The spiked podcast

Connie Shaw, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s free-speech emergency, how Zack Polanski hypnotised the Greens and Keir Starmer’s plastic patriotism. New episodes every Friday. 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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gareth Roberts, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Reform UK’s deportation plans, how ‘sensible centrists’ lost touch with reality and how Essex Man could save Britain. New episodes every Friday. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a man can declare himself a woman, how do we know what is true or false anymore? The institutions we might once have looked to – from academia to journalism to science – have all rallied around the absurdity that we can change sex at will. Here, Wesley Yang – essayist and author of The Souls of Yellow Folk – explains how a ‘successor ideology’ has captured the liberal mind. It has swapped tolerance and pluralism for brutal authoritarianism. And it has redefined reality itself, embedding lies in the fabric of our institutions. Democracy, Wesley says, is our only hope of resisting it. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ross Clark – author of Not Zero and Far From EUtopia – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the childminder jailed for a tweet, the closure of the Epping migrant hotel, Operation Raise the Colours, and the grand folly of greenism. New episodes every Friday. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can humans change sex? Is there a third sex, beyond male and female? Can a child be born in the ‘wrong’ body? The answer to all of these questions is a definitive no. The sex binary in human beings is an established biological fact. So why do so many once-reputable scientific institutions now say otherwise? Here, Colin Wright – evolutionary biologist and founding editor of Reality’s Last Stand – explains how trans ideology has distorted even the hard sciences. Plus, he discusses the Imane Khelif boxing scandal and the right-wing threat to scientific progress. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will the small boats be Starmer’s undoing? Claire Fox joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss illegal migration, the Great British crime debate and the Trump-Putin summit. New episodes every Friday. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Woke privilege | Musa al-Gharbi  The woke love to pose as the voice of the marginalised. All their activism, they say, is for the benefit of those who face oppression and discrimination. Here, Musa al-Gharbi – author of We Have Never Been Woke – explains why the real base for woke is the elite. The professional middle class and above use ‘progressive’ ideology to both compete among themselves and to justify their position above the masses. They pass off their own personal interests, he argues, as the interests of those at the bottom. This is a class war disguised as a culture war.  Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patrick Christys, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the asylum crimewave and the ‘Mind the Grab’ awareness campaign.  Plus, Matthew Lesh explains why the worst of the Online Safety Act is yet to come. New episodes every Friday. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The re-election of Donald Trump has heralded more than just a ‘vibe shift’. Here, Eric Kaufmann – director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham – argues that 60 years of woke orthodoxy are in the administration’s crosshairs. Policies institutionalised for decades, from affirmative action to PC speech codes, are finally being unpicked. The post-progressive era has arrived. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Howie, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the UK’s new online censorship regime, Southport one year on and Keir Starmer’s gift to Hamas. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Colin Brazier, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Epping asylum-hotel protests, Jeremy Corbyn’s botched comeback and Sussex University’s sexist sop to Eddie Izzard. 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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Doyle, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from the Afghan data breach, Sandie Peggie’s battle for women’s rights and the MasterChef witch-hunt. 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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the 20th anniversary of the London Bombings, Macron and Starmer’s lame-duck summit and why ‘Islamophobia’ must not be banned. 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  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Britain is at breaking point’ | Harry Saul Markham  Terror attacks. Hate marches. Blasphemy laws by the backdoor. These are some of the bitter fruits of decades of multiculturalism. Dividing Britons by their ethnic, religious and cultural background was supposed to promote tolerance, openness and a more cohesive society. Instead it has fuelled hatred, narcissism and a vicious strain of Islamism. Yet as democracy and liberty are being slowly eroded, our cowardly elites refuse even to notice. Here, Harry Saul Markham – author of new book The Melted Pot – warns his fellow liberal centrists that complacency is not an option. Unless we restore a sense of shared values, British society will continue to unravel.  Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the unravelling of the Labour government, Bob Vylan’s vile rant at Glastonbury and the grooming gangs that are still plaguing Britain. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the narcissism of the pro-Palestine set, Reform’s path to power and Zohran Mamdani’s woke intifada. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America’s Ivy League universities have long been hotbeds of censorship and intolerance. Unpopular views are deplatformed, unorthodox professors are cancelled and research prioritises PC fads over facts. Donald Trump has vowed to force universities to clean up their act – but is he helping on hurting? Here, Yascha Mounk – editor of Persuasion and author of The Identity Trap – argues that Trump’s campus diktats are only stoking a woke backlash. Free speech and reason are just as imperilled as ever, he says. The university could now be in its death throes.   Read spiked: ⁠https://www.spiked-online.com/⁠     Support spiked:⁠https://www.spiked-online.com/support/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel’s aerial assault on Iran has stunned the world. Surgical strikes have wiped out much of Tehran’s military leadership. Its nuclear-weapons capabilities have been severely degraded. The brutal Islamist regime, loathed at home and abroad, is at its weakest point in decades. Here, Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – discusses why Israel felt it had to act, whether the Iranian regime can survive, and what risks lie ahead for Israel and the West.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How ‘progressives’ destroyed LA, the Ballymena riots and Greta’s ship of fools. Featuring Joel Kotkin, Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     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 is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Gad Saad. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Woke ideology is unfailingly irrational. Claims of systemic oppression in the West are easily disproven. And while activists claim to stand for tolerance and empathy, their intolerance and authoritarianism know no bounds. Here, Gad Saad – evolutionary psychologist, host of The Saad Truth and author of The Parasitic Mind – explains why woke spreads, despite its obvious dangers and contradictions. Indeed, it is the well educated, he argues, who are especially vulnerable to these infectious ideas. To win the culture war, we must inoculate society against this ‘mind virus’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices