

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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Jan 26, 2023 • 39min
214: Miriam Cates: Why we need women-only spaces
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.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 56min
213: Kate Hoey: The coming betrayal of Brexit
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.
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Jan 12, 2023 • 1h 15min
212: Ralph Schoellhammer: The road to eco-serfdom
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.
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Jan 5, 2023 • 1h 5min
211: Zoe Strimpel: The tyranny of ‘wellbeing’
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
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Dec 29, 2022 • 1h 6min
210: Toby Young: Why the censors must not win
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.
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Dec 22, 2022 • 1h 9min
209: Graham Linehan: Why I had to take a stand on gender ideology
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.
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Dec 15, 2022 • 55min
208: Robby Soave: Why the Twitter Files matter
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.
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Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 8min
207: Meghan Murphy: Free to tweet again
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.
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Dec 1, 2022 • 1h 16min
206: What next for populism?, with Benjamin Teitelbaum
Benjamin Teitelbaum, author of War for Eternity, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the rise of the populist right.
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Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 3min
205: Michael Shellenberger: In defence of the deplorables
Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko and Apocalypse Never, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the fightback against the green elites.
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