350: The Trump trade war

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Candice Holdsworth, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss ‘Liberation Day’, Trump’s free-speech imperialism, banning Marine Le Pen and Keir Starmer’s perpetual Adolescence.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers,
0:03.2	delighted to be joined as ever by Spike's editor Tom Slater.
0:06.0	Hello.
0:06.5	And returning, delighted to have writer and broadcaster Candice Holdsworth.
0:10.7	Hello.
0:11.4	So coming up on today's show, we'll be talking about Trump's tariffs,
0:15.3	the banning of Marine Le Pen and the UK government's never-ending obsession with adolescents. Before we kick off, just want to let
0:22.9	everyone know that we have a very exciting spiked event coming up. Julia Hartley-Bruitt will be joining
0:27.8	Brendan O'Neill for an extra special edition of his podcast. That will be on Tuesday, the 15th of
0:34.7	April. It's exclusive for Spike supporters. So if you are a Spike
0:39.4	supporter, you can sign up now in the Supporters Hub. If not, why not join now?
0:44.5	For just five pounds a month, you can not only get access to these events, but also
0:48.8	all kinds of other exclusive perks from being able to comment on the website and
0:53.3	having ad-free reading.
0:55.0	Plus, we still have our special offer on for the 25th anniversary for 25 pounds.
1:01.0	You can get what would normally cost 50 pounds, which is a year's access to Spike's supporters.
1:06.0	Tom, you've got another event you want to plug.
1:08.0	Yes, absolutely.
1:09.0	Just a couple of days before, the very special Zoom podcast with Julia and Brendan.
1:15.3	Friday the 11th of April in Belfast.
1:17.1	I'll be speaking at Free Speech Union event, which will be all about the speech police,
1:21.5	the nefarious rise of police forces pursuing people for saying spicy things online
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