The spiked podcast

Victor Davis Hanson – historian, journalist and author of The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss why the midterms are tighter than they seem, how the Democrats emboldened their craziest fringe, the plot to destroy Donald Trump, why the AI panic is overblown, how to win the economic war with Iran, and why Europe needs to get a grip of its borders.

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Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Labour’s retreat from reality, the Brexit betrayal and the next migrant crisis.

On the full, extended episode, they discuss the Hamas terrorist with a British passport and how country pubs, warm ale and black labradors became ‘far right’. 

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Josh Howie, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the public’s fury over illegal migration, Andy Burnham’s Ministry of Truth and the war on comedy, from John Cleese to Mitchell and Webb.

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Lauren Southern – commentator and author of This Is Not Real Life – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the left and right’s hypocrisy over Sydney Sweeney, the phony gender wars over the Lindsay Clancy trial, her run-ins with Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson, and why Woke 2.0 will be even worse than the original.

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Nick Tyrone, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how Palestine mania ruins everything, Piddington’s genteel uprising against illegal migration and how Reform can win the Waitrose belt.

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Ross Clark – author of new book, Britain is Bust: The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis and what it Will Mean for You – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the eye-watering cost of servicing the UK’s debt, how the government wastes your hard-earned cash and why taxing or printing money won’t rescue us from this crisis.

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This is the second half of historian David Starkey’s conversation with spiked’s Fraser Myers. Here, David and Fraser discuss the Northern Irelandisation of British politics, why Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo are emerging as the ‘community leaders’ of the ignored working classes, and why the UK needs a Great Repeal Act to restore sovereignty to parliament.

Watch the first half on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 here: https://youtu.be/cR_bIKkOQtA?si=fBgDfIRcSQWSJyTp 

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Katja Hoyer – historian and author of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe – sat down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the seismic results of the Saxony-Anhalt state elections. Katja and Fraser discuss the collapse of Germany’s centrist parties, the spectacular failure of the AfD ‘firewall’, why the former East Germany is so ripe for rebellion and why the AfD’s more unsavoury characters are not putting off voters.

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This is the first half of historian David Starkey’s conversation with spiked’s Fraser Myers. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, they discuss the religious roots of Islamic extremism, the insanity of the Iraq War and how the West gave up on its civilisation.

The second half is coming soon. 

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Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Dover and Portsmouth protests, the AfD surge and the return of Harry and Meghan.

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