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Miriam Cates, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Trump’s gamble in the Middle East, why British students are mourning the ayatollah and why the UK is so vulnerable to the new world disorder. 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/multiculturalism-mental-asylu...

What does the Gorton and Denton by-election spell for the future of British politics? Top pollster James Johnson – co-founder of JL Partners – spoke to spiked’s Georgina Mumford to pore over the results. Labour is crumbling in its heartlands. The Greens are riding sectarian grievance to victory. Reform has been humbled in Greater Manchester, but remains strong across the country. The old politics...

Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford discuss the Greens’ by-election victory, the disintegration of Labour, the rise of Islamic sectarianism and whether the Reform revolt is stalling.  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/valdo-calocane-the-baft...

Sanae Takaichi is hailed by supporters as Japan’s ‘rockstar’ prime minister and derided by critics as a far-right ultra-nationalist. What everyone agrees is that her recent landslide snap-election victory is a revolutionary moment in Japanese politics. Here, Philip Patrick – journalist and lecturer at Tokyo’s Sophia University – talks to spiked’s Georgina Mumford about Takaichi’s radical plans for...

Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the plot to kill Manchester’s Jews and Keir Starmer's war on democracy Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We need to talk about immigration, says novelist Lionel Shriver. Mass migration is fundamentally changing our societies and fuelling a monumental political backlash, yet is still near impossible to discuss openly and frankly. Here, she sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about her new novel, A Better Life, which explores America’s migrant crisis through the lives of a New York family who...

Aberdeen is at the coalface of Britain’s Net Zero catastrophe. Around 400 workers in the North Sea oil and gas sector are being laid off every fortnight. The dismantling of one of Scotland’s leading industries has come at a staggering social and economic cost. And yet, Ed Miliband, Britain’s eco-zealous energy secretary, is turning a blind eye to the devastation around him. Here, Nick Tyrone – aut...

Pedro Sánchez’s Spain has become a testing ground for all the worst woke ideas. His ‘progressive’ coalition has embraced trans ideology and gender self-identification. It is planning to grant legal residency to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants. Meanwhile, two fatal train crashes in short succession point to the government’s corruption, nepotism and negligence. Yet criticising these f...

Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the small-boats crime wave, Keir Starmer’s stay of execution and the witch-hunting of Jim Ratcliffe. 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-curious-incident-of-the-dog-and-the-drag-queen/ Sign up today for yo...

Xi Jinping has just carried out the most significant purge of China’s military in decades. Top general Zhang Youxia, alongside other leading figures and formerly close allies, have been arrested, accused of treason and corruption. Is this a sign of Xi’s strength and his iron grip on power and his party? Or is it a sign of weakness, paranoia and growing internal dissent? Here, Cindy Yu – columnist...

Albie Amankona, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the fallout from the Epstein Files, the Iran apologists in Britain and Spain’s insane new migration policy. 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/is-the-english-countryside-too-white/ Learn more about your a...

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Reem Ibrahim, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the smears, scandals and sectarianism surrounding the Manchester by-election. Plus, the clownishness of Andy Burnham and Suella Braverman’s defection. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unl...

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Trump’s sabre-rattling, Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands and China’s spy HQ in London. Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spi...

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ may be his worst negotiation yet. The UK is set to pay exorbitant amounts to the EU, hand over control of vital industries, and receive some nasty surprises in return. Here, Bruno Waterfield – Brussels correspondent at The Times...

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the death of the Tories, the brutality of Iran’s ayatollahs and Starmer’s totalitarian war on X Watch the second half of the discussion on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for sp...

Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the perils of the ‘Don-roe doctrine’, Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv. 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/why-everyone-hates-keir-starmer/ Become a spiked supporter to a...

When Lenore Skenazy let her nine-year-old use the New York Subway on his own, she was dubbed ‘America’s Worst Mom’. In our age of safetyism, children are expected to be supervised, monitored and coddled at all times – not left alone to explore the outside world. No generation has ever been so sheltered. And nor has any generation felt so anxious and depressed. Here, Lenore Skenazy – president of L...

*As a Christmas treat, we have removed the paywall for this episode of spiked podcast: unlocked, our exclusive podcast for spiked supporters.*  Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Britain's broken borders, the revolutionary rise of Reform, the revenge of the millennial left, and why woke refuses to die. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donat...

Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spiked-online.com/xmas/  Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Bondi Beach attack and the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism, and the battle for free speech after the murder...

Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how our broken borders threaten women and girls, Sandie Peggie’s fight for single-sex spaces and Jamie Michael’s never-ending persecution. Want a signed copy of Vibe Shift, the brilliant new book by Brendan O’Neill? Donate £50 or more – or £30 or more, if you’re a spiked supporter – to our Christmas appeal and we’ll pop one in the post: https://www.spike...

‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch  Arrests in Britain for social-media posts have soared by 58 per cent since 2019. Meanwhile, actual crimes like burglary or assault are only rarely pursued or solved. Here, Paul Birch – former Metropolitan Police officer and counter-terrorism specialist – explains why the police became so obsessed with tackling so-called thou...

Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK chancellor’s ‘creative accounting’, David Lammy’s tyrannical war on juries and the celebrities on the march against Reform UK. 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/your-partys-delicious-meltdown/ Beco...

Fresh from his acquittal for ‘harassing’ a trans activist, Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – sat down with spiked’s Georgina Mumford to discuss the legal campaigns to have him silenced, the activist capture of the arts, and why the TERFs are finally on the winning side. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/     Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.co...

Liam Halligan and Fraser Myers discuss the horrors in the autumn budget, why our sky-high taxes lead to dreadful public services, and where the next economic crisis could come from. New episodes every Friday. Watch the second half of the show on spiked podcast: unlocked – our weekly bonus podcast, exclusively for spiked supporters – here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the-smear-cam...

The UK’s Covid inquiry has made the audacious – and utterly misleading – claim that an earlier lockdown could have saved thousands of lives. Here, Michael Simmons – economics editor at the Spectator and host of the Reality Check podcast – exposes the dodgy data being peddled by the ‘experts’, the groupthink that pushed us into lockdown, and the economic devastation that is still being felt today. ...