The Brendan O'Neill Show

by The Brendan O'Neill Show

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

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282: Jonathan Haidt: The making of an anxious generation

1h 6m · Published 23 May 12:52

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, The Anxious Generation . Jonathan and Brendan discuss how smartphones, overprotective parents and a lack of real-world interaction are doing serious damage to the young.
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281: Sall Grover: My fight for women-only spaces

52m · Published 16 May 13:59

Sall Grover, founder of women-only social-media app Giggle, is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Sall and Brendan discuss how her app was brought down by trans activists and her legal battle to defend women’s privacy.
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280: Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the culture war is a class war

1h 6m · Published 09 May 16:16

Batya Ungar-Sargon returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women . Batya and Brendan discuss the death of the American dream, the rise of the managerial elite and why there is hope in the populist backlash.
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279: Gareth Roberts: The return of gay shame

1h 0m · Published 02 May 13:43

Novelist, screenwriter and commentator Gareth Roberts joins The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to talk about his new book, Gay Shame . Gareth and Brendan discuss how trans activists hijacked gay rights, the misogyny of gender ideology and why woke homophobia is on the rise.
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278: Marcus Evans: Why I blew the whistle on the Tavistock

1h 0m · Published 25 Apr 13:33

Former governor at the Tavistock gender clinic Marcus Evans is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Marcus and Brendan discuss the medical scandal of transitioning kids, the ideological capture of the NHS and the silencing of whistleblowers.
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277: Lionel Shriver: The age of mania

1h 7m · Published 18 Apr 11:58

Lionel Shriver – author of the new novel, Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show . Lionel and Brendan discuss the collective derangement behind lockdown, climate alarmism and the trans ideology.
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276: Martin Kulldorff: We must take on the authoritarians

56m · Published 11 Apr 14:28

Epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show . Martin and Brendan discuss why Sweden was right about lockdown, why it’s wrong to shut down scientific debate and how free speech can save lives.
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275: Ruy Teixeira: The Democrats vs the working class

59m · Published 04 Apr 10:14

Ruy Teixeira, co-author of Where Have All the Democrats Gone? , is the latest guest on <em>The Brendan O’Neill Show</em>. Ruy and Brendan discuss how the Democrats abandoned ordinary people, why ethnic-minority voters are flocking to the Republicans and why woke is so toxic at the ballot box.
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274: Matt Ridley: The Covid lab leak and the corruption of science

58m · Published 28 Mar 09:20

Matt Ridley – science writer and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this special live episode. Matt and Brendan discussed censorship in science, the folly of lockdown and the misplaced hysteria over climate change.
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273: Christopher Caldwell: The great betrayal of the masses

58m · Published 21 Mar 10:32

Christopher Caldwell, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Christopher and Brendan discuss the rise of the anti-worker left, the insanity of the elites and the future of populism.
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The Brendan O'Neill Show has 219 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 215:40:43. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 26th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 29th, 2024 20:41.