Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis. Frank and Brendan discuss the origins of the culture war, the dangers of self-censorship, and how ‘the ideology with no name’ took over society. Book your tickets now to our live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/14/get-tickets-for-our-next-event-with-julia-hartley-brewer-and-brendan-oneill/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-o...
Sep 16, 2021•59 min•Ep. 64
Nick Gillespie and Brendan O’Neill discuss 9/11, the unravelling of Afghanistan, the dangers of cancel culture, and if freedom can be reclaimed after Covid. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/13/america-doesnt-believe-its-own-story-anymore/ Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to spike...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 63
Katie Herzog talks to Brendan O’Neill about cancel culture, the trans erasure of lesbians and the woke takeover of medicine. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Sep 02, 2021•59 min•Ep. 62
Bestselling author Heather Mac Donald returns to the show to talk about the latest wave of Covid panic and how racial hysteria is destroying high culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/28/we-are-burning-our-cultural-inheritance/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 61
Zion Lights, founder of Emergency Reactor, talks to Brendan O’Neill about her break with Extinction Rebellion, how environmentalism is harming people and the planet, and how nuclear power can solve climate change. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/22/is-environmentalism-killing-the-planet/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.co...
Aug 19, 2021•49 min•Ep. 60
Nick Cater talks to Brendan O'Neill about the never-ending lockdown Down Under. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/16/were-trapped-in-a-vortex-of-fear/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Aug 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 59
Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss the West’s retreat from reason, the rise of identity politics and the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/10/we-are-living-through-a-cultural-meltdown/ Visit Melanie’s Substack: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/...
Aug 05, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 58
Helen Joyce, author of ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the totalitarian nature of trans ideology, the abuse of ‘detransitioners’, and why men must not be allowed in women’s sports, women’s prisons and women’s changing rooms. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/03/the-trans-movement-wants-to-take-away-womens-rights/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support...
Jul 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 57
Sohrab Ahmari returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. Sohrab and Brendan discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/27/lockdown-is-a-class-war-by-proxy/ Subscribe to spiked’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/spiked Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spi...
Jul 22, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 56
Wilfred Reilly, spiked columnist and author of ‘Taboo’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why it’s time to dial down the racial hysteria. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/20/there-is-no-epidemic-of-racism-in-america/ 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 Related articles: Wilfred Reilly: ‘There is no police ‘genocide’ against black Am...
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 55
David Goodhart, author of ‘Head, Hand, Heart’, tells Brendan O’Neill how graduates left everyone else behind. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/15/is-the-great-graduate-takeover-coming-to-an-end/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/...
Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 54
Jonathan Rauch, author of ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the perils of groupthink, cancel culture and emotional safetyism. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/05/we-have-to-seek-out-ideas-that-make-us-uncomfortable/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 53
In this special live podcast, Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill discussed Labour, Islamism, wokeness and much more. This event was free for spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now and you will get advance notice and free or discounted tickets to all of our upcoming events: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/28/i-would-stake-my-life-on-labour-losing-in-batley/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan ExpressVPN...
Jun 25, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 52
Paul Embery, author of ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Labour’s Hartlepool disaster, why wokeness alienates the working class, and the limits of the Tories’ ‘levelling up’ agenda. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/14/they-are-like-two-bald-men-fighting-over-a-comb/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 51
Kathleen Stock, author of ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the consequences of trans ideology for women, gay rights and free expression. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/31/biological-sex-is-real-not-psychological/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 50
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson talks to Brendan O’Neill about the extraordinary harms of lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to “Today on spiked”: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Get 20% off an annual subscription to The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan...
May 12, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 49
Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox tells Brendan O’Neill about his campaign to liberate London from lockdown and cancel culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/03/someone-needs-to-stand-up-for-freedom/ 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/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 48
Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rise of diversity and the withering of democracy. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/19/no-one-even-knows-what-diversity-means/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Apr 15, 2021•50 min•Ep. 47
Former Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption tells Brendan O’Neill why he refuses to obey the ‘immoral’ coronavirus restrictions. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/12/the-government-is-instilling-fear-in-the-public/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/...
Apr 06, 2021•55 min•Ep. 46
Bjorn Lomborg and Brendan O’Neill discuss the exaggeration of climate risk, the coming backlash against eco-austerity, and why technology is the best solution. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/22/climate-change-is-a-manageable-problem/ 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 UK: https://www.harrys.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreat...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 45
Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the tech oligarchs’ war on freedom, democracy and prosperity. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/09/the-terrifying-rise-of-the-tech-aristocracy/ 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: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 44
Brendan O’Neill finds an antidote to critical race theory in the robust universalism of WEB Du Bois. This lecture was one of a series of talks at the boi charity’s Academy Online II: Race and Racism – a day of discussions about the intellectual history of race. The rest of the talks from that event, along with recordings of previous Academy events, are available on the boi charity’s Ideas Matter podcast here: https://theboi.co.uk/podcasts...
Feb 23, 2021•26 min•Ep. 43
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/15/womens-rights-have-been-sacrificed-at-the-altar-of-identity-politics/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Harry’s UK: https://www.harrys.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegrea...
Feb 09, 2021•53 min•Ep. 42
Robert Tombs, author of This Sovereign Isle, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the myth of Britain’s decline, the EU’s path to oligarchy and the necessity of Brexit. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/09/the-myth-of-britains-decline/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan...
Feb 02, 2021•56 min•Ep. 41
Peter Hitchens returns to discuss the rage against the critics of lockdown Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/25/covid-denier-is-a-disgusting-dog-whistle-slur/ Support the show with a donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan...
Jan 19, 2021•48 min•Ep. 40
Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about football fans booing Black Lives Matter and the devastating failure of lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
Dec 29, 2020•55 min•Ep. 39
Julia Hartley-Brewer, host of talkRADIO’s breakfast show, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss Britain’s slide into Covid tyranny and why we must fight to end lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan Harrys: http://harrys.com/brendan...
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 38
The trade unionist, writer and author of ‘Despised’ talks to Brendan O’Neill about where the left has gone wrong on Brexit, class and cancel culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/07/wokeness-is-no-substitute-for-political-campaigning/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan...
Dec 02, 2020•59 min•Ep. 37
Michael Tracey and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/25/in-the-trump-era-the-media-abandoned-objectivity/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 36
Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Brendan O’Neill about Trump, Biden and the panic driving the New Normal. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/16/masks-are-destroying-the-social-fabric/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan...
Nov 12, 2020•58 min•Ep. 35
