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174: Why they hate Elon Musk

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Free speech, French populism and Angela Rayner’s legs… Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss.

Get your ticket to “How woke won – with Joanna Williams and Brendan O’Neill”: https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/25/live-event-joanna-williams-and-brendan-oneill-on-how-woke-won/

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0:00.0

Hi everyone Tom from Spiked here. Before we get into this week's episode I've got a very exciting announcement for you all

0:06.4

Spiked is now officially in the publishing business. We're delighted to say that we're partnering with John Wilkes

0:14.8

publishing to produce a series of books about the Madening Times that we find ourselves in, and we couldn't have picked a better book to start with.

0:19.7

This is How Woke won, the latest book by Spikes, Joanna Williams, all about the woke takeover

0:25.7

of all of our institutions and how we as members of the public might fight back against it.

0:31.3

It's out of a pre-order now. You can go and claim your copy at Amazon or go to the

0:36.0

spike website to find out more and to celebrate the release of How Woke One, we're

0:40.3

having an extra special live edition of Brendan O'Neil's podcast, the Brendan O'Neil show.

0:45.0

Joanna will be joining him for a conversation on Monday the 16th of May 7 PM.

0:50.0

If you're a spite supporter, you can claim a free ticket to this event now at the

0:54.3

Spite Supporters Hub. If you're not a Spite Supporter, now's a very good time to sign up just

0:59.0

five pounds per month and you can claim your ticket to this event as well as enjoy plenty other perks as well and tickets will also go on general sale very soon if there are any left.

1:08.8

So that's how Woke One, go and pre-order your copy now and get your ticket for that live Zoom edition of

1:14.0

Brendan's podcast. Now on with the show.

1:16.7

Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week as

1:21.5

ever we have Sp's editor Tom Slater and

1:24.0

spike columnist Ella Whelan coming up on the show the Twitter meltdown over Elon Musk the French elections plus Angela Rayna and the return of Pestminster.

1:37.0

So billionaire Elon Musk has purchased Twitter for $44 billion.

1:48.0

Musk is known as a bit of a free speech absolutist and I think it's fair to say that his possible intention of making

1:55.6

Twitter a bit less sincerest has elicited something of a meltdown. So I'm going to

2:01.2

give you a bit of a flavor of what's being said. Actress

2:04.8

Jamila Jamil, friend of the show, posted her last tweet. I fear this free

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