Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Israel’s fight for survival, Keir Starmer’s flip-flopping on grooming gangs and Kneecap’s cosplay radicalism.
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369: Could Israel topple Iran? | Andrew Fox
Israel’s aerial assault on Iran has stunned the world. Surgical strikes have wiped out much of Tehran’s military leadership. Its nuclear-weapons capabilities have been severely degraded. The brutal Islamist regime, loathed at home and abroad, is at its weakest point in decades. Here, Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – discusses why Israel felt it had to act, whether the Iranian regime can survive, and what risks lie ahead for Israel and the West.Â
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368: Why Los Angeles is on fire
How ‘progressives’ destroyed LA, the Ballymena riots and Greta’s ship of fools. Featuring Joel Kotkin, Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers.
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367: ‘The woke are like zombies’ | Gad Saad
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Woke ideology is unfailingly irrational. Claims of systemic oppression in the West are easily disproven. And while activists claim to stand for tolerance and empathy, their intolerance and authoritarianism know no bounds. Here, Gad Saad – evolutionary psychologist, host of The Saad Truth and author of The Parasitic Mind – explains why woke spreads, despite its obvious dangers and contradictions. Indeed, it is the well educated, he argues, who are especially vulnerable to these infectious ideas. To win the culture war, we must inoculate society against this ‘mind virus’.
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366: How Koran-burning became a crime in Britain
Liam Halligan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Hamit Coskun’s conviction, Rachel Reeves’s fantasy economics, Trump’s tariff masterplan and the anti-Semitic attack in Colorado.
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