The Brendan O'Neill Show

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 up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/shop/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-online.com/shop/  Sponsored by Wondrium: www.wondrium.com/brendan/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices