The Brendan O'Neill Show

Sohrab Ahmari returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. Sohrab and Brendan discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/27/lockdown-is-a-class-war-by-proxy/ Subscribe to spiked’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/spiked Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan

Wilfred Reilly, spiked columnist and author of ‘Taboo’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why it’s time to dial down the racial hysteria. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/20/there-is-no-epidemic-of-racism-in-america/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Wilfred Reilly: ‘There is no police ‘genocide’ against black Americans’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/05/there-is-no-police-genocide-against-black-americans/ Wilfred Reilly: ‘Stop blaming everything on white supremacy’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/31/stop-blaming-everything-on-white-supremacy/ Wilfred Reilly: ‘Systemic racism is a conspiracy theory’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/systemic-racism-is-a-conspiracy-theory/

David Goodhart, author of ‘Head, Hand, Heart’, tells Brendan O’Neill how graduates left everyone else behind. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/15/is-the-great-graduate-takeover-coming-to-an-end/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/

Jonathan Rauch, author of ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the perils of groupthink, cancel culture and emotional safetyism. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/05/we-have-to-seek-out-ideas-that-make-us-uncomfortable/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/

In this special live podcast, Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill discussed Labour, Islamism, wokeness and much more. This event was free for spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now and you will get advance notice and free or discounted tickets to all of our upcoming events: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/28/i-would-stake-my-life-on-labour-losing-in-batley/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan

Paul Embery, author of ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Labour’s Hartlepool disaster, why wokeness alienates the working class, and the limits of the Tories’ ‘levelling up’ agenda. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/14/they-are-like-two-bald-men-fighting-over-a-comb/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/

Kathleen Stock, author of ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the consequences of trans ideology for women, gay rights and free expression. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/31/biological-sex-is-real-not-psychological/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Entrepreneur Luke Johnson talks to Brendan O’Neill about the extraordinary harms of lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to “Today on spiked”: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Get 20% off an annual subscription to The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox tells Brendan O’Neill about his campaign to liberate London from lockdown and cancel culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/03/someone-needs-to-stand-up-for-freedom/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan

Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rise of diversity and the withering of democracy. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/19/no-one-even-knows-what-diversity-means/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

Former Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption tells Brendan O’Neill why he refuses to obey the ‘immoral’ coronavirus restrictions. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/12/the-government-is-instilling-fear-in-the-public/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Bjorn Lomborg and Brendan O’Neill discuss the exaggeration of climate risk, the coming backlash against eco-austerity, and why technology is the best solution. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/22/climate-change-is-a-manageable-problem/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s UK: https://www.harrys.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan

Joel Kotkin, author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the tech oligarchs’ war on freedom, democracy and prosperity. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/09/the-terrifying-rise-of-the-tech-aristocracy/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Brendan O’Neill finds an antidote to critical race theory in the robust universalism of WEB Du Bois. This lecture was one of a series of talks at the boi charity’s Academy Online II: Race and Racism – a day of discussions about the intellectual history of race. The rest of the talks from that event, along with recordings of previous Academy events, are available on the boi charity’s Ideas Matter podcast here: https://theboi.co.uk/podcasts

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of Prey and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss immigration, Islam and the erosion of women’s rights. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/15/womens-rights-have-been-sacrificed-at-the-altar-of-identity-politics/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Harry’s UK: https://www.harrys.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Robert Tombs, author of This Sovereign Isle, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the myth of Britain’s decline, the EU’s path to oligarchy and the necessity of Brexit. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/09/the-myth-of-britains-decline/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Peter Hitchens returns to discuss the rage against the critics of lockdown Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/25/covid-denier-is-a-disgusting-dog-whistle-slur/ Support the show with a donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan

Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about football fans booing Black Lives Matter and the devastating failure of lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Julia Hartley-Brewer, host of talkRADIO’s breakfast show, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss Britain’s slide into Covid tyranny and why we must fight to end lockdown. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan Harrys: http://harrys.com/brendan

The trade unionist, writer and author of ‘Despised’ talks to Brendan O’Neill about where the left has gone wrong on Brexit, class and cancel culture. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/07/wokeness-is-no-substitute-for-political-campaigning/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan

Michael Tracey and Brendan O’Neill discuss the Trump years, the summer of riots and the collapse of journalism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/25/in-the-trump-era-the-media-abandoned-objectivity/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan

Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Brendan O’Neill about Trump, Biden and the panic driving the New Normal. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/16/masks-are-destroying-the-social-fabric/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor at the New York Post, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Big Tech censorship, the woke war on workers and the dystopia of the New Normal. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/03/facebook-wants-trump-to-lose/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Daniel McCarthy, conservative commentator and editor of Modern Age, discusses the election, identity politics and bourgeois rioting. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/26/trump-has-taken-the-mask-off-the-liberal-establishment/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan

National Constitution Center president Jeffrey Rosen tells Brendan O’Neill what’s driving Silicon Valley’s embrace of censorship. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/12/censorship-by-algorithm/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Thomas Frank, author of ‘The People, No’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the history of populism and the elite’s war on democracy. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/28/people-are-absolutely-justified-in-mistrusting-the-elites/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan

Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the past, present and future of innovation -- from transport to nuclear power to vaccines. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/14/how-environmentalism-holds-back-innovation/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: brendan The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Glenn Loury joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the myth of police racism and the dangers of racial identity politics. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/31/in-racialising-everything-we-are-playing-with-fire/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/brendan The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Nick Timothy, former special adviser to Theresa May, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss Brexit, the great realignment of British politics, and his new book, Remaking One Nation. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/20/liberalism-is-eroding-itself/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Pathologist Dr John Lee joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the exaggerated threat of Covid, the corruption of science and the mounting death toll of the lockdown. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/08/07/our-government-should-not-be-copying-totalitarian-states/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Sociologist and spiked contributor Frank Furedi joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss his latest book, Why Borders Matter. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/23/without-borders-democracy-ceases-to-exist/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/brendan

Julia Hartley-Brewer, host of talkRADIO’s breakfast show, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the BLM cultural revolution and the war on free speech. Read the transcript: Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/09/the-vast-majority-in-this-country-are-not-racist/ Gymshark: https://uk.gymshark.com/TheBrendanONeillShow The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan

Trevor Phillips, writer, broadcaster and former politician, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss identity politics, Covid-19, and being expelled from the Labour Party. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/24/not-all-people-of-colour-think-the-same/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/brendan Gymshark: http://gymshark.com/thebrendanoneillshow

Dave Rubin, host of the Rubin Report and author of Don’t Burn This Book, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the regressive left, radical Islam and free speech. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/11/the-left-is-taking-us-backward/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Michael Lind talks to Brendan O’Neill about how the liberal elite colonised politics, culture and the economy. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/27/the-tyranny-of-the-managerial-elite/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Novelist Lionel Shriver talks to Brendan O’Neill about the catastrophe of lockdown, the horrors of the ‘new normal’, and our society’s immature response to death. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/11/there-is-nothing-unprecedented-about-the-virus-itself/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Drag queen Vanity Von Glow talks to Brendan O’Neill about cancel culture, victimhood and identity. Spare a fiver to support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Heather Mac Donald, New York Times bestselling author and Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the devastation wrought by the Covid-19 lockdowns. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/16/the-shutdown-is-blighting-billions-of-lives/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Peter Hitchens, outspoken opponent of the coronavirus lockdown, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the rush to shut down democracy, dissent and the economy in response to Covid-19. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/03/the-alleged-cure-is-immensely-worse-than-the-disease/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Paul Coleman, author of Censored, talks to Brendan O’Neill about origins of Europe’s hate-speech laws and how everything from mainstream opinions to religious beliefs can now be criminalised. Spare a fiver to support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Sunday Times columnist Dominic Lawson talks to Brendan O’Neill about the radicalism of Brexit, the hubris of the climate movement, and the potential for an anti-green populist revolt.

Claire Fox, the former Brexit Party MEP and director of the Academy of Ideas, talks to Brendan O’Neill about her time in the European Parliament, the demonisation of Leave voters, and how to make democracy come alive after Brexit. Claire is also the co-convenor of ‘Changing Politics for Good: What Next?’, which will take place at the Cheshire Conference Centre in Stockport on 29 February. Get tickets: https://www.changepolitics4good.co.uk/.

Eco-modernist Marco Visscher on the promise of nuclear power, the limits of Extinction Rebellion’s doom-mongering and why economic growth is good for the environment. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

To mark Brexit Day, former Vote Leave chair Gisela Stuart sits down with Brendan to discuss the future of an independent Britain. Support spiked by becoming a regular donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

The day after his explosive performance on Question Time, actor Laurence Fox joined Brendan O’Neill to discuss the woke world of Hollywood, the myth of white privilege, and the wisdom of ordinary people. Become a regular spiked donor: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Economist Liam Halligan joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the need for a clean Brexit, the propaganda war over the Irish border, and his new book on housing, Home Truths. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Brendan O’Neill and Luke Gittos join Tom, Ella and Fraser on the spiked podcast to discuss a remarkable year, from Brexit and the Boris majority to Greta Thunberg and the unstoppable rise of wokeness. Support the show here: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Trans-sceptical feminists Posie Parker and Venice Allan discuss the silencing of women, the dangers of transitioning children, and the Orwellianism of preferred pronouns. Check out the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked/all

Maurice Glasman, founder of Blue Labour, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Brexit, Blue Labour and the demonisation of the working class.

Michael Shellenberger, founder of Environmental Progress, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Greta Thunberg, Extinction Rebellion and the myth of the Amazon fires. Visit the spiked shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/spiked