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1

What Makerfield means for Labour, Reform and Restore

2

Can free speech survive the mass-migration experiment? | Ben Jones

3

Belfast: how asylum turned the UK into a tinderbox

4

Henry Nowak: why we should rage against two-tier policing

5

Will Restore bounce Andy Burnham into Downing Street?

6

Can Reform block Andy Burnham’s path to power?

7

Keir in crisis: the death throes of the Labour Party

8

The Reform surge: an English revolution

9

Golders Green: how Jews are being terrorised

10

How woke enabled the monster of Southport

11

Reform, the Greens and the death of the uniparty

12

The Iran War has exposed Labour’s green delusions

13

The Iranian threat to Britain

14

‘The intifada has come to London’ | Lorin Bell-Cross on the Golders Green attack

15

Is Nick Timothy right about public Islamic prayer?

16

‘I tried to save them’ | Grooming-gangs whistleblower Maggie Oliver

17

Why Ed Miliband – not Iran – is to blame for the UK’s energy crisis | David Turver

18

What’s the point of Trump’s war in Iran?

19

‘Islamists will exploit Labour’s “Islamophobia” ban’ | UK terror tsar Jonathan Hall

20

‘The woke Foreign Office doesn’t stand for Britain’ | Ameer Kotecha

21

Iran: the folly of ‘regime change’

22

‘Gorton and Denton was a nightmare for Labour’ | James Johnson

23

Gorton and Denton, the Greens and the new sectarianism

24

Japan’s iron lady? | Philip Patrick

25

Andrew, Epstein and our feckless elites

26

‘Immigration is the issue of the century’ | Lionel Shriver

27

Aberdeen: the city killed by Ed Miliband | Nick Tyrone

28

Spain’s woke autocracy | Maria Reglero

29

How broken borders enabled the Afghan child rapist

30

What is Xi Jinping up to? | Cindy Yu

31

Will the Mandelson scandal bring down Starmer?

32

Gorton and Denton: has Reform rattled Labour?

33

The Greenland debacle has exposed Europe’s weakness

34

‘Starmer has surrendered to the EU’ | Bruno Waterfield

35

The real reason Jenrick joined Reform

36

Venezuela, Greenland and Trump’s new world disorder

37

How over-protective parents raised an anxious generation | Lenore Skenazy

38

2025: the year of the vibe shift? | spiked podcast: unlocked

39

2025: Civilisation, barbarism and censorship

40

The Afghan asylum crime wave

41

‘The police have imbibed the activist worldview’ | Ex-officer Paul Birch

42

The lies of Rachel Reeves

43

‘Trans activists are little Hitlers’ | Graham Linehan

44

How Rachel Reeves is bankrupting Britain

45

The Covid inquiry’s pro-lockdown propaganda | Michael Simmons

46

The free-speech film they tried to censor

47

The end of men in women’s sports? | Sharron Davies

48

The fall of the BBC

49

How Wikipedia lies to you | Ashley Rindsberg

50

Huntingdon: another mass stabbing in broken Britain

51

After Uxbridge: our broken borders are a threat to us all

52

Grooming gangs: another shameful Labour cover-up

53

Jew hatred, borders and censorship

54

Farage’s path to power | Pollster James Johnson

55

Why Trump’s Gaza peace plan infuriates the left

56

‘The censors are insatiable’ | Adam Szetela on how ‘sensitivity readers’ captured publishing

57

The intifada comes to Manchester

58

The Muhammad cartoons that shook the world | Flemming Rose

59

The Islamic State of Great Britain

60

‘Starmer is worse than Chamberlain’ | Andrew Fox

61

Charlie Kirk’s killer and the nihilism of the online left

62

RIP Charlie Kirk: a dark day for free speech and America

63

‘Blackouts are coming’ | Kathryn Porter

64

The horrifying arrest of Graham Linehan

65

Will Farage stop the boats?

66

‘It’s totalitarian’ | Wesley Yang on the ‘successor ideology’

67

Lucy Connolly, the hotel wars and Net Zero

68

Everything you wanted to know about (biological) sex | Colin Wright

69

Will the small boats be Starmer’s undoing?

70

Woke privilege | Musa al-Gharbi

71

The cover-up of migrant crime

72

‘The progressive era is over’ | Eric Kaufmann

73

The Online Safety Act: the silencing of Britain

74

How Britain became a tinderbox

75

The Afghan scandal: the kill list and the cover-up

76

7/7: 20 years of Islamist terror

77

‘Britain is at breaking point’ | Harry Saul Markham

78

Useless Starmer and Two-Tear Reeves

79

The crimes of Palestine Action

80

The barbarians inside the campus gates | Yascha Mounk

81

369: Could Israel topple Iran? | Andrew Fox

82

368: Why Los Angeles is on fire

83

367: ‘The woke are like zombies’ | Gad Saad

84

366: How Koran-burning became a crime in Britain

85

365: Is woke over? | Andrew Doyle live in London

86

364: Fear, loathing and Liverpool

87

363: ‘We lost our minds’ | Lord Sewell on BLM

88

362: Starmer’s Brexit sellout

89

361: ‘The EU is laughing at us’ | David Frost on Starmer’s surrender

90

360: Is Keir Starmer the new Enoch Powell?

91

359: The people vs Keir Starmer

92

358: ‘We’ve lost control’ | Former UK border chief speaks out

93

357: The Reform insurgency

94

356: The trans meltdown, with Graham Linehan

95

355: ‘We can’t stay silent’ | Pakistani journalist speaks out on grooming gangs and Islamism

96

354: Victory to TERF Island

97

353: ‘The madness is over’ | Helen Joyce on the Supreme Court trans ruling

98

352: Labour’s grooming-gangs cover-up

99

351: The stupidity of Net Zero | Bjorn Lomborg

100

350: The Trump trade war

101

349: How Rachel from Accounts put Britain in the red

102

348: The truth about 7 October

103

347: Is Putin in control? | Mark Galeotti

104

346: Farage, Lowe and the Very Online right

105

345: Welcome to Trumpworld, with Lionel Shriver

106

344: ‘Labour will ruin our best schools’ | Katharine Birbalsingh vs Bridget Phillipson

107

343: The German populist revolt

108

342: Is burning a Koran now a crime in Britain?

109

341: ‘Germans are furious’ | Katja Hoyer on the fall of the elites and the rise of the AfD

110

340: Britain’s border farce

111

339: The Munich attack: asylum, Islamism and the AfD

112

338: Labour’s Islamic blasphemy laws

113

337: ‘I became a pariah in corporate America’ | Jennifer Sey

114

336: The absurdity of Rachel Reeves’s “green growth”

115

335: The truth about Southport

116

334: The hidden dangers of the Gaza hostage deal

117

333: Why Keir Starmer is imploding

118

332: ‘Trudeau acted like a tinpot dictator’

119

331: Grooming gangs and the ‘far-right bandwagon’ slur

120

‘Grooming-gangs victims are outraged’

121

330: An interview with Charlie Hebdo’s Gérard Biard

122

329: New Orleans and the scourge of Islamist terror

123

328: ‘The scale of censorship is insane’ | Greg Lukianoff on Britain’s speech police

124

327: The Magdeburg attack: what we know so far

125

326: 2024: revenge of the deplorables

126

325: Why Trump won the working class | Michael Lind

127

324: Syria: has HTS changed?

128

323: Gregg Wallace and the dangers of trial by media

129

322: Why I fought on the frontline in Ukraine | Macer Gifford

130

321: The horror of ‘assisted dying’

131

320: ‘Death on demand’ | Danny Kruger on assisted dying

132

319: The fury of Britain’s farmers

133

318: Debunking the lies about Israel | Natasha Hausdorff

134

317: Musk Derangement Syndrome

135

316: The deplorables strike back

136

315: Why Trump won

137

314: Who are the Democrats calling ‘garbage’?

138

313: Chris Kaba and the shamelessness of the ‘anti-racists’

139

312: Why I loathe Kamala Harris | Lionel Shriver

140

311: Live at the Battle of Ideas 2024

141

310: See us *live* this weekend

142

309: After 7 October: the crisis of civilisation

143

308: The truth about the Covid lab leak | Matt Ridley

144

307: The Jenrick delusion

145

306: How Labour lost its halo

146

305: The lies of the trans movement | Helen Joyce

147

304: The two-tier treatment of Huw Edwards

148

303: Cat ladies and dog eaters: the Very Online election

149

302: Starmer’s woke authoritarianism | Jacob Rees-Mogg

150

301: Germany’s populist earthquake

151

300: The global war on free speech online

152

299: Poverty, victimhood and luxury beliefs | Rob Henderson

153

298: The unbearable nothingness of Kamala Harris

154

297: Musk, Trump and the rage against free speech

155

296: Riots, race and multiculturalism

156

295: How Southport exposed a broken Britain

157

294: Starmer’s one-party state | David Starkey

158

293: Biden’s exit, Kamala’s rise and the gaslighting of America

159

292: How the Trump shooting shook the world

160

291: ‘Trump saved us from civil war’ | Batya Ungar-Sargon

161

290: The Starmer regime

162

289: The Starmer landslide

163

288: Keir Starmer’s woke dystopia

164

287: A Tory wipeout?

165

286: The revolt against the EU elites

166

285: Will Nigel Farage destroy the Tories?

167

284: The None of the Above election

168

283: Why Things Can Only Get Worse with Keir Starmer

169

282: Is Donald Trump on his way to the White House?

170

281: Islamic sectarianism is poisoning British politics

171

280: How Sadiq Khan destroyed London

172

279: The Columbia protests and the scourge of elite anti-Semitism

173

278: The crackdown on NatCon Brussels

174

277: How the Cass Review exposed the trans cult

175

276: Humza Yousaf: hate criminal?

176

275: How Abdul Ezedi gamed the asylum system

177

274: The SNP’s sinister Hate Crime Act

178

273: Are we all ‘extremists’ now?

179

272: The trans experiment on children

180

271: The Islamist threat we can’t talk about

181

270: The Islamist assault on British democracy

182

269: Why anti-Semitism lives on in Labour

183

268: After the acid attack

184

267: Why the farmers must win

185

266: Is Gen Z ready for World War 3?

186

265: Why Trump is winning

187

264: Farmers, subpostmasters and trigger warnings

188

263: Claudine Gay and the DEI racket

189

262: The barbarism of the woke

190

261: The man in a wig

191

260: Why the Tories are toast

192

259: The 7 October denialists

193

258: Geert Wilders, Javier Milei and the crumbling of the elites

194

257: David Cameron… really?

195

256: London’s hate marches

196

253: A ‘safe space’ for Jew hate?

197

252: LIVE SHOW: Hatred, terror and free speech

198

251: Hamas’s useful idiots

199

250: Israel, Hamas and the return of the world’s oldest hatred

200

249: Sunak’s Tories: going up in smoke?

201

248: The crusade against GB News

202

247: Russell Brand and the assault on the presumption of innocence

203

246: Revenge of the Remoaners

204

245: The steaming hypocrisy of Jordan Henderson

205

244: Sadiq Khan’s war on working-class Londoners

206

243: Lucy Letby and the evils of bureaucracy

207

242: The cancellation of Graham Linehan, with Andrew Doyle

208

241: Why we should leave the ECHR

209

240: The Trump witch hunt

210

239: How Nigel Farage beat the banks

211

238: The rise of heatwave hysteria

212

237: Huw Edwards and the hypocrisy of the elites

213

236: The banks’ war on free speech

214

235: Why is Rishi Sunak so useless?

215

234: The crimes of Hunter Biden

216

233: Boris, Trump and the revenge of the technocrats

217

232: The paranoia of Prince Harry

218

231: Kathleen Stock’s fight for free speech

219

230: The BBC’s Ministry of Truth

220

229: The new truckers’ revolt

221

228: The coronation crackdown

222

227: Will King Charles be our last monarch?

223

226: Joe Biden’s woke despotism

224

225: The SNP scandal we can’t talk about

225

224: Is Joe Biden anti-British?

226

223: The legal witch-hunting of Trump

227

222: Why trans activism has turned violent

228

221: Trump, Boris and populism on trial

229

220: The Gary Lineker affair

230

219: Manchester Arena: why we *should* look back in anger

231

218: The Wakefield blasphemy trial

232

217: How the Ukrainians shocked the world

233

216: Good riddance to Nicola Sturgeon

234

215: The truth about Shamima Begum

235

214: The exploitation of Tyre Nichols

236

213: Eff the WEF

237

212: The madness of Scotland’s gender bill

238

211: Spare us this self-pitying prince

239

210: The strange world of Andrew Tate

240

209: The war, the culture war and the populist revival

241

208: A very European sleaze scandal

242

207: The truth about Harry and Meghan

243

206: A royal race row

244

205: What’s the point of Scottish independence?

245

204: Can Donald Trump make a comeback?

246

203: Is Just Stop Oil a cult?

247

202: Will Elon Musk set Twitter free?

248

201: Rishi Sunak and the racist backlash that wasn’t

249

200: Liz Truss and the crumbling of the Tory Party

250

199: Live at the Battle of Ideas

251

198: The Tory meltdown

252

197: The Italian revolt

253

196: PayPal’s war on dissent

254

195: A royal assault on free speech

255

194: The end of the second Elizabethan age

256

193: Meghan, duchess of cringe

257

192: A crisis made by our elites

258

191: Salman Rushdie and the new ayatollahs

259

190: The Trump raid and the unravelling of America

260

189: Britain’s woke Stasi

261

188: How Stonewall crumbled

262

187: A climate of fear

263

186: How eco-lunacy crushed Sri Lanka

264

185: The end of Boris

265

184: Roe, Oslo and pronoun badges

266

183: Grooming gangs: the scandal that shames Britain

267

182: The Rwanda policy and the assault on British democracy

268

181: The Lady of Heaven: censored for blasphemy

269

180: Debugger – Defending democracy from Big Tech

270

179: Will Britain ever be a republic?

271

178: Why Partygate never ends

272

177: The great slump

273

176: The Brexit wars are back, with John Curtice

274

175: After Roe: women’s liberation in a woke age

275

174: Why they hate Elon Musk

276

173: In Britain, being offensive is an offence

277

172: The shameful silence over Islamist terrorism

278

171: Have we reached peak woke?

279

170: Can a woman have a penis?

280

169: What is the point of Rishi Sunak?

281

168: A new era of online censorship

282

167: Why are we cancelling Tchaikovsky?

283

166: Ukraine’s last stand

284

165: Darkness descends on Ukraine

285

164: Why the truckers must win

286

163: Cancel culture comes for Jimmy Carr

287

162: Joe Rogan vs the thoughtpolice, with Konstantin Kisin

288

161: The West’s dangerous game in Ukraine

289

160: Joe Biden’s woke presidency, with Andrew Doyle

290

159: Is the party over for Boris?

291

158: Novak Djokovic and the war on the unvaccinated

292

157: Covid, culture wars and COP – looking back on 2021

293

156: The week Boris crumbled

294

155: Another cancelled Christmas?

295

154: Europe’s new authoritarianism

296

153: After Liverpool: the deafening silence over terrorism

297

152: Is it time to move on from Covid?

298

151: COP26 and the green war on democracy

299

150: So now the left cares about Big Tech censorship?

300

149: David Amess and the rise of Islamist denialism

301

148: The persecution of Kathleen Stock

302

147: Build back bluster

303

146: The slow, painful death of Labour

304

145: Welcome to blackout Britain

305

144: What is Boris Johnson for?

306

143: The shadow of 9/11

307

142: Why vaccine passports are a terrible idea

308

141: Extinction Rebellion: a revolt against the people

309

140: Afghanistan: a disaster made in the West

310

139: The myth of the climate ‘apocalypse’

311

138: The Oppression Olympics

312

137: The Covid apocalypse that wasn’t

313

136: The tyranny of vaccine passports

314

135: The great football racism panic

315

134: Fear, loathing and Freedom Day

316

133: Labour’s pork-barrel multiculturalism

317

132: The myth of white privilege

318

131: Our neverending lockdown

319

130: Why they are right to boo

320

129: The shameful censorship of the lab-leak theory

321

128: Dom’s dictatorship

322

127: The forgotten racism

323

126: The Tory war on freedom

324

125: Another revolt against Labour

325

124: The court of Boris and Carrie

326

123: The exploitation of George Floyd

327

122: The diversity trap

328

121: Boris: the phoney freedom-fighter

329

120: The myth of ‘institutional racism’

330

119: Lockdown forever

331

118: Sarah Everard: exploiting a tragedy

332

117: Why Megxit matters

333

116: The lockdown depression

334

115: The long road out of lockdown

335

114: The free-speech fightback

336

113: The n-word: does context matter?

337

112: The myth of EUtopia

338

111: The EU’s vaccine nightmare

339

110: Why Joe Biden won’t heal America

340

109: The tyranny of the tech monopolies

341

108: Dark days for American democracy

342

107: The year the world went mad

343

106: Democracy or bust

344

105: How trans ideology fails children

345

104: The great fascism scare

346

103: Boris’s botched reset

347

102: Trump’s tantrum against democracy

348

101: Populism after Trump

349

100: Who will stand with the French Republic?

350

99: The armed wing of cancel culture

351

98: David Starkey and the tyranny of the thought police

352

97: The president and the plague

353

96: Why anti-Trumpers could still get Trump re-elected

354

95: The long lockdown winter

355

94: Lockdown 2.0

356

93: Is Britain now a rogue state?

357

92: Transcending race -- a spiked podcast special

358

91: How wokeness came to rule Britannia

359

90: Gavin Williamson should go away and shut up

360

89: The insufferable emptiness of Joe Biden

361

88: Fear, loathing and free speech

362

87: Wiley and the world’s oldest hatred

363

86: Why Remoaners can’t let go of Russiagate

364

85: The mask slips

365

84: It’s time to cancel cancel culture

366

83: The weird war on whiteness

367

82: Terror returns to Britain

368

81: The Tory war on woke

369

80: The woke cultural revolution

370

79: America falls apart

371

78: Cummings Derangement Syndrome

372

77: The care-homes scandal that shames the nation

373

76: Lockdown UK: still no end in sight

374

75: Neil Ferguson’s staggering hypocrisy

375

74: Why the media have had such a bad war

376

73: The Covid culture wars

377

72: Why the 5G Covid conspiracy theory has gone viral

378

71: A PM in hospital, a nation rattled

379

70: Can the EU survive coronavirus?

380

69: Britain in lockdown

381

68: Putting the pandemic in perspective

382

154: Inside Italy’s coronavirus lockdown

383

153: Has Bernie blown it?

384

152: Why free speech matters, with Toby Young

385

151: The ghoulish exploitation of Caroline Flack

386

150: Labour’s woke war on women

387

149: Why the Democrats might just get Trump re-elected

388

148: Why Brexit Day is worth celebrating

389

147: Trump, Davos and Laurence Fox

390

146: The woke Stasi

391

145: Megxit and the rise of woke royalism

392

144: 2019: the year the people struck back

393

143: A new era

394

142: A working-class revolt against Labour

395

141: Another bloodstained election

396

140: Labour’s week from hell

397

139: The lie of Labour’s radicalism

398

138: The taming of the Brexit Party

399

137: Is this 2017 all over again?

400

136: The Brexit election

401

135: Time to slay this zombie parliament

402

134: SPECIAL: The return of ISIS?

403

133: The betrayal of the Kurds

404

132: Impeachment, royal censors and OK signs

405

131: Hysteria, humbug and Lady Hale

406

130: SPECIAL: Is populism here to stay?

407

129: Brexit: This rotten parliament

408

128: Special: The Brexit endgame

409

127: Days of middle-class rage

410

126: Why No Deal is still the best deal

411

125: A coup against the people

412

124: The barbarism of identity politics

413

123: How the EU played the Irish

414

122: Boris: Brexit or bust

415

121: Trump’s white identity politics

416

120: Labour: party of the middle class

417

119: Brussels shows its true colours

418

118: The Boris delusion

419

117: The right-wing threat to free speech

420

116: The Tory circus

421

115: Why they hate Trump

422

114: Two Europes: an EU election special

423

113: An earthquake Down Under

424

112: Jeremy Kyle: how pleb-bashing went mainstream

425

111: The fight for Brexit continues

426

110: The snobbery of the anti-Trump brigade

427

109: Sri Lanka and the new barbarism

428

108: Notre Dame and the longing for legacy

429

107: In defence of internet freedom

430

106: Why parliament can't be trusted

431

105: Mueller, May and memes

432

104: The bloody rise of white identity politics

433

103: SPECIAL: The week Brexit was betrayed

434

102: Labour’s Jewish Problem

435

101: The death of No Deal?

436

100: Shamima, Smollett and Soubry

437

99: How Brexit broke party politics

438

98: The economics of No Deal

439

97: Venezuela is not your playground

440

96: On the ethics of doxxing children

441

95: Hate speech: a warning from Europe – a spiked podcast special

442

94: May's defeat, Trump's wall and woke capitalism

443

93: On the right to insult politicians

444

92: 2018: the year that rocked Europe

445

91: Why British politics is broken

446

90: The mourning wars

447

89: Project Fear, the sequel

448

88: The dangers of hate-crime hysteria

449

87: Brexit: what is to be done?

450

86: Why Trump limps on

451

85: Trump, terror and hypocrisy

452

84: We need to talk about grooming gangs

453

83: The Tory betrayal of Brexit

454

82: Nazi pugs, gay cakes and Bob Geldof

455

81: Tories in turmoil

456

80: Labour vs the people

457

79: How #MeToo became a political weapon

458

78: Westminster's war on the web

459

77: The stupidity of banning Bannon

460

76: Sell out Brexit? No deal

461

75: Bret Stephens: 'Trump isn't un-PC. He's just an asshole'

462

74: Katie Roiphe: ‘I was called human scum just for criticising #MeToo’

463

73: 'To defend democracy, we must defend the nation state'

464

72: Last Orders: The war on cheap booze

465

71: Beware the oligarchs

466

70: ‘They celebrate the vote but they wish we didn’t have it’

467

69: 'We have to stand up for Afrin and the Kurds'

468

68: 'When we instantly believe women, we invite them to lie'

469

67: 'The left has betrayed Iran'

470

66: ‘I’ve seen the best and the worst in humankind’

471

65: 'Labour has forgotten working-class Leavers'

472

64: ‘The battle for Brexit is still on’

473

63: 'This Meghan-mania is just incredibly grim'

474

62: 'Calling a woman a "terf" is just a new way of calling her a "witch"'

475

61: Julia Hartley-Brewer: 'We're all bored of this Pestminster witch-hunt'

476

60: Thomas Frank: 'Trump proves that anything is possible'

477

59: 'We’re beginning to find sex disgusting'

478

58: 'Free speech is crucial in the battle of ideas'

479

57: 'This is becoming a sexual Salem'

480

56: Munira Mirza: 'I've been called a race denier'

481

55: ‘The Catalan crisis confirms the EU is tearing nations apart’