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Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the death of the Tories, the brutality of Iran’s ayatollahs and Starmer’s totalitarian war on X
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Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the perils of the ‘Don-roe doctrine’, Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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When Lenore Skenazy let her nine-year-old use the New York Subway on his own, she was dubbed ‘America’s Worst Mom’. In our age of safetyism, children are expected to be supervised, monitored and coddled at all times – not left alone to explore the outside world. No generation has ever been so sheltered. And nor has any generation felt so anxious and depressed. Here, Lenore Skenazy – president of Let Grow – makes the case for free-range parenting, for letting kids have some independence from their parents, and toning down the panic over ‘stranger danger’.
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Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Britain's broken borders, the revolutionary rise of Reform, the revenge of the millennial left, and why woke refuses to die.
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Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Bondi Beach attack and the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism, and the battle for free speech after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how our broken borders threaten women and girls, Sandie Peggie’s fight for single-sex spaces and Jamie Michael’s never-ending persecution.
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‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch
Arrests in Britain for social-media posts have soared by 58 per cent since 2019. Meanwhile, actual crimes like burglary or assault are only rarely pursued or solved. Here, Paul Birch – former Metropolitan Police officer and counter-terrorism specialist – explains why the police became so obsessed with tackling so-called thoughtcrime. Social-justice activism, he says, is now fully institutionalised, warping police priorities and ensuring a two-tier approach to justice.
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Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK chancellor’s ‘creative accounting’, David Lammy’s tyrannical war on juries and the celebrities on the march against Reform UK.
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Fresh from his acquittal for ‘harassing’ a trans activist, Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – sat down with spiked’s Georgina Mumford to discuss the legal campaigns to have him silenced, the activist capture of the arts, and why the TERFs are finally on the winning side.
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Liam Halligan and Fraser Myers discuss the horrors in the autumn budget, why our sky-high taxes lead to dreadful public services, and where the next economic crisis could come from.
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The UK’s Covid inquiry has made the audacious – and utterly misleading – claim that an earlier lockdown could have saved thousands of lives. Here, Michael Simmons – economics editor at the Spectator and host of the Reality Check podcast – exposes the dodgy data being peddled by the ‘experts’, the groupthink that pushed us into lockdown, and the economic devastation that is still being felt today.
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Joanna Williams, Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Rich Mix’s cancellation of ‘Think Before You Post’, the left’s meltdown over Shabana Mahmood and the miserablism of the milkshake tax.
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Cheating. That’s how Sharron Davies – Olympic medallist, Tory peer and CEO of the Women’s Sports Union – describes the Olympics’ deranged policy of letting men enter women’s sports. Here, she tells spiked’s Georgina Mumford how ‘trans inclusion’ treats female athletes as second-class citizens, eroding fair competition and placing them in physical danger.
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Miriam Cates joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the BBC bias scandal, Labour’s meltdown and the Olympics trans farce.
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Wikipedia has been hijacked. Although the free internet encyclopedia poses as a neutral, unbiased and trustworthy source of information, it can easily be manipulated by ideologues, governments and other partisan actors. Here, Ashley Rindsberg – editor and chief investigative officer of @NPOVMedia – lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes policies that make bias inevitable and allow a handful of anonymous editors to rewrite reality.
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Benedict Spence joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the horrific knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire, Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City and the BBC’s fake news about Donald Trump.
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After Uxbridge: our broken borders are a threat to us all
Colin Brazier, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the horrific attack in west London, whether Sarah Pochin has a point about diversity in advertising, and why our censorship documentary has been censored.
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Andrew Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Jess Phillips’s betrayal of grooming-gang victims, Graham Linehan’s victory over the tweet police and the Jew hunt at City University.
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James Johnson – co-founder of JL Partners – talks to Fraser Myers about the Reform UK surge, why a second term for Labour is more likely than you think, and why the Tories need to stop chasing the ‘liberal centrist’ vote.
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What a giant faggot. Oh, Zelensky was democratically elected (no mention of the U.S./NATO-backed coup preceding). Ukraine was just tending its own kettle when teh eebul Russkies come a'invadin' (no mention of Kiev's years of hostile actions toward the ethnically and pro-Russian people of the eastern provinces). I could go on, but character limits and all. Simply put, that was just plain embarrassing.
Sack the editor. How did that happen? Last interview I could tell something was wrong right away when Fraser sounded like a Smurf. Then he starts talking over the top of the interviewee.
I love the propaganda advert for the French energy company raking in the cash thanks to the British people's subsidy paid towards the profiteering French state. The ironies abound. Hilarious !
even the ad is propaganda. Hearings have established. there was no planned insurrection or even any insurrection whatsoever yet they keep saying it
I may stop listening if they regularly include interviews in this podcast. Why did they think that people who tune in to hear a few people chatting about a number of topics would want to hear such a long, dry talk on the local elections? The one highlight of this was where the speaker jumped in and corrected Fraser when he followed the MSM line of Labour doing well in London. This was very telling, another example of Spiked's political bias stopping them from looking at the facts.
Abortion is murder! And Ireland are murderers
Why do they say “from Spiked’s perspective”? Does everyone at Spiked have the same view on everything?
Oddly apologist, apeasing episode. After days of the most horrendous brutality unleashed by Russian troops onto Ukrainian civilians, I'm amazed Spiked spend the majority of the episode criticizing the Western response to the crisis. We are at economic war with Russia, in responses to current Russian refusal to stop killing civilians and withdraw Russian troops from sovereign Ukraine. Spiked here is making the critical error of conflating the public decision to not purchase Russian goods, to decline being involved with Russians - as hatred or a phobia. No, the majority of the public are better than you give us credit for: we wish to support Ukraine rather than Russia. The public decided to take a side. By contrast these three presenters seen to be much more comfortable sitting on the fence.
still unsure how whistling Bob the builder is racist.
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Hearing from different people and I felt a deeper, more meaningful discussion. I'd like to hear more episodes like this.
Law enforcement officers are resigning in all Democrat states, it's only going to get worse, places like Chicago and Minnesota better ask Hollywood for the blueprints to build ED-209s just to prevent self destruction
She mentions the "Irish border" referring to that between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. That's a fictional border the British created during the partition of Ireland. The Irish border is the sea. Also, the US is a signator of the Good Friday Agreement so it's legally and morally obliged to protect. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the British government who are prepared to rip it up to protect Brexit. They talk about the integrity and unity of the UK and not separating off a region of it yet they clearly need to educate themselves on their history of partitioning other countries. Scotland doesn't even want to stay and Northern Ireland will eventually unify with the rest of Ireland.
why are you ignoring the evidence just released?
great episode and insights as usual. thanks!
It's important to ask what has Trump done in office to get these many votes especially from Black and Latino people. Trump managed to reduce prison sentence for thousands and had given a number of tax cuts and given communities a number of funds. But the question is whether this balances out with Trump's inflammatory response to the race riots.
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Sir Desmond Swayne articulate the point some people feel about the coronavirus response form the government. shame alot of his fellow party members sat in parliament looking sheepish and uneasy as he spoke.
The Democrat Convention, was just one big Trump Derangement Syndrome group therapy session. Kim Klacik will make a difference regards to the Baltimore shithole and highlight that California is also a shithole.
Of course it's China's fault for this damn virus
Why does the UK education system demonize it's countries own history and culture, without colonization civilization wouldn't spread anywhere, besides BLM are self confessed Marxists people who hate western civilization and Christianity