The spiked podcast

The Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic join spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about ‘prestige TV’ fatigue, race-swapping in Harry Potter, wokeness in the new Narnia and why even Tom Cruise’s star power can’t persuade us to watch a lecture on climate change. Plus, they discuss the AI threat to Hollywood, how the videogame industry turned on its own customers, and whether GTA VI can save popular culture. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ameer Kotecha joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss John Healey’s disastrous first budget, why the government will be to blame for the next emergency, and why Britain must not pay a penny in slavery reparations. On the full, extended episode, they discuss what the world gets wrong about Israel’s elections and the carnage of Sadiq Khan’s pedestrianised Oxford Street. To watch the full episode of this week’s spiked podcast, become a spiked supporter or a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Join us for the spiked summit 2027. Find out more and get your tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/19/get-your-tickets-for-the-spiked-summit-2027/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Phil Craig – filmmaker, TV producer and host of the Scandal Mongers podcast – joins spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the BBC’s crisis of impartiality, how it got the Gaza war so wrong, and whether public-service broadcasting can ever work in the age of the culture war. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Hugo Timms discuss why French civilisation is on the brink, how the left is fanning the flames of lawlessness, the uselessness and aloofness of President Macron, and why the rest of Europe could be next. On the full, extended episode, they discuss the national-security adviser’s Hamas-defending wife, Labour’s civil war over immigration and the folly of neglecting the North Sea.  To watch the full episode of this week’s spiked podcast, become a spiked supporter or a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Watch our next live show in London, featuring Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers, exclusively for spiked supporters. Get tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/spikedltd/2397650  Join us for the spiked summit 2027. Find out more and get your tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/19/get-your-tickets-for-the-spiked-summit-2027/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French journalist Anne-Élisabeth Moutet joins spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about the riots engulfing France. They discuss France’s abandonment of law and order, the ‘insurrection’ strategy of La France Insoumise, and how Emmanuel Macron’s centrist technocracy brought France to economic ruin. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this spiked deep dive, Tom Slater talks to Fraser Myers about the threats to Zack Polanski’s leadership of the Green Party, the left’s ‘grand bargain’ with Islamic sectarians, the anti-Semitism behind the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion, and the dark history of the environmental movement. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this spiked deep dive, Fraser Myers talks to Tom Slater about the school shooting in southern France, why these unprecedented riots are not ‘school protests’, how the far-left France Insoumise is fanning the flames, and why the disorder could lead to a Marine Le Pen presidency. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To watch the full episode of this week’s spiked podcast, become a spiked supporter or a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Brendan O’Neill joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the Greens’ defeat in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, the Islamo-left’s hold on British politics, the culture war on Englishness and what the French school ‘protests’ are really about. On the full, extended episode, they discuss the 7 October anniversary and the teenager who was arrested for calling a Tory councillor a ‘rent boy’.  Join us for the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 17 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-2026-tickets-1851549427179?discount=SPIKED  If you’re a spiked supporter, you can watch the full episode here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Or if you’re a member of our YouTube channel, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/membership  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Independent journalist Michael Tracey sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the myths and misinformation being spread about the ‘Cornell 7’ case, the injustice of naming the accused and not the accuser, the lawyers who stand to profit, and why Democrats like Kathy Hochul and AOC want to revive the #MeToo mania. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Victor Davis Hanson – historian, journalist and author of The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss why the midterms are tighter than they seem, how the Democrats emboldened their craziest fringe, the plot to destroy Donald Trump, why the AI panic is overblown, how to win the economic war with Iran, and why Europe needs to get a grip of its borders. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To watch the full episode of this week’s spiked podcast, become a spiked supporter or a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Jake Wallis Simons, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on Labour’s retreat from reality, the Brexit betrayal and the next migrant crisis. On the full, extended episode, they discuss the Hamas terrorist with a British passport and how country pubs, warm ale and black labradors became ‘far right’.  Join us for the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 17 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-2026-tickets-1851549427179?discount=SPIKED  If you’re a spiked supporter, you can watch the full episode here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Or if you’re a member of our YouTube channel, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/membership  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To watch the full episode of this week’s spiked podcast, become a spiked supporter or a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Josh Howie, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the public’s fury over illegal migration, Andy Burnham’s Ministry of Truth and the war on comedy, from John Cleese to Mitchell and Webb. Join us for the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 17 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-2026-tickets-1851549427179?discount=SPIKED  If you’re a spiked supporter, you can watch the full episode here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Or if you’re a member of our YouTube channel, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/membership  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lauren Southern – commentator and author of This Is Not Real Life – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the left and right’s hypocrisy over Sydney Sweeney, the phony gender wars over the Lindsay Clancy trial, her run-ins with Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson, and why Woke 2.0 will be even worse than the original. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Tyrone, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on how Palestine mania ruins everything, Piddington’s genteel uprising against illegal migration and how Reform can win the Waitrose belt. If you’re a spiked supporter, you can watch the full episode here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Join us for the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 17 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-2026-tickets-1851549427179?discount=SPIKED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ross Clark – author of new book, Britain is Bust: The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis and what it Will Mean for You – sits down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the eye-watering cost of servicing the UK’s debt, how the government wastes your hard-earned cash and why taxing or printing money won’t rescue us from this crisis. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the second half of historian David Starkey’s conversation with spiked’s Fraser Myers. Here, David and Fraser discuss the Northern Irelandisation of British politics, why Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo are emerging as the ‘community leaders’ of the ignored working classes, and why the UK needs a Great Repeal Act to restore sovereignty to parliament. Watch the first half on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 here: https://youtu.be/cR_bIKkOQtA?si=fBgDfIRcSQWSJyTp  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Katja Hoyer – historian and author of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe – sat down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the seismic results of the Saxony-Anhalt state elections. Katja and Fraser discuss the collapse of Germany’s centrist parties, the spectacular failure of the AfD ‘firewall’, why the former East Germany is so ripe for rebellion and why the AfD’s more unsavoury characters are not putting off voters. Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the first half of historian David Starkey’s conversation with spiked’s Fraser Myers. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, they discuss the religious roots of Islamic extremism, the insanity of the Iraq War and how the West gave up on its civilisation. The second half is coming soon.  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Dover and Portsmouth protests, the AfD surge and the return of Harry and Meghan. If you’re a spiked supporter https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Join us for the spiked podcast live at the Battle of Ideas on Saturday 17 October. Get 20 per cent off with the code SPIKED or via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/battle-of-ideas-2026-tickets-1851549427179?discount=SPIKED  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on a year of mad Zack, why Andy Burnham is not your friend and why the French won’t stop the boats.  If you’re a spiked supporter https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast/spiked-podcast-unlocked/  Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and enjoy a whole host of other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  Or become a member of our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked/join  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices