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Who’s really exploiting Jason Arday’s death?
Esther Krakue joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the deification of Jason Arday, the whitewashing of his falsehoods and fantasies, and why we must defend press freedom against the onslaught of smears.
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Has Farage’s Clacton gamble paid off?
Candice Holdsworth joins Tom Slater and Hugo Timms for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss Nigel Farage’s victory in Clacton, Andy Burnham’s stuttering ‘listening tour’ and the latest border fiasco.
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Jason Arday: the unravelling of Cambridge’s DEI darling
Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Cambridge professor who fooled the world, Spain’s migration catastrophe and Rod Liddle’s legacy.
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‘The Palestinians were offered peace – they rejected it’
Esteemed Israeli historian Benny Morris joins spiked’s Tom Slater to bust the myths about the Israel-Palestine conflict, from the claims Israel is a ‘settler-colonial’ project to the notion that the Jewish State has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. They also discuss the role radical Islam plays in the Palestinian cause and why Iran should never get its hands on nuclear weapons.
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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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The Islamist threat to gay life
Albie Amankona, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Berlin Pride attack and the fall of Zack Polanski
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Christopher Nolan’s woke Odyssey: an epic fail? | Critical Drinker on Hollywood’s collapse
Will Jordan – aka the Critical Drinker and Critical Gamer – talks to spiked’s Fraser Myers about the Christopher Nolan film that launched a thousand takes. Plus, they discuss how diversity casting, girlbosses and oversaturated franchises are destroying the film industry, and why gamers were so quick to revolt against wokeness.
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The Andy Burnham delusion
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the emptiness of Burnham-mania and what we now know about Ann Widdecombe’s murder.
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Why Ann Widdecombe’s murder has shaken Britain
Claire Fox joins Tom Slater and Hugo Timms to discuss the murder of Ann Widdecombe and the despicable reactions to it. Plus, they reflect on the cringey coronation of Andy Burnham.
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Will Farage’s Clacton gamble pay off?
Francis Foster and Nick Tyrone join Tom Slater to discuss Farage’s Clacton gambit, Prince Harry’s humiliation in court, and Labour’s latest war on ‘misinformation’
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Why King Andy’s coronation is an outrage against democracy
Ross Kempsell, Luke Gittos and Fraser Myers on the hollowness of ‘Manchesterism’, the gang-rapist we can’t deport and the media myth of ‘Peak Reform’
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‘Without a border, we’re not a country’ | Zia Yusuf
Zia Yusuf – Reform UK’s home-affairs spokesperson – made a surprise appearance at the inaugural spiked summit on Saturday. He spoke to spiked editor Tom Slater about how the establishment will seek to frustrate a Reform government, the half-a-trillion-pound cost of mass migration, and the uselessness of Britain’s ruling class.
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Why Starmer failed – and Burnham will, too
Brendan O’Neill and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s grey tyranny, Andy Burnham’s flip-flopping and why Labour will never win back the working class.
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What Makerfield means for Labour, Reform and Restore
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Julia Hartley-Brewer and Claire Fox join Tom Slater to discuss why Andy Burnham won’t bring ‘change’ to Labour, why Reform UK fell short, and whether Restore Britain will continue to nip at Farage’s heels
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Can free speech survive the mass-migration experiment? | Ben Jones
Ben Jones talks to spiked’s Fraser Myers about his new book, author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis. They discuss what Keir Starmer got right about Britain’s fraying social fabric, why Islam is granted special protections, and why two-tier policing is inevitable under multiculturalism.
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Belfast: how asylum turned the UK into a tinderbox
Brendan O’Neill, Rakib Ehsan and Fraser Myers on the anti-migrant riots in Belfast, Restore vs Reform, and why Starmer’s social-media crackdown won’t end with teenagers.
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Henry Nowak: why we should rage against two-tier policing
Chris Rose – political commentator and YouTuber – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the horrors of DEI-driven policing, the profound emptiness of the Labour government, and why Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur should be allowed to come to Britain.
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Will Restore bounce Andy Burnham into Downing Street?
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William Clouston – leader of the Social Democratic Party – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the Reform-Restore rift, why Blair can’t fix broke
Can Reform block Andy Burnham’s path to power?
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Ameer Kotecha, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the stakes of the Makerfield by-election, why we must never rejoin the EU, and what the HS2 omnishambles reveals about broken Britain.
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Keir in crisis: the death throes of the Labour Party
Nick Tyrone, Fraser Myers and Georgina Mumford on Starmer’s crumbling premiership, the naffness of Wes Streeting and the pointlessness of Andy Burnham
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The Reform surge: an English revolution
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Brendan O’Neill, Fraser Myers and Georgina Mumford on the historic local elections, Labour’s wipeout in its heartlands and the Green Party’s phoney revolt.
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Golders Green: how Jews are being terrorised
Andrew Gold, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s anti-Semitism crisis, the small-boats crime wave and the Oxford don with huge prosthetic breasts
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Can slippery Starmer cling on?
James Dreyfus, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Olly Robbins scandal, how the Greens became the nasty party, and the delicious feud between JK Rowling and Alastair Campbell.
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How woke enabled the monster of Southport
Patrick Christys, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the state’s catastrophic failure to stop Axel Rudakubana, Ireland’s revolt against elite greenism and Trump’s Messiah complex.
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Reform, the Greens and the death of the uniparty
Luke Gittos, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the new divide in British politics, Trump’s fragile ceasefire and the ban on Kanye West.
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The Iran War has exposed Labour’s green delusions
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK’s homegrown energy crisis, why Scott Mills deserves the presumption of innocence, and the woke war on dogs.
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The Iranian threat to Britain
Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Golders Green arson attack, Tucker Carlson’s praise of Sharia and the hypocrisy of celebrity ‘anti-fascism’.
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‘The intifada has come to London’ | Lorin Bell-Cross on the Golders Green attack
Four ambulances run by a Jewish community group in London’s Golders Green were set on fire in the early hours of Monday morning. Iran-linked terrorists have claimed responsibility. Here, Lorin Bell-Cross – political correspondent at the Jewish Chronicle – outlines what we know so far about the ambulance attack, and explains why Labour cannot speak frankly about the threat to British Jews.
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Is Nick Timothy right about public Islamic prayer?
Connie Shaw, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the row over the call to prayer in Trafalgar Square, Bob Vylan’s star turn at the Al-Quds Day protest and the sixth-former politics of Hannah Spencer.
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‘I tried to save them’ | Grooming-gangs whistleblower Maggie Oliver
Victims of the grooming gangs are being let down – again. The UK’s Labour government is stalling a public inquiry into the industrial-scale abuse of Britain’s working class girls by mainly Pakistani Muslim men. Speaking to spiked’s Georgina Mumford, former police constable Maggie Oliver – who blew the whistle on the Rochdale child-abuse ring – reveals how these crimes were covered up by the author
Why Ed Miliband – not Iran – is to blame for the UK’s energy crisis | David Turver
As the Iran War sends oil and gas prices spiralling, Labour’s Ed Miliband has doubled down on his Net Zero zealotry. Switching from fossil fuels to renewables, the UK energy minister claims, will drive costs down, reduce volatility and protect British consumers from external shocks. Here, David Turver – energy analyst and author of the Eigen Values Substack – demolishes Miliband’s green-energy del
What’s the point of Trump’s war in Iran?
Brendan O’Neill, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers on the folly of foreign intervention, Britain’s ayatollah apologists, Starmer’s bonfire of civil liberties and Labour’s Islamo-censorship.
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‘Islamists will exploit Labour’s “Islamophobia” ban’ | UK terror tsar Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall KC – the UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation – warns that Labour’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ is not fit for purpose. Here he tells spiked’s Georgina Mumford that it will not only fail in its aim of tackling prejudice against Muslims – it will also censor vital discussion on Islamism, terrorism and immigration, potentially emboldening religiou
‘The woke Foreign Office doesn’t stand for Britain’ | Ameer Kotecha
On the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, UK Foreign Office diplomats were invited to take part in a panel discussion on World Afro Day. As the Iran War broke out, and a British air base in Cyprus came under attack from Hezbollah, the civil-service intranet was urging mandarins to ‘take charge of their development’. Such woke excesses and HR distractions are merely the tip of the iceberg, according to
Iran: the folly of ‘regime change’
Miriam Cates, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Trump’s gamble in the Middle East, why British students are mourning the ayatollah and why the UK is so vulnerable to the new world disorder.
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‘Gorton and Denton was a nightmare for Labour’ | James Johnson
What does the Gorton and Denton by-election spell for the future of British politics? Top pollster James Johnson – co-founder of JL Partners – spoke to spiked’s Georgina Mumford to pore over the results. Labour is crumbling in its heartlands. The Greens are riding sectarian grievance to victory. Reform has been humbled in Greater Manchester, but remains strong across the country. The old politics
Gorton and Denton, the Greens and the new sectarianism
Rakib Ehsan, Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford discuss the Greens’ by-election victory, the disintegration of Labour, the rise of Islamic sectarianism and whether the Reform revolt is stalling.
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Japan’s iron lady? | Philip Patrick
Sanae Takaichi is hailed by supporters as Japan’s ‘rockstar’ prime minister and derided by critics as a far-right ultra-nationalist. What everyone agrees is that her recent landslide snap-election victory is a revolutionary moment in Japanese politics. Here, Philip Patrick – journalist and lecturer at Tokyo’s Sophia University – talks to spiked’s Georgina Mumford about Takaichi’s radical plans for
Andrew, Epstein and our feckless elites
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the plot to kill Manchester’s Jews and Keir Starmer's war on democracy
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‘Immigration is the issue of the century’ | Lionel Shriver
We need to talk about immigration, says novelist Lionel Shriver. Mass migration is fundamentally changing our societies and fuelling a monumental political backlash, yet is still near impossible to discuss openly and frankly. Here, she sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about her new novel, A Better Life, which explores America’s migrant crisis through the lives of a New York family who
Aberdeen: the city killed by Ed Miliband | Nick Tyrone
Aberdeen is at the coalface of Britain’s Net Zero catastrophe. Around 400 workers in the North Sea oil and gas sector are being laid off every fortnight. The dismantling of one of Scotland’s leading industries has come at a staggering social and economic cost. And yet, Ed Miliband, Britain’s eco-zealous energy secretary, is turning a blind eye to the devastation around him. Here, Nick Tyrone – aut
Spain’s woke autocracy | Maria Reglero
Pedro Sánchez’s Spain has become a testing ground for all the worst woke ideas. His ‘progressive’ coalition has embraced trans ideology and gender self-identification. It is planning to grant legal residency to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants. Meanwhile, two fatal train crashes in short succession point to the government’s corruption, nepotism and negligence. Yet criticising these f
How broken borders enabled the Afghan child rapist
Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the small-boats crime wave, Keir Starmer’s stay of execution and the witch-hunting of Jim Ratcliffe.
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What is Xi Jinping up to? | Cindy Yu
Xi Jinping has just carried out the most significant purge of China’s military in decades. Top general Zhang Youxia, alongside other leading figures and formerly close allies, have been arrested, accused of treason and corruption. Is this a sign of Xi’s strength and his iron grip on power and his party? Or is it a sign of weakness, paranoia and growing internal dissent? Here, Cindy Yu – columnist
Will the Mandelson scandal bring down Starmer?
Albie Amankona, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the fallout from the Epstein Files, the Iran apologists in Britain and Spain’s insane new migration policy.
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Gorton and Denton: has Reform rattled Labour?
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Reem Ibrahim, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the smears, scandals and sectarianism surrounding the Manchester by-election. Plus, the clownishness of Andy Burnham and Suella Braverman’s defection.
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The Greenland debacle has exposed Europe’s weakness
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Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Trump’s sabre-rattling, Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands and China’s spy HQ in London.
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‘Starmer has surrendered to the EU’ | Bruno Waterfield
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit reset’ may be his worst negotiation yet. The UK is set to pay exorbitant amounts to the EU, hand over control of vital industries, and receive some nasty surprises in return. Here, Bruno Waterfield – Brussels correspondent at The Time
The real reason Jenrick joined Reform
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Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the death of the Tories, the brutality of Iran’s ayatollahs and Starmer’s totalitarian war on X
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Venezuela, Greenland and Trump’s new world disorder
Claire Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the perils of the ‘Don-roe doctrine’, Iran’s struggle for freedom and the police lies about Maccabi Tel Aviv.
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How over-protective parents raised an anxious generation | Lenore Skenazy
When Lenore Skenazy let her nine-year-old use the New York Subway on his own, she was dubbed ‘America’s Worst Mom’. In our age of safetyism, children are expected to be supervised, monitored and coddled at all times – not left alone to explore the outside world. No generation has ever been so sheltered. And nor has any generation felt so anxious and depressed. Here, Lenore Skenazy – president of L
2025: the year of the vibe shift? | spiked podcast: unlocked
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Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Britain's broken borders, the revolutionary rise of Reform, the revenge of the millennial left, and why woke refuses to die.
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2025: Civilisation, barbarism and censorship
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Simon Evans, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Bondi Beach attack and the scourge of Islamist anti-Semitism, and the battle for free speech after the murder
The Afghan asylum crime wave
Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how our broken borders threaten women and girls, Sandie Peggie’s fight for single-sex spaces and Jamie Michael’s never-ending persecution.
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‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch
‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch
Arrests in Britain for social-media posts have soared by 58 per cent since 2019. Meanwhile, actual crimes like burglary or assault are only rarely pursued or solved. Here, Paul Birch – former Metropolitan Police officer and counter-terrorism specialist – explains why the police became so obsessed with tackling so-called tho
The lies of Rachel Reeves
Esther Krakue, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the UK chancellor’s ‘creative accounting’, David Lammy’s tyrannical war on juries and the celebrities on the march against Reform UK.
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‘Trans activists are little Hitlers’ | Graham Linehan
Fresh from his acquittal for ‘harassing’ a trans activist, Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – sat down with spiked’s Georgina Mumford to discuss the legal campaigns to have him silenced, the activist capture of the arts, and why the TERFs are finally on the winning side.
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How Rachel Reeves is bankrupting Britain
Liam Halligan and Fraser Myers discuss the horrors in the autumn budget, why our sky-high taxes lead to dreadful public services, and where the next economic crisis could come from.
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The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons
The UK’s Covid inquiry has made the audacious – and utterly misleading – claim that an earlier lockdown could have saved thousands of lives. Here, Michael Simmons – economics editor at the Spectator and host of the Reality Check podcast – exposes the dodgy data being peddled by the ‘experts’, the groupthink that pushed us into lockdown, and the economic devastation that is still being felt today.
The free-speech film they tried to censor
Joanna Williams, Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Rich Mix’s cancellation of ‘Think Before You Post’, the left’s meltdown over Shabana Mahmood and the miserablism of the milkshake tax.
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The end of men in women’s sports? | Sharron Davies
Cheating. That’s how Sharron Davies – Olympic medallist, Tory peer and CEO of the Women’s Sports Union – describes the Olympics’ deranged policy of letting men enter women’s sports. Here, she tells spiked’s Georgina Mumford how ‘trans inclusion’ treats female athletes as second-class citizens, eroding fair competition and placing them in physical danger.
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The fall of the BBC
Miriam Cates joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the BBC bias scandal, Labour’s meltdown and the Olympics trans farce.
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How Wikipedia lies to you | Ashley Rindsberg
Wikipedia has been hijacked. Although the free internet encyclopedia poses as a neutral, unbiased and trustworthy source of information, it can easily be manipulated by ideologues, governments and other partisan actors. Here, Ashley Rindsberg – editor and chief investigative officer of @NPOVMedia – lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes policies that make bias inevitable and allow a handful of ano
Huntingdon: another mass stabbing in broken Britain
Benedict Spence joins Tom Slater and Georgina Mumford for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the horrific knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire, Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City and the BBC’s fake news about Donald Trump.
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After Uxbridge: our broken borders are a threat to us all
After Uxbridge: our broken borders are a threat to us all
Colin Brazier, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the horrific attack in west London, whether Sarah Pochin has a point about diversity in advertising, and why our censorship documentary has been censored.
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Grooming gangs: another shameful Labour cover-up
Andrew Fox, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Jess Phillips’s betrayal of grooming-gang victims, Graham Linehan’s victory over the tweet police and the Jew hunt at City University.
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Jew hatred, borders and censorship
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Farage’s path to power | Pollster James Johnson
James Johnson – co-founder of JL Partners – talks to Fraser Myers about the Reform UK surge, why a second term for Labour is more likely than you think, and why the Tories need to stop chasing the ‘liberal centrist’ vote.
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Why Trump’s Gaza peace plan infuriates the left
Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the hypocrisy of the Israelophobes, the truth about 7 October and the stain of anti-Semitism in Britain.
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‘The censors are insatiable’ | Adam Szetela on how ‘sensitivity readers’ captured publishing
There is more than one way to burn a book. In the modern publishing industry, books are censored, edited or scrapped entirely to avoid straying from woke dogma. ‘Sensitivity readers’ scour for words, characters and plot lines that could cause offence to minorities. ‘Morality clauses’ ensure that authors espouse the correct views in public. The result is books that are bland, predictable and utterl
The intifada comes to Manchester
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Harry Cole, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the anti-Semitic savagery of the Manchester synagogue attack, Labour’s smearing of Farage, Trump’s Gaza peace plan and why America is so worried about Britain.
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The Muhammad cartoons that shook the world | Flemming Rose
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Twenty years ago, Danish newspaper Jylla
The Islamic State of Great Britain
Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the knife attack on a Koran-burning protester, Jimmy Kimmel’s return, the nothingness of Andy Burnham and the tyranny of digital ID.
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‘Starmer is worse than Chamberlain’ | Andrew Fox
Keir Starmer’s recognition of Palestine has been hailed by Hamas as a victory for its cause. The anti-Semitic army has thanked the UK prime minister for rewarding the 7 October pogrom, the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Here, Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and co-host of the podcast, The Brink – argues that this is a moment of shame for Britain. Starmer’s gambit, he say
Charlie Kirk’s killer and the nihilism of the online left
Tom Harwood, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Tyler Robinson, Trump’s state visit, the splits in Your Party and the disastrous ‘one in, one out’ migration scheme.
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RIP Charlie Kirk: a dark day for free speech and America
Francis Foster, Rakib Ehsan and Tom Slater on the murder of Charlie Kirk, how America failed Iryna Zarutska, and Mandelson’s Epstein scandal.
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‘Blackouts are coming’ | Kathryn Porter
Politicians are finally waking up to the folly of Net Zero. The Tories have called for drilling in the North Sea. Reform UK wants to lift the ban on fracking. But the UK’s Labour government remains totally committed to renewables, no matter the costs. Here, Kathryn Porter – energy consultant and founder of Watt-Logic – explains why Britain’s bet on wind power has proved so disastrous. The result i
The horrifying arrest of Graham Linehan
Connie Shaw, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Britain’s free-speech emergency, how Zack Polanski hypnotised the Greens and Keir Starmer’s plastic patriotism.
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Will Farage stop the boats?
Gareth Roberts, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Reform UK’s deportation plans, how ‘sensible centrists’ lost touch with reality and how Essex Man could save Britain.
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‘It’s totalitarian’ | Wesley Yang on the ‘successor ideology’
When a man can declare himself a woman, how do we know what is true or false anymore? The institutions we might once have looked to – from academia to journalism to science – have all rallied around the absurdity that we can change sex at will. Here, Wesley Yang – essayist and author of The Souls of Yellow Folk – explains how a ‘successor ideology’ has captured the liberal mind. It has swapped tol
