

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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Feb 9, 2021 • 60min
42: Multiculturalism has failed women, with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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/
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Feb 2, 2021 • 1h 1min
41: Why Britain had to leave, with Robert Tombs
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/
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Jan 19, 2021 • 56min
40: The showtrial of the sceptics, with Peter Hitchens
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/
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Dec 29, 2020 • 60min
39: Rod Liddle: Why I changed my mind on lockdown
Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about football fans booing Black Lives Matter and the devastating failure of lockdown.
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Dec 16, 2020 • 1h 13min
38: Why the well-off love the lockdown, with Julia Hartley-Brewer
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.
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Dec 2, 2020 • 1h 5min
37: Left class hatred, with Paul Embery
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/
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Nov 19, 2020 • 1h 11min
36: The election everyone got wrong, with Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism.
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Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/25/in-the-trump-era-the-media-abandoned-objectivity/
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Nov 12, 2020 • 1h 1min
35: Hysteria is contagious, with Lionel Shriver
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/
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Oct 27, 2020 • 1h 11min
34: The establishment is creating a dystopia, with Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor at the New York Post, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Big Tech censorship, the woke war on workers and the dystopia of the New Normal.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/03/facebook-wants-trump-to-lose/
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Oct 20, 2020 • 1h 14min
33: The case for Trump, with Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy, conservative commentator and editor of Modern Age, discusses the election, identity politics and bourgeois rioting.
Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/26/trump-has-taken-the-mask-off-the-liberal-establishment/
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