

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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Sep 16, 2021 • 1h 2min
64: A century of identity crisis, with Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis. Frank and Brendan discuss the origins of the culture war, the dangers of self-censorship, and how ‘the ideology with no name’ took over society.
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Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 22min
63: The ‘adults in the room’ are insane, with Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie and Brendan O’Neill discuss 9/11, the unravelling of Afghanistan, the dangers of cancel culture, and if freedom can be reclaimed after Covid.
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Sep 2, 2021 • 1h 6min
62: Wokeness is bad for your health, with Katie Herzog
Katie Herzog talks to Brendan O’Neill about cancel culture, the trans erasure of lesbians and the woke takeover of medicine.
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Aug 26, 2021 • 1h 10min
61: Hysteria has consumed America, with Heather Mac Donald
Bestselling author Heather Mac Donald returns to the show to talk about the latest wave of Covid panic and how racial hysteria is destroying high culture.
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Aug 19, 2021 • 51min
60: Why environmentalism isn’t working, with Zion Lights
Zion Lights, founder of Emergency Reactor, talks to Brendan O’Neill about her break with Extinction Rebellion, how environmentalism is harming people and the planet, and how nuclear power can solve climate change.
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Aug 12, 2021 • 57min
59: Australia’s Zero Covid dystopia, with Nick Cater
Nick Cater talks to Brendan O'Neill about the never-ending lockdown Down Under.
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Aug 5, 2021 • 1h 18min
58: The unravelling of the West, with Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss the West’s retreat from reason, the rise of identity politics and the resurgence of anti-Semitism.
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Jul 29, 2021 • 1h 8min
57: The trans war on reality, with Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce, author of ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the totalitarian nature of trans ideology, the abuse of ‘detransitioners’, and why men must not be allowed in women’s sports, women’s prisons and women’s changing rooms.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/03/the-trans-movement-wants-to-take-away-womens-rights/
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Jul 22, 2021 • 1h 3min
56: Finding freedom in an age of chaos, with Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. Sohrab and Brendan discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish
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Jul 15, 2021 • 1h 21min
55: The myth of America’s race war, with Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly, spiked columnist and author of ‘Taboo’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why it’s time to dial down the racial hysteria.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/20/there-is-no-epidemic-of-racism-in-america/
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Related articles:
Wilfred Reilly: ‘There is no police ‘genocide’ against black Americans’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/05/there-is-no-police-genocide-against-black-americans/
Wilfred Reilly: ‘Stop blaming everything on white supremacy’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/31/stop-blaming-everything-on-white-supremacy/
Wilfred Reilly: ‘Systemic racism is a conspiracy theory’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/systemic-racism-is-a-conspiracy-theory/
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