

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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Nov 4, 2021 • 1h 3min
71: Progressives are ruining everything, with Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger returns to the show to talk about COP26 and his new book, ‘San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities’.
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Oct 28, 2021 • 1h 5min
70: The madness of Net Zero, with Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘False Alarm’, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the COP26 climate talks, the crippling costs of Net Zero and the myth of the climate apocalypse.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 16min
69: Andrew Sullivan: How the rebels became the censors
Andrew Sullivan, author of ‘Out on a Limb’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how millennials became crippled by wokeness, why the oppressed need free speech, and how the trans movement compels us to lie.
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Oct 14, 2021 • 58min
68: The trans assault on reality, with Bev Jackson
Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why trans extremism is bad for gay rights, women’s rights and children.
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Oct 7, 2021 • 50min
67: The climate debate is not ‘settled’, with Steven E Koonin
Steven E Koonin -- undersecretary for science in the Obama administration and author of ‘Unsettled’ -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the dangers of politicising ‘The Science’, the irrationality of Net Zero, and why humanity can adapt to a changing climate.
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Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 13min
66: A world gone mad, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
In this special live podcast, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Brendan O’Neill discussed wokeness, lockdown and climate alarmism -- and how they all pose a grave threat to freedom.
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Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 13min
65: How cancel culture makes us stupid, with Wendy Kaminer
Wendy Kaminer -- spiked columnist, lawyer and former ACLU board member -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the threats to free speech from the left and the right.
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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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