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Hello and welcome back to the spiked podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week in

the studio we have Spiked editor Tom Slater

Hello and Spiked columnist and author of How Woke 1 Joanna Williams

Hello coming up on today's show the Russell scandal, Ritchie Sunak's U-turn on Net Zero,

and how the medical establishment fell for trans ideology.

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