Episodes

  • 358: ‘We’ve lost control’ | Former UK border chief speaks out

    358: ‘We’ve lost control’ | Former UK border chief speaks out
    May 7 2025
    This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Tony Smith. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked

    Record numbers of migrants have arrived illegally on England’s south coast this year. Keir Starmer’s promise to ‘smash the gangs’ of people smugglers has made no notable dent on the small-boats emergency. Meanwhile, deportations of illegal migrants – including those who have committed serious crimes – are routinely blocked in the courts. Here, Tony Smith – former head of the UK Border Force, now managing director at Fortinus Global – explains how Britain lost control of its borders. Human-rights law and international conventions, Tony argues, have been weaponised by an activist judiciary. The result is an asylum policy that no one voted for and that benefits criminals over the genuinely deserving.
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    23 mins
  • 357: The Reform insurgency

    357: The Reform insurgency
    May 2 2025
    Gawain Towler, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the local elections, Tony Blair’s turn against Net Zero and the censorious panic over Kneecap.
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    26 mins
  • 356: The trans meltdown, with Graham Linehan

    356: The trans meltdown, with Graham Linehan
    Apr 25 2025
    Graham Linehan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Keir Starmer’s slipperiness on the trans issue, non-crime hate incidents and St George Was Turkish Day.
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    29 mins
  • 355: ‘We can’t stay silent’ | Pakistani journalist speaks out on grooming gangs and Islamism

    355: ‘We can’t stay silent’ | Pakistani journalist speaks out on grooming gangs and Islamism
    Apr 23 2025
    This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Kunwar Khuldune Shahid. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked

    Is it still possible in the West to openly discuss Islam, or even the crimes committed by a small number of Muslims? Blasphemy laws have arrived in Europe to placate Islamic fundamentalists. A fear of being called racist has allowed grooming gangs to run amok. Anti-Semitism has also surged, as Islamist narratives have dominated the West’s debate over the Israel-Hamas war. Here, Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, a Pakistani journalist working for the Diplomat, warns that Western liberalism, secularism and tolerance are all on the line.

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    24 mins
  • 354: Victory to TERF Island

    354: Victory to TERF Island
    Apr 18 2025
    Andrew Doyle, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Supreme Court trans ruling, the British state’s enabling of Hashem Abedi and America under Trump.

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    43 mins
  • 353: ‘The madness is over’ | Helen Joyce on the Supreme Court trans ruling

    353: ‘The madness is over’ | Helen Joyce on the Supreme Court trans ruling
    Apr 17 2025
    This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Helen Joyce. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked

    Transwomen are not women and sex is biological. So says a landmark ruling on gender from the UK Supreme Court. Here, Helen Joyce – director of advocacy at Sex Matters – explains how the judgment kills off a raft of ‘trans inclusive’ policies, reasserts biological reality and protects women’s rights.

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    11 mins
  • 352: Labour’s grooming-gangs cover-up

    352: Labour’s grooming-gangs cover-up
    Apr 11 2025
    Jacob Reynolds, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the never-ending betrayal of grooming-gang victims, the woman jailed for a tweet and John Oliver’s tired trans propaganda.

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    35 mins
  • 351: The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg

    351: The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg
    Apr 9 2025
    This is the audio from a video we have just published on our YouTube channel – an interview with Bjorn Lomborg. To make sure you never miss great content like this, subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked

    European industry is in freefall, and Net Zero is to blame. Here, climate economist Bjorn Lomborg – author of Best Things First and False Alarm – explains how panic over climate change is doing far more damage than climate change itself. Swapping cheap and dependable fossil fuels for unreliable and expensive renewables costs our economies trillions, but for little environmental gain, Lomborg says. Plus, he tackles the myth of the ‘climate apocalypse’ and explains why there are more polar bears than ever.

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    23 mins