The Brendan O'Neill Show

329 - ‘Starmer is weak, unprincipled and utterly unremarkable’ | Rod Liddle

spiked’s Brendan O’Neill discusses today’s big ideas and bad ideas with an esteemed guest.

329 - ‘Starmer is weak, unprincipled and utterly unremarkable’ | Rod Liddle

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spiked’s Brendan O’Neill discusses today’s big ideas and bad ideas with an esteemed guest.

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The Brendan O'Neill Show

Episodes

‘Starmer is weak, unprincipled and utterly unremarkable’ | Rod Liddle

‘The Greens are lunatic, deranged and evil’ | Melanie Phillips

The rise of the rainbow-haired killer | Wilfred Reilly

Labour has brought Britain to the brink of crisis | Liam Halligan

Iran is *still* a nuclear threat | Trump adviser Mark Dubowitz

Why Iran is not a new ‘forever war’ | US vet Nate Vance

‘Starmer has sold out Britain’ | Brexit negotiator David Frost

‘The reign of terror is almost over’ | Iranian dissident Ali Safavi

‘Iran is on its last legs’ | Former Trump official Fred Fleitz

‘We can’t make peace with a terrorist state’ | Ex-Israeli ambassador Michael Oren

Zoe Strimpel: How ‘anti-Zionism’ corrupted the arts

Why the Islamic Republic must fall, with Jonathan Harounoff

Kathleen Stock: the ‘progressive’ cult of death

Can Trump still claim victory in Iran?, with Daniel McCarthy

Melanie Phillips: Iran’s evil empire

Stephen J Shaw: The global population collapse has already begun

Julie Bindel: Will Britain *ever* stop the grooming gangs?

Iran: can the Islamic Republic be toppled?, with Andrew Fox

LIVE: Vibe Shift – the revolt against wokeness, greenism and technocracy

The new dark age, with Nigel Biggar

The truth about the Epstein Files, with Michael Tracey

The West’s war on ‘whiteness’, with Marie Kawthar Daouda

Bridget Phetasy: The entitled rage of the white liberal woman

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamism, Iran and the West’s descent into barbarism

Iran, Venezuela and the new age of instability, with Frank Furedi

What Trump wants from Venezuela, with Daniel McCarthy

Rosie Kay: How woke is killing the arts

Christopher Caldwell: The battle to secure the West’s borders

Robin Aitken: How the BBC became the voice of the progressive elite

Robin Aitken: How the BBC became the voice of the progressive elite

Matthew Syed: The coddling of the Western mind

Helen Joyce: Another trans experiment on children

The myth of ‘Palestinian liberation’, with Rabbi Daniel Rowe

Heather Mac Donald: Will Mayor Mamdani ruin New York?

Europe’s free-speech emergency, with Paul Coleman

How Trump wrongfooted his critics, with Daniel McCarthy

Eli Lake: Zohran Mamdani’s woke intifada

How Trump’s Gaza deal shatters the lies about Israel, with Natasha Hausdorff

Jonathan Sacerdoti: Two years of jihad against the Jews

Inside Mossad, with ex-spy chief Yossi Cohen

Lionel Shriver: Charlie Kirk, free speech and the new barbarism on the left

Graham Linehan: I won’t be silenced

Jake Wallis Simons: How the West betrayed itself

2020: the summer we lost our minds, with Thomas Chatterton Willaims

David Starkey: We are ruled by lies

Owen Matthews: How to end the war in Ukraine

Graham Linehan: Is Britain a lost cause?

Andrew Fox: What I saw in Gaza

Ian O’Doherty: Ireland’s immigration powder keg

Matt Ridley: Climate, Covid and the corruption of science

International podcasts

Iran is still a nuclear threat | Trump adviser Mark Dubowitz

Julie Bindel: Will Britain ever stop the grooming gangs?