The Brendan O'Neill Show

GB News presenter Dan Wootton joins Brendan O’Neill to talk about the cruelty of New Zealand’s Zero Covid policy, why no one trusts the mainstream media and why Harry and Meghan are a disaster for the royal family. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-onli...

Konstantin Kisin, co-host of ‘Triggernometry’ and author of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the rise of Western self-loathing and why the values of freedom and tolerance must be defended. Get your copy of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Immigrants-Love-Letter-West/dp/1408716046   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked...

As Boris Johnson stands down as UK prime minister, Frank Furedi and Brendan O’Neill discuss the missed opportunities of the Boris era. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www...

Ann Furedi and Jon O’Brien, two esteemed veterans of the pro-choice movement, join Brendan O’Neill to discuss the demise of Roe v Wade and the new fight for abortion rights.  Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign...

Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley, authors of ‘The Children’s Inquiry’, talk to Brendan O’Neill about the devastating toll of Covid school closures, how remote learning widened the class divide, and the failure of adults to stand up for children. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a...

Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the new fight for liberty in America. Want to intern at spiked? You have just a few days left to apply: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns   Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/don...

Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Uvalde, gun rights and free speech. Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns   Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Watch spiked's film...

Louise Perry, author of ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the problem with porn, the case for marriage, and why washing machines have done more for women than feminism  Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’ by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Ap...

‘How Woke Won’ is the brilliant new spiked book by Joanna Williams. To celebrate its release, Joanna joined Brendan for a special live edition of the podcast, where they discussed how wokeness took over and how we can all fight back. Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won’: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   This event was free for spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now and you will get...

Former chief Brexit negotiator David Frost talks to Brendan O’Neill about the Northern Ireland Protocol, climate alarmism and woke.  Order your copy of “How Woke Won” by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/   Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for our paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/in...

Simon Fanshawe talks to Brendan O’Neill about his public break with Stonewall, why he is not ‘LGBTQ+’ and why we need more civil disagreement. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/   Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-free...

Jay Bhattacharya talks to Brendan O’Neill about the catastrophic harms of lockdown and how the scientific establishment suppressed the Covid debate. Hoping to get into journalism? Are you passionate about spiked’s pro-freedom, anti-woke politics? Apply now for spiked’s paid internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns   Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Bre...

Freddy Gray, deputy editor of the Spectator, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Macron, Le Pen and Freddy’s controversial interview with Éric Zemmour. Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/   Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a sp...

Konstantin Kisin, co-host of ‘Triggernometry’ and author of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss why Russia invaded Ukraine, why the West is worth defending, and why wokeness is now on the backfoot. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: h...

Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters and the Respect My Sex campaign, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how trans activism silences women and the importance of defending biological sex.  Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/

Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the problem of male-bodied athletes in women’s sports, the culture of fear surrounding the gender debate, and her own experience of competing against drug cheats. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: http...

Mary Dejevsky, former Moscow correspondent for The Times, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, how Putin sees the world and why Russia fears the expansion of NATO. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/   Spons...

Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of “Compact”, returns to talk about the suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal, the return of class war, and the myth of the free market in an age of corporate censorship.

Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the geopolitical naivety of the West, what the world can learn from the Ukrainian resistance, and how the war might escalate. Read Frank’s essay, ‘The Revenge of History’, here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/13/the-revenge-of-history/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www....

Matt Ridley, co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how Covid might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, how scientists tried to suppress the lab-leak theory and how science has been captured by groupthink. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spik...

Rupa Subramanya, columnist for the National Post, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the vicious class war on Canada’s Freedom Convoy, the authoritarianism of the woke elites and the global fightback against technocracy.  Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-o...

Ann Furedi, author of ‘The Moral Case for Abortion’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how ‘choice’ became a dirty word, what the pro-life movement gets wrong about women, and how identity politics is undermining women’s rights. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www....

Jacob Mchangama, author of “Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media”, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rising authoritarianism of left and right, the importance of free speech to equality and progress, and why censorship always fails to defeat bad ideas. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporte...

Nina Power, author of ‘What Do Men Want?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need to recover masculine virtues, the terror of the #MeToo movement, and why there is nothing progressive about the transgender movement. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked...

Marie Kawthar Daouda –  lecturer in French at Oriel College, Oxford – talks to Brendan O’Neill about the statue wars, critical race theory and the dangers of the ‘decolonise’ movement.  Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/   Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/   Sponsor...