Simon Fanshawe talks to Brendan O’Neill about his public break with Stonewall, why he is not ‘LGBTQ+’ and why we need more civil disagreement. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/ Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for spiked’s paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.c...
May 12, 2022•55 min•Ep. 96
Jay Bhattacharya talks to Brendan O’Neill about the catastrophic harms of lockdown and how the scientific establishment suppressed the Covid debate. Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for spiked’s paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-...
May 05, 2022•53 min•Ep. 95
Freddy Gray, deputy editor of the Spectator, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Macron, Le Pen and Freddy’s controversial interview with Éric Zemmour. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.s...
Apr 28, 2022•33 min•Ep. 94
Konstantin Kisin, co-host of ‘Triggernometry’ and author of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss why Russia invaded Ukraine, why the West is worth defending, and why wokeness is now on the backfoot. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: http://wondrium.com/brendan...
Apr 21, 2022•51 min•Ep. 93
Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters and the Respect My Sex campaign, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how trans activism silences women and the importance of defending biological sex. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Apr 14, 2022•49 min•Ep. 92
Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the problem of male-bodied athletes in women’s sports, the culture of fear surrounding the gender debate, and her own experience of competing against drug cheats. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan...
Apr 07, 2022•42 min•Ep. 91
Mary Dejevsky, former Moscow correspondent for The Times, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, how Putin sees the world and why Russia fears the expansion of NATO. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Mar 31, 2022•33 min•Ep. 90
Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of “Compact”, returns to talk about the suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal, the return of class war, and the myth of the free market in an age of corporate censorship.
Mar 24, 2022•34 min•Ep. 89
Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the geopolitical naivety of the West, what the world can learn from the Ukrainian resistance, and how the war might escalate. Read Frank’s essay, ‘The Revenge of History’, here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/13/the-revenge-of-history/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newslette...
Mar 14, 2022•51 min•Ep. 88
Matt Ridley, co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how Covid might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, how scientists tried to suppress the lab-leak theory and how science has been captured by groupthink. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com...
Mar 03, 2022•51 min•Ep. 87
Rupa Subramanya, columnist for the National Post, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the vicious class war on Canada’s Freedom Convoy, the authoritarianism of the woke elites and the global fightback against technocracy. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Feb 24, 2022•34 min•Ep. 86
Ann Furedi, author of ‘The Moral Case for Abortion’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how ‘choice’ became a dirty word, what the pro-life movement gets wrong about women, and how identity politics is undermining women’s rights. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 85
Jacob Mchangama, author of “Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media”, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rising authoritarianism of left and right, the importance of free speech to equality and progress, and why censorship always fails to defeat bad ideas. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVP...
Feb 10, 2022•56 min•Ep. 84
Nina Power, author of ‘What Do Men Want?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need to recover masculine virtues, the terror of the #MeToo movement, and why there is nothing progressive about the transgender movement. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Feb 03, 2022•59 min•Ep. 83
Marie Kawthar Daouda – lecturer in French at Oriel College, Oxford – talks to Brendan O’Neill about the statue wars, critical race theory and the dangers of the ‘decolonise’ movement. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Noom: noom.com/brendan...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 82
Toby Young returns to the show, two years after the launch of the Free Speech Union. Toby and Brendan discuss how ordinary people have the most to lose from cancel culture, how wokeness thrives on absurdity, and the importance of dissent in times of crisis. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.c...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 81
Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how lockdown failed to protect the vulnerable, the catastrophic errors of the Covid modelling, and the suppression of critical voices during the pandemic. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 80
Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of Standing for Women, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the trans war on women. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan Noom: https://noom.com/brendan...
Jan 06, 2022•57 min•Ep. 79
Historian David Starkey made his return to the show recently for this special, live end-of-year episode. David and Brendan talked about the history wars, eco-alarmism and our descent into technocratic tyranny. If you become a spiked supporter, you can get free and discounted tickets to future events like this: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/...
Dec 24, 2021•59 min•Ep. 78
Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the Social Mobility Commission and headteacher of the Michaela Community School, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the culture war in the classroom. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sponsored by: Noom https://noom.com/brendan
Dec 16, 2021•51 min•Ep. 77
Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of ‘Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy’, and Brendan O’Neill discuss Kyle Rittenhouse, the death of journalism and how the elites use ‘social justice’ to pursue their own interests. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan Wondr...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 76
Alex Epstein talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need cheap energy for humanity to flourish, the backwardness of the green movement, and why Net Zero is more dangerous than climate change. Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 75
Actor James Dreyfus joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the cruelty of cancel culture, how radicals became censors and how gender ideology undermines gay rights. 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: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan...
Nov 25, 2021•49 min•Ep. 74
William Clouston, leader of the Social Democratic Party, talks to Brendan O’Neill about overhauling Britain’s democracy, the failure of economic liberalism and why wokeness harms the worst off in society. 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...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 73
Tim Stanley, author of ‘Whatever Happened to Tradition?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Brexit, Boris Johnson and wokeness. 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://wondrium.com/brendan...
Nov 11, 2021•44 min•Ep. 72
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/...
Nov 04, 2021•55 min•Ep. 71
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...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 70
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...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 69
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...
Oct 14, 2021•55 min•Ep. 68
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/...
Oct 07, 2021•46 min•Ep. 67
