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Dec 22, 2023 • 1h 12min
262: The barbarism of the woke
Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from 7 October, the triumphs of ‘TERF Island’ and the populist fightback against Net Zero.
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Dec 15, 2023 • 41min
261: The man in a wig
Dennis Kavanagh, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the Tory MP accused of ‘misgendering’, the return of blasphemy laws to Europe and why greens hate Christmas.
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Dec 8, 2023 • 34min
260: Why the Tories are toast
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Conservatives’ civil war over immigration, the madness of the Covid inquiry and the neofeudalism of COP28.
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Dec 1, 2023 • 37min
259: The 7 October denialists
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the downplaying of Hamas’s crimes, the fallout from the Dublin riots and the witch-hunting of Rosie Duffield.
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Nov 24, 2023 • 34min
258: Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites
Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the political earthquakes in Argentina and the Netherlands, why Osama bin Laden is all over TikTok and the fightback for women’s sports.
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Nov 17, 2023 • 39min
257: David Cameron… really?
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the death of Tory populism, the tyranny of the Supreme Court and the two-tiered policing of protests.
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Nov 10, 2023 • 28min
256: London’s hate marches
James Esses, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Armistice Day ‘pro-Palestine’ demo, ‘trans conversion therapy’ and the petulance of Just Stop Oil.
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Nov 3, 2023 • 32min
253: A ‘safe space’ for Jew hate?
Joanna Williams, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers discuss the explosion of anti-Semitism in universities, the Covid inquiry’s whitewashing of lockdown and the public revolt against woke capitalism.
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Oct 29, 2023 • 1h 22min
252: LIVE SHOW: Hatred, terror and free speech
Konstantin Kisin, Inaya Folarin Iman and Rakib Ehsan joined Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for this special live recording of the <em>spiked podcast</em> at the Battle of Ideas festival in London. They discussed how the Israel-Hamas conflict is tearing Britain apart, what Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has meant for free speech, and the dangers of banning ‘trans conversion therapy’. Plus, they took questions from the audience.
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Oct 20, 2023 • 44min
251: Hamas’s useful idiots
Jake Wallis Simons – editor of the Jewish Chronicle and author of Israelophobia – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the dangers of demonising Israel, the return of Islamist terror in Europe and Australia’s rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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