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The reshuffle, Insulate Britain, Emma Raducanu and the Met Gala — Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Get your tickets to next week’s live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-world-gone-mad-with-brendan-oneill-and-julia-hartley-brewer-tickets-169866654737 Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Fraser Myers: a cabinet of deadwood https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/16/a-cabinet-of-deadwood/ Tom Slater: The racialisation of Emma Raducanu https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/12/the-racialisation-of-emma-raducanu/ Tom Slater: Of course AOC went to the Met Gala https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/14/of-course-aoc-went-to-the-met-gala/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9/11, social care, Marc Bola and the Wi Spa controversy. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter and claim your free ticket to our upcoming live event with Brendan O’Neill and Julia Hartley-Brewer: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/07/julia-hartley-brewer-and-brendan-oneill-live-and-in-conversation/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Issuu: Visit https://issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code SPIKED to get 50% off a premium account Related articles: Tom Slater: How 9/11 exposed the depths of Western self-loathing https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/how-9-11-exposed-the-depths-of-western-self-loathing/ Fraser Myers: The needs of the elderly can no longer be ignored https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/06/the-needs-of-the-elderly-can-no-longer-be-ignored/ Tom Slater: Marc Bola and the sins of the teenager https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/marc-bola-and-the-sins-of-the-teenager/ Jo Bartosch: How the Guardian became the Pravda of the trans movement https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/how-the-guardian-became-the-pravda-of-the-trans-movement/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaccine passports, woke homophobia, NHS diversity managers, and Geronimo. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://www.wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Paddy Hannam: The pointlessness of vaccine passports https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/02/the-pointlessness-of-vaccine-passports/ Brendan O’Neill: Woke homophobia https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/30/woke-homophobia/ Fraser Myers: Why does the NHS need diversity managers? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/01/why-does-the-nhs-need-diversity-managers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The XR protests, rainbow police cars, the Nirvana baby, and ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fall of Kabul, the ‘incel’ phenomenon, the crackdown on private speech, and Lily Cole’s Taliban chic. Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support... Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Issuu: Visit https://issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code SPIKED to get 50% off a premium account Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: This is worse than Saigon https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/16/this-is-worse-that-saigon/ Ella Whelan: Afghanistan is not about you https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/19/afghanistan-is-not-about-you/ Tom Slater: Jake Davison was evil, but he wasn’t a terrorist https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/16/jake-davison-was-evil-but-he-wasnt-a-terrorist/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate-change alarmism, Kate Clanchy and the new book-burners, and Geronimo the alpaca -- Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Apocalypse porn https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/10/apocalypse-porn/ Fraser Myers: The climate class war https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/10/the-climate-class-war/ Joanna Williams: Kate Clanchy: no one is safe from the woke mob https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/12/kate-clanchy-no-one-is-safe-from-the-woke-mob/ Fraser Myers: Why Geronimo must die https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/09/why-geronimo-must-die/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Identity politics in sport, sex offenders in women’s hospital wards, and the hounding of a pro-Brexit trade unionist -- Fraser, Tom and Ella discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked Related articles: Mick Hume: The culture war over the ‘Olympic Spirit’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/the-culture-war-over-the-olympic-spirit/ Ella Whelan: Why aren’t we celebrating female athletes’ actual achievements? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/04/why-arent-we-celebrating-female-athletes-actual-achievements/ Jo Bartosch: Women need their own hospital wards https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/03/women-need-their-own-hospital-wards/ Tom Slater: The trade unionist sacked for speaking at a pro-Brexit rally https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/05/the-trade-unionist-sacked-for-speaking-at-a-pro-brexit-rally/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The end of lockdown, climate alarmism and Simone Biles quits the Olympics. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Fraser Myers: A carnival of irrationality https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/26/a-carnival-of-irrationality/ David Paton: How did the experts get ‘Freedom Day’ so wrong? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/27/how-did-the-experts-get-freedom-day-so-wrong/ Ben Pile: Are we finally getting cold feet about Net Zero? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/28/are-we-finally-getting-cold-feet-about-net-zero/ Brendan O’Neill: Why are we celebrating Simone Biles for quitting the Olympics? https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/28/why-are-we-celebrating-simone-biles-for-quitting-the-olympics/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ‘pingdemic’, Dominic Cummings and Tory authoritarianism. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by: Wondrium: https://wondrium.com/spiked ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: Up the vaccines, down with vaccine passports https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/20/up-the-vaccines-down-with-vaccine-passports/ Ella Whelan: Women don’t need protection from catcalling https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/22/women-dont-need-protection-from-catcalling/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The smearing of England fans, the flip-flopping over Freedom Day, and the snobbery over salty food. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: Brendan O’Neill: Marcus Rashford and the hysteria about racism https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/16/marcus-rashford-and-the-hysteria-about-racism/ Tom Slater: What they really mean when they say ‘dog whistle’ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/14/what-they-really-mean-when-they-say-dog-whistle/ Charlie Peters: The myth of racist England https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/13/the-myth-of-racist-england/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The great unmasking, critical race theory in schools, and PC blasphemy. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. The spiked podcast is now available on video. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/UIIoUIVv0f4 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/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the explosive fallout from the Batley and Spen by-election, Labour’s toxic identity politics and the cowardice of the Conservative Party. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Visit the spiked shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Related articles: https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/02/labours-pyrrhic-victory/ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/02/batley-and-spen-a-divided-left-a-complacent-right/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Tim Black discuss the education report, the Batley and Spen by-election, the cancellation of Jess de Wahls, and the Brexit anniversary. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Freedom Day delay, the GB News boycott, and the crisis in the media. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to our newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking the knee, Maya Forstater and Freedom Day. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Tech censorship, the threats to Freedom Day, and the fall of Stonewall. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cummings, Net Zero and equity. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Get tickets to see Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill live: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brendan-oneill-and-rod-liddle-live-and-in-conversation-tickets-154829756971 Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anti-Semitism, freedom hesitency, and Prince Harry. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Free speech, Labour’s woes, and street harassment. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Get 20% off an annual subscription to The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss the historic result in Hartlepool. Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tory ‘sleaze’, Joe Biden’s first 100 days, and India’s Covid disaster. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Derek Chauvin verdict, the European Super League and the cancellation of Richard Dawkins. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Mick Hume discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Identity politics in the arts, the return of pubs, and the death of Prince Philip. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The PM’s authoritarianism, Starmer’s spinelessness and racist toddlers. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The race report, cartoons of Muhammad and vaccine passports. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaccine passports, mass shootings and the EU -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Bruno Waterfield discuss all this and more. 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: ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Everard, the ban on protests and the EU’s vaccine crisis. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Joanna Williams discuss. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Freddy Gray, Lisa McKenzie and the spiked team discuss the fallout from *that* interview. Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The budget, the unravelling of the SNP, and the cancellation of Dr Seuss. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Tim Black and Fraser Myers discuss. 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/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lockdown, hate speech and Megxit. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Sign up to Today on spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Support this show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Campus censorship, vaccine passports and Islamophobia. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. 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: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The New York Times n-word controversy, Italy’s unelected prime minister and the Covid travel ban. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The vaccines row, Labour’s patriotism problem, and online trolls. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brendan O’Neill joins Ella and Fraser to discuss the explosive row over vaccine supplies. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked Freetrade: http://freetrade.io/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The team discusses the inauguration, Kamalamania and the new War on Terror. Support the spiked podcast with a regular donation: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump’s ban from social media, the crackdown on lockdown dissidents and if gay actors should play gay roles. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show with a regular donation: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The carnage at the Capitol, Big Tech censorship and the future of democracy. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Make a regular donation to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this end-of-year special, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss lockdown, the rise of Black Lives Matter, and the prospects for populism. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Brexit negotiations, Millwall vs Black Lives Matter, and the Covid vaccine. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keira Bell, Labour infighting and Joe Biden’s diversity drive. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump, tiered lockdown and Jordan Peterson. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Buy the spiked book: https://www.spiked-online.com/book/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ‘green industrial revolution’, anti-Semitism in Labour and Christmas in the Covid age. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The presidential election, the Covid vaccine and the cancellation of Greg Clarke. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this US election special, the team discusses populism, identity politics and the pandemic. Featuring Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nice attack, anti-Semitism and the US election. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Listen and subscribe to spiked’s other podcasts: The Brendan O’Neill Show: https://podfollow.com/1436524071 Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle: https://podfollow.com/1522857920 Last Orders: https://podfollow.com/1439334347 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The beheading of Samuel Paty, the northern lockdown and Critical Race Theory. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Express VPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hate speech, the Great Barrington Declaration and Twitter’s war on satire. Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Martin Kulldorff discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Listen to Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle: https://podfollow.com/1522857920 Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Donald Trump, pub closures and woke supermarkets. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US race, lockdown Britain and unconscious-bias training. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Covid restrictions, Labour’s Brexit backpedalling and right-wing snowflakes. Brendan O’Neill, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices