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Jun 14, 2024 • 38min
286: The revolt against the EU elites
Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the populist uprising in the European Parliament elections, the lies of Hamas and Keir Starmer’s culture war.
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Jun 7, 2024 • 37min
285: Will Nigel Farage destroy the Tories?
Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how the Reform UK leader is shaking up the General Election, the lawfare against Trump and the Islamist stabbing in Mannheim.
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May 31, 2024 • 43min
284: The None of the Above election
Matt Goodwin and Rakib Ehsan join Tom Slater for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. In this General Election special, they discuss Rishi Sunak’s ‘national service’ gimmick, Nigel Farage’s plan to make the election a referendum on immigration, Diane Abbott’s battle with Keir Starmer, and much more.
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May 24, 2024 • 39min
283: Why Things Can Only Get Worse with Keir Starmer
Graham Linehan – the comedy writer behind Father Ted and The IT Crowd – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the UK General Election, the trans-activist takeover of a rape-crisis centre, the death of Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi the ICC’s outrageous arrest warrants.
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May 17, 2024 • 35min
282: Is Donald Trump on his way to the White House?
Freddy Gray joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the lawfare against Trump, the victim-blaming of Robert Fico, Meghan Markle’s carnival of cringe and Gary Lineker’s Gaza gaffe.
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May 10, 2024 • 42min
281: Islamic sectarianism is poisoning British politics
Paul Embery joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Tory defections, the local elections and the councillor who screamed ‘Allahu Akbar’.
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May 3, 2024 • 33min
280: How Sadiq Khan destroyed London
Jacob Reynolds joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the London mayoral race, the fall of Humza Yousaf, the bigoted brats of Columbia and the Irish migration crisis.
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Apr 26, 2024 • 42min
279: The Columbia protests and the scourge of elite anti-Semitism
GB News’ Charlie Peters joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the ‘Gaza solidarity’ encampments springing up on US campuses, the collapse of Scotland’s coalition of crackpots and Joe Lycett’s cancel-culture denialism.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 42min
278: The crackdown on NatCon Brussels
Toby Young joins Fraser Myers and Tom Slater to discuss the centrist authoritarianism taking over Europe, Rishi Sunak’s tyrannical smoking ban and the great awokening of NPR.
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Apr 12, 2024 • 39min
277: How the Cass Review exposed the trans cult
Ella Whelan joins Tom Slater and Lauren Smith to discuss the horrors of gender medicine, the Afghan flasher who was granted asylum and the Westminster honeytrap scandal.
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