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Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me as ever we have Spiked Steps

editor Tom Slater, hello, and Spiked columnist Ella Wheelen.

Hi. Coming up on the show, The Delay to Freedom Day, Stop Funding Hate, The unravelling of the US

media, and Chimamanda Ingozi Adichie takes on cancel culture.

So-called Freedom Day is off, as the Delta variant has persuaded the Prime Minister to delay reopening.

But now is the time to ease off the accelerator. If this

continues on an exponential path then we would run into trouble. This virus

is surging because Boris Johnson left the back door open and allowed the variant to wash up on our shores.

On Monday the government announced a delay to the removal of social distancing restrictions in England.

I mean, this felt almost inevitable at this stage, right?

Yeah, it's a real toss-up between...

I'm laughing, but actually, I'm like crying because I had hoped so much that they were

going to come good on the 21st of June and I think we've talked about a

...