The Brendan O'Neill Show
The Brendan O'Neill Show 332 episodes Nov 8, 2026
spiked's Brendan O'Neill discusses today's big ideas and bad ideas with an esteemed guest.
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Why I’m speaking out against radical Islam | Fiyaz Mughal
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Fiyaz Mughal – founder of Faith Matters and Tell MAMA – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fiyaz and Brendan discuss the increasing assertiveness and radicalism of Islam in Britain, how the dizzying pace of demographic change is tearing society apart, why
How ‘trauma’ is weaponised by elites | Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu – author of Traumatised: The New Politics of Public Suffering – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Catherine and Brendan discuss how Oprah turned pain into profits, why the posh and privileged claim they’re mentally ill, and how the public performance of fragility is used to shut down debate and reinforce the class system.
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Suella Braverman: Why I am not English
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Alan Dershowitz: Why I quit the Democrats
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Alan Dershowitz – lawyer, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and author of Why I Quit the Dems and So Should You! – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Alan and Brendan discus
‘Britain is siding with Islamist evil’ | Melanie Phillips
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Melanie Phillips – author of Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband’s demonisation of
‘Woke is like herpes – it keeps coming back and spreading’ | Bridget Phetasy
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Bridget Phetasy – writer, comedian and host of Dumpster Fire and Walk-Ins Welcome – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Bridget and Brendan discuss the Ed Sheeran / Macklemore meltdown, the glo
Gad Saad on suicidal empathy, woke and the West’s downfall | The Brendan O’Neill Show
Gad Saad – author of Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Gad and Brendan discuss Europe’s civilisational seppuku, the nonsense of ‘Islamophobia’ and why our societies need some ‘testicular fortitude’.
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Israel, Palestine and the cauldron of the Middle East | Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore – historian and author of The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Simon and Brendan discuss the historical rulers, revolutionaries and empires that are still shaping the Middle East, the past and present genocides and massacres we don’t talk about, and why Israel is not to blame for the region’s instability.
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‘Iran could fall within 90 days’ | Ex-Trump official Fred Fleitz
Fred Fleitz – vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute’s American Security department and former executive secretary and chief of staff to Trump’s US National Security Council – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fred and Brendan discuss why the Iran War has reignited, how far Trump will be willing to go to finish the job, and why the regime is so terrified of its own people.
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Peter Hitchens: Britain’s obituarist
Peter Hitchens – Mail on Sunday columnist – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Peter and Brendan discuss why voting never changes anything, why conservative parties are so hopeless, and why chaos, anarchy and tyranny await.
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Why everything you’re told about Israel is a lie | Roy K Altman
Roy K Altman – US district judge and author of Israel on Trial – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Roy and Brendan discuss why the Gaza war is not a ‘genocide’, why there is no ‘apartheid’ in Israel, and why Israelis are not ‘colonisers’.
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‘They can come and arrest me’ | Kellie-Jay Keen
Kellie-Jay Keen – aka Posie Parker, women's rights activist and founder of Let Women Speak – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Kellie-Jay and Brendan discuss the tweets that attracted the police’s attention, Britain’s backdoor blasphemy law and the feminist silence over Islamist misogyny.
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Why men are signing up for women’s basketball | Fiona McAnena
Fiona McAnena – director of campaigns at Sex Matters and author of TERF Island – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fiona and Brendan discuss why Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are right to call out the WNBA, why Imane Khelif should not play in women’s sports, and why the trans madness is far from over.
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How Fauci fooled the world | Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley – co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Matt and Brendan discuss the bombshell evidence of a Covid cover-up in Anthony Fauci’s diaries, why the pandemic was the worst man-made disaster of all time, and how climate hysteria threatens the West.
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The best of Rod Liddle | on spiked’s podcasts, videos & live events
Rod Liddle – Spectator columnist and Times Radio host – has died at aged 66. He was a great champion of spiked and a regular contributor to our podcasts, videos and live events. Here are some of his best bits, including from The Brendan O’Neill Show, Last Orders and Podcast Live.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Rod Liddle, RIP
Rod Liddle has died aged 66. This was the most recent of his regular appearances on The Brendan O’Neill Show.
Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill discuss the hollowness of the Labour Party, the horrors of two-tier policing, and why Nigel Farage could be Britain’s next prime minister.
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‘The UN has no shame’ | Hillel Neuer
Hillel Neuer – executive director of UN Watch – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Hillel and Brendan discuss the UN’s lies about ‘genocide’ and ‘famine’ in Gaza, the warped fantasies of Palestine envoy Francesca Albanese, and the real reason there are more UN resolutions against Israel than Russia, China and Iran combined.
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The BBC is losing Britain | Robin Aitken
Robin Aitken – former BBC journalist and author of The Noble Liar – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss what Romesh Ranganathan’s ad reveals about the BBC’s decline, why the licence fee is finished, and how the Covid lockdown proved our ‘public service’ broadcaster is really just an arm of the state.
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Why Trump is trapped in Iran | Josh Hammer
Josh Hammer – editor-at-large at Newsweek and host of The Josh Hammer Show – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Josh and Brendan discuss Trump’s failure to finish off the ayatollahs, how the ‘retard right’ turned against Israel, and why the US left is more dangerous and deluded than ever.
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Labour’s plot to control what you see online | Toby Young
Toby Young – founder of the Free Speech Union and Conservative peer – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Toby and Brendan discuss the UK government’s plans to rig YouTube’s algorithm, Britain’s Islamic blasphemy laws, Prince Harry’s war on press freedom, and how free speech is imperilled in the workplace.
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Who broke Britain? | Miriam Cates
Miriam Cates – GB News host and former MP – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Miriam and Brendan discuss the chaos at the top of British politics, why the small-boats emergency shames our leaders, and how schools, parents and the state are failing the next generation.
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‘Our broken system creates broken kids’ | Francis Foster
Francis Foster – comedian and author of the new book, (Un)educated: My Life as a Teacher and Why You Should Never Become One – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Francis and Brendan discuss how chaos and a lack of discipline leave the most disadvantaged kids behind, why children must never have smartphones, and how woke colonised the classroom. Plus, why Britain’s leaders keep failin
How the left turned on the Jews | Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya Ungar-Sargon returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new book, The Jews and the Left. Batya and Brendan discuss why America historically welcomed Jews, the Democrats’ Nazi problem and why the woke now cosplay as Islamists.
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‘Henry Nowak: like George Floyd through the looking glass’ | Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson – historian, journalist and author of The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Victor and Brendan discuss the fall of the UK, the transatlantic revolt against racial identity politics, why the Democrats loathe Israel, and why Trump must stop negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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‘Populism is the engine of democracy’ | Frank Furedi
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Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss his new book, In Defence of Populism. Frank and Brendan discuss why there is more to Reform U
The forbidden history of radical Islam | Raymond Ibrahim
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Raymond Ibrahim – historian and author of Sword and Scimitar – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Brendan and Raymond discuss the inherent radicalism of Islam, Islam’s history of violent conquest, the truth ab
‘We must break the spell of trans’ | Kellie-Jay Keen
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Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) – founder of Let Women Speak and leader of the Party of Women – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Brendan and Kellie-Jay on how gender ideology is still harming women and children – and
‘The globalists have failed Britain’ | Laila Cunningham
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Laila Cunningham – Reform UK’s candidate for London mayor – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Laila and Brendan discuss why Reform is winn
‘Starmer is weak, unprincipled and utterly unremarkable’ | Rod Liddle
Times Radio host Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the utter uselessness of Keir Starmer, the civil war in Labour and the elite betrayal of the voters.
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‘The Greens are lunatic, deranged and evil’ | Melanie Phillips
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Melanie Phillips – Times columnist and author of the new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss the rise of the Islamo-left, Britain’s descent into anti-Semitism and why the Labour Party fell apart.
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The rise of the rainbow-haired killer | Wilfred Reilly
Wilfred Reilly – author of Hate Crime Hoax – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Wilfred and Brendan discuss the violent radicalisation of the American left, how ‘anti-racists’ fund the KKK and how woke is being rebranded.
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Labour has brought Britain to the brink of crisis | Liam Halligan
Liam Halligan – economist, Telegraph columnist and host of When the Facts Change – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Liam and Brendan discuss Britain’s fiscal ‘doom loop’, the calamity of Net Zero, and why America’s stock-market boom is built on sand.
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Iran is *still* a nuclear threat | Trump adviser Mark Dubowitz
Mark Dubowitz – CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, adviser on Iran to Obama, Biden and Trump – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Mark and Brendan discuss Iran’s path to nuclear weapons, how Obama surrendered to the ayatollahs, and why opposing the Islamic Republic is a moral imperative.
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Why Iran is not a new ‘forever war’ | US vet Nate Vance
Nate Vance – Marine veteran, volunteer in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and cousin of US vice-president JD Vance – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nate tells Brendan why a US victory in Iran is closer than you think, what he saw on the front line in Ukraine, and why the West must prepare for a more dangerous world.
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‘Starmer has sold out Britain’ | Brexit negotiator David Frost
David Frost – Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset will damage democracy and the British economy.
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‘The reign of terror is almost over’ | Iranian dissident Ali Safavi
Iranian dissident Ali Safavi – member of Iran's Parliament in Exile and National Council of Resistance of Iran – is the latest guest to join Brendan O’Neill on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ali talks about his brother’s murder at the hands of the regime, the peaceful future Iranians want, and why a restoration of the Shah is not the answer.
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‘Iran is on its last legs’ | Former Trump official Fred Fleitz
Fred Fleitz – vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute’s American Security department and former executive secretary and chief of staff to Trump’s US National Security Council – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fred and Brendan discuss America and Israel’s degradation of Iran, how the blockade of Hormuz could cripple the regime and how Trump is remaking the Middle East.
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‘We can’t make peace with a terrorist state’ | Ex-Israeli ambassador Michael Oren
Michael Oren – Israeli ambassador to the Obama administration – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Michael and Brendan discuss Iran’s ceaseless war against the US, why Trump is losing credibility in the Middle East and how the West lost its way.
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Zoe Strimpel: How ‘anti-Zionism’ corrupted the arts
Writer and historian Zoe Strimpel returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss her notorious encounter with Matthew Collings’s self-described ‘anti-Semitic art show’. Plus: they discuss her new book, Good Slut, and how the left and the right turned against women’s freedom.
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Why the Islamic Republic must fall, with Jonathan Harounoff
Jonathan Harounoff – Israel’s International Spokesperson to the United Nations and author of Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jonathan and Brendan discuss why the Iran War was not ‘unprovoked’, Iran’s proxies in the West, and how Iranians can win their freedom.
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Kathleen Stock: the ‘progressive’ cult of death
Kathleen Stock returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss her new book, Do Not Go Gentle.
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Can Trump still claim victory in Iran?, with Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy – editor of Modern Age – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Daniel and Brendan discuss what Trump will do next, the new geopolitical order and why the Islamic Republic poses such a threat to its neighbours and beyond.
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Melanie Phillips: Iran’s evil empire
Melanie Phillips – author of Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss Iran’s decades-long war on the West, the insanity of the ayatollah apologists and why anti-Zionism is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism.
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Stephen J Shaw: The global population collapse has already begun
Stephen J Shaw – producer and director of Birthgap – joined Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Stephen and Brendan discuss the tragedy of unintended childlessness, the hollowing out of ageing societies, and why immigration is no solution to the fertility crisis.
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Julie Bindel: Will Britain *ever* stop the grooming gangs?
Julie Bindel – journalist and founder of Justice for Women – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how political correctness and elite disdain for the working classes have allowed the grooming gangs to run riot. Plus, they discuss the twilight of trans insanity.
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Iran: can the Islamic Republic be toppled?, with Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Andrew and Brendan discuss the American and Israeli strikes on Iran, the risks of a ‘regime change’ war, and the Western left’s apologism for Iran’s brutal theocracy.
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LIVE: Vibe Shift – the revolt against wokeness, greenism and technocracy
To celebrate the release of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, Vibe Shift: The Revolt Against Wokeness, Greenism and Technocracy, Brendan was interviewed by spiked editor Tom Slater for this special live event and podcast. They discussed how the elites' mad ideologies are colliding with reality, common sense and public fury.
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The new dark age, with Nigel Biggar
Nigel Biggar is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nigel and Brendan discuss the rot in Western universities, the woke rewriting of history and why the culture war matters more than ever.
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The truth about the Epstein Files, with Michael Tracey
Journalist Michael Tracey returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss what everyone gets wrong about the Epstein Files, the dangers of abandoning due process and how the media embraced a conspiracy theory.
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The West’s war on ‘whiteness’, with Marie Kawthar Daouda
Marie Kawthar Daouda – author and lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford – joins Brendan O’Neill on The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss decolonisation, white guilt and the destruction of Western heritage.
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Bridget Phetasy: The entitled rage of the white liberal woman
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Bridget Phetasy – host of Dumpster Fire and Walk-Ins Welcome – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the low-level civil war in Minneapolis, the radicalisation of America’s ‘wine moms’, and why ‘feminists’ can’t bring themselves to condemn Islamism
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamism, Iran and the West’s descent into barbarism
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali – founder of the AHA Foundation and the Restoration Bulletin – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the Iranian revolt against the ayatollahs, how Islamism enabled Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal, and how multiculturalism has inst
Iran, Venezuela and the new age of instability, with Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi – author of the upcoming book, In Defence of Populism – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the unravelling of the US-led world order, the ‘Don-roe’ doctrine, and why states need to rediscover the national interest.
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What Trump wants from Venezuela, with Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy – editor of Modern Age – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show following Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela. Daniel and Brendan discuss the new realpolitik in US security strategy and the dangers of foreign-imposed regime change. Plus, how Tim Walz turned a blind eye to industrial-scale welfare fraud in the Somali community.
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Rosie Kay: How woke is killing the arts
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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 l
Christopher Caldwell: The battle to secure the West’s borders
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: How the BBC became the voice of the progressive elite
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: The coddling of the Western mind
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: Another trans experiment on children
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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The myth of ‘Palestinian liberation’, with Rabbi Daniel Rowe
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: Will Mayor Mamdani ruin New York?
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: How the BBC became the voice of the progressive elite
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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Europe’s free-speech emergency, with Paul Coleman
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: Zohran Mamdani’s woke intifada
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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How Trump wrongfooted his critics, with Daniel McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy – editor of Modern Age – on the impotence of the No Kings protests, the perils of Zohran Mamdani and why the working class backs Trump on trade and borders.
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How Trump’s Gaza deal shatters the lies about Israel, with Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – on the return of the hostages, the evils of Hamas and the corruption of the UN.
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Jonathan Sacerdoti: Two years of jihad against the Jews
Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Sacerdoti returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the horror in Manchester, the West’s capitulation to Islamism, and why the hate marchers are furious with Trump’s Gaza peace deal.
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Inside Mossad, with ex-spy chief Yossi Cohen
Yossi Cohen – former Mossad chief and author of The Sword of Freedom – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Yossi and Brendan discuss Mossad’s fearsome reputation, the existential threats facing Israel, and how espionage is critical to the Jewish State’s survival.
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Lionel Shriver: Charlie Kirk, free speech and the new barbarism on the left
Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the violence of the American left, the Trumpian threat to free speech and the rage of trans activists.
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Graham Linehan: I won’t be silenced
Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham talks to Brendan about his arrest, the cowardice of his former colleagues and how Charlie Kirk’s killing will chill open debate.
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Jake Wallis Simons: How the West betrayed itself
Jake Wallis Simons – author of Never Again? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss how we learned the wrong lessons from Nazi Germany, the poisonous influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, and what Britain must learn from Israel.
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2020: the summer we lost our minds, with Thomas Chatterton Willaims
Thomas Chatterton Williams – author of Summer of our Discontent – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Thomas and Brendan discuss the exploitation of George Floyd, the hollowness of Black Lives Matter and the inevitable right-wing backlash.
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David Starkey: We are ruled by lies
Historian and broadcaster David Starkey returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how the ‘Blob’ suppresses dissent, the tyranny of ‘human rights’ and how the establishment enabled the grooming gangs.
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Owen Matthews: How to end the war in Ukraine
Owen Matthews – associate editor of the Spectator and author of Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on Ukraine – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Owen and Brendan discuss the Alaska and White House peace summits, why Ukraine is running out of options and why Trump is no ‘useful idiot’ for Russia.
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Graham Linehan: Is Britain a lost cause?
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Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham and Brendan discuss the intolerance of Britain's cultural elite, how trans ideology staggers on, and the
Andrew Fox: What I saw in Gaza
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Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Andrew and Brendan discuss the real reasons Gazans are going hungry, why Hamas’s casua
Ian O’Doherty: Ireland’s immigration powder keg
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Ian O’Doherty – columnist at the Irish Independent and host of The State of Us – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ian and Brendan discuss how migrant hotels took over rural Ireland, Dublin’s contempt for the working
Matt Ridley: Climate, Covid and the corruption of science
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Matt Ridley – author of Birds, Sex and Beauty and Viral – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Matt and Brendan discuss the conspiracy of silence over the origins of Covid-19, the dangers of climate alarmism and how Ed
Konstantin Kisin: Beware the woke right
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Konstantin Kisin – co-host of Triggernometry – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Konstantin and Brendan discuss what the woke left and the new right have in common, how conspiracy theories took over the world and the
Lionel Shriver: The revenge of the woke
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Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the insanity of the Democrats, the fall of New York and why Starmer’s Britain is a tinderbox.
