Michael Shellenberger returns to the show to talk about COP26 and his new book, ‘San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities’. 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/...
Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘False Alarm’, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the COP26 climate talks, the crippling costs of Net Zero and the myth of the climate apocalypse. Listen to Last Orders: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/last-orders/ 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/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wond...
Andrew Sullivan, author of ‘Out on a Limb’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how millennials became crippled by wokeness, why the oppressed need free speech, and how the trans movement compels us to lie. 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/ Sponsored by: Noom: https://www.noom.com/brendan...
Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why trans extremism is bad for gay rights, women’s rights and children. 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/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Steven E Koonin -- undersecretary for science in the Obama administration and author of ‘Unsettled’ -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the dangers of politicising ‘The Science’, the irrationality of Net Zero, and why humanity can adapt to a changing climate. 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/...
In this special live podcast, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Brendan O’Neill discussed wokeness, lockdown and climate alarmism -- and how they all pose a grave threat to freedom. 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/
Wendy Kaminer -- spiked columnist, lawyer and former ACLU board member -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the threats to free speech from the left and the right. 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/ Sponsored by: Noom: https://www.noom.com/brendan...
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...
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...
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/...
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/...
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...
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/...
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/...
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...
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...
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...
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/...
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/...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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...
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/...
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/...
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...
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...
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...
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...
