

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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Jul 8, 2021 • 1h 11min
54: How the ‘cognitive elite’ took over, with David Goodhart
David Goodhart, author of ‘Head, Hand, Heart’, tells Brendan O’Neill how graduates left everyone else behind.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/15/is-the-great-graduate-takeover-coming-to-an-end/
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Jul 1, 2021 • 1h 7min
53: Question everything, with Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch, author of ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the perils of groupthink, cancel culture and emotional safetyism.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/05/we-have-to-seek-out-ideas-that-make-us-uncomfortable/
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Jun 25, 2021 • 1h 7min
52: The culture war is really a class war, with Rod Liddle
In this special live podcast, Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill discussed Labour, Islamism, wokeness and much more. This event was free for spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now and you will get advance notice and free or discounted tickets to all of our upcoming events: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/28/i-would-stake-my-life-on-labour-losing-in-batley/
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Jun 10, 2021 • 1h 10min
51: Why Labour is still losing, with Paul Embery
Paul Embery, author of ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Labour’s Hartlepool disaster, why wokeness alienates the working class, and the limits of the Tories’ ‘levelling up’ agenda.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/14/they-are-like-two-bald-men-fighting-over-a-comb/
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May 25, 2021 • 1h 7min
50: Why biological sex matters, with Kathleen Stock
Kathleen Stock, author of ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the consequences of trans ideology for women, gay rights and free expression.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/31/biological-sex-is-real-not-psychological/
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May 12, 2021 • 1h 12min
49: Why we must never lock down again, with Luke Johnson
Entrepreneur Luke Johnson talks to Brendan O’Neill about the extraordinary harms of lockdown.
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Apr 28, 2021 • 1h 6min
48: Laurence Fox: Why I’m running for London mayor
Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox tells Brendan O’Neill about his campaign to liberate London from lockdown and cancel culture.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/03/someone-needs-to-stand-up-for-freedom/
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Apr 15, 2021 • 54min
47: The rebirth of racial identity, with Christopher Caldwell
Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rise of diversity and the withering of democracy.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/19/no-one-even-knows-what-diversity-means/
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Apr 6, 2021 • 58min
46: Lord Sumption: ‘Lockdown is an assault on our humanity’
Former Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption tells Brendan O’Neill why he refuses to obey the ‘immoral’ coronavirus restrictions.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/12/the-government-is-instilling-fear-in-the-public/
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Mar 16, 2021 • 1h 10min
45: Climate change is not the end of the world, with Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg and Brendan O’Neill discuss the exaggeration of climate risk, the coming backlash against eco-austerity, and why technology is the best solution.
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