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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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
The podcast delves into Nigel Farage's controversial mass deportation proposals, including withdrawing from the ECHR, and how Reform UK is now dictating the political agenda by echoing public sentiment on illegal migration. It critiques the outdated views and declining relevance of 'sensible centrist' media figures who are out of touch with societal shifts. Finally, the discussion highlights the 'Essex Man' phenomenon, suggesting this demographic represents a common-sense, pragmatic force challenging politically correct narratives and offering a new direction for Britain.
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 lie...
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 podcastchoices.com/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...
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 podcastchoices.com/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...
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 podcastchoices.com/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.c...
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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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...
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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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...
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 t...
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 podcastchoices.com/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...
Liam Halligan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Hamit Coskun’s conviction, Rachel Reeves’s fantasy economics, Trump’s tariff masterplan and the anti-Semitic attack in Colorado. Looking to give AG1 a shot? If you want to support your health seven mornings a week, start with AG1. Subscribe now and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 AND five free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription. Go to drinkAG1.com/spiked to get started today. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign ...
This is the audio from an event we held last week in London, featuring Andrew Doyle. The event was exclusive to spiked supporters , members of our online donor community. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Get your copy of Andrew’s book, The End of Woke , here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/END-WOKE-Culture-Expect-Counter-Revolution/dp/1408723964 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
The episode examines the police response to the Liverpool car attack, contrasting it with previous incidents and discussing the erosion of public trust due to inconsistent information release and fear of public reaction, exacerbated by social media speculation. It also delves into Reform UK's growing popularity in Labour's traditional Red Wall seats, analyzing Nigel Farage's strategy and Keir Starmer's defensive response. Finally, the discussion covers a controversial Police Scotland memo comparing gender critical feminists to Nazis, exploring the implications of politicized policing and institutional capture by ideological trends.
Lord Tony Sewell discusses his government report on racial and ethnic disparities in the UK, commissioned after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. He reflects on the emotional reaction of that period and challenges the narrative that Britain is systemically racist. Sewell explains how the report found that while racism persists, it is not the sole driver of disparities, highlighting other factors and the successes of various ethnic minority groups in Britain.
Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s dreadful deal with the EU, the Lucy Connolly scandal and the cover-up of Joe Biden’s frailty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with David Frost. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ is a comprehensive betrayal of the Leave vote. That’s the verdict of Lord Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator for Boris Johnson. Here, he tells spiked why this is such a bad deal for Britain. Frost slams Starmer for handing control over food, fish...
Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the PM’s ‘island of strangers’ speech, the ‘very Brexity’ books that landed a pensioner in a police cell and why men should not play women’s football. Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke, at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Losing your hair is...
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how Labour lost the working class, the suppression of the AfD and the rage of trans activists. Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke , at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters , members of our online donor community. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and g...
This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Tony Smith. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Record numbers of migrants have arrived illegally on England’s south coast this year. Keir Starmer’s promise to ‘smash the gangs’ of people smugglers has made no notable dent on the small-boats emergency. Meanwhile, deportations of illegal migrants – including those who have comm...
Gawain Towler, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the local elections, Tony Blair’s turn against Net Zero and the censorious panic over Kneecap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices