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Dec 22, 2017 • 37min
66: ‘I’ve seen the best and the worst in humankind’
On spiked's Christmas podcast: Kurdish fighter Macer Gifford on the war in Syria and Iraq, Dame Ann Leslie on the year feminists went soft, and Labour MP Kate Hoey on why Brexit is still brilliant. spiked-online.com
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Dec 15, 2017 • 36min
65: 'Labour has forgotten working-class Leavers'
On this week’s spiked podcast: Paul Embery on the new threats to Brexit, Nathalie Rothschild on anti-Semitism in Sweden, and Emily Yoffe on why the #MeToo movement has gone too far. spiked-online.com
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Dec 9, 2017 • 31min
64: ‘The battle for Brexit is still on’
On this week’s spiked podcast, Bruno Waterfield discusses the Tory/Brussels showdown, Sean Collins laments the Russia panic gripping America’s political class, and Naomi Firsht says Stop Funding Hate has declared a snooty war on press freedom. spiked-online.com
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Dec 1, 2017 • 39min
63: 'This Meghan-mania is just incredibly grim'
On this week’s spiked podcast: Tom Slater and Freddy Gray on the royal nuptials, Pauline Hadaway on Brexit and Ireland, and Mark Lilla on the problem with identity politics. spiked-online.com
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Nov 24, 2017 • 42min
62: 'Calling a woman a "terf" is just a new way of calling her a "witch"'
On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the problem with labelling women ‘terfs’, Rob Lyons on Hammond’s safety-first budget, and Nico Perrino on the problem of campus censorship in the US. spiked-online.com
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Nov 18, 2017 • 40min
61: Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'We're all bored of this Pestminster witch-hunt'
On this week's spiked podcast: Julia Hartley-Brewer on the 'Pestminster' scandal, Jon Holbrook on the democratic potential of Brexit, and Claire Fox on the problem with sanctifying transgenderism. spiked-online.com
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Nov 11, 2017 • 29min
60: Thomas Frank: 'Trump proves that anything is possible'
On this week’s spiked podcast, Tom Slater talks to Thomas Frank about Trump, Hillary and the moral disarray of the Democratic Party.
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Nov 3, 2017 • 33min
59: 'We’re beginning to find sex disgusting'
This week’s spiked podcast is a #MeToo special. To get to grips with this moral panic, Joanna Williams and Luke Gittos discuss the sex-pest scandal gripping Westminster, and Lionel Shriver talks flirting, sex and prudes. spiked-online.com
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Oct 27, 2017 • 35min
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.
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Oct 20, 2017 • 39min
57: 'This is becoming a sexual Salem'
On this week’s spiked podcast: Brendan O’Neill on the Harvey Weinstein hysteria, Luke Gittos on why ISIS’s White Widow deserved to die, and Ceri Dingle on WORLDwrite’s new documentary, 1917: Why the Russian Revolution Matters. spiked-online.com
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