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The Brendan O'Neill Show
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spiked’s Brendan O’Neill discusses today’s big ideas and bad ideas with an esteemed guest.
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369: Melanie Phillips: Israel, Iran and the global struggle against barbarism
Jun 20, 202501:01:20Tap to summarizeThe Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Times columnist Melanie Phillips returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss Israel’s audacious strikes on Iran, the fanaticism of the Iranian regime, and why Israel is the best contender for leader of the free world.Read Melanie’s Substack: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/ Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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368: Rod Liddle: The two Englands
Jun 12, 202500:55:02Tap to summarizeThe Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Rod Liddle – associate editor of the Spectator and Times Radio presenter – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the hollowness of Keir Starmer, the horrors of two-tier policing, and why Nigel Farage could be Britain’s next prime minister.Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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335: Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive?
Jun 5, 202501:10:13Tap to summarizeThis episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show is also available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Douglas and Brendan discuss how rising anti-Semitism speaks to our decaying civilisation, what the West can learn from Israel, and the pro-Hamas hysteria infecting the left, the right and the mainstream media.Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ An earlier version of this podcast stated that hundreds of students at Princeton University chanted, ‘Glory to our martyrs’, in recent weeks. Princeton students actually wrote the slogan on a banner and tweeted it last year, but did not chant it in their hundreds.
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334: Wilfred Reilly: How Black Lives Matter fooled the world
May 30, 202500:58:00Tap to summarizeWilfred Reilly – author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me and Hate Crime Hoax – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to discuss the five-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd. Wilfred and Brendan talk about the myth of America’s race war, how BLM put black people in danger, and why race relations could improve Donald Trump.Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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333: Tiffany Jenkins: The rise and fall of private life
May 22, 202500:55:09Tap to summarizeTiffany Jenkins joins The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to talk about her new book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life. Tiffany and Brendan discuss why tech isn’t to blame for the erosion of our privacy, the dangerous melding of the personal and political, and what Harry and Meghan reveal about the state of privacy today. Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke, at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/events/Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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332: SPECIAL: ‘Israel is at war with fascism’ | Brendan O’Neill live
May 15, 202501:13:40Tap to summarizespiked’s chief political writer sat down with the Jewish Chronicle to discuss the left’s betrayal of Jews, the evils of Hamas and Israel’s war for civilisation. Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke, at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/Order Brendan’s book, After the Pogrom, now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/
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331: Nick Cater: Labor’s hollow victory Down Under
May 8, 202501:02:59Tap to summarizeNick Cater – columnist at the Australian and senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nick and Brendan discuss Australia’s first ‘post-truth’ election, the withering of the mainstream parties and the growing alienation of the working classes.Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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330: Julie Bindel: The trans erasure of lesbians
May 1, 202501:01:59Tap to summarizeJulie Bindel – author of Lesbians: Where Are We Now? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Julie and Brendan discuss why the Supreme Court’s gender ruling is so vital for lesbians, why gay rights and trans rights have nothing in common, and why being a lesbian used to be fun.Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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329: Jacob Mchangama: The free-speech recession
Apr 24, 202500:54:28Tap to summarizeJacob Mchangama – executive director of The Future of Free Speech and author of Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media – returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jacob and Brendan discuss Trump’s deportations of campus activists, the return of blasphemy laws to Europe, and why we must be free to hate.Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/brendan Celebrate 25 years of spiked. Donate £25 or more to get a year’s membership of spiked supporters for half the usual price: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from:🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US:https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
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328: Julia Hartley-Brewer: How two-tier Keir is tearing Britain apart
Apr 17, 202501:01:58Tap to summarizeJulia Hartley-Brewer – Talk presenter and Sun columnist – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this special live episode. Julia and Brendan discussed Labour’s woes, Britain’s free-speech crisis, the appeal of Trump in a world gone mad, and why politicians need to start fearing voters again.This event was exclusive to spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. To celebrate 25 years of spiked, we’re currently giving away a year’s membership for just £25. That’s half the usual price. Sign up here. https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ 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 Support spiked:https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked’s shop:https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
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