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May 19, 2023 • 34min

229: The new truckers’ revolt

Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Jacob Reynolds discuss the populist uprising against Net Zero, Ukraine’s fight for freedom, and Harry and Meghan’s ‘car chase’. Pre-order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861  🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Manifesto-Essays-Unsayable/dp/1913019861  🖊️ 📕 Or donate £50 to get a signed copy: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Apply now for spiked’s internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
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May 12, 2023 • 32min

228: The coronation crackdown

Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss the shameful arrest of anti-monarchy protesters, Keir Starmer’s culture-war gymnastics, and why the Archbishop of Canterbury should butt out of democratic politics. Find out more about spiked’s internship scheme here: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
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May 5, 2023 • 29min

227: Will King Charles be our last monarch?

Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss whether Britain is falling out of love with the royals, the great Bud Light boycott and George Osborne’s fag ban. Find out more about spiked’s internship scheme here: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
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Apr 28, 2023 • 35min

226: Joe Biden’s woke despotism

Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss Joe Biden’s re-election bid and Labour’s blind spot for anti-Semitism. Plus, Simon Evans explains how the late Barry Humphries pricked the pomposity of the elites. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Sean Collins: Joe Biden’s sinister disinformation campaign  https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/25/joe-bidens-sinister-disinformation-campaign/  Brendan O’Neill: Diane Abbott and the derange left https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/23/diane-abbott-and-the-deranged-left/ Simon Evans: The glorious transgressions of Barry Humphries https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/24/the-glorious-transgressions-of-barry-humphries/ 
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Apr 21, 2023 • 34min

225: The SNP scandal we can’t talk about

Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Luke Gittos discuss how contempt-of-court laws stymy debate, the tyranny of the ECHR, the uselessness of Jolyon Maugham, and the joylessness of Just Stop Oil. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
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Apr 14, 2023 • 30min

224: Is Joe Biden anti-British?

Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Candice Holdsworth discuss President Biden’s trip to Ireland, Elon Musk vs the BBC and Dylan Mulvaney’s insult to women. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Joe Biden’s woke conquest of Ireland https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/13/joe-bidens-woke-conquest-of-ireland/  Tom Slater: Elon Musk vs the BBC https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/12/elon-musk-vs-the-bbc/ Simon Evans: The making of Dylan Mulvaney https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/14/the-making-of-dylan-mulvaney/ 
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Apr 7, 2023 • 29min

223: The legal witch-hunting of Trump

Andrew Doyle, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the authoritarianism of the ‘Resistance’, the truth about grooming gangs and the meaning of woke. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Tom Slater: Why the Resistance is (still) so much worse than Trump https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/05/why-the-resistance-is-still-so-much-worse-than-trump/ Batya Ungar-Sargon: Trump’s great crime is to have stood up to the elites https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/05/trumps-great-crime-is-to-have-stood-up-to-the-elites/  Patrick O’Flynn: The shameless dishonesty over grooming gangs https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/04/03/the-shameless-dishonesty-over-grooming-gangs/ 
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Mar 31, 2023 • 36min

222: Why trans activism has turned violent

Tom Slater, Inaya Folarin Iman and Fraser Myers discuss trans extremism from Auckland to Nashville, the idiocy of Humza Yousaf and the madness of Net Zero. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Listen to Brendan O’Neill’s interview with Kellie-Jay Keen from earlier this week:  https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/how-i-survived-the-trans-mob/  Related articles: Tom Slater: We must confront this woke misogyny https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/27/we-must-confront-this-woke-misogyny/ Jo Bartosch: The Sheilas will not be silenced https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/25/the-sheilas-will-not-be-silenced/  Fraser Myers: Humza Yousaf and the rottenness of the SNP https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/27/humza-yousaf-and-the-rottenness-of-the-snp/
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Mar 24, 2023 • 32min

221: Trump, Boris and populism on trial

The investigations into Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, lockdown three years on, and the gruesome case of Barbie Kardashian… Tom Slater, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry’s: www.harrys.com/spiked   Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: The lingering malady of Trump Derangement Syndrome https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/20/the-lingering-malady-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/  Fraser Myers: How lockdown exposed our illiberal elites https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/23/how-lockdown-exposed-our-illiberal-elites/  Jo Bartosch: Barbie Kardashian: the grisly reality of self-ID https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/22/barbie-kardashian-the-grisly-reality-of-self-id/
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Mar 17, 2023 • 40min

220: The Gary Lineker affair

The BBC’s impartiality crisis, the false accusations of Eleanor Williams, Jeremy Hunt’s budget and San Francisco’s mad plan for racial reparations… Paul Embery, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/    Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry’s: www.harrys.com/spiked   Related articles: Tom Slater: So this is your free-speech martyr? Gary Lineker?  ​​https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/11/so-this-is-your-free-speech-martyr-gary-lineker/  Fraser Myers: Hunt is tinkering while Britain burns https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/hunt-is-tinkering-while-britain-burns/ Ella Whelan: Eleanor Williams: the perils of ‘believe all women’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/eleanor-williams-the-perils-of-believe-all-women/  Brendan O’Neill: Why slavery reparations are a terrible idea https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/17/why-slavery-reparations-are-a-terrible-idea/

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