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370: Why are progressives siding with Iran?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Williams, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss Israel’s fight for survival, Keir Starmer’s flip-flopping on grooming gangs and Kneecap’s cosplay radicalism.

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0:00.0

All the things that these liberals claim to be in favour of, the Iranian regime is against, yet the

0:05.9

people who seem to hate Israel so much, they're prepared to swallow all of that.

0:10.4

The grooming gangs are pretty certain will go down as the greatest portrayal, the Labour Party

0:13.9

ever inflicted. The supposed party of social justice would happily throw the most vulnerable

0:17.9

people in society under the bus if it meant polishing the reputation

0:21.1

of multiculturalism.

0:21.9

But up until two minutes ago, we're going to write all of this off as a right-wing panic.

0:27.4

This is the best thing to happen to NECAP, isn't it? They've never get a publicity like

0:31.5

this otherwise. It's allowed them to pose, as they've wanted to pose throughout their short

0:34.7

career, as sort of radicals. Why, give in and

0:37.5

indulge them? Hello, and welcome to the Spike Podcast. I'm Fraser Myers, Deputy Editor of Spiked.

0:42.4

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

0:45.0

Hello, Fraser. And returning guest, Spike columnist Joanna Williams. Hello.

0:49.2

Thanks for coming, Joanna. We've got loads to talk about today. We'll be discussing the

0:52.9

Iran-Israel conflict, the explosive new report on grooming gangs, and the trial of NICAP.

1:02.4

So, Tom, there's been about a week of exchanging fire between Israel and Iran. This time last week, or a Friday Friday morning we awoke to the news that essentially

1:13.3

huge swathes of Iran's top military brass have been taken out many of their nuclear facilities

1:18.3

been taken out by this quite audacious strike by the Israelis. Do you want to just take us back to

1:23.9

there and then we can go from there? No, absolutely. It began almost a week ago now with that incredible audacious, as you say, strike on primarily

1:31.1

Iranian nuclear facilities, a lot of the IRGC, top brass, nuclear scientists and so on.

1:37.6

I think really demonstrating just how far Israel had penetrated into the upper echelons of the

1:42.8

Iranian regime there, you know, launching

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