The Brendan O'Neill Show

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Rosie Kay – choreographer, founder of K2CO and co-founder of Freedom in the Arts – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rosie and Brendan discuss the staggering levels of self-censorship in Britain’s cultural institutions, the cancellations of Graham Linehan and Kate Clanchy, and how liberals abandoned the battle for artistic freedom.

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Christopher Caldwell – author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Christopher and Brendan discuss the death rattle of woke, Trump’s fury with the EU, and how the West lost control of its borders.

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Robin Aitken – former BBC journalist and author of The Noble Liar – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Robin and Brendan discuss the BBC’s abandonment of objectivity, the activist capture of the newsroom and why this still matters in the internet era.

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Matthew Syed – columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Matthew and Brendan discuss the UK’s economic decline, how the West lost its confidence and the indignity of the welfare state.

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Helen Joyce – director of advocacy at Sex Matters – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the irreversible damage of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, the myth of being ‘born in the wrong body’, and the trans-activist capture of the British establishment.

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Rabbi Daniel Rowe – senior educator of Aish UK – on the Islamist threat to Jews, the rise of MAGA anti-Semitism, and why Israel remains resilient.

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Heather Mac Donald – Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of When Race Trumps Merit – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss why Zohran Mamdani’s victory will fuel crime, poverty and anti-Semitism in New York City.

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Robin Aitken – former BBC journalist and author of The Noble Liar – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Robin and Brendan discuss the BBC’s abandonment of objectivity, the activist capture of the newsroom and why this still matters in the internet era.

New episodes every Thursday.

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Paul Coleman – executive director of ADF International and author of Censored – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Paul and Brendan discuss Britain’s slide into censorship, how quoting the Bible became a crime in Finland, and how Islamic blasphemy laws conquered Europe.

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Eli Lake – columnist at the Free Press and host of the Breaking History podcast – on hipster socialism, Islamo-leftism and the crumbling of the Democratic elites.

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