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Charlie Peters, national reporter for GB News, talks to Fraser Myers about Keir Starmer’s refusal to hold a national grooming-gangs inquiry, how political correctness sanctioned widespread abuse and how victims are still being denied the justice they deserve.
On 7 January 2015, two Islamist terrorists, armed with Kalashnikovs, burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo. 12 people were murdered, eight of them writers and cartoonists at the left-wing, satirical newspaper. Charlie’s supposed crime? It had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The massacre sparked outpourings of solidarity, but also a cowardly, censorious backlash. Many decried the killings, but decried Charlie’s supposed ‘provocations’, too. 10 years on from the massacre, spiked went to Paris to meet with Gérard Biard, Charlie’s editor-in-chief. We discussed the attack, the fight for free…
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Nigel Farage’s battles with Kemi Badenoch. This is a clip from the latest episode of the spiked podcast. Watch the full thing here:
Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Jess Phillips’s refusal to hold a public inquiry into grooming gangs. This is a clip from the latest episode of the spiked podcast. Watch the full thing here:
Tom Slater on the grooming-gangs scandal
Toby Young – general secretary of the Free Speech Union – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Toby and Brendan discuss how ‘banter bouncers’ could soon be deployed in pubs and football stadiums, the perils of banning Islamophobia and why woke isn’t over yet. Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: Support spiked: Support Spiked Sign up to spiked’s newsletters:
Francis Foster, Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Trump on Rogan, Humza’s ‘hate crimes’ and the Islamist who tried to colonise a remote Scottish island.
Is the UK a free country any more? An estimated nine people per day are arrested for making offensive comments online. In fact, more people had their collars felt in Britain for speech crimes in 2015 and 2016 than were arrested in the US during the entirety of First Red Scare. Here, Greg Lukianoff – president of the US’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression – warns that laws against so-called hate speech, and the elite panic over ‘misinformation’, have given licence to the British state to trample on our…
Michael Lind – author of Hell to Pay and The New Class War – explores the tensions in the MAGA movement between pro-worker populism and Elon Musk’s libertarianism.
Francis Foster, Inaya Folarin Iman, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Israel’s stunning success against Hamas and Hezbollah, the fall of Assad’s tinpot tyranny, and the tragedy of Ukraine.