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366: How Koran-burning became a crime in Britain

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Liam Halligan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Hamit Coskun’s conviction, Rachel Reeves’s fantasy economics, Trump’s tariff masterplan and the anti-Semitic attack in Colorado.

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0:00.0

It's just quite clear that this blasphemy law only applies to one religion, which I think is going to be particularly corrosive for the very community relations that people claim that they want to be maintaining with all of this.

0:08.8

We have a system of two-tier justice. Anyone apart from the most blinkered observer would have to accept.

0:14.7

We are now approaching a 1976 situation where the UK had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund. There is no one in Downing Street

0:23.8

who has a serious professional understanding of financial markets. So incredibly disturbing. It feels like

0:31.6

the rains are off where anti-Semitism is concerned. Hello, and welcome to the Spike podcast.

0:37.9

Thrilled to be joined as ever by Spike's editor, Tom Slater.

0:40.3

Hello.

0:40.9

And delighted to welcome making his spiked podcast debut, The Telegraph Economist.

0:46.0

You want to ship your records.

0:48.1

On this podcast.

0:49.4

On this podcast.

0:50.7

Brendan and I have had many a chat over the years.

0:53.5

Plastic Paddies for Brexit.

0:54.9

That was a classic.

0:56.0

First time on this particular Spike podcast,

0:59.0

the Telegraph columnist hosts the brilliant Planet Normal podcast

1:02.8

and renowned economist Liam Halligan.

1:05.4

And when the facts change substack, don't forget that.

1:07.8

And when the facts change substack, which you should check out immediately.

1:11.8

So coming up on today's show, we will be discussing Britain's Islamic blasphemy law,

1:17.5

the UK's stuttering economy and the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado.

1:25.7

So this week, Hamit Shoshkin was convicted of a hate crime for burning the Quran.

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