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  • 36 minutes 14 seconds
    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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    12 December 2025, 5:53 pm
  • 28 minutes 30 seconds
    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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    5 December 2025, 6:05 pm
  • 14 minutes 21 seconds
    ‘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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    3 December 2025, 3:17 pm
  • 30 minutes 31 seconds
    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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    28 November 2025, 6:16 pm
  • 18 minutes 6 seconds
    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. 

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    26 November 2025, 3:18 pm
  • 36 minutes 44 seconds
    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.

    To join the waiting list for the premiere of Think Before You Post, on Tuesday 25 November in London, email us at [email protected] 

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    24 November 2025, 10:53 am
  • 21 minutes 11 seconds
    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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    19 November 2025, 5:44 pm
  • 22 minutes 32 seconds
    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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    14 November 2025, 3:44 pm
  • 17 minutes 55 seconds
    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 anonymous editors to rewrite reality.

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    12 November 2025, 3:31 pm
  • 30 minutes 5 seconds
    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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    6 November 2025, 6:13 pm
  • 36 minutes 13 seconds
    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.

    Watch Think Before You Post, our documentary on the rise of the British speech police, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0smxO4WiOA 

    New episodes every Friday.

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    31 October 2025, 6:13 pm
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