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Katja Hoyer – historian and author of Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe – sat down with spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the seismic results of the Saxony-Anhalt state elections. Katja and Fraser discuss the collapse of Germany’s centrist parties, the spectacular failure of the AfD ‘firewall’, why the former East Germany is so ripe for rebellion and why the AfD’s more unsavoury characters are not putting off voters.

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This is the first half of historian David Starkey’s conversation with spiked’s Fraser Myers. On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, they discuss the religious roots of Islamic extremism, the insanity of the Iraq War and how the West gave up on its civilisation.

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Mark Dolan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the Dover and Portsmouth protests, the AfD surge and the return of Harry and Meghan.

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Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on a year of mad Zack, why Andy Burnham is not your friend and why the French won’t stop the boats.

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Connie Shaw, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the Cambridge don who joined an Islamist terror group, the unravelling of the Green Party and Birmingham’s fatwa on the England flag.

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