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Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Charlie Peters discuss the BBC’s obsession with disinformation, the relentless hysteria over Partygate, and immigration after Brexit. Plus, Chris Elston (aka Billboard Chris) explains his campaign against puberty blockers. Help keep spiked free, fearless and independent. Join our online donor community and enjoy a range of brilliant perks, including ad-free reading, exclusive events and signed books. Sign up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ 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  Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked’s shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices