Philosopher Susan Neiman talks to Brendan O’Neill about her new book, Left Is Not Woke . Susan and Brendan discuss the woke’s abandonment of progress, the rebirth of racial tribalism and the dangers of valorising victimhood. Get your tickets to the launch of Brendan O’Neill’s new spiked book, A Heretic’s Manifesto . Brendan will be interviewed by Andrew Doyle, on Monday 5 June at 7pm, live on Zoom. Find out more: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/18/event-brendan-oneills-book-launch/ Pre-ord...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 232•Transcript available on Metacast Daniel McCarthy – editor-in-chief of Modern Age: A Conservative Review – joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss Trump Derangement Syndrome, the electoral prospects of Ron DeSantis and how the left learned to love the security state. Help keep spiked free, fearless and independent. Join our online donor community and enjoy a range of brilliant perks, including ad-free reading, exclusive events and signed books. Sign up here https://www.spiked-online.com/support-spiked/ Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Her...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 231•Transcript available on Metacast Remi Adekoya joins Brendan to talk about his latest book, It’s Not About Whiteness, It’s About Wealth . They discuss the truth about racial inequality, the dangers of racial identity politics and how Africa can realise its potential. Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861 🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep 230•Transcript available on Metacast John ‘Rick’ MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine , returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the worrying rise of the authoritarian right, the left’s perversion of history, and why a return to ‘normalcy’ is not the answer to America’s ills. Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/ interns Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out...
May 11, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 229•Transcript available on Metacast Author and academic Michael Lind returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America . Michael and Brendan discuss the crisis afflicting the American working class, the disaster of deindustrialisation and how the woke cultural elite shores up the status quo. Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/ interns Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to s...
May 04, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep 228•Transcript available on Metacast Iain Macwhirter, author of Disunited Kingdom , speaks to Brendan O’Neill about the arrests of leading SNP figures, the uselessness of Humza Yousaf and how Nicola Sturgeon was brought down by woke. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Read Iain’s Substack here: https://iainmacwhirter.substack.com/...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 227•Transcript available on Metacast Peter Boghossian – a founding faculty fellow at the University of Austin – joins Brendan on the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Peter and Brendan discuss how to have impossible conversations, the dangers of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ and the problem with the right-wing ‘anti-woke’ backlash. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 226•Transcript available on Metacast Heather Mac Donald returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her upcoming book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives . Heather and Brendan discuss the myth of systemic racism, the problem with affirmative action and how the new ‘anti-racism’ is jeopardising genuine equality. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 225•Transcript available on Metacast Wendy Kaminer – writer, lawyer and ACLU board member – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new spiked long-read, ‘ How feminism gave up on freedom ’. Wendy and Brendan discuss the illiberal legacy of #MeToo, the problem with ‘post-liberal’ feminism, and the threat gender ideology poses to women’s rights. Read Wendy’s article here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/01/how-feminism-gave-up-on-freedom/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign u...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 224•Transcript available on Metacast Kellie-Jay Keen – aka Posie Parker, women’s rights activist and founder of Standing for Women – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Kellie-Jay joins Brendan to discuss her harrowing encounter with trans activists in New Zealand, the misogyny of the gender-identity movement, and why women’s rights are still worth fighting for. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-o...
Mar 27, 2023•58 min•Ep 223•Transcript available on Metacast Joel Kotkin – spiked columnist and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show . Joel and Brendan discuss the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank, the emergence of the new tech oligarchy and how the virtue-signalling elites could be digging their own graves. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 222•Transcript available on Metacast Matthew Goodwin, pollster and author of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics , speaks to Brendan O’Neill about the importance of the culture war, the rise of technocracy and why the West’s political realignment is only just beginning. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked ’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked ’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 221•Transcript available on Metacast Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist behind the Lockdown Files, speaks to Brendan O’Neill about the cruelty of lockdown, the complicity of the media, and the demonisation of dissent. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Raycon: https://www.BuyRaycon.com/Brendan/...
Mar 09, 2023•44 min•Ep 220•Transcript available on Metacast David Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator, and Brendan O'Neill discuss Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland deal, the Lockdown Files, the Wakefield blasphemy scandal, and the crucial importance of freedom. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Mar 02, 2023•59 min•Ep 219•Transcript available on Metacast Frank Furedi, author of The Road to Ukraine , and Brendan O'Neill discuss why the Ukrainian resistance caught the world by surprise, the fragility of Western unity and the dangers of Russia unravelling. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Feb 23, 2023•48 min•Ep 218•Transcript available on Metacast Nadine Strossen, free-speech advocate and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, talks to Brendan O'Neill about the hidden dangers of hate-speech laws, the new McCarthyism of cancel culture and the growing generational divide over free speech. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-o...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 217•Transcript available on Metacast Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor at Newsweek and author of Bad News , talks to Brendan O'Neill about the fading of the American Dream, the rise of economic populism and how the pyjama class uses woke to demonise workers. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Feb 09, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 216•Transcript available on Metacast Ross Clark, journalist and author of Not Zero, talks to Brendan O'Neill about the extraordinary cost of decarbonisation, the pitfalls of renewable energy and why climate change is not the end of the world Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 215•Transcript available on Metacast Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, talks to Brendan O'Neill about her clash in parliament with Lloyd Russell-Moyle, why Westminster was right to block the SNP’s gender bill and how the culture war is reshaping our politics. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/...
Jan 26, 2023•33 min•Ep 214•Transcript available on Metacast Kate Hoey, life peer and former Labour MP, talks to Brendan O'Neill about the problem with the Northern Ireland Protocol, the myth of ‘Bregret’ and why Keir Starmer can’t be trusted. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Read Kate’s articles for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/author/kate-hoey/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spike...
Jan 19, 2023•48 min•Ep 213•Transcript available on Metacast Ralph Schoellhammer, assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University Vienna, talks to Brendan O'Neill about the green delusions of the elites, why energy is so crucial to prosperity and why the populist revolt is just getting started. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Read Ralph’s articles for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/author/ralph-schoellhammer/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsle...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 212•Transcript available on Metacast Zoe Strimpel, historian and Sunday Telegraph columnist, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the perils of risk-aversion, the allure of victimhood and how woke ‘anti-racism’ is fuelling anti-Semitism Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/...
Jan 05, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 211•Transcript available on Metacast Toby Young – founder and director of the Free Speech Union – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this special live podcast. Toby and Brendan took a look back on a year of state censorship, mob cancellation and digital unpersoning. Plus, they took questions from the audience. This event was exclusive to spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now to get free or discounted tickets to all our upcoming events: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Donate to spiked this Christmas: ht...
Dec 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 210•Transcript available on Metacast Graham Linehan, creator of The IT Crowd , Father Ted and Black Books , talks to Brendan about his excommunication from TV comedy and how trans ideology has driven the left insane. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Donate to spiked this Christmas: 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/...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 209•Transcript available on Metacast Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason and host of Rising on Hill TV, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the rise of ‘shadow-banning’ and how Big Tech distorts democracy. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter and register to get your free ticket to Brendan’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsl...
Dec 15, 2022•50 min•Ep 208•Transcript available on Metacast Meghan Murphy, the feminist journalist who was recently freed from ‘Twitter jail’ by Elon Musk, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the tyranny of the ‘pyjama class’ and the fight for free speech. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and register to get your free ticket to Brendan’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 207•Transcript available on Metacast Benjamin Teitelbaum, author of War for Eternity , talks to Brendan O’Neill about Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the rise of the populist right. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and register to get your free ticket to Brendan’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep 206•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko and Apocalypse Never , talks to Brendan O’Neill about the fightback against the green elites. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and register to get your free ticket to Brendan’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Read Michael’s Substack: http://michaelshellenberger.substack.com...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr•Ep 205•Transcript available on Metacast Genevieve Gluck, co-founder of Reduxx , talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rise of gender extremism. Read spiked here: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter and register to get your free ticket to Brendan’s live show with Toby Young: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/brendan...
Nov 17, 2022•52 min•Ep 123•Transcript available on Metacast Rosie Kay, CEO and artistic director of K2CO, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how she was forced out of her own dance company for challenging trans ideology. 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://www.expressvpn.com/spiked...
Nov 10, 2022•47 min•Ep 122•Transcript available on Metacast 
