Hi it's Lauren here, producer of the Brendan O'Neil Show.

Before we get into this week's brilliant episode with Martin Koldorf,

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That's spiked-hyphen online.com slash interns. You have until Sunday the 19th of May to apply good luck I think we're sort of on a big fight now whether the

authoritarian are going to win or not.

Claiming to combat misinformation,

social media companies,

censored true public health information

from myself and many other people during the pandemic.

And of course, their argument was that okay life is more

important than freedoms but I would say it was never a contradiction between those

two and I think that's what proved here during the lockdown in a crisis. That's where we really, really have

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