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EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ may be his worst negotiation yet. The UK is set to pay exorbitant amounts to the EU, hand over control of vital industries, and receive some nasty surprises in return. Here, Bruno Waterfield – Brussels correspondent at The Times – explains why Starmer’s sellout to Brussels could lead to higher food and energy prices, and to th...
EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the death of the Tories, the brutality of Iran’s ayatollahs and Starmer’s totalitarian war on X Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/is-eva-vlaardingerbroek-a-thre...
Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the perils of the ‘Don-roe doctrine’, Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/why-everyone-hates-keir-starmer/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked ’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https:...
When Lenore Skenazy let her nine-year-old use the New York Subway on his own, she was dubbed ‘America’s Worst Mom’. In our age of safetyism, children are expected to be supervised, monitored and coddled at all times – not left alone to explore the outside world. No generation has ever been so sheltered. And nor has any generation felt so anxious and depressed. Here, Lenore Skenazy – president of Let Grow – makes the case for free-range parenting, for letting kids have some independence from thei...
*As a Christmas treat, we have removed the paywall for this episode of spiked podcast: unlocked, our exclusive podcast for spiked supporters.* Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Britain's broken borders, the revolutionary rise of Reform, the revenge of the millennial left, and why woke refuses to die. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift , the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/x...
Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/ Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Bondi Beach attack and the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism, and the battle for free speech after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bon...
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how our broken borders threaten women and girls, Sandie Peggie’s fight for single-sex spaces and Jamie Michael’s never-ending persecution. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift , the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/ Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly...
‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch Arrests in Britain for social-media posts have soared by 58 per cent since 2019. Meanwhile, actual crimes like burglary or assault are only rarely pursued or solved. Here, Paul Birch – former Metropolitan Police officer and counter-terrorism specialist – explains why the police became so obsessed with tackling so-called thoughtcrime. Social-justice activism, he says, is now fully institutionalised, warping police priorities...
Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK chancellor’s ‘creative accounting’, David Lammy’s tyrannical war on juries and the celebrities on the march against Reform UK. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/your-partys-delicious-meltdown/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked ’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free readi...
Fresh from his acquittal for ‘harassing’ a trans activist, Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted , Black Books and The IT Crowd – sat down with spiked ’s Georgina Mumford to discuss the legal campaigns to have him silenced, the activist capture of the arts, and why the TERFs are finally on the winning side. 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...
Economist Liam Halligan scrutinizes Rachel Reeves's autumn budget, revealing massive tax increases and unsustainable borrowing alongside stagnant growth. He highlights how Labour's policies, including a controversial employment rights bill and unaddressed public sector inefficiencies like gold-plated pensions and failing NHS, are throttling British enterprise. Halligan also warns of a potential wage-price spiral and the UK's vulnerability to external inflationary pressures, suggesting Downing Street lacks understanding of these critical economic threats.
The UK’s Covid inquiry has made the audacious – and utterly misleading – claim that an earlier lockdown could have saved thousands of lives. Here, Michael Simmons – economics editor at the Spectator and host of the Reality Check podcast – exposes the dodgy data being peddled by the ‘experts’, the groupthink that pushed us into lockdown, and the economic devastation that is still being felt today. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ L...
Joanna Williams, Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Rich Mix’s cancellation of ‘Think Before You Post’, the left’s meltdown over Shabana Mahmood and the miserablism of the milkshake tax. To join the waiting list for the premiere of Think Before You Post , on Tuesday 25 November in London, email us at supporters@spiked-online.com Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spi...
Cheating. That’s how Sharron Davies – Olympic medallist, Tory peer and CEO of the Women’s Sports Union – describes the Olympics’ deranged policy of letting men enter women’s sports. Here, she tells spiked ’s Georgina Mumford how ‘trans inclusion’ treats female athletes as second-class citizens, eroding fair competition and placing them in physical danger. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...
Miriam Cates joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast . They discuss the BBC bias scandal, Labour’s meltdown and the Olympics trans farce. Get your tickets to the premiere of Think Before You Post , on Tuesday 25 November in London: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the...
Wikipedia has been hijacked. Although the free internet encyclopedia poses as a neutral, unbiased and trustworthy source of information, it can easily be manipulated by ideologues, governments and other partisan actors. Here, Ashley Rindsberg – editor and chief investigative officer of @NPOVMedia – lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes policies that make bias inevitable and allow a handful of anonymous editors to rewrite reality. Read more of Ashley’s work on Wikipedia here: https://npov.substa...
Benedict Spence joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast . They discuss the horrific knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire, Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City and the BBC’s fake news about Donald Trump. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the-fall-of-prince-andrew-and-the-madness-of-mehdi-hasan/ Le...
After Uxbridge: our broken borders are a threat to us all Colin Brazier, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the horrific attack in west London, whether Sarah Pochin has a point about diversity in advertising, and why our censorship documentary has been censored. Watch Think Before You Post , our documentary on the rise of the British speech police, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA New episodes every Friday. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – o...
Andrew Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Jess Phillips’s betrayal of grooming-gang victims, Graham Linehan’s victory over the tweet police and the Jew hunt at City University. New episodes every Friday. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxRSLKHKKGA Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked ’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and ot...
James Johnson – co-founder of JL Partners – talks to Fraser Myers about the Reform UK surge, why a second term for Labour is more likely than you think, and why the Tories need to stop chasing the ‘liberal centrist’ vote. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED Read spiked: https://www.spiked-o...
Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the hypocrisy of the Israelophobes, the truth about 7 October and the stain of anti-Semitism in Britain. New episodes every Friday. Watch the first episode of spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus episode, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/introducing-spiked-podcast-unlocked/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked ’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and o...
There is more than one way to burn a book. In the modern publishing industry, books are censored, edited or scrapped entirely to avoid straying from woke dogma. ‘Sensitivity readers’ scour for words, characters and plot lines that could cause offence to minorities. ‘Morality clauses’ ensure that authors espouse the correct views in public. The result is books that are bland, predictable and utterly safe. Here, Adam Szetela – author of That Book is Dangerous! – lifts the lid on how the publishing...
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 Harry Cole, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the anti-Semitic savagery of the Manchester synagogue attack, Labour’s smearing of Farage, Trump’s Gaza peace plan and why America is so worried about Britain. New episodes every Friday. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPI...
Flemming Rose, former culture editor of Jyllands-Posten, explains the decision to publish the Muhammad cartoons, detailing the pervasive climate of self-censorship in Denmark and Europe that prompted the journalistic act. He recounts the delayed but violent international backlash, the role of various political agendas, and the personal threats he faced. Rose also analyzes Denmark's shifting stance on blasphemy laws, connecting it to geopolitical pressures and arguing that such laws paradoxically incite violence and erode free speech.
Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the knife attack on a Koran-burning protester, Jimmy Kimmel’s return, the nothingness of Andy Burnham and the tyranny of digital ID. New episodes every Friday. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoic...
Keir Starmer’s recognition of Palestine has been hailed by Hamas as a victory for its cause. The anti-Semitic army has thanked the UK prime minister for rewarding the 7 October pogrom, the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Here, Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and co-host of the podcast, The Brink – argues that this is a moment of shame for Britain. Starmer’s gambit, he says, will do nothing for ordinary Palestinians and will not bring an end to the war in Gaza. It will o...
Tom Harwood, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Tyler Robinson, Trump’s state visit, the splits in Your Party and the disastrous ‘one in, one out’ migration scheme. New episodes every Friday. See the spiked podcast and Last Orders live at the Battle of Ideas festival on 18 and 19 October. Get 20 per cent off with the promo code SPIKED: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-festival-2025-tickets-1055046124359?discount=SPIKED Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and ...
Francis Foster, Rakib Ehsan and Tom Slater on the murder of Charlie Kirk, how America failed Iryna Zarutska, and Mandelson’s Epstein scandal. New episodes every Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Politicians are finally waking up to the folly of Net Zero. The Tories have called for drilling in the North Sea. Reform UK wants to lift the ban on fracking. But the UK’s Labour government remains totally committed to renewables, no matter the costs. Here, Kathryn Porter – energy consultant and founder of Watt-Logic – explains why Britain’s bet on wind power has proved so disastrous. The result is rising prices, deindustrialisation and even the risk of major blackouts. The time to change course...
