97: The president and the plague
Donald Trump, pub closures and woke supermarkets. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
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96: Why anti-Trumpers could still get Trump re-elected
The US race, lockdown Britain and unconscious-bias training. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
95: The long lockdown winter
Covid restrictions, Labour’s Brexit backpedalling and right-wing snowflakes. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked
94: Lockdown 2.0
The ‘rule of six’, Brexit and JK Rowling. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked...
93: Is Britain now a rogue state?
Bruno Waterfield joins the team to discuss the outrage over the Internal Market Bill. Also on the show: corona authoritarianism and ‘Islamophobia’ in the press. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/11/the-eu-cant-handle-british-independence/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/...
92: Transcending race -- a spiked podcast special
Kmele Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman join Fraser Myers to discuss BLM, identity politics and race abolitionism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked
91: How wokeness came to rule Britannia
The Proms controversy, the Republican National Convention, and the return of schools -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
90: Gavin Williamson should go away and shut up
The exams fiasco, Public Health England and the DNC. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Chris Snowdon, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked...
89: The insufferable emptiness of Joe Biden
Joe and Kamala, the English Channel migrant crisis, and another week of race rows. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Freddy Gray discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://www.harrys.com/spiked
88: Fear, loathing and free speech
Self-censorship, the Covid blame game, and ‘individuals with cervixes’. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss.
87: Wiley and the world’s oldest hatred
Anti-Semitism, Boris’s health kick and the Scottish hate-crime bill. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
86: Why Remoaners can’t let go of Russiagate
The Russia report, John Lewis and the speech police -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Kevin Yuill discuss.
85: The mask slips
Lockdown fanaticism, the rise of China, and Bristol’s BLM statue. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Fraser Myers, and special guest Lee Jones, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked
84: It’s time to cancel cancel culture
The Harper’s letter, the BBC and the reopening of pubs. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Andrew Doyle discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsors: Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked...
83: The weird war on whiteness
White fragility, social-media censorship and Boris’s New Deal. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Stitch Fix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked...
82: Terror returns to Britain
The Reading attack, trans ideology and Karen-bashing. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Joanna Williams discuss. Support the show: Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/
81: The Tory war on woke
Tories v identity politics, BLM in schools, and the corona crash -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Katharine Birbalsingh discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked
80: The woke cultural revolution
Statue-smashing, Steve Bannon and JK Rowling’s TERF wars. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Benjamin Teitelbaum discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: StithFix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked...
79: America falls apart
The George Floyd protests, democracy under lockdown, and the policing of tasteless jokes. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
78: Cummings Derangement Syndrome
Our mad media, the EU’s corona crisis, and Joe ‘you ain’t black’ Biden. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers, and special guest Ashoka Mody, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
77: The care-homes scandal that shames the nation
Care homes, grooming gangs and police overreach. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
76: Lockdown UK: still no end in sight
Boris moving the goalposts, the Electoral Commission vs democracy, and Silicon Valley censorship. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Darren Grimes, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
75: Neil Ferguson’s staggering hypocrisy
The government scientist who broke the lockdown, the allegations against Joe Biden, and campus censorship. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Sean Collins discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/the-spiked-podcast/
74: Why the media have had such a bad war
‘Gotcha’ journalism, corona apps and trans battles. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Timandra Harkness, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
73: The Covid culture wars
Identity politics, lockdown policies and celebrities in the age of coronavirus. Tom Slater, Elle Whelan, Fraser Myers and Wilfred Reilly discuss. Spare a fiver, support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
72: Why the 5G Covid conspiracy theory has gone viral
Corona conspiracy theories, the economic cost of lockdown, and Labour’s latest row. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Phil Mullan discuss. Spare a fiver to support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
71: A PM in hospital, a nation rattled
Boris Johnson in intensive care, China and coronavirus, and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. Tom, Ella, Fraser and special guest Austin Williams discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
70: Can the EU survive coronavirus?
The myth of EU solidarity, Sweden’s alternative Covid-19 approach, and the rise of Britain’s corona cops. Tom, Ella, Fraser and special guest Nathalie Rothschild discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
69: Britain in lockdown
The team discusses civil liberties and dissent in the time of Covid-19. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
68: Putting the pandemic in perspective
Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Norman Lewis on the dangerous overreaction to the Covid-19 outbreak. Spare a fiver, support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/