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Nov 18, 2017 • 40min
61: Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'We're all bored of this Pestminster witch-hunt'
On this week's spiked podcast: Julia Hartley-Brewer on the 'Pestminster' scandal, Jon Holbrook on the democratic potential of Brexit, and Claire Fox on the problem with sanctifying transgenderism. spiked-online.com
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Nov 11, 2017 • 29min
60: Thomas Frank: 'Trump proves that anything is possible'
On this week’s spiked podcast, Tom Slater talks to Thomas Frank about Trump, Hillary and the moral disarray of the Democratic Party.
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Nov 3, 2017 • 33min
59: 'We’re beginning to find sex disgusting'
This week’s spiked podcast is a #MeToo special. To get to grips with this moral panic, Joanna Williams and Luke Gittos discuss the sex-pest scandal gripping Westminster, and Lionel Shriver talks flirting, sex and prudes. spiked-online.com
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Oct 27, 2017 • 35min
58: 'Free speech is crucial in the battle of ideas'
This week’s spiked podcast is a Battle of Ideas special. To give you a flavour of the discussions at this year’s festival, held this weekend at the Barbican in London and organised by the Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox discusses the age of echo chambers, Andrew Doyle talks satire and oversensitivity, and Nick Gillespie explains what’s really going on in the Rust Belt.
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Oct 20, 2017 • 39min
57: 'This is becoming a sexual Salem'
On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the Harvey Weinstein hysteria, Luke Gittos on why ISIS’s White Widow deserved to die, and Ceri Dingle on WORLDwrite’s new documentary, 1917: Why the Russian Revolution Matters. spiked-online.com
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Oct 13, 2017 • 21min
56: Munira Mirza: 'I've been called a race denier'
On this week's spiked podcast: Munira Mirza discusses the government's race audit and why we need a more open debate about inequality. spiked-online.com
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Oct 7, 2017 • 34min
55: ‘The Catalan crisis confirms the EU is tearing nations apart’
On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the Europe-wide attack on democracy, Kevin Yuill on why banning guns wouldn’t have prevented the Las Vegas shooting, and Adrian Hart on the truth behind the hate-crime panic in schools. spiked-online.com
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