meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Brendan O'Neill Show

29: Liam Halligan: Boris, Brexit and the Irish border

The Brendan O'Neill Show

spiked

News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Economist Liam Halligan joins Brendan O’Neill to discuss the need for a clean Brexit, the propaganda war over the Irish border, and his new book on housing, Home Truths.

Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Like to save on Aldi's super six fresh fruit and veg from just 29 p. each

0:05.4

Brussels sprouts, conference pairs, showots, red grapefruit, shontaneic carrots and

0:10.1

green beans.

0:11.1

Chop, they're in store now!

0:14.0

Aldi, officially which cheapest supermarket of the year.

0:17.0

Products may vary by regions subject to availability.

0:20.0

Hi, it's Brendan O'Neill here.

0:22.0

I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who made a donation to spiked over the Christmas period.

0:28.0

Your donations make a huge difference and allow us to carry on doing what we're doing.

0:32.8

So thanks again and here's to another year of great spiked content.

0:37.1

Now on with a podcast.

0:38.8

How mad is it that we the United Kingdom have never cut a trade deal with the United States despite 60 years of trying under the EU?

0:52.0

That's completely mad. Yet we don't have a trade deal with our

0:54.8

single biggest country trading partner, the US, the fifth of our trade, because we're in the EU.

1:01.0

Acting alone, we can cut that trade deal deal and that doesn't mean that we have to

1:04.8

accept the worst excesses of the US economy at all. We can cut that deal in our own

1:10.0

right. We're a big powerful player.

1:17.0

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show

1:19.7

with me Brendan O'Neill.

1:21.4

This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas,

1:26.7

the bad ideas, the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century. In this episode I am delighted to be joined by Liam Halligan.

1:35.6

Liam is an economist, a writer and a broadcaster. He writes about economics for the Sunday

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from spiked, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of spiked and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.