58: 'Free speech is crucial in the battle of ideas'

58: 'Free speech is crucial in the battle of ideas'

This week’s spiked podcast is a Battle of Ideas special. To give you a flavour of the discussions at this year’s festival, held this weekend at the Barbican in London and organised by the Institute of Ideas, Claire Fox discusses the age of echo chambers, Andrew Doyle talks satire and oversensitivity, and Nick Gillespie explains what’s really going on in the Rust Belt. Get your tickets to the Battle of Ideas here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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264: Farmers, subpostmasters and trigger warnings

264: Farmers, subpostmasters and trigger warnings

Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the farmers’ uprising in Germany, why the establishment ignored the plight of the subpostmasters for so long, and why Bond films are being slapped with...

12 Jan 202439min

263: Claudine Gay and the DEI racket

263: Claudine Gay and the DEI racket

Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fall of Harvard’s plagiarist president, how Britain lost control of its borders and the sinister nothingness of Sir Keir Starmer. Sponsored by AG1...

5 Jan 202439min

262: The barbarism of the woke

262: The barbarism of the woke

Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the fallout from 7 October, the triumphs of ‘TERF Island’ and the populist fightback against Net Zero. Please dig deep for spiked this C...

22 Des 20231h 12min

261: The man in a wig

261: The man in a wig

Dennis Kavanagh, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the Tory MP accused of ‘misgendering’, the return of blasphemy laws to Europe and why greens hate Christmas.  Please dig deep for spiked this Chri...

15 Des 202341min

260: Why the Tories are toast

260: Why the Tories are toast

Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Conservatives’ civil war over immigration, the madness of the Covid inquiry and the neofeudalism of COP28. Donate £50 or more to spiked this Chris...

8 Des 202333min

259: The 7 October denialists

259: The 7 October denialists

Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Lauren Smith discuss the downplaying of Hamas’s crimes, the fallout from the Dublin riots and the witch-hunting of Rosie Duffield. Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-onl...

1 Des 202337min

258: Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites

258: Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the political earthquakes in Argentina and the Netherlands, why Osama bin Laden is all over TikTok and the fightback for women’s sports. Work f...

24 Nov 202334min

257: David Cameron… really?

257: David Cameron… really?

Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the death of Tory populism, the tyranny of the Supreme Court and the two-tiered policing of protests. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN https://www.expressvpn....

17 Nov 202338min

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