Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and welcome to the spike podcast I'm Tom Slater editor of Spiked I'm joined today as I am every week by

Spiked columnist Ella Wielen. Hi. And no Fraser Myers this week but we've got a

very estimate standing in the

new

new newes's own Inaya Florent Iman.

Hi. Today on the show

we're going to discuss the demise of Roe v. Wade,

the new anti-tory politics, the Oslo shooting

and why Halifax has gone woke.

So last week a really genuinely historic thing happened,

not in time for us to cover it on last week's show, incidentally, but Rovey Wade was struck down in America, ending 50 years of this constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose.

Ella, it's been a seismic event felt not only in America, but obviously in Britain across Europe,

and there's a huge fight really now that the American pro-choice movement has on its hands in order to protect abortion.

More than two dozen states are more or less prime to either ban abortion entirely pretty much or

severely restrict it.

What was your reaction to this and you think the pro-choice movement over there is up to the fight that it's got in front of it?

Oh that is a depressing question because I think most of them understand that they're not and that it really is quite a bleak picture in America at the moment.

I don't think anyone was really that surprised that Roe fell because all the signs were there in relation to the justices that had been appointed to the Supreme Court of

late and there had been, you know, people like Amy Conan Barrett being very open about her position

as someone who was anti-choice or pro-life and so it didn't really come as a surprise and you know

the sort of nature of American politics it's hard to get your head around and

particularly someone from the UK, is that there is no real easy fix to this. You know, there have been suggestions, ludicrous suggestions really, that, you know, Biden should bring in an executive emergency action of

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