Currency trader turned YPG soldier Macer Gifford joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss his experiences on the frontline, the barbarism of ISIS and the future of Kurdish statehood. 
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13: Macer Gifford: fighting ISIS

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Batya Ungar-Sargon returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women. Batya and Brendan discuss the death of the American dream, the rise of the managerial elite and why there is hope in the populist backlash.



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280: Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the culture war is a class war

Novelist, screenwriter and commentator Gareth Roberts joins The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to talk about his new book, Gay Shame. Gareth and Brendan discuss how trans activists hijacked gay rights, the misogyny of gender ideology and why woke homophobia is on the rise.



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279: Gareth Roberts: The return of gay shame

Former governor at the Tavistock gender clinic Marcus Evans is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Marcus and Brendan discuss the medical scandal of transitioning kids, the ideological capture of the NHS and the silencing of whistleblowers. 



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278: Marcus Evans: Why I blew the whistle on the Tavistock

Lionel Shriver – author of the new novel, Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the collective derangement behind lockdown, climate alarmism and the trans ideology.



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277: Lionel Shriver: The age of mania

Epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Martin and Brendan discuss why Sweden was right about lockdown, why it’s wrong to shut down scientific debate and how free speech can save lives.



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13: Macer Gifford: fighting ISIS

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