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Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss terror attacks in America, Jess Phillips’s grooming-gangs betrayal and Farage vs Badenoch.

Is the UK a free country any more? An estimated nine people per day are arrested for making offensive comments online. In fact, more people had their collars felt in Britain for speech crimes in 2015 and 2016 than were arrested in the US during the entirety of First Red Scare. Here, Greg Lukianoff – president of the US’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression – warns that laws against so-called hate speech, and the elite panic over ‘misinformation’, have given licence to the British state to trample on our liberties. He also discusses the Trumpian threat to free speech, the explosion of campus censorship in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, and what it really means to ‘incite violence’.

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Rakib Ehsan and Sabine Beppler-Spahl join Fraser Myers to discuss the deadly car attack on a German Christmas market, the misinformation surrounding the suspect’s motives, and how this deadly atrocity could fuel an insurgent AfD.

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In this special end-of-year episode, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers are joined by Francis Foster and Inaya Folarin Iman to reflect on the highs and lows of 2024. They discuss Trump, Farage and the global populist surge; why woke is losing the culture war; how Southport exposed Keir Starmer’s authoritarianism; the triumph of Israel, the unravelling of Syria and the tragedy of Ukraine; and more.

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A month on from Trump’s seismic victory, Democrats are still in denial about the significance of their defeat. Party elites think slicker messaging alone can claw back lost support. Here, Michael Lind – author of Hell to Pay and The New Class War – explains why this is so delusional. Identitarianism, illegal immigration and green extremism made America ripe for a populist revolt. Lind also weighs in on the tensions in the MAGA movement and the farmers’ protests in Europe.

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Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the end of the Assad regime, the ‘hot assassin’, the trial of Daniel Penny and the rise of Reform.

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Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the MasterChef scandal, the collapse of the French government and Keir Starmer’s botched reset.

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‘To fight evil.’ That’s why Macer Gifford gave up his comfortable life as a City of London currency trader to fight as an international volunteer in two major conflicts – first in Syria, and then in Ukraine. In 2014, he joined the Kurds in their battle against ISIS. In 2022, he helped Ukrainians fend off Putin’s Russia. Here, Macer reveals the perils of 21st-century warfare, recalls the joy of liberating Kherson, and explains why Ukrainians are still willing to risk it all for their freedom.

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Jacob Reynolds from MCC Brussels, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the assisted-dying bill and the Labour MP demanding a blasphemy law.

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There is no ‘safe’ way to legalise assisted dying, warns Conservative MP Danny Kruger on spiked today ahead of Friday’s House of Commons vote. Talking to Fraser Myers, he argues that a ‘right to die’ would force the NHS to offer ‘death on demand’. For all the talk of the ‘safeguards’ in the proposed bill, the experience of countries like Canada shows that mission creep is inevitable. There, assisted dying is routinely offered to those who don’t ask for it, and as a substitute for proper care. He urges his fellow MPs to reject this dangerous bill. 

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