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Episodes

340: Britain’s border farce

Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the judicial power-grab behind the Gazan resettlement ruling, why we must kill the assisted-dying bill and the health minister who thinks you can identify as a llama. Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/s...

Feb 14, 202538 minEp. 340

339: The Munich attack: asylum, Islamism and the AfD

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked At least 30 people were injured in a suspected Islamist terror attack in Munich on Thursday, when an Afghan asylum seeker ploughed his car into a trade-union demonstration. Here, spiked’s Germany correspondent, Sabine Beppler-Spahl, joins Fraser Myers to discuss the suspect, the recent spate of Islamist attack...

Feb 14, 202511 minEp. 339

338: Labour’s Islamic blasphemy laws

Ella Whelan, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers discuss how Angela Rayner could silence criticism of Islam, why the UK is ripe for a Reform revolt and Trump’s ban on men in women’s sport. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign...

Feb 07, 202534 minEp. 338

337: ‘I became a pariah in corporate America’ | Jennifer Sey

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Jennifer Sey. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Jennifer Sey – former US national-champion gymnast and brand president at Levi’s – was on her way to the top of the corporate ladder when her career was brutally cut short. For speaking out against Covid school closures, she was branded a heretic, smeared as a bigot, and Levi’s...

Feb 05, 202525 minEp. 337

336: The absurdity of Rachel Reeves’s “green growth”

Miriam Cates, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how Labour’s green agenda is destroying British industry, how we all became ‘extremists’ and the cruelty of assisted dying. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take control of your health with AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spik...

Jan 31, 202541 minEp. 336

335: The truth about Southport

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the crimes of Axel Rudakubana, how Trump tamed the ‘Resistance’ and why there’s no such thing as ‘green’ growth. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail’s end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take control of your health with AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Ap...

Jan 24, 202530 minEp. 335

334: The hidden dangers of the Gaza hostage deal

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Jake Wallis Simons and Brendan O’Neill join Fraser Myers to discuss the return of the Israeli hostages, the barbarism of Hamas and the West’s abandonment of Israel. Apply for spiked’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/...

Jan 20, 202521 minEp. 334

333: Why Keir Starmer is imploding

Graham Linehan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the unravelling of the Labour government, Trumpism vs trans, the crackdown on pub banter and the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. Apply for spiked ’s internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ 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 Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spike...

Jan 17, 202540 minEp. 333

332: ‘Trudeau acted like a tinpot dictator’

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Rupa Subramanya. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Rupa Subramanya, writer at the Free Press , talks to Fraser Myers about Justin Trudeau’s plummeting popularity, his authoritarian crackdown on dissent and why modern Canada is so dysfunctional....

Jan 11, 202521 minEp. 332

331: Grooming gangs and the ‘far-right bandwagon’ slur

Emily Carver, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Musk vs Starmer, free speech on Facebook, the Charlie Hebdo anniversary, and Justin Trudeau’s woke tyranny. This episode is sponsored by Shopify: https://www.shopify.com/spiked Take control of your health with AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked...

Jan 10, 202537 minEp. 331

‘Grooming-gangs victims are outraged’

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Charlie Peters. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Charlie Peters, national reporter for GB News, talks to Fraser Myers about Keir Starmer’s refusal to hold a national grooming-gangs inquiry, how political correctness sanctioned widespread abuse and how victims are still being denied the justice they deserve....

Jan 09, 202520 minEp. 331

330: An interview with Charlie Hebdo’s Gérard Biard

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Gérard Biard. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked On 7 January 2015, two Islamist terrorists, armed with Kalashnikovs, burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo . 12 people were murdered, eight of them writers and cartoonists at the left-wing, satirical newspaper. Charlie ’s supposed crime? It had published cartoons of the Proph...

Jan 07, 202537 minEp. 330

328: ‘The scale of censorship is insane’ | Greg Lukianoff on Britain’s speech police

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Greg Lukianoff. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Is the UK a free country any more? An estimated nine people per day are arrested for making offensive comments online. In fact, more people had their collars felt in Britain for speech crimes in 2015 and 2016 than were arrested in the US during the entirety of First Red Scare...

Dec 30, 202426 minEp. 328

327: The Magdeburg attack: what we know so far

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Rakib Ehsan and Sabine Beppler-Spahl join Fraser Myers to discuss the deadly car attack on a German Christmas market, the misinformation surrounding the suspect’s motives, and how this deadly atrocity could fuel an insurgent AfD. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or m...

Dec 23, 202414 minEp. 327

326: 2024: revenge of the deplorables

In this special end-of-year episode, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers are joined by Francis Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman to reflect on the highs and lows of 2024. They discuss Trump, Farage and the global populist surge; why woke is losing the culture war; how Southport exposed Keir Starmer’s authoritarianism; the triumph of Israel, the unravelling of Syria and the tragedy of Ukraine; and more. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a f...

Dec 20, 202448 minEp. 326

325: Why Trump won the working class | Michael Lind

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Michael Lind. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked A month on from Trump’s seismic victory, Democrats are still in denial about the significance of their defeat. Party elites think slicker messaging alone can claw back lost support. Here, Michael Lind – author of Hell to Pay and The New Class War – explains why this is so delus...

Dec 18, 202426 minEp. 325

324: Syria: has HTS changed?

Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the end of the Assad regime, the ‘hot assassin’, the trial of Daniel Penny and the rise of Reform. Get your tickets for Brendan O’Neill online event with James Dreyfus, on Wednesday 18 December, 7pm BST. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK postal addresses only.) Donate here: https://www.sp...

Dec 12, 202442 minEp. 324

323: Gregg Wallace and the dangers of trial by media

Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the MasterChef scandal, the collapse of the French government and Keir Starmer’s botched reset. Please give generously to spiked’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you donate £50 or more, you can also get a free spiked mug, while stocks last. (UK addresses only.) https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https:/...

Dec 06, 202427 minEp. 323

322: Why I fought on the frontline in Ukraine | Macer Gifford

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Macer Gifford. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked ‘To fight evil.’ That’s why Macer Gifford gave up his comfortable life as a City of London currency trader to fight as an international volunteer in two major conflicts – first in Syria, and then in Ukraine. In 2014, he joined the Kurds in their battle against ISIS. In 2022, h...

Dec 04, 202432 minEp. 322

321: The horror of ‘assisted dying’

Jacob Reynolds from MCC Brussels, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the assisted-dying bill and the Labour MP demanding a blasphemy law. Please give generously to spiked ’s Christmas give-a-thon. If you give £50 or more, you can get a free spiked mug, while stocks last (UK donors only). https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.co....

Nov 28, 202424 minEp. 321

320: ‘Death on demand’ | Danny Kruger on assisted dying

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Danny Kruger. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked There is no ‘safe’ way to legalise assisted dying, warns Conservative MP Danny Kruger on spiked today ahead of Friday’s House of Commons vote. Talking to Fraser Myers, he argues that a ‘right to die’ would force the NHS to offer ‘death on demand’. For all the talk of the ‘safeg...

Nov 28, 20249 minEp. 320

319: The fury of Britain’s farmers

Fraser Myers is joined by Luke Gittos and Michael Murphy to discuss the farmers’ protests, non-crime hate incidents, the child abuser we can’t deport and Jaguar’s disastrous woke rebrand. Watch Michael Murphy's new documentary, 'Guardians of Israel', here: https://www.outpoststudios.net/p/guardians-of-israel-an-outpost-original This episode is sponsored by Beckett’s Gin. Listeners to the show can get 20% off all spirits, including Beckett’s single-malt English whisky, here: https://beckettsgin.c...

Nov 22, 202430 minEp. 319

318: Debunking the lies about Israel | Natasha Hausdorff

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Natasha Hausdorff. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Israel is easily the most demonised nation on Earth. Despite the Jewish State being a liberal democracy, Western activists spend vastly more time raging against it than they do genuinely despotic regimes. We’re told Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza, that it is going...

Nov 19, 202423 minEp. 318

317: Musk Derangement Syndrome

Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the rage against Elon Musk, the X-odus, the Allison Pearson scandal and the tragedy of Gary Lineker. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period.

Nov 15, 202431 minEp. 317

316: The deplorables strike back

In this US election special, Joel Kotkin, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss why Trump won, the revolt against identity politics and the irrepressible rise of populism. Protect yourself online with ExpressVPN . Sign up today and get an extra three months for free with a new 12-month plan: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw in a ye...

Nov 07, 202432 minEp. 316

315: Why Trump won

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel, featuring Batya Ungar-Sargon, Zaid Jilani and Nick Gillespie. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Donald Trump has defied the odds – and the elites – to stage the political comeback of the century. Here, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Zaid Jilani and Nick Gillespie explain why Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris was so stunning. They discuss Trump’s appeal ...

Nov 06, 202434 minEp. 315

314: Who are the Democrats calling ‘garbage’?

Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the US election, slavery reparations and the Southport revelations. Take your business to the next level with Shopify . Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period. This episode is sponsored by AG1 . Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription. Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll al...

Nov 01, 202433 minEp. 314

313: Chris Kaba and the shamelessness of the ‘anti-racists’

Ian Acheson, Paul Embery and Tom Slater discuss the attempt to turn Chris Kaba into Britain’s George Floyd, the death of rioter Peter Lynch, and the ‘Trump is Hitler’ smear. Check out Paul’s Substack: https://www.paulembery.com/ And Ian’s book, Screwed : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screwed-Britains-Prison-Crisis-Escape/dp/178590471X Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation . We’ll also throw ...

Oct 25, 202438 minEp. 313

312: Why I loathe Kamala Harris | Lionel Shriver

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Lionel Shriver. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Kamala Harris has been hailed as the candidate of ‘joy’. But is there any substance beneath the supposedly feelgood vibes? Here, Lionel Shriver – author of Mania – tells spiked that there’s something fraudulent about Harris, who she says has never had an original idea nor hel...

Oct 23, 202429 minEp. 312
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