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106: Jacinda Ardern’s Covid tyranny, with Dan Wootton

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:35:00 +0000

GB News presenter Dan Wootton joins Brendan O’Neill to talk about the cruelty of New Zealand’s Zero Covid policy, why no one trusts the mainstream media and why Harry and Meghan are a disaster for the royal family.

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105: An immigrant's love letter to the West, with Konstantin Kisin

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:11:28 +0000

Konstantin Kisin, co-host of ‘Triggernometry’ and author of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the rise of Western self-loathing and why the values of freedom and tolerance must be defended.

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104: The tragedy of Boris Johnson, with Frank Furedi

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:10:00 +0000

As Boris Johnson stands down as UK prime minister, Frank Furedi and Brendan O’Neill discuss the missed opportunities of the Boris era.

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103: Why choice matters

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:40:43 +0000

Ann Furedi and Jon O’Brien, two esteemed veterans of the pro-choice movement, join Brendan O’Neill to discuss the demise of Roe v Wade and the new fight for abortion rights.

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102: How lockdown failed the young

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:30:17 +0000

Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley, authors of ‘The Children’s Inquiry’, talk to Brendan O’Neill about the devastating toll of Covid school closures, how remote learning widened the class divide, and the failure of adults to stand up for children.

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101: An unapologetic defence of free speech, with Greg Lukianoff

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:55:00 +0000

Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the new fight for liberty in America.

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100: Why gun control is racist, with Maj Toure

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:39:26 +0000

Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Uvalde, gun rights and free speech.

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99: How modern feminism is failing women, with Louise Perry

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 09:20:06 +0000

Louise Perry, author of ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the problem with porn, the case for marriage, and why washing machines have done more for women than feminism

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98: How woke won, with Joanna Williams

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:00:00 +0000

‘How Woke Won’ is the brilliant new spiked book by Joanna Williams. To celebrate its release, Joanna joined Brendan for a special live edition of the podcast, where they discussed how wokeness took over and how we can all fight back.

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97: What Brexit means, with David Frost

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 19 May 2022 17:22:28 +0000

Former chief Brexit negotiator David Frost talks to Brendan O’Neill about the Northern Ireland Protocol, climate alarmism and woke.

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96: The intolerance of identity politics

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 12 May 2022 12:54:10 +0000

Simon Fanshawe talks to Brendan O’Neill about his public break with Stonewall, why he is not ‘LGBTQ+’ and why we need more civil disagreement.

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95: The lockdown on dissent, with Jay Bhattacharya

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:51:58 +0000

Jay Bhattacharya talks to Brendan O’Neill about the catastrophic harms of lockdown and how the scientific establishment suppressed the Covid debate.

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94: France is falling apart, with Freddy Gray

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:41:00 +0000

Freddy Gray, deputy editor of the Spectator, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Macron, Le Pen and Freddy’s controversial interview with Éric Zemmour.

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93: Konstantin Kisin: What Russia wants

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:22:00 +0000

Konstantin Kisin, co-host of ‘Triggernometry’ and author of ‘An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West’, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss why Russia invaded Ukraine, why the West is worth defending, and why wokeness is now on the backfoot.

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92: Maya Forstater: The new fight for women’s rights

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:35:27 +0000

Maya Forstater, co-founder of Sex Matters and the Respect My Sex campaign, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how trans activism silences women and the importance of defending biological sex.

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91: Sharron Davies: Why we must defend women’s sports

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:09:47 +0000

Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the problem of male-bodied athletes in women’s sports, the culture of fear surrounding the gender debate, and her own experience of competing against drug cheats.

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90: What does Russia want?, with Mary Dejevsky

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:36:00 +0000

Mary Dejevsky, former Moscow correspondent for The Times, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, how Putin sees the world and why Russia fears the expansion of NATO.

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89: How the overclass crushes dissent, with Sohrab Ahmari

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:24:00 +0000

Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of “Compact”, returns to talk about the suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal, the return of class war, and the myth of the free market in an age of corporate censorship.

88: How the war in Ukraine will change the world, with Frank Furedi

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:07:07 +0000

Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the geopolitical naivety of the West, what the world can learn from the Ukrainian resistance, and how the war might escalate.

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87: The case for the lab-leak theory, with Matt Ridley

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:26:48 +0000

Matt Ridley, co-author of ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how Covid might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, how scientists tried to suppress the lab-leak theory and how science has been captured by groupthink.

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86: Why the truckers’ revolt matters, with Rupa Subramanya

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:48:00 +0000

Rupa Subramanya, columnist for the National Post, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the vicious class war on Canada’s Freedom Convoy, the authoritarianism of the woke elites and the global fightback against technocracy.

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85: Making the moral case for abortion, with Ann Furedi

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:53:39 +0000

Ann Furedi, author of ‘The Moral Case for Abortion’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how ‘choice’ became a dirty word, what the pro-life movement gets wrong about women, and how identity politics is undermining women’s rights.

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84: How free speech shook the world, with Jacob Mchangama

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:43:35 +0000

Jacob Mchangama, author of “Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media”, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rising authoritarianism of left and right, the importance of free speech to equality and progress, and why censorship always fails to defeat bad ideas.

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83: The myth of toxic masculinity, with Nina Power

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:39:47 +0000

Nina Power, author of ‘What Do Men Want?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need to recover masculine virtues, the terror of the #MeToo movement, and why there is nothing progressive about the transgender movement.

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82: Why the statues must stay, with Marie Kawthar Daouda

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:52:38 +0000

Marie Kawthar Daouda – lecturer in French at Oriel College, Oxford – talks to Brendan O’Neill about the statue wars, critical race theory and the dangers of the ‘decolonise’ movement.

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81: Cancel culture and how to fight it, with Toby Young

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:21:59 +0000

Toby Young returns to the show, two years after the launch of the Free Speech Union. Toby and Brendan discuss how ordinary people have the most to lose from cancel culture, how wokeness thrives on absurdity, and the importance of dissent in times of crisis.

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80: Carl Heneghan: Why I spoke out against lockdown

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:22:41 +0000

Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss how lockdown failed to protect the vulnerable, the catastrophic errors of the Covid modelling, and the suppression of critical voices during the pandemic.

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79: Why you cannot compromise with the trans movement, with Kellie-Jay Keen

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:44:42 +0000

Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of Standing for Women, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the trans war on women.

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78: David Starkey: Lockdown is the revenge of the elites

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 13:11:09 +0000

Historian David Starkey made his return to the show recently for this special, live end-of-year episode. David and Brendan talked about the history wars, eco-alarmism and our descent into technocratic tyranny.

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77: How woke education harms the worst off, with Katharine Birbalsingh

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:03:13 +0000

Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the Social Mobility Commission and headteacher of the Michaela Community School, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the culture war in the classroom.

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76: The woke war on the working class, with Batya Ungar-Sargon

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:47:00 +0000

Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of ‘Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy’, and Brendan O’Neill discuss Kyle Rittenhouse, the death of journalism and how the elites use ‘social justice’ to pursue their own interests.

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75: Why the world needs fossil fuels, with Alex Epstein

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:34:21 +0000

Alex Epstein talks to Brendan O’Neill about why we need cheap energy for humanity to flourish, the backwardness of the green movement, and why Net Zero is more dangerous than climate change.

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74: The rise of woke homophobia, with James Dreyfus

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:44:35 +0000

Actor James Dreyfus joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the cruelty of cancel culture, how radicals became censors and how gender ideology undermines gay rights.

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73: Smashing the two-party system, with William Clouston

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:19:00 +0000

William Clouston, leader of the Social Democratic Party, talks to Brendan O’Neill about overhauling Britain’s democracy, the failure of economic liberalism and why wokeness harms the worst off in society.

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72: Why tradition matters, with Tim Stanley

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:33:11 +0000

Tim Stanley, author of ‘Whatever Happened to Tradition?’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Brexit, Boris Johnson and wokeness.

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71: Progressives are ruining everything, with Michael Shellenberger

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 16:55:44 +0000

Michael Shellenberger returns to the show to talk about COP26 and his new book, ‘San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities’.

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70: The madness of Net Zero, with Bjorn Lomborg

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:29:00 +0000

Bjorn Lomborg, author of ‘False Alarm’, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about the COP26 climate talks, the crippling costs of Net Zero and the myth of the climate apocalypse.

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69: Andrew Sullivan: How the rebels became the censors

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:27:10 +0000

Andrew Sullivan, author of ‘Out on a Limb’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about how millennials became crippled by wokeness, why the oppressed need free speech, and how the trans movement compels us to lie.

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68: The trans assault on reality, with Bev Jackson

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 14:26:00 +0000

Bev Jackson, co-founder of the LGB Alliance, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why trans extremism is bad for gay rights, women’s rights and children.

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67: The climate debate is not ‘settled’, with Steven E Koonin

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:13:06 +0000

Steven E Koonin -- undersecretary for science in the Obama administration and author of ‘Unsettled’ -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the dangers of politicising ‘The Science’, the irrationality of Net Zero, and why humanity can adapt to a changing climate.

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66: A world gone mad, with Julia Hartley-Brewer

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:46:44 +0000

In this special live podcast, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Brendan O’Neill discussed wokeness, lockdown and climate alarmism -- and how they all pose a grave threat to freedom.

65: How cancel culture makes us stupid, with Wendy Kaminer

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:50:00 +0000

Wendy Kaminer -- spiked columnist, lawyer and former ACLU board member -- talks to Brendan O’Neill about the threats to free speech from the left and the right.

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64: A century of identity crisis, with Frank Furedi

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:51:47 +0000

Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, 100 Years of Identity Crisis. Frank and Brendan discuss the origins of the culture war, the dangers of self-censorship, and how ‘the ideology with no name’ took over society.

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63: The ‘adults in the room’ are insane, with Nick Gillespie

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:35:00 +0000

Nick Gillespie and Brendan O’Neill discuss 9/11, the unravelling of Afghanistan, the dangers of cancel culture, and if freedom can be reclaimed after Covid.

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62: Wokeness is bad for your health, with Katie Herzog

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:08:00 +0000

Katie Herzog talks to Brendan O’Neill about cancel culture, the trans erasure of lesbians and the woke takeover of medicine.

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61: Hysteria has consumed America, with Heather Mac Donald

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:35:00 +0000

Bestselling author Heather Mac Donald returns to the show to talk about the latest wave of Covid panic and how racial hysteria is destroying high culture.

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60: Why environmentalism isn’t working, with Zion Lights

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 11:49:00 +0000

Zion Lights, founder of Emergency Reactor, talks to Brendan O’Neill about her break with Extinction Rebellion, how environmentalism is harming people and the planet, and how nuclear power can solve climate change.

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59: Australia’s Zero Covid dystopia, with Nick Cater

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 11:21:00 +0000

Nick Cater talks to Brendan O'Neill about the never-ending lockdown Down Under.

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58: The unravelling of the West, with Melanie Phillips

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 12:11:00 +0000

Melanie Phillips and Brendan O’Neill discuss the West’s retreat from reason, the rise of identity politics and the resurgence of anti-Semitism.

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57: The trans war on reality, with Helen Joyce

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 11:21:00 +0000

Helen Joyce, author of ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the totalitarian nature of trans ideology, the abuse of ‘detransitioners’, and why men must not be allowed in women’s sports, women’s prisons and women’s changing rooms.

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56: Finding freedom in an age of chaos, with Sohrab Ahmari

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:46:00 +0000

Sohrab Ahmari returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his latest book, ‘The Unbroken Thread’. Sohrab and Brendan discuss the paradoxes of modern liberalism: how the free market undermines free speech, how data distorts the search for truth, and why humans need boundaries to truly flourish

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55: The myth of America’s race war, with Wilfred Reilly

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:25:54 +0000

Wilfred Reilly, spiked columnist and author of ‘Taboo’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why it’s time to dial down the racial hysteria.

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54: How the ‘cognitive elite’ took over, with David Goodhart

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:19:00 +0000

David Goodhart, author of ‘Head, Hand, Heart’, tells Brendan O’Neill how graduates left everyone else behind.

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53: Question everything, with Jonathan Rauch

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:30:00 +0000

Jonathan Rauch, author of ‘The Constitution of Knowledge’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the perils of groupthink, cancel culture and emotional safetyism.

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52: The culture war is really a class war, with Rod Liddle

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:10:05 +0000

In this special live podcast, Rod Liddle and Brendan O’Neill discussed Labour, Islamism, wokeness and much more. This event was free for spiked supporters. Sign up to spiked supporters now and you will get advance notice and free or discounted tickets to all of our upcoming events: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/

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51: Why Labour is still losing, with Paul Embery

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:44:21 +0000

Paul Embery, author of ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about Labour’s Hartlepool disaster, why wokeness alienates the working class, and the limits of the Tories’ ‘levelling up’ agenda.

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50: Why biological sex matters, with Kathleen Stock

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Tue, 25 May 2021 11:13:55 +0000

Kathleen Stock, author of ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the consequences of trans ideology for women, gay rights and free expression.

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49: Why we must never lock down again, with Luke Johnson

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Wed, 12 May 2021 11:10:11 +0000

Entrepreneur Luke Johnson talks to Brendan O’Neill about the extraordinary harms of lockdown.

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48: Laurence Fox: Why I’m running for London mayor

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:18:10 +0000

Reclaim Party leader Laurence Fox tells Brendan O’Neill about his campaign to liberate London from lockdown and cancel culture.

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47: The rebirth of racial identity, with Christopher Caldwell

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:20:34 +0000

Christopher Caldwell, author of The Age of Entitlement, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the rise of diversity and the withering of democracy.

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46: Lord Sumption: ‘Lockdown is an assault on our humanity’

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 07:54:45 +0000

Former Supreme Court justice Jonathan Sumption tells Brendan O’Neill why he refuses to obey the ‘immoral’ coronavirus restrictions.

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45: Climate change is not the end of the world, with Bjorn Lomborg

The Brendan O'Neill Show — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:37:56 +0000

Bjorn Lomborg and Brendan O’Neill discuss the exaggeration of climate risk, the coming backlash against eco-austerity, and why technology is the best solution.

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