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The two-tier treatment of Huw Edwards | spiked podcast

Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the crimes of Huw Edwards, the trans activist in a rape-crisis centre, the arrest of Bernadette Spofforth and the Hezbollah pagers. Brendan O’Neill’s new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation, is out now and available to order on Amazon: Join us for the book launch on Tuesday 1 October, where best-selling American author and spiked columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon will interview Brendan about the book and take questions from the audience on Zoom. It’s free,…

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Starmer’s killjoy state

Banning smoking in beer gardens. Banning ‘junk food’ advertising. Weighing people at work. The UK’s new Labour government is putting the ‘nanny state’ on steroids. Worst of all, it’s already committed to bringing in the total prohibition of cigarettes – a move that will upend our liberties and fuel the black market. Here, Tom Slater explains why this obsession with policing our lifestyles has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with pushing ordinary people around. This is about the ruling classes forcing their own miserable ways…

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Keir Starmer’s prison break

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the bleakness of the Labour government and how the crisis in prisons shames the technocratic elites. This is a clip from the latest episode of the spiked podcast. Watch the full episode here: Become a spiked supporter: Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:

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