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Francis Foster and Nick Tyrone join Tom Slater to discuss Farage’s Clacton gambit, Prince Harry’s humiliation in court, and Labour’s latest war on ‘misinformation’ Buy Francis’s book, (Un)educated: My Life as a Teacher, and Why You Should Never Become One, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/educated-Teacher-Should-Never-Become/dp/0349021503  And pre-order Nick’s book, The Rise of Reform: The Insi...

Ross Kempsell, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers on the hollowness of ‘Manchesterism’, the gang-rapist we can’t deport and the media myth of ‘Peak Reform’ Watch the videos from the spiked summit – our biggest ever live event. spiked supporters can get exclusive early access to the panels and speeches: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/30/watch-the-spiked-summit-2026-our-biggest-ever-live-event/  Le...

Zia Yusuf – Reform UK’s home-affairs spokesperson – made a surprise appearance at the inaugural spiked summit on Saturday. He spoke to spiked editor Tom Slater about how the establishment will seek to frustrate a Reform government, the half-a-trillion-pound cost of mass migration, and the uselessness of Britain’s ruling class. Become a spiked supporter to get discounted tickets to our events, acce...

Brendan O’Neill and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s grey tyranny, Andy Burnham’s flip-flopping and why Labour will never win back the working class. Watch our extended interview with Michael Gove for the 10-year anniversary of Brexit, only for spiked supporters: LINK Watch ‘Brexit: a revolution betrayed?’ here: https://youtu.be/VrvmZRkhdLY?si=bdSRMqqTWn2l-V_X  Donate £40 or more to spiked’s su...

Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: ⁠https://⁠⁠shopify.co.uk/spiked⁠  Julia Hartley-Brewer and Claire Fox join Tom Slater to discuss why Andy Burnham won’t bring ‘change’ to Labour, why Reform UK fell short, and whether Restore Britain will continue to nip at Farage’s heels Watch Brendan O’Neill’s exclusive Q&A, only for spiked supporters: https://www.spik...

Ben Jones talks to spiked’s Fraser Myers about his new book, author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis. They discuss what Keir Starmer got right about Britain’s fraying social fabric, why Islam is granted special protections, and why two-tier policing is inevitable under multiculturalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brendan O’Neill, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers on the anti-migrant riots in Belfast, Restore vs Reform, and why Starmer’s social-media crackdown won’t end with teenagers. Donate £40 or more to spiked’s summer appeal and receive a limited-edition ‘10 years of Brexit’ pint glass. Find out more and donate here: https://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-summer-appeal/ The spiked summit has now SOLD OUT. To...

Chris Rose – political commentator and YouTuber – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the horrors of DEI-driven policing, the profound emptiness of the Labour government, and why Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur should be allowed to come to Britain. Donate £40 or more to spiked’s summer appeal and receive a limited-edition ‘10 years of Brexit’ pin...

Listen to Rod Liddle’s Times Radio show, Saturdays 10am to 1pm, on digital radio, your smart speaker or by downloading the free Times Radio app. Find out more here: https://www.thetimes.com/radio  William Clouston – leader of the Social Democratic Party – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the Reform-Restore rift, why Blair can’t fix broken...

Listen to Rod Liddle’s Times Radio show, Saturdays 10am to 1pm, on digital radio, your smart speaker or by downloading the free Times Radio app. Find out more here: https://www.thetimes.com/radio  Ameer Kotecha, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the stakes of the Makerfield by-election, why we must never rejoin the EU, and what the HS2 omnishambles reveals about broken Britain.  Brendan O’Neill will...

Nick Tyrone, Fraser Myers and Georgina Mumford on Starmer’s crumbling premiership, the naffness of Wes Streeting and the pointlessness of Andy Burnham Brendan O’Neill will be hosting **a live Q\&A** on **Tuesday 9 June**. This event is free and is exclusively for **spiked supporters**. Find out more here: [https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/05/08/brendan-oneill-live-and-in-conversation/](https://w...

Sign up for a £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked  Brendan O’Neill, Fraser Myers and Georgina Mumford on the historic local elections, Labour’s wipeout in its heartlands and the Green Party’s phoney revolt.  Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event...

Andrew Gold, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s anti-Semitism crisis, the small-boats crime wave and the Oxford don with huge prosthetic breasts Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James Dreyfus, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Olly Robbins scandal, how the Greens became the nasty party, and the delicious feud between JK Rowling and Alastair Campbell. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/being-a-terf-in-the-arts-with-james-drey...

Patrick Christys, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the state’s catastrophic failure to stop Axel Rudakubana, Ireland’s revolt against elite greenism and Trump’s Messiah complex.  Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/will-human-rights-bring-down-the-west/ ...

Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the new divide in British politics, Trump’s fragile ceasefire and the ban on Kanye West. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/will-human-rights-bring-down-the-west/  Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest...

Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK’s homegrown energy crisis, why Scott Mills deserves the presumption of innocence, and the woke war on dogs. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the-clapham-tiktok-riots/  Join us for the spiked summit,...

Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Golders Green arson attack, Tucker Carlson’s praise of Sharia and the hypocrisy of celebrity ‘anti-fascism’. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/are-we-being-gaslit-on-immigration-and-crime/  Join us fo...

Four ambulances run by a Jewish community group in London’s Golders Green were set on fire in the early hours of Monday morning. Iran-linked terrorists have claimed responsibility. Here, Lorin Bell-Cross – political correspondent at the Jewish Chronicle – outlines what we know so far about the ambulance attack, and explains why Labour cannot speak frankly about the threat to British Jews.  Get tic...

Connie Shaw, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the row over the call to prayer in Trafalgar Square, Bob Vylan’s star turn at the Al-Quds Day protest and the sixth-former politics of Hannah Spencer. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: youtube.com/watch?v=hL8_8Mb3Jik&feature=youtu.be Join us for t...

Victims of the grooming gangs are being let down – again. The UK’s Labour government is stalling a public inquiry into the industrial-scale abuse of Britain’s working class girls by mainly Pakistani Muslim men. Speaking to spiked’s Georgina Mumford, former police constable Maggie Oliver – who blew the whistle on the Rochdale child-abuse ring – reveals how these crimes were covered up by the author...

As the Iran War sends oil and gas prices spiralling, Labour’s Ed Miliband has doubled down on his Net Zero zealotry. Switching from fossil fuels to renewables, the UK energy minister claims, will drive costs down, reduce volatility and protect British consumers from external shocks. Here, David Turver – energy analyst and author of the Eigen Values Substack – demolishes Miliband’s green-energy del...

Brendan O’Neill, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers on the folly of foreign intervention, Britain’s ayatollah apologists, Starmer’s bonfire of civil liberties and Labour’s Islamo-censorship. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKAxYVTHVDs  Join us for the spiked summit, o...

Jonathan Hall KC – the UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation – warns that Labour’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ is not fit for purpose. Here he tells spiked’s Georgina Mumford that it will not only fail in its aim of tackling prejudice against Muslims – it will also censor vital discussion on Islamism, terrorism and immigration, potentially emboldening religiou...

On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, UK Foreign Office diplomats were invited to take part in a panel discussion on World Afro Day. As the Iran War broke out, and a British air base in Cyprus came under attack from Hezbollah, the civil-service intranet was urging mandarins to ‘take charge of their development’. Such woke excesses and HR distractions are merely the tip of the iceberg, according to...