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The Brendan O'Neill Show

12: Martin Durkin: Brexit, class and climate change

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Martin Durkin joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the new class war, Brexit, climate change and Martin’s revisionist take on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

One month to go and I need toys. I need decorations. I need stockings. I need sprouts. I need something for him. I need something for him to give to his mother.

0:10.4

I've got a dragon eight foot tree into my lounge then build a trampoline and gift

0:14.8

rapid. Elf duties are a full-time job and this elf deserves a Christmasy coffee.

0:21.0

Our gingerbread latte is now at Costa. That's Christmas, made a little better.

0:27.0

At Costa coffee. And the thing is if you are an American, if you said, look, I put it to you, do you want to be part of a transnational superstate, which you don't

0:46.6

understand, run by people you don't know and who you didn't elect and who you can't get rid of, but who have the power to impose on you laws that you haven't

0:55.9

discussed and have little or no realistic power to block or rescind.

1:00.1

Was that a good idea?

1:01.7

I mean they would reach for their guns.

1:04.0

H.

1:07.0

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill.

1:14.0

This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest

1:18.0

joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas,

1:22.0

the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century.

1:27.4

In this episode I am delighted to be joined by Martin Durkin.

1:31.6

Martin is a filmmaker, he's a film producer and a film director. He has been referred to as

1:37.5

the Michael Moore of the Right, which I think is a little unfair, but we can talk about that later on.

1:43.3

His films always cause controversy and discussion.

1:47.6

They include against nature

1:50.0

a 1997 channel 4 documentary that caused Greens to go into complete moral meltdown

1:57.1

with its questioning of environmentalism and its suggestion that environmentalism might not actually be a wonderful thing.

2:04.9

There is also the rise and fall of GM a pro genetic modification documentary.

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