The Brendan O'Neill Show

Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the tech oligarchs’ war on freedom, democracy and prosperity. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/09/the-terrifying-rise-of-the-tech-aristocracy/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brendan O’Neill finds an antidote to critical race theory in the robust universalism of WEB Du Bois. This lecture was one of a series of talks at the boi charity’s Academy Online II: Race and Racism – a day of discussions about the intellectual history of race. The rest of the talks from that event, along with recordings of previous Academy events, are available on the boi charity’s Ideas Matter podcast here: https://theboi.co.uk/podcasts  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/15/womens-rights-have-been-sacrificed-at-the-altar-of-identity-politics/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan  Harry’s UK: https://www.harrys.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Tombs, author of This Sovereign Isle, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the myth of Britain’s decline, the EU’s path to oligarchy and the necessity of Brexit. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/09/the-myth-of-britains-decline/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/  Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan  The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Hitchens returns to discuss the rage against the critics of lockdown Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/25/covid-denier-is-a-disgusting-dog-whistle-slur/ Support the show with a donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan  ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan  Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about football fans booing Black Lives Matter and the devastating failure of lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julia Hartley-Brewer, host of talkRADIO’s breakfast show, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss Britain’s slide into Covid tyranny and why we must fight to end lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan  Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan  Harrys: http://harrys.com/brendan   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The trade unionist, writer and author of ‘Despised’ talks to Brendan O’Neill about where the left has gone wrong on Brexit, class and cancel culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/07/wokeness-is-no-substitute-for-political-campaigning/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/  Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan  ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Tracey and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/25/in-the-trump-era-the-media-abandoned-objectivity/ Sponsored by:  The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Brendan O’Neill about Trump, Biden and the panic driving the New Normal. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/16/masks-are-destroying-the-social-fabric/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices