Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers. Delight to be joined as ever by Spike's editor, Tom Slater.

Hello.

And returning guest, Jacob, welcome, Jacob.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Show today's sponsored by Beckett's Gin, very proudly. So we'll talk a bit about them in a second.

But first, Tom, do you want to tell our lovely listeners and viewers about the Spiked Christmas Give-Athon. Absolutely. So it's that time of year again when we're asking people who read Spiked,

who watch this podcast, who listen to our other podcasts, to dig deep for us.

Spiked, unlike any publication, I think, of our size is still completely free because we're

in the business of wanting to win hearts and minds, not just vlog subscriptions.

So as we do throughout the year, but particularly at Christmas, we're asking if anyone out there,

if you really enjoy what we do, if you think the media is a better place that we're in it,

if we've kept you sort of sane, I guess, over the past few years, as things have gone particularly

mad, please do dig deep for us.

I think a lot of people don't realize how much of our work is funded by donations.

It really is the majority. It's you readers and listeners at home. We have a few sponsors, but we are

as a dissenting magazine. You might have heard some stories about people being gray listed for

advertising. That's a very real problem for a magazine like us. So it is you at home who keeps spiked going and

growing. Yeah, 70% of our revenue comes from you watching this right now. So please do donate as

much as you can. And we've also got a special offer on at the moment. So anyone who gives

50 pounds or more over the Christmas and New Year's period, provided you live in the UK for

postage reasons, will get one of these beautiful spike m live in the UK for postage reasons, we'll get one of these

beautiful Spike Mugs in the post. So to make your donation and to filling your details for your

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