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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246: Revenge of the Remoaners

246: Revenge of the Remoaners

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the return of the Brexit wars, Sunak’s cowardice on the trans debate and the race row in Peckham. Sponsored by Express VPN: https://www.express...

15 Sep 202332min

245: The steaming hypocrisy of Jordan Henderson

245: The steaming hypocrisy of Jordan Henderson

Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the shallowness of virtue-signalling, the crackdown on climate ‘criminals’, and the cruel cancellation of Róisín Murphy. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Her...

8 Sep 202332min

244: Sadiq Khan’s war on working-class Londoners

244: Sadiq Khan’s war on working-class Londoners

GB News’ Emily Carver, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss the mayor of London’s eco-tyranny, how the police went woke and the bizarre case of Kayla Lemieux. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Mani...

1 Sep 202331min

243: Lucy Letby and the evils of bureaucracy

243: Lucy Letby and the evils of bureaucracy

Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss  how NHS management protected Lucy Letby, Sadiq Khan’s junk science, why BDSM is not for four-year-olds, and the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin. Spons...

25 Aug 202333min

242: The cancellation of Graham Linehan, with Andrew Doyle

242: The cancellation of Graham Linehan, with Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers discuss how wokeness is killing comedy, Germany’s crackdown on populism, and the autistic teenager who was arrested for saying a policewoman resembled her le...

17 Aug 202333min

241: Why we should leave the ECHR

241: Why we should leave the ECHR

Luke Gittos, Candice Holdsworth and Fraser Myers discuss the small-boats crisis, the madness of Mhairi Black and the myth of ‘global boiling’. Get your ticket for spiked’s next live event – Brendan O...

11 Aug 202332min

240: The Trump witch hunt

240: The Trump witch hunt

Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss the dodgy indictments against Donald Trump, Denmark’s ban on Koran-burning and Costa’s embrace of trans ideology. Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s ...

4 Aug 202334min

239: How Nigel Farage beat the banks

239: How Nigel Farage beat the banks

Triggernometry’s Francis Foster joins Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers to discuss the ‘debanking’ scandal, the drivers’ revolt against Net Zero and Labour’s flip-flopping on the trans debate. Order Brend...

28 Jul 202341min

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