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How ‘progressives’ destroyed LA, the Ballymena riots and Greta’s ship of fools. Featuring Joel Kotkin, Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Gad Saad. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Woke ideology is unfailingly irrational. Claims of systemic oppression in the West are easily disproven. And while activists claim to stand for tolerance and empathy, their intolerance and authoritarianism know no bounds. Here, Gad Saad – evolutionary psychologist, host of The Saad Truth and author of The Parasitic Mind – explains why woke spreads, despite its obvious dangers and contradictions. Indeed, it is the well educated, he argues, who are especially vulnerable to these infectious ideas. To win the culture war, we must inoculate society against this ‘mind virus’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liam Halligan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Hamit Coskun’s conviction, Rachel Reeves’s fantasy economics, Trump’s tariff masterplan and the anti-Semitic attack in Colorado. Looking to give AG1 a shot? If you want to support your health seven mornings a week, start with AG1. Subscribe now and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 AND five free AG1 Travel Packs with your first subscription. Go to drinkAG1.com/spiked to get started today. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked  Check out Liam’s Substack, When the Facts Change: https://liamhalligan.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the audio from an event we held last week in London, featuring Andrew Doyle. The event was exclusive to spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Get your copy of Andrew’s book, The End of Woke, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/END-WOKE-Culture-Expect-Counter-Revolution/dp/1408723964 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the aftermath of the Liverpool tragedy, Starmer’s war of words with Farage, and why the police think TERFs are Nazis. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Tony Sewell. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Five years ago, the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sent the Black Lives Matter movement global. Activists declared Britain to be a ‘systemically racist’ nation, where ‘white privilege’ reigns. Lord Sewell was tasked by the then Conservative government to investigate the state of racism in the UK. His findings, in the Commission for Race and Ethnic Disparities report, caused uproar among the identitarian elites. Here, he tells spiked why there was no truth behind the BLM narrative in Britain, why class matters more than race, and why ethnic minorities must resist the label of victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s dreadful deal with the EU, the Lucy Connolly scandal and the cover-up of Joe Biden’s frailty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with David Frost. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ is a comprehensive betrayal of the Leave vote. That’s the verdict of Lord Frost, former chief Brexit negotiator for Boris Johnson. Here, he tells spiked why this is such a bad deal for Britain. Frost slams Starmer for handing control over food, fishing, energy and more to Brussels, and for so little in return. This surrender to the EU, he warns, is dangerous for democracy, sovereignty and the UK economy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the PM’s ‘island of strangers’ speech, the ‘very Brexity’ books that landed a pensioner in a police cell and why men should not play women’s football. Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke, at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/ Losing your hair is a choice. Take back control today with Manual. Fans of spiked can get 50 per cent off their first order here: http://manual.co/SPIKED Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Candice Holdsworth, a frequent commentator on political and cultural issues, teams up with Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to dissect why Labour has lost touch with the working class. They delve into how Brexit has reshaped the political landscape and the troubling suppression of the AfD in Germany. The trio also tackles the heated debate around gender identity, especially focusing on the activism surrounding women's rights. The discussion reveals a growing divide in public opinion amid contentious political dynamics.