The Brendan O'Neill Show

Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – on the return of the hostages, the evils of Hamas and the corruption of the UN.  See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED  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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the horror in Manchester, the West’s capitulation to Islamism, and why the hate marchers are furious with Trump’s Gaza peace deal. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED  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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yossi Cohen – former Mossad chief and author of The Sword of Freedom – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Yossi and Brendan discuss Mossad’s fearsome reputation, the existential threats facing Israel, and how espionage is critical to the Jewish State’s survival. 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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the violence of the American left, the Trumpian threat to free speech and the rage of trans activists. 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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham talks to Brendan about his arrest, the cowardice of his former colleagues and how Charlie Kirk’s killing will chill open debate. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/brendan 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake Wallis Simons – author of Never Again? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss how we learned the wrong lessons from Nazi Germany, the poisonous influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and what Britain must learn from Israel. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thomas Chatterton Williams – author of Summer of our Discontent – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Thomas and Brendan discuss the exploitation of George Floyd, the hollowness of Black Lives Matter and the inevitable right-wing backlash. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian and broadcaster David Starkey returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how the ‘Blob’ suppresses dissent, the tyranny of ‘human rights’ and how the establishment enabled the grooming gangs. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Owen Matthews – associate editor of the Spectator and author of Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on Ukraine – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Owen and Brendan discuss the Alaska and White House peace summits, why Ukraine is running out of options and why Trump is no ‘useful idiot’ for Russia. Sign up for your £1- per-month trial and start selling today at shopify.co.uk/brendan 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham and Brendan discuss the intolerance of Britain's cultural elite, how trans ideology staggers on, and the classist witch-hunting of Sandie Peggie. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Andrew and Brendan discuss the real reasons Gazans are going hungry, why Hamas’s casualty figures can’t be trusted and how the rush to recognise a Palestinian state is only prolonging the war.  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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Ian O’Doherty – columnist at the Irish Independent and host of The State of Us – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ian and Brendan discuss how migrant hotels took over rural Ireland, Dublin’s contempt for the working class and the struggle for an Irish populism. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Matt Ridley – author of Birds, Sex and Beauty and Viral – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Matt and Brendan discuss the conspiracy of silence over the origins of Covid-19, the dangers of climate alarmism and how Ed Miliband is bankrupting Britain. 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/   Sign up for your £1- per-month trial and start selling today at shopify.co.uk/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Konstantin Kisin – co-host of Triggernometry – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Konstantin and Brendan discuss what the woke left and the new right have in common, how conspiracy theories took over the world and the culture of silence around grooming gangs. 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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the insanity of the Democrats, the fall of New York and why Starmer’s Britain is a tinderbox. 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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Natasha and Brendan discuss Bob Vylan’s vile chants at Glastonbury, the horrors Israel faces in Gaza and how the Holocaust is now weaponised against the Jews. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Kellie-Jay Keen – aka Posie Parker; founder of Let Women Speak – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the ongoing battle against gender ideology, the cowardice of modern feminism, and why Islamist misogyny must not get a free pass. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Times columnist Melanie Phillips returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss Israel’s audacious strikes on Iran, the fanaticism of the Iranian regime, and why Israel is the best contender for leader of the free world. Read Melanie’s Substack: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/  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  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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Rod Liddle – associate editor of the Spectator and Times Radio presenter – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the hollowness of Keir Starmer, the horrors of two-tier policing, and why Nigel Farage could be Britain’s next prime minister. 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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show is also available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Douglas and Brendan discuss how rising anti-Semitism speaks to our decaying civilisation, what the West can learn from Israel, and the pro-Hamas hysteria infecting the left, the right and the mainstream media. 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/  An earlier version of this podcast stated that hundreds of students at Princeton University chanted, ‘Glory to our martyrs’, in recent weeks. Princeton students actually wrote the slogan on a banner and tweeted it last year, but did not chant it in their hundreds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices