Episodes

  • 369: Melanie Phillips: Israel, Iran and the global struggle against barbarism

    369: Melanie Phillips: Israel, Iran and the global struggle against barbarism
    Jun 20 2025
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    Times columnist Melanie Phillips returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss Israel’s audacious strikes on Iran, the fanaticism of the Iranian regime, and why Israel is the best contender for leader of the free world.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 368: Rod Liddle: The two Englands

    368: Rod Liddle: The two Englands
    Jun 12 2025
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    Rod Liddle – associate editor of the Spectator and Times Radio presenter – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the hollowness of Keir Starmer, the horrors of two-tier policing, and why Nigel Farage could be Britain’s next prime minister.

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    55 mins
  • 335: Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive?

    335: Douglas Murray: Can civilisation survive?
    Jun 5 2025
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    Douglas Murray – author of On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Douglas and Brendan discuss how rising anti-Semitism speaks to our decaying civilisation, what the West can learn from Israel, and the pro-Hamas hysteria infecting the left, the right and the mainstream media.

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    An earlier version of this podcast stated that hundreds of students at Princeton University chanted, ‘Glory to our martyrs’, in recent weeks. Princeton students actually wrote the slogan on a banner and tweeted it last year, but did not chant it in their hundreds.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 334: Wilfred Reilly: How Black Lives Matter fooled the world

    334: Wilfred Reilly: How Black Lives Matter fooled the world
    May 30 2025
    Wilfred Reilly – author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me and Hate Crime Hoax – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to discuss the five-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd. Wilfred and Brendan talk about the myth of America’s race war, how BLM put black people in danger, and why race relations could improve Donald Trump.

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    1 hr
  • 333: Tiffany Jenkins: The rise and fall of private life

    333: Tiffany Jenkins: The rise and fall of private life
    May 22 2025
    Tiffany Jenkins joins The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to talk about her new book, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life. Tiffany and Brendan discuss why tech isn’t to blame for the erosion of our privacy, the dangerous melding of the personal and political, and what Harry and Meghan reveal about the state of privacy today.

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    55 mins
  • 332: SPECIAL: ‘Israel is at war with fascism’ | Brendan O’Neill live

    332: SPECIAL: ‘Israel is at war with fascism’ | Brendan O’Neill live
    May 15 2025
    spiked’s chief political writer sat down with the Jewish Chronicle to discuss the left’s betrayal of Jews, the evils of Hamas and Israel’s war for civilisation.

    Has identity politics peaked? spiked will be joined by the great Andrew Doyle to discuss his new book, The End of Woke, at our next London event. This is exclusively for spiked supporters, members of our online donor community. Get tickets: https://www.spiked-online.com/events/

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • 331: Nick Cater: Labor’s hollow victory Down Under

    331: Nick Cater: Labor’s hollow victory Down Under
    May 8 2025
    Nick Cater – columnist at the Australian and senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nick and Brendan discuss Australia’s first ‘post-truth’ election, the withering of the mainstream parties and the growing alienation of the working classes.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 330: Julie Bindel: The trans erasure of lesbians

    330: Julie Bindel: The trans erasure of lesbians
    May 1 2025
    Julie Bindel – author of Lesbians: Where Are We Now? – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Julie and Brendan discuss why the Supreme Court’s gender ruling is so vital for lesbians, why gay rights and trans rights have nothing in common, and why being a lesbian used to be fun.

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    1 hr and 2 mins