The Brendan O'Neill Show

Jacob Mchangama, author of “Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media”, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rising authoritarianism of left and right, the importance of free speech to equality and progress, and why censorship always fails to defeat bad ideas. Donate to spiked: 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/  Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nina Power, author of ‘What Do Men Want?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need to recover masculine virtues, the terror of the #MeToo movement, and why there is nothing progressive about the transgender movement. Donate to spiked: 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/  Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marie Kawthar Daouda –  lecturer in French at Oriel College, Oxford – talks to Brendan O’Neill about the statue wars, critical race theory and the dangers of the ‘decolonise’ movement.  Donate to spiked: 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/  Sponsored by Noom: noom.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Toby Young returns to the show, two years after the launch of the Free Speech Union. Toby and Brendan discuss how ordinary people have the most to lose from cancel culture, how wokeness thrives on absurdity, and the importance of dissent in times of crisis. Donate to spiked: 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/  Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how lockdown failed to protect the vulnerable, the catastrophic errors of the Covid modelling, and the suppression of critical voices during the pandemic. Donate to spiked: 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of Standing for Women, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the trans war on women. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/  Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan   Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan  Noom: https://noom.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian David Starkey made his return to the show recently for this special, live end-of-year episode. David and Brendan talked about the history wars, eco-alarmism and our descent into technocratic tyranny.  If you become a spiked supporter, you can get free and discounted tickets to future events like this: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/  Donate to spiked this Christmas: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the Social Mobility Commission and headteacher of the Michaela Community School, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the culture war in the classroom. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sponsored by: Noom https://noom.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of ‘Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy’, and Brendan O’Neill discuss Kyle Rittenhouse, the death of journalism and how the elites use ‘social justice’ to pursue their own interests. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/  Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan   Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alex Epstein talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need cheap energy for humanity to flourish, the backwardness of the green movement, and why Net Zero is more dangerous than climate change. Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our live event with David Starkey and Brendan O’Neill: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/  Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices