289: The Starmer landslide

289: The Starmer landslide

Tom Slater is joined by Inaya Folarin Iman and Ella Whelan for a spiked podcast election special. They discuss Labour’s strangely hollow victory, the Reform revolt, the poison of Islamic sectarianism and where it all went wrong for the Tories and the SNP. This episode is sponsored by AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription. Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period. Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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‘Islamists will exploit Labour’s “Islamophobia” ban’ | UK terror tsar Jonathan Hall

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‘The woke Foreign Office doesn’t stand for Britain’ | Ameer Kotecha

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 un...

10 Mar 18min

Iran: the folly of ‘regime change’

Iran: the folly of ‘regime change’

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 se...

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‘Gorton and Denton was a nightmare for Labour’ | James Johnson

‘Gorton and Denton was a nightmare for Labour’ | James Johnson

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 resul...

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Gorton and Denton, the Greens and the new sectarianism

Gorton and Denton, the Greens and the new sectarianism

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.  Watc...

27 Feb 25min

Japan’s iron lady? | Philip Patrick

Japan’s iron lady? | Philip Patrick

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 vic...

24 Feb 13min

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Andrew, Epstein and our feckless elites

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 discussio...

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‘Immigration is the issue of the century’ | Lionel Shriver

‘Immigration is the issue of the century’ | Lionel Shriver

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 di...

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