Michael Shellenberger – best-selling author and one of the journalists behind the Twitter Files – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this special live episode. Michael and Brendan discussed the elites’ war on free speech, the cult of climate change, and how wokeness is destroying the great American city. 

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Karol Sikora – former chief of the World Health Organisation’s cancer programme – joins Brendan O’Neill on the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Karol and Brendan discuss how lockdown stretched cancer services to breaking point and why Covid alarmism has been so bad for our health.

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Sohrab Ahmari – founder and editor of Compact – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his new book, Tyranny, Inc. They touch on how the left gave up on the working classes, what the right gets wrong about woke capitalism, and how the market threatens the freedoms of ordinary Americans. 

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Rupa Subramanya, columnist at the Free Press, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the slipperiness of Justin Trudeau, why Canadian parents are revolting against trans ideology, and the tragedy of Richard Bilkszto. 

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Nigel Farage – GB News presenter and former Brexit Party leader – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his battle with Coutts and the terrifying scale of ‘debanking’. Plus, Farage gives his reaction to the latest indictment against Donald Trump.

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Wilfred Reilly – spiked columnist and author of Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Wilfred and Brendan discuss the end of affirmative action, the myth of systemic racism and why race-faking is on the rise. 

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Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University and host of The Glenn Show, returns to the The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how race-based admissions policies infantilise black America, demonise Asian Americans and promote racial stereotyping.

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Robert McLiam Wilson, novelist and contributor to Charlie Hebdo, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why satirists should ‘punch down’, the racism of the woke elites and the Islamist atrocities that the world has forgotten. 

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Bjorn Lomborg, author of Best Things First, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how ‘sustainable development’ is harming the world’s poor.

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David Harsanyi – senior editor of the Federalist – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. David and Brendan discuss the corruption scandals engulfing the Biden administration and how wokeness has created a post-truth age. 

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