

The Brendan O'Neill Show
The Brendan O'Neill Show
spiked’s Brendan O’Neill discusses today’s big ideas and bad ideas with an esteemed guest.
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Aug 14, 2025 • 56min
Graham Linehan: Is Britain a lost cause? | The Brendan O’Neill Show
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Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham and Brendan discuss the intolerance of Britain's cultural elite, how trans ideology staggers on, and the classist witch-hunting of Sandie Peggie.
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Aug 7, 2025 • 51min
Andrew Fox: What I saw in Gaza | The Brendan O’Neill Show
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Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Andrew and Brendan discuss the real reasons Gazans are going hungry, why Hamas’s casualty figures can’t be trusted and how the rush to recognise a Palestinian state is only prolonging the war.
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Jul 31, 2025 • 1h 13min
Ian O’Doherty: Ireland’s immigration powder keg
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Ian O’Doherty – columnist at the Irish Independent and host of The State of Us – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ian and Brendan discuss how migrant hotels took over rural Ireland, Dublin’s contempt for the working class and the struggle for an Irish populism.
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Jul 24, 2025 • 1h 1min
Matt Ridley: Climate, Covid and the corruption of science
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Matt Ridley – author of Birds, Sex and Beauty and Viral – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Matt and Brendan discuss the conspiracy of silence over the origins of Covid-19, the dangers of climate alarmism and how Ed Miliband is bankrupting Britain.
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Jul 17, 2025 • 50min
Konstantin Kisin: Beware the woke right
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Konstantin Kisin – co-host of Triggernometry – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Konstantin and Brendan discuss what the woke left and the new right have in common, how conspiracy theories took over the world and the culture of silence around grooming gangs.
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Jul 10, 2025 • 52min
Lionel Shriver: The revenge of the woke
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Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the insanity of the Democrats, the fall of New York and why Starmer’s Britain is a tinderbox.
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Jul 3, 2025 • 1h 9min
Natasha Hausdorff: The great lie of the Gaza ‘genocide’
Natasha Hausdorff, a barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust, dives into the complex narrative surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict. She challenges the growing accusations of genocide against Israel, suggesting they often stem from misinformation and anti-Semitism. The conversation also touches on the role of education in shaping polarized views and the alarming rise of anti-Semitic rhetoric in protests. Hausdorff critiques mainstream media for propagating biased narratives, emphasizing the need for accurate reporting in these sensitive discussions.

Jun 26, 2025 • 59min
Kellie-Jay Keen: The TERF wars aren’t over yet
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Kellie-Jay Keen – aka Posie Parker; founder of Let Women Speak – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the ongoing battle against gender ideology, the cowardice of modern feminism, and why Islamist misogyny must not get a free pass.
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Jun 19, 2025 • 1h 6min
Melanie Phillips: Israel, Iran and the global struggle against barbarism
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Times columnist Melanie Phillips returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss Israel’s audacious strikes on Iran, the fanaticism of the Iranian regime, and why Israel is the best contender for leader of the free world.
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Jun 12, 2025 • 60min
368: Rod Liddle: The two Englands
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Rod Liddle – associate editor of the Spectator and Times Radio presenter – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the hollowness of Keir Starmer, the horrors of two-tier policing, and why Nigel Farage could be Britain’s next prime minister.
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