The Spiked Podcast
The Spiked Podcast delivers half-hour free-speech and culture discussions from the team behind the Spiked magazine. Hosts and guests tackle politics and current events with an explicitly open-debate, unwoke approach. The Spiked Podcast follows editor Brendan O'Neill and fellow Spiked writers as they break down free-speech fights, political controversies, and cultural flashpoints each week. Episodes run about thirty minutes and reuse the magazine's pitch to report on the world while trying to change it, mixing monologue, interview, and argument. Hosts walk through campus speech rules, media narratives, and policy overreach with a clear preference for testing ideas in public rather than protecting feelings. Concrete topics swing from British and international politics to the latest culture-war stories, always asking whether dissent is still allowed. Listeners get the same contrarian tone a