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.Find out more about spiked’s internship prog

Martin Kulldorff: We must take on the authoritarians

13 days ago 57m 34s

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 live

Ruy Teixeira: The Democrats vs the working class

20 days ago 1h 2m

Ruy Teixeira, co-author of Where Have All the Democrats Gone?, is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ruy and Brendan discuss how the Democrats abandoned ordinary people, why ethnic-minority voters are flocking to the Republi

Matt Ridley: The Covid lab leak and the corruption of science

27 days ago 1h 1m

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 mis

Christopher Caldwell: The great betrayal of the masses

Mar 21st, 2024 59m 56s

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

Tony Sewell: The truth about black Britain

Mar 14th, 2024 55m

Tony Sewell joins The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to discuss his new book, Black Success: The Surprising Truth. Tony and Brendan discuss the myth of ‘structural racism’, the paternalism of white liberals and the patriotism of ethnic minoriti

Abigail Shrier: Bad therapy is hurting our kids

Mar 7th, 2024 1h 2m

Abigail Shrier joined Brendan O’Neill on the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about her new book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. Abigail and Brendan discuss the rampant overdiagnosis of mental-health disorders, h

Ross Clark: The painful truth about Net Zero

Feb 29th, 2024 57m 26s

Ross Clark – journalist and author of Not Zero – returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ross and Brendan discuss why fossil fuels still make the world go round, the dangers of climate alarmism and the green crusade against

Heather Mac Donald: DEI is a threat to the West

Feb 22nd, 2024 1h 1m

Heather Mac Donald – Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of When Race Trumps Merit – returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Heather and Brendan discuss the woke hatred of Western civilisation, how af

Debbie Hayton: The transsexual apostate

Feb 15th, 2024 54m 55s

Debbie Hayton, author of Transsexual Apostate: My Journey Back to Reality, talks to Brendan O’Neill about why women should have their own spaces and the real reason so many men are identifying as women.Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Mani

Katharine Birbalsingh: The battle to save my school

Feb 8th, 2024 46m 58s

Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher of the Michaela Community School, discusses the High Court case against the Michaela school, why she banned prayer and the importance of secular education.Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifesto now fr

Eylon Levy: The West’s betrayal of Israel

Feb 1st, 2024 47m 36s

Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Eylon and Brendan discuss the media smearing of Israel, the whitewashing of the 7 October pogrom, and why the Jewish State must de

Daniel McCarthy: What Trump voters want

Jan 25th, 2024 1h 7m

Daniel McCarthy – editor-in-chief of Modern Age: A Conservative Review – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. In this episode, Daniel and Brendan discuss why Donald Trump has dominated the Republican primaries and why the establishment’s war on

Rosie Kay: When art becomes propaganda

Jan 18th, 2024 55m 5s

Rosie Kay – co-founder of Freedom in the Arts – makes her return to The Brendan O’Neill Show this week. In this episode, Rosie and Brendan discuss the trans takeover of the arts, why more and more artists live in fear of cancellation and how fr

Jake Wallis Simons: The whitewashing of Hamas

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 8m

Jake Wallis Simons – editor of the Jewish Chronicle – returns for this episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Jake and Brendan discuss the denial of Hamas’s crimes, the double standards of the ‘anti-Zionists’, and why Israelophobia is just anti-S

David Frost: Are the Tories beyond saving?

Jan 4th, 2024 58m 34s

David Frost – former chief Brexit negotiator and Conservative peer – returns for this episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. David and Brendan discuss the betrayal of the Red Wall and why Rishi Sunak cannot afford to ignore the culture war.Orde

Matthew Goodwin: The revolt against the New Elite

Dec 21st, 2023 1h 9m

Matthew Goodwin – political scientist and author of Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics – returned to The Brendan O’Neill Show for this live, end-of-year special. Brendan and Matthew discussed the death of the Conservative Party,

Ralph Schoellhammer: COP28 and the self-destruction of the West

Dec 14th, 2023 1h 21m

Ralph Schoellhammer, assistant professor in economics and political science at Webster University Vienna, talks to Brendan O’Neill about the decadence of COP28, the populist backlash against eco-austerity and the elites’ turn against Western ci

Toby Young: Why the elites loathe free speech

Dec 7th, 2023 51m 33s

Toby Young – founder and director of the Free Speech Union – joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Toby and Brendan discuss the rise of the censorship industrial complex, the dangers of banning hate

Batya Ungar-Sargon: Jews must reject victimhood

Nov 30th, 2023 1h 12m

Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Batya and Brendan discuss how campuses became safe spaces for anti-Semitism, why Jews must reject the politics of victimhood, and why

Ivar Arpi: The tragedy of Sweden

Nov 23rd, 2023 1h 7m

Swedish journalist Ivar Arpi joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Ivar and Brendan discuss Sweden’s crisis of integration and the West’s whitewashing of Islamism.Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.

Melanie Phillips: Why Israel must win

Nov 16th, 2023 1h 16m

Times columnist Melanie Phillips returns for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss the barbarism of Hamas and the grim rise of elite anti-Semitism.Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/Or

Yascha Mounk: The identity trap

Nov 9th, 2023 59m 5s

Yascha Mounk joins Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, The Identity Trap. Yascha and Brendan discuss what ‘woke’ really means, the ideological roots of identity politics, and whether po

Nick Cater: Why Australia rejected the Voice to Parliament

Nov 2nd, 2023 56m 33s

Nick Cater – Australian author, broadcaster, columnist and senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nick and Brendan discuss the Aussie establishment’s meltdown over the ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Frank Furedi: Why they hate Israel

Oct 26th, 2023 55m 2s

spiked contributor Frank Furedi returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Frank and Brendan discuss Hamas's pogrom in Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, and what ‘decolonisation’ really means.Order Brendan O’Neill’s A Heretic’s Manifest