on from Covid?
Covid fear-mongering, Tory sleaze and Megxit… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, November 05, 2021
COP26 and the green war on democracy
Climate change, the parents’ revolt in Virginia, and the cancellation of Terry Gilliam… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Related articles: Tom Slater: Environmentalism cannot survive democracy https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/04/environmentalism-cannot-survive-democracy/ Fraser Myers: The parents’ revolt in Virginia https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/03/the-parents-revolt-in-virginia/ Brendan O’Neill: Terry Gilliam and the return of blacklisting https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/02/terry-gilliam-and-the-return-of-blacklisting/
Fri, October 29, 2021
So now the left cares about Big Tech censorship?
Novara Media’s brush with censorship, Rishi Sunak’s delusional budget, and green rationing -- Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Novara Media and the left’s tragic turn against free speech https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/29/novara-media-and-the-lefts-tragic-turn-against-free-speech/ Fraser Myers: Rishi Sunak’s dangerous complacency https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/27/rishi-sunaks-dangerous-complacency/ Brendan O’Neill: Why is Insulate Britain being allowed to cause so much disruption? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/26/why-is-insulate-britain-being-allowed-to-cause-so-much-disruption/
Fri, October 22, 2021
David Amess and the rise of Islamist denialism
Islamist terror, Covid restrictions, COP26 and Dave Chappelle… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Related articles: Tom Slater: Nasty tweets did not kill David Amess https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/17/nasty-tweets-did-not-kill-david-amess/ David Livermore: There is no case for new Covid restrictions https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/21/there-is-no-case-for-new-covid-restrictions/ Fraser Myers: How environmentalism turned politics on its head https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/20/how-environmentalism-turned-politics-on-its-head/
Fri, October 15, 2021
The persecution of Kathleen Stock
Campus censorship, parliament’s Covid report, and green madness… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Related articles: Tom Slater: Academic freedom or mob rule? Time to pick a side https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/08/academic-freedom-or-mob-rule-time-to-pick-a-side/ Tom Slater: Liberty after lockdown https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/15/liberty-after-lockdown/ Fraser Myers: The madness of the green agenda https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/13/the-madness-of-the-green-agenda/ Ella Whelan: We need to dial down women’s fears https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/13/we-need-to-dial-down-womens-fears/
Fri, October 08, 2021
Build back bluster
The Tory Party conference, the Facebook outage, Insulate Britain and rainbow crossings… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: We need to hear less from Carrie Antoinette https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/06/we-need-to-hear-less-from-carrie-antoinette/ Andrew Orlowski: The Facebook outage shows we need to rein in Big Tech https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/06/the-facebook-outage-shows-we-need-to-rein-in-big-tech/ Tom Slater: Environmentalism is a class war by other means https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/04/environmentalism-is-class-war-by-other-means/ Jo Bartosch: When virtue-signalling goes wrong https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/06/when-virtue-signalling-goes-wrong/
Fri, October 01, 2021
The slow, painful death of Labour
Keir Starmer, Sarah Everard and white privilege… Tom, Fraser and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Issuu: Visit https://issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code SPIKED to get 50% off a premium account Related articles: Tom Slater: Someone please put Labour out of its misery https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/29/someone-please-put-labour-out-of-its-misery/ Ella Whelan: Labour’s insult to voters https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/27/labours-insult-to-voters/ Brendan O’Neill: There is no such thing as white privilege https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/29/there-is-no-such-thing-as-white-privilege/
Fri, September 24, 2021
Welcome to blackout Britain
The energy crisis, Keir Starmer’s pamphlet, and the smearing of Kemi Badenoch. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Get tickets to the Battle of Ideas: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-ideas-2021-tickets/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Rob Lyons: Our eco-obsessed government is sleepwalking into an energy crisis https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/18/our-eco-obsessed-government-is-sleepwalking-into-an-energy-crisis/ Fraser Myers: Since when does Labour care about democracy? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/22/since-when-does-labour-care-about-democracy/ Brendan O’Neill: Kemi Badenoch did nothing wrong https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/19/kemi-badenoch-did-nothing-wrong/
Fri, September 17, 2021
What is Boris Johnson for?
The reshuffle, Insulate Britain, Emma Raducanu and the Met Gala — Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Get your tickets to next week’s live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-world-gone-mad-with-brendan-oneill-and-julia-hartley-brewer-tickets-169866654737 Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Fraser Myers: a cabinet of deadwood https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/16/a-cabinet-of-deadwood/ Tom Slater: The racialisation of Emma Raducanu https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/12/the-racialisation-of-emma-raducanu/ Tom Slater: Of course AOC went to the Met Gala https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/14/of-course-aoc-went-to-the-met-gala/
Fri, September 10, 2021
The shadow of 9/11
9/11, social care, Marc Bola and the Wi Spa controversy. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our upcoming live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/07/julia-hartley-brewer-and-brendan-oneill-live-and-in-conversation/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Issuu: Visit https://issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code SPIKED to get 50% off a premium account Related articles: Tom Slater: How 9/11 exposed the depths of Western self-loathing https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/how-9-11-exposed-the-depths-of-western-self-loathing/ Fraser Myers: The needs of the elderly can no longer be ignored https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/06/the-needs-of-the-elderly-can-no-longer-be-ignored/ Tom Slater: Marc Bola and the sins of the teenager https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/marc-bola-and-the-sins-of-the-teenager/ Jo Bartosch: How the Guardian became the Pravda of the trans movement https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/how-the-guardian-became-the-pravda-of-the-trans-movement/
Fri, September 03, 2021
Why vaccine passports are a terrible idea
Vaccine passports, woke homophobia, NHS diversity managers, and Geronimo. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Paddy Hannam: The pointlessness of vaccine passports https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/02/the-pointlessness-of-vaccine-passports/ Brendan O’Neill: Woke homophobia https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/30/woke-homophobia/ Fraser Myers: Why does the NHS need diversity managers? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/01/why-does-the-nhs-need-diversity-managers/
Fri, August 27, 2021
Extinction Rebellion: a revolt against the people
The XR protests, rainbow police cars, the Nirvana baby, and ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, August 20, 2021
Afghanistan: a disaster made in the West
The fall of Kabul, the ‘incel’ phenomenon, the crackdown on private speech, and Lily Cole’s Taliban chic. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Issuu: Visit https://issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code SPIKED to get 50% off a premium account Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: This is worse than Saigon https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/16/this-is-worse-that-saigon/ Ella Whelan: Afghanistan is not about you https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/19/afghanistan-is-not-about-you/ Tom Slater: Jake Davison was evil, but he wasn’t a terrorist https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/16/jake-davison-was-evil-but-he-wasnt-a-terrorist/
Fri, August 13, 2021
The myth of the climate ‘apocalypse’
Climate-change alarmism, Kate Clanchy and the new book-burners, and Geronimo the alpaca -- Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Apocalypse porn https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/10/apocalypse-porn/ Fraser Myers: The climate class war https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/10/the-climate-class-war/ Joanna Williams: Kate Clanchy: no one is safe from the woke mob https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/12/kate-clanchy-no-one-is-safe-from-the-woke-mob/ Fraser Myers: Why Geronimo must die https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/09/why-geronimo-must-die/
Fri, August 06, 2021
The Oppression Olympics
Identity politics in sport, sex offenders in women’s hospital wards, and the hounding of a pro-Brexit trade unionist -- Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Mick Hume: The culture war over the ‘Olympic Spirit’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/the-culture-war-over-the-olympic-spirit/ Ella Whelan: Why aren’t we celebrating female athletes’ actual achievements? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/04/why-arent-we-celebrating-female-athletes-actual-achievements/ Jo Bartosch: Women need their own hospital wards https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/03/women-need-their-own-hospital-wards/ Tom Slater: The trade unionist sacked for speaking at a pro-Brexit rally https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/the-trade-unionist-sacked-for-speaking-at-a-pro-brexit-rally/
Fri, July 30, 2021
The Covid apocalypse that wasn’t
The end of lockdown, climate alarmism and Simone Biles quits the Olympics. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Fraser Myers: A carnival of irrationality https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/26/a-carnival-of-irrationality/ David Paton: How did the experts get ‘Freedom Day’ so wrong? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/27/how-did-the-experts-get-freedom-day-so-wrong/ Ben Pile: Are we finally getting cold feet about Net Zero? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/28/are-we-finally-getting-cold-feet-about-net-zero/ Brendan O’Neill: Why are we celebrating Simone Biles for quitting the Olympics? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/28/why-are-we-celebrating-simone-biles-for-quitting-the-olympics/
Fri, July 23, 2021
The tyranny of vaccine passports
The ‘pingdemic’, Dominic Cummings and Tory authoritarianism. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Up the vaccines, down with vaccine passports https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/20/up-the-vaccines-down-with-vaccine-passports/ Ella Whelan: Women don’t need protection from catcalling https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/22/women-dont-need-protection-from-catcalling/
Fri, July 16, 2021
The great football racism panic
The smearing of England fans, the flip-flopping over Freedom Day, and the snobbery over salty food. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Marcus Rashford and the hysteria about racism https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/16/marcus-rashford-and-the-hysteria-about-racism/ Tom Slater: What they really mean when they say ‘dog whistle’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/14/what-they-really-mean-when-they-say-dog-whistle/ Charlie Peters: The myth of racist England https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/13/the-myth-of-racist-england/
Fri, July 09, 2021
Fear, loathing and Freedom Day
The great unmasking, critical race theory in schools, and PC blasphemy. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. The spiked podcast is now available on video. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/UIIoUIVv0f4 Subscribe to spiked’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/spiked Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked
Fri, July 02, 2021
Labour’s pork-barrel multiculturalism
Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the explosive fallout from the Batley and Spen by-election, Labour’s toxic identity politics and the cowardice of the Conservative Party. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/02/labours-pyrrhic-victory/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/02/batley-and-spen-a-divided-left-a-complacent-right/
Fri, June 25, 2021
The myth of white privilege
Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Tim Black discuss the education report, the Batley and Spen by-election, the cancellation of Jess de Wahls, and the Brexit anniversary. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, June 18, 2021
Our neverending lockdown
The Freedom Day delay, the GB News boycott, and the crisis in the media. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, June 11, 2021
Why they are right to boo
Taking the knee, Maya Forstater and Freedom Day. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/
Fri, June 04, 2021
The shameful censorship of the lab-leak theory
Big Tech censorship, the threats to Freedom Day, and the fall of Stonewall. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/
Fri, May 28, 2021
Dom’s dictatorship
Cummings, Net Zero and equity. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Get tickets to see Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill live: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brendan-oneill-and-rod-liddle-live-and-in-conversation-tickets-154829756971 Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/
Fri, May 21, 2021
The forgotten racism
Anti-Semitism, freedom hesitency, and Prince Harry. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/
Fri, May 14, 2021
The Tory war on freedom
Free speech, Labour’s woes, and street harassment. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Get 20% off an annual subscription to The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, May 07, 2021
Another revolt against Labour
Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss the historic result in Hartlepool. Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 30, 2021
The court of Boris and Carrie
Tory ‘sleaze’, Joe Biden’s first 100 days, and India’s Covid disaster. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, April 23, 2021
The exploitation of George Floyd
The Derek Chauvin verdict, the European Super League and the cancellation of Richard Dawkins. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Mick Hume discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, April 16, 2021
The diversity trap
Identity politics in the arts, the return of pubs, and the death of Prince Philip. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, April 09, 2021
Boris: the phoney freedom-fighter
The PM’s authoritarianism, Starmer’s spinelessness and racist toddlers. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 02, 2021
The myth of ‘institutional racism’
The race report, cartoons of Muhammad and vaccine passports. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, March 26, 2021
Lockdown forever
Vaccine passports, mass shootings and the EU -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Bruno Waterfield discuss all this and more. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, March 19, 2021
Sarah Everard: exploiting a tragedy
Sarah Everard, the ban on protests and the EU’s vaccine crisis. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Joanna Williams discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, March 12, 2021
Why Megxit matters
Freddy Gray, Lisa McKenzie and the spiked team discuss the fallout from *that* interview. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Fri, March 05, 2021
The lockdown depression
The budget, the unravelling of the SNP, and the cancellation of Dr Seuss. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, February 26, 2021
The long road out of lockdown
Lockdown, hate speech and Megxit. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support this show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, February 19, 2021
The free-speech fightback
Campus censorship, vaccine passports and Islamophobia. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Sign up to “Today on spiked”: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, February 12, 2021
The n-word: does context matter?
The New York Times n-word controversy, Italy’s unelected prime minister and the Covid travel ban. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked
Fri, February 05, 2021
The myth of EUtopia
The vaccines row, Labour’s patriotism problem, and online trolls. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked
Fri, January 29, 2021
The EU’s vaccine nightmare
Brendan O’Neill joins Ella and Fraser to discuss the explosive row over vaccine supplies. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked
Fri, January 22, 2021
Why Joe Biden won’t heal America
The team discusses the inauguration, Kamalamania and the new War on Terror. Support the spiked podcast with a regular donation: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, January 15, 2021
The tyranny of the tech monopolies
Trump’s ban from social media, the crackdown on lockdown dissidents and if gay actors should play gay roles. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show with a regular donation: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 08, 2021
Dark days for American democracy
The carnage at the Capitol, Big Tech censorship and the future of democracy. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Make a regular donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, December 18, 2020
The year the world went mad
In this end-of-year special, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss lockdown, the rise of Black Lives Matter, and the prospects for populism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, December 11, 2020
Democracy or bust
The Brexit negotiations, Millwall vs Black Lives Matter, and the Covid vaccine. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, December 04, 2020
How trans ideology fails children
Keira Bell, Labour infighting and Joe Biden’s diversity drive. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 27, 2020
The great fascism scare
Trump, tiered lockdown and Jordan Peterson. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Buy the spiked book: https://www.spiked-online.com/book/
Fri, November 20, 2020
Boris’s botched reset
The ‘green industrial revolution’, anti-Semitism in Labour and Christmas in the Covid age. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, November 13, 2020
Trump’s tantrum against democracy
The presidential election, the Covid vaccine and the cancellation of Greg Clarke. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, November 06, 2020
Populism after Trump
In this US election special, the team discusses populism, identity politics and the pandemic. Featuring Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 30, 2020
Who will stand with the French Republic?
The Nice attack, anti-Semitism and the US election. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Listen and subscribe to spiked’s other podcasts: The Brendan O’Neill Show: https://podfollow.com/1436524071 Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle: https://podfollow.com/1522857920 Last Orders: https://podfollow.com/1439334347
Fri, October 23, 2020
The armed wing of cancel culture
The beheading of Samuel Paty, the northern lockdown and Critical Race Theory. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, October 16, 2020
David Starkey and the tyranny of the thought police
Hate speech, the Great Barrington Declaration and Twitter’s war on satire. Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Martin Kulldorff discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Listen to Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle: https://podfollow.com/1522857920 Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked
Fri, October 09, 2020
The president and the plague
Donald Trump, pub closures and woke supermarkets. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 02, 2020
Why anti-Trumpers could still get Trump re-elected
The US race, lockdown Britain and unconscious-bias training. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, September 25, 2020
The long lockdown winter
Covid restrictions, Labour’s Brexit backpedalling and right-wing snowflakes. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, September 18, 2020
Lockdown 2.0
The ‘rule of six’, Brexit and JK Rowling. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked
Fri, September 11, 2020
Is Britain now a rogue state?
Bruno Waterfield joins the team to discuss the outrage over the Internal Market Bill. Also on the show: corona authoritarianism and ‘Islamophobia’ in the press. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/11/the-eu-cant-handle-british-independence/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 04, 2020
Transcending race -- a spiked podcast special
Kmele Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman join Fraser Myers to discuss BLM, identity politics and race abolitionism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, August 28, 2020
How wokeness came to rule Britannia
The Proms controversy, the Republican National Convention, and the return of schools -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, August 21, 2020
Gavin Williamson should go away and shut up
The exams fiasco, Public Health England and the DNC. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Chris Snowdon, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, August 14, 2020
The insufferable emptiness of Joe Biden
Joe and Kamala, the English Channel migrant crisis, and another week of race rows. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Freddy Gray discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://www.harrys.com/spiked
Fri, August 07, 2020
Fear, loathing and free speech
Self-censorship, the Covid blame game, and ‘individuals with cervixes’. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss.
Fri, July 31, 2020
Wiley and the world’s oldest hatred
Anti-Semitism, Boris’s health kick and the Scottish hate-crime bill. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, July 24, 2020
Why Remoaners can’t let go of Russiagate
The Russia report, John Lewis and the speech police -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Kevin Yuill discuss.
Fri, July 17, 2020
The mask slips
Lockdown fanaticism, the rise of China, and Bristol’s BLM statue. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Fraser Myers, and special guest Lee Jones, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, July 10, 2020
It’s time to cancel cancel culture
The Harper’s letter, the BBC and the reopening of pubs. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Andrew Doyle discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsors: Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, July 03, 2020
The weird war on whiteness
White fragility, social-media censorship and Boris’s New Deal. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Stitch Fix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked
Fri, June 26, 2020
Terror returns to Britain
The Reading attack, trans ideology and Karen-bashing. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Joanna Williams discuss. Support the show: Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/
Fri, June 19, 2020
The Tory war on woke
Tories v identity politics, BLM in schools, and the corona crash -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Katharine Birbalsingh discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
Fri, June 12, 2020
The woke cultural revolution
Statue-smashing, Steve Bannon and JK Rowling’s TERF wars. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Benjamin Teitelbaum discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: StithFix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
Fri, June 05, 2020
America falls apart
The George Floyd protests, democracy under lockdown, and the policing of tasteless jokes. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 29, 2020
Cummings Derangement Syndrome
Our mad media, the EU’s corona crisis, and Joe ‘you ain’t black’ Biden. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers, and special guest Ashoka Mody, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 22, 2020
The care-homes scandal that shames the nation
Care homes, grooming gangs and police overreach. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 15, 2020
Lockdown UK: still no end in sight
Boris moving the goalposts, the Electoral Commission vs democracy, and Silicon Valley censorship. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Darren Grimes, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 08, 2020
Neil Ferguson’s staggering hypocrisy
The government scientist who broke the lockdown, the allegations against Joe Biden, and campus censorship. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Sean Collins discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/the-spiked-podcast/
Fri, May 01, 2020
Why the media have had such a bad war
‘Gotcha’ journalism, corona apps and trans battles. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Timandra Harkness, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 24, 2020
The Covid culture wars
Identity politics, lockdown policies and celebrities in the age of coronavirus. Tom Slater, Elle Whelan, Fraser Myers and Wilfred Reilly discuss. Spare a fiver, support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Sat, April 18, 2020
Why the 5G Covid conspiracy theory has gone viral
Corona conspiracy theories, the economic cost of lockdown, and Labour’s latest row. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Phil Mullan discuss. Spare a fiver to support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 10, 2020
A PM in hospital, a nation rattled
Boris Johnson in intensive care, China and coronavirus, and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. Tom, Ella, Fraser and special guest Austin Williams discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 03, 2020
Can the EU survive coronavirus?
The myth of EU solidarity, Sweden’s alternative Covid-19 approach, and the rise of Britain’s corona cops. Tom, Ella, Fraser and special guest Nathalie Rothschild discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 27, 2020
Britain in lockdown
The team discusses civil liberties and dissent in the time of Covid-19. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 20, 2020
Putting the pandemic in perspective
Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Norman Lewis on the dangerous overreaction to the Covid-19 outbreak. Spare a fiver, support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 13, 2020
Inside Italy’s coronavirus lockdown
Dominic Standish calls in from Italy to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic with the team. We also talk Labour, Islamophobia and the #BeKind campaign. Support spiked -- become a £5 per month donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 06, 2020
Has Bernie blown it?
Super Tuesday, Priti Patel and the war on womanhood -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked by becoming a £5 per month donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 28, 2020
Why free speech matters, with Toby Young
The founder of the Free Speech Union joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the new threats to free speech, and what we can all do to face down censorship. Learn more about the Free Speech Union: https://freespeechunion.org/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 21, 2020
The ghoulish exploitation of Caroline Flack
Caroline Flack, Andrew Sabisky and Dave at the BRITs. Ella Whelan, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 14, 2020
Labour’s woke war on women
Trans ideology, the Brexit negotiations and Germany’s populist revolt. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers, and special guest Bruno Waterfield, discuss. Start a regular donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 07, 2020
Why the Democrats might just get Trump re-elected
Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss Iowa, impeachment, social-media censorship, and woke dinner parties. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 31, 2020
Why Brexit Day is worth celebrating
Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Inaya Folarin Iman discuss the long road to this historic day. Support spiked by becoming a regular donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 24, 2020
Trump, Davos and Laurence Fox
Impeachment, green capitalism and wokism. Brendan O’Neill, Freddy Gray, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a regular donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 17, 2020
The woke Stasi
Microaggression monitors, the Labour leadership race, and the latest awards show controversies. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked by becoming a regular donor today: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 10, 2020
Megxit and the rise of woke royalism
Meghan and Harry, Iran, and the Labour leadership. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, December 27, 2019
2019: the year the people struck back
Brendan O’Neill and Luke Gittos join Tom, Ella and Fraser to discuss a remarkable year, from Brexit and the Boris majority to Greta Thunberg and the unstoppable rise of wokeness. Support the show here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, December 20, 2019
A new era
Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from last week’s historic election. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, December 13, 2019
A working-class revolt against Labour
Will Labour ever recover from this remarkable defeat? Can the Tories really become a blue-collar party? What the hell happens now? Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, December 06, 2019
Another bloodstained election
London Bridge, Trump’s visit, and Labour’s struggle with working-class voters. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Ella Whelan discuss. Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 29, 2019
Labour’s week from hell
The state of the polls, Labour anti-Semitism, the NHS sell-off, and the Conservatives’ lacklustre campaign. Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, November 22, 2019
The lie of Labour’s radicalism
In our latest election round-up, Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the latest party pledges, green grandstanding and Prince Andrew. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, November 15, 2019
The taming of the Brexit Party
The Brexit Party, Hillary Clinton, the party’s spending plans and other General Election news. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Check out the spiked shop: shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, November 08, 2019
Is this 2017 all over again?
The team discuss the twists, turns and gaffes of the election campaign so far. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, November 01, 2019
The Brexit election
Plus: the killing of Baghdadi and Dave Chappelle’s war on woke. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss, on this week’s spiked podcast. Get tickets for the Battle of Ideas: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/
Fri, October 25, 2019
Time to slay this zombie parliament
Brexit, Russia Derangement Syndrome and the Canadian balls-waxing controversy -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Get tickets to the Battle of Ideas: https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/battle-ideas-2019-tickets
Wed, October 16, 2019
SPECIAL: The return of ISIS?
Anti-ISIS fighter Macer Gifford and spiked columnist Rakib Ehsan join Fraser Myers for this special edition of the spiked podcast. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 11, 2019
The betrayal of the Kurds
The team discuss Syria, Brexit and Extinction Rebellion. Support the show: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked
Fri, October 04, 2019
Impeachment, royal censors and OK signs
Toppling Trump, Harry and Meghan’s war on the press, and the far-right threat — Brendan O’Neill, Sean Collins, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 27, 2019
Hysteria, humbug and Lady Hale
The spiked team discuss another extraordinary week in British politics. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 20, 2019
SPECIAL: Is populism here to stay?
Brendan O’Neill, Daniel McCarthy and Alessandra Bocchi join Fraser Myers to discuss the new populism. This is a spiked podcast special to mark the release of our new film, “Deplorables: Trump, Brexit and the Demonised Masses”. Watch that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMofYie4Lc
Fri, September 13, 2019
Brexit: This rotten parliament
Parliament, legal challenges and No Deal. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the week in Brexit. Support the spiked podcast: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 06, 2019
Special: The Brexit endgame
Boris defeated, Tory rebels and Labour’s fear of an election. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, August 30, 2019
Days of middle-class rage
Prorogation, James Baldwin and the Amazon fires. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers, and special guest Michael Shellenberger, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, August 23, 2019
Why No Deal is still the best deal
Boris vs the backstop, Jihadi Jack, and offensive puns. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Get tickets to The Brendan O’Neill Show at Podcast Live: https://www.podcastlive.com/upcoming-events/politics-tickets/
Fri, August 16, 2019
A coup against the people
The establishment vs Brexit, Greta Thunberg’s yacht trip, and the ban on sexist adverts. Brendan O’Neill, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Get tickets to The Brendan O’Neill Show at Podcast Live: https://www.podcastlive.com/upcoming-events/politics-tickets/
Fri, August 09, 2019
The barbarism of identity politics
El Paso, Scottish independence and the DSA. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Sat, August 03, 2019
How the EU played the Irish
Brexit, woke royals and trans kids. Brendan O'Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, July 26, 2019
Boris: Brexit or bust
Boris Johnson, Carl Beech and Canada’s waxing controversy. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Lindsay Shepherd discuss.
Fri, July 19, 2019
Trump’s white identity politics
Those tweets, the Warwick scandal, and the BirthStrike movement. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, July 12, 2019
Labour: party of the middle class
Labour Leave’s Brendan Chilton joins the team to discuss Corbyn’s Brexit betrayal. Plus: media Islamophobia and PC music festivals. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, July 05, 2019
Brussels shows its true colours
EU ‘democracy’, antifa and Glastonbury -- Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, June 28, 2019
The Boris delusion
Tory leadership, Iran and Islamophobia. Brendan O’Neill, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, June 21, 2019
The right-wing threat to free speech
Flag-burning, Hong Kong and anti-Semitism -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Antony Dapiran discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, June 14, 2019
The Tory circus
The race for No10, YouTube censorship, and Catholicism vs trans -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, June 07, 2019
Why they hate Trump
Trump’s UK trip, feminism and trans censorship. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 31, 2019
Two Europes: an EU election special
The Brexit Party, the populist wave and the future of the EU. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 24, 2019
An earthquake Down Under
The Australian elections, milkshaking and Mayor Pete. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 17, 2019
Jeremy Kyle: how pleb-bashing went mainstream
Jeremy Kyle, Alabama’s abortion ban and Change UK. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 10, 2019
The fight for Brexit continues
EU elections, abuse against MPs and Asia Bibi. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, May 03, 2019
The snobbery of the anti-Trump brigade
Trump’s state visit, decolonisation and voting in prisons. Ella Whelan, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 26, 2019
Sri Lanka and the new barbarism
Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Sri Lanka bombings and Greta Thunberg. Claire Fox on the Brexit Party. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 19, 2019
Notre Dame and the longing for legacy
Brendan O'Neill joins Tom and Fraser to discuss Notre Dame, Ilhan Omar and Roger Scruton. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, April 12, 2019
In defence of internet freedom
Internet regulation, the left vs the working class and cultural appropriation. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Wed, April 03, 2019
Why parliament can't be trusted
Brexit betrayal, Facebook censorship and Joe Biden -- Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 29, 2019
Mueller, May and memes
Russiagate, Theresa May and the EU’s meme ban. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 22, 2019
The bloody rise of white identity politics
The Christchurch massacre and its aftermath. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Sat, March 16, 2019
SPECIAL: The week Brexit was betrayed
Trade unionist Paul Embery joins Tom, Ella and Fraser to discuss a historic week in Westminster. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 08, 2019
Labour’s Jewish Problem
Left-wing anti-Semitism, due process, and how PC is ruining humour. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, March 01, 2019
The death of No Deal?
Brexit, campus panics and Bernie. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 22, 2019
Shamima, Smollett and Soubry
ISIS brides, hate-crime hoaxes and the Independent Group. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 15, 2019
How Brexit broke party politics
New parties, European revolts and campus censorship -- Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 08, 2019
The economics of No Deal
The Guardian’s Larry Elliott and spiked’s Phil Mullan take apart Project Fear II. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, February 01, 2019
Venezuela is not your playground
Western intervention, PC policing and BDS -- the team discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 25, 2019
On the ethics of doxxing children
The Covington scandal, Fortress Europe and woke comedy -- the spiked team discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Tue, January 22, 2019
Hate speech: a warning from Europe – a spiked podcast special
Paul Coleman explores the grim rise of European hate-speech laws, ahead of Spiked US’s next event in NYC on 29 January. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/
Fri, January 18, 2019
May's defeat, Trump's wall and woke capitalism
The team discuss Brexit betrayal, the US shutdown and Gillette's virtue-signalling. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, January 11, 2019
On the right to insult politicians
Westminster protests, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and diversity casting - Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.
Fri, December 21, 2018
2018: the year that rocked Europe
Brendan O'Neill and Andrew Doyle join Tom, Ella and Fraser to reflect on the battles of 2018. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Thu, December 13, 2018
Why British politics is broken
Brexit, Kevin Hart and the ‘blame Russia’ reflex – Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.
Fri, December 07, 2018
The mourning wars
The team discuss George HW Bush, Emmanuel Macron and PETA. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 30, 2018
Project Fear, the sequel
The team discuss the Brexit panic, Macron's France and trans misogyny. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 23, 2018
The dangers of hate-crime hysteria
Hate crime, Melania Trump and words of the year. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the spiked podcast: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Sat, November 17, 2018
Brexit: what is to be done?
Kate Hoey, Daniel Hannan and Brendan O’Neill discuss May’s Brexit betrayal, on a special edition of the spiked podcast. Support spiked’s fight for Brexit here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 09, 2018
Why Trump limps on
The Midterms, the Grenfell effigy and Apu -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, November 02, 2018
Trump, terror and hypocrisy
Trump’s rhetoric, blasphemy law and jokes about vegans -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 26, 2018
We need to talk about grooming gangs
Grooming gangs, blasphemy laws and swearing bans -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Jacob Mchangama discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 19, 2018
The Tory betrayal of Brexit
Will we ever leave the EU? Has Saudi Arabia crossed a line? Is Elizabeth Warren really Native American? Tom Slater, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, October 12, 2018
Nazi pugs, gay cakes and Bob Geldof
Should the state police offensive jokes? Can Christian bakers refuse to bake a ‘gay cake’? Will Brexit silence British music? Tom Slater, Andrew Doyle and Fraser Myers discuss. Watch The Curious Case of the Nazi Pug here: https://www.spiked-online.com/video/the-curious-case-of-the-nazi-pug/
Fri, October 05, 2018
Tories in turmoil
The death of the Conservatives, Brett Kavanaugh’s #MeToo showtrial and the students who swapped clapping for jazz hands. Joanna Williams, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 28, 2018
Labour vs the people
Has Labour betrayed the working class? Does identity politics undermine democracy? Has trans censorship gone too far? Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Fraser Myers, and special guest Sheri Berman, discuss. Support the spiked podcast here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Fri, September 21, 2018
How #MeToo became a political weapon
Will #MeToo bring down Brett Kavanaugh? Are the Democratic Socialists of America overhyped? What is the point of the Lib Dems? Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and special guest Michael Tracey discuss. Support the podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/
Fri, September 14, 2018
Westminster's war on the web
Should we have free speech on Facebook? What’s tearing apart the Tories? Is Serena a victim of sexism? Ella Whelan, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/
Fri, September 07, 2018
The stupidity of banning Bannon
Is Steve Bannon a fascist? Why is Labour blind to anti-Semitism? Is Nike woke now? Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the podcast here: www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/
Fri, August 31, 2018
Sell out Brexit? No deal
Is No Deal Brexit’s last hope? Is #MeToo eating itself? Has campus politics gone mainstream? Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the podcast here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/
Mon, May 07, 2018
Bret Stephens: 'Trump isn't un-PC. He's just an asshole'
On the latest spiked podcast, we talk to Bret Stephens, the New York Times columnist, about Trump, PC and the illiberalism of left and right.
Fri, April 20, 2018
Katie Roiphe: ‘I was called human scum just for criticising #MeToo’
Katie Roiphe talks to Tom Slater about the ‘weird energy’ and censorious rage of Twitter-feminism.
Fri, March 30, 2018
'To defend democracy, we must defend the nation state'
Tom Slater and Michael Brendan Dougherty discuss the populist revolt.
Fri, March 16, 2018
Last Orders: The war on cheap booze
In the latest episode of Last Orders, our podcast on all things nanny state, Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater are joined by spiked editor Brendan O'Neill to discuss minimum pricing, calorie caps and whether watching Love Island is bad for your health.
Fri, February 16, 2018
Beware the oligarchs
On this week’s spiked podcast : Frank Furedi on Brexit, anti-Semitism and George Soros, Emily Hill on her new book, Bad Romance , and an extract from the spiked review ’s interview with Joan C Williams. spiked-online.com
Fri, February 09, 2018
‘They celebrate the vote but they wish we didn’t have it’
On this week’s spiked podcast : Brendan O’Neill discusses the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, Linda Bellos talks about university censorship and the trans issue, and Wendy Kaminer says #MeToo is failing feminists. spiked-online.com
Fri, January 26, 2018
'We have to stand up for Afrin and the Kurds'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Macer Gifford on Afrin and the Kurdish struggle, Sean Collins on a year of Trump, and Andy Shaw and Andrew Doyle on their new free-speech comedy club. spiked-online.com
Sat, January 20, 2018
'When we instantly believe women, we invite them to lie'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Brendan O’Neill on why we must stop the sex panic, Phil Mullan on why Carillion’s collapse is about more than greed, and Claire Fox on why trans women aren’t women. spiked-online.com
Sat, January 13, 2018
'The left has betrayed Iran'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Maryam Namazie on the protests in Iran, Tom Slater on the truth behind Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury , and Christina Hoff Sommers on what’s wrong with feminism. Donate to spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/
Fri, December 22, 2017
‘I’ve seen the best and the worst in humankind’
On spiked's Christmas podcast: Kurdish fighter Macer Gifford on the war in Syria and Iraq, Dame Ann Leslie on the year feminists went soft, and Labour MP Kate Hoey on why Brexit is still brilliant. spiked-online.com
Fri, December 15, 2017
'Labour has forgotten working-class Leavers'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Paul Embery on the new threats to Brexit, Nathalie Rothschild on anti-Semitism in Sweden, and Emily Yoffe on why the #MeToo movement has gone too far. spiked-online.com
Sat, December 09, 2017
‘The battle for Brexit is still on’
On this week’s spiked podcast , Bruno Waterfield discusses the Tory/Brussels showdown, Sean Collins laments the Russia panic gripping America’s political class, and Naomi Firsht says Stop Funding Hate has declared a snooty war on press freedom. spiked-online.com
Fri, December 01, 2017
'This Meghan-mania is just incredibly grim'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Tom Slater and Freddy Gray on the royal nuptials, Pauline Hadaway on Brexit and Ireland, and Mark Lilla on the problem with identity politics. spiked-online.com
Fri, November 24, 2017
'Calling a woman a "terf" is just a new way of calling her a "witch"'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Brendan O’Neill on the problem with labelling women ‘terfs’, Rob Lyons on Hammond’s safety-first budget, and Nico Perrino on the problem of campus censorship in the US. spiked-online.com
Sat, November 18, 2017
Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'We're all bored of this Pestminster witch-hunt'
On this week's spiked podcast: Julia Hartley-Brewer on the 'Pestminster' scandal, Jon Holbrook on the democratic potential of Brexit, and Claire Fox on the problem with sanctifying transgenderism. spiked-online.com
Sat, November 11, 2017
Thomas Frank: 'Trump proves that anything is possible'
On this week’s spiked podcast, Tom Slater talks to Thomas Frank about Trump, Hillary and the moral disarray of the Democratic Party.
Fri, November 03, 2017
'We’re beginning to find sex disgusting'
This week’s spiked podcast is a #MeToo special. To get to grips with this moral panic, Joanna Williams and Luke Gittos discuss the sex-pest scandal gripping Westminster, and Lionel Shriver talks flirting, sex and prudes. spiked-online.com
Fri, October 27, 2017
'Free speech is crucial in the battle of ideas'
This week’s spiked podcast is a Battle of Ideas special. To give you a flavour of the discussions at this year’s festival, held this weekend at the Barbican in London and organised by the Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox discusses the age of echo chambers, Andrew Doyle talks satire and oversensitivity, and Nick Gillespie explains what’s really going on in the Rust Belt. Get your tickets to the Battle of Ideas here .
Fri, October 20, 2017
'This is becoming a sexual Salem'
On this week’s spiked podcast : Brendan O’Neill on the Harvey Weinstein hysteria, Luke Gittos on why ISIS’s White Widow deserved to die, and Ceri Dingle on WORLDwrite’s new documentary, 1917: Why the Russian Revolution Matters . spiked-online.com
Fri, October 13, 2017
Munira Mirza: 'I've been called a race denier'
On this week's spiked podcast : Munira Mirza discusses the government's race audit and why we need a more open debate about inequality. spiked-online.com
Sat, October 07, 2017
‘The Catalan crisis confirms the EU is tearing nations apart’
On this week’s spiked podcast : Brendan O’Neill on the Europe-wide attack on democracy, Kevin Yuill on why banning guns wouldn’t have prevented the Las Vegas shooting, and Adrian Hart on the truth behind the hate-crime panic in schools. spiked-online.com
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