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98: David Starkey and the tyranny of the thought police 16.10.2020 37:49

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://ha...

97: The president and the plague 09.10.2020 37:29

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

96: Why anti-Trumpers could still get Trump re-elected 02.10.2020 39:57

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

95: The long lockdown winter 25.09.2020 40:47

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

94: Lockdown 2.0 18.09.2020 43:45

The ‘rule of six’, Brexit and JK Rowling. 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: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

93: Is Britain now a rogue state? 11.09.2020 39:18

Bruno Waterfield joins the team to discuss the outrage over the Internal Market Bill. Also on the show: corona authoritarianism and ‘Islamophobia’ in the press. Read the transcript: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/11/the-eu-cant-handle-british-independence/ Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

92: Transcending race -- a spiked podcast special 04.09.2020 37:56

Kmele Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman join Fraser Myers to discuss BLM, identity politics and race abolitionism. 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

91: How wokeness came to rule Britannia 28.08.2020 41:17

The Proms controversy, the Republican National Convention, and the return of schools -- 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

90: Gavin Williamson should go away and shut up 21.08.2020 40:01

The exams fiasco, Public Health England and the DNC. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Chris Snowdon, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: http://expressvpn.com/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

89: The insufferable emptiness of Joe Biden 14.08.2020 41:58

Joe and Kamala, the English Channel migrant crisis, and another week of race rows. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Freddy Gray discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Harry’s: https://www.harrys.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

88: Fear, loathing and free speech 07.08.2020 41:34

Self-censorship, the Covid blame game, and ‘individuals with cervixes’. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

87: Wiley and the world’s oldest hatred 31.07.2020 37:02

Anti-Semitism, Boris’s health kick and the Scottish hate-crime bill. Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

86: Why Remoaners can’t let go of Russiagate 24.07.2020 41:27

The Russia report, John Lewis and the speech police -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Kevin Yuill discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

85: The mask slips 17.07.2020 43:39

Lockdown fanaticism, the rise of China, and Bristol’s BLM statue. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Fraser Myers, and special guest Lee Jones, 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

84: It’s time to cancel cancel culture 10.07.2020 38:11

The Harper’s letter, the BBC and the reopening of pubs. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Andrew Doyle discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsors: Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

83: The weird war on whiteness 03.07.2020 43:14

White fragility, social-media censorship and Boris’s New Deal. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: Stitch Fix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked Babbel: http://babbel.co.uk/play Promo code: spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

82: Terror returns to Britain 26.06.2020 43:08

The Reading attack, trans ideology and Karen-bashing. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Joanna Williams discuss. Support the show: Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Babbel: https://babbel.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

81: The Tory war on woke 19.06.2020 45:57

Tories v identity politics, BLM in schools, and the corona crash -- Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Katharine Birbalsingh discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

80: The woke cultural revolution 12.06.2020 46:56

Statue-smashing, Steve Bannon and JK Rowling’s TERF wars. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Benjamin Teitelbaum discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Sponsored by: StithFix: http://stitchfix.co.uk/spiked The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

79: America falls apart 05.06.2020 39:45

The George Floyd protests, democracy under lockdown, and the policing of tasteless jokes. 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

78: Cummings Derangement Syndrome 29.05.2020 40:08

Our mad media, the EU’s corona crisis, and Joe ‘you ain’t black’ Biden. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers, and special guest Ashoka Mody, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

77: The care-homes scandal that shames the nation 22.05.2020 38:27

Care homes, grooming gangs and police overreach. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Rakib Ehsan discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

76: Lockdown UK: still no end in sight 15.05.2020 38:55

Boris moving the goalposts, the Electoral Commission vs democracy, and Silicon Valley censorship. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Darren Grimes, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

75: Neil Ferguson’s staggering hypocrisy 08.05.2020 38:28

The government scientist who broke the lockdown, the allegations against Joe Biden, and campus censorship. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and Sean Collins discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/the-spiked-podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

74: Why the media have had such a bad war 01.05.2020 37:13

‘Gotcha’ journalism, corona apps and trans battles. Tom, Ella, Fraser, and special guest Timandra Harkness, discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices